Like many Pre-OG Trilogy characters of Star Wars.
The 7th-Sister & the Inquisitors are THROW AWAY CHARACTERS where I have NOT typed nearly as much as I'D LIKE.
About WHY You have to be mindful of WHAT YOU ARE MAKING & ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT WHEN YOU SELECT ONE MOMENT IN YOUR STORYVERSE-TIMELINE...!?

You'd better AT LEAST have an INKLING of what was BEFORE THIS POINT, otherwise?

You end up CREATING CHARACTERS & SUCH THAT END UP BEING BETTER THAN WHAT YOU ACTUALLY GAINED ATTENTION FOR.

You also RAT-OUT the FACT that since these PREQUEL-BASED CHARACTERS-&-CONCEPTS WERE NOT IN THE ORIGINAL-WORK YOU CREATED, then...?

The Audience HAS TO TRICK THEMSELVES INTO PRETENDING LIKE THEY DON'T KNOW THAT THE PREQUEL-BASED PEOPLE WON'T HAVE TO BE GOTTEN RID OF, thus making Them, THROWAWAY CHARACTERS...!

This was why Darth Maul WAS KILLED OFF THE WAY HE WAS in the Phantom Menace Movie, because Lucas knew ON SOME LEVEL. 
Since HE IS NEVER MENTIONED AT ALL IN THE ORIGINAL-TRILOGY...!?

He can't REPEAT THE MISTAKE HE MADE WITH BOBA FETT & MAKE HIM TOO COOL TO BE FORGOTTEN ABOUT, annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd, of course that is EXACTLY WHAT HE DID.

-_-
 
Right now I am coloring Empress Shekoku the 1st using this music.
Just needed to stop by here to post that AND NOW!?
​Lemme get back to it...!

   So here is a progress-report on My Usage of the Corel PaintShop Pro 2022 Version alongside the Corel Painter Essentials 8 graphics-arts programs by Corel.
   Lemme start by making it clear I AM NOT A GRAPHICS-ARTIST.
   I have ZERO TRAINING in the Usage of Graphics-Arts Programs, and to quote My Middle-Brother, because yes, I have MORE Sworn-Brothers aside from just Youngest-Brother now passed.
   Middle-Brother pointed out this weekend that when these programs first came out?
   We only used them TO TOUCH UP OUR FINISHED ARTWORKS, not to do ENTIRE PIECES OF ART ONLY USING THE GRAPHICS-ARTS PROGRAMS THEMSELVES.
   I've found it VERY INTERESTING as I've been going back-&-forth FIGURING OUT & READING UP ON, how ANY OF THIS WORKS.
   I've ALREADY MADE UP MY MIND that My Works will be a COMBINATION of Traditional-&-Graphics Arts, so of course the first thing I wanted to do was EXPERIMENT and do so WITH AS LITTLE FORMAL-INFO ON WHAT IS WHAT & WHY, now I DO NEED TO POINT OUT!!!!!
   I have USED photoshop in the past & I already detailed in previous postings that  used to have Adode Photoshop, one of THE VERY LAST DISK-BASED VERSION, on the Ole Desktop that got stolen by the Slumlady-&-Slumlord when I was renting from them at the Slumhouse!
   So I do have SOME LIMITED KNOWLEDGE of Layering, etc., where I learned all of that THROUGH TRIAL-&-ERROR, just as I am doing now.
​   So here is simply a Black-&-White of the MTA-1 that I am using as a guinea pig to test & learn these Corel-programs:

   So now here is the color version:

   Note that there is NO POLISH to the color-version like the B&W above it and that's because I didn't go in & clean the white-background using Paint-3D, like I did with the B&W, NOW!?
   Here is where I STOPPED, yesterday, again, using the Corel-Programs:

   So THERE YOU HAVE IT!!!!!
   It's 6:52am EST, so I have to HEAD OUT to the Dayjob!
   I'll be back TONIGHT TO POST MORE UPDATES!
   I'll let the Vile-Eye close out this post, be sure to check out His Youtube-channel here:

   So I've been testing these Corel Photosuite Programs, ranging from the PaintShop Pro 2022 to Painter Essentials 8 and a number of others.
   The 1st-thing is the Fact that, AS I FEARED, this Silver Laptop's graphics card needs to be replaced. That is already slated for NEXT MONTH'S AGENDA, however!?
   THE GOLD LAPTOP, is slated TO BE BROUGHT BACK UP & RUNNING, THIS MONTH!
   Now? 
   What's important to that is because the Gold Laptop HAS A BRAND NEW VIDEO CARD ALREADY IN IT...!
   The Gold Laptop is the Laptop that was used to get MOST OF THIS WEBSITE UP & RUNNING & is the one that I had where the OS crashed & burned, destroying years of work, as the info was UNRETRIEVABLE.
   -_-
   Mind You, I forgot that THIS WAS A MAJOR EVEN THAT COST ME LITERAL YEARS OF TIME. 
   My OLD DESKTOP?
   Had an OLD Photoshop program on it which I used to touch-up & finish THIS DRAWING:

