rovel_von_renard asked for some sort of eating contest between Hialfi and Renaud and the raffle dice came up 004, so he won. I'll see what I can do. 83

I haven't done a raffle in a while, so since I'm a bit shy of stuff to draw at MFF I thought I'd do a raffle. Basically you just reply to this message and sometime this weekend at MFF I'll roll for a winner. You can ask me to draw pretty much anything as long as it isn't super complicated, like a bunch of characters. Most often people ask me to draw them vore, obviously, but it could be clean art or a character drawing. Since time at the con will be short it'd be useful if you give me at least some idea what you want in your reply, with links to references if you have a specific character or characters in mind. Good luck!

And burn 3 million a day, according to researchers.

That's the equivalent of swallowing 5 average sized humans in one gulp and ~27 a day, or a 750-pound grizzly bear in one gulp and a 2-ton hippo a day. That's large dragon/medium macro territory. Of course their throat and digestive system is not suited to swallowing and digesting humans, but still. 83

Coincidentally. Enough both winners had names starting with 'A'. Arron-Rokas asked for his surfer tight eating a shark and Abion wanted a rubbery pred. I'll see what I can do tomorrow. 83

Meet outside the hotel lobby at 6 on Sunday and we'll straggle on up to the ol' Italian restaurant. I have 40 seats reserved which will hopefully be enough - I think we had 38 last year. It usually costs about $25 a head and it's worth it to shoot the breeze with your fellow (mostly) vores. 83

Since I am probably a bit short on ideas for things to draw at AC, I'm doing a raffle. Reply with what you'd like to see me draw and I'll draw a couple of winners when I get to AC and hopefully get them drawn over the long weekend. Not everyone can win but nothing ventured, nothing gained. 83

While I wait to see if my four pencil submissions from BLFC reappear on FA, I made a little survey so people could vote on which of the four inked drawings I did there will get colored first. In fact, I'll color them in the order of most to least votes. Assuming any of you can see this journal and anyone votes, that is. The site appears iffy at the moment. I'll start coloring tomorrow evening.

http://www.strawpoll.me/10249920

Myself, Mozdoc and Whiskey Fox are flying up to BLFC in a chartered plane today. Whiskey is a pilot so the fox will be doing the flying. It'll be interesting to see the Owens Valley from the air after driving through it so many times.

Barring us crashing into a mountain, I'll see some of you there. 83

I did this for Strega once on some site designed for the purpose (formspring?) but I don't think I have done an open one like this. My characters are fairly well fleshed out in some cases but some are less so, and maybe you have some questions about one or another. Ask away.

I recently tried an all-in-one scanner and laserjet printer and wasn't happy with the scans OR the printing. I am falling back on getting a stand alone printer. I want decent color printing and also decent printout of pencil linework, which was where the all in one fell short.

If you print out art, what sort of printer do you use? A decent laser printer is probably all I need but I don't want to have to return another printer to the store. They don't complain but I feel guilty. 83

I have owned two Mustek model 1200 scanners, which will hold documents up to 11x17 inches. Both have problems with (I think) depth of field, which makes for weird fuzzy gray areas unless I back up the sketchbook with a sheet of plexiglass and put a weight on top of it.

I'm looking for a more reliable large format scanner. They say there are two types of those, the cheap ones and the good ones. Musteks are cheap but not good, which bears that out. The other day I saw some 11x17 printer-scanners at the office store. Those might be all right. Do any of you have any experience with 11x17 scanners other than Musteks? I could use some info before I buy another.

Maybe I'll see some of you there. We are driving up tomorrow and should be at the con by 1. Expect to find me in the glass sided drawing area on the second floor outside the main hotel. Look for the poison (black) headcrab hat and if it's as badly lit as last year, look for the guy with his own lamp in the evening. 83

As usual it's someone I have never heard of who wins the raffle, in this case  johnv He's commissioned a lot of stuff on his page, let's see what he asks me to draw. 83

It's a rare "You get to entirely dictate what happens in a raffle drawing" raffle! Enter by replying and when I get to MFF I'll roll a winner. It doesn't have to be a vore picture, but keep the theme reasonably simple - no twenty character montages. It can feature whatever character you like provided it doesn't belong to someone else (unless you have their permission). That doesn't mean you can't have a copyrighted character in it, but if the character belongs to another fur you need their permission to include it under most circumstances. Especially if something terrible is happening to the character. 83

I'll roll a winner when I get to MFF on Thursday and we'll go from there.

"Rocket Raccoon is abducted and taken back to his home planet Halfworld. Rocket finds that all the animal life including his family have become just as enhanced as he is. When the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy arrive on Half World, they end up helping Rocket Raccoon when the evolved turtle Pyko leads his fellow evolved creatures Ranger (who is Rocket Raccoon's brother), Blackjack O'Hare (an evolved hare), and Wal Rus (an evolved walrus) leads a rebellion against the Halfworld Robots that evolved them.?

This is a good idea for an episode executed very, very poorly. The trouble starts when we get to Halfworld and promptly meet Rocket's mother and siblings, who somehow recognize him (and vice versa) even though all of them but Rocket were feral animals when last they met. Mom's inexplicable Brooklyn accent didn't add any to this. These are characters who could have been left out of the episode to make room for more development for other, more important characters mentioned below.

