Nickelodeon's Contribution to the Gulf Cleanup

I got to thinking and who better than our super absorbent buddy SpongeBob? or Bob Esponja for our spanish reading fans ...

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Nurses' Icebreaker

Hey dear readers. this was inspired by Dede Dodge and Kari Botts. Two awesome friends who make people feel better and need some fun expression in their lives. Share it with friends and have some fun.

Inktober Illustrations E-book

Hello dear readers. As part of the whole Facebook experience and one of the other reasons this part of my digital empire has gotten a little out of date, I wanted to offer you a fun piece of my mind.

The whole month of October, I did a drawing a day ... some illustrations, some cartoons and all fun and creative. There was such a flow of comments and positive feedback I thought it would be fun to compile them in an e-book.


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Just so we're clear, there's a method to the madness. Inktober was a way to expand my daily norm to include hand drawn line art. Originally shared on Facebook, the collection took on a following and as more friends and family enjoyed it, I wanted a way to show and share it in a more organized manner.

So in the following pages, you'll see what I have done on a daily basis to keep the creative wheels greased. Thank you for the kind comments which can still be seen on the Facebook album 'Inktober' on my page. If you aren't online or in the list, Some are cartoons from my ever-evolving series "The Irony is Devastating".

Share with your friends, laugh, ponder and have fun like I did making these drawings. Printed book copies, art prints and originals will be available for sale very soon. Thanks and enjoy!

In the creative median with my blinker on

Hello dear readers...

I'm enjoying growing in my skills and learning new technologies and staying on the cusp of existing ones, all that being said... I miss painting and illustration.

I'm putting on a developer hat (more like a hardhat) and knocking out custom solutions and having a blast. I'm crafting solutions and value added solutions and positioning Kingdom Graphics as a multifaceted solution for the progressive businessperson.

Also I get the chance to create designs and corporate identity for our clients so that lets me stretch the ol cerebellum with artistic expression.

CurvyGirl got me oil paints for Christmas and a Japanese sumi-e painting and calligraphy brush set a few years ago. I'm going to dip some bristles very soon and hope to parlay that into a gallery presence.

Whatever your creative expression, painting, drawing, music, sewing, writing... share it and be proud of it because when you don't get a chance to put it out there it's easy to feel creatively constipated.

I am going to show my sweet blue-eyed muse the power she has over me.

To quote Staind, 'It's been a while'

Hello dear readers, with the advent of broader communication on LinkedIn and Facebook, plus a bevy of development projects on my drawing board, I've been pulled away from the Because Things Should Look Good blog.

Kingdom Graphics is about to roll out an exciting new self-promotion service that's going to serve as a value added service to out clients and strategic business partners. I'll share more as soon as the curtain is ready to open on that project. But also we have had the chance to help our long-standing clients develop new e-commerce catalogs, and some new avenues into the stone and tile care markets all over the north bay.

So in short, we're clickin along and appreciate the attention the Steelers Groundhog cartoon has given us as well.

Thanks and we'll talk to you again soon. *waving happily*

Groundhog Day and Steelers' Victory

I was inspired this morning and though I'd do up a nifty cartoon honoring the Pittsburgh Steelers' victory in Super Bowl XLIII (or 43 for you non-Romans out there). So Punxsutawney Phil poked out of his hollow, feelin' good from last night and made this declaration.

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If you want it on a t-shirt, baby shirt, mousepad or anything else, please contact me at troy@kingdomgraphics.biz and I will let you know where to get them.

I also tried to get this in to the Pittsburgh area newspapers but they stonewalled me so I thought I'd share it here!

Bears over Packers! Yeaaaah!

Watch the highlights. It wasn't pretty but a win is a win and we're hopeful for some momentum into the post season!

Merry Christmas dear readers and the Monsters of the Midway have given us an early present!