Here’s some mindless link propagation:

Mouse 1.0

Many years of Quake have refined my mousing skills, how are yours?

Tooling around with illustrator, it took me about an hour to make this:

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Not the worst thing ever, but it took me an *hour* to do it. Coming from Photoshop’s paths, Illustrator is really messed up. Take for instance the yellow bits of hair: In photoshop, I would simply make the head shape and the hair lines, then make a subtractive selection from them. I’m sure I’m doing this wrong, but in Illustrator I had to copy the head and hair twice, and then make a clipping path for each side (in the process making about 4 useless layers). Ugh.

I’m sure I’ll crack the Illustrator learning curve soon, I’ve only had it for 2 days, it’s just frustrating when you’re migrating from a inefficient but usuable art-production method to something much more unfamiliar and convoluted.

On a side note, I’ve started working on a new version of LJI. It’s mostly a user-interface update so far, but if you have any feature requests, you can leave them here.

I got a copy of Adobe Illustrator CS2 earlier, and started messing around with it. I remade the arcolz logo:

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A meager learning experiment. I think it turned out pretty meh, but I like the text. Illustrator baffles me, but I’m starting to figure it out.

I’m starting to rethink this whole branding thing. Not only does “arco” sound like a 50’s carburator manufacturer, it doesn’t even sound like a cool carburator manufacturer. Is it necessary for me to obfuscate myself through the use of meaningless screen names and website titles?

“nillahood” sucks too.

Hmm.