Wow, I don’t know about you, but I’m just really, really impressed with those graphics! I look forward to them, and have saved several, for what purpose I haven’t a clue.
Well, she only has a couple of hundred posts so far, but what quality!
I say if Nano can be a Moderatorer, and Walden a Chiffmaster General, then Caroluna should at least be the ‘Interpreted Reality Czar’, or some such thing…
Give me some help with a permanent title for Caroluna!
Seriously, those pictures are totally awesome. I think she needs a title too. But I’ve a had a beer or two, so I’m no help in the name department. Sorry!
My internet access was down all afternoon and I just got a chance to check in tonight. I was shocked, astounded and delighted to get this kind of recognition. Thank you very much!
I love doing the graphics and crack myself up on a daily basis. In fact I probably laugh at them much more than you guys do.
It’s nice to know I’m not laughing alone!
On a side note - should my high school sophomore who wants to be a cartoonist some day invest in one of those wacom thingys? He draws freehand fairly well.
This is definitely different from drawing on ‘real paper’ , but it’s one more tool he could add to his bag of tricks!
Mine has a lot of pressure sensitivity, so you can draw with many shades of gray. The drawing surface is slightly rough, and does feel a lot like paper. But the drawing area is small-- a 4 inch by 6 inch area maps to the whole computer screen. There’s different sizes available.
What I love about it is that you can do your project in layers. It would be like drawing on a series of transparent acetate sheets-- “OK I’ll do the black and white lines on this layer, the flat colors on this layer, the shading on this layer”. That way if you mess something up you don’t have to start over from scratch, you just re-do that layer.
Also you can make copies of the layer, in case you want to do something different with each one. In the ‘real world’ that would mean tracing it again.
If I had a highschooler who was interested in drawing, I would definitely get one for him to experiment with. If he doesn’t like it, I’m sure you could sell it to another kid who’d want to try it out.
Learning the software that comes with it is also a challenge, but I’m enjoying it. This sort of thing is supposed to be very good for middle-aged brains. (What’s left of them)
Don’t let them hang you with any monicker too quickly Carol. Make’em work for it. If you let them off too easy, you might just get something you don’t really want, but it will stick.
When the President of our company was first given the managership of one of the divisions, the other managers asked how he would like to be addressed. “His Lordship” would be adequate, says the new boss. Sure enough, the managers chipped in and gave him a plaque that read “His Lardship”, as a testament to his well-fed condition. It was a while before he lived that down, but he kept the plaque in his office ever since.