The internet RPG I'm in just took a...eh....roughly 1000 year time skip. Oh dear. Luckily, this world is based upon cyber technology, so I was able to keep the two characters I had that were still alive at the end of the last campaign ...I just had to skew with their appearances a bit. One of the characters, Matt Barton, you can see the inks of his picture (sorta) at my deviantART page. , under the title "Demon I Have Become-Inks". The other one, I'm still working on tweaking his look, but it's going to look something like this little thing I did in my sketchbook:
Yes, I know exactly what I wrote there in Japanese. If you can't read it (likely, my handwriting is getting worse from lack of practice...ugh), it says:
Top:
この男の人はトビアスバートンです。バートんさんはアメリカの遺伝学の一番権威です。バートンさんも世界の英雄、マシュウバートンの息子です。
Bubble:
めがねかけてから、オレは天才ですね。
Side (hard to see in scan):
バートン性の一番天才です！！
Or, in English:
Top:
This man is Tobias Barton. Mr. Barton is America's number one authority on genetics. Mr. Barton is also the son of the world hero Matthew Barton.
Bubble:
Because I wear glasses, I am a genius, you know. (Of course he's kidding, he has dry humor like that from all the eggheaded work he does. >P )
Side:
The Barton Family's No. 1 Genius!!
Oh, and today was my last day in Spokane, so what else did I do? Go downtown, that's what. Bought a carryon wheely luggage piece (my neat orange one broke in San Francisco and it didn't get back from the repair shop in Portland in time *sigh*), had a last drink at my favorite shop in town, Thomas Hammer. And I ended up wandering into a really neat store called "Paper Garden", which, well, sold of course, paper, along other things...including really neat journals. I found myself falling in love with one custom blank bound book,and, coming to the later part of my Canson sketchbook, I unfortunately get itchy to buy new ones even if I don't need them.
The best part about this one I fell in love with? It was made in Port Townsend, which sure...is the western side of the state, but it's still "local", still "WA state made" and not some far off place like France or Italy or whatever lots of my art supplies come from. I'm all for the local stuff, at least, I'm proud to be a WA state resident (even if Spokane is the hick city of the state. *sigh*) . Local stuff comes with a high price tag though. How High?
Ladies and gentlemen, if your eyes are bugging you and you don't believe that receipt...the bound book was 39.95, and, with tax, it came to a marvelous 43. 39. Call me insane for spending that much on what is going to be just a mere sketchbook for me, but it's just so awesome looking. Or as Johnny Depp would say, "So darn good lookin'! "
When I got home, and at the Hawaiian-Japanese ("Pacific") restaurant I ate at this evening as the "last meal" in Spokane, I drew the first drawing to try out the paper in this book,.
The paper in this book...has a pretty nice tooth to it, and as you can see, takes marker and ink pretty well. Which is a good thing, considering how much I spent on it....if it had a crappy paper I would have been a bit pissed off.
Anyways, this dude should look familiar. It's Xavier, my new RPG world character from my last post, I've finally gotten his look down pact (see my deviantArt page too for some more pics of him), hell, I can even draw him as a slightly deformed chibi. One that goes "Take That!" like but of course, Phoenix Wright. I've been replaying his games in preparations for the third game which is coming out for the DS in Japan the end of the month, and in the US October 23rd. I'm really tempted to buy the Japanese version just because damn Capcom USA takes too long. =_=
That's all I can think of for now worth showing. I'm off to Florida tommorow, and my next post....eh...will depend on how quickly I get the internet back or if I decide to wander over to Ringling's computer labs one day...
Till we meet again.
