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Meant to do a journal entry before the new year. Meant to do one first thing on new year's day. Meant to do one soon afterwards. Finally getting on with it in the midle of the month. C'est la vie...
As many of you may be aware, Britain is going through a particularly snowy period at the moment, including a day or two last week where the vast majority of the country was effectively "closed for the day". Many have said that this is "the worst weather we've had in a long time"... but I think it's been quite the opposite. I've been to our neighbourhood shops a few times over the last few days, and it was nice to see lots of regular shoppers visiting and doing their shopping there, as opposed to the usual couple of chavs hanging round the post box or people dashing in and out of cars. It's also boosted a bit of neighbourhood spirit... whilst clearing the snow from our drive I found myself talking with my neighbours more in the last week than I have in the last couple of years, and it was great on Friday afternoon when a few of us all worked together to clear the snow from the road (which was at least six inches deep) and help push people's cars up the road and into their drives. I even wound up using the snow to make a "Great Wall" along our drive when I found that the snow I was shovelling into buckets from the road was coming out like a sandcastle - I need to upload the pictures sometime!
If there's any real downside from the weather (and it probably would have happened irregardless of the snow), it's the cold. Having no central heating in our house is a pain (our heater conked out a couple of years ago an it's a costly job to fix) so we're heating via plug-in radiators, fan heaters or good old hot water bottles. Sadly, this has numbed what pro-activity I have in regards to doing much drawing or writing, so I haven't got much to show for the last month or so. I've have been able make some progress with a few unfinsihed pictures, such as "Loud, Bratty, Playful..." which I posted yesterday, and gave my avatar picture a bit of animation.
For Christmas I got O'Reilly's "Head First PHP and MySQL" and from flipping through the book I'm fairly confident it'll nail those web developer skills into me, but I've yet to get ino doing any work with it... arrgh! At least our internet connection seems to be fairly stable, given the problems we had with it over Christmas and New Year's, so that's knocked out one excuse for not getting on with it before now.
Hadn't bought much new music in a while, so treated myself to some trance and psy-trance tracks and albums over the weekend. Finally got Astrix's album "Artcore" from 2005, and Whirloop's album "Watch The Skies... And Keep Looking", both fantastic albums from the psy-trance genre and recommendations for anyone interested in the genre (and available from audiojelly.com for only £5-6 each!).
As many of you may be aware, Britain is going through a particularly snowy period at the moment, including a day or two last week where the vast majority of the country was effectively "closed for the day". Many have said that this is "the worst weather we've had in a long time"... but I think it's been quite the opposite. I've been to our neighbourhood shops a few times over the last few days, and it was nice to see lots of regular shoppers visiting and doing their shopping there, as opposed to the usual couple of chavs hanging round the post box or people dashing in and out of cars. It's also boosted a bit of neighbourhood spirit... whilst clearing the snow from our drive I found myself talking with my neighbours more in the last week than I have in the last couple of years, and it was great on Friday afternoon when a few of us all worked together to clear the snow from the road (which was at least six inches deep) and help push people's cars up the road and into their drives. I even wound up using the snow to make a "Great Wall" along our drive when I found that the snow I was shovelling into buckets from the road was coming out like a sandcastle - I need to upload the pictures sometime!
If there's any real downside from the weather (and it probably would have happened irregardless of the snow), it's the cold. Having no central heating in our house is a pain (our heater conked out a couple of years ago an it's a costly job to fix) so we're heating via plug-in radiators, fan heaters or good old hot water bottles. Sadly, this has numbed what pro-activity I have in regards to doing much drawing or writing, so I haven't got much to show for the last month or so. I've have been able make some progress with a few unfinsihed pictures, such as "Loud, Bratty, Playful..." which I posted yesterday, and gave my avatar picture a bit of animation.
For Christmas I got O'Reilly's "Head First PHP and MySQL" and from flipping through the book I'm fairly confident it'll nail those web developer skills into me, but I've yet to get ino doing any work with it... arrgh! At least our internet connection seems to be fairly stable, given the problems we had with it over Christmas and New Year's, so that's knocked out one excuse for not getting on with it before now.
Hadn't bought much new music in a while, so treated myself to some trance and psy-trance tracks and albums over the weekend. Finally got Astrix's album "Artcore" from 2005, and Whirloop's album "Watch The Skies... And Keep Looking", both fantastic albums from the psy-trance genre and recommendations for anyone interested in the genre (and available from audiojelly.com for only £5-6 each!).
Concept Art and Sketches
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Windows 11 has stifled my creativity
Last week my lovely new Windows 11 PC was delivered. So I started getting things set up on it. Turns out it doesn't like my ancient copies of Photoshop 6 and ImageReady 3, which is what I mainly use for my image work. So now I'm either going to have to pay a small fortune in monthly subscriptions for the latest versions, or find alternative image and animation software that'll probably turn out to be incompatible with older PSD files (making my old source files unusable). Also a pain in the backside that it has a problem with my Brother printer/scanner, despite getting the Win11 driver files from their website. Trying to ask Brother for help regarding the drivers, but their support service does not feel "award winning". So this leaves me a situation where I don't have the tools for creating digital work, or for suitably transferring my traditional hand-drawn art to digital. I am not a happy puppy.
NaNoWriMo
So NaNoWriMo's about to start. About time I got off my backside and tried to get some complete/solid bits of writing done instead of the scraps and unwritten notes that my story ideas tend to end up as these days.
Oh, and hi to anyone who's still paying attention after 30 months of silence.
Shining Force LOGI 20th anniversary - part 3
...And done, just in time. :) Was able to get the picture pretty much finished yesterday at art class, but had to get the finishing touches done this evening.
The results can be seen here:http://fav.me/d4ti1ll - enjoy!
Shining Force LOGI 20th anniversary - part 2
Good news on the LOGI anniversary project - my art teacher is happy for me to work on this as my current art class project, and has been able to give me some good advice on putting it together as well as approve the ammendments I've been making between the draft and end versions.
Bad news is that I've found barely any solid time outside of my art classes to work on it, so although I've got a fair amount of the lineart for the end version put together there's still plenty more work to be done...
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That much snow would drive me crazy (I'm not used to it) but it sounds like fun all the same. Bonus points for stuff that gets people to cooperate and communicate with one another.
No heating? Ugh. That'd sap all energy from me too. I get cold even on warm days. I couldn't survive with just a couple fan heaters or a plug in radiator.
No heating? Ugh. That'd sap all energy from me too. I get cold even on warm days. I couldn't survive with just a couple fan heaters or a plug in radiator.