Leigh 2008-01-10 16:14:17

Hey thanks a lot man. Some day...

Leigh 2008-01-12 10:55:49

You just flattered the pants off me. I just finished a piece I've been working on for a couple of weeks, but my scanner is broken. I showed Stamper the pencil version, here:

http://www.leighmcgrath.com/media /illustration/SCAN_BeastPencContr st100dpi.jpg

I blew that up to 14 x 17 and finished it in Prismacolor markers and colored pencils. But my scanner is fucking broken and leaves yellow streaks across the image. So now I have to find another way to digitize the finished product.

I think Illustration and live media is a much more manageable medium than working digitally for me at this point. I'm still very productive in that respect. It's immediately satisfying. I have a lot of big ideas, mainly Lobster Quest, that I am eager to manifest digitally, but I'm sick of my tiny graphics tablet and I'm sick of how long it takes to do anything in Adobe Illustrator. Because I have to work at an office 3 days a week and juggle a social life, the effort versus time ratio is often discouraging when working on LQ, or any other flash project. But then, I see a lot of people here on NG putting out a lot of work, so I may be just bitching. Quite honestly, I don't know how they do it.

No one knows how badly I want to make Lobster Quest a reality, but it has taken me a long time to find strategies toward making that happen, and I'm still developing those strategies. Working alone on a massive project like this is a daunting task and isn't as immediately expressive as the rest of my work, so I've spent a lot of time tackling how to actually manage all my ideas and develop a production process. I'm the only one responsible for this struggle, but in short I don't quite know what I'm doing when it comes to producing a full length adventure video game on my own, or for that matter, anything that requires the amount of attention as my ideas for flash projects. This is most likely due in part to my reluctancy to downsize said ideas into realistically achievable tasks.

Thank you for being honest. I love your work, fucking love it. NG Rumble blew me away. Everybody over there produces top notch shit. I'm not just trying to return a compliment, I really like everything NG is doing, and love seeing how far it's come. There is quite a nest of exceptional talent under Tom Fulp's great nurturing wing.