rorsach's blog

2008 rolls around

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:06:50 -0700

... and my last entry is from 2007.

I'm not lazy, rather just busy on other things and busy keeping the photos section up to date.

The useful links part is being refreshed also.

Getting there 2006 style

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:47:06 -0800

It's 2007..
[Edit] And now 2008

Kuretake pen

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:41:56 -0700

A friend of mine sent me this amazing Kuretake pen. It has an amazing consistency of line and a nice variable width from very thin to a couple of mm. I wasn't able to find them on Google, so I'm guessing they're not widely available?

Brush Pens

Mon, 15 May 2006 16:04:00 -0700

I just discovered brush pens. Refillable ink pens with a brush tip. Generally used for line art in comic artwork. I found the Pentel GFKP in a local art shop after having a very disappointing experience with the Letraset TRIA. The Pentel is outstandingly good. The tip is just small enough to do fine detail and reasonably thick lines too.

I also got the Pentel color brush, in black. It is also very good but I found the brush was too big and I kept making globby lines with my shaky hand.

Here are the pens:

If you're bored, you can head over to the gallery and see what my first attempts at inking look like. It probably looks like I have parkinsons, given the shaky lines I draw.

Some random words

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:53:42 -0700

These things bounce around my head like a fly trapped between venetian blinds and a closed window.

- auntie aliasing
- unswerving machine
- unfortunatelely

There are others. I might even post them if I get the urge.

Musical composition

Sun, 23 Oct 2005 00:01:18 -0700

I occasionally find I can't sleep at night. Rather than waste time trying to get back to sleep, I sit in front of the computer and attempt to compose some tunes.

Quiet Earth (1.13mb)
Dawning Mystery (650kb)

There's no talent involved here; feel free to flame these efforts. I wouldn't be surprised if you decided to rip your eyes out half way through listening.

Platypus

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:06:14 -0700

Below is a platypus 3d model I've started recently. For the curious among you, I've been using Silo3D to build the mesh. It's a very intuitive modeling solution and definitely beats 3ds MAX hands down for speed in creating organic objects.

All this 3d malarky is only a therapeutic pass time. I add bits to models when it pleases me. I'm waiting for the Silo3D 2.0 release which includes UV mapping. It should make texturing the platypus a lot easier.

Things to add:

Paws / Claws
Eyes!!
Refined details, nostrils on the beak
Fix the proportions. I think this platypus looks slightly obese.

Flying Saucer

Sat, 13 May 2006 15:40:55 -0700

I recently saw a programme on channel 5 about flying saucers. Whilst the programme was largely devoid of useful information, the technical diagrams of the saucers inspired me.

There was a certain beauty to the designs. Here's a work in progress, not quite up to the standard of the ones I saw, working from memory.

Reference

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:25:13 -0700

I've updated my list of web reference links. It's not yet complete however it should be useful to people interested in building web sites.

Another update

Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:52:43 -0800

With the most recent version of this web site software, I decided to install everything fresh and delete the old pointless content I had placed here previously.

The only really useful tidbit on this site is the photographs link on the right