Will Simpson

Every year, without fail, somebody has the idea to do a Halloween costume that includes blackface. That's the devil on your shoulder. Don't do it.

I could really go for a SoBe right now. Too bad I can't find one of those anywhere.

I am still just the slightest bit upset that I only got to take part in the Pizza Hut BOOK IT program for one year. The next year the last Pizza Hut in my hometown closed down. Building's still there though, some thirty years on. You can't miss it. Got the roof and everything.

Starting to really like making these magazine cover mockups. It's kinda fun seeing how the various blend modes interact with one another.

Solved my PC problems. Turned out the poor thing's air filters were clogged with dust and cat hair. One can of air later and she's purring.

It's kind of insane how good the voice acting is in Deadlock. The gameplay's not my jam, but I love the characterization and interactions going on there.

Dabbling with context a bit on this Banditos logo here. I've been told that putting a logo in it's proper context helps a lot, but my photoshop skills still need some work.

I wish there were more sports comic book series's. It has always seemed super weird to me that sports stories are so well represented in other mediums, but in western, English language comics they are incredibly rare.

Playing Ace Combat 8. The bad guys show up with their own theme music. Diegetically. Hell yeah.

A portfolio piece. This Vastcat logo is based on my own cat, Lilly. She walked into my office one day, sat just like that all fluffy and wide, and proceeded to yell at me until I stopped doing graphic design and instead spent the next fifteen minutes of my day petting her.

Trying out a new logo presentation method. It seems like a better way to show off my work.

Still trying to sort out the best way to present my work publicly. These little squares were a bit of a necessity since I started posting regularly on Instagram a few years ago, and I do like them, but I also feel like they can lack context.

One day I hope to be able to match Joy's level of sleep comfort. She just melts into wherever she lands.

Today is my 39th birthday. Bit of an awkward number.

Rare picture of most of our pets all in one shot. The goldens and ragdolls hanging out by the door.

I recently made a redesign of the logo of the French football club RC Lens. It's not a 'fix' exactly, I don't dislike the current crest, but if they were to pursue a different look then this could be a route for them.

I'm a little bit surprised that there hasn't been a big push for an Avatar: TLA MMORPG. The worldbuilding seems like it would be friendly to the idea. It might even be one of the few franchises that can do the temporary super player character thing that Star Wars Galaxies did.

I recently took a look back at my oldest bits of work. Shocking how far along I've come in the past few years.

Finally watched Love Lies Bleeding tonight. Good god that is a greasy movie. I'm pretty sure I liked it.

The homework continues. Though the Gorp logo never fails to make me hungry for some trail mix.

Loved the world cup action. Staying up to watch the scaffolding. Weird night, but in a good way.

I am by no means or measure a wizard, but I would very much like an orb to ponder.

I use Inkscape for a huge majority of my graphic design work. It's free, open source, and has no AI integration. Which is great for me since I tend to find generative AI to be more of a hindrance than anything else.

Passing thought, but I've been playing a lot of Dragonball Xenoverse 2 recently and I would be willing to bet that an Invincible game that plays similarly would make an absolute killing.

Every state capital should have a pub nearby called the lowercase.

I am about to be really annoying about recommending Mixtape to anyone with a pulse.

My parents have been watching Outlander and from what little I've seen and heard them say about it, I have to ask... is this thing just basically Inuyasha?

Decided to try doing some movie poster designs. These are fake movies, and the actors and directors are also made up. Don't bother trying to look them up. It'll just send you down some weird rabbit holes.

New idiom I just heard: When you've already shown your whole ass, putting the pants back on does nothing.

A bit more fun with book cover design.

I make it a point to avoid people whenever I can. You're mostly nice and all but y'all are exhausting to be around.

Logo post! #logo #logodesign

Throwing up some more book cover designs. It's for fun.

Here are some more practice book covers. Definitely not at the point where I'm taking money for this kind of work, but it is a good way to get acclimated to more tools.

More blizzards today. Also tomorrow. Slightly less on Tuesday. Going to have to dig up to get out of here.

It is unwise to get into an argument on the internet. You will then be in an argument on the internet and that is a sorry place to be.

Another power outage today, and as a bonus, the battery on our generator died. Always fun to have that happen during a blizzard.

I just had a whole conversation where I repeatedly called the Strait of Hormuz the 'Strait of Vermouth' and only realized it after the fact. 🤦‍♂️

My continued adventures in book cover design are going... I can't say well exactly. They are certainly going though.

Absolutely blown away by the demo of The Eternal Life of Goldman. The storytelling is incredible and the visual style is a joy to behold. My enjoyment was only mildly tempered by my being pretty terrible at precision platformers.

Mick Foley is one of the few people on earth who should be allowed to have a sock puppet account. #WrestleSky

A few fresh-ish pieces of my logo design work. #logo #logodesign

I think that was the most joyful halftime show I've ever seen.

When I hear the term Radical Socialist, in my head I picture Trotsky on a skateboard.

The new Muppets show was pretty great. Breeziest half hour of television I've seen in a while.

Tried making some book covers. Since I am still figuring out illustration, I had to rely on typography and various free stuff I found on the internet.

This is probably a personal taste thing, but I hate it when a new TV show is dumped, in it's entirety, all at once, on a streaming service. One new episode every week makes me a lot more likely to actually watch a show. It's more digestible that way.

Through some admittedly half-assed research, I have learned that Lake Superior has at least two localized cryptids. One which is a 75 foot long green serpent named Pressie, and the other, Mishipizheu, is an enormous aquatic horned panther.

Bit cold out today.