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And DONE! (have some art!)

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My synopsis is submitted!

I am SO stoked! And proud of myself! It was very hard to go into my ‘professional’ email account (the one I use for sending resumés) and see my rejection letter sitting there at the top. I suppose I could delete it, but it is something to measure the others to… or something. (It’s a first of it’s kind and I’m oddly sentimental about such things.
There you have it.)

Anyways! I am now committed! I am dying to share my submission, because the fact is, I’m absurdly proud to be succinct and tell the heart of it in only three sentences. ::laughs:: As you can see, brevity is NOT my forte!

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Let Sleeping Dragons Lie…

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 Does that bother you? It’s bothers me too… that little flick of puff at the end just doesn’t look like how I imagine it in my head.

Regardless…

Perhaps this is my next drawing to be finished. ::smiles:: I am not quite sure about those fore paws, eh?

That, and I have a few decisions to make. There is a (slim) opportunity to talk to a publisher and pitch a book idea. I only need, oh, a title,  and a synopsis.  I have prose… ideas…  All the main players! …but which part of the story would I consider the first book? I don’t know…

So there that. If I’m to do this, I have to make a submission in the next two weeks. (No pressure!)

And the challenge to make 20 pieces of art. Twenty GOOD pieces of work… and I might be featured in a local gallery.

Exciting but hard decisions. There is no place there, methinks, for fantasy art. I can buy jump rings and create chainmail jewelry to channel my medieval/fantasy bug (yup, one hobby I adore but never quite started), or I… paint other things. Real world things. Expressionistic things. I did see a mermaid statue, but it wasn’t IN YOUR FACE or anything; she was hiding behind fishies.

So. I can do that. I can do those things too.

It means… sunlight and gardens and oil slicked canvases. Lemon infused hair and home made bug spray (and lots of it). Twenty pieces, I was warned. I have to have a body of at least 20 pieces to sell so that they have a good idea of my skills, and these people feature professional artists. Correction; people who work all day in their studios, and come back again the next day. I don’t have a studio right now, but… I do have outside, and outside is free. That should be enough to get started, if I’m accepted.

Hum, and away the gears do grind…

A watercolor painting of a pregnant fairy with leaf wings against a sunflower background

Spring Gives Way To Fall…

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Each stroke is a learning process…

Yes, light colours can be layered over top of dark.
Dark ones do not have to cast out the light ones beneath.

Can I draw hands and feet to save my life? Certainly not when pressed for time and without reference materials. But that wasn’t the point of the exercise.  The point is to lay down paint and observe what it does.

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WIP ~ Diablo III submission

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So as it turns out, Blizzard is hosting a contest for art submissions. I’m at somewhat of a disadvantage that some people will have a whole month to perfect their art and I’ve less than half that, but I haven’t been excited to draw in quite awhile, and a $5k prize is quite exciting. ::laughs::

I think I’ve zipped along quite fast for muddling around for a few days now. One thing about Photoshop that I think is awesome is the ability to layer artwork, like working on a stack of onion paper. I had the idea germinating in my head to do something similar on a larger scale – draw a person and accompanying scene life size – but I hit a snag when the store I wanted to buy from, only sold rice paper by the roll at 8 1/2″ wide. I was certain they used to sell it wider, but regardless I’m back to square one until I find a supplier. In the meantime, this provides an interesting distraction.

It’s just incredible, that this drawing has 27 layers, and I’m not even done yet. If you want to quibble, 4 of them are redundant 2 layers for an alternate cloak and two for a different pair of pants, but that’s still 23 layers and counting. And to think, we do all of this on ONE sheet of paper, which is really so much easier.

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::preens:: Certainly proud of myself.