Weather permitting, I bike to work every day. And by “weather permitting”, I mean “if it’s not actively raining outside when I’m ready to go, I bike.” I don’t have a car (or even a driver’s license) so if I don’t bike to work, I take the bus. The nice thing about biking to work, other than the exercise, is that I can set my own schedule. If I don’t feel quite ready to leave at 7:00, I can wait fifteen minutes. On the bus, if I’m not ready at 6:50, that means I’m waiting an hour for the next bus. The same thing after work: if I feel like doing an extra 15-20 minutes, I can do that. On the bus, it’s either I do an extra hour or nothing. Mind you, today I actually did do an extra hour, but that was by choice. The only down side to not taking the bus is I’m not getting as much reading done.
As I posted on my personal Facebook page this weekend, I changed the nib on my tablet pen this weekend. The old tip was wearing out unevenly so when I was drawing the pen had a tendency to slide in the opposite direction of where I wanted to go sometimes. I’d sketch something and then when I went to ink over the sketch lines, the pen would veer off. I’d have to adjust the way I held the pen to try to angle the slant, but then I’d keep hitting the select button on the pen. It was annoying. You’d think with those problems I’d have changed the nib sooner, but I was down to my last nib and I really wanted to use the heck out of it before switching. I went to Future Shop (where I bought the drawing tablet) to buy new nibs but they didn’t have any. Fortunately I found some on amazon and they’re now on their way, for the low low price of five dollars. Woot!
I’ve been colouring in my mash-up pictures manually so that wears down the nib a lot more. For the comics, I use the fill-in paint option. It means I have to make sure there are no gaps between the lines, but it makes colouring so much easier and faster. The reason I don’t do that with the mash-ups is because I use a different program to draw them and the fill-in option doesn’t look as good with the toolbrush I use. I suppose I should switch brushes or programs, but I’m used to working with the one I’m using now. I don’t wanna learn how to use another.
I haven’t been checking my site stats lately. As I logged in to write my blog today I saw that there was a flurry of page hits this weekend (actually low double digits). There were also thirteen new comments, but they were all spam. Actually, I can’t say for certain that those comments that were written in Russian (or whatever language they were in) were actually spam, but I’m gonna say if a comment isn’t written in one of the two languages I speak (and that there’s content posted in) then it’s probably spam. So if you wanna leave me some feedback write in English or in French! I’ve gone on about spam comments before so I won’t start that diatribe again. You can go back through the logs to see what I had to say.
Three weeks ago I posted the first half of my Avengers mash-ups and then I must have forgotten that I hadn’t posted the other half, because I went straight through to my GI Joe mash-ups. Now that the Cobra mash-ups are done, I’ll be posting the remaining Avengers mash-ups this week. I’m still trying to decide what to do for next week’s mash-up. If you have any ideas, let me know.
That’s it for now. Peace out. Word.