tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87912498963042941292024-02-19T04:35:50.222-08:00Sister SketchesTrinity Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17074825269623097854noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791249896304294129.post-51631935997048217042015-06-03T10:21:00.002-07:002015-06-03T10:22:21.297-07:00ElevenSarah here. Well, so much for keeping this up and running. So anyway, we started watching a new show, erm... recently...kinda, probably around...Februrary, so actually quite a while ago, guess which one?<br />
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Ta-Dah! My favorite Doctor.</div>
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Doctor Who, for those of you who aren't familiar with this face. Now I cannot draw like this simply from memory, I have a fair memory but I can't hardly do that. No, I used a picture I set up on the computer as reference. I had a LOT of fun drawing him. Seriously, he has a fun face. After several episodes of watching the eleventh doctor I kept thinking how much fun he would be to draw. He is always SO excited, laughing, scowling, grinning awkwardly, frowning, and pretty much making all sorts of faces. His face is also rather unique and distinguishable, so whee. My favorite part to draw was the eyes for sure. The hardest part to draw was his mouth, ugh, I mean, how are you supposed to draw a male characters mouth, realistically, without making it too feminine. Very difficult. I'd love to know what you think.</div>
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I (Hannah) have finally got around to a sketch dump.<br />
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And this one is cool, cause if I put the <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/402368547930138502/">original color</a> one on my iPod and zoom it in to a certain point, it'll match up in color. And I can put my finger in the center and drag the iPod around and it's like a magic color X-ray machine. </div>
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You can see I've kind of started to get into photorealistic CG animation fan art. My papa has suggested I do some in colored pencil.<br />
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<i>To God be the glory,</i><br />
<i>Hannah</i>Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530904394349365571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791249896304294129.post-62724799846682707282014-10-05T14:26:00.001-07:002014-10-05T17:23:59.629-07:00Sketch dump #2Post time! This is Sarah. I actually didn't really plan this post. As I was send a friend some drawings of mine I figure I'd do a kind of a sketch dump. These are really more of finished pictures for me but they aren't edited like the last sketch dump was. Hannah said I don't really need to narrate a sketch dump so that's all and I hope you like them!<br />
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Also do you guys prefer sketch dumps, digital art (photoshop) or...something else?</div>
Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441845282138935331noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791249896304294129.post-90932019799523957162014-09-10T09:51:00.001-07:002014-09-10T09:53:22.842-07:00Q & A sketch dumpWell well well, we still have a blog, and followers! Imagine that. Sarah here, and sorry 'bout the whole blog neglectation...again. Ouch. We're really bad at this. But onward we go! I will be doing a sketch dump today and I hope you like it because it's not been edited a whole lot but I tried to clean it up a bit in Photoshop to make it more visible, and I hope you like it.<br />
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Aaaand not my greatest edit. This is Quinto and Abinwin (A as in apple, been when)the monkey. Or Q & A.</div>
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Quinto is a frequent drawing of mine because a couple months ago, I could not draw guys, only girls, to me guys were THE hardest to draw. I had drawn girls for a long time and with girls you can draw circles for the body shape and legs and just connect them all. (a bit more complicated than it sounds) And for guys you gotta draw a bunch of squares for the body shape accentuated with circles and maybe some rectangles, so... more difficult. And yet I just drew one, and I was so excited I just kept drawing them again and again and again. And he was the first one so if I can keep up some sketch dumps then you'd probably see quite a bit more of him. And Abinwin.</div>
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I think if we had some ideas we <i>might </i>be inspired to put other stuff up. Thanks!</div>
Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441845282138935331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791249896304294129.post-28587569224634621382014-07-05T09:31:00.001-07:002014-07-05T09:31:19.979-07:00Sunshine Award: The Deuce<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666;">My go-to favorite verse is Psalm 119:115 - "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." But I have lots of others that I like. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">British is my best, then I can do Scottish, Chinese, Southern, Valley Girl, </span><span style="color: #666666;">a tad of Irish,</span><span style="color: #666666;"> some French, German, Spanish, Australian, Romanian, whatever accent Davy Jones from Pirates of The Caribbean has, and a spot of Cockney. </span><span style="color: #666666;">(I need trigger words/phrases for a lot of these - "Sort of loose" is my French trigger.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I'd say disliked. In the words of Winston Churchill,</span><span style="color: #656565;"> "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">7. Has the ocean ever filled your dreams?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Recently there was this weird kid in my dream reciting a poem about the ocean and some guy named Rinykim, and then previously an octopus-kid saved me from drowning. But I've only ever seen the ocean in person when I was around two years old, and I was terrified of sharks at the time and wouldn't get in, so it's not really a large item in my mind.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">About once a year. Twice or three times if something special or remarkable happens.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Yeah, okay. Umm... I'm thinking it's either Robin (the Dick Grayson version, but when he wears pants instead of a leotard) or maybe Halt from Ranger's Apprentice or Hatter Madigan, or, I don't know, one of my own fictional characters, or Sirius Black or Fred Weasley, or... or... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">It's a toss-up between <i>I See The Lord</i>;<i> Alleluia, He is Coming;</i> or <i>It Is Well With My Soul.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I've thought about it before and figured I would because I'm going to heaven and they may not be, so better for me to die sooner and go to heaven than for them to and go to hell, better to give them another chance to become a christian. But then in real life I may not be capable of such clear thinking and we all hold our lives so dear so in a split second I may not. I don't know. I'd love to say I would though. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">3. Given the chance to swim with dolphins...would you accept?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Yes, but I'd be super nervous-cited.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Darkness, because when the lights go out I think people subconsciously think of darkness as a semi-solid thing and it gives people that cautious, slightly suffocated feeling in the dark, when darkness is just the absence of light and there is no actual atmosphere change that makes the darkness seem to blanket everything. But when God made so many animals to be able to see in the dark and hunt silently it<i> is </i>pretty scary. I'd say that's darn fascinating. Though I like the light because it's safe.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">To be remembered as someone nobody liked is pretty sad, but to have made no impression whatsoever is...also pretty sad. To have people say:</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">" Hey, remember Sarah?"</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">"Oh, yeah, pfft, I hate her."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">"Hey, remember...whatserface?"</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">"Who?"</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">"You know, she was, uhh... she kinda looked like...well she was kinda... oh well. She doesn't matter."</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">A bit hard to choose. Disliked, I suppose, but not hated.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Probably whenever I'm feeling lost and down, I just write out all of my problems and pray about them. I don't want anyone to read it though because it would make me seem like a super duper depressed person. In all maybe once a month.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I kinda have two, and I know Hannah's gonna tease me about it.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">Briana O'Toole and Mikkel son of a mighty chieftain of Aurland Fjord.</span></div>
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Dat's all the questions, so nomination time. We're going to nominate:</div>
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Ajax Cochrane from <a href="http://arkansaschestertonian.blogspot.com/">21st Century Renaissannsanance Man</a> (congrats on being able to spell that properly, by the way, Ajax).</div>
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Siani Delaney from <a href="http://writingwanderlust.blogspot.com/">Writing & Wanderlust</a>.</div>
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Bekah Joan from <a href="http://foundandcherished.blogspot.com/">Found and Cherished</a>.<br />
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Hannah and Sarah</div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">What up, y'all. First we get nominated for the Sunshine Award, then the Sunflower Award. We're just some sunny, sunny folks. Yet again we have Ajax Cochrane to thank!</span><br />
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1. I am the second oldest of ten children, five girls, five boys, in that order. Funky, eh?<br />
2. It has taken me almost two months to get around to putting these facts up. Much to the dismay of sister #2.<br />
3. I'd really love to act, and my dream movies would be The Incredibles 2, The Silver Chair, a live-action Wonder Woman movie, or a Ranger's Apprentice film adaptation.<br />
4. If I can't act, I want to direct.<br />
5. My official nickname is Hannah Banana, because when I was a toddler I ate a banana with the peel on it.<br />
