Site problems and ......... Dream

Firstly, The Rarebox, my Portfolio, and other little sites in the World 4-2verse outside of this blog have had their layouts eaten. Host Xepher.net is on a new server now, and all my PHP tags have to be edited on each of my pages to work again.

Of course, this was just something that happened to happen. I <3 my host!

Firstly, though, login issues need to be resolved. Don't expect an overnight fix, kiddies. Reguardless of how soon I get to access my files again, I have quite a bunch of files to edit! The Rarebox will come first since that's my baby! Even if I haven't made an update there myself in months!

For the dream part, two nights ago I had the darndest dream that a bunch of my characters were in a Disgaea-like Strategy RPG battle, and Meeko was dispatched as a human! While I was dreaming, I thought he was the cutest little boy in the whole entire world! I loved that design and was so proud of myself for it!

Of course, that was in my dream. I still remembered what Human*Meeko looked like when I woke up, but.... He looked exactly like four-year-old version of Rossiu from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann!

... wow!

Anihoo, I've tried these past two nights to draw him, but to no avail. I guess he was drawn in a style I could only render in my dreams! Ahahaha!

I'll Illustrate YOUR CS!

I get jealous of people that can use Illustrator to ink some really faboo drawings, but I'm having such a hard time learning it. It's like Photoshop has these great stroke path/pressure options that I can't find in Illustrator (CS), and they make the lines vary in width and everything. On the other hand, Illustrator has such smooth, crisp lines while Photoshop relies on poop-smeary paint brush lines.

I've searched Google and DeviantArt, and even the MFGG for tutorials, but while I've managed to handle Photoshop's pen tool okay, I really hate their poop-smeary paint brush lines, but I just can't get those nice edges and line strokes in Illustrator and the Bakaneko tutorial talks about all these brushes that aren't present in Illustrator CS.

My gods, These things make me feel like I don't know crap about computers. I need to get the social nerve to pester RageMario since he's my idol Illustrator artist.

I love a good ice chunk-filled Caramel Frappuchino!


Here's the sketch I've been trying to practice on. Done in OpenCanvas 4.