Next, turns out that Pyko, a turtle we knew as one of Rocket's allies in his original mini, is making more evolved animals in order to fight the robots who made the first few (Rocket among them). Fair enough. But then Pyko turns out to be making Hulk-like super animals that lose most of their intellect when (permanently) transformed. This is questionable, but at least one of them volunteered for it - he's a villain, but it doesn't excuse what happens next.

What happens next is Rocket forms an alliance with the robots and proceeds to unilaterally decide to turn all the evolved animals back into non-sapient ferals without asking them what they think about this. Yes, that's right, Rocket personally lobotomized a whole colony of sapient anthropomorphic animals, most of whom were presumably perfectly happy to be what they were, thinking beings. The robots planned to do the same thing since the animals were rebelling but they seemed as though they could be reasoned with. Pyko and his few immediate followers were the real problem, and some of them weren't keen on the Hulkification anyway. Some accommodation could have been arrived at, such as de-evolving only a few of them.

The excuse we were given is that they only had once chance to use the de-evolution ray and it would affect ALL the animals, and Pyko and his three followers were winning the fight. There's a way around that: Kill Pyko. That's grim but better than lobotomizing EVERYONE.

There were many problems with this episode and it really needed more than 23 minutes of run time. We never got to meet most of the evolved animals and even semi-important ones like Blackjack O'Hare - who is popular enough in the fandom that there are artists who devote themselves to Rocket/Blackjack shipping - got only a few lines, and there is only a glimpse of Lylla, a very important character from Rocket's early comics. They blew their wad in one episode and by handling this in such a hurried manner they essentially strip-mined an old comic for a one-shot idea when it really needed some more thought and care put into the writing.

The lesson to be learnt here is don't kill off a whole cast of potential characters for ten seconds of drama. The writing in the GOTG cartoon has been spotty so far, with too slavish a devotion to the movie and some very questionable design decisions, but this episode was outright awful.

There were a lot of people I know well in this raffle, but as luck would have it the winner isn't someone I know well at all. Well, the dice have spoken and I've sent a PM off to  tiberius170 to see what he wants updated and colored. Better luck next time to everyone else.

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I bought the bear version of this poster (actually a fake-antique metal plaque) at a novelty store Thursday. There's a good chance I'll do a vorish take on this, not that they didn't already have that idea. 83

It's been a hectic week. I just got back from a three day camping trip and tomorrow at O-dark-early  mozdoc and I are off for Rainfurrest. I will likely be in whatever passes for a zoo/artist's hang out area there doodling away, and am easily recognized by my poison (black) headcrab hat. I wear it so I can be spotted from a distance and I am assured it works. The headcrab hat looks like this:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/555879/

As usual I don't know the winner from Adam, but I'll see what character he wants to see stuffed into a Lion's ass and get to work. 83

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I like the idea of an Amber Lion backing up against a wall to push some hapless "bad owner" into its ass. Why draw generic prey when I can get a volunteer?

Due to the transparent nature of the Lion the victim will visible inside even as he/she/it is pushed in. The prey can be happy, sad, whatever. Some people like being stuffed up a lion's ass, even when they're about to be absorbed into goo. There's no accounting for taste.

As a bonus, if the winner likes safe vore, I'll draw indications that the Lion has created one of the 'hole to hole' tubes I've speculated about.

Reply to this journal to enter the raffle, and I'll draw a winner Sunday and probably do a sketch that evening.

EDIT: I can also make the Lion a Lioness if the winner so requests.

Repeatedly installing the drivers eventually got them to work. Stupid Windows.

The ongoing issues with my Intuos tablets, which are probably as old as some of the people reading this journal, make me consider just buying a new one. Big Intuos tablets cost close to five hundred bucks, so I'm looking at the dirt cheap Monoprice tablets. Reviews are mixed, so I was wondering if any of you had any opinions about Monoprice tablets?

I use two old 9x12 Intuos 1s (one was my first tablet bought in 1998 and the other was bought on Ebay as a spare) and a 6x8 Intuos 2 that I bought for traveling. The issue is that over the last few years Windows updates tend to brick them. Sometimes a system restore resuscitates them, but most recently I had to stop using the 1s and use the smaller 2 only. Just a couple of days ago I got a 1 working again...but then today another update hit.

It's taken two hours to get the 2 partially operational, but it still has major issues. No pressure sensitivity, screen size different from what the tablet thinks it is, and Windows claims the driver doesn't exist when I try to run the setup utility.

All I wanted to do was draw an Amber Lion profile picture tonight, the kind I do with lots of text and arrows, and this happens. I hate Windows sometimes. This sort of thing usually sorts itself out due to tinkering or later updates, but my tablets are getting so old it's happening more and more often. I may have to break down and buy a newer one. *Sigh*

Off to another con! If I make RF and MFF I will exceed by two the total number of cons I've gone to in a year. Denver is pretty and I look forward to seeing the new hotel and getting some productive drawing done. If you're there, I am easily spotted due to my poison (black) headcrab hat.

I'm off to do family stuff and so I won't be able to draw the hideous things happening to people that I like to draw. I do plan to work on some stories, and with any luck I'll have some to post when I get back. I also might be able to color something next weekend after I get back, but time will tell.

Have a nice summer until I get back. 83