Figment of the Ocean's Imagination

Tue, 06 May 2008 15:38:30 GMT

so tempting to take the pages i've got for the comic and redo them. they're very... ridgid with the way i'm doing the panels. but I have no clue. UGh.

Sun, 04 May 2008 13:59:25 GMT

LIES!

I better get a birthday cake this year...
(though a cone of vanilla icecream soft serve w/chocolate sprinkles sounds faboo, too)

smile

Sat, 03 May 2008 15:16:25 GMT

I miss softball...

http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/story/8091708?MSNHPHCP>1=39002

don't have to be at work til 11, it's 6am...

Sat, 03 May 2008 11:18:18 GMT

no pinks or reds... hardly even blue.

Just a mass of golden light pouring up over the horizon.

two wip's

http://fallenlights.net/WIP/dragoneye/page4lines.jpg
and for a tattoo:
http://fallenlights.net/WIP/mermaid.jpg

Fri, 02 May 2008 22:08:34 GMT

elegysostenuto made me a hat!

Thu, 01 May 2008 15:05:59 GMT

hmm.

i wonder if i should submit a couple of pieces to dragonCon. This is mailin right? I don't have to GO to dragon con?

Thu, 01 May 2008 13:25:04 GMT

okay... tough page today. sacrifice.

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:42:32 GMT

no idea if this sketch makes sense. But there is 'above ground' at the top, and her under the tree, opening a doorway/path into another forest.

Aww. The world is just awesome!

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:27:45 GMT

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:08:03 GMT

I so don't feel like going to work today *Laughs* But it's 40 bucks... ah well. Only 5 hours, right?

But, reason I don't want to is just... everything came flooding out of me yesterday. Last night I thought up another one of those "path" creatures (this one: http://fallenlights.net/portfolio/files/traditional/000471.html ) and it just... seriously morphed within the last 10 minutes to something super. Like.. I'm giddy about this. As giddy as I was with this: http://fallenlights.net/portfolio/files/traditional/000480.html & http://fallenlights.net/portfolio/files/traditional/000482.html )

Maybe it's the third, who knows?

yesterday -
I also spit up a 'final' drawing for a luck, chinese new year,new york city macy's thanksgivingday parade inspired dragon ;) Too big to scan, so you won't see it til I'm done.

AND started painting a woman on a land of masks.

AND had an idea based on an old dream I had a few years ago... about the world becoming nothing more then flying rocks (like the ending of NeverEnding Story)

...I have to think up page 4 for the book, it's a tough one. Needs to be darker. Hints on the other end of the spectrum for the desert people, where the main girl will be showing up soon. Also I do have an idea for the mermaid tattoo I need to get out this week as well, and think up some Alice and Wonderland for my little sister's tattoo.

yea, so... I do not want to go to work! *L*

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:57:57 GMT

This is really making me worried.

the other day, I got 15 'return to sender' emails (that it was bounced, failure to delivery)

I get them once in a while, and it's spam messages and they're pretending to be from me.

Last night... 152.

This morning... 75.

wtf.

These actually look like they were from me, to random emails that were either fake, bounced, or blocked saying it was spam.

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:00:45 GMT

...not a clue on this or where it came from *eyes her brain*

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:47:59 GMT

Just a small note~

I'm still taking commissions, I just have about... a 3-4 week delay before I'll be able to get to the final versions of them (sketches are fine, but I need to concentrate on the list I've got right now)

Brain was dead last night after work, but some how I did 4 little doodles... and I really like 3 of them. Tonight I've only got 5 hours of work, but Matt said his work's having a BBQ til 10pm, so I'm probably going to wander that way...

Work is going decently well. I've not come across anyone to hate (old job, there were a few cheerleader type girls I wanted to strangle)... It's retail, and people still bitch if something is off by .10, but other then that, I've pretty much picked everything up and enough so they'll be training me for returns next (ugh...). I cannot wait til August, then I can put in a transfer for Paint Department. Some poor lady thought she could get away with cobalt blue and not have to do 20 coats of it. Red/Blue are hellish paint colors, the pigment is so widespread.

Matt's eyeing a help desk job (*cough, nudgehint, reminder to moo*), but that got me thinking... it's closer to St. Louis, and if something like that happens, I'd consider moving out of this town, closer to the city, then I could eyeball Homedepot's Expo store.. Oooh. So pretty in there :)

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:21:05 GMT

Damn! That was cool!

We slept through a 5.2 earthquake this morning around 4am about 130 miles away (though there IS a fault line about 15-20 from here)...

We just got the aftershock tremors... I've NEVER experienced that before *giggles* Called my mom, then it happened again and she went "Well, all you need now is a tornado to hit."

..."thanks ma!"

>_>

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:18:21 GMT

list... because I am procrastinating while coffee jitters hit.

Finish Page 1 (yea yea... almost done, ink takes forever to bloody dry!)

Finish Page 2, panel 4... scan to make sure there's enough space for text, ink

Doodle Druids for commission

Doodle mermaid for tattoo commission - find the sketches I'd done over the last few months (poses really, not full drawings)

Doodle Alice in Wonderland for little sister's graduation tattoo present

Go to Michaels and buy another piece of 15 dollar paper for 7.50. Repeat tomorrow before work.

