But now I know how to fix it! Can’t wait until I get a chance to watch Scott Robertson’s Gnomon DVD on perspective – then I can really go crazy.

Errors in construction… I need to take more time on these!

…even if it does only take 10 minutes?

More tomorrow!

I wanted to collect a bunch of these studies and post them to make it look like I’m really, really busy drawing. Ha!

From left to right:

Original Preston Blair drawing, four of my attempts, and my final (red) lines placed over the original (blue).

I have others of the egg-head drawing at many different angles that I will post later.

For those who actually read this blog, sorry I haven’t posted in a long time. I’m still trying to figure out “what to say”, and things here have been suffering for it. If there are still folks who haven’t been turned off by the lack of posts here, know that I am going to try and post more soon!

I don’t remember if I’ve mentioned it here before, but I have a “secret game project” that I’ve been working on for… a while. I’m thinking at least a year and a half. My friends are, no doubt, quite annoyed with me because I keep mentioning it. “Hey guys, sorry I missed (thus and such a deadline), I was working on my secret game project!“, “I just found the coolest thing I could use for my project! Pity I haven’t made the official announcement yet or I would tell you about it…”

Yes, very annoying. There is reasoning behind this madness, though. Through experience, I’ve found that I am often sometimes guilty of seeking attention through my art. This may be because of my days as a rabid forum user, where others would post their artwork and get 20 replies within an hour or so. I’m not sure as to the reasoning, but in practice it means that I often stop working on a piece shortly after I’ve shown it to others. It’s as if that piece, even in its unfinished state, has gotten all the spotlight it’s going to, and now I’m done with it.

I’ve found I can combat this by not showing my work to anyone. This way, it doesn’t get any attention until it’s ready. Doing this also makes me filter out bad ideas or trends, as I don’t care to work on them as long without any promise of reward or some such nonsense. I doubt I would have worked on this half as long without the mock-secrecy I have surrounded it with.

As good a strategy as this has been for me, though, I hit some hard barriers with the game design and have been less and less motivated to accomplish it since. For this reason, I hope to post some of the artwork up on the blog soon. Stay tuned!

In other news, I finally got a website! If you care to see how lazy I am, head on over to http://clean3d.com

My hard drives like to scare me.

While I have never had a drive that’s irreversibly crashed, I’ve had a number of incidences where I suddenly couldn’t access data. That sort of stuff has probably made me over-paranoid, but I’ve been looking around and designing a “perfect” backup plan in my head for some time now.

So what does it look like?

At the moment I’ve got two 250 GB hard drives in my computer. These will be setup to mirror each other’s data in case one crashes. I’m also looking for an external hard drive to backup files onto, but this is more for portability than secure backup. I’ll most likely use the Pandora for this once it is released.

However, none of this protects my data from fire, flooding, etc. For this reason an online backup service seems like a good idea. Here again I’m still looking around. A quick Ask.com search revealed iBackup, which supports Linux through rsync. I’d like to look around a bit more, though.