Rogie's Blog

Rogie is a hyper social blogging illustrator and designer.

  1. You just have to put your nose to the grindstone. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but waiting for inspiration to strike isn’t going to bring it about any sooner.
    Jason Santa Maria
  4. The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.
    Chuck Close 
  9. $ alias server='open http://localhost:1337 && python -m SimpleHTTPServer 1337'  
    $ cd //Enter your Directory here  
    $ server

    On the Fly Local OS X Server with Python

    So simple,  yet so powerful. Declare a local server in a directory and open in on the fly with this command. Simply use the code above to declare an alias to the command “server” and then open Terminal and change to the directory you want. Then start your server with that directory by typing server the following at the prompt:

    Oh, and another thing. That alias command only applies to the current terminal session, so if you close terminal, that server command is dead. If you want to keep that server command around for all times, do the following, edit your bash profile by entering nano ~/.bash_profile and then adding the line alias server='open http://localhost:1337 && python -m SimpleHTTPServer 1337' and saving it.

    Thanks, Anthony Garand for the tip. * P.S. You don’t type the “$”, silly.

  13. Versus Hearts by Dan Matutina

    Dan Matutina’s got this crazy, gritty, hyper simplified and very geometric style. Yeah, I think it’s fair to say that people go gaga over his work. He’s got this really cool illustration series called Versus Hearts, where he bundles heroes and villains all in one heart. I love the constraint of working within a shape as well Dan’s the ability to still pull off recognizable characters within that shape. Go check it out!

    Also, if you dig Dan’s work, be sure to follow him on Twitter, Dribbble and buy something at his store.