My Design Portfolio is up. If you are interested in seeing it, go to www.pigarmik.com.

Reminds me of summer days as a young child. The world seemed somehow different. Maybe ignorance really was bliss.

Seriously? How do they always seem to make the coolest videos. I mean, their music isn’t my bag of tea, but hell, their videos kick some major ass.

Check out this one that was animated by Geoff McFetridge for the song Last Leaf by OK Go!

I love this! Just found, through Rob Sheridan’s Blog, a web-based tool for sketching called Harmony. It’s a lot of fun to play with.

I really love the style of how these look, even though they are more sketch-like, but I like it rough . I’ll have to pull out the tablet when I get home (and maybe it’ll have to be when I get a new video card). Having more control over the lines will be great, considering that I’ve just used a mouse thus far.

In a matter of minutes I came up with a few things that I liked:

I hope to use this tool a lot more in the near future. Check out, let me know what you think of it.

So I decided to do a finished piece of the 2010 Hallowe’en Card last week. That was more of a sketch that I decided to make into a card, and this is with some more color and some more shading.

Still one of the most amazing things I have seen. I can never get over seeing this:

I’m on a zombie kick.

My Annual Hallowe’en eCard

Although it is not my first foray into the world of Warhammer 40K, I have been obsessed with Warhammer 40K for the past few months. Thanks to a trip to Finland in January and seeing the paint job of my friend Tero on his Chaos Space Marines and a generous gift of a necklace that was a handcrafted Slaanesh symbol, my interest in wanting to paint miniatures emerged from a dormant place in my mind.

Slaanesh Necklace by Tero Majuri

Around the same time, my friend Morris informed me that our game of choice, Star Wars Miniatures, would cease production and Wizards of the Coast would not renew their license for the game. Wanting to move on to a new game, he thought Warhammer 40K would be fitting. I wasn’t opposed and so it was set in motion.

Seeing as how I always played the Sith or the Empire, by choice, I bought myself some Chaos Space Marines. I have to say that I love painting these and they have been great fun. I plan on expanding my army. Right now, I have some troops and the Chaos Space Marine Terminator Lord as well as a Chaos Space Marine Dæmon Prince. I still have a bit of painting to do on those and I’ll be working on some more painting tonight.

One of my painted Chaos Space Marines

An old group shot of a couple of painted Chaos Space Marines with a pre-primer Terminator Lord.

About 8 or 10 years back, I bought some Necrons [hence the name of all my characters online, Necronar (Necron + Armik)]. I painted all of them and had them all set up (except for the rods). I had my friend really excited about playing Warhammer 40K, as well, but he never bought any and ended up not even caring about it anymore. Oh well, right? I mean, there was always the Games Workshop just down the street from me. Except…I have always been a bit socially awkward and throwing me in a group of people who know what they’re doing in the game, had me a bit nervous. I decided not to play, but to display my Necrons on my shelf at home, anyway.

It wasn’t until a few months ago, I started to wonder where my Necrons went. I mean, I moved out of my parents’ place and at one point took a road trip around the country with nothing more than clothes, laptop and a guitar (even though I can’t play for shit – I just got it as gift from my parents at a young age and have always had it). During that time, my Necrons were…somewhere, I just had to find them. My wife and I went to go look in my old storage closet in my old room. Luckily, I found the original box full of my Necrons (and a bag full of Lord of the Rings miniatures from Games Workshop), complete with the empty sprues. However, one of my Necrons is missing a base and one foot. I am also missing 4 green rods and the bases for a few of the floaters.

After my painting of the Chaos Space Marines is complete (at least for a short while), I am going to try to put some time into reworking my Necrons. The current color scheme is the standard one of silver and green. I am going to do a completely new coloring scheme, though. It will most likely be a white/bleached bone and Silver with some red glow. I will also be buying new acrylic rods from Plastruct to replace the green.

I’m really looking forward to working on more Warhammer 40K miniatures. I’ll be updating the website with different Warhammer 40K projects. I’ve built up some confidence while playing Star Wars Miniatures and hopefully I’ll so be able to go to Games Workshop and geek out a bit there. Maybe…