11/05/03: Added one older (1999) pic to Roland's gallery as a reference pic. Yeah, I need to draw more. I'm working on it :) For now, the newest stuff is on my VCL gallery.
6/6/03: Updated the Character FAQ and "Gifts/Trades/Commissions info
4/13/2003: I hooked up an account on
VCL. Artwork will be produced for
my gallery there,
independent of that which appears on this site. So you'll have to check two
places for new art now :)
3/08/03:
Installment Four,
in progress since May 2002, has finally been completed and posted. While
the artwork does get better as it progresses (digital shading has been in
progress since September 2002), unfortunatley, the file sizes increased way
over those encountered in the first three installments. Expect page sizes
from 93 to 260K with most pages in the vicinity of 130K. I tried
hard, but you can only push the .GIF format so far, and JPG could not preserve
the linework without files 2-3 tiimes the size. Maybe PNG will work better,
but I need to get a newer version of Ulead SmartSaver that supports
it. Considering the original artwork was 2552x3300 resolution and 24 megabytes
per page (24-bit files were necessary to perform the shading used) it's still
a drastic reduction.
3/4/2003: Added design notes for Nei'chelle to the Notes page. Began lettering "What, Me Furry?", installment 4
9/17/2002: Added another "Got Mud?" picture in Tina's gallery, a scan of a sketchbook contribution I did at Anthrocon '02.
8/28/2002: Added a progress meter to keep interested parties informed of the work on Installment Four of "We're Part of WHAT?!?" (soon to be renamed "What, me Furry?")
4/25/2002: Added an Animations page for my old "TrashFormers" animations produced back in 1985-86 or so. I placed them here since there's not enough of them to justify creating a content category for them on the main Table of Content. And they still qualify as art, if not anthropomorphic. Also darkened the background of this page to make it more readable. As if you care :)
3/31/2002: Finally, the third installment of "We're part of WHAT?!?" is completed and posted. Dag, this took a long time to process. Looking at previous installments reveals that I put a lot more work into post-production on this one than the others. I guess this means Installment Four will take just as long
2/5/2002: Revamped "We're part of WHAT?!?". Installment One has been shortened to 5 pages. Installment Two incorporates a complete re-draw of the removed portion of Installment One. Installment Three has been scripted, and penciling will begin this week. Also, "School Uniform Follies" has been re-formatted to match the navigation of the other comics. No more jumping back to the main comics index to view each page.
12/06/2001: Revised "Gifts and Trades and Commissions, Oh My" and "Procrastination". Also, a partial rewrite/redraw to the comic "We're part of WHAT?!?" is in the works and is about halfway complete.
10/24/2001: Nei'chelle officially joins the group with her own gallery and info/profile page added to the character section. A new wallpaper image for the main Anthromedia menu including her will be in the works.
10/15/01: Added final color images of new character "Nei'chelle" to Research & Development. Her gallery will appear as soon as I create a profile pic for the "Info" page and correct her gallery graphics.
9/28/2001: Completed conversion of single-character galleries to include thumbnails
9/22/2001: The project described on 6/24/2001 is underway. The individual character galleries are being modified to make room for thumbnails from the actual drawings being linked to. Due to the number of thumbnails to keep track of, the updated pages will be posted as they are updated, working from the last character to the first. Bastien, Todd and Tatiana are completed. Also in the works, but not posted, are the finalized color renditions of the new character, named "Nei'chelle". Because my Earthlink webspace allocation was quadrupled after the price increase, plans to move the anthro art to WebSolo space (as described below) are on hold. Other projects will still go there, however.
8/14/2001: Created "Research and Development" to document the creation of new characters. New characters are something I that I don't do very often.
7/4/2001: Added "Got Mud?" to Tina's gallery
6/30/2001: Added a recent pic (well, recent to this site--I drew it in February) to Cynthia's 'Recent' gallery
06/24/2001: Nothing to report just yet--a large (non-anthro) addition to the main site is being coded and is almost complete. In store for my anthro galleries is a reworking of the display method to include thumbnails taken from the actual picture, similar to many other online galleries on personal websites. These will probably be moved off the MindSpring server and onto the WebSolo space to accomodate additional art. Also on tap is a simplified tutorial on how I construct figures. The 'art' is already scanned, I just need to build narrative to accompany it.
06/09/2001: Updated Roland, Tatiana, Todd, and Bastien's 'head shots' on their respective galleries
06/02/2001: Updated Tina, Cynthia, and
Sherryl's 'head shots' on their respective
galleries.
05/30/2001: Updated Tanya's "head shot" on the control panel presiding
over her gallery. Since these new images are so much more improved over their
predecessors, they're taking an unusual amount of time to finish. So, I'm
uploading them as I complete them rather than waiting to finish all of
them.
05/29/2001: Tweaked the FAQ and Limitations
documents in preparation for an upcoming update. Yeah, I went way
too long between updates this time. Hopefully this won't become a habit.
01/24/2001: Added Installment 2 of "We're A Part of WHAT?!?".
Also reconfigured these comic pages into standard Web-comic format, with
"Previous/Next" links.
12/23/00: Added a pic to Bastien's gallery, opened up Recent gallery on Multi-Pix
12/18/00: Inked and re-scanned the comic uploaded 11/20. A partial rewrite adds two pages and a content advisory (for language) to what was there before.
11/25/00: Added another comic to the Comics section. Mostly pencil shaded, with some ink
11/21/00: Added new B/W art to Tanya's, Tina's, Cynthia's, Sherryl's and Tatiana's galleries
11/20/00: Added a preliminary comic to Comics section. It's only at the pencil stage right now, but it's a start.
11/08/00: Created new imagemap art for the character galleries. Now
you can click on actual buttons instead
of vague-looking text.
11/08/00: Added Comics section. See
Sequential Art. Udpated infrequently.
8/31/00: Added another pic to Tina's gallery. It's only been July
since I drew it.
5/27/00: Rewrote "My Limitations" Renamed it to "Procrastination"
5/8/2000: All "Early Years" galleries deleted. Replaced with "Then And Now"(hint: new art appears in the 'Now' part.). The "Recent Stuff" galleries open for "Tanya" and "Roland"with one pic apiece.
4/20/2000: Wallpaper created and added to Introduction page.
3/24/2000: Roland's color (imagemap and button graphics) is modified so he doesn't look "just like Todd" to the uninitiated. The color looked okay on my laptop where I composed these pages, but on the desktop...well, I have to work on his color a little more :-P
3/12/2000 Department of Anthromedia No Longer Hidden-I've placed art here some time ago. Now I've removed it's hidden status in the general scheme of things. You might wonder why I buried my drawings way out in the back of an unrelated-looking personal site. Well, at the time I established it, I had concerns about the amount of traffic the site might attract had anyone in the fandom found out about it. Now I know such concerns are unjustified, as long as no one links to my site from a high-traffic site, or submits it to a search engine. (And if you're thinking of linking to this site, please discuss it with me first.)
You may notice that the links pointing to the most recent artwork do not presently function. Eventually they will, as I produce pictures to include in these galleries. First one up is "Tina". Presently, the imagemap graphics are the most recent artworks. When artwork is added to the "Latest Stuff" galleries, the links to them will then become active.
3/4/2000: The "Introduction" page is compressed as part of an ongoing effort
to improve navigation.
2/29/2000: Tina's "recent stuff" gallery opens with an experiment in brush
inking.