In addition to completing that project I also had the catalog completely laid out. However, the layout was turned down and it was suggested I try to redesign it. So that should take a great deal more time. I did manage to finally get the stock photography purchased for our 2008 titles so that will let me finally get the files ready for print. I have started on some and the remainder won't take me long to edit.
Then there's the case of Writers News Weekly. My comic has been going fairly well these first three weeks but I now find myself dry of ideas. Here are the previous two weeks strips.
On the personal side of things, I've been doing a good deal of 3d modeling lately. This was spurred on by my recent design of our booth for this years BEA. Getting back into it has been a great deal of fun and I immediately started modding a game I'm currently playing: Sins of a Solar Empire. It's been difficult to get the models into the game correctly. Mainly I'm having trouble getting the textures to read right. It seems that there are some problems with the bump and light map text files and I can't tell if the problem lies within the image or within the model's settings.
I also succeeded in doing a profile sketch of Natalie over the weekend. I hadn't really put pencil to paper in about two weeks and it felt really good. I was surprised and pleased with the results as well. I think it's one of the better drawings I've done and think it may have been a turning point for me. I can look back on different drawings I've done over the years and know which ones specifically ushered in a new era of my abilities. I call these epiphany drawings, and I think that it may have been one. I don't have the image scanned in yet but I will post it later this evening.
