_Intro:

It took me a while but I finally made the switch from adobe products to the free alternatives. Not only am I saving $50/mo but the character sheets transitioned to InkScape well enough, which brings me to my first problem moving forward: I took one look at the UI and it's like trying to read chinese upside down in the middle of a nighttime car ride. This is no attempt to disparage InkScape as a software or an assessment of its abilities. I'm simply belaboring the point that after two years of Illustrator fanboyism, I have no clue what I'm doing. Looks like I'm gonna have to lock in for another study session tomorrow.

After some tweaking with the settings, I managed produce a quality result. Definitely gonna put out some scratch on the 110 lb. cardstock from now on. Heavy duty is always preferable.

_Moving Forward:

My innermost perfectionist says there's still work to do. For the sake of quality control, I need portraits for each character (1.125" x 1.375" or 28.5mm x 35mm). Can you tell I got OCD from my mom? Anyway, nothing happens until I've learned InkScape's program. Then comes the portraits, then the minor revisions to the character sheets for a 1.1 version. I may have goofed an extra 1/8" (28.5mm) on the finished piece.

_Where Does This Leave Us?:

Weeellllll, there's always the vanilla character sheets. There's always more RPGs I downloaded from DriveThru. I can be proud of the first version of the character sheets but nothing happens until something moves. Fuck it, we ball!

_Project "Four Titles":

Just so we can focus on something, I'm revising Project "Four Titles". Instead of synchronously designing four separate RPG Maker games, let's use four separate games from my DriveThru library for story generation! The RPG element remains but we're going analog. Regarding the four TTRPG's we're focusing on: I have Cyberpunk: RED, Death in Space, Mork Borg, and the famous Dungeons & Dragons. I have yet to figure out how DnD works, shit's for nerds.

It's time to end the month by getting some momentum going. Tomorrow starts with some learning. Then designing the solo-campaigns which will serve as the catalysts for the project. February's gonna open up with getting familiarized on all my games, more story-design (characters, settings, other pertinent elements).

There's architecture-style writing and garden. I like to think I can do both throughout the new year.

_Closing Thoughts:

Finished is better than perfect. Let's take the L and use the vanilla character sheets for the four games in my selection. While "Four Titles" cooks starting February, I'll get cracking on some free-writes, fanfiction and the like. They have yet to call me back on the country job and if they do, I can get some serious funding going on-not my intention, but my art & writing aren't the only things I have to worry about. But, I'll be able to afford gas, grocery, and guns. 10mm ain't cheap, boy-o.

Furthermore, I want to save up for that cricut. And looking at the work ahead of me, gonna need a lot of dosh for ink and cardstock. We don't import those, do we? I looked it up, we import ink from every country the coppertone convict is putting tariffs on! fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck