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So I got up, got dressed, and Dean, Jill and I had...
3) Dinner at Mother's
::scratches head:: Not a big an of Mother's, not because it's vegetarian, but because the food tends to be bland. Some of their stuff is excellent, but, there's just no salt in anything they have. Still, I really enjoy their garden area, and wish more restaurants had that. It's just a nice place to sit and think. Plus I like their hibiscus tea.
From there, we decided to hit the Freshplus "grocery store" across the street (I needed cash to pay for dinner). It's actually more of a supermarket crowbarred into a convenience store, and rather expensive, but has a ton of stuff you can't find anywhere else. Like giant sized rolls of Bottle Caps candy, dusty Hulk ice pops (when did that movie come out?), and 3 million types of cheeses and wines and cereal and soda and just really damned good stuff. Including something we didn't expect to see, like....
5) Mashed Potato Soda at Freshplus
They had the Jones Soda Holiday PAck sitting there. It's been there for months...and I guess everyone was too afraid to buy it. It was a bit expensive and had never been marked down or anything, but, dammit, there it was! After some haggling (D: I dont' want to sepnd $35 on this J: Well, I owe you for dinner, buy it for $20 and I'll pay the rest. D: Well if you insist). If he wasn't gonna get it, I WAS.
The Jones Holiday Soda pack is sold online for one day a year, usually selling out before noon. We had tried get it, but I forgot what day it was being sold, and Dean figured there'd be plenty to go around. We missed the deadline, and got shot out for another year. Dean had seen the set at Freshplus not too long ago, but didn't grab it. We saw it now, and I picked it up. The set has Turkey and Gravy, Cranberry, Mashed Potato and Butter, Greenbean Casserole and Fruitcake sodas. This will probably be the one and only time I allow pictures of me, as we WILL be drinking these, and cleansing our palettes with Bertie Botts Every Flavor Jelly Bellies.
A lot of the changes brought on by hormones you can see and feel pretty quickly, but there is one that goes away, and boy does it go away. We spent a lot of time int he Freshplus, and while they had baskets, the set was MUCH too big for it. So I carried it. That box got a lot heavier a LOT quicker than something that size before. It's kinda wierd...my "preception" of the weight didn't change at all. It didn't FEEL heavier. It just really strained my muscles. Ah, well...Gotta take the (helluvalottagood) with the (notsomuch) bad.
One very gay checkout counter later we were on our way. We saw Quack's bakery across the street, realized that NONE of us had ever gone in there, and shuffled our way in for a...
4) Cinnamon Roll at Quacks
I should mention that this is all in Austin, at the corner of Duval and 45th street. While TECHNICALLY not all in Hyde PArk, I consider it the heart of Hyde Park. There are little tiny clusters of businesses like this all around Austin. Where there's a almost a mini-culture world at at intersection. I usually hit this one and the one at 51st and North Loop more than any other.
The one at Duval and 45th, has The Pronto Mart (which I've never been in but is supposedly a really cool convenience store), Mother's (Good food once you add salt), Hyde PArk Bar and Grill (everything good), Dolce Vita (excellent excellent EXCELLENT Italian Gelatos), Asti (don't be fooled, it LOOKS like a diner, but spends like a pretentious 35 star restaurant) and Quacks, which before Saturday I'd never been to.
I really like to judge a bakery on it's cinnamon rolls. I LOVE cinnamon rolls. And the best cinnamon rolls I've ever had were the ones they used to serve at my school when I was a kid. I loved them so much when I graduated, I paid my sister to bring some home. When she graduated, I was outta luck, till 2000, when I stumbled across Weikel's bakery in La Grange during a road trip. There's so good, I eat the shipping fee so they'll deliver them to Austin (100 mile round trip for cinnamon rolls? P'shaw). The Sin-namon Roll at Royer's comes in a close second.
So here we are at Quack's and it's really really cool there. Lots of young kids, old hippies and middle aged sensitive folks all in one room with wireless Internet. While the lovebirds decided what they want, I went straight for the Cinammon Ro....er....Cinammon Orb. The glazed cinnamon roll looks more like two cupcakes, stacked on top of each other, glazed in a spiral around the top. Really cool looking. When I tried it though, Quack's didn't really knock those two out of place. There wasn't enough glaze or sugar on them...however, they were made with croissant dough, which meant these were REALLY REALLY REALLY flakey and moist. A little more glazing and cinnamon, and I'll be a regular (especially since I drive by it ever week).
When I got home, I sat down, and started working on AWFW. And with a new drawing method, I not only had time to pose my characters, but ink them in record time, meaning...
6) AWFW (was) early
Thanks to a little method described here, I tried working on AWFW and CS a completely different way than I had. The way I was doing comics, and have done since time immemorial, is to pencil in the comic, then go over it in ink (with a pen, or with a tablet).
Working with digital inking ended up taking more time than I liked, with horrible results (although the last two strips I did with the tablet looked MUCH better, but took EVEN LONGER to do. I tried Robby's threshold thing for myself, and after carefully twitching the slider, came up with something nice. Inks in 3 seconds. :) 5 minutes of clean up to remove stray lines... Still, 6 minutes beats 1 hour per page I was getting.
With lots more time, I'm able to work on lots more posing which ended up with some really nice panels if I do say so myself. I'm rather happy with Hanna's "firm hold" on Andrea in Panel 3, and Abaddon's emotion/physical pain in panel 6.
All in all, I finished AWFW before dawn. not bad for a comic that didn't even exist until after that cinammon orb. :)
So I got up, got dressed, and Dean, Jill and I had...
