102 posts tagged “art”
I'll be torturing myself with NaNoWrimo (National Novel Writing Month).
Mom will be doing AEDM (Art Every Day Month).
What will YOU be doing? Picking up my slacker slack? Some other fill your November full thing that I'm unaware of? Preparing for the holidays as I should be doing? We all know that I'll finish mom, Karina, and Krissy's presents at the last minute or on December 26th :P
For the record, with the countdown to November now being counted in hours instead of day just how much have I plotted out in my head? Still just the main character names, general initial concept of how the story starts out... and then... I dunno. I did mention that I'm no writer, eh? Just this blog. No short stories, no fan fic, no... nothing. I just want to say I've done this. I do believe that I shall probably only allow people like um, my mommy to read what I end up with. People who won't be so mean that I'd end up crying. Or maybe I won't even let her! I'll spend a year trying to turn it from pure suckage into just slight suckage before even my mom could read it. I actually think my story concept is okay'ish but I'm such a scaredy cat, I don't even want to post THAT. ;)
IKEA window shopping:
I have discovered the joys of IKEA!!! And no, I'm not even being sarcastic. We've picked out a bed for the new apartment (we don't have a headboard and decided it's time to get one) and the dresser to go with it. I'm deciding between two desks -- which I choose will depend on a few things like if the one I prefer will fit in the dining room (aka my office) without taking up too much room and if I'll still have room for shelves.
[MiSi] http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00064445
[MiSi] if you were a kid in the "scared of ghosts" stage, would that not scare the shit out of you???
[CybrasEngel] LMFAO you know what's funny, on our way out of the store, I spotted that
[CybrasEngel] and I asked Brian is that a ghost?
[CybrasEngel] and he's like yeah great parents scare your kids with a ghost night light
Shake shake shake:
Brian felt another quake yesterday, it was in Marina del Rey -- yeah, where we're moving. I was asleep, so don't know if we felt it here.
Still sick:
I keep feeling better then little sick again, then better, come on cold of mine, just get it over with already.
Bad computer:
Computer trying to die again. Laptop hard drive started to sound about as good as the old water heater did before it died. Turned it off for awhile, sounds ok'ish for now. Furniture comes first so no computer money in budget. Got the tablet pc as back up but would like a real laptop as main machine. Brian thinks I should go Mac. Hmm I'll have $100 in paypal soon, guess I can save that maybe by the end of the year PayPal will be built up enough for that.
Damn silly games:
Ok I admit it, I'm hooked on a few of those silly "apps" games everyone spams with on MySpace, so if you play those and we're not already friends on MySpace, feel free to add me and tell me which you play -- I have Bloodlines, Vampires, Mafia Wars, Heroes vs. Villains, Pirates, and Word Challenge installed though I basically only play Bloodlines and Vampires seriously and do occasionally install others, accept invites, then uninstall them so others get their clan/team/whatever counts up.
Art:
Drew a new cartoon'y girl and for once no smart ass comments from Brian. Usually he just says something like "Eh cute but needs bigger boobs" even if it's just a face, like my last faerie one. This time he just said "Oh, she's cute" and "nice shade of red". This time it was a paper / pen drawing though and I wasn't planning on doing it digital. Changed my mind and still working on both pen and digital versions. Girl part is done but conflicted on what to do with background so nothing to post yet.
Sleep:
That's what I should try to do soon. We didn't get grocery shopping done today and I'm out of soy milk, coffee, etc. And gonna go to Target to get Rubbermaid tubs so I can start packing. 3 weeks to go and with the MS and cold and stuff I'll be a slacker or I'll be sorry if I try to push myself too hard.
I'm bored! Even I can only watch so much of will Hillary take the job or not...
Soooo... I'll post the rare lookie what I did art post here which is usually reserved for my other blogs, just because I actually think this one turned out ok. Everyone should love James Dean... I may have to try my next art project this way, it turned out better than most, hmm...
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My sister decided I was a genius in going with the Amazon gift card for her for her b-day... and copied me! She sent me one from her and Keegan too! Of course she was also a smart ass and added a "HOLY SHIT" note at the end about how many "spankings" I get. Yeah yeah just because she's 9 years younger. Pfft she's got Keegan, he'll make her feel older faster! HA!
