Filtering and Sketching

At the moment I've been working on a few personal CG projects as well as trying to broaden my website to include some of my sketches. I'm also adding a section of animations I created from way back in my Art Institute of Phoenix days just for kicks and to remind myself how far I've come in my skills. I'm going to make an attempt to spend more time sketching again so that I can refresh my traditional art skills and conceptualize a little more thoroughly before I jump into my 3D modeling. I have already noticed that all the photography I've done over the last few years has greatly improved my sense of lighting and composition both in my sketching and my CG work. It certainly benefits me having my hobby and my career coincide like this. I've still spent too much time doing photography but I've cut back on it a lot now that I deleted my myspace and have less emails from wannabe models looking to create a portfolio. I'm considering reorganizing my photography section into a best of each year gallery and then having the current year galleries continue to be incremental until the new year passes. I think it will further filter my work down to just the best images and will greatly cut back on the much older images I created when my skills were considerably less. I'll continue to leave the original galleries online for the sake of the models but I'll likely pull down the thumbnails to clean house a little. I'm not sure how long this process will take as I've got thousands upon thousands of images... but I think it's a worthy undertaking that I may do in stages.


*As a little technical side note; in order to do this I'm attempting to use adobe lightroom on my workstation to access the raid storage drives on my other machine through the network and load all the thousands of images. I suppose I'll be pushing lightroom and my network pretty hard and we'll see how they hold up. I would normally think someone would be crazy to not work locally on a project of this size but the idea of transferring all those gigs of images just to spend a ridiculous amount of hours editing and filtering them and then delete the stuff I'm not using when I'm done... uh thanks but no.*