I took twenty or so minutes to start on the primary changes to the Cosmo Messer E that will upgrade the design to the F version. The main difference is that it no longer has a rocket launcher in the nose. That will be replaced with either an autocannon or some other gun. The F model will have two deployable rocket launchers mounted on the bottom.
If possible, I’m also going to add deployable landing gears, but that wasn’t something I could really hone in on today. I just wanted to take a quick crack at getting its new weapon emplacements sorted. The next time around I’ll see what I can do about the thruster layout and landing gears. There should also be some screenshots by then.
I’m going to stick with Photoshop for this digital art thing, at least while I practice. It’s not built specifically for a stylus, but the option’s always been there and I’m already (mostly) comfortable with the program. I might still try a couple of free alternatives like SAI or FireAlpaca, but I’m paying for Ps so I might as well milk it for everything it’s worth.
Unfortunately that means I don’t have any artwork for today like I was hoping. Even as I type I’m hopping back and forth trying to tweak my settings for doing lineart. The stylus works but it’s not as precise as it could be.
New Site Planned
The Praedian Records is my personal website where I only want to focus on my own projects and interests. It’s not a business site and I don’t want it to get overcrowded with niche finding experiments, so I think it’s time to built another website specifically for that.
Building a new site will also help me put my studies to the test.
Seeing how everything here is on a subdomain right now, I could probably use the ‘main’ site for this. Maybe. I’ll have to give it some thought.
Hello everyone! This week’s WIP will be a short one, but we hope it’s something that players who look forward to customization are excited about, upcoming accessories!
More accessories are always good. Hopefully with more bare bones weapon bases we’ll be able to create or recreate some very interesting weapons.
Vermillion also made an interesting point about the types of accessories we’ll be able to use. Since a lot of these look like base weapon muzzles and the like, we could make M.A.S.S. units with extras or holstered weapons sticking out of various areas. I’m personally more likely to just tweak the size and shape of an otherwise vanilla-esque weapon and leave it at that.
I’m expecting some people to add extra barrels to one weapon, create a dual wielding look, or maybe even both. There are even some claw-esque bits coming~
I guess all the Adobe apps can’t be good fits. I’m having a few technical issues with Fresco that I’m not sure are even worth solving. We’ll see, but it’s starting to get on my nerves; I’ve been doing research instead of drawing, which is never a good thing. I might give SAI or something similar a try.
I mentioned it before but I haven’t been reading Dune everyday and I’m nowhere close to finishing it. Even today has been more of a ‘figure out Fresco’ day. Unless I take two or three days to focus solely on reading, I won’t catch up enough to finish by August. That really only matters because I want to read at least one novel a month, at the very least start a new one each month. Dune doesn’t ready quite like what I’m used to so I’m slower with it on top of everything else.
Either way, I don’t like the idea of speeding through a good story just to meet a deadline. I do this for fun as much as for consistency. So that leaves me with one prevailing thought: two books? That does sound like a bit of a choking hazard, but this 12 books a year goal is completely doable and I don’t want to let it go by the wayside if I can help it. I’d rather just tackle both books at the same time and still round out the year with 12 reads. I can do that; as bogged down as I am I can do that.
Assuming I go this route, I haven’t decided on the next book yet. Probably something shorter. The Legacy of the Force books don’t look that long individually. Spice and Wolf Volume 2 is also an option.
