Jaco’s Random Writings

Grrr, I knew this was going to happen some time. I just didn’t think it was going to happen so soon. Yes, I got Artist’s Block. After getting back from work, I sat at my screen trying to think of something to draw. And for a good hour, I was just pulling a blank. Well, [...]

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Hmm, I need to get an earlier start on these sketches and not get so distracted. I had a hard time staying awake for this. OK, so for tonight’s sketch, I started off with a simple band and slowly built that into a futuristic sky highway. I only have 4 vehicles on there, because otherwise [...]

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Oof, I’m kind of pushing it with this update as far as timing goes. Anyways, before I drop the sketch, a little news first (it will explain the lateness). A while ago, my DVD drive kind of stopped reading disks. It would take it, spin it, and then spit it back out in a rather [...]

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So I have let myself fall behind in the blogenning. And by “behind”, I mean way behind. I’m sitting on 10 posts and the current number is 28. Well, I have a way to remedy it. Since I have taken up the goal of improving my drawing through repeated practice, I am declaring an update [...]

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So my little project I’ve been working on was a slideshow in Flash, specifically Actionscript 3. I decided that I wanted to see if I could program something in Flash without actually using Flash or even Flex Builder. I decided to use the Flex SDK (free) with the Eclipse IDE (also free). Combined with the [...]

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