This will be the last sketch I will sign in 2011.

For all you people thinking this will be the last year on this planet, I hope you live your life like it is. As far as the Mayan calendar countdown, read this, please. Oh, and stop it, you’re frightening the kids.

Here’s a good website from NASA.

I shot a forty four magnum Desert Eagle today. One round shattered a frozen milk jug (filled with ice, not milk) into a million pieces. Pretty cool if I do say so myself. I have taught my children that a gun is meant for one thing and one thing only, and that is to destroy. They both have a deep respect for firearms and know how to handle them. Shooting this hand cannon renewed my respect fairly quickly.

It’s been a while since I’ve written much about my technique, so I will now. I love shiny objects and materials, and I have been really wanting to develop textures that I can reuse. This is an experiment in textures as well.