Archive for June, 2008
Jun
30
Posted by Scraps
Not totally, of course, there was the scanning and the PhotoShop cleaning of the print pages which did get done. And all those grays I was erasing stray marks to be able to pick them up better? They totally dropped out anyway. Apparently 20% cool gray is ass for scanning. Oh well, just tweaked the levels and left them out. I was kinda worried how they’d print anyway so it’s probably just as well. If it’d been only a little uneven I just would have gone back over it with the airbrush to fix it. Oh, well, live and learn.
Other than that, nothing had really happened tonight. I had totally planned to start on this week’s strips tonight, at least getting pencils down but, well, no. Didn’t happen. And I’m not going to beat myself up over it, either. I can definitely get Wednesday’s up tomorrow night so there’s no crisis and after pushing myself so much these past couple of weeks I think a night off is not uncalled for.
Now about July… July is going to be a “chill” month for me. Of course I still have the comic and my eHow articles to do but here are some things I’m not going to be doing:
*taking on new projects
*scripting Act 2 of Wedding Tarot (it’ll wait til August)
*committing to new projects for future months
*throwing a party (it was a possibility, but no, I need the break)
etc.
I also plan to curb the superfluous spending for the month of July, kinda like a lifestyle detox. Of course, that just meant that I ordered the print gocco machine tonight rather than waiting on later this month, but I’ve been planning to order it for 2+ months now and it will actually be used for an article, at that. But enough excuses. Aside from things like gas and groceries and necessary art supplies it’s gonna be nix on the other frivolities. We’ll see how that goes 
Jun
29
Posted by Scraps
And now that the 8-pages all about cars is finished I can actually say that without jinxing the project! Now just to scan them at the office tomorrow and do (hopefully) a minimal amount of clean-up in photoshop before sending them off to the publisher. Hopefully they’ll be to his liking and I’ll know before long which publication they’ll be in and when! Whee!
Now it’s off to bed at a decent hour… finally.
Jun
25
Posted by Scraps
Probably. Sigh…
So last night I had a sneezing fit. Today my head starts getting very stuffy, my ribcage is sore and I start coughing. This is _so_ not a good time for me to get sick, I’ve got so much to finish. Of course, this is exactly why I’m now on the precipice of illness (and a coworker is getting over a case of bronchitis, timing sucks!) because I’ve been working so much and not getting enough sleep. Vicious cycle and I really do know better, just sometimes it’s what has to happen.
Ended up giving in to the zombie-like feeling, the ickyness and the stormy weather and took a nap after work. Would have been a longer nap but the phone (finally) woke me up. And I’d left it in the other room on purpose, too! Oh, well, it allowed me to finish a beading example and a card project, both of which are for the articles I’m looking to get finished up tomorrow night. Still have writing and editing to do, but the long part, the examples, are complete and I’m really jazzed about how they both turned out. Definitely worth sharing.
Jun
24
Posted by Scraps
Comics for the week are done and uploaded, that was tonight’s goal. The next two nights will be spent wrapping up my eHow articles for the month leaving me Friday-Monday to get the print submission done on time. Sounds doable right now, let’s hope that doesn’t change. Maybe I’ll get lucky and have some time Thursday for inking the remaining 6 pages (one of which still needs pencils but at least has panels and letters). Dashing off…
Jun
23
Posted by Scraps
So. I’m over thirty and apparently my skin just got the memo because the last few months I’ve been having such odd issues with my skin, well, hatin’ on me! It’s not so much blemishes, I doubt I’ll ever be rid of those if Mom’s any indication though it’s nothing like high school *shudder*, but for the first time in my life I have _dry_ skin. Not even dry skin, but selectively dry skin. And I’ve always had (and still have by and large) oily skin so the fact that it’s dry in some places just totally confuses me.
So I’ve been testing various moisturizers and all and so far there are plenty that work great on my arms and legs but not so much on the face. My Sephora order came in today containing two items that are safe for sensitive skin and also for oily skin. Hopefully between the two of them (one to use before bed and the other to go under my makeup that’s supposed to “mattify” as well) I’ll be able to improve the situation. Getting older is hell, though I do prefer it to the alternative!
