Although I recently announced the potential of Thursday updates, I just wanted to warn everyone that those have a pretty low probability of actually happening for the next few weeks.

I’ve just been busy with lots of commercial art/design recently, and after doing art all day, the last thing I want to do is… more art.

This is also why I haven’t ended the contest below yet (I don’t even feel like doing a prize sketch x_x).  So that contest will remain open for a bit longer. Feel free to enter if you haven’t yet.

Hopefully I’ll be out of this work glut soon, and then I’ll be able to give Joyride more attention :D

This is a fun game I like to play. All you have to do is give me a random number, and you get the chance to win a sketch. Read on for full details before playing, please.

First: why do I do this? Well. I wanted to give some sketches to my supporters. But I can’t draw a sketch for EVERYONE. And I don’t want to pick some people but not others, since that would hurt people’s feelings and generally suck. Some people do those “first 5 commenters get a free pic” type contests to handle this issue, but I always thought those weren’t fair to people who live in other timezones and are almost always sleeping when I post things.

Soooo I thought of this game, where EVERYONE has the same chance to win. This is how it works!

• Comment with any number between 1 and 222.
  
• In your comment, please inclue links to images of who you want me to sketch if you win. (work safe please)
• After a few days, I will close comments and use this random number generator to generate a number.
• Whoever commented with the number closest to the randomly generated number wins! :D
• If no one claimed that winning number, I keep generating numbers until I hit a claimed one. It usually does take a few generations.
• If more than one person picked the winning number: the first person who picked it wins. So before posting your number, please scan the other comments to make sure nobody else took yours first.
• Cheaters will be disqualified, and I can tell cheaters, so don’t do it >____>

I’m not promising super amazing art here, just a boring sketch. The image above is the sketch for a past winner. Your sketch will be about the same quality level — not too flashy. But hopefully still worth playing. :D

Okay, go!

Now Joyride is actually going to have an update schedule!

That schedule is

*drumroll*

Every Monday, and SOME (but not all) Thursdays.

Why “some?” Because I can’t quite commit to 2 times per week, every week, just yet. But I’ll try for that any week that it’s possible.

Later in the year, I hope to be able to make it a solid 2x per week, but I have a few other exciting projects I have to work on first (more on that soon!).

Until then, enjoy the real update schedule.

I’ve been ”experimenting” to see how small I can push the text before people begin to tell me they’re having a hard time reading it. Trying to fnd the sweet spot between readability and huge, covering-half-the-pageness.

I may have pushed it too far on pager 24… xD;

Well, please tell me if you can’t read something — gathering a consensus will help me to find the ideal text size.

I repaired a corrupted hard drive. I rescued data off of it. I got a new tablet. I got a new computer. I got and installed a new hard drive after I learned that the hard drive in my new computer was the same model as the one that caused all this trouble in the first place (RAGE >:O). I ventured into the different world of a totally new OS.  I moved over and organized all my files and installed my programs. I got my tablet to work, and became acclimated to it, after no small amount of frustrating problems.

It hasn’t been easy @_@ But I did it! I’m happy! And today, Joyride finally resumes!

There’s going to be some (hopefully) interesting new additions soon, so please keep an eye out~