It looks like it's been a couple of years since I've been here! Well, I've recently gotten a new laptop and the graphics bug has bitten! First though, I'm doing a bit of some housecleaning first though. The last couple of days I cleaned up and made a brand new custom layout, then re-opened, my Crochet LiveJournal, Crochet by Midknight at
starrs_crodream. Then I recently did some slight changes to the layout here. The basic color scheme is still the same, but the background, header, and default icon have changed. The picture used in the header and icon is on the I painted on ArtRage Studio using the Oil Brush Tool and Palette Knife Tool. The only thing I did, besides cropping is change the color with image>adjustments>variations, and a photo filter to get it to match my color scheme a bit better. You can see the original at my deviantART page,
Vintage Rose. Next I will be working on a new custom layout for my personal LJ.
I'm loving my new laptop, though. It's so nice to have my Photoshop, ArtRage 4, and my pen tablet, respond properly for once! Besides working on graphics and drawing, I'm still working on and writing crochet patterns, so I'll be quite busy! I'm also thinking about joining a Land Comm, too. The last one I was in was so much fun, but is unfortunately no longer active.
Anyway, if you check back periodically, I should start doing more posting overt he next few weeks or so.