I've been hard at work the past few weeks, working on the start of a novel, the first Chapter is now complete (except from edits). A sci-fi adventure, about finding yourself and appreciating the small things in life. I wanted to share the first two paragraphs with you all. These will be at the end of this post.

I have been continuing my learning as an artist, of which I am constantly improving my skills and techniques. To expand on this, I am self-teaching myself basic art skills, such as sketching and painting, to character design and environment art. This has beena long process, but I'm improving and that's the main thing.

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The first two paragraphs of Chapter 1:

Sitting there in the middle of a dense plethora of books piled high on and off the shelves of the library, sat a young boy who was engrossed in a novel which he seemed to be enjoying. This young boy is George Wilson, a 16 year old boy, the son to two workaholics who work for one of the largest treasure hunting organisations as explorers. They never pay much attention to George because they were too busy working. As you can imagine, his life seemed pretty boring, but to him, it was normal. And as for this seemingly boring activity, he closed his book excitedly and got up from the dull blue beanbag chair he was sat in and started to walk towards the bookshelves where an abundance of books sat piled with a thin layer of dust on most.

George put the old book down and wandered through the labyrinth of the library, when he stumbled upon a book covered with a thicker layer of dust than all the other books in the collection. So, now interested in this dusty novel, he grabbed a dusting clothe he spotted on one of the bookshelves, and began wiping the book, top to bottom. He grabbed his small, but mighty bookmark which he had placed on the side and walked, excited back to his favourite beanbag chair in the whole library (the dull, blue coloured, fluffy one, in just the right spot that he gets all the light he needs from the windows in the daytime and close enough to a little light for when the sun sets). Having been reading in this chair for nearly 5 years, he knew he’d be able to get straight into the book, rather than having to worry about what a comfortable position would be (he had this all down to an art).

CJ (OrbitalMartian) Self taught artist, coder, gamedev, writer and content creator.

About Me

Hi All, I'm CJ, known online as LinuxGamer. I am a self taught artist, programmer and game developer. I'm here on dotart.blog to share my art and game development journey with you. I am also a content creator, making art and tech content, all over the place, checkout my socials here

New Game

So I'm currently working on a game with PyGame that in basic premise is an ATC (Air Traffic Control) Simulator. As the name PyGame suggests it is written in Python. It's really early days and at the moment its more of a video than a video game :D.

Here have a GIF of it.

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Have a wonderful rest of your day.

CJ (OrbitalMartian) Self taught artist, coder, gamedev, writer and content creator.