Going 2 B offline :(

[cirianz]

I'm going to be painting again for the next few weeks & I have to close my computer to do that so my returns will be low sorry
I will still be crunching whenever I can though so hopefully there will be some units trickling through

 

[Adywebb]

No problem Ciri - your contributions are always appreciated

Are we going to see the results of your painting?

 

[ChristopherP]

I hope so!

She's damn good.

 

[muckshifter]

The mind conjures up visions of Ciri having to shut the lid down 'cos copious amount of paint is going to fly.

We all will be keeping a close eye on progress of "The Painting" ...

 

[cirianz]

LOL, yeah, a technicolour computer Better than white.

The painting is currently at the hair tearing stage... & John is getting sick & tired of posing nuddy in the living room...
I havent told him I'm painting a fern yet


I'm currently taking a quick break because if i have to paint another fern leaf I'll scream. I've not figured something out yet because they keep looking awfully cartoony... I'm thinking of giving up on detail & going abstract
Whoops... threw all my toys out the cot

Time for a cuppa I think then back to work

 

[Ian]

You'll definitely have to exhibit some of your work here

Don't worry about the crunching returns, everyone has downtime at some point

 

[TriplexDread]

Yeah downtimes are all to familiar to me babes aswell so dont worry

 

[cirianz]

Thanks.

Time to get back to painting now. Play with the paint some more & see if I can figure out what's missing

*big breath* "once more into the fray dear friends... once more into the fray.... "

 

[crazylegs]

The painting is currently at the hair tearing stage... & John is getting sick & tired of posing nuddy in the living room...
I havent told him I'm painting a fern yet

Lol......Ha ha ...

 

[cirianz]

We all will be keeping a close eye on progress of "The Painting" ...

Well you did ask for it

If you want to check up on the progress of "The Painting" I have just posted the first photo today over at Deviant Art

http://cirianz.deviantart.com/

I'm feeling curious so will continue to put up piccys as the painting 'grows' but that is what I've done so far.
Sorry for the lack of quality, even as a png it just ate so much detail it was almost as bad as a giff
But still, thought I'd give this a go anyway
You'll get to see some of the results of all that hair-tearing

 

[General_K]

Looks great so far, Ciri!

 

[muckshifter]

I don't need to look ... I know she's good.














... hang on, just a kwi peek then.

 

[cirianz]

Well, next buncha piccys is up. A bit of a mess unfortunately but I'm not panicing yet.
I usually find that i learn the most from figuring out how to fix the mistakes i make... & boy is this going to be a learning experience

 

[cirianz]

Well, next installment of piccys is up. I fixed up the... mess & have finished off the leaf litter in that area. Not actually especially happy with it yet, looks very cartoony to me still, & seeing the closeups makes it more so, & makes me wish that i could paint the picture at that sort of enlargement, might start looking a bit more realistic when shrunk back down to real size afterwards..
The one big advantage of pixel art I suppose, you can do your work at 800% actual size

I will probably play around with it a bit more later since it's still niggling at me, but for now I will move on for a bit & have made a start on some of the wee baby ferns growing on the rocks.

For interests sake, this picture (minus a bit of artistic licence of course) is of a collection of rocks etc that we can see out of our kitchen window

 

[cirianz]

I don't believe this. The dog ate my paintbrush

The DOG

ATE

my

paintbrush.

I'm wavering between killing her & crying.

Will go in tomorrow & see if I can buy another one

but I've only seen that brand the once

& with the fine brushes I usually have to buy between 4-6 brushes before I find one that won't split when i use it. So I'm a bit sad at the moment

Don't worry, I'll get over it.
Just down at the moment.

 

[muckshifter]

... I'm wavering between killing her & crying.

Do the crying bit, save the dog.

Don't you just hate lousy critics.

 

[cirianz]

ROTFL

Thank you mucks I needed that

The dog seems to have survived the experience reasonably well.

She's lying curled up under my desk in a nest of splinters & looking cute.

Quite unfair of her really

 

[cirianz]

Well, next piccy posted. Not quite a sharp as it could've been sorry, I took dozens of photos but was having a bit more trouble with camera shake than usual. But it's clear enough to make out the different parts of the piccy & see where I'm up to

Am having fun at the moment trying to paint without bending my neck. I'm glad I'm not my own Doctor as I'm sure that i should drive myself insane


& mucks, thanks The dog has survived well & I was able to replace my paintbrush yesturday

 

[General_K]

I dunno, Ciri...maybe the doggie fancies herself an artist as well, and just has to work on expressing herself.

 

[cirianz]

lol, maybe so. Didn't pictures painted by Elephants become trendy a few years ago? Who knows, this may be the next biggest thing

In the meantime, the next installment of the continuing saga of my painting has been uploaded for any who are interested to see This section was pretty fiddly with trying to paint around the fern leaves, especially when trying to texture the rock, but over all not really much more fiddly than painting the leaves themselves in the first place. I know most people hate it, but i just love painting rocks. All the different textures & colours Hopefully soon I'll be able to get a piccy that doesn't wash out the colours so much. I love trying to catch the impression that if you just reached out & touched it you could feel the different textures of the rocks. These rocks are very wet & slippery & covered in algae so that's what I'm aiming for, although Tomo tells me they actually look more like theyre underwater than anything Oh well, can't have everything I suppose