I got a new phone recently and after looking at free wallpapers for something quick and easy to put on there I thought, Ugh, I can do better than most of that. No, really, its not a compliment to my artwork but a complaint about the poor quality of stuff out there. I suppose it was free.

I was also disturbed because most of it was actual artwork stolen and shrunk to fit from where ever people found something cool. That's great if you want to download it to your own phone but don't offer it to other people without asking & crediting the original artist.</rant>

Anyway, that led me to making some of my own and it was suggested that I make something with a wolf for my brother. My phone has the ability to show an animated wallpaper so I thought I would make him a nice picture of a wolf howling at the moon with clouds rolling across the background.

That lead me to using photoshop. I haven't used anything but illustrator in ages. Several times I thought...I know there's an easier way to do this. This led to looking up tutorials and doing more pictures which led to the latest picture.


NewWorlds by ~Maitane on deviantART


I will have to do some more stuff to keep what skills I have from leaving my brain in favour of useless tv show trivia. O_o

It has been a bit lonely and depressing of late. My family went away for the end of last week and normally I would have shouted for joy, danced through the rooms and happily wandered around at all hours of the night. But it has been rather lonely online as well; a friend I was hoping to spend a good portion of my time with has been mostly absent of late. I feel like I am nagging her by even asking her how she is doing and that she is always one step from making up some reason for going offline. We have hours of time when we're both at the computer but lately we've talked of nothing much. I am sure space is the thing to give her but I hate feeling like someone important to me is wandering away. I suppose the Taurus natural instinct is to hold tighter.

The ups of the art world have become lows lately as well. I won the tee shirt design contest to have it put down by one of the people who did not win. It did taint the cheerful feeling of surprised shock at being chosen for first place. I then worked very hard on a vector piece for a sci fi art trade only to have more than one person think the individual depicted was a boy and not a girl. =/ An abstract piece garnered one comment from someone telling me that it was awful. *sigh* It is hardly enough to make me even pause doing what I do but some days it does get you down, especially on top of everything else.

I finished another vector piece for the mage game It can be seen here ~*~Ash~*~

It has at least been better received so far. A fellow DAer asked me to do a collaboration with him so hopefully that will turn out well. It is somewhat daunting to work with a stranger. I don't want to disappoint him.

Or a piece that I started a long time ago but never finished. Here is the link to the latest artistic attempt of mine.  I must say that drawing is much less time consuming. 

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/32876852/

The doll base is from Angy-chan at http://www.yumestudio.it/angychan