I recently inked up a sample of my Winnwik the Murblin story. Wanted to get out the brush and work on the toning in Photoshop.

I’m trying a hack of the old duoshade tone paper from pre-computer days. I like the old look of the first Ninja Turtle books. Gives a real gritty feel that will suit my story well.

I did this on some of my previous mini’s, but never on a full-size issue, so I’ll need to figure out what my printer will need to make this look good en masse.

Somewhere along the line I picked up a real aversion to noise. I notice everything, like the whistle of my computer’s hard drive, and people at work scrolling fast with their mouse wheel. Sure I should just get over it, but I’m getting old.

Enter my new Sennheiser noise-canceling headphones! Thanks to my Sweets and her incredible gift-idea-generating-brain, I can now peacefully tune everything out except whatever my ePod is transponding. I love ‘em and recommend them to anyone who wants to listen to music rather than music plus people in the cube next to you eating apples, for example.

All weekend I’ve been listening to movie soundtracks while writing my magnum opus about a rat-person trying to escape capture by a group of robots. Still going!