...and it did work!!! Hey all. Well I am happy to say that after going thru my office in a major cleaning I found an old Plawa free styler tablet tucked away. I got it on ebay a long time ago but couldn't really ever get it to work ( a pretty low end tablet). On a whim I tried to see if any new drivers and yes, boom. It works. Not fantastically but it works and I find doing the lasso in photoshop much easier now. I think I have to fine tune it but still I'm in the ballpark, as they say. So anyone with experience with them I'm happy to have any and all advice as I've never really used these things before. Thanks.

Next up is a bit of a bitch here, Is it me or does anyone have a tough time typing on DA? There seems to be some sort of lag . I start to type then sometimes it locks up, then all my text appears after a moment. I have to wait and the same with page loads at time but the typing really F#&$#(* me off here. I'm not sure if it's the adds or what. Am I more insane than usual or is it DA? No other pages seems to lag like here. What's the deal? Maybe if I have premium membership it would not lag....any ideas? If so I need to jump in the sofa and under the car seat to find the dough to get one.

Also, I've been following a small web show that just released it's first 15mins of it's sort of pilot episode. I really like the idea it's a sort of steam punk/clockwork world after the fall (like mad max for steam punk). It's completely independent show
with everyone volunteering to make the show (even some smaller role type actors and actresses from shows like stargate and the like doing the main characters). They all hope it will take off and I am doing some fan work for them. I really want to do a good job 1, it seems to be a great idea and looks great so far 2, I love the fact it's totally independent and ground up effort and 3, I want to show my support for the show with some art (maybe they will like it enough to use it would be great!)

Go and check them out, please guys and gals, Join the forum and post the creators have been on the posts like clockwork and really like feedback. [link] Go now and join the sect, today.

Thanks for reading and going to see Riese

Well we didn't make it into the final 50 but hey the 250 out of thousands (or 252 just not sure) is a good accomplishment. I proud of Dale for all his efforts and to everyone for their encouragement. I Guess next time, maybe. Thanks everyone

Hey everyone! Well again I back in the DA world. Life has kept me way (again) but here I am again for my monthly catch up. THanks to everyone that keeps coming back and commenting, Thanks so much.

On a very, very high note. My best bud,
~Crash2014 Dale Griffitts aka Crash (with a little help from me)made it into the final 250 for the international Comic Strip Superstar contest at Amazon.com here: [link] If by some miracle we make it into the final cut I hope everyone will go and vote for us. Dale's entry is his Lunaville characters: [link] [link] It's a newspaper strip and Dale did all the art, story/characters and jokes. It's all Dale here, all I did was clean everything up on the PC, lettering, colored the Sunday strips and but it all together for a (I think pretty good and sharp presentation). We'll know Friday or Saturday if we (well he) makes it into the top 50, so cross your fingers, toes or/and anything you can for us! If anything, I'm proud of Dale getting to the top 250 out of thousands of entries. It's a testament of his creativity and ability.

As for me I find it hard to work on anything being on these 10 hour days on third shift (which I hate) All I do is sleep. I wish to get back into drawing, but with my friend
~luosnomed13 and now former roommate finding himself a great home and with him moving out this weekend, I see no drawing soon. I have neglected the duties of the house a great deal and need to do a lot. Also, I've been a pack rat for far too long and a great purging is about to commence. After all that and I finish my wife's new room I may open to commissions but I'm not sure what to ask for $ and more importantly, would any want one :shurg: Well, would you?

OK I'm back to catch up here on DA so hope to see everyone's stuff and notes. THanks for reading any your friendships here on DA!

Also saw the live MST 3000 broadcast of Plan 9 from outer space in theaters tonight! I was great and very funny....anyone else see it?

Mike

Hey everyone,

I'm on face book now so if anyone is interested just hope over to [link] profile and add me. If you play any of those games let me know and I'll add you. Really finding it great to be on it at last, seeing old friends, etc.

Anyway I hope to get some drawing in while my wife and I do a show for her jewelry in Champaign, IL art show Sat. Stop by and chat if your around.

Hi all thanks for sticking with me over this long state of inactivity and correspondence. I'm now working 4 10 hour days on third and it sucks! Had a lot of other stuff going on but I plan to use my free Thursdays to catch up on DA land and all my great friends here. Thanks for looking as always.