So I debated... what to get. More Batman maybe? Possibly but then again almost every time we go to B&N I only shop the comic section. The next book in the So You Want to Be a Wizard series? Not quite yet as I just got around to starting book one. More Dutch books, since you know I've been so good with the couple I have, but hey I see they finally came out with Dutch for Dummies and that's me! Except no reviews on the US site and only one (a horrific one) on the UK site! Hmm who knew shopping was so hard :(
Finally decided ohhh books useful for expanding my art. Brian tells me he likes that about me - that I read art books to try to improve myself, instead of sitting around saying I can't get better. Apparently some people he's tried to help on boards with their art are fond of "can't". I just say I'm a beginner and yes I know my art kind of sucks, but I enjoy doing it and hey it might get better someday. I pointed out to him eh I'm not always so good at "reading" all of the art books, more like I skim the text and study the pics a lot and hope that someday all of that skimming the text and studying the pics will help. He told me yeah that's good. Sooo. I decided yeah! I need more art books to "read" and went with How to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling
Cirque Du Soleil sent me a bday card too. Damn them and YaY all at once. Since I just said what a few days ago I want to go to see them again! An animated card wasn't exactly what I had in mind ;)
I was gonna rant more now that full Palin quote is out but I don't feel like becoming a angry ranting fool tonight! So it's time for a random me post!
My Hair:
I ordered more vampire red Manic Panic and it arrived today, w00t! I threw in one glam strip, glam strip being just a hair comb with well synthetic hair attached to it. I went with white as I figured whether I dyed my hair red or orange it'd work well. It might have worked too well. Hair combs are usually not so great in my fine hair, this holds great though since it's more of a snap than a typical comb. Ohh the possibilities! I'm considering ordering a bunch of these and just dying my hair either blonde or black when the red fades after I use up these two jars of dye so I can just snap in streaks of whatever colours I feel like adding on any given day. Then again I do kind of just like having all over bright and cheery coloured hair. Hrmph! Decisions!
Oops think we missed it:
Damn I think Brian's Star Trek museum in Vegas is already closed or is closing too soon for us to make plans to go there now. I have a sudden urge to go see another Cirque show and he promised if I went to that museum with him he'd take me to a Cique show while we were there too.
Art:
Working on two hmm no three hmm no more than three art projects. So many because none are really grabbing me so switching all around. Back and forth.
Oops it's our birthday already?
Crap my birthday is Wednesday? Uhh what shall I get my sister? I mentioned our birthday was this month weeks ago I think but now it's sneaking up on me all of a sudden, heh. Oopsie. uhh... Damn. Apparently having the same birthday isn't enough of a reminder, only a few days left guess I'll be getting her an Amazon gift card or something, I can get that to her on time!
Well if I miss my bday Christmas will be here soon too!
Dunno what we'll do for my bday either, we were supposed to go a the tattoo shop up the street last week to see how much my Superman tattoo would cost so I could maybe get it for my bday and never did. hmm. Oh well. We're talking about going to Universal Studios near Christmas time though. Had mentioned it or Disney recently but he doesn't like Disney this time of the year and I don't like Universal this time of year because I hate people jumping out and yelling BOO at you more so when they touch you -- last time we did that someone actually GRABBED me, no thanks.
The phantom smells are back! fun!
Phantom smells are back the last two days, today with dizziness. Fun fun. Not burning smell though. Something... I dunno can't even explain it. Sort of the burning smell I suppose but not really. Ehh well not much I can do about it. Annoying though. Especially the dizziness and headache that follows. And tiredness. EEG results on the 13th. Dunno though EEGs are supposed to, from what I've read, umm.... abnormal could tell them yes this is seizures but normal doesn't mean it isn't seizures. So... eh... not sure how useful that is? I do know the strobe light part was friggin uncomfortable as can be. Whatever it is, seizures, some weird MS thing... who knows... don't care, I don't recommend it. I'm a medical bundle of not joy.
TV Tonight:
I haven't watched any of my movies from shopping last weekend. Think I will tonight, but can't miss seeing what they do with Sarah Palin on SNL too.
I was gonna say something else and probably more important that all of this, or no, I forget what it was. nn zzzzzzz ik ben moe! Only useful Dutch I seem to remember!
