Ahhh, the holidays are past, and I'm back at work and heading in to the new year.
There are no single major projects queued up for 2006, though I do have a theme in mind for the year. This will be the year I work on my sculpting skills -- and to this end I have purchased a number of good and mediocre books on the subject.
Also notable for this year will be that detail that I will _not_ be working on Haunted Trails... but will be applying myself to some other Halloween project or other.
Banging off the old year come two notable events, one of which is only notable for being extremely annoying. Some asshole Chinese person went and edited all of my user pages in the simreal TWiki, putting lots of crap and spam in them. Tonight I'll hand-edit all of the user pages and lock them down so they can only be edited by their owners. Jeez, those asshole spammers, they really should all just drop dead.
The other notable event was that I got a dragon tattoo on my back! Over six hours under the needle, doing a full back piece in one sitting. Note for the curious, shading hurts like hell when done over fresh outlining.
The dragons are custom designs by Geoff Massey, the tattoo guy I used at HPP Ink in Eugene, Oregon. He went all out for me, and created serpent-like dragons (kind of like seahorses) in a Giger-esque style. Excellent work, unique, and well executed.
I'll post a picture eventually.