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| Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 | | 10:44 am |
"We shall call ourselves the Order of the Vector."
 I imagine the one in the back doesn't really talk much, and magic sparks shoot out of his beard every so often like static electricity. The other two need to keep an eye on him. The tubby one name-drops famous wizards all the time, but when pressed, has to admit that he never technically met them. Those admissions are so awkward that his friends have given up calling him out on it and just smile and nod. And for some reason, I'm positive the little guy is a Ron Paul fanatic. No idea why. I tried working on the robes in color for a while, then realized I liked the grayscale better. -AKA PS- The sketch, if you're into that sort of thing.  | | Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 | | 3:10 pm |
Thought of the Day
 Nate noted one time: "Birds are kind of like dinosaurs in retirement." You could certainly do worse, as far as retirement plans go. -AKA | | Friday, May 18th, 2012 | | 4:56 pm |
Thought of the Day
You know that triangle-tipped tail that dragons and demons always have? Where the heck did that ome from? I can not think of any animals that have that, and yet it's a pretty common element. -AKA | | Thursday, May 17th, 2012 | | 4:35 pm |
Quickie.
 Why do I like manticores so damn much? I do remember that the first time I heard of them was in the Madeleine L'Engle book, "Many Waters." Oh man, that whole series was crazy. Maybe someday I'll go back through "A Wrinkle in Time" again, just to see if it's any different to late-twenties-Annie than it was to kid-Annie. -AKA P.S. Totally unrelated, today I met the tiniest chihuahua I've ever seen. The guy said she was full-grown, and good lord, she was barely eight inches long. I swear I've met guinea pigs bigger than that dog. Sweet little thing though. I love when dogs approach you with that head-down, tail-wagging goofy lopsided gallop. Just wanted to share. | | Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 | | 11:00 am |
YAPYAPYAPYAP
 Oh my god there they go again. I'm assuming these people are running some sort of Chihuahua Fight Club. And of course, the first rule of Chihuahua Fight Club is that you bark about it ALL THE TIME. -AKA | | Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 | | 1:03 pm |
When life gives you peaches.
Our over-enthusiastic peach tree, though barely five feet high, made a good effort this season and pumped out something like 15 small peaches.* We weren't as diligent about pruning this year though, and I think quality was sacrificed for quantity--none of them were particularly stellar taste-wise. HOWEVER. Mediocre peaches still translate to effing delicious peach cobbler, which is not all that hard to make, it turns out. Probably somewhere close to scones on the "omgbaking" scale. Above cookies, but way below pie crust. So I can add that to my repertoire now. Bring me 5 cups' worth of peaches, and I will rock your world. -AKA *-That may not sound like a lot for a tree, but you should have seen this little guy with all his branches drooping to the ground. Unrelated addendum: Remember that amazing openable window in the new office? I finally found a downside. Apparently someone living nearby owns, I would say... no less than four yappy little dogs. And they have been all barking incessantly for a few hours now. | | Monday, May 14th, 2012 | | 11:11 am |
I feel like I need to tell the internet about this.
I had a dream the other night where a pack of ducklings hunted down and ate a kitten. It was disturbing. The ducklings would all latch on with their beaks and basically nibble the poor thing to death. The scene was not made any more bearable by the fact that the kitten could talk* and was yelling out "No! Please! Stop! Noooo!" the entire time. -AKA *-albeit in an adult male voice? | | Thursday, May 10th, 2012 | | 5:42 pm |
A girl can dream.
 At our new office, I sit by a window that actually opens, with a tiny ledge outside. I haven't seen a bird land on it yet, but I have no doubt that one will eventually. And then it will sing me beautiful little songs and we will become friends and it will help me clean. -AKA | | Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 | | 4:19 pm |
| | Friday, May 4th, 2012 | | 2:15 pm |
A Thing I Am Way Too Excited About
After a couple years or so of having Platys (Platies?) and Mollys (Mollies?) in the aquarium, which are easy fish and supposed to breed like crazy, we've finally got our first "second generation fish" in the tank! He came from our two current Mollies, and I discovered him two days ago. Apparently he's the only offspring who managed to not get eaten by the rest of the tank's inhabitants (never saw any of the other fishbabies). Now he's about a centimeter long, a voracious eater* and very good at hiding in the plants/avoiding other fish. We've named him Tiny and we're totally rooting for him. I don't trust myself at all to "sequester" Tiny in a separate container without killing him, so we'll just leave him and see how he does. He's obviously the fittest fishbaby the tank has ever seen if he made it long enough to be observed by us, so maybe he's got a shot. -AKA *-Watching him try to wrangle a food flake and end up wearing it like a hat this morning was TOO CUTE. | | Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 | | 10:39 am |
Rant(s) of the Day
I finally made a dummy Twitter account so that I could try Pinterest. I'm not linking you guys to it because there's nothing there yet. And yeah, Rant #1: What do they MEAN I can't use Pinterest without giving them a twitter or facebook account? Can a woman not just use a website in peace without each action being directly connected to everyone she ever went to school with? Jeeezus.* But I did want an online heap where I could throw inspiring art that I stumbled across. Sounded like this would work. The problem is--Rant #2: it seems like most artists' blogs are set up to do fancy gallery slideshow type stuff, as opposed to having a page for each picture. As well they should. It makes browsing art blogs easier. However, Pinterest is having none of that bullshit. It'll only link to images that are like... attached to an html page? Something like that? I don't even know. So I can't link to any of the pictures that I want to. So this is essentially useless. Aaaand we're back to a folder on the hard drive being easier to deal with than the service that was set up specifically for this sort of thing. -AKA *- Drawception pulls this account shit too, and I don't know why. But I'm willing to let it slide, because that site/game is SO MUCH FUN. | | Monday, April 30th, 2012 | | 11:02 am |
Moar pig?
