Only two shopping days before Christmas! Hopefully you don\u2019t actually have any shopping to do because the stores be nuts.<\/p>\n
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Most of my shopping is done. I only have assorted little things to get for a game I\u2019m preparing. I\u2019m hoping that the last few items I\u2019m waiting for will pop up in the mail today or Friday<\/span><\/span>. Fortunately, they\u2019re gifts I wasn\u2019t going be giving until AFTER Christmas, but it\u2019s still cutting tight. Other than these last postal holdouts, I\u2019ve only got (a lot of) wrapping left to do.<\/p>\n \n I was on a two-strip schedule this past weekend and I was much happier for it. I was kind of tired when I was drawing the first so I made a LOT of time-consuming mistakes. I draw every character on a separate layer. This allows me to play around with the composition of the panel. I would draw a character, click on the wrong button and start drawing the next on the same layer and only realize it when I tried to move one around. Eventually I realized\/remembered that I could select parts of the layer and copy it and then paste that part as a separate layer, so that saved me from having to redraw those parts again.<\/p>\n \n There are two panels that I decided to draw in MyPaint (the software I use to draw all the mash-ups). Actually it was only going to be one, but I ended up drawing two versions of it, and while I opted for the second, I still liked the first, so I decided to use it in another strip. \u00a0It\u2019s now the cover picture for the Age of Animus Facebook page actually. I experimented with another brush to draw it. It\u2019s called a slow ink brush and it\u2019s interesting because there\u2019s a slight delay between my movement and the line appearing on the screen. My curves ended up being a lot smoother. The line width tapers and expands depending on how slow and fast I go. I want to experiment with it further because the results are really promising. \u00a0I haven\u2019t finished the second drawing yet. I really want to get that one right, so I put it aside. I have until January 6th<\/sup> to finish it (the day before the strip is due up).<\/p>\n \n I\u2019ve been visiting the local Wal-Mart every week to see if any new Skylanders were in. Sadly, other than Jolly Bumble Blast, it hasn\u2019t been the case. In other Skylanders news, I\u2019ve been playing Lost Island…up until my phone\u2019s last update. Since then the game won\u2019t load. If I had known that was going to happen, I wouldn\u2019t have installed the update. I\u2019m hoping that Activision releases an update soon. I had a couple of quests that were timed. I\u2019m going to fail those unfortunately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Only two shopping days before Christmas! Hopefully you don\u2019t actually have any shopping to do because the stores be nuts. 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