awww darn

well, i've been working for a while on this really ambitious vector piece, look for it in my gallery. I think it's called "Hair, a shit load of it." Yeah, that's because I've decided that I want to try the über-realistic way to vector people, you know, dping each hair individually. Anyway, that piece has been putting a ton of strain on my poor little laptop. I'm approaching 1000 individual hairs and I'm only about 1/5 done with the hair. My laptop only has 512MB of RAM and needless to say almost all of that is in use. The performance of my drawing application Inkscape has slowed to a crawl so I'm going to have to take a brief hiatus from work until I either a) upgrade my RAM to about 1GB or b) my parents buy a better desktop workstation. Also, my brother is going off to college this august so when we drop him off I plan to take advantage of the education discount at the school bookstore to save $400 on Illustrator CS3...bringing me back to the problem of performance issues. I'll try to do some baby stuff that won't burn a hole through my processor until then.