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Don’t worry, Be Happy

by on November 2, 2012 at 6:00 am
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Hello all, just a brief blog-thing update today as I’m very very tired while I prepost this, having been delayed by an anxiety attack. I’m fine now, but I should probably go to bed and get some rest. I find I feel better when I’ve had a good night’s sleep.

Anyway, I’d like to say thanks to all of you for really taking an interest in Monday’s storyline and having a civilised discussion about the topics it addresses without it devolving into a flamewar. Not that I thought that would happen, certainly not here: I like to think Elf Blood readers are a cut above, and thus far your behaviour shines! read more

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Achoo!

by on October 22, 2012 at 6:00 am
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*sniffle*

Well, I finally figured out why I’ve been so fatigued this last week, it turns out I’m just coming down with a cold and not anhedonia just seizing my life. Thanks to the impending Dr. Lola for pointing it out, even though I didn’t figure that I was actually a bit ill until a good week or so later 😛

Anyways, in other (more interesting and important) news, I’ve drawn up the outline of Book #2 in my Memecasters series! Which reminds me, I really must look into selling them online, so that you guys can get your hands on a copy of #1. Memecasters, as I haven’t plugged it in a while now, is a sci-fi comic about a group of uni mates clubbing together to use their skills in manipulating peoples’ perceptions to fix problems plaguing the campus population. It’s funny, it’s quirky, and it’s chock-full of post-cyberpunk awesomeness! read more

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Know thine enemy

by on October 19, 2012 at 6:00 am
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Hullo all, hope you’re doing well! Ah, it’s the weekend again, and everything is groovy; I’m picking up pace with Lemon Candies again, and I’ve finally managed to get down a start to my novel that I’m happy with. Only took me eight friggin tries! Now all I need to do is conquer this chronic singleness and everything will be sunshine and rainbows! That’s what happens when you get in a relationship, right?

*cough* Anyhoo, when I’ve not been exploring Pandora in the new DLC scenario for Borderlands 2 (which is well worth a look), I’ve been playing UFO: Enemy Unknown. Words cannot express how freakin awesome (and, at times, INTENSELY FRUSTRATING) this game is. read more

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Constantly Playing Catchup

by on October 15, 2012 at 6:00 am
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It suddenly strikes me, that the main disadvantage for somebody at my intermediate art level in working on long graphic novels over a period of time is that, inevitably, your art improves and your style may change. While this is inarguably a good thing, the unfortunate fact of the matter is that it introduces an element of inconsistency to your work. These differences may actually only be very small, and they may go unnoticed by others, but dammit if they don’t just sit and glare at you from the page. read more

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Yay weekend!

by on October 12, 2012 at 6:00 am
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Ah, thank goodness it’s the weekend. It’s been a week of late nights for me, and naps caught here and there to try and prop myself up, so I’m looking forward to a bit of unwinding this weekend. Time to dye my hair again (thinking either blue, turquoise or my usual purple but suggestions will be noted!), make a nice proper meal for myself, the new X-Com game is out, the Mechromancer class was released early for Borderlands 2, I’m back into the swing of things with Lemon Candies… Oh, and I need to make a trip to PC World to pick up an external hard drive caddy which I think will be a Saturday morning thing. Y’know, make the most of the day. read more

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Doing it on the cheap

by on October 8, 2012 at 6:00 am
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The other day, I noticed something in my Facebook feed that somewhat irritated me (yes, it’s going to be one of those posts but bear with me as it’s very important). A band, admittedly not one that I know but presumably somebody my friends know, had put out a call to their fans to produce a band logo.

What seems like a fun and lively way of engaging fans is, in reality, a rather more sinister symptom of a deeper problem permeating society. That is, that graphic design is SEVERELY underrated and undervalued. ‘Competitions’ like this are just the tip of the problem. It starts with people being offered band merch, which is already in stock and may be difficult to shift anyway. And the band can theoretically get dozens, hundreds of designs in for review before deciding on one, ONE, entrant to win. What they have done is to have absorbed many work hours from the lives of these people (whether or not they expect to earn money from their illustrations immaterial at this stage) and have expended a comparatively TINY amount of their own resource. read more

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Puzzling Behaviour

by on October 5, 2012 at 6:00 am
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Just a brief one today, but something I’ve been musing on. I’ve been playing Picross on my 3DS since just before I went to Cyprus, and by Great Mara is it addictive! For those of you not in the know, Picross is a puzzle game that’s essentially a graphical crossword; You’re presented with a grid, and given the number and size of filled pixel clusters  on each row and colum. It’s an interesting challenge, and makes for some excellent logical thinking opportunities. I freakin’ love it! read more

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Say yes to rugs!

by on September 28, 2012 at 6:00 am
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This week, I have a new obsession! RUGS!

Don’t ask me why because I’m not quite sure, but I really want a nice rug for the flat. I think it came from friends staying over at the weekend, and the deflated air mattress one of them used lay in quite a nice manner such as to suggest an apt placement for a rug. That, and winter’s coming, so it might be nice to have a bit of carpeting in (though in general I quite like wood flooring). I do also love to walk over different surfaces (woven matting being one of my favourites by far), so having a rug would offer a nice alternate texture. Hey, I might even just get a woven mat for under the computer chair! I’M DEVELOPING A RUG ADDICTION! read more

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Back to DayZ

by on September 7, 2012 at 6:00 am
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Allo all! Despite my incredible busy-ness in the last week or so (which has seen MB!! Magazine lying, unupdated) I have managed to find a little bit of time to get some gaming in with my mates. They’ve finally convinced me to come back to DayZ, after I left it a few months ago due to some complete asshattery on the parts of some other survivors.

I must say, the game is still quite tense, and with the addition of axes as melee weapons, exploring through zombie-infested country is a lot easier. I’ve not yet encountered any other survivors, but every moment is a tense waiting game; You just never know when that bullet is coming for you. Fortunately, I’ve JUST acquired a new long rifle, and we’re now travelling in a pack so I feel a little bit safer in-game, now. read more

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Poirot: What’s not to like?

by on September 3, 2012 at 6:00 am
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I’ve been quite busy recently working up some comics to cover myself while I’m away, so as a result I’ve been up quite late a few nights. I like to have the TV on in the background while I draw, and usually I’m watching Channel Dave (Yes, non-UKians, we have a channel called Dave, and it consists almost entirely of Top Gear and QI) but recently it’s been showing films of which I have little interest, and none of the other channels have had anything worth watching.

Except for ITV 2 (or 3, I forget which). Apparently in the late evening, but prior to midnight, they show a lot of my favouritestest detective show EVER. Agatha Christie’s Poirot, the iconic David Suchet series. If you guys haven’t seen these, I highly recommend them! Now, I love TV Poirot at the best of times: It’s set in the interbellum, it’s properly classy and the art deco aesthetic is phenomenally exciting. But the ITV series of Poirot is just fantastic. The production values are exceptional, and the huge investment poured into the original series has clearly paid off; They have stood the test of time incredibly well, and look just as fresh as if they had been shot today. read more

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