Looks like winter is finally on the wing. The temperature forecasts are climbing and with luck there will be a melt by the end of the week. I next up in books, I recently finished The Mysterious Stranger by Mark[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back to these two again. Been watching Kitchen Nightmares lately. (For those who haven’t seen it, an ex-football star turned chef visits failing restaurants and tries to turn them around – mostly by insulting people.) It’s really cheesy and over-the-top[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been getting into Python lately (the language, not the comedy troupe or the snake). I must say that I’m not a big fan. (Programmer rant follows) If you’ve never used it, it’s a lot like BASIC, but is a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Playing around with SAI some more. Trying a few new ideas design-wise. Think I may have gone a little overboard on the shading.
My first experiment with SAI paint. This is so much easier to use for creating comics than Photoshop. Wish I had tried it long ago.
Discovered artists streaming channels recently. I’ve been hearing about them for a while, but this is the first time I actually watched a few. It’s amazing how talented some artists are. They don’t even need to draw construction lines before[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Spent most of this week fighting a cold. I’m a lot better now, but was pretty out of it for about half the week. I spent most of the weekend listening to Gulliver’s Travels. It has some great adventures starting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been listening to Machiavelli’s “The Price” while working on this. It’s about 500 years old, but there are still lots of parallels to the various groups that run society today. I suppose princes (and people) haven’t changed that much[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
WordPress had a major upgrade last week. Trying out the new format. Let me know if you have problems reading this.
Went to see the Defeat of Jesse James Days festival in Northfield this weekend. It’s an annual festival where townfolk reenact the last bank robbery of Jesse James – right in the very bank that he robbed. Unfortunately it isn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…