7 posts tagged “art”
Whoops, I didn't do a June round-up. How remiss of me. Well I have been very busy trying to do things on my list, and going to Venice with my lovely hubby for our anniversary. I'll do a quick one now, though I can't remember what was last month and what was this month, so I guess it will be a June/July round-up.
1-3 & 7) The Writing Goals
I edited Chapter 1 of Cold Spell! Yay! Haven't done anything else though. Not that anyone has read it :(. I did start planning the sequel when I was in Venice and I think I've had a break through, so don't be surprised if locations in the new book have a strangely Venisian feel to them. I'm very excited to be taking those characters on another adventure. I don't think Flora is done growing yet. Don't know what that means? Read chapter one then! :P
5&6) The Drawing Goals
I did it! The Cursed Flute of History Circles has been entered into the Seventh Sanctum contest. Check it out: http://www.seventhsanctum.com/contestentry.php?Contnum=12
8) Read a fiction novel a month
No books again. Feeling very bad about it, but I'm swamped with college work. It will just have to wait.
9) Actually read all my OU books
I'm reading them, I'm reading them! I got 93% on my biological psychology assignment :). I'm working on the end of course assessment for Applying Psychology at the moment. It's due in on Tuesday so I'm cutting it pretty close, but I'm not that bothered. I've not really enjoyed the course that much. The reading is interesting but the assessment is really weird. So far I've written 2 letters to fake companies, reflective accounts of using wikis and chat, and 1000 words of a report on autism. I've still go to write a reflection on my feedback for the first assignment (urrg) AND a reflection on the course. All this rubbish is marked! Can you tell how much I hate this reflective crap. Don't you people care what I learned from the course? I would not have done it if I'd known what was involved, that's for sure. Oh well, it's nearly over now and I could use the 15 points.
That's all for now!
I finished the comic! Yay! Here it is. This is just part of the complete poster that will make up my entry to the Seventh Sanctum contest. The challenge is to advertise the item, in this case the Cursed Flute of History Circles. Obviously, the curse is not on the advert. I expect it will be in the small print at the bottom when I do that bit.
Behold! Some very Order of the Stick-esque cartoons. I've been playing around with Inkscape under the skillful tutelage of my dear hubby and I found a tutorial through the inkscape website that tells you how to make little OotS avatars: http://www.trazoi.net/tutorials/inkscape/oots/. I made these guys to go in my comic for the Seventh Sanctum contest. I've still got a fair bit to do on the comic and I've nearly finished the manga style bard for the top of the advert. There's only about a month before the deadline though, so I hope I get them finished in time! At least I've been having lots of fun :o).
So, Seventh Sanctum have announced the next contest. Slightly unusual, but here it is: http://www.seventhsanctum.com/contests.php
It seems that the goal is to generate an item and then advertise it in some way. Well, I suppose I could have a go. What's the worst that could happen?
At the moment I'm rather drawn to the Cursed Flute of History Circles, though I'm not sure how I'd draw someone using it. Maybe have to do a comic strip style thing. That would give me a chance to play with Comic Life on the Mac, and Markie is abandoning me for a few days...very tempting. I shall have to have a think. Watch this space!
The deadline for the Seventh Sanctum contest went rushing past and I didn't have anything even close to being finished. Oh well. I'm hoping the next one will be more of a single character thing. It really was the panic vampires that did me in at the end.
I am loving the new generator, though. It's called a Symbolitron and it comes up with story concepts that map to something symbolic. For example, I just got "The story about monster trainers where the characters map to the Ten Plagues of Egypt." Too much fun :o). I'm looking for something like that for my demon hunters in the new book I'm planning, 'The Diabolist's Debt'. I was thinking seven deadly sins, but maybe there's something better I can use. How about this: "The love story where the main character moods map to the Ten Sephiroth of the Kabbalah." Hmm, back to the drawing board, methinks.
I finished the headshot of Charneldream I was doing for the Seventh Sanctum art contest, but then I remembered that I don't have a scanner anymore so I can't post it yet. But then I decided to play around with VectorDesigner and I made this. No, it's not Charneldream. You'll know her when I post her. She has pink horns. Seriously!
This was a lot more annoying to do than my Star Kitten avatar, which I hand sketched then coloured in Photoshop, but I think it come out ok. I like the eyes (though I don't think I've uploaded a high enough resolution for them to show up well on here). I have learned that VectorDesigner is a pain, I miss my scanner, and next time I try vector art I'm doing it on Inkscape and I'm using a pen (touchpad was a real bitch). On the plus side, I uploaded it to my deviant art page so it counts as a goal accomplished :o).
6. Enter 1 Seventh Sanctum Art Contest (why the hell not, sounds like a laugh!)
Well, I did say I would, and the new one has just been announced. For the time being I'm proceeding as if I intend to enter, though I'm not currently willing to promise that I will! The theme is Evil and Company. Contestants must use the Evil Name Generator to make their villain, and the Dark Minion Generator to make them some minions. After playing around for a while, although I was ever so enamored with the idea of Vinecog The Drowner, I have settled on Charneldream for my villain. She's a psychic kind of villain that invokes terrifying nightmares in her victims from which they can never wake. Or something like that. I might change my mind.
As for her minions, I was all ready to go ahead with the Memory Shades From Gaog, The Unthinkable Plane, until I had one more click and burst out laughing when I saw the Panic Vampires. Oh yes, I said, those are the minions for me! Charneldream of course allows her minions to feed on the panic of her victims, so they have a good relationship.
So I'm all set for the Seventh Sanctum Art Contest. Apart from one minor detail. I don't know how to draw...
