Updates!`

I've been lazing a bit on the update announcments over the past few days so I have a rather lot to make

Cheeky Images: Two new additions to the image gallery over the last few days - those Boston Boys have been killing me all over my TV so I went on a binge. Jonathan Tucker (Stateside and The Black Donnellys) and Bryan Greenberg (One Tree Hill and the soon-to-be October Road)

Cheeky Resources: Gilmore Girls bases are up to date for 7.15 - I Am A Kayak, Hear Me Roar! but I still haven't finished (or started, for that matter, 7.16 - Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore?)

Cheeky Tutorials: I added this earlier this week because someone who shall remain nameless mentioned that they weren't clear on how to get that icy blue color just right so I thought I would write up a quick method tutorial. I don't know if it's the exact icy blue they were talking about but it is icy blue :)

Cheeky Graphics: I took on an icons100 challenge for Guys & Dolls (the movie) and I'm into my first batch - 10 Guys & Dolls Icons. Well, frankly, they suck, but that's kind of OK with me :) I have to admit though, I'm totally phoning in the stupid themes thing. "I uh, sure that could be about love...yeah...I meant it all along *shifty eyes*"

Project Update: In addition to continued work on The Light, my pursuit of learning G-Mesh in Illustrator, my icons100 challenge, updating my portfolio as I create portfolio worthy work, my off interest in re-skinning the site, i've been playing with hand sketching and manga in illustrator. So, ya know, just to keep you posted ;) Maybe i'll have to reopen the hentai project.

Lots of Updates

There are a lot of updates today. Obviously, it you're reading this, you probably scrolled down and noticed that I blogged about the obsessive amounts of light textures being used but, if you didn't, here is a link.

UFG: I added a new up for grabs banner today. It features Hilary Burton and Dan Radcliffe (one of the new shots from the naked play everyone is in such an uproar about :P) and, for now at elast, it's called due.
Cheeky Resources: Then, in addition to the other days additon of Hilary Burton, Bethany Joy Galeotti and some major updates to the Kristen Storms gallery, I've also made a huge update of all high-res photos to Isla Fisher's folder.

Cheeky Designs: There's also a major gift for you Godfather fans out there that I have stuck in the gallery. Namely tons of icons from The Godfather. More to come from the first film and, maybe, if i still like you, more to come from II and III as well :)

Launching The Portfolio

For those of you that check my gallery for updates, you probably haven't seen a lot of late and there is a key reason for that - I haven't been making any.

It occured to me, when I started trying to decide what I would show off to potential clients, that I absolutely do not want them looking at my actual gallery for all of the crap that would innundate them. I did, however, come up with a solution.

http://www.portfolio.bitterepiphany.com/

There really isn't a lot of new stuff there but there are a lot of things most of you haven't had the opportunity to see.

I've also been making a lot of uploads at deviantART.

Thank You

With the reach of the 1,000,000th review at HPFF, I've been organizing a few things there and it's made me think quite a bit about my own reviewes and reviewers.

I have been a member of HPFF for a few years now and I've been a part of their staff for nearly as long. It means a lot of things in the day to day, but one thing that it doesn't mean are many thanks - so, for as much as reviews can mean to a person - to a staff member, they are inclined to mean much, much more.

As of this note, I have been the lucky recipient of 373 reviews on two stores and two one-shots and, while it certainly isn't the largest number the site has ever seen, I appreciate it all the same.

I've had some comical reviews - ranging from the short and obviously confused ("wow......very um.....deep") to the outright attempts at offensive (""). It's almost a pity that I've deleted the story now but, when I recieved my first flame, I threw an e-party - because you're not really a fanfiction author until you annoy someone to the point of leaving a snotty review. (I"ve gotten a lot more of those since.)

Knowing that I can't mention everyone, because there are a lot of reviews and quite a few regular reviewers, I feel compelled, still, to mention a few of my favorites. if you've been left out of the list, I assure you, your input was still appreciated.

As great compliments go, there are few reviews more flattering than the one Guilded Sorcerer left on Chronicles of Life. In fact, I found it so flattering that I was afraid to answer it for months on end - because I was terrified to find out that this person secretly harbored a deep seated pathology and was secretly an idiot or - worse, just screwing with me. steve34 was responsible for a very lengthy e-mail delving into the characters featured in COL and, as much as e-mails that compare me to my characters usually freak me out, it's nice to know that a person can find your characters so real that they feel a need to get into them further - to better understand.

Of course, one can scarcely mention great reviewers without giving a nod to timeturner, PhoenixStorm, and Crystal Allen all of whom, at various times, have followed my stories and left great reviews.

All in all, thanks to everyone who has reviewed and, here's hoping, to everyone who will review in the future.

Latest Project

Merry Christmas Accomplishments

Okay, so I made a blend...if I tell you it was my New Years Resolution to learn, would you believe me?

Trojan Man

Well, here's some good news for you - McAfee Spam Advisor gives me the thumbs up.

Soooo Many Updates

So it's been a while since I gave an update and lots of things have been done since then :)

A new sub-gallery was added to my avatars gallery that, at the moment, houses quite a few Grey's Anatomy Icons. The icons there are made from the Grey's bases I made and released yesterday. Which, did I mention, oodles of Grey's Anatomy Icon Bases. These are from episodes 3.01 - The Time Has Come Today and 3.02 - I Am A Tree. There are a ton and there are more to come as the episodes come out.

This is a pretty late announcement, but speaking of icons made from my bases (how many speaking of which's can I put in one post?), I finaly got around to taking my Gilmore Girls bases and creating the usual episodic icons from them. A link to the lot from episode 7.01 - The Long Morrow can be found here.

Lastly, in addition to all of that, I was bored and tinkering with a blend. (Of late, i've made it my mission to be able to make them - i've never been any good at blends in their true form. They seem pointless and we all know how well i deal with that.) Anyway, I decided to turn it into a desktop because - duh - that's what I do...plus, Logan is so dreamy :P In any case, the desktop can be accessed in four formats here.

Keep your eyes peeled for bases and icons from GG 7.02 - That's What You Get Folks, For Makin' Whoopie later on this week and, of course, Grey's Anatomy Bases and possibly icons after the episode airs.

44 and a Quarter!

I come, today, at least, to bring good tidings!

No, all right, I haven't made any updates to Cheeky Resources or Cheeky Graphics or deviantART to speak of and, true, I haven't found anything new to feature as of yet, but I do have good news...I just don't have all of the details yet :P

Go read the Wall Street Journal or, I suppose, you could wait until I get back and edit this with more details.

[Wall Street Journal: Rewriting The Rules of Fiction]

You may not be able to see the many many interviews with several of the HPFF staffers, but they're in there.

A Little Deviant

A few days ago, bored out of my mind, I decided to play a little bit with vector and wandered out a new deviation. Not good, by any means, and surely not my best work but, hey, at least I did it, right?

It was fun and i'm now inspired to do something with my software, which is good since i've been fighting the worst kind of block for a while now - boredum.