Today is Tuesday. Tuesdays are “dead” days. On Tuesdays I post a sketch (or some form of artwork), and natter on about fluffy incidental stuff, post links, etc. I schedule my workload around this. This week, since I’m trying to get the Attic ready (enough) for launch Thursday, it’s particularly important that I stick to this schedule. But… but… PVP!
So. PVP post (link). PVP post tomorrow (link). PVP post tomorrow which dovetails nicely with my previous posts on perma-death in the MOG space (link). Go do your homework and come back tomorrow, ready to argue.
I think our ISP shot one of the two hamsters that once powered our site’s MySQL server. I also suspect that the remaining hamster is taking a lot of protest breaks. I don’t know if he’s protesting the death of his companion, or that he wasn’t the one short first. I suspect the latter, but I’ll see if I can convince them to spring for another hamster. Until then I guess we’ll limp along. I look forward to moving my sites onto my own server someday. Then I can flog the server hamsters myself and not rely on someone else to do it.
Flog the server hamsters. That’s just a wrong phrase out of context.
As much as I love to doodle, sketch, and scribble, I loath doing caricatures and portraits. Oh sure, I’ll lampoon my own visage at the drop of a hat, a habit which is more mockery than vanity… mockery of my own vanity, but mockery none the less. Anyway, I know that my self image is more than resilient enough to withstand the gross oversimplification of my art style, but I’m never sure that other people’s is.
So, it was with great trepidation that I sat down and finally followed up on my promise to create illustrations of my business partner and myself for the new Attic.
Gah! What was I thinking?!
To make a long story short — It turns out that the secret is to start with abstract shapes and push back in towards the real thing. I initially tried to start with accurate and push out toward abstract, but that was a completely self conscious process, frustrating, and didn’t work well. Anyway, I know you all have probably been thinking that I made this guy up, but here’s living proof of his existence!
Well, it’s Part A of the living proof anyway. Part B will be when you see photos from GDC and some of them feature a guy who looks almost, but not quite, completely unlike this icon. Of course, upon looking at this now, I see that it’s a pretty good representation, with only two things I need to fix. The goatee needs to be rotated a bit and I need to chop off his ear… strictly for purposes of design of course.
Now, off to work I go. I’ll let you know if anything is alive and kicking today.
