December 27th, 2024 [Friday]
Got a new laptop for Chrstmas that runs on Windows 11. This is my first time ever using it outside of messing with the Best Buy display computers. Gotta say that the new MS Paint is really weird? They:
- Added layers, but really poorly. You can't change their opacity and layer blending modes aren't a thing. All you can do is duplicate, merge and toggle them.
- Changed the max size of all of the brushes to be much larger than before.
- Removed the task bar custumization and ALT shortcut support, indirectly making it so you can't make custom shortcuts.
- Changed all of the shortcuts; some of the menu items that preveously had shortcuts don't have any anymore.
- Removed black and white mode
- Added support for image transparency, but no way to change transparency of brushes or layers.
- Big huge button at the top to AI generate images (owch.)
- Canvas is no longer stuck to the top left side of the screen.
- Support for dark mode. (The theme is the only thing in the settings menu)
- Thumbnail no longer dissapears when you zoom out too much.
- Oil and watercolor brush STILL run out and stop if you use them for too long (Don't understand why they haven't changed this yet)
- You can put negative numbers in the skew option again.
Overall a very mixed bag of tings. Most things aren't deal breakers, but the fact that they could have made this program so much bettr if they just actually made the layers good and didn't is really getting to me. I am MS Paint's #1 fan and user.
I just had to get that off of my chest.
December 26th, 2024 [Thursday]
Now I ACTUALLY haven't updated in awhile...
I've really been itching to ge back into the swing of things when it comes to working on this site. I'm also trying to get a comic I want to make off of the ground. I've been planning the world that it takes place in and the characters since sometime in 2020 if that puts anything into perspective. I'm finally writing stuff down and planning out plotlines and arcs and characters and stuff after all this time of daydreaming about things I might want to happen.
The name is still a work in progress, I don't even have a code name yet. When the thing is finally started, I'm hoping to host it here! Hopfully that will be sometime soon.
Also, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, ect ect...
August 13th, 2024 [Tuesday]
Haven't updated in awhile. Not much has happened besides some unfortunate things I won't get into, but other than those, things have been alright. Also why have I only updated this page on Tuesdsays?
I've been wanting to add an OC page to my site for awhile, but I'm not quite sure how to go about it. At first I was going to keep it simple and similar to my gallery where I'd just have a grid with and image and a short desctiption of the characrter, but the more I look at inspiration, the more I want to make individual pages for each character and have them all linked via an index/dirtectory. The former would be a lot easier, but I'd have a lot more creative control for each character with the ladder. I've already added a link onto the navbar on the homepage since it's gonna be added eventually, but it doesn't go anywhere yet.
I finished that sketchbook I mentioned. Finished it on the 24th of July. I don't have it with me and don't remember when I started it, but I know it took less than 3 months to finish. I also have since made 2 more clay figures of little soldiers since then that I'm in the process of painting. Hopfully I'll have thos eposted in the gallery soon!
July 23rd, 2024 [Tuesday]
Hellooo!! I'm back. I saw a movie this past Friday!! My mom made us all watch Twisters. It was actually opening weekend for it! When she was a kid, she saw the first movie in theaters a bunch and watched it at home even more so she wanted us all to go and see the new one. I even brought them...
It was fun!! I enjoyed it. It wasn't life changing or anything, but it was still a fun movie none-the-less. I've always enjoyed weather as a subject, I even understood some of the stuff they were talking about thanks to my practice with METARs, so I was bound to find something out of it. Maybe I should make a movie review page... though I don't really watch movies very often.
In other news, I only have 2 pages left in my current sketchbook! I also started a new sculpture that I was hoping to paint this past Monday, but I used a lot of water on it so it still isn't dry yet :(. here it is btw!!
I also started playing TF2! I've started out as playing Scout, but who knows, I may change to someone else.
July 16th, 2024 [Tuesday]
hello world!
I've been working on this website really hard for the past few days it seems. I just had a little burst of motivation to work on it again and I've already re-done so many pages! It's weird how fast you can get things done when you put your mind to it.
How's my life IRL? I had to work a bunch of extra hours the last few weeks because so many people requested off for the 4th of July and summer vacations. It was really tiring!!! But I got a good break and should be fine going back in :3
Other than that, I'm almost done with my current sketchbook!1! I started it on May 7th and only have 3 blank spreads and the back of a few pages to fill until it's done!
I haven't really done anything for the summer. I will be going out of state for a bit in the coming months, but I really haven't done anything of note in the vacation department this year.
The 4th of July was fun though!! It always is; It's one of my favorite holidays. Who doesn't like a good grill-out? I live in the country too, so we could set off our own fireworks when it got dark enough. Got a few mosquito bites though...