I took a nap today… for 1½ hours. I was so tired! I got home from work last night at 11:30. I was too wired to go to sleep right away ( even with not having any caffeine all night! ), so I popped on WoW ( world of warcraft ) and got my BloodElf warlock a level (22) and a new pet ( a succubus… yeah. hehe ). My prim and proper warlock is running around with a half nakie ass slapping whip cracking succubus that currently likes to lash people and sometimes kiss them into submission. haha!

Yep, video games are still teen male oriented BUT, I like them anyhow And since similar characters are what I tend to draw, it also makes me some side money doing portraits as well. Anyhow, I got the level and decided at 12:20 am, I had better go to sleep because I had to get up at 7 am to take my friend to work and for me to do some housework - clean the bathrooms and do laundry - before I went to work.

I got all my stuff done and decided a nap was allowed around 10:30 am today. Yippee! Now, I’m trying to wake up enough to function haha. I have to leave for work in about 1½ hours. I probably won’t be home tonight until midnight. We’re giving away another car tonight. Forgot what kind this time, whatever it is, they have 36/48mpg on a big sign next to it. Next week, it’s a Prius. Casino employees and their immediate families/people at their residence are, of course, excluded from ever winning. Darn… cuz I could use a cheaper mode of transportation right now ( I have a big dodge, that costs more than 75$ to fill up each week with the cheapest gas )

Tonight will be crazy. Everyone always thinks they will be the one to win the giveaways. I mean everyone too. From your own the biggest mansion on the beach people, to your living in a shack in the swamp folks. There will be much drinking and smoking. Money lost and won. A few people thrown out. The winner usually ends up being an 85 year old woman that doesn’t even live in the area or show up to the give away! Seriously! When we had our jet ski giveaway, the winner was an 87 year old woman with no grandkids… wtf!

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I finished another picture yesterday.  It was done as a test for clothes, eye and skin (drow) shader settings, clothing texture ( yay!  I textured something! ) and DOF (depth of field) testing.  The DOF failed for the most part.  I can see it, but I’m looking for it.   The skin turned out fairly well for a quick colouring and the eyes that you can’t see, look awesome in a closeup.  

  (junk section of the art page)

I also worked a little bit more on my Resident Evil3 fan art picture.

( in the WIP section )

A small update at least.  Added another mermaid picture the art section ( in the junk and stuff area ).  Not sure if Michael’s dad has gotten it yet or not.  They are out prospecting for gold and digging for diamonds out west somewhere, so not sure when they will have internet access again.

Still working on the resident evil fan art.  It’s changed a bit since the last WIP was posted.  Someone told me her legs were too short, but after taking a break from it for a few weeks, I think it’s not really her legs being too short - it’s the gun holsters being up too high on them making them look short compared to the reference photo.  Either way, I gave her slightly longer legs and moved the holsters down a bit, but I haven’t rendered the new version yet, so nothing to upload ;/

 I have been practicing with lighting, skin and hair a bit lately in DAZ|Studio.  I want to start learning to texture soon, but getting great with lighting is first on my list.

Blog area up and running after spending an entire day translating German into English for the CSS and template.  Now, to move all my blog postings elsewhere - myspace, msn spaces, daily strength… to here.  That will be a task from hell.  hahaha