Just got word that a second piece of my art is hanging, framed, in someone's living room :) (I have art hanging in houses in multiple states! :p )

Admittedly, I provided both pieces, pre-framed, but both couples saw fit to hang them.

Yesterday i worked on Sêrela in Illustrator for 12+ hours. after some number of hours, I finished making all the glyphs, and started putting them together into words. I decided I wanted to put together the set of 3 names that I use as the example text on the old site, but newer and better.

I start to put it together. I've got several of few of the words done when I realize that I'm grouping the objects wrong in Illustrator. I've been grouping them by word, subgrouped by glyph type: a group for the stem of the word, a group for the vowels of the word, etc. I need to be subgrouping them as syllables, each subgroup containing the stem, vowel, coda, and tone for one syllable. This is not only theoretically better, since I'm working with a featural syllabary here, it will also save much effort when I go to change the morphological endings, such as converting names to genitives (which are used in other peoples' names).

So I re-group all my words I've done for a bit, then start building more names. I'm getting towards the end when I realize, I've made my vowel glyphs too small from the start. So I go back to my glyph file, make the vowels bigger. Methodically go through the file i'm working on and delete all the vowels and replace them with newer, bigger ones, and re-position them.

The I go back to putting together the couple names. Finally I finish that file around 01:30:


(hmm, that looks kind of washed out to me. not the rich black it is in illustrator. i should poke it sometime, see if i can get a richer black.)

I haven't started working on anything today, cause I needed to prepare a demo for ASL class, now done; and then go to class. And it's too hard to stop working.

Working on the page for Sêrela now. Classical Sêrela is a wacky language with 8 vowels and 4 tones.

The vowels are
i y u
e o
ɛ ɔ
a

Which I have been transliterating from Sêrela Script as
i y u
e o
ê ô
a

'cause ê is my standard transliteration for /ɛ/

but since I'm already using diacritics for basic vowel quality, I was left with superscripts for the four tones, getting things like
thwi²sên³

And I don't think there are any other vowel like characters that come with enough diacritics. æ only has 2, and ø doesn't have any. w has enough, but I need it as a consonant. I supppose I could use v for the consonant and w for the vowel, but that would be ugly as sin. Even aside from the question of what vowel I use w for.

but I noticed I could use an 8 way diacritic distinction as such:


i believe that exact set is the only 2x4 diacritic distinction available for e and o. So, the question is, is that better than superscripts? yeah, it probably is.

oh, wait, there's also ẻ ể ơ ổ, so there's a 2x5 distinction available. I think I'd hold off on the hooks if I only need 2x4, though.

oh2, and I can get y in all 4, all 5 in fact, of the diacritics in the necessary dimension: y ỹ ỳ ý (ỷ)