Cactus Codex

Pony blogger, actual cactus, artist, writer, computer scientist, and linguist. New Jersey / Pennsylvania | 21 | male, he/him/his | asexual hispanic | Cereus repandus, or Peruvian apple cactus

Whenever I seem to talk about “my blogs,” I tend to only mention Post Crusade and Ponyville Diaries and not Ask Rain Catcher.

And though my relationship with that blog is complicated, it’s not because I don’t like RC.

It’s mainly because I’m only the writer, while Sam is the artist. We both share the work on it so I don’t feel comfortable referring it as solely “my blog” anymore.

Like I wouldn’t consider Sweetie Belle’s B&B as “my blog” because it’s a group project with other people working on it as well.

It really shouldn’t be a surprise that people with radical/extreme thoughts and ideas agree with or even support other people with similarly radical/extreme thoughts and ideas.

And yet I’m still surprised. Every time.

And the more it happens, the more disappointing it gets.

Resolutions 2015

This year is a critical year because it will be the last year before I make to the move to college.

So I reeeeeeeally need to get shit done.

  • Get somewhat close to the end of PC Story 2
  • Get somewhat close to the end of “Mailfilly” series in the new Diaries revision
  • Bonus: Create an honorary “start” of PC since it has never got a formal intro.

And maybe something else on the side

  • Make my first $800 dollars working a job
  • Lose 25 pounds
  • Ace the shit out my final semester of high school
  • Visit chaotic-conundrums in PA
  • Bronycon, perhaps.

It’s a long shot, but I think I can at least get half of these things done. 

On the topic of self-evaluating my art style, there’s this.

The way I draw with tons of layers was designed to be easy to edit characters for comic panels, kinda like puppet rigging in Flash. This involves a lot of transforming (moving, rotating, and resizing layers).

But SAI does a thing where the more you transform a layer, the lower the quality it attains, creating these annoying fuzzy edges coupled with a dark line that runs along them. The line can be erased with an opacity lock + brush passover, but the fuzziness remains and gets worse with more transforming and soon I’d have to redraw the layer.

I’m handicapped to SAI so I really can’t avoid this, but even after years of drawing in it, this quality drop still pisses me off.

I wonder if this happens in Photoshop, too…