I thought it was about time I got a deviantART account. I'm very particular about the way I organize my files, so the ability to categorize, and sub-categorize, and sub-sub-categorize, etc. appeals to me. That said, I'm finding the upload interface somewhat irrtating; Javascript menus would considerably reduce the frustration- especially when the server's busy.

Anyway, I've managed to convince myself to post more than the best and most recent pieces of my work. I'm not, by any stretch of the imagination, a prolific artist; I'm more like the furthest thing you can possibly be from prolific and still be considered an artist, if not a terribly legitimate one- I want to say 'procrastinating pedant,' but I'm not sure that really captures the full scope of my neurosis. I'm hoping that seeing the older crap pop up under 'recent deviations' everytime I log in will spur me on in my current projects; once I get some better work up here, I can move anything I'm not entirely happy with into 'scraps.'

In other news, I finally got a laptop, and I firmly believe that everyone should own a tablet PC. I love my Wacom, as proficient as I am with a mouse, a tablet easily halves the amount of time I have to devote to a piece. That said, drawing with a conventional tablet is sort of like drawing while looking at your work in a mirror: much easier than drawing with mittens on, but still mildly inconvenient. For example, your application is unable to compensate for the way your tablet is orientented, not a problem really, unless, like me, you don't write with your paper parallel to the table edge. Also, If you're zoomed in while drawing via a tablet, sometimes your cursor ends up dropping off the edge of the page because the tablet doesn't keep track of the amount of space available on your screen; rather, the length of the line you're able to draw is relative to the spot you chose to begin that line on the tablet. My lovely Tecra M7 on the other hand lets me treat my computer screen like a piece of paper.




...Also, I'm aware that 'pseudonym' is spelled with an 'e.'