Fish-face
I decided I need to start posting more. Nothing much happens since I work full-time, then come home and work on projects and play videogames.
Currently, I'm working on my Asari/Samara costume (I have till May to get it finish, so I'm not rushing - just doing a little bit every other night or so). I'm also alternating that between painting and writing. I've also been rewatching Doctor Who and knitting (I really need to get rid of yarn!) another long Doctor Who scarf with the leftover yarn from the first one I did a couple years ago. And I plan on rewatching the Harry Potter movies (I half-heartedly started reading the first book a couple weeks ago, but only a page or two a day so I'm only about 2 chapters in - those first couple chapters really brought me back, though... so good).
I've also been playing Borderlands a bit every night for the past 2 weeks. The Knoxx and Claptrap DLC packs went on sale and I finally worked through most of both of them. I also got Nay addicted to them so she plays it all day while I'm at work, haha. It replaced Resident Evil 4 as her game obsession.
I'm having a problem getting motivated to be creative, especially with my writing lately. Which is sad because I had a goal of writing 400 words a night, or 10,000 word per month. Between November and January I accomplished this, but really started struggling a few weeks ago. I need to get back in the swing of things, but I think that won't happen until the weather gets better. I've been feeling pretty depressed and blah everyday when I wake up to gray skies.
I tried focusing on drawing during the time I usually spend writing, but that turned out to be pretty much a waste of paper. So instead I've been mindlessly gluing together pepakura for the base of my armor or pinning bits of fabric to the leotard, trying to figure out the best way to sew it on. My head feels like its constipated, argh!
Anyway, I did see something that was kind of cool in Pa's Smithsonian magazine:
An artist named Giuseppe Arcimboldo from the 1500's. He did stuff like this
I found it interesting that his work was relatively popular during his time, then forgotten until being rediscovered and basically inspiring the Surrealists of the early 1900's.
Hopefully, I will make a photo journal about all my projects soon.
-The Captain
Currently, I'm working on my Asari/Samara costume (I have till May to get it finish, so I'm not rushing - just doing a little bit every other night or so). I'm also alternating that between painting and writing. I've also been rewatching Doctor Who and knitting (I really need to get rid of yarn!) another long Doctor Who scarf with the leftover yarn from the first one I did a couple years ago. And I plan on rewatching the Harry Potter movies (I half-heartedly started reading the first book a couple weeks ago, but only a page or two a day so I'm only about 2 chapters in - those first couple chapters really brought me back, though... so good).
I've also been playing Borderlands a bit every night for the past 2 weeks. The Knoxx and Claptrap DLC packs went on sale and I finally worked through most of both of them. I also got Nay addicted to them so she plays it all day while I'm at work, haha. It replaced Resident Evil 4 as her game obsession.
I'm having a problem getting motivated to be creative, especially with my writing lately. Which is sad because I had a goal of writing 400 words a night, or 10,000 word per month. Between November and January I accomplished this, but really started struggling a few weeks ago. I need to get back in the swing of things, but I think that won't happen until the weather gets better. I've been feeling pretty depressed and blah everyday when I wake up to gray skies.
I tried focusing on drawing during the time I usually spend writing, but that turned out to be pretty much a waste of paper. So instead I've been mindlessly gluing together pepakura for the base of my armor or pinning bits of fabric to the leotard, trying to figure out the best way to sew it on. My head feels like its constipated, argh!
Anyway, I did see something that was kind of cool in Pa's Smithsonian magazine:
An artist named Giuseppe Arcimboldo from the 1500's. He did stuff like this
I found it interesting that his work was relatively popular during his time, then forgotten until being rediscovered and basically inspiring the Surrealists of the early 1900's.
Hopefully, I will make a photo journal about all my projects soon.
-The Captain