Taking no other sacrifice than your time.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Duh Duh Duh, Another One Bits the Dust

  Besides the most badass way to give CPR, though hopefully not a prediction, it's also a useful way to say goodbye to comics that are moved to Caught Ups for reasons that are not due to The Lull. Those are the saddest. It usually means the comic has stopped updating long enough to be considered dead and not worth loading based on the update schedule. Today we say goodbye to Mint Condition. It was an interesting comic, and I hope that it returns someday. I also hope that it didn't stop updating due to the author's wife, because that was the original reasoning and would be terrible...

  But as we live and die, so do comics. As someone that was not me and lived in the past said, probably more than once, "Out with the old, and in with the new!" Much like a hydra, as we say goodbye to one comic, six more have come to take its place! While I will miss each comic that is moved to Caught Ups, I enjoy finding new comics to read and become attached to. That being said, these new comics are reviewed and Comics Galore as a whole has been revised a bit, as I discovered that a month and a half old post was very poorly written and not impressive at all. That has hopefully been fixed, but feel free to point out gaping errors. Typos will be corrected at some point, but it's such a long piece, and updating over time, that it takes a lot of time, so I appreciate your patience. Feel free to make a short walk over to Comics Galore and take a gander! It's even free!

Thursday, November 11, 2010

It's Not Racism, I Swear!

  https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
It's true, it's not. It asks you to associate some words with "self" and then some words with "others". I suppose Harvard is not very bright after all. Here are my results.

Science!

See? Nothing about racism. But I enjoyed my results. When it first asked me to associate myself with what the test considered "Cold" I actually laughed, because it's kind of true. Externally I seem like a really cold person, which is more of a defensive thing than anything else. On the other hand, I thought it was funny that it said I saw no association between extroversion and introversion. Anyway, this isn't really about me telling people that I swear I'm nice. I just thought it might be cool for people to see this. I'm pretty sure it's measuring how many mistakes you make when taking it, which isn't really a good measurement, but... whatever. I didn't make it, and it's not a world-wide thing, so oh well.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Extra! Extra! Nothing Really Too New!

  I sat down today thinking, "I'm going to draw!" So I gathered up a bunch of paper in the event of mistakes and grabbed my big ol' eraser, revved up and when... "Oh... I don't know what he looks like."
Well believe you me, that was quite the realization! I spent the next few hours (see: nine) working on a face. That's really the hard part of everything, the face. It holds almost all of the emotion the character will ever express for the rest of his unnatural born life. The body is useful for a lot of things, but most artists draw bodies the same way and the face is really what's different. Of course, that's true in real life as well. If everyone had the same face, you wouldn't really be able to tell the difference! Anyway, I've been working for quite some time on the face of the main character, and I think I've got him nailed down. I'm hoping to get the first update up by friday, but with my research paper moving along, time needs to be spent there more than here, most unfortunately. Anyway, I just thought I'd let everyone know that the main character has a face and thus more of a personality and I hope everyone likes him!


Not him, but enjoy anyway!