Just a quick post to say that I’ll be holding off further updates to the blog until after I get the re-design up and running.

I’m Tweeting quite frequently, so you can catch me on there if needed.
@Shtev21

I’ve been a busy little bee recently, but true to my word, I’m aiming to keep the blog posts coming.

This past week I’ve had the joy of using a friend’s Canan EOS 400D, with an absolutely fantastic Macro lense.

After a lot of fiddling about and re-learning a heck of a lot of things about ISO, Exposure, Aperture and other camera nonsense (Not to mention learning how to set these things on the camera) I finally got round to taking a very large number of photos, some macro, some not.

I had a quick dabble with some light graffiti, over all I think the pictures came out well, (only one I have uploaded here), It isnt easy to do very good light graffiti pictures in the loft, with limited space to move.

I’ve always loved macro photography, dispite the fact that I’ve never owned a proper camera or macro lense. I have dabbled in the past, but never to any great result, however, this time I feel that I have some pictures worth sharing.

Have a look, let me know what you think, the first 6 are macro, the last 3 aren’t, all are quite large - You have been warned.

It’s been such a long time since I’ve blogged and I feel like I’ve almost forgotten how to do it.

I have been extremely busy at work lately, the Uniform Dating re-design launch was a success and people seem to be enjoying and using the site more. Police Oracle is the next huge project that I have my head firmly wedged into. Work is taking up an awful lot of my time and when I get home I don’t much feel like blogging, although I will try to make an effort to blog at least once a week from now on.

Haven’t done a lot of personal design work recently either, which is not good, I do feel a lot more inspired however, after visiting the TFM&A expo today. Not really a design based event, more about marketing and people peddling their e-wares, but some of the presentation packs and booklets are nicely done and look good.

I’m using Twitter a lot at the moment too, it’s a lot easier and quicker to keep updated. Follow me if you like: @shtev21

Bye for now.

Wishing everyone a safe and merry Christmas and a joyous new year.

As promised, here is a selection of my latest sketches and doodles. There is nothing absolutely amazing in here, It’s a lot of stuff that sort of just fell onto the pages, I didnt give much thought, just kept the pen moving.

And yeah, I was using a pen… I generally find working in biro a lot more comfortable for me, although it does tend to leave a lot of my sketches l a bit scruffy, since I can’t erase any mistakes, only go over them again and again. Still, It’s how I enjoy sketching out random stuff.

Got into a kind of Sonic mood here, after I’d finnished drawing, I dug out my Sega Megadrive and played the old Sonic The Hedgehog games for a few hours. Oh and the fish-headed dude… no idea what that was about but I kinda like him.