... And therefore to type! I missed you LJ, really I did. I didn't mind political rants in the slightest (and rather enjoyed reading and feeling the relief that people agreed with me) but I knew if I poked around during election season my LJ would look something like this:

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck ( Read more... )

This will also be cross-posted to my RP tumblr.

I haven't really done any art in forever. First was the generalized disappointment of the news of not getting my art table for the convention in September followed shortly afterward by my thrilling new health issues (lol sarcasm) and real life stress. I'd sit down in front of the computer and just ( Read more... )

I picked up a new art technique this week. By "art technique" I mean I learned about two settings in Photoshop I'd never heard of in my life despite the fact that I A) went to art school and B) have used Photoshop for like eight years.

Yeah.

I don't explore much, see.

This "technique" has changed my life, I think. My asari picture from the other night ( Read more... )

Oh gods, it has me. >_>

I mean.. I've been browsing other peoples' tumblrs for forever but now I has one and.. now I have nothing keeping me from reblogging ALL THE THINGS.

But it's also a nice place to post art that I probably wouldn't post on deviantart right away or otherwise is just sketches and crap I wouldn't waste an LJ post on. So much easier ( Read more... )

It's fairly safe to say that the eight solid hours of my life I spent working on this picture was inspired by the song 'Time' by Hans Zimmer, from the Inception soundtrack. My mind has a way of creating vivid and interesting scenes to music when I'm not really paying attention, and has an annoying habit of making them extremely difficult to capture ( Read more... )

Ho. Lee. Shit.

I've been dying to write about today, because it was SO AWESOME. Turns out my fears about my lesson were completely, completely unnecessary. My boss was kind of shocked because five minutes in Adam (my coworker/instructor) and I were laughing hysterically. One-on-one like that and in a situation where my Socially Awkward Penguin-ness ( Read more... )