A Day Late and a Dollar Short.

Framed prints of pretty scenery sell. Painted windows have shown interest and promises of buying next show around…but I’m not holding my breath.



And so I hope to be focusing more on my ink projects in the near future while I look for a means of steady employment and fattening up my cat. I swear, she’s too skinny for her own good.



Why I’m late in updating by a day? I only just got my main computer connected to the internet at my parents’ house…and spent that time updating my shop. I’ve got it nicely organized now in three different categories. Drawings pertaining to mythical and legendary creatures…something that I’ll be putting more time into as I get closer to saving up the money for my candle business. Then there’s just the random character drawings…which may or may not be updated at all…depending on what inspires me; which hasn’t been much as of lately. Then there’s the ink drawings, which show cases the pretty scenery pieces I’ve been working on, which will be updated whenever I’ve got a new piece finished.



Plus I’m not sure when I’ll be updating here again. Yes, I’m living with my parents now, but without a job, internet is not a luxury I’ll be able to afford once I’m able to move out of their house. I’m sure they wouldn’t mind me coming over and using my laptop to check up on a few things, but…sadly, CafePress doesn’t seem to like my laptop, as they refuse to let me view my sales summaries on it. Don’t know why, and I’m sure I’ll never understand it, but I’m not going to stress over it. It is what it is, and I’m simply tired of arguing over anything these days. My dad and sister are finding me overly agreeable as of lately, which I’m not entirely sure if that worries them or not. Meh.



But I’m at least closer to my family now…most of my immediately family, that is. Dad’s been taking me to various places to walk, like Harpers Ferry, and when I was living with my sister, I became her guinea pig for so many seafood related recipes; it made her oh so giddy as her husband isn’t a fan of fish. I can honestly say I’ve tried and like swordfish steak and learned that I don’t like cilantro. I’ve also confirmed with myself that I’m not a fan of handling raw meats…and so will more than likely find myself eating fish and chicken from the can more often than fresh when I’m living on my own; and if I ever find myself cooking from scratch, it will be something that’s more or less involving a vegetarian style meal. Though really…with my lack of knowledge when it comes to cooking and what to use for cooking…oils and spices and butters and such…I more than likely won’t be cooking from scratch that often. It’ll be back to the pasta/rice + canned soups and veggies and meats + Mrs. Dash shakers again! Weee! That’s what I call making Tuna Helper from scratch! For that, I just need a big pot and lots of storage dishes, and then a pan to cook up my grilled cheese and tuna/chicken salad melts on! I’ll be good to go there, since my dad has stated that my house warming gift from him will be stacks of frozen American cheese he can’t eat! Just means I’m not cooking for my family anytime soon, especially with their dietary needs and allergies that seem to be piling up a lot as of lately.



Now all this talk of food has me hungry…now, I saw some cheese, and I saw some bread down there yesterday. Dad talked about tuna…tuna melt sounds really good right about now…hmm…so does chips and dip still…commence licking of chops.

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Ballpoint Pens and Ink Brushes

As I’ve mentioned before, ballpoint pens don’t get enough credit as an artistic tool. And while I was playing around with some colored pens I had on an armor design I thought would be fun for a character of mine, as seen below…I came to a dilemma when it came to skin tones. There are no browns and yellows in my pen set, so…I became very limited in what I could do in comparison to what I used to do before with those big fat click pens that had 11 different colors in them. You know the ones…they were a must have to any junior high and high school student back in the early 90’s! They came with two greens, two blues, a pink, purple, yellow, orange, brown, red, black…no individual set can compare to those; especially since my current set is missing the light green, yellow, and brown colors. And I sigh…



So I had to figure out how to fix this problem, to which I look at an ink brush pen set I bought myself a year or so ago…and smile. Well…there aren’t any flat RED reds in there…all these pink and purple shades of red, but that was ok! As you can see above, she really isn’t wearing anything red anyways! But the brush pens seem to work out quite nicely with the ballpoint pens…yes indeed they do! This little test excited me…a lot! And with this in mind, I thought…HEY! Why don’t I work on some other media pieces along with the window paintings? I’ve got two more of those completed at the moment, but am currently unable to get such lovely photographs of them onto my computer at the moment. Maybe next Sunday, eh?



So here we go! I started out with just a flat black and white ink drawing, and then later added the color to it! What do you guys think? Looks nice, right? And I’ve got plans to do more for the shows! Hey hey hey! Look at me go! Making pretty scenery pictures of places around towns and such to make the non-student RPers/anime buffs possibly interested in my talents! WEEEEE!



Should I be considering myself a sell-out? Mm…not really. I learned early in my illustration training that I was really good at replicating from photographs. And it’s probably something I should have allowed myself to pursue further into instead of being the stubborn selfish bitch that I am in wanting to continue drawing up and writing stories about characters that pop in and out of my head…only to burn myself out while learning about the art of comic books and learning that if I’m working on something I’m not overly thrilled about myself, then I’ll wind up not wanting to draw, paint, or do anything remotely artistic-ly creative for a long period of time.

And don’t think that I’m not passionate about what I’m doing now. I’m actually enjoying being able to paint again, especially on something as wishy-washy as glass…it’s challenging my knowledge of light and colors. Which is good because I need to remember how to make such challenges work for me when I start candle carving again. Dipping a candle in red wax and then yellow wax does not make the candle orange! And with finding a way of putting the ballpoint pens and ink brushes to good collaborative use, I can promote something that isn’t seen very often…or…at least I haven’t seen it very often, and I saw a lot of art coming through the shop I used to work at to be shipped. Some were ink drawings, yes…but if it was colored, it was normally through watercolors! So there!

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