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Rawwrr.

I wonder how long it’ll be, before the novelty of a new design makes me cease posting for ages? xD Naw. I hope that doesn’t happen. I’m trying to be a little more active on here…and a little more vigilant with sketching…although I should probably focus on finishing chapter 3 of the re-write; what with me having neglected it for a week. Last I recall, I think V’d been snatched by some psychopathic madman, one of my earlier characters. It’s a good chance for me to write just how mad he really is…so I should probably give that a shot.

It doesn’t look like there’s a great deal of work for me to do here; so I might try my hand at remembering where I left off…It’s less obvious that I’m doing my own thing if I write it, than type. Not that I’m skipping out on work. It’s just that there’s nothing else for me to do, it seems. I’d go home..but…an hour bus ride? Srsly? Seems like a waste of time.

D: Double rawr. I have a philosophy essay to write…lesson at 8:45; followed by five hours of freetiem. God knows what the hell I’ll do tomorrow. I’d have preferred it if philosophy were last, rather than English. At least then I’d have more time to put in a few personal quotes about realism in morality. Srsly hoping we move on from realism. We’ve been doing it for a week or two now. It’s so easy, I’m starting to get a little bored. I know, right? Me? Bored with philosophy? Well; it’s more a technical boredom, than a subjective boredom. The facts and subject matter aren’t boring in the slightest. I’m just sleepless, and listening to the madness of anti-Nihilistic morality is just driving me insane.

Honestly.

I don’t forget about this place.

I’ve been dealing with hell for 6 weeks, in the way of a design. On the plus side, I might just have a domain idea for my novel site…but…I’m going to have to keep that a secret, until my design for that also, is sorted…or else someone might snatch up the domain; as people do.

Not that anyone would want to. I mean, it’s in spanish…so…Who knows.

Design for this site is…going ‘alright’, I suppose. Not brilliantly…but it’s not terrible either. I have a finalised look for things, in fact. It’s just a matter of sitting down and putting it up…and, still no sign of an idea for the front page. I’d REALLY like to get the front page working, rather than just being a stand in chocobo picture…which it’s been since before I even started the site, when it was just a testing area work in progress…

It’d be nice to actually get things done around here. College is starting…has started, rather…and apparently I’m in some wierd building for half of my lessons. :| But at least I have everything else in the main building. D: Shame, that. I finally thought I’d managed to get all of my lessons in the same place. :D Swipe cards are hell for getting in and out of places, in large crowds…especially now the AS students are there. I liked it a lot more when it was just our group; after the A2s left earlier in the year. :| This fails.

Okay, I admit it. Change doesn’t often work well for me, unless I plan it myself. I’m still a little irritated that I have different teachers for some of my lessons…’cause I really liked my old ones. But we’ll see how it goes. Looking on the brighter side, I should be happy that I wasn’t stuck in the General Studies crowd…I actually managed, by some bizarre stroke of luck, to get into Critical Thinking…which I’ve been praying for all week. Frustratingly, the quietest corridor in the college; which is next to my old Philosophy room (and believe me when I say that I’ve tried EVERY available corridor…), is a section of the building that I rarely need to use now. :| But I suspect I’ll still go there to hang out and sketch/revise/write anyway, just because, my idea of studying doesn’t consist of sitting in a crowded room full of students, discussing everything they’ve seen on TV in the past year; nor does it contain absolute silence. So, corridors suit me fine. And that’s the best one…so, I’ll be taking permenant residence there every thursday, on my very long, four-hour-free time.

On that note…hopefully I’ll get things done in that time. Sketches, maybe. Chapters. New site. Who knows? I guess I’ll have to wait until January 2010, until I can be ‘really’ productive, with a macbook.

Tableeettt!!!1

1 wasn’t intentional. But I left it, for drama.

Skye has a tablet now! I trekked to PC World at the weekend and picked up a Bamboo Wacom for £65. For some reason, the wacom tablets in schools never really seem responsive…but mine is AWESOME. I’ve been painting all week…but I’ve only come up with:

Small Paint

As you can see, the background is just there so it looks okay when I submit to DA (hence, DA green), it’s still very smudgy; and I haven’t uploaded the full-scale image yet. I probably wont work on it again for a little while, but it’s good to know that I can still paint realism, even with a new tool.

It’s pretty much decided now, what I’m doing for my new site layout. I haven’t done any proper sketches, but I know where I’m going with it. The gallery will be a white box, red text on black; whilst the blog is the reverse. Rico’s going to be my little mascot (the current character I just -cant- stop drawing), mostly because out of all of them; he’s both my favourite to draw/my favourite in general; and he relates to me more than any of them. (Minus the eternal life thing…but, well, we have the same opinions on that. It’s not worth the trouble. And he’s not me, as such. But it’s the minor things that I give my OCs, really.) Oh, and following this theme; my novel site (still can’t think of a domain for it) will be red b/g, white/black text and front. Not sure which way around. I’ll see which I like more from the blog/gallery look.

So I’ll probably get to work on something at the weekend…at which point; when I do my site update; I’ll upload the tonnes of stuff I’ve not been putting up on here, clean up; and sort things out by character. It makes sense to just shove all the old stuff in singular folders; but with the amount of OC art I have now, it’s rather silly…so I’m going to go ahead and sort it in the same format as my DA gallery. Trust me. It looks a LOT better.

I lied.

Exams came up…and let’s face it; I procrastinate like hell.

But I bring new, awesome news! DeviantART meeting in London! On Sunday! I can’t wait. Buying my tickets tomorrow…I’ll get to meet the legendary $Spyed; and place stickers all over the city.  I’ve been drawing over some shoes for a little while now; being indecisive about what to put on there…I think I’m going to go with the signature plan…let people doodle over them if they like on Sunday in Hyde Park. xD

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