A comic.
Today, I used some birthday money and some tutoring money and bought myself the new iPad. It’s a pretty amazing piece of technology, I must admit. I went ahead and downloaded a sketchbook program so I could try drawing stuff without pen and paper. I like it, though I don’t think it’ll be replacing my usual artistic methods anytime soon.
Contrary to popular belief, I did not actually die yesterday.
Okay, I did die, but I respawned.
Happy Ides of March, everyone! If a bunch of people ask you to meet them at the Senate tonight, just say no. It’s for the best.
I decided I wanted a fountain pen. Sure, it’s a complete affectation, ’cause honestly there are much easier writing tools to use. Mostly, though, I wanted it to write in this:
Yes, it’s a Star Wars Moleskine journal! It’s one of the presents my wife got me for my birthday. It is, as you can see, pretty damn awesome.
So over the weekend, I began playing the first Mass Effect game. It’s pretty cool so far, though I’m still not real good at shooting people in it. I also think I prefer the fighting system in Dragon Age II (which is basically the same game, only with dragons and swords and stuff instead of Mass Effect’s sci-fi elements). We’ll see if I have the energy and time to invest in completing all three Mass Effect games.
As I mentioned yesterday, my wife got me some new Prismacolor markers for my upcoming birthday. I decided to try them out with some basic shading (really the same shading I always do, just over color). I’m not terribly impressed with my results, but I’m a pretty harsh critic of myself. I think it’s one of those things I definitely need to work with more, but it could easily turn out to be something fun to add from time to time.
Anyway, there’ll be a real comic up later. This was just a quickie for fun.
My birthday presents arrived today, apparently, even though my birthday isn’t until the end of March (the 27th, to be exact). My wife, though, was too excited for me open the presents and insisted I had to open them all today.
What she got me all turned out to be pretty damn awesome. First, she got me some Prismacolor markers (in actual colors, not my usual grayscale ones) and a blender marker (apparently the liquid in the blender marker helps to blend colors together or something. I’ll have to do some research on that one). She also got me a Star Wars Moleskine journal, which is pretty freakin’ awesome. So yeah, birthday is going pretty well so far, even if it is still two weeks and a bit away.
Well, it’s Daylight Savings Time here in the good ol’ US of A (unless you live in Arizona, I think, ’cause they just gotta be different), and this is the first thing that, er, sprung to mind. *rimshot*
My wife and her sister dragged myself and the sister’s boyfriend to a fancy restaurant for dinner this evening. It was delicious, but there were…complications.
Look, I don’t like getting dressed up, okay? I hate ties. I’m okay with sports jackets and blazers and stuff, though. I do hate tucking in my shirt as well (nothing worse than seeing a cartoonist’s gut hang over his belt while he pigs out on steak and tiny little fried mac’n’cheese thingies). On the other hand, I love delicious dinners, and even if this one was in a fancy restaurant with a dress code and crap, the food was fantastic.
