Drones of society

» Written on February 23, 2007 at 7:56 AM «

Usually appear as such, though perhaps with more colour. I’m thinking about doing just that, but, you know. Laziness. Gotta love random sketches that I just seem to conjure out of nowhere, then abandon, to leave for decomposition.

Drones of Society

This little character spawned out of something else entirely, contrary to my usual sources of inspiration; I kind of thought him up while having, ah, iridescent thoughts and such about school. Do note the overabundance of sarcasm in that statement.

Basically, I was bored, and started randomly doodling around on my Tablet PC, having all but blazed through my other guilty pleasures, coming up with the little critter you see right there. It’s kind of influenced by a whole lot of stuff, so I won’t really go into detail here, but do know that there are multiple sketches of this guy available on my tablet’s hard drive. I might actually post a few of them if I get the chance to.

I’ll probably be working on him in the latest version of Corel Painter, which I’m actually interested in putting through its paces; its supposed new realism brush sets are supposed to be a killer feature. It’ll be, if nothing else, a nice change of style for once; I have been working mostly with Illustrator lately. I haven’t even really done any 3D modelling of any sort in the past few months, as a matter of fact. Atrophy issues come to mind, but let there be no talk of such dreadful matters.

You can probably tell by now that I’m just barely managing to restrain myself from turning this into a whine-ry, rant-ish post about school life and the troubles and turmoil of a student with authority.

So let’s brighten this with some additional viewing tidbits: if you haven’t noticed yet, I’ve recently dumped quite a few new pixels into my Flickr photostream, so you might want to check that out; it’s not just about the Chinese New Year festivities, I assure you.

By the way, remember Adobe Lightroom? I know I’ve already mentioned that it’s gone all commercial and stuff, but what I didn’t know was what the actual retail version added after Beta 4, which is what I have. Well, today I opened up Lightroom just for fun and got a little notification, from Adobe, no less, telling me about the 1.0 retail release and a suggestion about upgrading. Which was when I saw the added features: dust and speck removal, and better image controls. Now, I’d imagine that most professional photographers don’t exactly walk around with dust and grit-infested cameras, so the former is pretty much a gimmick in my opinion. For the latter, unless they mean better image resize controls, along with more sliders and such to play with, I seriously doubt that it’d be an improvement over the beta. I’d have to see for myself just what those features are, of course, but at the moment, USD 199 doesn’t exactly seem like a very introductory price to me, especially for the feature set.

Companies will be companies, I guess. Although Adobe isn’t really that bad in terms of consumer negligence, just because a dog poops less than another dog does on your lawn doesn’t mean you kick it any less harder.

   

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