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Alec and Morp: Adventures in Imagination

Posted by Strad on March 28, 2009 at 2:54pm
Finished my second children's book - Alec and Morp: Adventures in Imagination.Check it out at Sharing Books.com (you can follow the address below to take you directly to it). Feel free to download and comment, as it's free to anyone interested! I wrote and hand illustrated it, inked and colorized in photoshop.Alec and Morp: Adventures in ImaginationThanks!
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Scatsby the Bear

Posted by Strad on February 12, 2009 at 5:51pm
About a week ago, I had my first children’s book published online. I began the book back in the late 90’s at college, and attempted later to have it published (to little success). It was only recently that my wife found Sharing Books, and I eagerly gave it a try. The process was fairly simple, though I did have much of the work already done through the scanning of illustrations and converting them to a PDF format. Recently I retyped the book, and edited some of the artwork in Photoshop. After being reviewed by a panel at Sharing Books.com, I was informed that it had been accepted.Sharing Books.com - Scatsby the BearThe story of the book came about during my lonely “intellectual” period, in which I had become somewhat down about the prospects of the future. I still feel very pleased with what the story says and the bright style of the illustrations, which were created over the course of a year. I could doubtless do better at illustrating the book now, but I’m happy with the end result.
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Starting Out

Posted by Strad on November 12, 2007 at 3:37pm
As a Christian (and a Christian artist), encouragement is huge. I believe a brother or sister in Christ can help you learn or challenge you to take your walk to the next level. Take evangelism for instance. Many of us may really struggle to get out and do witnessing on our own. But add another Christian to pray and help generate discussion, and you are a bit more bold than you may have been. My Christian friends have really challenged me these past couple of years to listen more closely to what God's will might be each day.

As an artist, it's great to find some active groups of like minded people who can share ideas, network, and get a chance to vent a little about the challenges of art in the secular world.

I hope I can get a chance to meet some of you - this looks like a good place online (it's been tough finding christian artist groups out there!). I really love being creative, and would be excited to help anyone out who needs it. I'm a big believer in donating my talents for a variety of evangelistic and ministry avenues - if you know of any, let me know! I also have many projects on my own. Currently I'm working on a graphic novel/children's story. But I enjoy taking a break from this and working on whatever catches my eye.
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