10 rounds with Mac OS X later...

For some reason, Mac OS X has gone mildly apeshit on me. Can you say kernel panic? After trying several times to open the same pages in Photoshop CS (including my master color file for the Hardy Boys characters, which kept crashing the system), I rebooted in Mac OS 9.2, opened Photoshop 5.5., and managed to open up the master file long enough to cut-and-paste essential information into a smaller file. Unfortunately that didn't seem to calm Mac OS X down any, despite running various disk utilities, moving files to different drives, and praying. I did everything short of sacrificing a chicken. *crosses heart*

So two and a half hours later I end up working in OS 9.2, in Photoshop 5.5, after I'd just gotten used to -- and really started to appreciate -- Photoshop CS. *sigh* George will take a look at things after I go to bed tonight; he's far more up on such things than I am.

On the upside, I finished ALL the true colors today and did 14 pages of totally finished art in only 6 hours. That leaves 34 pages of just figures, and three days to do them, but if I push myself tomorrow and Tuesday I might actually pull the book in one day ahead of schedule. The editor would be immensely thrilled if that were the case, and my aura would shine all the more golden in his eyes.

Bah. Off to bed.

Exercise, dinner, and painting

Another day, another kick at the can... step exercise, an unexpected and thoroughly nice dinner out with George at Niko's Restaurant, and already 11 pages of Hardy Boys done, and my target for today is 16 pages finished. And I've only been up since noon. All in all, not too bad.

ETA: On the positive side, Mac OS X has been good as gold all day. Goooooood operating system. *pat pat*

23 is the magic number...

23 finished pages of Hardy Boys today, that is. Which leaves only 11 pages to finish tomorrow.

I OWN this deadline. I'm bringing the book in a day ahead of schedule, and it looks terrific. I've managed to make the weak segments strong and cover the artist's mistakes. What more can anyone ask of a colorist being paid $40 a page?

A bit earlier I sent an upbeat email to the editor, reinforcing that the book would be in early, to counterbalance my rather blunt letter pointing out that the artist had contributed to slowing the project down. Hopefully it will have the positive impact I hope for.

Off to make a post in mtx_deg_sep about a new character...

New DegSep Character: Caliban

A new character I'm introducing into the mtx_deg_sep RP. Picture from http://www.portraitplanet.com



NAME: Caliban
SPECIES: Sidhe/Agent
AGE: 278 years old
SEX: Male
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