TOE week 5 and 6: The Hardest part is actually the Easiest part.

Last week was a bit of a wash, I practically did nothing. I was on vacation without my laptop we had limited room in the car for our trip and my laptop is bulky and I didn’t want to crush it or something. I did draw for about fifteen minutes and it was a crappy drawing so it doesn’t count. There was some good however one of our friends down south is a Graphic Artist who took a look at my entire sketchbook and he liked my designs for this TOE project that I’m working away on. He did point out a few things for my boss designs but overall he liked my art. I don’t think I have had someone look through my entire sketchbook since I was in college. It felt good. I also got to have my sister in law, brother in law, nieces and nephew play the game a little bit when we got back home.

I know that I said I was going to be coding for awhile but the latest assignments have be art related. A while ago I made Halo armor out of card stock and fiberglass resin. The part I was most looking forward to was painting the armor. That was basically my favorite part of that project. One of the other projects that I am stupid close to putting a bow on needs me to ‘paint’ some things. I was actually excited about that part. The part that I didn’t want to do was scan the drawn artwork from my sketchbook. 

                I can’t even say why something so insignificant was preventing me from doing something that I actually love to do. Twain doesn’t work in Photoshop anymore unless it is 32 bit and my scanner doesn’t scan at a resolution that I’m happy with not because of the scanner but because of the only program that works with the scanner on Windows 10 maxs out of 300 dpi. Not bad really but all of these things combined made me really hesitant to attempt even scanning anything. I had been meaning to just scan some drawings since Sunday. I just did it TODAY. I also got around to painting one of my drawings TODAY as well because I finally scanned it! I also did scan in a landscape piece from the sketchbook that was supposedly for this project. I don’t know if it yet fits but it was something that I promised last blog. 

                So no new code, no secondary weapons, no animations… I have to finish the stuff for the other game before I can put more attention onto this project. I am going to try to finish most of that stuff this weekend. It is all scanned now so the hard part is over…

                Going to shut up now and post these drawings.