Jewelry making.... What! There's actually a craft that has gotten my interest! From one who's rarely ever been willing to put in any time crafting anything, I'm hoping this might be... dare I say... fun? I hope the process isn't too tedious and the results worthwhile.

the inside of my head isn't THAT scary!

LOL, you know I kid you.

Anyway, it's interesting to know that I use those very same two apps for 99% of my hand drawn art. I can't make myself pay for a full version of Painter even though I'd love to have it. I use Photoshop mostly too just because I know it best. What I really like about painter is the watercolor brush effects that I haven't found a way to do in Photoshop. Artrage is really nice too but I hate that it's limited to screen resolution making it not ideal for my commercial work.

A lot of people like to use canned brush effects and textures and other automatic stuff in their Photoshop work, but I prefer to have everything made by my own hand so I mostly stay away from all the filters or things I feel I could not do on an actual canvas other than a little color shifting. I don't hold anything against people who do use all that's available, but personally, I like to know that my art is all made by me, not some fire or leaf or lightning etc., automatic texture effects.

All your art that I've seen appears to be totally you too, something I obviously like.

Thanks as always for all your greatly appreciated commenting on my sketchy art and it's really good to see how characters like Fyrre are lovingly remembered long after their last game login!

Your art skills amaze me every time I look through this thread!

I really enjoy your style Dannae,
and I'm glad I was able to successfully lobby the players for your return! Yay!
We need more Dannaes in the world

  you all!

Love the expression and spazzy hand gesture, Dannae! This is wicked. 

TY, makes me so happy she's seen as I intended.

Thanks for drawing Fyrre with level 10 Intelligence, Dannae!

I draw 'em as I see 'em!  Of course, before I get corrected, I know the character is really smart once others got to know her, but she was also played as incredibly naive and so could give a first impression of simple mindedness which is the fun aspect I was attempting to portray.

Well, seems a freakin’ sneaky yulbar somehow found me and and suggestted I needed to have a look in here… had to laugh about what’s happened to my old thread!

…and so, to get things back on topic, guess I need to post something…

I agree with Siteya, Jaycol... nice collection of Yliakum history!

I'm unsure how accurate it is for the appearances and kinds of gifts given. I was only aware there had been a few days of appearances during one winter before the next one in which my character was present. The first winter appearances were the ones where I'd heard tales of grand gifts such as extravagant weapons, the guild house, and skills maxed.

The second set of appearances I know of, occurred several years later, and the gift given was an ordinary charmflower. Still, many came to honor and speak their devotion regardless. It was only a number of days afterward that those who kept that charmflower, looking into their items found the flower to have mysteriously turned into a magical ring of Xiosia! I've often wondered how many who gave Xiosia their oaths in feigned devotion, cast away what they'd considered a useless gift before it turned.

For Mac client, this is the process which seems to be needed with every new client update. It's been known and posted many times, but here it is again. Hope it helps.

Start pslaunch.app

Click “Yes” to start update
pslaunch.app starts updating, then quits unexpectedly after it saves the file pslaunchmacos.zip inside the client folder.
Move the zip file out of the “Planeshift” folder and unzip it.
Inside you will find new:
pslaunch.app
art folder with pslaunch.zip inside
data folder with gui folder and pslaunch.xml inside it

Move or copy the pslaunch.app, and the 2 zip files still zipped (not their entire folders), to the same named places in the Planeshift client folder replacing older items by the same name.

Start the new pslaunch.app file you just placed inside the Planeshift client folder
Choose “Yes” again to update and the process should run until it shows “Update finished”

I don’t know why it always has to be done this way, but I’ve had to do major updates like this for many years playing with Macs.