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the dream of sigils and transport
I dreamed I was showing off the Rita omnibus to someone. There were pages with adaptations of entirely unrelated books running in tiny parallel panels, to fill space and add texture. And a moment of crazily swirling along the tool-assisted sigil at the end of the book, twisting and turning it to keep the line being followed going across the center ( Read more... ) -
FC2017
I hadn’t intended to go to FC. I hadn’t gotten a table. Hadn’t negotiated for a room with anyone. But there I was, going down to the airport, with a con ticket and room share I’d set up maybe a month before on impulse. “What the hell am I gonna do without a table to give my con structure?”, I wondered.
The day before I’d been doodling some ( Read more... ) -
Launch.
The Parallax Working has begun.
The emergent complex thanks you in advance for your love, your time, your attention, and your funds.
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The Magic Sketchbook is a success.
Years ago, my animation school roomie Gabe went to a con and chatted with master cartoonist Sergio Aragones. Aragones often draws incredibly complicated, goofy comics, and has a pretty impressive rate of output.
Gabe asked his secret. And passed it on to me: instead of working at a larger size than the printed page and shrinking it down, as most ( Read more... ) -
bathroom bills
This morning, I woke up to a call for action on yet ANOTHER ‘bathroom bill’ in Washington state. Once again I told my representatives that hey, all us trans people wanna do is piss in peace, and why do we even have separate-but-equal facilities anyway?
I’m sure that HB1011 will get defeated just as soundly as I-1515 was. But you know what? I think ( Read more... ) -
music does things sometimes
I’ve been intermittently trying to make myself exercise every morning. I haven’t been beating myself up or viewing it as a ***failure*** if I don’t; I just get a little annoyed and move on. And this weekend I didn’t do it for a few days in a row.
But this morning I got up and told iTunes to start playing something. It chose Deavid Soul’s “Sparkling ( Read more... ) -
The Wand Of Illustrator Control
If you’re like me, then you’ve got multiple years behind you of drawing with one hand on the stylus and the other on the keyboard, hitting hotkeys. You might have even gone so far as to customize those keys - I’m all at sea on a stock installation of Illustrator, since half the keys I hit constantly default to longer shortcuts, or aren’t assigned ( Read more... )
