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Have a wonderful holiday everyone.

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I hope everyone is having a good week.

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If it is any consolation to my cherished dA commenters, I'm also behind on voicemail, email, and LJ comments. Not to mention housework, laundry, and packing for a trip to Austin tomorrow.

I procrastinate towards everyone equally!



*slinks off to feel guilty*

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Beyond the extended Halloween-party weekend extravaganza, I've been fighting with a piece and rearranging software. So I vanished for a few days.

It's good to be back.

Off to look at deviations and read journals!

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Have a creative and mellow day.

Me and my vampire's hours are off to bed.

Critiques are always welcome. There are fabulous artists on here, and any feedback is appreciated. Of course, I may not always agree, but having my point of view expanded can only lead to good. ]]> ~unstable-isotope http://unstable-isotope.deviantart.com/journal/10441105/ http://unstable-isotope.deviantart.com/journal/10441105/ Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:39:18 PDT
I miss critiques - regular, daily, intense critiques. I know I have let a lot of the skills I learned at SAIC go fallow (it has been a few years spent in law firms), and can see the lack in my work, but I am not objective enough to pin it down. I have been extremely grateful for the comments and suggestions I've received in comments, and have a folder on my hard drive where I try out different suggestions and try to correct problems others note.

I am thinking of opening more pieces up to advanced critique. I need it, I know.

Brutal honesty I can take, especially with a suggestion of where the starting point may be to correcting the errors I'm making. Random cruelty and trolls {Little Miss "You're the reason sited like this and MySpace are going downill", I'm talking to you and your general subspecies of troll wanna-be}. I've never even *been* on MySpace. I'm in my 30s. I use Live Journal like all the other old fogies. I'm phoenixcoeur on there.

I'm not pressuring anyone who visits here to point out something if they don't want to, but if you notice a flaw, a better way of handling something, or a compositional/lighting error, whatever, feel free to share. I'd be very grateful, and I'll keep my ego's defensiveness offline until I'm past that shit. I am only human, after all, and some of my work, while technically wanting at this point, is profoundly personal.

Blatantly seeking help. Cruelty will be mocked in my own nerdiest Monty Python way and sent the way of the abyss of the delete button. ]]> ~unstable-isotope http://unstable-isotope.deviantart.com/journal/10431128/ http://unstable-isotope.deviantart.com/journal/10431128/ Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:19:11 PDT

So I'm going to try to stay awake today (I normally go to sleep about an hour ago). We'll see how utterly grumpy I am by noon.

]]> ~unstable-isotope http://unstable-isotope.deviantart.com/journal/10419458/ http://unstable-isotope.deviantart.com/journal/10419458/ Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:30:47 PDT
So I bought myself one of these (I did not pay list price - *whew*). And I'm so excited I could about wet myself. Behold the power of (really spiffy professional) toys! I sense hours of happy masking and the substition of the faces of politicians onto pictures of steaming piles of horseshit in my future. Call it educational.

I discovered custom brushes yesterday (my Mom and Dad are very proud, I'm sure). A cheer for the slow, hands on, haven't read the tutorials (yet) learning curve! I know, I know, I'm at the Photoshop equivalent of the slow-kindergartner level, but I'm a ploddin' along. And getting really excited about the things I'll be able to do once I, you know, RTFM and practice. Preferably on the heads of Neocon Republicans, pundits, and bloggers at Little Green Footballs. But I'm a spiteful bitch. Actually, I've just read too much news today and the preponderance of old, rich, white men and their cronies who think they have a God-given (whose God again?) right to run my life and control my body while demonstrating that they are completely incapable of controlling the urges of their own has my blood pressure...a bit elevated. But this isn't a political forum, so I am going to shut my pie hole for the nonce.

And I have just discovered the kick-ass tutorials section on deviantArt. These people rock - they take their time and effort to visually explain to others how they achieve the effects in their own work. As an artist, that makes me a little misty. Altruism. In the arts community. That's something I didn't see much of at the Art Institute of Chicago. Comraderie, yes. Helping competing students...well, only if they were friends of yours. *idealistic sigh*. Fabulous place, nonetheless.
I know telophase
has written several tutorials. If you're a manga artist, or just want to learn from someone who has remarkable control over her media, check them out (and yes, she is at least a casual friend of mine. Insert plug here). And to see lots of Mello and the fabulous ass, of course. Yum, Mello. Such a tasty homicidal maniac.


(thanks to Miss M and 500ml brushes for the brushes and FAQs)

Okay, anyway, I think the 2.5 ...oh wait, it's 3 now...glasses of wine are kicking in. 'Gnight.

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I hope everyone is having a good weekend.

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I wish more of the world was just nocturnal. Then I wouldn't have any problems.

]]> ~unstable-isotope http://unstable-isotope.deviantart.com/journal/10188346/ http://unstable-isotope.deviantart.com/journal/10188346/ Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:22:44 PDT I've been reading comments, I will respond tomorrow, right now just too tired.

]]> ~unstable-isotope http://unstable-isotope.deviantart.com/journal/10178592/ http://unstable-isotope.deviantart.com/journal/10178592/ Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:49:05 PDT Listening to: Hound Dog - Big Mama throton

Back home from a weekend of prurience, debauchery, psychological fraying, and long-distance driving. Off to sleep, with some new ideas in mind.

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Listening to: City Lights - Husky Rescue

I've caught up on the wonderful, thought provoking, honest, and sometimes flirtatious comments all of you wonderful deviants who have dropped by have left. Now it is almost dawn, I'm a touch drunk, and have two cats circling me pointing out that their butts are not going to scratch themselves.

Have a wonderful, creative weekend all!



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So it's five in the morning, I'm drinking a glass of wine, and there is a thunderstorm moving through.
It's good to be alive.

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