September 16, 2002 I've just spent the last three or four hours scanning in artwork. It started just with trying to get my recent stuff scanned in for The Grey but mushroomed into realizing I had about forty or fifty other things that needed scanning in.

The most tedious part of the whole thing is that much of my artwork is 11x14 or 9x12. That means in order to get a complete picture I frequently have to piece together two separate scans. This is less than fun and can lead to a distinct line between the scans. At least my current scanner is accurate enough to not do any weird stretching of the image or anything such that it can't be pieced together properly. My old scanner used to have that problem. Some of the artwork is worth doing now but a bunch of it would be a total pain to get right. That means there's a pretty decent sized pile that isn't going to get scanned now.

The whole piecing thing could easily be eliminated with an 11x17 scanner. Unfortunately that size of scanner costs ten times what a equivalent 8.5x11 scanner costs. Anyone who knows me knows I don't really care about how much something costs but we are talking $1000+ minimum to get a halfway decent scanner. Until the 11x14 backlog pile gets deeper even I'm not willing to spend that much.

So far I think I've scanned in almost everything newer than 1998. It looks like there's about fifteen or twenty more pieces from '94 to '98 yet to go though. What a royal pain. I'll bet I've even scanned in some of it before but can't find the images. I probably had some of them on zip disk back in like '96. At least with my current computer the scanning is much, much faster than it was on my 486 with 32MB of ram.

Update September 23, 2002 I not only scanned everything in, I even got around to putting it up on the net. Amazingly enough I went through my old website and found my scans from 92-97 and put those up too.