So I don't watch that *cough* fair and balanced news network... But I do watch the YouTube news and politics section fairly often. So I know that last week they were all freaked out about a certain magazine cover, so much so that they called for people to unsubscribe to it! It was an insult to women. Etc etc etc. Well both Brian and myself wanted to decide for ourselves. When we went to get my meds this weekend we happened to notice the cover even though it's been partially covered by paper (maybe it always was?). We grabbed the magazine and stuck it up to our faces real close like, looked at it, each other, the cover again, each other, and finally we both just said "That's it?" They got freaked out about THAT cover? That's an insult to women? Wow... Yeah sooo ugly. OMG I almost couldn't stand how disgusting she was!!! They're sending a horrible message to women with real issues if they'd make such a huge issue about how ugly she was on that cover because knowing what an issue they made of it, I had that damn cover up to my face examining it closely and barely noticed the flaws even though they'd told me ahead of time what they were and had they not said anything I wouldn't have noticed at all. I'd hate to see what they'd say about women without make up etc not all spruced up for a cover shoot. The fact that the pic wasn't airbrushed doesn't bug me, the fact that they'd insult her so much and go off on horrible she looked when she looked fine to me does. They've sent a horrific message to women about looking normal in doing so. Never thought I'd have to defend Palin and against Fox News no less... but yeah.
Now if you'll excuse me, back to bed and my Blick Art Materials catalog! See I'm not used to having money! By some fluke, I'm going to have about $100 in my PayPal account vs the usual $5-$20 that's there. So I figured if I can be patient then around Nov 5th or so I can spoil myself as a late Bday present to myself. I planned to buy a binder to keep safe the few sketch pages I wanted to keep out of my sketch books, but see art stores and catalogs are evil. Even a fake bad artist such as myself can't just spend say $5 or $10 there. So when I calculated how much would be in my PayPal account not long after my bday I realized... oooh! ;) I do my part for the economy, even though I'm broke as can be! heh. And we pay my bills on time. Ooh I want those pens... did I say $100 was enough? hrmph. Damn catalog. I need to play AND win the lottery, screw a house, I could spend that much on this catalog. Have you seen how much a few pencils and a decent pen can cost?
The Senate passed the Orphan Works Act while they were busy working on the economy. It's not on any major news sites. I found it on some local paper, I think it was a Utah paper and this blog post after my mom mentioned it in hers. I'm a news junkie, you'd think I'd hear about it... Surely mom was wrong *hides* So I go to google news and search. Two sites show up, one small paper and a blog. WTF?
Mom's calling for a blackout of websites with art on them, damn her! heh. I don't think my art is good enough to steal and if it is, it's not good enough to steal and make money from, but ugh. Messing with copyright law while no one is looking is a bit well... WTF?!?! Right now my crappy art is protected just because I made it. Now they want to make it so someone can just flat out take it from my site and pretend they don't know where it's from and hey, it's theirs to do whatever they want with? If I were a better artist I'd be outraged now I'm just meh... ugh.
*EDIT*
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-2913
Sep 26, 2008: This bill passed in the Senate by Unanimous Consent. A record of each representative's position was not kept.
Now I’ve decided I need another new project. Still can’t get the Misi one right, argh I’ve given myself until Christmas to finish it at least. Even though I’ve no desire to run off to see the Twilight Movie when it comes out (I do want to see it when it comes out on dvd to see what they do with it and because I am a little curious — just not curious enough to have Brian kill me which is what he’d do if I were to drag him to the theater for a teenage vampire love story) I do like some of the posters for the movie from an artistic standpoint, the colouring etc. I showed them to Brian and told him I think I want to do digital paintings of them next due to the limited colours. He said he couldn’t do it. Hmm and here I thought my art is “cheating” Now I’m challenged. So that’s my next project. Mr. gets paid to do art for a living can’t do it? And I think it’s cheating… I started one, it is actually hard to do. I’m not trying to recreate the poster image exactly. I’ve given up on pretending I can even attempt photo realism, etc…. Just going for my style. But… yeah. Now I know why Brian said he can’t do it, it’s a bitch.
My mommy has decided it's self portrait art time!
Her LJ post is here no vox cross post on this one so far.
My paper art skills aren't as good as my digital not to mention I have no easy way to reference myself short of standing in front of a mirror all day to attempt to draw / paint myself, so I made her change her rules to allow digital and other forms of art. No contest, etc. She's just inviting everyone to join in for fun. Feel free to join in.
*goes to start*