6. My hair is currently about 2 1/2 feet long.<br />
7. Since February 2012 I have been keeping a list of "Things I Never Thought I'd Say", which is just strange things that have actually been uttered in our family. For instance, have you ever felt the need to say, "Truthfulness is a blue lion throwing a piece of bread at someone's face"?<br />
8. I am almost always cold. Socks are magical, and jackets are my friend. Seriously, I have my everyday jacket, my everyday formal jacket, my formal jacket, my leather jacket. Then there's my trench coat, my weird Russian coat, etc...<br />
9. My favorite shoes are combat boots. I also have an everyday pair and a formal pair.<br />
10. Do you want to drive? Cause I don't want to drive, and my driving test is in 31 days.<br />
11. I memorize things really well. I can recite Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, and Ballade of the duel at the Hôtel de Bourgogne Between de Bergerac and a Boeotian (from <i>Cyrano de Bergerac</i>). Not to mention movie quotes galore.<br />
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<b>1. Who is your favorite dwarf in The Hobbit?</b> Hmm... that's tough. In the books my favorite was Balin. But in the movies... Probably Bofur. I'd say Thorin, but I have issues with his attitude, and I'd say Kili, but I don't like the whole deal with Tauriel (I mean, seriously, it's a perfectly good, internationally well-loved novel with NO romance... do you really have to add the romance? I doubt it would ever be a box office failure, I think you can assume that from the get-go. And who goes to The Hobbit to see a romance? It's a epic fantasy period war film.)<br />
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<strong>4. If you were only allowed one CD to listen to, for the rest of your life, which singer/ band would it be</strong>? I'd say Maranatha singers. I know all their songs, they're worshipful, and I grew up on them.</div>
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<strong>5. Are you an introvert or an extrovert? </strong>I am both and neither. Comfortably settled between the two.</div>
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<b>6. What subject are you most knowledgeable on? </b>*hysterical laughter* I really can't say. It would be easier to find things I am not knowledgeable on, like math, cars, Apple products, public school, the manual option on a Canon camera, fashion, subtlety, etc. But apart from these things, I am fairly well-informed for a teenage girl. My parents have done a wonderful job of making sure I'm prepared for life.</div>
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<b>7. Chevy or Ford? Note: This could affect your standing as a blog follower here LOL. </b>Chevy. Just Chevy. Because Chevy homeschooler vans.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">And Sarah's answers, and also her eleven facts:</span><br />
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1. Who is your favorite dwarf in The Hobbit?</b> Ohh, my. Yeesh, this has been a conundrum for some time cause in the books (before the movie) it was Fili and Kili, and then in the movies they made them all different and younger looking and gave Kili a bigger part because of the end (hint hint), I still like them, but less so because they're popular now and EVERYBODY likes them.Although one thing that really irritates me (and I'm gonna add this just cause I feel like it) is everyone thinks that Kili is younger than Fili but in the eighth chapter of The Hobbit, Bilbo says that Fili is the youngest,and according to Wikipedia Ori is supposed to be the youngest. I still think Fili should be the youngest.<br />
<b>2. What is your opinion of All Quiet on the Western Front?</b> None, same as Hannah.<br />
<b>3. Favorite pre-1980 movie?</b> I don't know, probably a Disney movie.<br />
<b>4. If you were only allowed one CD to listen to, for the rest of your life, which singer/ band would it be?</b>Hmm. Can I choose a composer? Maybe Tchaikovsky or Beetoven.<br />
<b>5. Are you an introvert or an extrovert? </b>Very much an introvert, but I sorta wish I could be more outgoing.<br />
<b>6. What subject are you most knowledgeable on? </b>Probably cats and animals. We have three cats, one outside and two inside. Over the past year or so they've each had some sort of infection or something and I'm always the cat doctor, giving them medicine and everything. I do a lot of animal research for fun and pick up queer bits and pieces. Oh, but I'm a total nerd about art. It's kinda hard for me not to completely gush over all the drawing books, sketch books, paints, paintbrushes, ceramic figurines, canvases, and other awesome things in the art store.<br />
<b>7. Chevy or Ford? Note: This could affect your standing as a blog follower here LOL.</b> I wasn't sure till I read Hannah's answer, I'd say Chevy but I'm not very automobile-minded I suppose.<br />
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1. I'm not very good at talking to people, in real life or through the internet. And I'm really shy.<br />
2. I love music and animals.<br />
3. I can draw well, but I have bad handwriting.<br />
4. I don't like when people show-off.<br />
5. I am the third oldest child in my family.<br />
6. I am the second tallest in my family, much to the dismay of my older sisters.<br />
7. My favorite food is spaghetti.<br />
9. I don't like being mainstream, like everybody else.<br />
