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Art and stuff.
Saturday, 22 October 2005 07:33 pmGoing to do some selling on eBay (or trying to). Went through all my old books and stuff, and decided there's a lot I can stand to part with. Plus, of course, some of it may be "in vogue" at the moment, what with certain new series on the TV bringing certain old series back into the public eye... So I'm going to try sell them. If they don't sell, well, I can't say I'd be too distraught, but it's worth a go at least.
In other news, I'm getting on well with my "Ammut" picture - although I've chosen to change some of it very slightly, and do the border in real papyrus (mostly because I was an idiot and forgot to leave enough room to properly work the border on the paper I used, and when I stretched it to prevent cockling I went and lost even MORE border space. I'm just getting frustrated by how little time I'm getting to do it - or rather, how little time in good daylight, I'm not short of time otherwise. I've taken to taking it and my pencils to work and sitting in the hot-desking room in the top of the new department - nobody bothers going all the way up there, normally, aside from to use the photocopier (and there's another of those downstairs) so it's quiet, has plenty of work-space, and a convenient computer for the accessing of reference images. :) And it means I can make the most of my lunchtime sunshine. I hate trying to colour by synthetic light, as all my bulbs have a yellowish tinge and you can't see yellow pencil well. :P This is an update!
And lastly, I have another new species. :) They're called DuPhee (aka "cuttlepuppies") at the moment; from the same homeworld (now dubbed "Skai'i") as the DuSkai, and as they're domesticated they were one of the few species to escape when the invaders arrived. Just don't let a cuttlepuppy lick your hand if you want to keep all your skin; they have a radula, which basically means they have teeth on their tongue. Info and development here! (PS I like ideas. ;))
PS since starting to listen to this track at 1.142x speed, it sounds stupid and too-slow at normal speed. :P
In other news, I'm getting on well with my "Ammut" picture - although I've chosen to change some of it very slightly, and do the border in real papyrus (mostly because I was an idiot and forgot to leave enough room to properly work the border on the paper I used, and when I stretched it to prevent cockling I went and lost even MORE border space. I'm just getting frustrated by how little time I'm getting to do it - or rather, how little time in good daylight, I'm not short of time otherwise. I've taken to taking it and my pencils to work and sitting in the hot-desking room in the top of the new department - nobody bothers going all the way up there, normally, aside from to use the photocopier (and there's another of those downstairs) so it's quiet, has plenty of work-space, and a convenient computer for the accessing of reference images. :) And it means I can make the most of my lunchtime sunshine. I hate trying to colour by synthetic light, as all my bulbs have a yellowish tinge and you can't see yellow pencil well. :P This is an update!
And lastly, I have another new species. :) They're called DuPhee (aka "cuttlepuppies") at the moment; from the same homeworld (now dubbed "Skai'i") as the DuSkai, and as they're domesticated they were one of the few species to escape when the invaders arrived. Just don't let a cuttlepuppy lick your hand if you want to keep all your skin; they have a radula, which basically means they have teeth on their tongue. Info and development here! (PS I like ideas. ;))
PS since starting to listen to this track at 1.142x speed, it sounds stupid and too-slow at normal speed. :P