 That was a town, wasn't it? They had to have a mechanic. Or someone with some spare parts. They didn't have to be perfect, but the flying machine wasn't going to be fixed with rocks and sand. * * * I've got a story in my head up to a certain point, and may continue to post out-of-order pictures of it until the next part makes itself apparent. Stories are hard, y'all. Nate and I were talking about this a few weeks ago. We were comparing the stories of Pixar movies to the stories of most other Hollywood movies (animated ones at least) out there.* And trying to figure out we felt such a huge difference between them. We flitted around the ideas of relatable characters and universal human experiences (just give us berets and black turtlenecks, right?), but kind of settled on "keep tweaking and testing and tweaking and working 80-hour weeks on it for years." A fun premise is one thing, and engaging characters are another, but telling a story with a super-solid, satisfying arc/ending is HARD. Even Terry Pratchett, whom I absolutely adore and who is a genius at those first two things, always spirals into a few deus ex machinas in the last 30 pages or so of a book. I wonder how many English or film majors have written theses on this sort of thing. -AKA *-Namely, we'd seen "Rango", which is artistically impressive but kinda emotionally flat. Also, it drove me crazy that they put hair on the girl lizard. You couldn't have just given her a cute hat or something? Geez. | | Friday, April 20th, 2012 | | 5:12 pm |
Aaaaand back to the goofy animals.
 I saw a pigeon on the sidewalk who had super-feathery legs, like those chickens. They looked like little bellbottoms. He did not have a groovy fro and sunglasses, but we can dream. -AKA | | Thursday, April 19th, 2012 | | 10:28 am |
| | Monday, April 16th, 2012 | | 11:36 am |
| | Saturday, April 14th, 2012 | | 4:52 pm |
More shameless texturing.
 I am too lazy to think of an egg-related martial arts pun. It's probably for the best. I've been trying to get back into yoga a little bit over the last couple days ("into yoga" for me = doing my "Yoga for Beginners" video in the living room; that's as far as I go). And it always surprises me how physically tough it is to hold seemingly easy poses. You'd think after stopping and restarting this stuff like 5 times, I'd remember, but I never do. -AKA | | Friday, April 13th, 2012 | | 12:17 pm |
Got places to go yo.
 "How exactly are we going to um... land?" "WHAT? CAN'T HEAR YOU." "LANDING. How are we goin-" "WHAAAT?" "Nevermind I guess." In unrelated news, today I can ask the question, "Where can I get some DECENT inspiration for robotic velociraptors? It's for work." I have the best freakin' job. -AKA | | Thursday, April 12th, 2012 | | 11:41 am |
Photoshop, have you been holding out on me.
Whoa, so I'm dicking around in Photoshop and notice this thing called "puppet warp." Hooooly effing hell, what is this. I haven't dived into it yet or even googled it, but has anyone actually used this? It looks insanely powerful at first glance. Like, "hey, limited warpy character animation in photoshop is kind of almost doable now" powerful. If only there was a better way to make frames than like, a bazillion layers. Photoshop, you coy little tramp, you continue to surprise me. -AKA | | Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 | | 2:55 pm |
Thought of the Day
I wonder why I always assume the color of a triceratops is ochre/brownish-gold. Did Land Before Time really affect me that deeply as a child? For the record: in my head, tyrannosaurus defaults to brick-red, stegosaurus defaults to green, and sauropods default to bluish-grey. Except brachiosaurus, that one is always ochre too. Is this a common thing?... -AKA | | Monday, April 9th, 2012 | | 1:08 pm |
The pig makes an appearance
 A few years ago I'd played around with the idea of a flying pig who gets into some trouble. He still kicks around in my head occasionally, and I like him. Also this is way by far the most detailed Illustrator background I have ever made and I am super irrationally proud of that. Now if only I could bring up that motivation at will... Also oh my god I have a new appreciation for how many different shades of "brown" there are. -AKA |
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