10. Other people's opinion changes what I think very much. Like, if everyone in my family tells me my painting is great but someone else who I hardly ever see doesn't like it I get really sad.<br />
11. This little section of facts has taken me almost a week to finish.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Grace Anna Rose</b> at <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><a href="http://dreamsofanarnian.blogspot.com/">Dreams Of A Narnian</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: white;">Joannah</b><span style="background-color: white;"> at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6;"><a href="http://awrittershome.blogspot.com/">Writers Who Need To Talk To Other Writers</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>My (other) sister, Emily</b> at <a href="http://ourfantasystorys.blogspot.com/">Our Fantasy Stories</a></span><br />
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<b>1. How much time do you spend writing in a day?</b><br />
<b>2. Pencils or pens?</b><br />
<b>3. Is the internet your friend or your arch-enemy? (Lookin' at you, Pinterest.)</b><br />
<b>4. If you could live anywhere other than Earth, where would it be?</b><br />
<b>5. Would you consider your music preferences main-stream or hipster?</b><br />
<b>6. If you could only have one book besides the Bible, dictionary or thesaurus, which would it be?</b><br />
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530904394349365571noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791249896304294129.post-15498221886999385222014-06-21T13:12:00.001-07:002014-06-21T13:13:20.286-07:00A Long Day for SarahHey everybody. This is Sarah. Sorry about the whole blog neglectation (that may or may not be a word). It's been pretty busy at home what with tons of plant nursery stuff plus Papa is building a big shed and works on it almost every spare minute he can, having us lift, measure, pluck, straighten, nail and hand him things. But we really do get free time that we could use to finish posts and do lots of things but we're just lazy despite Hannah's little inspiring speech of turning away from laziness and forging on through the many difficulties of a blog. She started a post about another award someone gave us but still hasn't finished it, and that is all I shall say on that.<br />
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So, we watched How to Train Your Dragon 2 and it was spectacular! I really like the animation, and the dragons were as awesome as ever. And I noticed something neat about the conformation of Toothless' head and face, his muzzle is very short while his head is very broad and flat, and it's almost like a snake. None of the other dragons have a head shaped quite like his, I know they made him unique like that and made other Nightfuries so rare so that Hiccup could have the most special dragon of any other character because he is the main character. I cheated. I really liked Toothless and I tried to draw Nightfuries in different colors before but none of them really looked like Nightfuries, one's head was too pointed and one was too round and fat and I couldn't figure out why, I still can't. But yesterday I made one that looked like Toothless, except I wanted to make a girl and it worked. So here you are.<br />
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I made her entirely on Photoshop and I think I'm a bit too proud of her since she actually worked and now I have my own Nightfury!(more or less)</div>
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I have tried many techniques to make different animals on Photoshop with softer brushes, darker outlines, no outlines, heavy shading, light shading, special effect paintbrushes to try to mimic fur, and surprisingly this one had almost no special effects or paintbrushes and turned out better than most of the ones that did. I just used a round paint brush of different shades of blue and green, the only special brush I used was like a paint splatter brush to give the eyes little flecks of darker blue. Before this version you see here^ I made this darker one.</div>
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Hannah actually likes this one better just because it's darker. Sadly I had lots of trouble getting this versiond seperate from the lighter one while keeping the signature on so her eyes are also more round and less shiny then the other one because I must have turned off the wrong layers while trying to save it as a JPG and not a Photoshop file and not on top of anything else.</div>
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441845282138935331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791249896304294129.post-45632083793775284522014-05-03T13:58:00.000-07:002014-05-18T17:00:50.356-07:00You Are My Sunshine (Award) [Updated]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello, again, 'tis Hannah! Long time no see. While we've been gone, the art projects have been building up unblogged about, and time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' by since the blog was attended (that was a 70s/80s reference... Fly Like An Eagle by the Steve Miller Band).</div>
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Suddenly, out of the blue, while we were fiddling around with our personal life, someone awarded The Sunshine Award to our blog!</div>
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<li>Answer the questions they asked you on your respective blog</li>
<li>Nominate another batch of bloggers (eleven being the standard)</li>
