Hooray! Hooray! HOORAAAAAAAY!
This is teh bestest Xmas evar! EVAR! (Spelling fully intentionally wrong, of course!)
Some days ago I downloaded the demo of a - to me - new graphics software and my husband installed it in Wine (Linux). And lo and behold, it works! It works! It woooooorks!
You have no idea of how happy I am right now. After working for 14 years with Paint Shop Pro from 1999 and becoming more and more desparate in the light of the limited possibilities and awful crashes now I finally, finally have modern software that I can actually work decently with!
Tomorrow it will arrive - the parcel with my full version of Manga Studio 5 EX, the world's leading software for comics. I'm gnawing on my desk all day, waiting for it to become Monday. ^^
I bought the 160 Euro professional version, just to be save than sorry. PSP6 wasn't any cheaper back then and having more tools and options also means being satisfied and happy for longer. I'm so excited!
This program will be a tremendous help, with build-in screentones, page layouts, speech bubbles and text tools espcially made for comics. In case we can even get the 3D options to work after all new worlds for backgrounds and buildings will open up for me. And the functions for coloured artwork are great too.
Hooray, hooray, hooray! You can't comprehend for long I suffer from bad software!
For the first time in years I am not mortified at the thought of drawing but on the contrary am happy like the sun! Yesterday replacement tips for my Wacom pen were delivered. I just put one in and then I disassembled the tablet and polished and cleaned it as well as possible and I also polished my lightboard. Yesterday I drew on paper, today I work on digital colors. Finally drawing is fun again. : )
Uhm, what else?
- Tons of new pictures in the galleries. Photos of dolls, photos of new crafts like Amigurumi or pom pom animals, various old (and in some cases freshly colourized previous sketches!) artwork in the galleries (Anime and Fantasy). I'm slowly running out of photos too so if you're sick of them you can be happy, ha ha.
- The article about how my Nareen Pullip was made is finally done, one about drawing comics is in the works. I disabled all other articles in the dolls section for the time being until I have them revised, decorated with piccies and finally translated to English.
- The section for photo comics was created and the old photo story was archived there. Sadly the fabric store had me wait for one month for the fabrics for the outfit of the main character and when the seller of the wig finally delivered it after four months it was broken! So the start of the new photo comic has to be postponed until at least February since the new wig is still on its way. There are some pictures in the forum of the face of the handpainted new main character - elementalist Sinistra
- I try to get some artwork for the Seekers gallery online until the 24th. Two artworks are halfway done.
Oh yeah, and to everyone: Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!