Art update - Summer (Patreon)

Hey all!  First of all, a link to our linkhub page, with updated links etc.

So it's basically Summer on  the northern hemisphere and I'm starting to notice! The room with my pc in it (and basically any other room) is starting to turn into an oven at times. Up until now I always just took off as many clothes as possible and made due with a fan, but this time I went out and got myself one of those mobile air conditioners.

It kinda feels like a defeat... Don't try and understand, that's just my personal malfunction : )  

There have been times when I was more afraid of my pc melting than myself so I went and got an ac unit after much hesitation.  Cbob thought my resistance to having an ac was funny and ridiculous. I can't say it isn't.

(I've never longed for beaches during hot weather, but I'll make an exception for those on Ember island)

Anyway,  after finishing up v1.0.8 of 18Titans and  with Cbob discovering new and exciting drugs  to use : D   ....    I count myself lucky that I, at most, need an aspirin every now and then. 

It was very interesting to read your comments on Cbob's post. Except for the few things I gleamed from watching some youtube movies, I'm still pretty ignorant on what ADHD entails, but it's nice that some of you with hands on experience could shed some more light on it in comments and pm's . I'm certain Cbob can benefit from it. 

I've started working on FET again this month and 18Titans is back in the freezer. Part of my work on FET is going over some older scenes. Changing scenes when I notice something weird or adding things. The other part is starting work on future scenes again. 

It's during the correction of an older scene that I discovered I had lost the psd for it. That's a minor problem since the psd contains the line-art and colors on different layers. I can work without it and basically trace and redraw my older drawings, but it sure as hell isn't efficient. 

Of course I searched for it in my backups but it wasn't there either.  I did find it again eventually, but it was in a weirdly named folder outside of my main work folder. Luckily that doesn't happen often.

I must have put it there temporarily and forgot about it. It wasn't all frustration though. That "hunt" made me come across an older scene which I worked on about a month ago and discarded as not good enough. With some time in between then and now I could see it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was so I started to rework it and am rather happy with the result now. Finding that one again was a happy accident.

Any artists among you can probably attest to the possibility of two weird things happening when you're working on the same drawing consecutively for a while . 

One, you become blind to some very obvious mistakes/oddities with your drawing. 

Two, you can think something is looking godawful and when coming back to it later, you realize it isn't.  Really odd.

And just as a side note, I keep forgetting to draw the big blue Arrows on Jinora's body while drawing this one scene. Those arrows are hardly subtle so you'd say I wouldn't, but noooo.... I notice it one moment and the next moment I've already forgotten it again.

Besides drawing I also do a small amount of scripting for the next build and I discovered my fingers have an unconscious preference for typing "zoafu" instead of "zaofu". That sure doesn't help with bugs considering I have a couple of variables which include that name.

Naturally a lot of you will want to know how far work on the next build has progressed and  when you can visit Zaofu yourself.  Like I mentioned, I did start doing some minor work on it myself so I'm hoping that can give whatever Cbob's doing a small boost, but I'll have to wait until he can send me an intermediate build to get a feeling of where we're at right now.

And that's it again for this post.

Hope you guys are having a good weekend and don't forget to take a look at the attached pics if you'd like to see the pic with Azula and friends a bit larger or nudier.

Peace! 

Marty