The past two or three months have seen quite a lot of change in my life. The most profound is probably that ~dwagonfry and i have formally started planning our wedding; which is scheduled for oh... May of 2007.

Another change has been my obsession with Neopets. [link]

For the past two months, i've been taking care of two virtual pets in a very... expansive online community. I'm not really sure what it is about "building up" characters in games.. but its gotten me hooked.

I've decided to leverage this obsession to practice drawing. I had been meaning to start a webcomic, but I have never found both the motivation and maintainable subject matter to bring an actual comic to fruition... until now. I've started an online comic, which for the time being resides here: [link] I will also be posting the strips here to deviant art in hopes of getting some good feedback from others.

Producing a comic has turned out to be far more challenging than i first thought it'd be. Having the right tools definately makes a difference though. The tools i have been using have been sodipodi ([link]) for my base character drawings and the Gimp ([link]) for shading and piecing together of the comic.

If you're into vector based art, or just want to play around without having to pay the $500 for freehand, I highly recommend sodipodi. Good interface. Small footprint. Runs on Linux, Windows.