<li>Question them (<i>evil chuckle</i>)</li>
<li>Notify them that they have been nominated</li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Here are your questions:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Do you prefer cats or dogs? </b>Cats. They're clean, smell <strike><i>good</i></strike> better than dogs, and seldom drool. I have never had a dog, but we have had around fifteen cats at our house over the years (pretty much only three or four we wanted, the rest just showed up). We have a couple of long-haired house cats that have been with us for nearly ten years, their "official birthday" being this Monday.</span><br />
<b>What is your favorite outside activity?</b> Walking around. Taking movies. Carving snow sculptures. I don't do sports, and I don't much care for outside work. Walking around outside gives me a chance for some quiet time. Update: Swimming and inner-tubing behind a pontoon boat on the lake are also enjoyable for me. No oceans 'round here, or I'd consider surfing.<br />
<b>If you got to meet one of the presidents, who would it be?</b> Ronald Reagan would be my first choice. I've met his personal secretary (from after he was in office), and I heard that he was God-fearing, Constitution-believing, upstanding man. If not him, then George Washington. Then I might be able to tell people first-hand exactly how the Founding Fathers intended this country to be.<br />
<b>What is your favorite fantasy series?</b> Aw, dang. That's tough. I'd have to say The Chronicles of Narnia.<br />
<b>If you had been Peter Jackson, would you have changed the name of the last Hobbit movie to “The Battle of Five Armies” or stayed with “There and Back Again”? </b>Definitely would have kept it as "There and Back Again". That is such a poetic title, and it couldn't have been better if I had thought it up myself.<br />
<b>What is your favorite time of the day? </b>I'm tempted to say whenever I'm asleep. But apart from that, 6:00 to 8:00 PM. That's when the light is most beautiful outside, and in the spring it's right before sunset, just past that super-hot time and into the cool, shady, loverly atmosphere before dark. I believe that's around the time photographers call the magic or golden hour. <br />
<b>Are you from the North or the South? </b>South, my whole life. *sprinkles Tony Chachere's everywhere*<br />
<b>Who is your favorite character in Pride and Prejudice? </b>No clue, never read/watched it. My dad prefers us to avoid the chick flicks for at least awhile longer.<br />
<b>Are you homeschooled, public schooled, or graduated? </b>Homeschooled, but graduated-ish. I'm not old enough to graduate yet, but pretty much all my schoolwork is done. I guess the last thing I need to do is get my driver's license and do the GED. Not too excited for either of those.<br />
<b>Any plans for college? </b>I'm not doing college. As I told someone recently, my whole life has been Home Economics. And I just finished my early morning "Botany" class for the day.<br />
<b>What is the last thing you were doing before you began answering the questions? </b>Sprinkling Perlite on the Manhattan Euonymus and Arborvitae in our family nursery. See? Botany.<br />
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Sarah also wanted to answer the questions, so I'm turning the mic over to her.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Do you prefer cats or dogs? </b>Oh, cats, quite a bit, although they're are several species in the dog family that I'm particularly fond of even though we don't have any dogs.</span><br />
<b>What is your favorite outside activity? </b>Probably swimming. But I can already think of a couple other activities that might top that.<br />
<b>If you got to meet one of the presidents, who would it be? </b>I'd probably have to say Ronald Reagan because I'm not really... politically-minded and Hannah has some pretty good reasons for why she'd want to meet him.<br />
<b>What is your favorite fantasy series? </b>Wow. There are just so many awesome ones. The best one I can think of at the moment is the Twelve Dancing Princesses series by Jessica Day George.<br />
<b>If you had been Peter Jackson, would you have changed the name of the last Hobbit movie to “The Battle of Five Armies” or stayed with “There and Back Again”? </b>Oh, conundrum. I don't know, "The Battle of Five Armies" sorta spoils it for those who haven't read the book, but "There and Back Again" is a bit vague, and yet it's an actual alternate name for the book, though I still don't know how big a part The Battle of Five Armies is going to be in the movie. So I suppose if The Battle of Five Armies was going to be a huge part of the movie, I'd choose that title, but if it isn't, I think that the original one is appropriate.<br />
<b>What is your favorite time of the day?</b> Afternoon. Between about 3:00 and 8:00 I think.<br />
<b>Are you from the North or the South?</b> South, I assume because I've always lived with my sister.<br />
<b>Who is your favorite character in Pride and Prejudice? </b>I don't know, never read it or seen it.<br />
<b>Are you homeschooled, public schooled, or graduated? </b>Homeshooled.<br />
<b>Any plans for college? </b>I'm not going either. So, no, no plans.<br />
<b>What is the last thing you were doing before you began answering the questions? </b>Eating Chicken Divan.<br />
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Let this award make us feel guilty about abandoning our blog and steer us away from tergiversation and general faithlessness.<br />
