I finally finished my book cover, now that we're more than half way through the month. I really like the way it turned out. But of course, when I print it, it loses a lot of detail like the cracks in the rocks. Strangely, when I print it on "Best Quality" it loses even more detail, including a lot of the shadows. Those are important because that's ( Read more... )

I thought I'd try a self-portrait for the new year. I essentially traced a photo of myself, fixed it up a little (for example, my glasses were crooked and partially covered one of my eyes) and colored it in. It was cheating, but I'm still pretty pleased with it.


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It's kind of sad that I was so close to finishing this picture, but I couldn't because I got so busy with writing. But here it is, a picture of the universe I created for Creekside. It's a road sign pointing out the three cities that are mentioned in my story. It's technically a fictitious place, but I admit, I modeled it after the Hemet/San ( Read more... )

As NaNoWriMo inches closer, I'm getting more excited about it. My "Novel Info" page is nearly complete now. All it needs is an excerpt, which obviously, I can't get until I start writing. I can't start writing on it yet, but I did make my book cover and write the synopsis (complete with character names, I might add. :-P ). I have a pic of my cover ( Read more... )

When I get depressed, I get this strange burst of creativity. Unfortunately, it usually manifests itself in some sort of dark artform. The last time I got like this (about 10-12 years ago) I used poetry, which is strange, because I don't even like poetry.

This time, I felt the urge to draw. I was having a particularly bad time last week and had ( Read more... )