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Congrats to my lovely author, Euxellis for cracking on and finishing this WIP in spite of exams! I enjoyed dabbling in the DCU for a change, and the Looper idea is a good un!
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Jason Todd, meet Tim Drake...
*DC WIPbang final scene

Process is unexciting:
Researching poses (used a screen cap from the Walking Dead for Tim with the shotgun, no reference used for Jason), sketching and then drawing the final scene in my Arches sketchbook to paint. No progress pics because Flickr doesn't like .heic files and I haven't had time to convert them.

Practicing using one colour and layering for tone contrast.
Inspired by a photo by Alesio Albi.

This was using A Gallo's quinacridone red-gold.

Not SPN today, and only one prompt. This one is Labyrinth, for @nikolas_tower's #Obscutober on Instagram.

I'd messed up this page in my sketchbook trying out colours for one of my SPN cinema fills, but then I thought, why not try ink on top of the random watercolours? So yep, there's some inking, then some gouache on top, and Jareth has a blue face, but why not?!

Apparently this is my third sketchbook from the Sketchbook Project and it will be the only one I've managed to send back (assuming I don't forget to take it to the post office tomorrow...). The first one I don't even remember at all and have no idea where it might be. The second I have and it's got about three pages filled. This one I dismantled and reflled with some slightly better paper and a few pages of watercolour paper, and I have at least filled most of it.

And here it is in all it's messy glory...

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Update on my non fannish artings.

I've been trying to do a little something every day, to keep myself going. To persuade myself it's easy, I'm using the smal Moleskine travel watercolour sketchbook (it was relatively inexpensive and is only A5 sized). The aim is the doing, so I'm trying not to worry about 'finishing' or perfecting whatever I'm doing.

So far I've done the following.
Some watercolour flowers (no reference, trying out colour combinations and wet on wet techniques).( Read more... )

I thought when this popped up in my inbox it was going to tell me May or June. Huh. Oh well, it does look good. I'm much more a fan of Newt than Harry Potter. Probably because he comes minus all the interminable teenage angst. Plus I can't help seeing Eddie Redmayne's Scamander as a potential Dr Who. LOL

I was looking round our very damp cellar, after bagging up the Christmas tree and deciding it was probably ok to store it down there as long as it was off the ground, and I found some cardboard boxes full of stuff. The cardboard was looking worse for wear, some of it was covered in white mould and I thought the contents were going to be beyond saving, but the first box I investigated had some pads of nice coloured art paper, and though the ring bindings were a bit rusty, the paper itself looked possibly salvageable. Then I flicked through the first pad and found this drawing.( Read more... )

So I totally forgot to tell you the best thing about my session with the Elf Dentist on Christmas Eve!

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River Song is fecking awesome.

"The last time I saw you, the real you — the future you, I mean — you turned up on my doorstep, with a new haircut and a suit. You took me to Darillium to see the singing towers. Oh, what a night that was! The towers sang and you cried. You wouldn't tell me why, but I suppose you knew it was time. My time. Time to come to the Library. You even gave me your screwdriver; that should've been a clue." ~ River Song ("Forest of the Dead")

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Justin Bieber is on telly, it must be Christmas Day afternoon - time to veg out watching Top of the Pops. So to avoid the annoyance of Beiber's fashion disaster clothing and boring bland pop I'm here journalling.
Oh and we've been invaded.( Read more... )

I wasn't sure I'd have time to to do a fill for

tricycleman but - it's

septembers_coda 's birthday tomorrow (not today - idjit!), so I thought I should make a bit of an effort. For her charming love story Seeing Everything, here's Leo and his fairytale castle for Monalisa.
Happy birthday my dear!
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It's as finished as I can get it, I think! Now I have to frame it for Mal before our Christmas lunch tomorrow. I hope the poor old boy is feeling better, he had a stinking cold last week when we met up and shouldn't have been driving.
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Snaffled from

jj1564, who snaffled from

milly_gal , who snaffled from

wings128!

Name six movies you can watch any time without ever getting sick of them

Princess Bride

Serenity

Withnail and I

Local Hero

Raiders of the Lost Ark

The World's Fastest Indian

And for Christmas - Trading Places

Well that was tough! These are not necessarily my favourite films of all time, or the ones I think were the best either, because some of those were so difficult/traumatic to watch I've only seen them once. Like The Deer Hunter and Midnight Express, for example.

I'm trying to draw this Barred Owl for my old friend Mal, who is a big fan of owls in general. I know I need to sort out the right eye, but any tips on enhancing the feathers and other details would be gratefully recieved. Also how can I get the darks nice and dark? So far I've used 2B and 6B pencils - I do have up to 9B.
This is the reference pic (this chap takes fantastic bird photos)

Yesterday hubby and I had a treat -( Read more...with pics )

For those who've been having the problem I was having with email validations and error messages, this is the reply I got from them

Thank you for your inquiry. This problem with your email address being marked as unvalidated was caused by LiveJournal's email server being incorrectly listed as a spam site on a few anti-spam services that are used by email providers and ISPs to filter out spam -- this usually happens due to the sheer volume of email that LiveJournal sends out for its users (comment notifications, other subscriptions, etc). When our server is listed at such spam sites, messages are not delivered to the recipient and instead create a huge volume of error messages back to us, which then triggers the email address to be marked as unvalidated.

This issue should now be resolved at this time, as we have worked with these sites to get our server removed from their lists. Your email address for your account is validated at this time, and you should have full, normal access to your account.

It does look like it's been resolved for me at the moment. Hopefully!

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Music Playlist

Stolen from

viviansface and others

Put your music on shuffle, list the first ten songs and give your favorite lyrics.

Ok, no tagging but obviously if you feel like snagging this, knock yourselves out!

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We went to see the Fassbender Macbeth yesterday.

Wow, it was grim. Overwhelmingly and unremittingly grim. And the violence was hard to watch even though mostly they weren't showing more than blood sprays. Seeing Banquo's little boy witnessing his father's murder was particularly horrible. The cinematography is, on the other hand, beautiful if also somewhat overwhelming. As my hubby pointed out, it felt like every single shot had been thought out to the nth degree, with Oscars in mind. There were no 'ordinary' scenes, so after a while, it was like trying to eat a whole, very rich chocolate cake all at once.

Having said that - it was definitely worth seeing. Though I expect some folk might need subtitles for the more thick Scottish accents!

What to say, what to say... it didn't go as well as we'd hoped. LOL!

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