My blogs with mine tags.
03.11
∞ I’ll Stick My TFOOT In Your THEAD.
Nerd Alert. I’ve been writing HTML since I was 12, so I figured by now I had learned it all, but while cleaning up a website with W3C validator, my mind was blown by some old school <table> knowledge.
Lately, I’ve started making heavy use of <thead>, <tbody>, and <tfoot> to easily stylize any data tables I’m working with. I had always assumed to put a few <thead> blocks at the top, a few <tfoot> blocks at the bottom, and call it a day. NO! I was totally wrong and creating W3C errors out the butt.
Based on the rules (of at least XHTML 1.0 Transitional), you can only declare one <thead> and one <tfoot> block. Both <thead> and <tfoot> must come before <tbody>, so they can render before any data. The <tfoot> block will be appended to the end of the table (as expected) by the browser.
And just to finish up our <table> lesson, you can have as many <tbody> blocks as you want, as long as they come after <thead> and <tfoot>.
If you read to the end of this, kudos. You are either a designer in some facet or you hate your life. Please don’t write me any manifestos.
10.29
∞ 
I’m Starting To Feel We Stayed Together Out Of Fear.
Sometimes we leave the ones we love for foolish missions we never wanted to accomplish in the first place. The dangers of always searching and never feel content can destroy the ones around you if you let it.
This piece was a good break from life. It was an old sketch I had found on my hard drive and I went about updating it to a higher resolution and painting it. Cathartic at the least.
10.06
∞ 
Beached Tanker.
I had been working up the courage to paint again for a long while. I had gotten out of the habit and the fears and weaknesses build up as time goes to infinite. I thought I’d start simple by re-imagining a previous work that I never quite enjoyed.
Originally, the posture was all wrong, all of the chains were loose, and the monster wasn’t really fighting against anything. The pose was too compact and the legs were off. Honestly, it looks more scared than intimidating.
So I attempted to angle the pose, move the feet, arms, and jaws into a more menacing pose, and had all the straps go behind him. I also wanted to play around with the thirds rule and pastel coloring. The original is at 12 x 18 so I hope to print it and put it amongst a collection of some older sketches.
I kind of see myself coming back to this again. I’m currently intimidated to take it out of its roughness. I worry the addition of details will reveal its flaws.
