Progress: The Doctor

Well, the painting is slowly and surely working out.

I tell you, there's nothing more difficult than rebuilding your palette every time you sit down. That's the bummer with acrylics. Acrylics are fast drying, give you bold, deep colour and it's hard to muddy up a painting when you're using them.

They're fucking impossible to blend though, and oh boy howdy do you have to work fast. Thankfully, I'm best when I don't dawdle and slap down the paint.

Now, I'm not dissing digital painting, you know I wouldn't do that when I work so hard to get good at it. Being a good digital painter is a whole different ball of wax. But I do have to say that having to mix the colour you want before you're able to lay it down, and then running out of that colour and having to mix more? Not something I miss when using my wacom tablet and Photoshop. But it does give me a cocky sense of accomplishment when I can get another palette running in the next session that's working with the one from before. Digital artists don't know how easy they got it! *shakes cane*

So here's the state of the canvas at the end of session two:

( In flash and natural light... )

I'm having a lot of fun painting this, and I'm also enjoying sharing the process with you guys. I don't know if people do traditional art on the net much, and when they do I don't know if they go step by step like this. One of these days I'll have to video tape myself doing a quick portrait. Would you dudes be interested in that? Lemme know.

Oh, and I'm making myself a book where I am writing ALL my commissions in. The ones I remember are:

- Rainfletcher's Luna piece.
- Mel's picture of her as an Amazon with her dude
- Doug's picture of the Space Bar dudes
- Leviathan's picture of the Trio being sexy
- Bree's picture of her characters for her book **urgent**


If there's any more, do do DO let me know. I don't mind a poke and a reminder - I'll never remember otherwise!

Pain management - just in time!

Sort of. So, finally I have an appointment with the Pain Management clinic at Charlies. On the 10th of October, but it's just in time for me as I've started feeling rather horrible lately with the endo. I think it's endo. I'm hoping it's not, so that, I don't know, it might go away if it's not.

I've been having fun making animals in Spore. Earth animals. I made an elephant, a giraffe, a hippo and a tiger. Not all are very realistic, but it's hard to get the animals perfectly right in Spore. I might take screen shots and share at some point. I love Spore. :D

Human evolution... it never fails to fascinate me.

There's a theory that early proto-primates developed stereoscopic vision and bigger brains to see any potential snakes better...

There's a certain biblical poetry to that that tickles me pink! Snakes in trees leading us to knowledge! *happy grin* It'll be interesting to see if they can prove it or not. It's an interesting read at any lengths.

I'm going to be eating up bandwidth and never leaving the computer for a while...

DOCUMENTARIES! Sweet, sweet NERDY documentaries! For FREE! On YOUTUBES. *settles down with moffee and a pack of natural state vege chips*

Oh my GOD, yes!