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Avatar Finale
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Jul. 19th, 2008 @ 09:44 pm
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Avatar Finale.
I am dead from the awesomeness. Totally. Wow.
So much wonderfulness. Going on. Right here.
Maybe I'll be more articulate tomorrow.
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Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 3: E-hon, p.14-19
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Jul. 12th, 2008 @ 03:40 pm
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Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 3: E-hon, p.14-19
( Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 3: E-hon, p.14-19 )
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Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 3: E-hon, p.11-13
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Jul. 12th, 2008 @ 11:43 am
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Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 3: E-hon, p.11-13
Horizontal scrolling. :)
( Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 3: E-hon, p.11-13 )
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Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 3: E-hon, p.01-10
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Jul. 12th, 2008 @ 11:16 am
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Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 3: E-hon, p.01-10
( Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 3: E-hon, p.01-10 )
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Inuyasha Final Chapter: #558 "Tomorrow"
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Jun. 17th, 2008 @ 08:30 pm
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I have other things to blog about (whatwhat? I just got back from New York!), but I'm going to talk about INUYASHA.
The final final FINAL chapter of Rumiko Takahashi's epic manga Inuyasha was just released in Japan, and the fabulous ladies of adinuyasha just uploaded their scanlation of it today.
OMG!!!
I suggest that anyone who ever has been involved with Inuyasha should head on over and read the last few chapters and see how it ends. :) The basic setup is---
Spoilers ( basic Inuyasha final battle setup )
And that's about all you need to know from the last few years of Inuyasha. Heh. (There has definitely been cool stuff, like Sess!Mom!, but you'll need to read to get those. :)
NOW, I must talk and about the ending!! and Dogwood.
( Spoilers from here on out. )
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New Website Design: Silversong
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Jun. 2nd, 2008 @ 06:22 pm
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I've redesigned my website! Finally. I've been meaning to do it for years (literally), but could never get an image done that I liked enough to base a design on.
http://purple.mytica.net
I quite like the new design, it's light and airy and simple. I handcoded the html, css, and php, after looking at lots of tutorials to remember HOW to do all that stuff, since I haven't coded a website in a while. I haven't fixed the problem with my coppermine gallery yet, but that'll take some hours of work and a revamp, so it's a job for later.
I uploaded the large version of my main site image to dA:
Lavender Line by ~purplerebecca on deviantART
The only thing I regret on it is that there are only a few pages on my site that are long enough to require scrolling down to see the whole thing. :)
Dogwood: if people are worried, I have not abandoned Dogwood, it's just this next update has turned out to be more involved then I've realized, and I've got several projects going at once, including being finally finished with a month of overtime at work. And I'm easily distracted...
It's coming, I just can't promise when.
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Stephenie Meyer Houston Host Signing
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May. 19th, 2008 @ 01:07 am
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Report -- Stephenie Meyer Host Signing - Houston
I got out of work by 5pm and got to the high school across Houston sometime after 6pm. I was 3 rows from the back, and had something of a 3.5 hour wait to make it to Stephenie to get my book signed after she spoke. I brought my hardcover copy of Eclipse to be signed, along with my copy of the Host.
This was my view of Stephenie:
You can hear what she said through the lexicon and youtube, with footage taken by people who were much closer then me:
http://www.twilightlexiconblog.com/?p=914
I completely love and ADORE Stephenie Meyer. Everything I've read and seen, everytime she talks, I'm impressed at how fabulous, kind, and real she is. She's just a fangirl like the rest of us, along with being a wonderful writer and adorable person. Love you, Stephenie!
( Report, ART I gave to Stephenie, and non-spoiler Host verdict )
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Got it.
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May. 6th, 2008 @ 11:17 am
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I've got "The Host" and a ticket to Stephenie Meyer's Houston booksigning event on Friday.
mwahhahahhah. :)
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Avatar: The Boiling Rock part 2
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Apr. 27th, 2008 @ 12:02 am
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Avatar: The Boiling Rock part 2 -- fangirl SPASM!!!!
OmGOMGOMG.
(dvd is out, therefore torrents are out. Search for it.)
AND SPOILERspoilerspoiler
( really, SPOILERS )
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Twi-hard Twilighter (+art)
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Apr. 16th, 2008 @ 12:22 am
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Edward is a vampire who "falls in love with a mortal and destroys both of their lives, in a romantic and loving way."
--Robert Pattinson, in a recently-released AP interview and video: here
Haahaha! Total glee. Thank you for that, Robert.
