Life

No, I'm not dead just pining for the fjords. I've busy as of late with "real life": helping family move, getting ready to move myself, all kinds of stuff like that. Don't know when Swordmaster Odyssey will return, but I am working on other stuff that will hopefully be ready to share in another month or two.

As for Sketchbook Monday, I'll try to get back on top of that next week.

I'm so sorry! I keep promising things that I am unable to deliver on. I said I would have some Adventurer's Guide entries up by now, but so far I haven't even gotten around to drafting them. I'm such a horrible person!

For the past week or two I've been storming through the second draft of Under a Different Moon, that is, Iccari's story. You may remember Iccari from some of the many Sketchbook Monday entries in which he has appeared. It is rare for me to keep up such an extended session of creativity and, as I near the end of the second draft, I fear it will go out again before I finish. Please understand my predicament. I still plan on getting a page up this week, but if it doesn't happen, at least it won't be due to my own laziness for a change.

Thank you for your understanding (or your lack thereof as the case may be). I really am sorry.

In the meantime, how about taking a minute to vote in the annual character poll?

Just got back in town a little bit ago; had a great time. It was nice to be able to meet with relatives that I haven't seen in ages.

Anyway, it's back to work for me on Monday. Or Tuesday. It depends on how tired I am. I'll definantly get some work done on AetherFall then, but Swordmaster Odyssey will likely be up in the air for awhile (I need to order more paper, you see).

Leaving on a trip tomorrow; be back next week. Meant to get an Adventurer's Guide entry up, but it never happened. Sorry about that. I'll try and get one up when I get back.

I hate "off days". Days when no matter how hard you try everything you draw seems off, your heart just can't get into it, and all you can see is the mistakes you're making. It's all the more annoying when you're just a moderatly-skilled artist like me and your work is sloppy enough begin with. XD

Hopefully insperation strikes me soon, because I really want Swordmaster Odyssey to look its best when it resumes on Friday.

No Sketchbook Monday today. Sorry. Maybe next week.

Maybe.

I ended up having to replace my 19" CRT display (the screen was turning yellow) with an old 17" one that I had lying around. Losing two inches may not seem like much, but... My goodness, everything is so small now! I'd take my resolution down, but Photoshop is hard to operate (for me, at least) at anything under 1280x960.

However, more importantly, this aged moniter has an awkward distortion issue. If I have a bunch of squares on the screen that are all the same size, the ones in the middle will be thinner than those on the sides. I can even drag things around the screen and watch them "magically" resize themselves!

...Yeah, this is going to be a problem. XD

I have a two moniter setup, so I may just switch them around and use this one as my secondary moniter, and the other one to do the bulk of my work in. Granted, it's not like the other one is in that great shape, either. :/