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Assassin's Creed II owns my soul . As I've been telling Annette: this is the most fun I've had with a game since Metal Gear Solid 3 , and I was obsessed with that game! --------- S P O I L E R --------- I think I'm making pretty good time in AC2; Ezio's arrived in Venice with Leonardo, and I had to save this brutally ungrateful chick. So far, I've acquired four of the six assassin's seal and completed the renovations at the villa (which means I have money to burn). I've been able to buy the best armour and weapons that I could get at this point in the game. The only time I was actually stuck was during the Altaïr sequence. I was at it for nearly an hour before giving up and looking for answers on Youtube (what?!). Fortunately, that was the only time I got frustrated, although looking for the assassin's seal in Forli had me cursing quite a bit. Other than a few hiccups, I've been amazed with this game. It looks superb, the ...

And guess who's one of the artists? I admit I completely forgot about the book until I saw ArtSquared 's tweet this morning. Anyway, I wrote a tutorial which was published in the first Digital Painters book, and I wanted to write another one for the latest release, but I kept postponing it until there was little time left and I still had to do some last-minute stuff for the paintings I wanted to submit for publishing. Also, I've been talking about writing tutorials for ages now, but I will post several here. To start with, I'll be posting the edited version of the tutorial I wrote for the first Digital Painters book. I hope that will help me get over my tutorial-writing nerves :p UPDATE 2012: Sadly ArtSquared and Rage Publishing have closed up shop.

I have just updated Disanthus with new art, but it has resulted in my wanting to do a serious HULK SMASH!! *fumes* As I was saying to Annette this weekend, the gallery codes really need to be redone. Hopefully this will happen in the near future, and I believe Annette has a few ideas. Oh, yes, Annette does exist. She is not a figment of my imagination. It's just that I'm the Drama Queen in the Disanthus realm. Anyway, the portrait is another character from Deanna Raybourn 's Silent series. So for those who haven't read the book, Valerius March is the youngest brother of the main character who appears in the first book ( Silent in the Grave ) and the third ( Silent on the Moor ). Hope you guys like it :)

Years ago, this sit e was one of my favourite places to visit. I found them on Twitter recently and I'm so happy that I did. So whenever I need a good laugh, this will be the place to go for some hilarity. Go and check out Engrish . Com Here are a few examples: Nokia ... Asian style Need to escape the office? Here's a way The things you can buy these days ... This lunch just might be your last meal And many more LOL's to be found at Engrish.

I have recently made a Twitter account, so I'm a total n00b. It's typing micro-messages and sending them into the void. I feel like I'm trying to establish contact with the paranormal. Weird, but fun. Also, Bengals were quite soundly beaten by the Jets, which makes me want to smash my head against the wall.

I badly wanted a good Christmas wallpaper for my desktop, but I couldn't find one that I liked. Plus, I have a full-screen, and that made my choices even more limited. So I decided to paint a speedy one in Photoshop for my wallpaper, and it turned out nicer than I thought ... if I do say so myself, of course. Also, I've never done a Christmas-related painting, not even a doodle. It's Holiday-themed, but nothing blatant :p About the wallpapers: plug them all you like, but please do not redistribute them elsewhere. Thanks :) Wallpaper preview : Happy Christmas! ♣ Doris

... but now Disanthus.Com has been resurrected. There are new paintings in the gallery, of course, including a few that have been posted here, then disappeared, but now they've finally made it to their new home ^_^ The ninth version of Disanthus is relatively simple, and we've truly trimmed down on all the excess stuff we've had with the previous designs, and this includes all the codes we didn't really need. In fact, I think this is actually the first time that we are managing with a single CSS file O_O Amazing. I would like to create some kind of mini site for all our old stuff eventually. But that's for another time. It's December, you know.