Figure out what size to draw Dragon of Fortune

Wait for email about dragon magazine art - different dragon

Uh... right. Five months of almost nothing to do and April's been bloody overwhelming O_o;. Sorry there's not been too many art updates lately. I tend to stop working for a period of time, my creative side shuts down as well :(

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:58:20 GMT

I am the horizon
you ride towards, the thing you can never lasso
I am also what surrounds you:
my brain
scattered with your
tincans, bones, empty shells,
the litter of your invasions.

I am the space you desecrate
as you pass through.

"Backdrop addresses cowboy" Margaret Atwood (1974)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:09:45 GMT

I am performing surgery upon a frog's ripped mouth.

Poor froggie. He was spilling green bits of sand all over my car dashboard.

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:29:51 GMT

horridness adverted.

Dumped lots of water on it and some paint. s'all good now >_>

...now to work for 9 hours :s Hopefully I get stuck out in garden, going to sneak page 1 with me to work with pen :D

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:27:01 GMT

grrr

i hate the 'this sucks' stage i always hit with paintings. *stab*

Room Eleven - Sad Song

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:46:42 GMT

seen on angelene

...

John Cleese: On Revocation of America

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:59:02 GMT

Yoinked from newbabel

Britain is Repossessing the U.S.A.
A Message from John Cleese to the citizens of the United States of America:

In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy).

Your new prime minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections.

Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.

To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:

You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary.

1. Then look up "aluminum", and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.

2. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut 'without skipping half the letters, and the suffix -ize will be replaced by the suffix -ise. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels.

3. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as US English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of -ize. You will relearn your original national anthem, God Save The Queen.

4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.

5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.

6. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

7. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.

8. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.

9. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) -roughly $6/US gallon. Get used to it.

10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.

11. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. Australian beer is also acceptable as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting Nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of British Commonwealth - see what it did for them.

12. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies). Don't try - the Australians and Kiwis will thrash you, like they regularly thrash us.

13. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America.Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.

14. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.

15. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due the Crown (backdated to 1776).

16. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 pm with proper cups, never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; strawberries in season.

God save the Queen.
Only God can.
John Cleese

...oh just imagine the bitching if our gas ever hits $6/gallon.

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:59:32 GMT

music nerd moment.

I listen to classical, ever since I was a kid (You know that scene in Serenity where Wash is playing with the dinosaurs? He stole that from me. I used to make my toy dino's 'ballet dance' to classical) mostly because I played the violin from 8-23, so I'd always get the CD with the music we were working on (I learn better by listening). Like... a LOT. I really enjoy pieces composed between 1940s-2000+. LOVE them.

Around 1995 or so, when I spent a lot of time on my parents computer typing out a book (don't ask, no one will ever ever see those 250 pages ;p) I used to tape music onto cassettes. One piece was for violin/piano. Forgot to write down the composer or what it was called (doh!)

Always stuck in the back of my mind, that I should see if my tape still worked, probably doesn't... guessing at who it might be. I knew it was contemporary, but no idea who. Monday I happened to hear a piano piece played by Andre Previn and was like... That ...sounds like the right style.

So happened to be just doing some random googling, dug up andre's site and looked to see if he did any piano/violin pieces.

He did.

Omg.

So I amazoned it, hit the play, scrolled through a few and froze. Though not written by him (I just double checked, he wrote the other on the CD, though, but...)

FOUND IT! (hahaha. did a bit more digging because I was thinking about it... was close, but no cigar, so I hunted a little more and this is it :D)

Aaron Copland
Duo for Violin and Piano

Posnak, Paul, piano
Zazofsky, Peter, violin
I. Flowing
II. Poetic, somewhat mournful
III. Lively, with bounce

...I cannot explain how stupidly gushy happy I am at the moment.

13 years I've been looking for this piece, well... listening to it til college or so, then forgot I had tapes. *squees*

Found a few other pieces this way, by little things. ie: female composer, still alive, wrote the Peanuts Concerto was all I had... so that I could find a piece she did for orch, cello, violin and piano ;) ...or... "He's english!" (this was in a cd music store, guy and I went hunting through a catalog.heheh.)... Another piece I adore was sheer luck because the radio station played it 10 + years later. oi!

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:31:46 GMT

okay... time for a list.

- ~~mail off goddess of lust~~
- ~~finish commission #1 (almost done, just have to darken some areas, add a little details)~~
- work on cover art for graphic novel
- get page one done TODAY.
- find ref's for this t-shirt commission
- poke the band to see if they want on the list
- find email address of girl who wants to tattoo commission me
- drink coffee
- doodle up the 20+ ideas I had in my head while doing other work (more trees, durr)
- draw a griphon. for some reason people at gencon have been asking me a lot for griphons
- remember that there's a stilt walker downstairs that needs to be finished
- try to come up with a more ideas for 'how the stars were born' series

Art Masks in town

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:13:34 GMT

Matt and I stopped in at one of a few galleries in town because I spied in the newspaper that they were exibiting masks.

These aren't all of them, and I suck at taking pictures... but this gives you a nice range of really really interesting looking creations!

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:16:49 GMT

I thought this was cool (I really miss listening to the blues, never remember to find a station)

http://www.wdlj.com/RadioFreeMojo.htm

that guy came to Home Depot today, was at my register. Ended up talking for a little while and found out he was a DJ ^^