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A distinction.

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One of the things that spurred the redesign was that I wasn't liking the association that I found I'd unconsciously followed. And that was that I was feeling like    was becoming more and more associated with VanderHuge Studios than me.  So, I had to start thinking about it. I've decided a few things about it- rules, I guess.  First of all, it means me. It's my mark. It can be used in  lieu  of a signature, or even my name. It can be displayed like a coat of arms. It can be worn like a badge or medal. It can be used like a seal of approval. And so on and so on, along those lines.  - Also, I've thought about it for a while, and I've decided to stop drawing  well known , copyrighted,  pop culture characters and  references. Not because I'm afraid of repercussions (a bandwagon some people are jumping on) , but, for lack of a better phrase, for  self respect.  Related:  I've also decided to start another sketchbook. Or, more accurately, another coll

/designing

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Well, I'm through fiddling with the sites. Hopefully this design will last a while. I still have a few blogspot pages to fill in with type and stuff, but I think I'm mostly done with it. It went amazingly smooth. Using a fake blog to get all the coding right worked better than I imagined it would. Though, I'm sure something's wrong, somewhere and I'll catch it later. Also, I realized tonight that if I'm not going to renew a hosting service, I'm going to have to upload all the images to a free image hosting service. Not a big deal, but I'll have to burn a couple hours tracking down images and arduously hunting down and rewriting html links. I drew the drawing on the side smaller than it should've been. I didn't want a normal sized drawing shrunk down so that any detail and line quality was lost. I kinda' actually enlarged a tiny bit, I think. So, with those parameters, I'm saying it's a win. Here's the actual drawing by the dra

Redesign, again.

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Yesterday, I spiraled into manic design frenzy. I accidentally spent a few hours tinkering with a new blogger layout. I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to renew my hosting service, just the domain name. The hosting service wasn't all that great. And I'm tired of that e-mail address anyway. I think only a few people got the joke. The only thing that sucks is that I'm gonna lose the address that everyone has. But, I guess I don't really care; no one ever seemed to remember it was myname@myname.com anyway. And, although I could have up to fifteen different e-mail accounts, the inboxes couldn't be larger than 25mb- that's right, 25mb was my e-mail limit. My new address is VanderHugeStudios(at)Gmail(dot)com. And it's waaaay cheaper to just use blogger. I've been interested in the page function for a while and have been wanting to try to make an entire site with just blogger. Instead of fudging this blog and making it erroneous for a time,

Also, buttons.

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I found a good deal on buttons- it was almost cheaper to buy them than to not buy them. I don't expect to sell many, but I like having them. Also, I'm intermittently changing website stuff; trying to find what I like.

Drawing Table Tuesday

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I'm taking extra time designing a room with a bunch of science equipment. I always liked when people took a  little extra time and made equipment look like it would actually work. Unfortunately, it's becoming more and more evident as I thumbnail these pages, that not as much of this room will be shown as this much designing would suggest. I'm thinking about thinning some of the talking over two more additional pages so I can show more of the room. They  were  a little dialogue heavy anyway. About Drawing Table Tuesday

Drawing Table Tuesday

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I noticed that I almost never take a picture of a finished thumbnail because after I finish I immediately turn the page and start the next one. About Drawing Table Tuesday .

Drawing Table Tuesday

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These were traces of thumbnails I taped off to the side for consistency. When I went to take a picture I noticed they were probably more interesting than what was on the paper at the time. About Drawing Table Tuesday.

Drawing Table Tuesday

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The whole page from yesterday. Way more notes than usual on this page. Mainly because I already see toning this is going to make my head hurt. About Drawing Table Tuesday .

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I liked this yesterday, so I took a picture of it. It also make a nice quality dichotomy with the last post.