Nautilus.StudioPixi

I don’t know if the differences are apparent here, given the small image size, but I’ll tell you that they are there. The main difference is that the black and white one is really harsh, while the color one retains the soft quality of the lines that is present in the original. I am defiantly a fan of the 2nd one over the black and white one. I’ve found out that the color settings on the scanner make a huge difference in how the image is picked up.  Using ICM the result is harsh. But when using just regular color correction, the lines turn out as they should.

The scanner and myself are once again at war.

In other news: Beach volleyball

Their are two main reasons for me writing this post. A) To test out, and get used to the smaller keyboard on the eee PC that just came in today. B) To make an attempt at reaching any users out there that might be checking back to see if anything has happened, as the site has been sitting mostly dormant for awhile. Being that option A is slightly more likely to succeed than option B, I guess I should start there. Well, done.

I guess. Anyway, Its an Asus eee PC of the 900 series. it’s about 8.9 inches wide and I don’t know how many inches tall. A tiny PC mainly for writing and browsing the net. (as if you would be able to do much more with it…) At first I thought that this thing was going to be a little bit bigger than the older one that we have. (I don’t remember what number the previous generation one was.) But, it turns out that it is the same size, the screen is just bigger. Also the keyboard is slightly larger, which was one of the things that worried me when I bought it. I’ve not typed anything on a keyboard smaller than found on a 12.1 inch laptop. When I last tried the eee PC keyboard (on the older one that we have) I found it to be really cramped, and it seemed to be almost impossible to do any real typing on. It has a half backspace key and the shift and control keys were messing me up. However, all of that said, I’m not finding it to difficult to get used to this keyboard. At first it was a little frustrating (I was fumbling around for the keys quite a bit), especially trying to get used the the shift key. But, after about ten minutes, I think I’ve got it. It’s actually not to bad of a keyboard to type on after all. :^)

Now, that all that is done on to point B. If there is anyone reading this, besides the spam bots, the I have to say that I’m working on getting things started again, in one form or another. I’ve got about 20,000 words towards turning TAoTN into a novel. Technically, its a novella right now. Aside from that I’ve also been working on a way to get better line art scans. I’ve searched quite a few forums and sites in an attempt to see how its done, but as of yet, no luck. I don’t quite know if its me or my scanner causing the issues. What I mean by this is that digitizing traditional art work is a little like taking a drawing and looking at it through the other side of the paper. (or flipping it horizontal, for you purely digital artist.) what, at first, looks like a awesome drawing suddenly turns into a mess when you reverse it. The reason behind this is all in how you interpret the drawing. When you’re drawing it, you’re seeing what you want to see and when you flip it it causes your mind to have to re interpret parts of the drawing, the confusion leads to you seeing all of your mistakes plain as day. It’s a great way of checking proportions, if you’ve never heard of the technique before.

I’ve never really heard of anyone looking into how this phenomena effects digitizing artwork, or even digitizing anything at all. Most of the time it is probably just chalked up to the medium, and the imperfect way of digitizing things. But it would be interesting to study how this effects the preseption of something when the inperfection of the medium is taken out of the equation.

Well, I think that I’ve thouroghly tested out this keyboard. And as a bonus, I think that I’ve managed to explain what I’ve been up to. Now just to do it.