Another quick update, since I'm still too busy to sit and prepare a full on blog post. Been really busy, too busy, to bother paying attention to the priorities in my life lower down on the list (sorry, but this is definitely nowhere near the top). School has kept me busy enough this quarter, and a lil' someone (the same lil' someone who thought this design needed more cock) has been occupying more of my time.
Anywho, I paid my eldest sister a visit about a week ago, wearing one of my t-shirts (with a design I've yet to blog about) so the conversation headed in that direction and I was reminded that I had promised my nephew one. Specifically the [...] t-shirt, which was one of my very first ideas (and the first I attempted, before realizing that it didn't fall within the strict standards for vector designs on Spreadshirt). So, with that brought to my attention (I have a hard time with letting kids down) I've rededicated myself to getting the design to work, so that I can get him the t-shirt that I promised!
My sleep cycle is thoroughly fucked at the moment (thanks to the same aforementioned things that have been keeping me occupied), so I planned to come home and pass out, last night after class, but instead I sat and started roughing out some ideas on paper. I felt like I had it down, after 7 or 8 sketches, so I got it scanned, digitized, and dropped into Photoshop for a quick crop of the specific rough that I wanted to work on top of, in Illustrator. And then...something happened.
Basically, I'd recently updated my touchpad (Yes, I'm seriously working off of a laptop touchpad. Will purchase my own tablet later) driver, and it reset all of my settings, so I went through, quickly, and set everything as it was before (I HATE IT when a touchpad can be used to click. I cannot stand that!). Or, so I thought.
So, with the freshly cropped image dropped into Illustrator to work over, I zoomed in and attempted to move the image around to survey the landscape and get a good idea for how I would do this, and to find a good spot to start off on....but it wasn't moving. Now, I don't like having to press "H" to choose the "Hand tool". I prefer having whatever tool it is that I'm using and holding the space bar to quickly switch it to the hand tool, and then letting go of the space bar when I'm done to have it revert back to my previous tool. But when I would go about it in that manner, it wasn't working. Holding the space bar caused the pointer to freeze in place. I fought with it for a while, going through tool settings to try to resolve the issue myself among other things, to no avail. So after much frustration I gave Adobe a call...
WELL...after a total of 63 minutes and 27 seconds (I wish I was lying, this is so embarrassing), the nice Adobe support specialist, after telling me shut down Illustrator and having me attempt to move the mouse around while holding down any key, and making me realize that it wasn't the program, kindly directed me to call my computer's manufacturer, as this seemed like an issue with the computer itself, completely unrelated to Illustrator. Well, after 32 minutes on the phone with them, I learned about a little option, called "TouchCheck" (something I'm sure Bobby Boucher's mother would rightly refer to as The Devil), which locks the pointer from being moved while any key is held down. Yep... That's all it was. Nice, huh? By the time I got done with all of that being put on hold, troubleshooting, and direct-connecting through the internet I was freaking done, so I called it a night.
Still, I'm kinda excited about getting this design done. It will actually be my first (public, these don't count!) spider design, and with a shop named "Tarantulas" I probably need about 20 more of those!
(*reads back over blog*...)
Wwww-OW! Some much for that "quick update", huh? That's why I gotta try to stay off of these rants that I jump into. It's not good, in the interest of time. Well, that's about as much as I should have written for that one. So with that, I leave you. Carry on.
J, out
