Well, the week seemed fairly eventful before I sat down to write about it! Fruit Bat was forced to move, as anyone who follows this blog knows. I managed to drag my butt over to church this morning- everyone was very friendly there (they gave me bread!)- but there aren't many college-age people there. Also, about a month ago I guess, I succumbed to a persistent desire to try and grow something, namely those little valentine plants. Sadly, a month later, I still have a small pot of dirt and no strawberries. So I got over my head and wound up buying a pot, dirt, a trowel for scooping the dirt, and some seeds. I'll let you know if anything ever grows. I planted balsam, which I had never heard of before- but at least I have more seeds if anything goes wrong with this batch. The main reason its been a while since I posted is that I was determined to finish this picture before I posted again. I won't even say how long it took me. It's called GIRL with WOLF by an artist called Wieringo on DeviantArt. Once again, I just colored it. In his description of the piece at the bottom, he said that he wanted it to be "ominous"... I always wound up with the impression that the girl was sort of telling the viewer to back off- that she could deal with it. Unlike previous pictures I've colored I used a program called paint.NET, http://www.paint.net/ What's great is that it's free and is much better than microsoft paint. Not as good as photoshop, but if you aren't wanting to pay a lot of money for good results... it's perfect for me. Yay poor broke college kids. Like I said, it's free to download.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
week/end
Well, the week seemed fairly eventful before I sat down to write about it! Fruit Bat was forced to move, as anyone who follows this blog knows. I managed to drag my butt over to church this morning- everyone was very friendly there (they gave me bread!)- but there aren't many college-age people there. Also, about a month ago I guess, I succumbed to a persistent desire to try and grow something, namely those little valentine plants. Sadly, a month later, I still have a small pot of dirt and no strawberries. So I got over my head and wound up buying a pot, dirt, a trowel for scooping the dirt, and some seeds. I'll let you know if anything ever grows. I planted balsam, which I had never heard of before- but at least I have more seeds if anything goes wrong with this batch. The main reason its been a while since I posted is that I was determined to finish this picture before I posted again. I won't even say how long it took me. It's called GIRL with WOLF by an artist called Wieringo on DeviantArt. Once again, I just colored it. In his description of the piece at the bottom, he said that he wanted it to be "ominous"... I always wound up with the impression that the girl was sort of telling the viewer to back off- that she could deal with it. Unlike previous pictures I've colored I used a program called paint.NET, http://www.paint.net/ What's great is that it's free and is much better than microsoft paint. Not as good as photoshop, but if you aren't wanting to pay a lot of money for good results... it's perfect for me. Yay poor broke college kids. Like I said, it's free to download.
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