oodles of doodles

I've been doodling a lot in my class notebooks, and this latest batch was pretty weird, enough to be amusing...

Oh, how the imagination takes over when you're bored in class.

Otherwise, I'm working on my resume and trying to figure out how to get a portfolio together—more a question of what to include, than how to put it together.

I also recently purchased the full Adobe Creative Suite, and I have my work cut out for me when it comes to learning the intricacies. The instructional books at B&N are all super-expensive, so I may go to the Seattle Public Library and check them out instead. I imagine it would be worthwhile to go through more than one.

But, just standing and going through the InDesign instructional books right there in the store, I learned that InDesign can indeed generate indexes and TOCs. I asked about that in the computer lab a couple Thursdays ago, but our main instructor is a FrameMaker guy, and he wasn't sure.

It didn't make sense that Adobe would allow that program to go out the door without an index function of some sort, so I'm glad to have that figured out.

On other fronts, I've been pulling out my copy of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and thinking about getting the materials together to pursue that and improve my drawing skills.

I also spent some time in ProTools today trying to find a suitable drumbeat in Strike! to build a little blues composition/jam track. I found the drum pattern I wanted under something called "TeraPop." I have no idea what the name means. The drum pattern itself was more of a Mitch Mitchell groove, and I wound up switching around drum kits and tweaking things to get it to sound right.

So far, I've found it really hard to build sequences in Strike!, especially drum fills. When I trigger the fill to hear how it sounds, the program immediately reverts back to whatever main pattern was played last. Maybe there's some trick I haven't figured out yet.

Later...