Category Archives: Art
A Coloring Tutorial That Saved My Life.
Well, not really. But “Basic Color Blending” by Andantonius from Deviant Art, found here, is one of the most insightful and helpful tutorials I’ve ever seen for digital coloring. Credit goes to Kit for finding this amazing video first. He showed it to me a while back, and I just now got to watching it [...]
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The Final Stretch…
It’s been a slow, and rather lame-ass march, but it at last seems like I’m closing the gap to that epic 5,000 gold in World of Warcraft that shall guarantee me the right to ride a flying mount capable of speeds in excess of 279% percent my normal running speed. They are true SR-71′s of [...]
First Finished ‘Sins’ Match!
Kit and I finished our first “Comp Stomp” in Sins of a Solar Empire. I gotta say, this game is one of THE most beautiful RTS’s I’ve ever played. It’s the type of game that should be Played in the dark when possible, and Played with slow, elegant classical music playing in the background. The [...]
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Linear Non-Linearity Theory
In one of my art classes, we’re working in water color. I’ll be the first to admit that it is not my forte, but somehow I’m still somewhat at odds with my art teacher. According to her, there’s an enormous set of unbreakable rules that follow water color painting. 1. Thou shalt NOT use white [...]
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Return to BRD
For some reason I love trying soloing old world content. Maybe it’s from all the years of playing single player games, but there’s just something about being by yourself, and nobody to help you if you mess up. So I decided to venture into Blackrock depths all by my lonesome. From an exploration/scenery standpoint this [...]
Character: NGC-3982
After a million years of procrastination, I’ve decided to put up another character. Ironically, this is similar to my last post in that Lauren Faust is heavily connected. One of Lauren’s more mainstream-obscure side projects is called Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls. It’s basic premise if it ever makes it to television will be [...]
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A Gift to one of the Greats.
Some of you know that last year I came to be an acquaintance of Lauren Faust, wife of Craig McCracken and head writer for the show “Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends” and formerly the “Powerpuff Girls.” I stumbled upon her Deviant Art page by accident, and have since become a regular reader/commenter on her blog. [...]
Gran-effin’-Turismo
The one game that could make me cry about not having the gratuitously expensive PS3 is Gran Turismo 5 Ars talks about the recently relased “demo” of GT5 titled Gran Turismo 5: Prologue Racing games have not quite delivered for me yet, there’s an experience that I’m looking for in my next foray into the [...]
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Garry’s Mod: BYOC
What a beautiful sight to see! I can now have passengers ride in style in, or rather, on my um, shiny, um, new Jalopy. Garry Newman’s outstanding HL2 sandbox mod keeps getting better and better, one of the most notable recent changes is the addition of new vehicle types: Chairs! As veteran Garry’s Mod players [...]
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Music translated to ASL. It’s worth your time.