In article <memo.20080101092503.3912A@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Peter Boulter <starhunter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> John M Ward(john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) added
>
> > > Happy New Year everyone!! ^_^
> >
> > ...And from me. I have just yesterday begun drawing my first anime
> > character (after having spent a few hours during the last couple
> > of days writing a synopsis for this story that will almost
> > certainly never actually appear!) and it is slow going -- but I am
> > a grinder, so shall just keep going, a bit at a time.
>
> That's great John, and you never know, your story might appear one day
I doubt it; but it keeps me out of trouble, and means the old creative
"juices" are still flowing, even at my age...
> ...so keep up the good work. Personally, I wish I could draw, but
> I've never been any good at art.
Neither have I, really, though at a low level I have been quite creative
in recent years, as my political colleagues will attest(!)
> Craft is another matter. I can build model kits to a, reasonable,
> standard and have, over the years, fabricated all manner of things
> out of cardboard.
Well done you! I was always barely adequate in that field, and most
others I know personally are much the same, so it is a relatively
uncommon ability, I feel.
> > I am doing as much of it as I can in one of our rather nifty
> > programs called _ArtWorks_ with which I am not yet all that
> > familiar, so am keeping the manual close to hand.
>
> Manual? You're actually reading the manual?? ^_^
Yup. Although it is generally at least as intuitive as other RISC OS
programs, it something does things in a different way from the norm, so
I need to consult the manual on occasions when I need to do one of these
actions.
> > Although there is every chance that I shall fail to make this
> > work, my New Year's Resomolution (as Montmorency would have put it
> > in the TV series "Mick and Montmorency" all those years ago) is to
> > make the effort anyway. If I eventually produce any artwork worthy
> > of viewing (which is far from certain) I shall of course put it up
> > on my (personal) website and post a link here.
>
> I, and I expect others here, look forward to seeing the results of
> your labours in the not too distant future. Keep up the good work.
And I look forward to introducing you to Elly, Verity and Nisha, as well
as their (literally) shadowy boss, in due course...
--
John "Minmei" Ward :
Web pages on my favourite TV animated (and other) shows
including Nadesico, Pokemon and WITCH:
www.john-ward.org.uk/personal/john/television/
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