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TONS of new orange men now available! See www.JesterArtsIllustrations.com
Its been quite a while since I've revisited the world of the orange man for creating new illustrations. The orange man series is indeed the most popular of all of my illustrations. I feel kind of like the musician that creates a hit album and after he is known for his style, goes off and explores with new inspiration, only to find "the old stuff" is what everyone is into, and asking for more of. So here I am, back with a new hit album: The Orange Man Super Batch!
Preview Below -- click photo to see larger versions:
As you can see, they cover a wide variety of subjects, from business to play, essential and non-essential, not to mention separate props which are also sold as stand-alone illustrations. A LOT of work went into this batch. Each one is also available in nine color versions!
Are you among those who have been faithfully keeping up with the series? Contact me or www.Clipartof.com to see about getting the entire batch update for a reduced, bulk price.
And of course they are also available on all of the standard sites I use, such as Istockphoto, Shutterstock, Stockxpert, etc. As a HUGE bonus, any one of these latest ones you download on Istockphoto has an zip file containing the other 9 color versions! Click Here.
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I often get inquiries -- "Can I buy the entire set of orange men for a reduced price?" For perhaps over a year this little known opportunity has existed on the rare gem of a website known as "Clipartof.com".
A little factoid concerning clipartof.com: The Orange Man practically lives there. I like to think of all of the websites I supply my art through as cities that I visit as a traveling merchant. Examples to follow:
Istockphoto is like that bustling super-metropolis filled with art and talent of every sort, fully populated with coffee shops where people exchange ideas and vision together. Its a supercity that is sparkling and refined.
Shutterstock strikes me as a more industrial city with merchants hurriedly running in and out, with their product selling faster than it can be stocked. Its a little more unrefined, but useful to those who have more creative ability.
Dreamstime and Crestock are somewhat like those medium sized towns with their own set of strengths.
Clipartof.com, though, is far different. Its like a small private town, almost a gated community. Only a few artists in comparison are found here, but the selection is the cream of the crop as far as illustrations available. Its more family oriented, and there is not even the slightest hint of beaurocracy. One might think it was a private club secretly opened to the public -- the best of both worlds! Any artwork bought from clipartof.com also has a much wider ability for use due to the user license agreement.
This is where the orange man has truly blossomed and discovered himself, and where the best deals can be found in his use! Most sites have one or two color versions of the design mascot (also known as orange man), but Clipartof.com has 11 color versions! Clipartof.com is also the only site that sells them in bulk packages for a reduced rate. For those of you who have taken a liking to the orange man, its highly, highly suggested that you see both the package deals as well as the color versions.
Feel free to contact them with questions. They will treat you like family.
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Wardenclyffe Tower 3d Visualization,
Upcoming JesterArts Illustrations.
Would you like to read an inspiring, powerful, and yet sad story? Read Man out of Time, by Margaret Cheney. Nikola Tesla was different from other inventors of his day or prior in many ways. He is credited for pioneering the concept of alternating current, creating the alternating current motor, plus a few other concepts that literally drive industry today.
But who has ever heard of the wireless transmission of electrical energy? He had hoped to accomplish this through his concept of the "magnifying transmitter". This was his greatest dream, of which all of his work was leading up to. It would be a clean, efficient, and elegant way to provide communications services and energy to the entire globe without power lines or environmentally destructive methods of any sort. It seems like a thing of the future, and yet it was on the verge of becoming a reality as far back as 1903.
The Wardenclyffe Tower which was to house the magnifying transmitter was near completion and then shut down when investors realized a disturbing fact concerning this invention: Who can profit from supplying free energy? A new type of technological society was at its birth in those days. Industry much the same as our present day was powered not by electricity, but money. So many of Tesla's inventions and endeavors were really just stepping stones to this grand invention which he would never complete due to economic reasons. He did not see this as a defeat. He stated: "The present is theirs ; the future, for which I really work , is mine."
Photo example below of the almost completed Wardenclyffe Tower:
So this project, a realistic 3d depiction of the Wardenclyffe tower, has been on my to-do list for a long time. I'll be using the free open source software Blender 3d to create it, and the resulting illustrations will be free to use keeping in stride with the purpose behind the invention itself: Keeping it FREE.
I'll be giving attention to all of the important details and will be making special efforts not to stray from accuracy. I will also do various renditions of the same model to serve educators and enthusiasts alike for any purpose they find. It will be free, and no, its not a marketing ploy. Keep checking back for updates.
NOTE: I am looking for qualified volunteers to help with layouts for the tower itself. See this thread:
http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=40841
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Ten Free Illustrations on www.JesterArtsIllustrations.com!
When did the word "free" stop meaning "free"? You know, as in something to be given without charge. For instance, if I search out "free download" on a leading search engine I'll most certainly find 309,000,000 matches, but how many of those are actually free? Usually I can expect that it will be "Free to try, then pay after trial" or something like that, but people use the term misleadingly.
So knowing this sad reality when we say "FREE ILLUSTRATIONS DOWNLOAD!" or FREE CLIPART or "FREE LARGESCALE IMAGES!" it can be assured that its FREE! No strings attached. Now that we've covered this, here is a little preview of which ten images I've made free to the public.
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For internet imaging, times are funny. Actually, times are funny for everyone, which is actually funny in itself. But things are always funny in stock photography/illustration. Constantly changing search algorithms, thousands upon thousands of contributors adding thousands of images - daily, and forums bustling with talk on those very subjects, with threads being locked/deleted so as not to cause panic and negativity, and people scrambling like mad cramming out new images involving new spins on old concepts, and complaining about stealing eachother's ideas and lack of sales. That was a very long and confusing sentence. Please read it again and e-mail me if you find errors.
Getting lost in the crowd is easy when it comes to internet imaging -- but not when your wearing a Jester's hat. Now Orange Men, AO-Maru, and all the accompanying illustrations will be sold separately from the crowd in a nice, refreshing interface that is not too much on the eyes.
So now under construction is the new http://www.jesterartsillustrations.com/ being created by the nice people at http://www.clipartof.com/. They are geniuses, multitaskers, and I believe must have a refrigerator devoted to energy drinks. How else are they doing it?
Well, I've managed to write an entire blog entry and I haven't inserted a meaningful picture that goes with the subject. Let me look in my archives here...
Ah...here you go. Its totally not related, but should look good.
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I have no sense of style. I'm not kidding. I dress horribly. I can render a good digital image, but see no problem in wearing striped shirt with aloha print surf shorts. I would not know this was a bad match unless a number of people had mentioned it.
So what business do I have attaching all of these illustrations of mine to clothing designs and stuff? Actually, I have no business doing this at all, and I do risk having my creative license revoked as a result. But it is a fact that there are others (maybe millions) like me who have absolutely no sense of style and would just love to be covered in prints of orange men and blue robots (yes, wearing both at the same time) and its to these people that I will reach out to!
So here it is, I'm setting up a zazzle store to cater to those style-challenged eccentrics who wish to express themselves through goofy little characters and clever sayings. You can even get matching coffee mugs! Examples below. (PS -- T-shirt model is not me.)
AO-Maru Group Standing Out, i'm different by JesterArts
Shop for tee shirts online at www.zazzle.com
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AO-Maru Rocket, ROCKET FUEL - Customized by JesterArts
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