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NaNoWriMo Begins!
WritingLife has been pretty busy the past few weeks. It will continue to be busy as the holidays are coming up. However, November is all about writing.
I’ve tried almost every year since undergrad to complete a novel in a month. There are a few stories I’ve begun that I most definitely want to see finished one day with the goal of self-publishing. Personal goal this time would be to at least get halfway there, at 25,000 words. Eep.
Cheers to everyone else trying. Good luck! If you would like to participate, check it out.
More ink
SketchbookTitles are terrible. Perhaps I’ll use song lyrics in the future.
This one I cheated a little and had drawn in pencil first for some of it. I might ink in some more shades for more dimension. And maybe put in another arm…
Sketching in pen
SketchbookI’ve found that sketching in pen can go either way. It’s good or it’s bad. XD
Green vest
SketchbookI realised I need more colours of markers. I really wanted to make this girl more pale, vampire-ish, but that is the lightest color I have that looks skin-like. Not to mention for clothing… All other colors were much too strong. Perhaps I’ll use color pencils next time.
A little bit of coal
SketchbookCharcoal is a beautiful tool/medium. It’s a tough medium to get accomplished in. I definitely haven’t practiced enough and looking back every now and then reminds me to keep trying again.
These were drawn up while I was still in undergrad.
Quatro-color
SketchbookColored pencils are great. Even better when it’s quatro-colored!
Adobe Creative Cloud
SoftwareI decided to acquire an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. I’ve been slightly out of the loop when it came to the traditional Adobe applications of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. The last version of the software I have is CS3 that I was able to buy for student pricing before I graduated undergrad. Thankfully, with that I was able to take advantage of the introductory pricing for the subscription.
I am loving the ability to download the software of my choosing on whichever machine I own. I have both PC and Mac and it’s a feature that is just necessary at this point for me. Photoshop is coming back to me, however, I’ve been interested in learning LightRoom, Edge, and Muse. I’ll then be looking to try out the rest of the apps.
Muse so far seems like an odd duck to me. Maybe it’s because I’m looking to be able to implement advanced actions that Edge seems to be able to do but with the structure Muse offers. It’ll be interesting to see what else I can make of it in the mean time.
Dreamhost and RagingWire
EventsThis little website has been running on Dreamhost for a little while now and I’m pretty happy with it. Who knew a webhost would be so awesome as to give an opportunity to it’s customers a chance to visit to an opening of a brand new data center? In this case, this particular data center is owned by RagingWire.
I took a few snapshots of the event, please forgive the terrible quality as I did not think to even bring my proper camera with me. D’oh!
It began with a tour of the facilities, then to a short cocktail hour. Right into the ribbon cutting ceremony and show with Cirque Vertigo. It’s a great thing to be able to see efforts like this in tech and meet the people behind it.
Inking Practice
SketchbookSome sketches finally inked after a long while. I should’ve marked the original sketch dates, but oh well. Some tools, Staedler Pigment Liners. Staedler has some awesome stuff. The paper isn’t the best quality, there’s a little bleed through here and there, but good enough for nothing serious.