There's a new page up at MINDMISTRESS---just click on the image on the main page, it'll take you there. I'll probably add a new page to it every two days or so...that's about how long it takes me to scan and color the panels, what with sharing the computer with Brian and Barb, doing the journal, having my own life---at least during weekdays. During weekends, I might be able to do more---and perhaps not.
However, I might---as time allows--- be going back on some old panels and making some changes, at least in the origin sequence. You see, well...
I discovered what I was doing wrong with the lettering. You can see the (partially obscured) results in the picture, which will be part of the page I'll probably upload on Sunday....the first page with "normal" lettering.
So what was I doing wrong? You have to remember I usually don't have to worry about lettering. Other than logos, I usually let people read the journal entries in the default font of their browser, so I never had to worry about it before...
I kept on pasting lettering in there, and wondering why it didn't look like lettering in other strips, even though I was using such normal fonts as Arial and MS Comic Sans...
So I kept on experimenting...turning anti-alias off and on, shrinking the text, expanding it, but it still all looked a little blurry...
And kept on ignorning a button that said, "standard text" which would turn off the foreground.
I had been virtually "painting" the lettering like you would a logo.
I know, I know.
Duuuuuuuuhhhhh.
I may write about an ultra-intelligent person, but obviously I have a long way to go...
It was a good day, though. Among other things, I got a Contribution Award---they used to be more common, but they are rarely given out anymore---for my help to another department on some of their on-line (within the "intranet" of our network) manuals. I got $250 minus tax, etc....only $163 or so to spend, but more than I had before.
It's nice to be appreciated. It's nice to feel needed. Especially by another department altogether.
It's funny. Towards the beginning of the week I needed major work on the car (and still need some, but I don't worry about Barb driving it) and felt like I barely had two nickels to rub together. Now, I have several sources of funds opening up to me (I finally activated my on-line account with E*Trade. It turns out the hold-up was trying to give Barb equal access to it---and since it involves stock options from my company, and I'm the employee, not Barb, I can't do that.) and I feel like we have some breathing room, financially.
It's either a drought or a flood. Either there are multiple things that are major drains on our money all at once---or we get relief, several different ways.
I've been wandering through the on-line community of those who are iconoclastic enough to do webcomics, trying to get a feel for the issues and general discussions that are going on. Many are offended there is no category for webcomics---because some cannot be easily rendered as print---in the Eisner awards, the awards for the best comic art.
To someone who's been for years in the on-line journalling community, all this---the search for recognition, the urge to be noticed in the crowd--- sounds hauntingly familiar. I have a strange case of deja vu.
Probably all on-line endeavours have some of these things in common...at least the ones that have off-line counterparts.
It did lead me to several on-line strips that I hadn't read before---but truth to tell, nothing that knocked my socks off or that I feel justified in recommending.
There are some awfully talented people out there. It's intimidating.
Yet, I feel I can make my own contribution...as I have in the world of on-line journals.
I have at least partially plotted eight storylines for Mindmistress, all using different opponents. I have drawn two storylines (I just haven't inked and scanned and colored them all) and am three pages into the third.
I'm enjoying this. I hope it shows.