another day down the hole
Mar. 4th, 2008 10:49 pmNot the world's most productive day, but I've had far worse. I went out to a cafe with Nick for a while and got a decent chunk of Absinthe p.1 done - most of the first panel, which takes up about 2/3 of the page. The first thing you see in this story is a full-body shot of Absinthe climbing stairs - from behind, which means that mostly you see her ass and her boots. And the big pile of overbuilt city that the story begins in. Once I finish the entrance of the Municipal Archives I may post a teaser.
Especially if I finish it tonight - I came back home and got fuck-all done. Fell into the damn idle web-browsing rut again despite being happy with actually getting something done on the comic for a change. Sitting on the edge of the bed with the laptop always makes it that much harder, but thankfully spring is on its way which will mean I can reclaim the studio from winter's grip. I got a surprising amount of work done on the Tarot cards from the bed's edge last year, but Absinthe just seems to go better when I'm in the studio.
Edit: Here's a tease - the very first panel of Five Glasses of Absinthe, with hints of the rest of the page. I need to see if Nick remembers what's supposed to be written on the building...
I did, at least, make some progress on fiddling with the old Windows box I've installed Openfiler on - I figured out that I couldn't get to the admin interface from my machine due to my ad-blocking proxy not liking something about its https: service. I shall have to throw another of the assorted disused hard drives into it to actually have something to share; once that's up, it'll be time to centralize all our torrents to there, and maybe get ahold of some hard drives identical to the ones in our machines that we can use to start automagically rsyncing backups onto... that'd be nice! Maybe by the end of the process of setting that up I'll have actually put a full point into "Computer Operations: UNIX Administration", which will come in handy when I'm trapped in a park full of diinosaurs run rampant and the GM has everyone roll against their Computer Ops to figure out how to hack the security so they can escape.
Oh, and here's a snide two-sentence review of the album listed in this entry's 'music' field: We've replaced the music in Trent Reznor's head with Selected Ambient Works; Volume II. Let's see if anyone notices!
Especially if I finish it tonight - I came back home and got fuck-all done. Fell into the damn idle web-browsing rut again despite being happy with actually getting something done on the comic for a change. Sitting on the edge of the bed with the laptop always makes it that much harder, but thankfully spring is on its way which will mean I can reclaim the studio from winter's grip. I got a surprising amount of work done on the Tarot cards from the bed's edge last year, but Absinthe just seems to go better when I'm in the studio.
Edit: Here's a tease - the very first panel of Five Glasses of Absinthe, with hints of the rest of the page. I need to see if Nick remembers what's supposed to be written on the building...
I did, at least, make some progress on fiddling with the old Windows box I've installed Openfiler on - I figured out that I couldn't get to the admin interface from my machine due to my ad-blocking proxy not liking something about its https: service. I shall have to throw another of the assorted disused hard drives into it to actually have something to share; once that's up, it'll be time to centralize all our torrents to there, and maybe get ahold of some hard drives identical to the ones in our machines that we can use to start automagically rsyncing backups onto... that'd be nice! Maybe by the end of the process of setting that up I'll have actually put a full point into "Computer Operations: UNIX Administration", which will come in handy when I'm trapped in a park full of diinosaurs run rampant and the GM has everyone roll against their Computer Ops to figure out how to hack the security so they can escape.
Oh, and here's a snide two-sentence review of the album listed in this entry's 'music' field: We've replaced the music in Trent Reznor's head with Selected Ambient Works; Volume II. Let's see if anyone notices!