Rotty Blog

Working on an image for Valentine’s Day. Here’s the sketch I came up with.

Here’s the final version of the Christmas card we sent out this year. You can see the original sketch for it here. I ended up making a few changes, but not too many. Click on the image to see it biggie-sized.

In these last couple of weeks since my surgery, I’ve had some time to think of some new ideas, but those new ideas seem to have a lot to do with my surgery. So I went with it.

Here’s the Rot I drew for my doctor:

I think I’ll call it “Uterless.” (The other option was “You Probably Thought That Was a Rubber Chicken.”)

Here’s my sketch for Christmas this year. Nothing fancy. Just Kris and the little ones taking a well-deserved day off. With Coronas. 

Scanned directly from my sketchbook, here’s a page of bats to celebrate Halloween. I started the page with the idea that I was going to fill the whole thing with bats. I wanted to push myself to come up with as many ideas as I could because I tend to start sketching and get lazy about it way too soon. As you can see, the first ones I drew at the top of the page are nowhere near as good as the ones that showed up on the bottom. (Click the image to see it biggie-sized.)

I’m working on painting a few of these little guys on my iPad. I found a fun new app called Auryn Ink that paints like watercolor. It even has a tilt function that, if you tilt your iPad, it makes the pigment collect in the direction you’re tilting. I’m playing around with it to use as the background.

The next page in my sketchbook is all about pumpkins. I’ve noticed in recent years that pumpkin nummies are a whole lot more numerous than when I was growing up. Pumpkin gobs. Pumpkin cake. Pumpkin muffins. Pumpkin donuts. Pumpkin Spice Latte. Pumpkin soup. Pumpkin rolls. I think all we had when I was little was pumpkin pie. It’s too bad this only lasts about two months out of the year. I haven’t found a pumpkin nummy yet that I didn’t like.

I just uploaded a completely new website for The Rots (http://www.the-rots.com). I spent a long time getting these pages together and working. The original site was built completely in Flash (http://www.the-rots.com/old), but that was years before Steve Jobs decided the iPads he wanted to sell in the future wouldn’t include the ability to view Flash. And I, like so many others, really need to listen to Steve.

I also had to build separate style sheets for tablets and other mobile devices, because those also weren’t much of a factor when I built the original site. But it’s finished, and I’ll tweak if necessary, and hopefully (hopefully) the site will work for whoever wants to take a look.

So, if you’re so inclined, I would really appreciate some extra eyeballs looking over the site. I need to know if it’s working on everything it was designed for. I’ve already hit a snag with my smart phone, which doesn’t want to recognize the style sheet I built for smaller devices, and I’m not sure how to make that work.

What I need is a web guru that will sit under my desk like a troll and look over my coding when I run in to problems. I just don’t know any gurus, so I guess I’ll be trolling the help forums online.