reconstructing Reconstruction ~

[lookingland]

i have a bazillion things to do and have sadly fallen far far behind on my flist ~ but am i working on my final exam? no. am i cleaning house to prepare for my sister's visit? no. am i doing my laundry? still no.

but i did start the redesign on Reconstruction and so far it's chugging along okay! i'm stripping it down to try to give it (finally!) a real sense of uniformity (which it has always been lacking and which has always driven me nuts). drawing settings is going to be a pain in the butt, but i'm just going to build slow. i can't do it all over night.

as to the archives, i'm debating whether i should dump them. they'll bother me because they're not uniform with what the rest of the site is going to look like, but it feels sort of "cheaty" to strip them out. i'm resisting the urge to rewrite the whole series from the beginning.

i've given myself a deadline of september 15th to get this series back up and running. dunno how realistic that is, but i hope i can hammer it into shape. i'm looking forward to writing for it.

of the four portraits i redrew today (for the umpteenth time), i think i like Emmie's best.



she being the character i confess to paying the least attention to, i'm glad she has a nice picture.

i'm going to put a picture back on the home page of the site, but i'm not sure what. i miss the American flag motif that used to be there. just not sure how i can work it back in ~ with the "Johnny came marching home tag", i presume, but the actual image is eluding me. already have the house on the banner, so the flag needs to be doing something else.

i'm going to go brainstorm myself to sleep.

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Comments

[sparowe]

Maybe take the archives out of public view, but keep them somewhere/how for yourself?

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

oh sure ~ i keep a copy on my hard drive. it's really just a question of whether to take them offline.

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[la-vita-nuova.livejournal.com]

Haha, isn't it funny how you feel guilty about your characters...i feel the same way about some of my artwork, like ohh, i should have paid more attention to you. When i was younger and I would draw animals i would feel guilty if I discarded the drawing after drawing the eyes, like nooo, it's alive now, how can i do that!

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha ~ yes!

at some point it's impossible to just toss things out. i especially feel sorry for emmie because i seem to have saddled her with a philandering profligate husband, no children, and a pitiful physical constitution.

i try to tell myself it's okay because at least i made her rich ~ hahahahaha. good thing she's a happy person and has strong faith. i actually like the character very much and should just pay more attention to her anyway.

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