This is the art I did for the new ToC page.
I’m very happy with it, especially how the colours gave the image life, which I’d lost in the inking stage. I tried a new style based on incooperating the inks into the colours instead of having the lines hover over the colours. I adore the results and might try that in the comic itself – if I find a way to get this effect a teensy bit quicker than with this style of full colours.
So, the trarr.net itself is slowly nearing completation – and as always in all my projects phases of frentic action between huge spans of lazyness. As long as I plan for my lazyness phases (for example with a buffer), everything will be all right. :)
What’s left to do on the page itself:
All this has to be done before I can comfortably start updating the comic itself.
Oof.
But it’s far less than I initially expected, especially since a few of those items can be knocked of rather quickly. It did help alot that I nixed the forum and the world encyclopedia as “coming soon”™. I might add both later, but not after the comic’s going stable. But until then there’s always the danger of distraction. There are other details, like fixing the backend of the comic display – it works, but the code’s kinda clunky.
Especially a forum is dangerous – I’ve been recently shown how dangerous a certain kind of people are – those take it upon themselves to tell artists how much they suck. And forums, unfortionally, seem to be a breeding ground for them. It’s not something I want to deal whith while I struggle with the update boss itself. It would just trigger my perfectionistic streak – which always is a bad idea.
Notable Achivements: none
Well, I’ve been traveling, visiting home to be exact – in order to brave three different birthday celebrations. Which means Food, lots of food. Plus alcohol. And sitting around doing nothing but chatting. And braving the fact that my family has really, really BAD eating habits and sees feeding people until they can’t move as an act of love. Can’t say I didn’t expect gaining weight during those two weeks, but I didn’t expect it to be that much. Blargh.
Lets just say it tooks it toll and I can do the 5kg achievement all over again.
It’s good to be back on track.
Notable Achivements: none this week
I’m coming closer to my goal of a half kilogram per week, I’m now just a little more than a pound behind the plan. I did the jogging – it feels great – and the cooking, and things are just plodding along.
But this week I realized one important thing:
It isn’t as dramatic as I made it out to be in the beginning. No starving, no grandstanding, no excessive renunciation, no loud declarations to the world. No suffering for beauty or martyrdom involved. Just me, a scale and some mindfulnes in how and when I eat. Step back, if the weight stagnates, eat more if it drops to steeply. There are still compulsions to stuff my face when chocolate and cake are near me, but they’re just that – compulsion. It’s not as if I have to obey them.
How many plans failed because of our human tendency to revel in drama? It’s so not necessary!
Celebrating my birthday. And alot of birthdays in my close family. :) I’ll continue to take my weight every day, although a family visit is coming up and with that heaps of good, tasty food – and the fact that my mom tends to take offence at people watching their weight. The former I’m looking forward to, the later I don’t know how to deal with yet. The best might be just to not talk about it, but she’s going to pick up on my changed habbits… Erf.
Notable Achivements: 5 kg down.
Yes, yes, YES! /dance
It’s all about movement. As much as I prefer to be a couch potato, I unfortionally need to move in order to convince my body to use up excess fat. As much as I try and whine and struggle (I’m lazy) – there’s no way around getting my arse in gear. Took long walks last week, and well – it’s the reason I finally made the 5kg mark.
It actually would’ve been more, but well, the weekend’s never nice to me. During the week it’s easy to keep up with the changes I’ve made – my office has a great canteen with a faboulous salad buffet and I don’t eat at home. At all. See the problem? I’ve got a tough time with food on Saturday and Sunday.
Those two things seem doable to me. Hopefully starting to jog will allow me to catch up with my original plan of a pound per week. :)
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I'm a German artist in my early thirties, who spends way too much time infront of a computer screen. An affinity for digital art, a dayjob as software developer and WoW will do that to you. Still, even I get to see the daystar sometimes. It’s incredibly bright and in dire need of a dimmer.
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