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Hope everyone has had a good start to their spring.

While I may not have been posting too much here, that doesn't mean I get to sit on my duff all day. Well, not sit on it and do nothing anyway....

If any of you are in the comic book way, which is likely at least a few, you can see where some of my efforts have been going in the may issue of Previews. Pages 298 and 301 have some adds for the team at Brilliant Ent. who've been having me do some work. They've been fun projects and a general good time to work on. Not my usual sci-fi slant of stuff, but doing some work on a Doc Savage/ Hellboy monster fighting sailor type fellow named Kent Menace and a couple other fun stories in their quarterly anthology. If you've the chance, please do give it a look.

As i get more information/links to post I'll be sure to share.

:)

So, I've had a pretty good time re-drawing designs for the battletech game that I'd done at maybe less than 100% on the fist go around. I've had a folder with a lot of them sitting in there like sad little puppies waiting to be made into a new coat. "Happy" to say, that pretty much takes care of all the one's that initially came into my head. Starting way back with the color redraws of the pack hunter and arctic wolf, and ending just shortly ago with the Corvis.

There are still more, I'm sure of it. Some have slipped the first regurgitation on account of them maybe not being 100% my design folly, not unlike the Corvis. But, if you've got a suspect in mind that deserves a serious redressing after i boned it once before, by all means post and let me know. These make for excellent warm-up and cool-down affairs, and scratch a particular itch that almost all artists are familiar with. Plus, I'm sure some of you will get some enjoyment from them too ;)

Since I'm likely to forget, I certainly hope everyone has a wonderful holiday and a great new year. Hoping for a much brighter 2023! C'mon Betelgeuse I know you can do it! :P

mattPLOG

EDIT---Wait! I forgot all my original vehicle from 3060 and such! there were some klinkers in that lot for sure.....time to go make a new naughty list......

OK, so there's obviously been a LOT of pushback over DA's admitted f'd up actions, so i don't need to put more logs on the fire around that effigy. But, since it's happened once, and is likely to happen again I'm very likely to post less copies of commissioned artwork here. i value people having me do work for them, and their rights to that work. I don't need or intend to put that in any kind of jeopardy.

So, you're likely to see less pictures in my commissions gallery at the very least.

But, I am still foolish enough to post things i do for myself or for side projects, or other miscellaneous things. Speaking of which, my page here did recently pass a milestone marker and I'm likely working on something to celebrate it ;)

So, i got the chance to watch the first episode of the new Halo series on streaming. I won't lie, my knowledge and experience doesn't really go much past the first 2-3 games and most of the designs+gear. Seeing how well some recent series have done with the "armored/obscured main guy" I thought they might have a chance....

---took his helmet off in the first episode. ugh....

---inconsistent universe rules. Dude shoots covenant troopers with minigun...nothing....MC shoots same dudes with it, from the hip, they die instantly. If you want to have them be bad a$$, then justify it. Which they do at times! But then they have scenes working directly against those :/

---Any possible ambiguity about whether the UN was "bad" is cleared up immediately. I just watched an alien stormtrooper heat vaporize some kids tripping on space mushrooms, but I'm pretty sure the UN comes off as somehow the "worse" of the two.

Congrats, you've got a nice SFX updated version of the Stallone Judge Dread mixed with Soldier. At least it's pretty i guess :D

Still Moon Knight and the next season of The Boys, fingers crossed....

I find it's nice to start with the good things when someone is trying to improve something.....

++I like that it shows activity based on the Deviation that's receiving the activity and "clusters" that information. That's somewhat more efficient information transfer.

Everything else pretty much sucks.....

-I'm literally using 10% of my screen, to then get information from a different 60% of my screen. wasting space and time.

-it's slow

-not being able to manage/delete the entries 'en mass' when there's nothing that needs direct attention wastes time.

all and all, with this version as it currently is set up, I'd rather have the old list version as a better means of interaction with the comings/goings/ and commenting on my posts.