So much to do...
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morslaIt's strange... since I left work at the end of last year I've been going flat out, trying to work on a dozen different things at any given moment. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aeliel and I spent the weekend back in Blackwood, which was far enough from all the current projects that I managed to find time to reflect on the last couple of weeks.
I painted two figures for the summer painting contest at Mind Games - an alchemist and a vampiress. They ended up winning the Dark Heaven category (alchemist), and taking second place for the Warlord category (vampiress). I'm quite happy with how they turned out, although I'd like to do more work on the vampire's base. I'll get some proper photos of them when I pick them up from the store in a week or two... there are some small pics on the Mind Games website here. If you're in the store in the next week, take a look! The winners are all in a cabinet upstairs.
I'm almost finished the layout for Auspicious Beginnings, an introductory adventure for the Weapons of the Gods RPG. It'll be available as a free download from the Eos Press website when it's done... hopefully people will enjoy it :) I'm still learning a hell of a lot about InDesign, so I'm slowly getting closer to my initial aim (get a better idea of how much I don't know).
Arcanacon came and went in a blur of tabletop games - I ran Warmachine on the Thursday (26 players), judged painting for 40k over the weekend (115 players!), and played two Longest Table games in the middle of all that. I also painted some Syd models (the Arc mascot, for the non-congoers out there) - the ten models sold out quickly, and I have another two to paint in the next few days.
Somewhere along the way I lost the last shreds of sanity I posessed, and I've decided to convert 2000 points of Tyranid models for the Liber Animus tournament - at the end of April. I think it'll take me about two months to sculpt them all, leaving less than a month to paint them in... it's a tougher challenge than anything I've tried before, as the last time I did anything like it I only needed to finish 1200 points over that timespan. There's a work-in-progress log on WAU here, which will be updated throughout the next few months. Some of the concept sketches are now in my Pbase gallery, here. No sleep 'til Liber!
In a couple of weeks, I'll be starting uni all over again - I'm off to Deakin (Burwood) to learn a bit of communications law, a bit of PR, and a lot of writing skills. I'm starting to get the house organised (cleaning the desk, making room on the bookshelves) as the first semester workload will be 20,000 words of assignments and writing pieces. Next week I have to learn my way around a new campus, which could take a while...
aeliel and I spent the weekend back in Blackwood, which was far enough from all the current projects that I managed to find time to reflect on the last couple of weeks.I painted two figures for the summer painting contest at Mind Games - an alchemist and a vampiress. They ended up winning the Dark Heaven category (alchemist), and taking second place for the Warlord category (vampiress). I'm quite happy with how they turned out, although I'd like to do more work on the vampire's base. I'll get some proper photos of them when I pick them up from the store in a week or two... there are some small pics on the Mind Games website here. If you're in the store in the next week, take a look! The winners are all in a cabinet upstairs.
I'm almost finished the layout for Auspicious Beginnings, an introductory adventure for the Weapons of the Gods RPG. It'll be available as a free download from the Eos Press website when it's done... hopefully people will enjoy it :) I'm still learning a hell of a lot about InDesign, so I'm slowly getting closer to my initial aim (get a better idea of how much I don't know).
Arcanacon came and went in a blur of tabletop games - I ran Warmachine on the Thursday (26 players), judged painting for 40k over the weekend (115 players!), and played two Longest Table games in the middle of all that. I also painted some Syd models (the Arc mascot, for the non-congoers out there) - the ten models sold out quickly, and I have another two to paint in the next few days.
Somewhere along the way I lost the last shreds of sanity I posessed, and I've decided to convert 2000 points of Tyranid models for the Liber Animus tournament - at the end of April. I think it'll take me about two months to sculpt them all, leaving less than a month to paint them in... it's a tougher challenge than anything I've tried before, as the last time I did anything like it I only needed to finish 1200 points over that timespan. There's a work-in-progress log on WAU here, which will be updated throughout the next few months. Some of the concept sketches are now in my Pbase gallery, here. No sleep 'til Liber!
In a couple of weeks, I'll be starting uni all over again - I'm off to Deakin (Burwood) to learn a bit of communications law, a bit of PR, and a lot of writing skills. I'm starting to get the house organised (cleaning the desk, making room on the bookshelves) as the first semester workload will be 20,000 words of assignments and writing pieces. Next week I have to learn my way around a new campus, which could take a while...
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Date: 2006-02-07 04:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-07 04:53 am (UTC)i still hold u in awe, ben, so much going on in ur brain! *thumbsup*
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Date: 2006-02-07 07:41 am (UTC)Congrats on the painting - you rock!
Oh, and anytime someone at work compliments me on my photos from Tassie, I just point them to yours. They come back blown away. :)
OMG, a well-proportioned figure!!!1!1!!
Date: 2006-02-07 07:53 am (UTC)a) Is it available for purchase from somewhere?
b) Could I commission you to paint one for me at some point in the future, with eagle wings rather than dragon wings, please? (especially if you can make the face less ugly too :) I don't care if it's not for a while, and top dollar for you!
Re: OMG, a well-proportioned figure!!!1!1!!
Date: 2006-02-07 12:08 pm (UTC)The model's a limited edition piece... I'd really like to paint one, but I think
I'll have to check the scale, but I think I can find eagle wings on a GW miniature that ought to fit. I can buy some next time I order individual parts from the UK.
The one that won the painting competition was amazing - the skintone blending is perfect, and I couldn't spot a brushstroke anywhere on it. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that it's airbrushed.
Re: OMG, a well-proportioned figure!!!1!1!!
Date: 2006-02-10 11:16 am (UTC)I am easy, either way.. I cast my fate to the winds of the universe.. (and prepare to laugh at the result ;)