I'm currently caught in the grips of Twilight obsession, and for my daily fix I have these sites in a quick-loading Firefox bookmark folder:
http://www.twilightlexiconblog.com/
http://www.bellaandedward.com/
http://community.livejournal.com/lion_lamb/
http://twilightmomsforums.unrealblogs.com/
http://hisgoldeneyes.com/
I'm pretty sure that not much slips by me in the world of Twi-movie news. *is dork*
And my opinion? I had some concerns earlier, but everything I've seen so far just gets me more and more excited. I think (and hope and pray) that this movie is going to be wonderful.
And I ADORE Robert Pattinson as Edward. I've always had a hard time picturing Edward (one reason I tried to draw him), but when they announced Rob's casting, it was a sudden snap of "YES THAT IS IT!!"
Twilight fanart!!
A Twilight Meme, done slowly and with love. Full of SPOILERS.
Twilight Meme by ~purplerebecca on deviantART
Edward Cullen and Light Yagami face off. Because it needed to be done. XD
Light Edward by ~purplerebecca on deviantART
PE exchange pics:
PE Rd. 62 - Culture Shock's Alec & Brooke for Reed Hawker
PE Blind Lighting Round: Talina for Bleupencil
PE: Talina for Bleupencil by ~purplerebecca on deviantART
My coppermine gallery isn't letting me upload right now, so half of these are only available on Deviantart atm. I can't figure out how to fix the gallery and it is bugging me greatly. :(
Deviantart has catagory folders now, so all my Twilight fanart can be found there easily: http://purplerebecca.deviantart.com/gallery/#Twilight
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Artness
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Feb. 20th, 2008 @ 01:48 pm
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Posted on DA and my website but not here in the last few months:
Dehj for FeralGrinn and the PE Rd. 60, Dec. 2007. Merry Christmas. ;)
Dev Stock Reffed Sketches 5
DevStock Reffed Sketches 6
Eris/Winter for Amy/phoenixelement, for the PE Bad Girls lighting round.
Dogwood planning sketches
OCs abound
Magazine Sketches 07
Sketches-Does
Noein: Karasu Sketches
Random Sketch Compilation 07
kinda ugly, but, meh.
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Dogwood Blossoms: Character Outline
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Jan. 28th, 2008 @ 11:32 pm
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I've had a few people ask for a character breakdown for Dogwood Blossoms. I will continue to update this outline as characters are revealed in the comic. I'll also put here the little background stories about Sesshoumaru's children that don't fit in the comic narrative.
This outline is a supplement to the comic and therefore contains SPOILERS. It's best if you read the comic and then read this for a few more fun details. :)
( Dogwood Blossoms: Character Outline )
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Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 2, p.17-23
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Jan. 28th, 2008 @ 02:43 pm
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Pink!
Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 2, p.17-23
( Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 2, p.17-23 )
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ZUKO!!
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Nov. 30th, 2007 @ 11:04 pm
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Avatar: Day of Black Sun ----
ZUKO!!!! YES!!!!!@!!!@!!!!
*runs around, whooping*
WHOOOHOOOOO!Feeling::  jubilant |
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Orginal Art/ Buy Handmade!
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Nov. 28th, 2007 @ 10:58 pm
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My local town has an Art League, which is mostly little old ladies doing still-lifes and landscapes, and they have a Christmas Gallery every year to sell their work. I managed to find it today, and there were the expected landscapes, etc, and also unexpectedly there was some quite good stuff, which is always cool to find. Even more unexpectedly, in a "bargain bin" of loose, unmounted watercolors, there was this gorgeous watercolor of a diamond-paned window with flowers and shrubbery. Really, quite lovely, and marked only for $2.63.
So I totally bought it. Paid them $6, which was all the cash I had on hand, though it was definitely worth more.
Hee! I got pretty original art!
I don't have much of that, and I definitely should get more. It's very green, though, and doesn't match anything in the house, so likely I'll frame it and give it as a gift some time.
I'm definitely thinking of working on more physical media, sellable art. Broaden my horizons. Things like Bluefooted is doing: fairytale-based, rich and textured and gorgeous.
Things I need to work on: backgrounds, and placing figures in a setting. HARD. SO HARD. Portraits and pin-ups are so much easier. But a fully-compositioned artwork with setting and character is so much more powerful. Yeah.
