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Yes, it's a gladiator with an iPad. Don't ask me where it came from...for these Daily Doodles, I tend to just put pen to tablet and start drawing.
Actually wait, I do know where the gladiator came from. Jeff & I recently bought a PS3 Move Controller that came with a Sports Challenge game. To my surprise, I -love- the Gladiator challenge! It's way fun, wielding a shield and a sword, and bashing about my opponents in an arena. Good exercise and even a little therapeutic.
As for the iPad, well...I ALWAYS have iPads on the brain. :-D
Overall, I still love Squarespace. I just wish they were more forthcoming about when the next major release is going to be (almost couple of years in the works already, apparently). So far I'm finding Squarespace far more solid and unbreakable than Wordpress. One of its major failings, however: poor handling of spam. I'm spending more and more time moderating spam comments. AUGH.
Supposedly this will be addressed in the next release, but I can't get anyone to tell me when this will be. Even if it's going to be THIS YEAR or not. Keep getting responses from Squarespace like the following:
Squarespace v6 is underway like you wouldn't believe, but unfortunately, we can't disclose what we have in store but it's going to be HUGE. We wish we could disclose it but it's gonna be years ahead of the competitors so we don't want to give away our secrets ;)
Sigh.
Oh Squarespace, don't you realize how good customer communication breeds loyalty? Treat us like adults.
See my post about how/why I created this illustration in the SCBWI Illustration Mentees Blog.
My illustrator Beckett Gladney and I have a private online sketchbook where we each post our drawings. Here's one I posted today.