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I have a Wacom! At last, tis mine, all mine! Much more responsive, same size though. Also am verrrrrrrrrrry behind on the picture updates; the good news being I painted very little while holidaying. The bad being ... i took many photos.

Anyway; I have a few pictures to post, apart from the Daily Deviation

I'll cut the talking, to spare your f/lists, and leave the photography until later.

...dammit, slow internet, am giving up for now. Well, one down *shrugs*

Apologies for the long absence; I've been holidaying around Europe with little or no internet. I'm just catching up things, and university and so forth and am starting to move back into LJ as well.


New batch of icons coming up soon in the_cat_icons

And meanwhile....


I GOT A DD


Foam: Stock by =Flynn-the-cat on deviantART

DD = Daily Deviation. Very big thing, one a day, from each category (roughly).

Icon Rules: Credit and comment, free to use as bases
No hotlinking

Samples

See the rest here in the_cat_icons 

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I just did a Google search on ArtRage
My Squidoo lenses were first. Over the ArtRage website.

(I'm guessing it's because I just updated them both.... but wow. They used to be pages deep)

EDIT: An hour later, they're on the fourth page.

New bunch up in the_cat_icons

http://community.livejournal.com/the_cat_icons/3009.html


In other news, does anyone know what the community userpic isn't showing up when I post there? I have changed the settings in both the community and this journal's settings...

Crossposted to the new Icon Journal  the_cat_icons 
http://community.livejournal.com/the_cat_icons/2616.html

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A belated art update ^_^



Yeaaah. Not finished
Technical details
Painted in ArtRage.
End version is at fourteen hours.




Is one of several Christmas Card designs I made (Initially for family members, then added to Zazzle...)



Bunch of WIPs


Brother's birthday card/picture

Note: it's a bad quality picture. I hope to upload a better one... but all the details are visible.

Anyway - all the little comments about me learning to use a traditional pencil again? They were true

This was drawn in my lunch break, after work, on the train, and on the bus (which took ...careful timing. I had a very bumpy driver), and in the waits in between yesterday.

Total time: Two hours
Tools: an F and a B pencil for the lines and darkest areas, and the large shading, repectively. in an A5 sketchbook. The bottom part of the page is cut off, because there's no picture there, only writng.

Trying to take a photo of this was a pain... processed it a bit in Irfanview and paint.NET but it's still a bit wonky.
I may try colouring in ArtRage this sometime...

According to my siblings, it's a Jabberwocky.
According to me, it's a plant. Made of eyes.

The biggest eye, in the bird's head, was the first thing I drew - it's actually a left, human, eye.

I like the gulls. The flying eyeball thing in the top right didn't work as well - it's from one I sketched a few days before, an... uh... 'alternative' snitch (...well. That's what it looked like when I'd finished >.> )

...hmmm.
How many human-type eyes are there?


Ah. The stain on the top left corner is were my brother spilt a cup of tea.
And I had NO rubber with me, because I'd taken it out of my bag to use it to take something out of the previous day's sketch (...which is also niceish. But the photo is not tidied up enough to post yet)


AAAAAAND
TodayYesterday's

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Winter is leaving the valleys, dragging its fraying mantle behind, lingering on the ridges for a last glance back into the brightness of summer...

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Wishlist prize for Wishlist event-thing.
If you were curious, here is the WIP (top right one - also posted above). I don't think I have WIPs, really. I have omg-must-finish-go-away-I'm-not-sleeping-today pictures, and pictures I start that end up being test runs.
Yes. This is my excuse for ease-of-distraction
If I get a better idea and don't finish, it was 'only practice'.
(...my 'sketches that could be interesting' folder has three times the number of pictures that my 'finished' folder does :D )

The birds are based on sparrowhawks (I changed the colouring, obviously).
The cat is a whim.

All the Important and Boring Bits
"And remember, this is for posterity, so... be honest"

Painted in ArtRage 2.5 with tablet.
Tablet getting very pathetic and scratched, pen nib is getting very worn...

Took - about twelve hours. The first three on the dress, which became a cloak.
The last three were mostly 'paint something' 'wait for computer to unfreeze' 'merge a layer' 'wait ten minutes while it merges' try and paint again'
This is 4000x2500 pixels.
I *started* at about a quarter of that, with just the lady... she was going to be dramatic, against a black background, somewhat like Spider Guide Me.
Yeaaah.
That changed.
I was down to four layers at the end - earth, sky, figure and some overlaying mist.

Used techniques from two 'could be very nice' unfinished paintings - an ice dragon one, for the ice and snow, and this one (the FIRST unfinished picture up above) for the under dress/embroidery (yes, there's embroidery, the edge of her gown is ragged and trailing broken threads...)
I really like the sky - it's not the crazily colourful gorgeous sunset type that is always popular :D but I think I got it about right for a bright and sunny winter day. There's a bit of mist in the lower part of the mountain...

Details are Here! (and above ^_^ )
Remember how big this is? Trust me, there's no way you're seeing any detail without going and looking at that picture-collage thing.

YES! The amoeba that is me has reached another culmination point and is splitting again
From now on, all my icons will go into:
the_cat_icons 

I'm going to post all the old stuff there, so the first posts will not be new.

BUT THEN.. I have new ones! *mwahaha*
NEXT question:
Poll #1322724
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4

Shall I keep posting icons here (*as well*)?

And once I have all that sorted, I can stop bothering you all ^_^

 http://zazzlereviewer.blogspot.com/2008/12/zazzle-review-flynn-cat.html

To say I REALLY need to update this, and will! Promise!

Currently? I have pictures I should add in here, pictures I should really, really finish, icons I haven't made for a while...
Been making lots of lovely banners and reorganising my Zazzle store - it's all linked up and pretty and navigatable now ^_^
mostly >.>
But, yeah, put these everywhere -



Also, a shiny RedBubble Gallery - it's a lot nicer, portfolio wise than DeviantART - but DA has a lot more interaction.


Finally; been considering for a while - should I make a community for the icons? Because that way people can watch, if they wish, without having to friend me
(guess who didn't think it through when they first made this journal XD)

Anyway, anyone reading this please clicky^_^
Poll #1321353
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Icons should be in ...