Drawr Addiction Saturday, Nov 7 2009

So the other day, I was introduced to a Japanese art gallery the other day called pixiv (http://pixiv.net) that is really great for me, personally, because 1: it’s easy to browse, and 2: it’s easy to find really good art that’s in a style interesting to me, since it’s all usually anime or manga-based (or based on it, even if it’s not stylized).

Now, affiliated with pixiv is another site called Drawr that I have hence become addicted to.  Drawr is an online oekaki site that functions much like pixiv itself does, with a main page for artist’s works, the ability to friend users, and the ability to watch or favorite other users.  You can also comment on others’ works…by drawing a picture to reply to their picture.

As an oekaki, it actually isn’t as easy to use as others that I’ve worked with (like pchat), but it makes up for it just because the site itself is really good.  And somehow, the people on it are…amazing.  I’ve seen pictures in there that look like they are photorealistic, yet the colors automatically available in it are very specific.  In order to create new ones, you literally have to paint it on the page, on opacity, mix it with another color, and then select that color – and yet, I’ve seen pictures that are practically gradients with the level of smoothing the artist has created.

I’m blown away.

Anyway, that aside, I’m having lots of fun messing around with it.  I’ve literally just joined as of the 4th, so I don’t have a lot of practice yet, but hey, I’ll upload them here, too.  That way I’ll have a nice triangle of places you can see them (drawr, DA, here).

Also, HVZ.  I got tagged at the end of the night tonight, during the mission.  I had a hurt foot anyway, so I decided to break one of the rules of Zombiland: don’t be a hero.

I was the bait to draw the zombies towards us instead of the rest of the group – me and one other dude named Patrick Something-With-a-C. Cassidy?  Maybe.  We both got zombified.

…Should never have switched to a nerf gun.  I think socks would be easier.  =\

Last count I checked: 486 versus 707, zombies in the lead.  After tonight?  Probably a lot larger of a gap.

PICTURES!  In order from first to last:

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I’m a hippy baby girl! Wednesday, Nov 4 2009

So this morning, when my CD player radio alarm began making confused buzzing sounds at me (I still haven’t programmed it to a station, so when I forget to set it to CD mode it just gives me static) I got pulled out of the strangest dream and I was grateful for it. I don’t have any idea what I was dreaming about, but just as I had to wake up my main character chick shouted, in delight, “I’m a hippy baby girl! That’s perfect, put it on my tombstone!”

So weird. Glad to be done with the dream. Though “I’m a hippy baby girl” kept going through my head for a good ten minutes after. Do I have any idea what it means? None.

In other news, for those fans of the Westminster polka band, they are appearing in my Zombies and Stalkers story (cameo appearance). I may or may not post that story, seeing as it’s going to be submitted for a grade. And, turns out that polka music involving banjos actually does exist on the internet, which was very cool. The music itself isn’t that bad, either, as long as you mind neither polka nor banjos.

Last might within four hours (after dawdling for at least six) I wrote a sketchy version of Love and Zombies, a sketchy outline of my massive paper due next week, and tweaked my other story set in the Warped Christmas world (like Savior, my older story). I’ve decided to more closely follow my basic source.

This is a good day, with lots of sunshine, and I watched lots of TV last night and do not have too much homework to do. I don’t know if some weeks are just easier than others, or if it’s all in attitude and mood and spiritual energy. Speaking of spiritual energy, I’ve been trying to daily read the Magnificat, which is a publication my Gramma Lois got me that has all the readings and prayers of the day in it. I don’t know if I’m giving it as much attention as it’s worth, but sometimes little moments and prayers stick out at me and then I know that the extra time spent to do a little reading with God is worth it.

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Do I Have To Make All The Puns Around Here? Monday, Nov 2 2009

I went looking for banana puns today. I’m just fruity that way. Google disappointed me. I wanted to not have to grow them myself, splitting my attention between work and the internet can always trip one up. It’s always a tree-t to find someone else doing what I love to do (yesterday I found a book with an entire section devoted to viola jokes. The section was titles “Second String Humor”).

But now I have to go back and try to find my own puns. *sigh* And I’m just not feeling it today.

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