On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Of course, I haven't really rested today. The following things got done today:

- vacuumed two floors of the house
- picked out stars to host a half-dozen or so planets on that Edge of Midnight map project
- did two walking/shopping trips mainly for exercise
- practiced a bit more for Clip Studio Paint via the Cintiq tablet/monitor
- uploaded a scan of a sketch I drew for my Amateur Press Alliance back in 2006 to various social media outlets for the sake of self-promotion and because of Batman Day
- cleaned up some of my kitchen mess
- applied for another job
- cleaned my CPAP gear, as I need to do each weekend
- wrote a note of comment to the Ottawa Board of Health about protection measures against SARS-CoV-2 and other contagions of note and worry

I'd like to get a new "office/studio" chair, but barring some surprise via trashnothing.com, that's probably not going to happen soon. The one I use currently leans a bit to my right because of years of my leaning to that side when I sit down in it. Also, it deflates an inch after a certain amount of time sitting down.

Good evening, everyone.

Digital artists: you've all found yourselves gravitating to specific brushes in whatever programs you use, haven't you.

Got some practice time in with Clip Studio Paint today, among other things.

Might post some of the WIP stuff tomorrow.

I've already given up on the idea of getting a sketch finished per day...and I still want to try for addressing every item in the Inktober prompt list for this year anyway.

Sketch # 2 - "Scurry"

This was the first thought I had for it.

A bit more progress on this sketch...

I finally got my second-hand Cintiq this morning via UPS. Been waiting ages for the chance to get one, and thanks to a friend in Florida, I got lucky this month.

Observation: that shipping box is BIG.

Gonna have to wait for the weekend to start learning to work with it. Also, need to re-rig my basement desk to make room for it.

Good night.

Ideas is replaying a defence of nihilism on CBC Radio One as I type this.

Meanwhile, I'm reading Rabble.ca articles.

Tomorrow, I hope to make time to resume work on a commission sketch. The reference materials sent to me for this one have been challenging reading. Somewhat more challenging to print out in a legible fashion.

It's been over a decade since I recorded this image. Not sure if the painting's still there nowadays. I'll have to ask friends who live in Lowertown if they've noticed.

Usually, on Labour Day, I'd be downtown photographing the parade, and uploading the pix that suited me to Flickr. Because, usually, there would be a Labour Day Parade organized by the local unions and allied organizations. This year, it looks like, thanks to the Time of Pandemic - yet again - that parade is not going to happen.

Instead, there's going to be online events all over the Ottawa-adjacent cyberspaces, hosted by those same labour groups and their allies. I'm not sure which, if any, I'm going to be participating in.

Until then...what did I do today?

I was involved in a video chat with assorted members of ByMUG. Details for today's session were here. Shadow-dot-tech as a gamer's workaround. RSS resources. That sort of thing.

I mowed the front lawn for my household and the next-door neighbours.

I've been adding brushes from my previous Clip Studio Paint version to the current one. That's taking more time than I'd like, because the current version is not set up to batch-import brushes and other materials. Over a hundred brushes involved.

Yesterday, I looked at a script for an old project that never got finished. I was never happy with pencils that I'd handed in, nor with the tech I'd used to paste together the scans of each page. Now that I have both a scanner that can handle an 11 x 17 art board in one pass, and Clip Studio Paint as options to work with...should I revisit that script? I'm tempted.

I am tempted to see if I can do a better job now than I did then.

Some of these things, I've had for over 20 years. My Dad was still alive when I bought them. (And he rolled his eyes about my buying habits at Wallacks and DeSerres because...well.) Anyway, I'd expect all of them to be dried up and out of order permanently because of the age issues.

Not so!

Some testing over the course of this morning whilst checking assorted job boards for more conventional day-jobs (I can't give up on that either!) has proven some of the oldest of these to still be somewhat functional. I'll try to work up a list of effective brands later today or tonight, okay?

Meantime, lunch calls.