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Now to nominate <strike>eleven</strike> nine other bloggers:<br />
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<b>Siani Delaney</b> at <a href="http://writingwanderlust.blogspot.com/">Writing & Wanderlust</a><br />
<b>Ashley M.</b> at <a href="http://quaintrelles.blogspot.com/">Inky Wings</a><br />
<b>Ashley T.</b> at <a href="http://hushashleyspeaks.blogspot.com/">Cheery-O</a><br />
<b>Pretty Much Anyone</b> at <a href="http://ravensandwriting.blogspot.com/">Ravens And Writing Desks</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(excuuuuse me, there are several bloggers and the Bible says don't pick favorites)</span><br />
<b>Sarah Faulkner </b>at <a href="http://inklinedwriters.blogspot.com/">Inklined</a><br />
<b>Bekah Joan </b>at <a href="http://foundandcherished.blogspot.com/">Found and Cherished</a><br />
<b>Anastasia Elizabeth </b>at <a href="http://everystinkinpage.blogspot.com/">Every Stinkin' Page</a><br />
<b>Aili</b> at <a href="http://ailigirl.blogspot.com/">Aili's Adventures</a><br />
<b>Nessima Tavariel</b> at <a href="http://nessimasrealm.blogspot.com/">Arda Nessimava</a><br />
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<li>Fruit-flavored candy or chocolate?</li>
<li>Under what circumstances would you jump on a shark's back?</li>
<li>Would you rather grab a handful of cow poop or drink milk straight from the cow?</li>
<li>Batman or Iron Man?</li>
<li>Fantasy or sci-fi?</li>
<li>Three years of famine, three months to be destroyed by your foes, or three days of the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the coasts of the land?</li>
<li>Favorite season?</li>
<li>Is the Lochness Monster real?</li>
<li>Death by fire or death by ice?</li>
<li>Out of any animal, what would be your dream pet?</li>
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UPDATE: It seems some people are confused about the questions. You can skip number one if you don't understand it (I assumed everyone assigned personalities to numbers... when I gave the above example, Trinity walked by and said, "Seven's not wise and patient, he's a jerk. Cool, but a jerk.") Also, the seventh question is a reference to 1 Chronicles 21, when God gives King David the choice of having the three aforementioned things happen to his land as punishment for numbering the people of Israel when He told them not to.</div>
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530904394349365571noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791249896304294129.post-57591881868381355122014-02-21T16:27:00.002-08:002014-02-21T16:27:22.832-08:00Marvel LadiesIt's Hannah, again. I've waited a long time to be done with this one. It's been a month long project, and thanks be to God for the foresight to put the files on my second drive, because the single folder "Marvel Ladies" was a good 9 GB with over one hundred .psd files, while my main drive has only 1.69 GB to spare. This is what comes of saving dozens of extra copies.<br />
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Alrighty, let's begin at the top. Backstory. I'm a Pinterester, and I get on that site entirely too much. On one of my daily visits, I saw that someone I follow had pinned this picture:<br />
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I almost didn't give it a second glance. I think I'd seen it before, but this time it caught my attention because in the comments below there was some dispute about Marvel lore and cinematic trivia, and since I am a person who unconsciously absorbs facts about silly things like comics and movies, I stepped in to help sort out the mess. Then I saw that people began to say things like this:</div>
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I like to fix things. I'm a fixer. So when people were saying they thought it wasn't done right, I wanted to "make it right". I'm just weird. Maybe slightly OCD. </div>
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In any case, I did some research and some sketching. It wasn't a big thing at first, and I didn't ever think I could do better than the picture above, but I thought, Well, if I'm going to do this, might as well do it right. I know for sure that Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman are very short, but I couldn't remember how Sif and Pepper, etc, compared. </div>
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You might be able to see the notations beneath each lady: 5' 8", 5' 3 ½", 5' 3", 5' 10", 5' 9", 5' 3", 5' 9", 5'7". Yeah, I went so far as to look up each celebrity's height, but you have to keep into account that Natasha wears freakishly tall heels. Each lady's outfit is just the one I liked best or was the best I could get. Didja know there are tons of Natasha and Pepper images all over Pinterest, but Darcy? Jane? Betty? Ha. I had to dig into the Marvel Cinematic Wiki to get a handful of blurry Betty pictures, so I pretty much made her outfit from scratch.</div>
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Now this was supposed to be a quick job. After scanning the drawing in, after about 15 minutes I had finished with Peggy's dress. But then I started on Sif.<br />
And I finished days later. That is some complex armor. And a lot of fun. This entire project was a crash course in lighting and clothing and skin tone. It's been a long, painstaking process.<br />
