Breaking Todd and the Excellent Emo McGee

Pastel on newsprint and GIMP, a googol hours

I had this idea that I sketched onto a piece of newsprint on Wednesday, but it looked like abstract barf at the time. Above is sort of what I had in mind, like one of those classic Swamp Thing covers, with the same palette and everything. He was originally gently caressing a flower, but a Google search turned up another drawing with almost the same exact idea, but angrier.

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 Last week of official life drawing classes this week. Do I feel like I've made any progress this summer? I dunno. I'm still only getting about 1-2 decent drawings per session, so that hasn't changed.  We'll see when school starts up again if this summer has done anything for me.

Interplanetary American Hegemony

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They landed a rover the size of a humvee onto Mars. Here's to the manned missions that will hopefully pave the way to us being discovered by Vulcans. United Federation of Planets, here we come!

I wish I had something more substantial than just life drawings this week. I've been developing this one story idea out of a big pile of tag lines, but I'm having trouble balancing the right mix of humor and character development into 5 minutes. Finding that concise, crystal clear demonstration of motive is also tough going. Hell, I might just end up scrapping it all and going with Mike the Living Explosion in the end.

Do We Have a Gold Yet? No?

Until the repair people can get my laptop to function at a temperature above absolute zero, I'm back to wonderful world of open source software. Though this Ming Dynasty Thinkpad is incapable of running Photoshop in any capacity, it does GIMP like a Ferrari. 

I'm not entirely sure what Wilbur is.

GIMP, or as I like to call it, Photoshop for Freedom Fighters, has been updated to 2.8 since last I tried it. I tested the painting features by trying to paint the GIMP mascot, and tried the photo manipulation tools by pasting together a collage of pastel illustrations into Twin Peaks' Red Room. GIMP 2.8 has a more intuitive GUI compared to a year ago, but it's still got that frustrating almost-but-not-quite-Photoshop menu layout. 

Fire groove with me

I only went to one life drawing session this week because of the Olympics, but feel stupid about it since Canada's being outperformed by North Korea.

 I only got one good drawing, 20 min.