I am one step closer to having the fancy artwork I’ve been wanting for the Ialfa Horoscopes page. I now have images for each of the constellations. Like so:
Art News
Where did the breadcrumbs go?
Yesterday I was doing something on my website.
And while I was working I realized that only half of the links on my A Writer’s Sketchbook page actually led somewhere, and so I started to fix that. And while I was fixing that, I realized that I had created a link to a Sketchbook page for “Ink” and I didn’t actually have any artwork done in ink on my website anywhere to be displayed on that page. So I went and added some “Ink” art to the website. And since I don’t have a lot of ink art, most of it ended up being the line drawings of the Borgim signs of the Zodiac, that I had inked and scanned, but never incorporated in the site in any way. (I was actually hoping to use the inks as the starting point for something much fancier done in Photoshop, which would end up on the Get Your Personalized Borgim Horoscope page, but that’s going to have to wait a bit longer.)
Because it seemed silly to have art that only showed up on the sketchbook page (which nobody in their right mind would ever look at anyway), in addition to putting them up on the server, and getting them into the database, I also added the drawings to the page that lists the signs and their major meanings. And I created an Art Gallery Page that would show images from the entire site all together, instead of only being able to see the ones from each different world.
Finally I went back and finished fixing the Writer’s Sketchbook (I hope!).
But I can’t remember what I was doing BEFORE that. Which means I can’t go back and finish it. Which means that in order to fix one half-done page before I forgot again, I have probably created another! Waahhh!
Latest Wesnoth Art
A few representative sprites from the set I just finished…
One of my Clever Ideas actually Works!
One of the things that slowed my progress on Scent of Spring was that I’d moved on to editing, and suddenly needed to do a lot of tracing. I have mostly been working on this project while chauffeuring my kids about, and I needed a tracing technique that was simple, inexpensive and highly portable.
So, I have created for myself a portable light table.
I have a clear plastic clipboard, which fits into the large clipboard/carry-case that holds the pages I am working on and my pencils, pens, etc. And I also have a clip-on reading light, which can be coiled up and tucked away in one of the carry-case compartments when I’m not using it. When I want to do some tracing, I clip the light on upside-down, and adjust it so that it shines up from underneath the clipboard, through whatever part of the drawing I’m trying to trace. Tah-dah!
More Wesnoth Art
My latest sprite artwork for Era of Four Moons:
Wolf!
More sprites for the Era of Four Moons game expansion:
I put the wolf first, because he is by far the best looking. The wolf and beaver are alternate forms of the Shifter (he’s a shape-changer). The Sorcerer and the Leopard aren’t part of the pvp game, but they will show up in the Panther Lord campaign, when that’s completed.
Bounce! Bounce!
I am totally squeeing over my last Black Flag render. But I’m not going to post any pics, because I’m past the climax and into the resolution, and everything’s a spoiler now. So, you’ll just have to take my word for how awesome it looks. And less than two chapters to go! Having the end so close is really exciting (to me, anyway).
Four Moons Additions
I’m back to working on sprite artwork for Era of Four Moons again. Here are the latest two additions:
These are for a Four Moons campaign Ben (Velensk) is currently working on, called The Panther Lord. (Ignore the occasional bits of gratuitous white background. Those are an artifact of the quick and dirty gif conversion software I use to get them viewable on the web. They don’t appear in game.) He also tells me that he’s got players asking for the artwork for factions (armies) five through nine, and I’m not close to finishing the attack animations for the first four yet. I’m never going to catch up!
Pirate Maker updated
I spent all yesterday working on an upgrade for my “Pirate Maker” Digital Paperdoll. It now does female pirates as well as male ones.
Now available…
There is now a computer game based on one of my story worlds. Well, an expansion to a computer game. I’ve added a page all about it to my website, where you can find installation instructions, or just check out all the sprite artwork I made — on display at the bottom of the page.