After speaking with a few graphics friends, i have decided against the sale of my brush sets. But with decision also comes another that is probably not what you would like to hear. After all this time going back and forth about the new brush set and its release, i have wasted far more time than i would have liked and now must wait until the season is right again to release the new set. The set will be available this year, but it will not be available now. All of my other brush sets will be available in the resource section very shortly. There will be a donation button if you wish to use it, thank you very much. If not that’s also fine. 

 I am sorry to inform you all that everything is being pushed back a bit. I have run into some personal matters that i need to deal with. When all is taken care of i will release the new sets, the resource center and everything else. It is all finished for the most part. It is just a matter of putting it all online testing and then the launch. I am sorry it has taken me soo long to get everything done, but as of right now i am one man and i have other obligations to take care of.  Again i am sorry for the delay on the resources, i may upload some newer work to the gallery in the meantime though. 

  Thank you, 

-Tom mack

So the snow set has allot more added to it than i imagined possible, with the limited amount of spare time on my hands. So along with that and the valentines day set i may also put together a third set. I am unsture of what type of brush set the third will be if any, but the potiential for another set is there.  

           As far as the cart and resource section, i know i keep saying it will be done soon. But it will. It has to be for these brush sets to be released. There has to be some system in place for you to be able to easily search, view & download the upcoming and already created resources. 

 So I’m going to start this year off as being the year for me. The year i stay motivated to make myself a better, stronger person physically and financially. I have spent the past few weeks working on a upcoming brush set in my spare time. There hasn’t been much spare time for me to work on this with but, i have quite a few very nice brushes in the set already and i have been adding new brushes almost daily. It will be released prior to or along with my Valentines Day Brushes regardless of the date of their magazine feature. I have waited for the past few weeks on a response from a rep from a magazine that wanted to feature my next brush set, I sent them the details and told them i would like to have it in the first issue after Xmas.  Now i don’t get allot out of the magazine feature, only a few thousand hits to my page, a small ego boost, and praise from my family and friends. Other than that they make out on the deal. They get my brushes for free, they sell magazines to friends and family of mine who otherwise would have no idea what the hell Photoshop was.  So with or without the feature the brushes will be available here, along with the Valentines day set within a months time at max. 

     So it’s 2009 now, and in the past year we have gone though some hard times. We have all lost loved ones, money, some have lost their jobs their careers and our morals are slowly but surely following the trend. One of the things i will most remember about 2008 is the presidential election and the history that was made by the voice of the people praying for “Change”, Not going to say whether or not i liked the outcome of the election, i don’t get into politics much. But i do have to say regardless of your personal choices or beliefs you cannot discount the fact that entire world watched history be made in November 2008. 

         Some of the other things i will remember most about 2008 though they will not be happy memories, i will still remember a few of the celebrities we lost last year.  One of the most upsetting for me Being Robert Graham (August 19, 1938 -December 27, 2008). This man was a living legend to sculptors and aspiring artists alike. He has been credited for Sculpting the L.A Olympic Gateway & has also sculpted statues of and for many of The United States Presidents. I have used some of his work as reference material in my own art work. He was born 44 years to the day prior to my own entry into life. He will be missed, but will continue to live forever within his Sculptures.   Bernie Mack & Issac Hayes were also two huge losses dealt to the Hollywood community. Shockingly enough the appear together in the movie “Soul Men”. If i was Samuel Jackson I’d be worried. 

  Anyway it is supposed to be Happy time. A new year, a fresh start! Let us hope this one is better than the last for all of us.  Happy New Year!!!