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After months of development, Advanced Blanket is finally up. Say hello to Miranda (look for her full artwork in there, I’m not posting it here too).

YOU CAN’T IMAGINE HOW ACCOMPLISHED I FEEL RIGHT NOW.

I’ve been fishing into the web, let me show you the squids

Free resources

1. FEEL Resources has got a good number of high-quality textures and brushes. How many uses do you see for such a beauty? The website itself also has a neat design - I like how the previews are organized.
2. So I was looking for interesting photo textures to use in Advanced Blanket’s layout and well, I came across CG Textures. they’ve got some HUGE stuff. Texture Warehouse is also nice.
3. If you’re specifically looking for rust, metal etc., check Grunge Textures and Urban Dirty.
4. Mayang’s Free Textures kick some serious ass. This photographer deserves a LOT of credit. I’m not kidding.

Webdesign

1. A very interesting read: Web Designer Wall. That’s what I call blogging about webdesign, man.
2. Looking for something to feed my inner web typography geek, I came across this article. Web designers tend to not pay enough attention to typography and it’s always nice to see people who actually care.
3. While we’re at it, Flipping Typical allows you to have a look at all of your popular fonts simultaneously.

Inspiration and beauty

1. Most of the web uses light background with dark text. I tend to like quite the opposite. Guess what Light on Dark showcases?
2. GraphicHug is a place for everything beautifully designed. I spent the whole day browsing it.
3. Talking about beautiful designs, Peter Pearson’s portfolio is breathtaking. A true work of art.
4. Stepping into the more artistic territory: Furiae showcases some impressive digital artworks. Think that for a while I thought they were edited photos.
5. If you thought that art in Asia was all about manga and such, let me show how wrong you were.
6. I usually don’t care about photography but Chema Madoz’s work is just brilliant.

people have way too much to say about art.

Blind Dreaming has finally got a new index. Weird development process here too; in the beginning I thought to use the Sprouting Head pic, I changed idea a bazillion times and then ended up with the Sprouting Head anyway. Oh well. Hope it looks good now.

so hey stuff was done!

The weasels fanlisting is up and running. Man, what a weird development process. I mindlessly finished the whole layout in a single day, sent the application, received the approval, decided I didn’t like neither the layout I made nor the name I gave it, left it hanging around for ten days and then re-made the whole fanlisting from scratch in a single day again. Well. At least now I actually like the result.

Also Dark Claws got updated twice in two weeks because of a very nice person sending me loads of Sneasel-related stuff. :D NOW TO GET THE NEW SNEASEL PLUSHIES AND FIGURES

Blind Dreaming’s new index’s only missing a decent artwork. I already made one but it ended up looking too sloppy and not very related to my usual themes anyway, so I’ll have to think better. I’ll let you know as soon as I’ll be finished.

Advanced Blanket’s in a very advanced (lol) stage of development. The layout is gray and yellow just like in the index page, but it ended up getting a cyber/steampunk feel to it, there’s rust and scratched metal and bolts everywhere. Also that dark yellow became more like dark yellowish-orange to match. Currently, it’s only missing the artwork - which will feature two female robots. Specifically, a cute household robot who wants to turn on a rebellious and transgressive robot which was deactivated and rotting in a dump. YOU KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING, ISN’T IT. It seems that characters about to do something incredible and meaningful are a constant in my art. That and the theme of rebirth, too.
Other than that, I only have to make the banners and write the about me, which seems to always be the very last page I write in whatever project. Heh. I hate writing about me.

and now, I’ll be working on that damned animation exam

Stuff is going on, but there’s not much to be said right now. I’m working on Blind Dreaming’s new index, Advanced Blanked’s layout (which is apparently turning out very fine), a fanlisting for weasels, stuff for Dark Claws, some new artworks and an animation exam. I’ll let you see later.

In the meanwhile, some interesting stuff. I have just discovered about the existence of fractal music; check this out. I’ve searched the web for more but any site I’ve found is either long dead or has midi files which I can’t listen to, so if you happen to be interested in this kind of stuff you’ll have to google it yourself.

The same person who composed that piece I’ve linked to also runs a very interesting webcomic called Dreaming of Eden. Top-notch stuff, if you ask me; sounds a lot like Mewtwo in Myuutsuu no Gyakushuu. Listen to that piece of fractal music while reading this webcomic, it will all make more sense. Too bad it seems to be discontinued.