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Happy Family Day!

So if you live in Ontario then you know that today we had a new holiday this year for today.  It was Family Day.  Now I’m all for a new reason to not go to work but it seemed a bit of a joke really.  I mean to have Family Day near the end Feb when the weather is crappy and/or cold so you can’t really go out and enjoy the outside with your family, then to make it an actual holiday so stores are closed and you can’t do anything seems a bit odd.  But meh…

So what did I do?  Spent time with the family of course.  Made banana, chocolate pancakes for breakfast.  Played with the kids.  Cleaned out the fish tank (they’re family too) and my wife made a full turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, veggie and an apple crumble pie.  Yum. ^_^

Not bad for a first ever Family day.  The weather sucked but you can only do so much.

What did you do for Family Day ^_^

Just a quick one today.

Family still sick. We seem to be taking turns as to who is going to feel crappy. Today is was the youngest. I hope he feels better tomorrow. Nothing is worse then seeing your kids sick.

Poor guy.

We’re all tired. Going to bed.

Good night.

Just a quick one today.

Family still sick. We seem to be taking turns as to who is going to feel crappy. Today is was the youngest. I hope he feels better tomorrow. Nothing is worse then seeing your kids sick.

Poor guy.

We’re all tired. Going to bed.

Good night.

Street fighter 4 has been announced.  Everyone in the game world knows this by now.  If not then, come out from under your rock and see what you’ve missed.

Now I’ll be the first to stand in line an proclaim my love for Street Fighter.  I remember why back in high school I would wander down to the corner store and play it’s hack version of SF2.  I actually never knew it was a hack until years later.  It played just like a regular version.  No cheats or crazy stuff but it did have some art missing.  Anyway, I would go and play that machine every freak’n time I had.  I bought every version on the SNES and went crazy for the Alpha series.  Then Street Fighter 3 came along.  It was truly Street Fighter perfected.  The art, the animation, the tight controls and balanced game play.  Perfect.

So now that there’s number 4 you would think that I’m super happy.  Sadly I am not.  The more I see of SF4 the less I’m impressed with it.  But I tell myself, self… it’ll be awesome.  It’ll be tight.  It’ll be Street Fighter.  But I can’t shake the early feelings that I have for this game.

It makes me sad that it’s gone 3D.  I personally think the 3D look ridiculous.  The backgrounds and environments are very nice, but the characters lack that certain quality that the 2D had.  I also remember seeing an interview with some of the development team and they said they felt that they took 2D as far as it could go with the series.  I don’t believe this to be true for a moment and it brings a tear to my eye when I think about it.  What also bugs me is the fact that they’ve brought back the whole crew from SF2.  This kind of thing never bothered me before.  All the different versions of SF2 in the past never got my goat, but this time… come on.  SF3 saw a new cast and it was great!  We can’t go back now!  It’s like Capcom is remaking SF2 in 3D but throwing in some new characters and calling it number 4.  Even the new environments are takes on the old SF2 ones.

Sigh… maybe I’m just too hardcore for my own good.  Maybe I’m taking it too personal.  Naw!  SF4 will be a great game I’m sure, but it just doesn’t get my vote.  I’ll sit here and play my SF3 thank you.

2D forever!

hack, hack…

I’m sick.  I’ve actually been sick for about 2 weeks now but I thought I was on the mend but I woke up today and felt like crap again.  I’ve already taken two days off from work so I’m glad it the weekend and I can try to get some rest.

suck.

I’m going to bed.  Good night…

Okay… so taking the advice of so many people I’d like to extend a huge thanks to everyone watching my art, those that have faved it and all the comments. I just don’t possibly have the time to go and thank everyone, I’ve tried in the past and it’s just too much so I hope that no one is insulted that I’ve not responded to them.

In all honesty I never would have imagined that what I draw would gather so much attention from so many people. I feel especially honoured when people message me to say that I was the one the influenced them to draw. That’s a total shocker since and really makes me feel good. So here’s a HUGE should out to everyone out there that has followed my art since the beginning and those just finding me. Thank you. You’ve all made it more fun to draw what I draw then I ever could have imagined. You’ve all help to give ideas and support when I’ve been slumping (which has been a lot lately).

So thanks again everyone.

You’ve made it real ^_^

Sorry I have no Valentines pic.