3) Dinner at Mother's
::scratches head:: Not a big an of Mother's, not because it's vegetarian, but because the food tends to be bland. Some of their stuff is excellent, but, there's just no salt in anything they have. Still, I really enjoy their garden area, and wish more restaurants had that. It's just a nice place to sit and think. Plus I like their hibiscus tea.
From there, we decided to hit the Freshplus "grocery store" across the street (I needed cash to pay for dinner). It's actually more of a supermarket crowbarred into a convenience store, and rather expensive, but has a ton of stuff you can't find anywhere else. Like giant sized rolls of Bottle Caps candy, dusty Hulk ice pops (when did that movie come out?), and 3 million types of cheeses and wines and cereal and soda and just really damned good stuff. Including something we didn't expect to see, like....
5) Mashed Potato Soda at Freshplus
They had the Jones Soda Holiday PAck sitting there. It's been there for months...and I guess everyone was too afraid to buy it. It was a bit expensive and had never been marked down or anything, but, dammit, there it was! After some haggling (D: I dont' want to sepnd $35 on this J: Well, I owe you for dinner, buy it for $20 and I'll pay the rest. D: Well if you insist). If he wasn't gonna get it, I WAS.
The Jones Holiday Soda pack is sold online for one day a year, usually selling out before noon. We had tried get it, but I forgot what day it was being sold, and Dean figured there'd be plenty to go around. We missed the deadline, and got shot out for another year. Dean had seen the set at Freshplus not too long ago, but didn't grab it. We saw it now, and I picked it up. The set has Turkey and Gravy, Cranberry, Mashed Potato and Butter, Greenbean Casserole and Fruitcake sodas. This will probably be the one and only time I allow pictures of me, as we WILL be drinking these, and cleansing our palettes with Bertie Botts Every Flavor Jelly Bellies.
A lot of the changes brought on by hormones you can see and feel pretty quickly, but there is one that goes away, and boy does it go away. We spent a lot of time int he Freshplus, and while they had baskets, the set was MUCH too big for it. So I carried it. That box got a lot heavier a LOT quicker than something that size before. It's kinda wierd...my "preception" of the weight didn't change at all. It didn't FEEL heavier. It just really strained my muscles. Ah, well...Gotta take the (helluvalottagood) with the (notsomuch) bad.
One very gay checkout counter later we were on our way. We saw Quack's bakery across the street, realized that NONE of us had ever gone in there, and shuffled our way in for a...
4) Cinnamon Roll at Quacks
I should mention that this is all in Austin, at the corner of Duval and 45th street. While TECHNICALLY not all in Hyde PArk, I consider it the heart of Hyde Park. There are little tiny clusters of businesses like this all around Austin. Where there's a almost a mini-culture world at at intersection. I usually hit this one and the one at 51st and North Loop more than any other.
The one at Duval and 45th, has The Pronto Mart (which I've never been in but is supposedly a really cool convenience store), Mother's (Good food once you add salt), Hyde PArk Bar and Grill (everything good), Dolce Vita (excellent excellent EXCELLENT Italian Gelatos), Asti (don't be fooled, it LOOKS like a diner, but spends like a pretentious 35 star restaurant) and Quacks, which before Saturday I'd never been to.
I really like to judge a bakery on it's cinnamon rolls. I LOVE cinnamon rolls. And the best cinnamon rolls I've ever had were the ones they used to serve at my school when I was a kid. I loved them so much when I graduated, I paid my sister to bring some home. When she graduated, I was outta luck, till 2000, when I stumbled across Weikel's bakery in La Grange during a road trip. There's so good, I eat the shipping fee so they'll deliver them to Austin (100 mile round trip for cinnamon rolls? P'shaw). The Sin-namon Roll at Royer's comes in a close second.
So here we are at Quack's and it's really really cool there. Lots of young kids, old hippies and middle aged sensitive folks all in one room with wireless Internet. While the lovebirds decided what they want, I went straight for the Cinammon Ro....er....Cinammon Orb. The glazed cinnamon roll looks more like two cupcakes, stacked on top of each other, glazed in a spiral around the top. Really cool looking. When I tried it though, Quack's didn't really knock those two out of place. There wasn't enough glaze or sugar on them...however, they were made with croissant dough, which meant these were REALLY REALLY REALLY flakey and moist. A little more glazing and cinnamon, and I'll be a regular (especially since I drive by it ever week).
When I got home, I sat down, and started working on AWFW. And with a new drawing method, I not only had time to pose my characters, but ink them in record time, meaning...
6) AWFW (was) early
Thanks to a little method described here, I tried working on AWFW and CS a completely different way than I had. The way I was doing comics, and have done since time immemorial, is to pencil in the comic, then go over it in ink (with a pen, or with a tablet).
Working with digital inking ended up taking more time than I liked, with horrible results (although the last two strips I did with the tablet looked MUCH better, but took EVEN LONGER to do. I tried Robby's threshold thing for myself, and after carefully twitching the slider, came up with something nice. Inks in 3 seconds. :) 5 minutes of clean up to remove stray lines... Still, 6 minutes beats 1 hour per page I was getting.
With lots more time, I'm able to work on lots more posing which ended up with some really nice panels if I do say so myself. I'm rather happy with Hanna's "firm hold" on Andrea in Panel 3, and Abaddon's emotion/physical pain in panel 6.
All in all, I finished AWFW before dawn. not bad for a comic that didn't even exist until after that cinammon orb. :)
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Date: 2005-02-09 11:48 am (UTC)Glad my offhand comment about digital inking being a myth helped out! The things I take for granted being in the industry...
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Date: 2005-02-09 01:53 pm (UTC)