Wooden Pencil Sketches

This blog is called Wooden Pencil Sketches because I started it to chronicle the development of Van Gogh, a system designed to be "sketchy". It's supposed to have enough detail to give you a solid impression of the action without bogging everything down with minute details. At first I was just thinking of using this as a place to make quick development notes, like sketches of new ideas. I chose "Wooden Pencils" because I've been using a wooden pencil to make notes on scrap paper when I get an idea. I used to use a pen for everything, but I've been using some nice pencils that we had lying around the house. It reminds me of an old Ghanaian friend who used to write everything in pencil and he would say, in his booming African voice, "I love writing with a pencil! It feels so good!"

The blog's been up for a couple of weeks now and I've got only one official follower, but my "Stats" page tells me that I'm getting a lot of visitors from around the world: mostly the US and UK, but also Canada and Europe. It's a rather interesting feature that tells me a lot about the traffic to the blog, but it doesn't tell me the most important thing: What do you think of what you're reading? If you don't feel like leaving a comment, please just click the "thumbs up/down" buttons to give me a general idea of what you think. If you have more specific comments, that's great too.