The little old ladies who were working the Art League gallery today were of the fun, scatter-brained-friendly-artistic type, instead of being the perfectly-coiffed "I and my daughters were all Homecoming Queens" type, which means perhaps I would really enjoy joining them in their painting/arting sessions. XD I totally should try it out.
Speaking of art as gifts, I just discovered Etsy.com: "Buy and Sell All Things Handmade" and it is awesome. I love their "Buy Handmade!!" campaign as well. I'm going to be making/painting several gifts this year.
Merimask has an etsy gallery (those dragon keychains, oooooooh).
I've just finished an awesome scifi series were the author makes a point that in a world where everything is mass-produced cheaply and homogeneously, that the real way to show wealth is to surround ones-self with high-quality handmade items: hand-carved furniture, hand-calligraphed invitations to high-class parties. :} I think that that is AWEsome and totally true. When you can get anything and everything exactly the same all over the country at Walmart, how to you truly one-up the Joneses? Buy and commission handmade items. They can't be copied, reproduced, they're totally original. And expensive, because it is human labor and skill.
(sci-fi series is the VolVorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold, and deserves its own post. In a word: LOVE.)
So, yeah, GO HANDMADE!
Oh, Dickens on the Strand, this weekend! And I can't find my bustle-y type skirt! Ack!
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Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 2, p.13-16
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Nov. 19th, 2007 @ 10:58 pm
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A Dogwood update in less than a month! Whoo!
Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 2, p.13-16
( Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 2, p.13-16 )
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Life, it happens, some
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Nov. 8th, 2007 @ 07:33 pm
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I went to the Texas Renaissance Festival on Saturday! Yayness.
Though I dislike paying to shop on principle, there is just so much wonderful shopping for me to skip going. And people in costume, which I love. I spent too much, but was pleased with what I got, so that's good.
I scoured the faire for the best face-painter I could find, and I think I found a right fabulous one. I paid for my friend to get her face painted, and then myself, and asked questions of our artist. She was a lovely lady who's been face painting since the 70's, and she was willing to talk. XD
Tips I learned:
She uses tube acrylic paints from Hobby Lobby: they stay on well and peel off with water easily. She uses (hypoallergenic) loose glitter: she dips her finger in water and then into the glitter, and lightly and carefully dabs over the face-paint.
And, I need to practice.
I haven't worked a con in over a year, and I miss it! (I have to work Fridays in the newspaper biz, so I just haven't bothered.)
But I was able to paint kid-faces at our church's Halloween Trunk-or-Treat Festival, and I remembered how much I love it, and how hard it is! The pressure to work fast and get it right the first time, with expectant faces waiting, is, because it is short-lived, exhilarating, rather then stressful.
Oh, I was movie-inspired Bellatrix LeStrange for Halloween! White streaks sprayed into ratted curly hair, lots of black lace, and a cheap wand. XD
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Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 2, p.8-12
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Oct. 25th, 2007 @ 01:24 am
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Dogwood Blossoms, Chapter 2, p.8-12
( Dogwood Blossoms, Ch2, p.8-12 )
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Art Post
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Oct. 25th, 2007 @ 01:16 am
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Edward Cullen Hates Me.
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Aug. 6th, 2007 @ 11:22 pm
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Stephenie Meyer's "Eclipse", book 3 of the Twilight series, comes out today. XD
In celebration, I set my bum down and actually finished my painterly portrait of Edward I've had on my harddrive for months now.
Edward Cullen Hates Me.
From Chapter 1, 'First Sight', of the first novel, "Twilight".
1280x1024 wallpaper size available to download off deviantart.
photoshop, references from all over the internet, too many hours.
Watercolors I posted earlier but never blogged about:
 
I've been on a Potter high and been reading Snape fanfic again. Love. Why is it that finding a good romantic fanfiction seems to be so much easier then finding a professionally published romance novel that doesn't irritate the heck out of me?
Am I more tolerate of fanfic because I expect lots of junk before the gold? Or are romance novels really just lots of lust, bad choices, and bad writing? Where am I supposed to get my romantic fix if everything that's supposed to accomplish it is just drivel? Back to the fic I go!
Last night I got a fabulous idea for my next original comic/graphic novel project:
I'm going to take two great concepts that deserve more exploring, one pulled from fanfiction, and another from an obnoxious romance novel I read recently, and put them together into a scifi romance with no supernatural elements. Which means I'll have to actually do research into the physics behind their spacetravel, darnit. But it'll be mostly romance, and it'll be great. XD Look for it in another 10 years or so. :P
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