   And all these are?
   Are simple lens flare effects from that program.
   That Desktop was stolen by the Slum Lady & Slum Lord when I was trying to leave from the Slumhouse that I was renting a room from.
   They didn't like the Fact that I was completely honest with Them when I pointed out to Them that I was only stuck RENTING A ROOM FROM THEM?
   Because I couldn't find a Dayjob fast enough to pay for My Then, HINTERLANDS-APARTMENT in Upper Darby, so...?
   Instead of simply ACCEPTING that I couldn't, I kept trying to find a NEW DAYJOB THAT WOULD PAY ME ENOUGH TO KEEP MY HINTERLANDS-APARTMENT, instead of simply accepting my situation & spending My Time LOOKING FOR SOMEPLACE WITHIN THE PAY RANGE FOR THE DAYJOB I HAD AT THAT TIME, which was A WENDY'S.
   And specifically, it was the Wendy's on 69th Street in Upper Darby.
   The Slum Lady-&-Slum Lord thought I was another one of THEIR USUAL BLACK-AMERICAN VICTIMS, as far as renting goes.
   But the moment I started moving in all kinds of computer shit & such & then ALWAYS PAID ON TIME & SPENT MY TIME UP IN MY ROOM.
   Focused on REACHING THIS POINT I'M AT NOW, well...?
   When I said IT WAS TIME FOR ME TO GO...!?
   I was thee ONLY TENANT ACTUALLY PAYING THEM.
   -_-
   So they WEREN'T KEEN ON ME FINDING OUT THEY WEREN'T EVEN LEGAL AS A ROOMING HOUSE, so I told Them simply cut My Rent in half, I'll pay that for 2 months & then BE GONE, nah.
   BECAUSE CRIMINALS GONNA CRIMINAL!!!!!
   So in the End THEY STOLE MY DESKTOP.
   So the programs I just got ARE LITERALLY BRAND NEW & IT WASN'T LIKE I'D BEEN USING THE DESKTOP PROGRAM FOR ANYTHING INTRICATE, so!?
   I'm LITERALLY RELEARNING FROM SCRATCH!
​   So today I was testing around with the Painter Essential Program & did some basic shit:

   I worked on the eyes & tried to regain My Footing with LAYERING.
​   Then I moved on to coloring the Face....

   SPOILER ALERT!!!!!
   It is NOT GOOD FOR ME to do this kind of work ON A LITTLE-ASS LAPTOP SCREEN LIKE I'VE BEEN DOING DURING THE DAYJOB...!
   My Eyes HAVE NOT BEEN HAPPY WITH ME.
   But as You can see I filled in the fangs, the whites of her eyes are now light-yellows!
   So on & so forth!
   Then I decided to do some body-work coloring of her hardpoints & filling out fur & working on her ears & such...! 

   So that's a QUICK-UPDATE!!!!
   My Dinner is here, so I need to eat.
   And get some actual sleep with Auto-waking & having to go in to the Dayjob....

   So I've been typing to You about the Fact that I got a lotta concept-artwork inked since Youngest Brother's Death, yet I haven't shown You a shred of proof of what I've typed, until this morning.
​   For starters let's QUICKLY take a look at the completed 1st MTA-1 drawing which has been inked-&-colored:

   The MTA-1 is the STANDARD Mount-Type Abomination of Mun-Da's Sumarpanga-Forces.
   They're military-mounts & are LITERALLY a completely NEW RACE OF BEAST-TYPE MOUNTS, created by Mun-Da through his own work of taking various biomatter-materials from the Feral-Tribes of Wild-Asses that he's had to contend with since coming to Snowcrest-Mountains.
   So once I did the 1st-Drawing I decided to go on ahead & do another drawing & this time, because I actually drew this 1st-drawing ON LITERALLY, TWO SEPARATE PIECES OF PAPER!?
   Once I got the GENERAL GIST of what they looked like.
   WHY THEY LOOKED THE WAY THEY LOOK.
   WHICH WILD-ASSES WERE USED TO EVEN CREATE THEM.
   And?
   How long did it take Mun-Da to FINALLY FINISH THEM, then...?
   I decided to actually do a 2nd-drawing ON ONE SHEET OF PAPER THIS TIME.
​   This of course led to this 2nd-Drawing:

   So once I got this one done then of course I went on ahead & started working on the next piece of concept-artwork & this 2nd-drawing sat & sat & sat & sat & sat & SAT, until last month.
   I typed about this in Yesterday's post, regarding how Death can be a sobering & motivating thing. I gave an OVERARCHING-ASSESSMENT that You are either working TOWARDS OR AWAY FROM WHATEVER YOU CLAIM YOUR GOALS ARE.
   In the same way that We are all either WORKING TOWARDS OR AWAY FROM WHO WE CLAIM TO BE.
   But I didn't really get into any the Guts regarding SPECIFIC-DETAILS THAT SUPPORT THE OVERARCHING POINT I MADE.
   I have typed over the Years that my MAIN THING HAS ALWAYS BEEN JUST GETTING ALL OF THESE CONCEPTS OUT OF MY HEAD & THEN ONTO SOME SORT PHYSICAL-TANGIBLE MEANS SO THAT THEY CAN BE SEEN & READ ABOUT...!
   I've also typed consistently that TIME IS CRITICAL IN BEING ABLE TO DO THAT.
   No Time?
   Then One has to FIND THE TIME, meanwhile!?
   ALL OF YOUR IDEAS ARE BATTLING TO GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD & ONTO PAPER, COMPUTER, ETC.-ETC.!!!!!
   You then HAVE TO CORRECTLY SORT OUT WHO GETS PRIORITY INTO BEING MADE INTO A PHYSICAL-TANGIBLE ANYTHING, to be read &/or viewed!
   Note that I type from the perspective of ACKNOWLEDGING THAT MY IDEAS HAVE A LIFE OF THEIR OWN.
   I have been told IN THE PAST, that THIS IS WHY I'VE BEEN EFFECTIVE-AFFECTIVE, and I used both because I've LITERALLY HAD IT THROWN IN MY FACE BY READER/S, who DIDN'T LIKE THE END RESULT/S OF SOME CHARACTERS, because they'd become attached & invested & the character/s, died.
   Yet even as they were PISSED OFF AT ME, they ADMITTED that what happened!?
   AND WHY.
   AND HOW!?!?!?
   ....?
   Actually made sense.
   It wasn't shock value.
   It was jury-rigged.
   It was...?
   Based on the Reality of the World, Storyverse, I'd created.
   Mind You I have an Eternals-storyline script that keeps barging into My Brain where I actually shared it with a Dayjob coworker who literally said "Holy shit THAT WOULD'VE BEEN A GREAT FUCKIN MOVIE!!!!!"
   -_-
   "Why...? Are You working here...?"
   Then They remember & simply admit that They would RATHER RISK WHATEVER HAPPENS, than continue to do what I have been doing, HOWEVER!?!?!?
   This too fits into what I am typing to You about now & TIES DIRECTLY INTO THE OVERARCHING POINTS I MADE YESTERDAY & REMIND YOU OF THIS MORNING!!!!!\
   It is ALSO WHY I typed the Fact THAT IF MY TYPING ABOUT RACE BOTHERS YOU THEN YOU NEED TO LEAVE.
   Because THE REASON WHY I have BEEN EFFECTIVE & AFFECTIVE...!?
   Is BECAUSE I LIVE IN THE REAL WORLD & HAVE ZERO-INTEREST IN CREATING A BUNCH OF LIES TO MAKE WHITES OR ANYONE ELSE FEEL COMFORTABLE ABOUT ANYTHING THAT IS HARMFUL TO MY RACE, note!?
   That by TYPING THAT!?
   I AUTOMATICALLY.
   Ahem, AUTOMATICALLY!!!!!
   INCLUDE MYSELF.
   Thus the reason why My Sentence just now SAID HARMFUL TO MY RACE, thus, BY DEFAULT, I AM INCLUDED & DON'T NEED TO TYPE THAT PART OUT.
   -_-
   You'd be AMAZED how many present-day Black-Americans & Black-People IN GENERAL, HONESTLY MISS THAT FACT, now?!
   Coming back around to zero in on My Point of this Post...!?