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Speaking of lighting. When I'd finished the outfits, hair and skin, I presented the picture to Mama and all my siblings, to rounds of gushing and compliments. Once all that was out of the way, however: <i>What's wrong with Peggy's forehead? She looks like Megamind. She looks lumpy. Jane's head is way bigger than everyone else's. The two chicks on the end, their legs are too bright. Darcy looks way vampirical. It looks like she's wearing a mask. Sif's eyes are blurry. Peggy's hand looks like a flipper!</i><br />
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All part of the process, I suppose. Mama did say, "If I were in the Sistine Chapel while Michelangelo's painting on the ceiling, I'd say, 'What's wrong with his head? It's all egg-shaped.'"<br />
But I did listen to the criticism, with a sigh, and I was beginning to realize that I was only half-way done. Especially when my greatest fear was pointed out: I had followed all of the reference images too closely, because it looked like each lady had her own personal light source.<br />
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"How am I supposed to fix that?"<br />
"You're going to have to do the skin over again."<br />
"NOOOOOOOO!!!!"<br />
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Then I told myself that if I wanted to fix this thing, and get it done, I was going to have to accept this horrible fate. And so I went again, making sure that the shadows of the clothing all fell on the right side instead of the left. I adjusted Peggy's dress and fixed her "flipper", moved Darcy's eyes closer together (she did sort of resemble a frog), completely redid Peggy's face, warmed up the pale people and toned down the orange people, generally making everyone look like they belonged in the same "picture".<br />
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So now, after 39 days of hard work... and easy work and medium-skill-level work...VOILÁZ!<br /><br />And despite the slightly-harsh criticism, everyone in my family has been super encouraging. I must have gone to Mama for advice a dozen times, and she knows just how to deal out the compliments. I have to admit I was getting pretty unhealthily proud about Pepper's face. 'Cause I really like it. Also, Sif's armor. But I'm working on that.<br />
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If there's one thing I would like to change about my picture, it'd be the stiff, inactive poses. In Vylla's picture she had the girls in all sorts of interesting positions that made them seem alive. So proper respect to her. This was all hers in the first place.<br />
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<i>To God be the glory,</i><br />
Hannah
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Hannah here. No, this title doesn't refer to sketching an eye. This is about using lighting to attract someone's eye to a point on a picture.<br />
Likely every artist that has had an official teacher has been told about contrast: contrast between dark and light. My mama, who has actually had art lessons (as opposed to all us home-school kids), said that her art teacher told her to make the dark parts of a sketch <i>black</i>, and the light parts <i>white</i>. It makes for a more dramatic image.<br />
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Light draws the eye. If you are in a dark room, and the only source of light is a tiny strip under the door, odds are you'll look at the light instead of at the rest of the room. This power can be manipulated. Bwahaha.<br />
I don't know how many people are familiar with this technique (the technique that may or may not have a name, I'm not sure), but it can be used to great effect.<br />
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One notable example, and the one I remember best, is Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper.<br />
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Who is the most important picture in this image? Jesus, of course. And you may notice that, contrasting with the dark walls that make the backdrop, there's a window right behind Jesus, framing his head, drawing the attention right-smack to his face. About as effective as a halo. Da Vinci's pretty cool.</div>
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Another artist I see that uses this technique is Gustave Doré. He's got a fairly distinct hand. His illustrations of the Bible have shown up in both my <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Way-Master-Evidence-Bible/dp/0882709704/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1392832269&sr=8-7&keywords=evidence+bible">CKJV bible</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Balancing-Sword-Vol-Allen-Wolfe/dp/0977264629/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1392832134&sr=8-3&keywords=balancing+the+sword">my study guide</a>.</div>
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See how in each of these, the white wall, or bright lightning, or the lighter sky, draws the attention to the dark figure or object directly in front of it.</div>
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Of course, there are different ways to use this. You could, for instance, make the object of importance light-colored itself.</div>
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Take a look at the New Jerusalem picture. What's the first thing you want to look at? Probably the glowy-white city down there. It's the idea of a spotlight, if you understand that.</div>
