I'm actually pretty peeved because I think my Wacom tablet's pen is slowly dying. As I fought the pen, trying to make it write only while the nib was pressed to the tablet (and not up in the air) I growled and cursed up a regular storm. Below are the results. I like the colors fairly well at the moment, and just need to clean up the trees I think. And...here we go!

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I'm reading Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way right now, and feel like it's really helping me recuperate artistically. I sort of need direction, and the book is awfully *nice* - nothing completely out of left field...it kind of rings like a conversation I've had before but forgot somehow along the way. Resonant like remembering things, I suppose. I'm going to start doing morning pages tomorrow, and hopefully progress from there to other activities.

And you know what? I really want to be a writer. And...I already am. :)

Labels: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Lopes, lost music, Michelle Lopes

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Here's a nifty site that lets you generate whatever message you want on a church sign board! And if you like your cleverness terribly well, you can buy your image on a little magnet for a dollar (and ninety five cents). I haven't gone so far as to purchase a magnet from them, but that's due more to a wealth of possibilities on my part than any lack in shiny-shiny from them.

And no, the mice don't really love you - they just love to lick things.

Labels: church sign generator, fun, weird stuff

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Warcraft...writing...let's combine two of my favourite "W" things-to-do and voila! A World of Warcraft Writing Contest! The prizes aren't really my kind of bait: although I would definitely be excited to meet the Blizzard writing staff, I'm not sure what I would do exactly with a giant sword replica. Perhaps I would impress my new neighbors with my ability to garden with an oversized relic from the fantastic realm of Northrend? More likely I would get drunk and wave it about wildly in the perfect solitude of my living room, hoping to avoid any permanent scratching on the wall plaster - but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Story time! Oooh la la, let's write something fun, kiddies!

Labels: Blizzard, Lopes, Michelle Lopes, World of Warcraft, writing, writing contest

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I love that question. It's so rife with possibilities! "You know what you need?" A lime green waffle iron? A leatherette collection of classical literature from Spain? A bicycle with a dildo seat?

Alas, the real answers are usually quite mundane: a Philips head screwdriver, a new light bulb, an oil filter. Fie on you, mundanity (not a word)! Double fie!

The above image includes some flora I'm working on painting for my final - which has been delayed (due to a hard drive nosedive) for a few days. Mmmm...painting stuff in Photoshop...I'll post the trees when I make 'em look pretty, too. I drew those trees with my fave mechanical pencils, the good ole Papermate Sharpwriter - plebian and friendly through its hearty plastic soul.

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Here's something to prevent the omniscient pinching of my blog...I've been using pics like this in my project for textures n' stuff, and I really love this one in particular, although I don't think it'll get into my final film.

Happy St. Patty's Day!

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I don't know if that statement is entirely true, but I do tend to draw a lot of strawberry blonde chicks with overly large peepers. My final is on Wednesday, which means that this image will become one part of a vainglorious whole including: decay! houses! rampant tearful orbs raising their orisons to the heavens and hells!

Which in turn means more content for this blog - goody goody!

Personal: I am stressed due to finals and apartment hunting (I need to be out of my old place by the end of the month), and am therefore napping a lot, much to my personal dissatisfaction. Despite this narcoleptic stress release factor, I am actually progressing very rapidly on this project. Magic eight ball sez: done on time! Go go magic eight ball!

Labels: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop CS2, After Effects, experimental film, Lopes, Michelle Lopes

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