"...Your whole life flashes by in front of you, heartbreak and scars. Stay with it, and you can live a lifetime in that split second."

Hello my little bluetooth headsets. So as some of you have noticed, I haven't made a new blog in a while. Especially Cameron. Well, my brother's birthday was on the 29th of September. I have this thing about giving gifts to people. To me, if a gift is thoughtless or half ass, you might as well not get anything. I mean, if the person you are giving the gift to is shallow enough to think differently of you if you don't give them something on their Birthday or some other holiday, they don't deserve anything in the first place. These days are about celebrating a life or some other dramatic event in History.....not about getting gifts. Anyway, that said.....I am pretty good at getting or making good gifts......so I end up getting something for someone almost every time. My brother is a really tough one. So am I, I guess but in a different way. See, I am a gadget freak. That is what I have always loved as far as material possessions go. The problem is that I already own just about everything I would ever want in this category......so buying a really good gift for me is hard. Luckily, I always prefer a person just showing up and giving me a hug over a gift any day.My brother's reason is much more noble. He is hard, not because he owns so much, but because he is very humble and does not value possessions very much at all. What was I to do? Well make him a vector based portrait of him of course!!! Ya......of course. So I did......and I just barely finished it. Here is how it came out...

For those of you that aren't like me or Stephanime might not see why an image like this is is special. As I mentioned before, this isa vector based piece of art. What that means is the original file I made never touched Photoshop. It is not a simple pixel based picture like my banner or your blog pic, but instead is a harmony of mathematical precision. It is a collection of points, lines, curves and polygons filled with color. So who cares, right? The application of a piece of art like the one above is really why it is so special. The image copy above is 432x540 in resolution. But since the original file is math based, rather than pixel based, I could also blow it up to double or triple that size and the image would stay mathematically lossless. Hell, I could make it big enough to print on the side of a sky scraper and it would still look flawless. For those of you I just bored to death, I apologize. But, if there is one person I know that will appreciate the fact that this picture is vector based, it is my brother. He is the one that originally introduced me to Adobe Illustrator (the worlds foremost program for vector art). I have since far surpassed him in technical skill, but neither of us will soon forget the countless hours we have shared making things in Illustrator all those years ago.

On another note, many of you know my wife, Erika. She started coming on here a while back, but has recently succumbed to the wiles of a deadly virus known only as "Xbox360". She has recently stated that she was going to make a comeback on here, but the prerequisite wsa that I create a new profile for her. Well, I did, so now she has no excuse. Here it is, what do you guys think?
Avi

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I hope you all give her a warm welcome if she does indeed come back on. Her handle is MysticGurlie.

These two projects were holding me back from doing my requests; but now that I am done, CF, Azel and ZX, your art is coming soon.



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