Well, I've been back with the GIA for only about a week now, and already it's as if I never left. Arguing about whether or not some game or another was the best ever, getting REM MP3s from AK, trying my hardest to avoid the re game... And I'm hoping that weekly updates are as easy to adjust to. See, I was surprised that today's update was such a small one ("only" thirty pictures), considering I still had some left over from the last update, until I realized that the last time I was doing this, the updates were more monthly than weekly. Oops.

   And speaking of things being easy to manage... I won't rag on anyone for making a mistake, but if you're contributing artwork for the first time, please read the submission guidelines. They're there to ensure your work is able to be posted. For example, I've received a few submissions even in the short time since I returned that I have no idea how to open in any graphics program I have, and others in which the artist didn't even give their name. It's a little difficult to get artwork into a web-ready format when you can't open it, and impossible to properly credit an artist when you don't know their name. So to find out what you can do to get your work posted faster, just read the guidelines. Easy as that.

   And having said all that, on to today's crop of artwork! (...Crop? I've been spending too much time in my orchard in Legend of Mana, apparently.)

Andrea Hartmann