Adventure time!

I climbed a mountain.

/epic

Girl and Gryphon

So here we are, the finished image.

This is an image I'm really, really happy with. It was a little bumpy starting, where there were huge changes in composition which took place before those b/w images I posted. But after that, with help from roommate Dan, roommate's friend Jazz, and the all around fantastic boyfriend Cory the seas were reasonably calm and gentle for a novice.

This is, what? The fourth or fifth image where I do b/w first and leave the colour for the final round of rendering, and it's the first time where not only did it turn out good but I'm really content with it. The last image, the one of the demon, was all right b/w, but the colouring I did on that was so atrocious I can't even look at it without shame. While this picture took longer than I would have liked, the end result are more important.

Switching Hats: wearing the tophat.

I've got a lot of ideas that buzz around in my head, and a lot of them aren't very artsy at all. Actually, I probably make a terrible artist because when I come up with something it usually never finds its way to paper and I forget. What does get down to paper, usually doesn't fit into a drawing. More often I have ideas for writing, but I'm a terrible writer so I never really get anything done and that ends with me pretty much doing nothing creative for long lengths of time despite the fact I have a wackload of ideas that spark up and fizz out.

I'm babbling. So, what I mean with switching hats, it's like in the Final Fantasy games were you can switch your character's jobs so you can be a white mage then switch to a thief or whatever. Only I'm switching my amateur artist hat (which I imagine as a foppy thing scuffed up and worn out) for other types, and turning my art blog into a blog of my interests, as silly as they can be. And even though few people read this blog, I'm going to pretend to write for an audience (as unlikely that is) just because the practice is necessary.

I can't really say what type of things are going to appear on here, though I'll try not to be whinny or bog it down with boring drama or anything personal because I don't want to read that and I don't think anyone else wants to read that. This is not livejournal, and I'm not a screaming 16 year old girl. I wouldn't want to take away roommate Dan's thunder. Most of the posts will deal with art, artists, (my own) writing, books and occasionally a doctor.

Let's see how many times I'll edit this post!