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[11 Nov 2006|06:22am] |
I swear to God I'm working on it. Working is my specialty.
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[12 Jan 2006|01:31pm] |
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This is about the point where I would sit down and say "You know, it's been way, way, way too long since I did a Fuzzy Outcome page. I know I've been busy, but I should really try and get on that."
The main delay this time is that I got a major computer upgrade (call it half a new computer,) and my comes-with-the-Dell version of Windows XP doesn't work on the new not-Dell motherboard and everything. I'm using a pirated copy of XP just so that I don't have to be off the computer entirely, but I fully intend to get a real copy. In fact, I've already given the money to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) slither to place the order. I just need to wait for it to go through.
What does this have to do with my comic, you ask? Well, this setup of Windows is very temporary. Anything I install, I'll just have to install again when I get my real copy of Windows and end up formatting my hard drive again. Thus, I haven't felt the strong urge to get the tablet all set up now, when I'm only going to have to do it again later. So you see, I will do a page one of these days, but not until I get all set up on my new system, and can move in for real....
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[14 Dec 2005|02:18am] |
No updates in forever because weaving, blah blah what else is new.
Oh, I should mention since it has a lot to do with the stuff I make my comics about, that I'm apparently getting therapy for the bullying and stuff in January. They told me the name of the program they want to put me into twice now but I still can't remember it. Basically, it's supposed to be a kind of trauma counseling thing for people with past experiences that are screwing up their personalities even today.
Hopefully it's not an open support group kind of thing, because I'm sure my problems are very inadequate when paired with others in a catchall PTSD program.
"Hi, my stepfather was alcoholic and beat me until he broke my ribs and I ran away."
"Hi, I was molested every day until I was 14 and then I got sold into slavery."
"Uh, hi, I guess I was bullied a lot in elementary school. Kids are mean."
"... :("
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| Update! |
[08 Nov 2005|02:37pm] |
Boss finally returned my call this morning, so we discussed everything. I'm not getting the extra amount of work in the next batch of weaving, since that starts Thursday and she needs more notice than that to assemble two more bags. However, she's all for me working more in general, so my work increase is official as of the batch after this next one.
Rocking.
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[08 Oct 2005|08:43pm] |
I completed the first row.
I'm going to be visiting my parents over the next couple of days. I will be gone starting mid-late afternoon tomorrow (the 9th,) continuing through the entirety of the 10th, and returning somewhere in the mid-late afternoon on the 11th. During this time I will be away from my computer and my raptie's tablet, so I will be unable to do any comic work.
I was going to try to crunch to finish the page tonight since it's already late (the Weekend of ZZT competition ate much of my time that weekend,) but I found it turns out better when I actually take my time. That and I don't like practically killing myself for these things.
So see you Tuesday, maybe!
Late night edit: Just because I spent the remainder of the evening in kind of an idle "work on the comic between messages while talking to people" mode (which I do an alarming number of things in,) the first and second rows are done now. However, it's five in the morning and I'm going to bed. I highly doubt I'll finish it in the time between when I wake up tomorrow and when my parents pick me up, so my plan of maybe having something for you by late night Tuesday still stands.
The good news is that things are turning out extremely artistic for whatever reason. It's not that I suddenly learned how to draw--the next page will still look just as much like a Fuzzy Outcome page by Kjorteo as any of the others--but for whatever reason, I'm having phenomenal luck getting things to look like things. The scrawny kid actually looks scrawny instead of just slightly miniaturized, for example, and (this is primarily a reminder to myself to include a comparison in the notes when the page is done) the improvement on one person in particular is actually kind of scary.
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[03 Oct 2005|04:27am] |
Not started yet.
Most of my time over the past few days was eaten up by a programming contest. I made a ZZT game! go check it out, because my site has things in it besides the Fuzzy Outcome wing.
Anyway, you guys had it good for the last few pages anyway, since I got the tablet and could suddenly do pages in like six days instead of a week and a half. So nyeah.
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| Changes in the works |
[17 Sep 2005|03:26am] |
No new comic yet, but I just figured I'd make an announcement so that it's not a total shock when the next page is actually here.
yiffyraptor just got a WACOM tablet (or as slither calls it, a raptie claw-scratching plank.) I got a chance to try screwing around with it and holy God. <3
So I think I'm going to be doing the comic with that from here on out. Since it's all Paint Shop Pro now, I could do the straight lines that madtom was suggesting earlier. However, I just tried that, and Yiffy pointed out that the contrast between the perfectly straight lines and borders and my squiggly at best handwriting and actual artwork clashes terribly and ends up looking very bad. Thus, I'll keep freehanding everything anyway, even though I no longer have to. MadTom loses <:(
So what does that mean for you? Well, if I'm good, then the comics will end up appearing to have very little to no noticeable change. However, since I'm not good and I'm very new to this tablet, expect a very subtle hard-to-explain but still present dip in quality for the next few pages. This thing seems to have lots of potential, so by the time I know what I'm doing, I expect the skill to return to pre-tablet levels and maybe improve. Maybe this will make it easy enough to try filling and/or shading things that there might be more than just pure line art. But...uh...I haven't tried that part yet, and I'm not going out of my way if it ends up being just as much of a pain as it would have been before, so no promises.
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