   My Own seemingly RANDOM hoping around FROM CHARACTER TO CHARACTER & STORYLINE TO STORYLINE HAS NEVER BEEN RANDOM, which I typed about from Day-1 & have come back to from time-to-time to remind You, where I am PAINFULLY.
   PAINFULLY-AWARE...!
   That having pages up on here WITH NO ACTIVITY MAKES IT SEEM LIKE I'M OVER HERE FUCKIN AROUND, but now You have read in this post what I have always been typing about.
   GETTING OUT OF THIS SHIT OUT OF MY HEAD WITH ZERO HELP IS UNGODLY TIME-CONSUMING & IT COMES AT A MASSIVE COST WHEN ALL FACTORS ARE TALLIED UP & ATTRIBUTED TO ME & MY BEHAVIORS-ACTIONS OVER THE YEARS...!!!!!
   Youngest Brother's Death?
   Is A DIRECT RESULT of ME, TAKING TOO LONG TO REACH THIS POINT WHERE I CAN SAFELY KEEP THE OVERACHING STORYVERSE INTACT AS YEARS GO FORWARD FROM NOW.
   This too has been typed about by Me throughout the existence of this website.
   Where what does this have to do with the concept-artwork & the 2nd-drawing of the MTA-1...!?
   ...
   Everything.
   Because as I've ALSO TYPED BEFORE?!
   If I don't GET THE GENERIC-BASIC STOCK-CHARACTERS & PEOPLE OUT OF MY HEAD & INTO ONTO A TANGIBLE PHYSICAL FINISHED MEDIUM...!?
   Then based off of HOW I CREATE?
   I can't make A REALISTIC WORLD FOR WHICH THE MAIN-&-SUB CHARACTERS EXIST IN.
   Because it is THE EVERYDAY MUNDANE, BACKGROUND-PEOPLE & PLACES, THAT MAKE ANY STORYVERSE ACTUALLY WORK OR FAIL!
   And as I have already typed, this comes at a Cost.
   And whether I like it or not, whether it is a good or bad element-&-aspect of who I am as a person...?

   I have always paid the Cost.
   For Better.
   Or Worse....

   From Philadelphia.
   Death...?
   Mortality...?
   The Death of Loved Ones...?
   The Death of Those You Know...?
   Your Own eventual Death?
   The Eventuality of Death occurring to those You HAVE KNOWN, and those You WISH TO SEE & ARE WORKING TOWARDS...? 

   When...?
   Properly used...?
   Death.
   Can be a truly powerful & motivating...?
   Thing.
   Or Event.
   That really makes You understand that while One may want to make sure I's are dotted & T's are crossed, Death...?
   Is Inevitable.
   And can & will strike anyone, or anything, at any time.
   I type this not to be morbid nor to be morose due to the Death of My Youngest Brother, but...?
   To simply let You see my own thought process right now & get a glimpse into why I have been able to get this far in Life, whereas others I knew & grew up with, have long since died.
   They always found My Ability, to accept the finiteness, the Fragility, of Life, HUMAN.
   Life.
   They always found My "Matter of Factness", a bit disturbing, however...!?
​   Whenever I was charged with the Stewardship of having to come up with plans for what We needed to do...?

   Then...?
   They understood that to be able to come up with the Ideas & strategies that We would employ, then...?
   The one thing You CAN'T BE, is Unrealistic.
   I've typed about it over the last few posts, but it is something that is Inescapable, and Inevitable.
   You will either commit to what You Claim, or...?
   You will ultimately never reach Your Goal/s.
   And then You Die.
   And that is It.

   You either run towards Your Goals.
   Or You run away from Them.
   It really doesn't matter in what means & measures You decide to do either one, because at the End of the Day?
   You are either moving TOWARDS.
   Or AWAY FROM.
   What You claim Your Goal/s are.
   WHO YOU CLAIM YOU ARE.
   It's not complicated.
   I'm not typing anything deep.
   These are simply Facts.
   You are either working TOWARDS.
   Or AWAY FROM.
   Your Goals.
   You are either working TOWARDS OR AWAY FROM, who YOU CLAIM TO BE.
   So!?
   With these Facts in Mind?
   I immediately started moving faster towards My Goals.
   And one of the 1st-Steps in that was picking up-paying for Corel's PaintShop Pro 2021.
   I've been spending the last few days fucking around with it & getting accustomed to this program.
   To say it's been interesting is an understatement.
   And I'm ungodly rusty, never mind that I am using a mouse to do my work, but I'm working nonetheless, because it is time.
   And that's what I needed to cover in this post.
   I've finally gone on ahead & purchased a graphics arts program and I will be looking at some other ones where, because I have multiple laptops?
   I may put a DIFFERENT graphics arts program on the Gold Laptop, while leaving Corel on this Silver Laptop.
   That doesn't include the Fact that I meant what I typed.

   The New Custom Built Desktop is still coming.
   I have NOT typed about the Fact that I ALREADY HAVE SOME OF THE COMPONENT PARTS.
   I'm going to have to seriously go over tutorials & such to REALLY GET INTO THE GUTS of these graphic-arts programs from Corel, because I got an entire bundle-set & not just the PaintShop Pro Program from Them.
   One of the Programs...?
   Involves animation.
   So with all of this typed...?
   Lemme get moving.
   And welcome to The End of 2021....