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<i>To God be the Glory,</i></div>
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<i>Hannah</i></div>
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530904394349365571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791249896304294129.post-52426484738810202762014-01-11T07:00:00.000-08:002014-01-11T14:45:33.995-08:00Drawing EyesA step-by-step of how I draw eyes. No reason.<br />
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For starters, when I normally draw any pictures of eyes, I do the drawing from memory or from my reflection in a mirror. I chose to take a picture instead as reference, this time. This is Sarah's eye.<br />
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I took the picture to my computer and blew it up so I could see it easily.<br />
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Then I began sketching out the basic lines of the eyes. I usually begin with the teardrop. I'm weird that way.<br />
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Congratulations me! Already it looks like an eye.<br />
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The top of the eyelid, or as I've heard it called, eyeflap. Often the eyelid line has a vaguely squarish shape.<br />
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By the way, the eyelid does not lay flat against the eyeball. It's, I don't know, a half a centimeter thick, so it has an edge that's visible on the lower side at the angle. (That sounds super intelligent of me). Also, with all the eyes I've closely examined (meaning, no one's eyes outside my family), there's a subtle wrinkle on the lower lid, as you can see.<br />
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I put a little line where the eyebrow will be, and began to mark out the shape of the iris.<br />
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You may have to erase and redraw. As you can see.<br />
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I began shading the eyeball, and added the pupil. I had to redraw that part too. Depending on what the lighting's like, it'll be bigger or smaller... so long as it's round.<br />
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Shading the iris. Using light lines, and keeping in mind that the outer rim of the eye is usually darker than most of the iris. <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/26529085275129304/">Once in a tutorial</a> I read that you should be very careful to keep all the lines pointed toward the center of the pupil, so, respect the master, whoever they are.<br />
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Fleshing out the eyebrow more, and adding more shading...<br />
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The beginning of eyelashes! Keep in mind that eyelashes are curved, not stick-straight, so they go down slightly before they go up. Also, as I've heard and observed, the eyelashes are rarely seen individually, but stick together in clumps. Pretty clumps.<br />
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Adding lower lashes. Smaller than upper lashes, and a lot more scarce.<br />
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Darkening the pupil. Pupils are like, really black. I added a bit of shading around the eye (you may not be able to see it). For the most part, I'm done now.<br />
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So I hope this was at least vaguely informative. I'm not any sort of expert, I'm a sixteen-year-old girl, not Van Gogh or Michelangelo. I just like doing eyes. I have eyes. You may also have eyes. Eyes are good.</div>
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<i>Update: Here's the image superimposed over Sarah's eye. You can see here that the eyebrow I've drawn is not proportioned correctly and instead should be much larger in comparison to the eye (and it's not just Sarah, she's got much thinner eyebrows than I have). That's one last tip, then. Well, maybe fuller eyelashes.</i></div>
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Hannah</i>Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530904394349365571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791249896304294129.post-5205252383017282132014-01-09T12:14:00.001-08:002014-01-09T12:39:23.950-08:00Long-Promised Post: Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
As said, a long-promised post… one of them, that is, because there have been two long-promised posts. I’m going to wisely start with the one that happened several months ago… starting about last April in fact… gosh, that was a long time ago. In any case, last year was my (Hannah’s) first time to go to an event in our town called the Father-Daughter Ball. </div>
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Now, I am not a person to keep prom-type dresses just hanging around in my room. I’ve never gone to prom. Don’t see it likely that I ever will. So I needed to dress up formally and I didn’t want to wear my sister’s dress from the previous year. (I didn’t want to buy a new one, because, doncha know, formal dresses, new or used, cost anywhere from about $60 - $CrazyAmountOfMoney).</div>
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Fortunately, around that time my aunt gave us some of our now-grown cousin’s old prom dresses, so I rifled through them and found one I thought I could alter into something I’d like to wear.</div>
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The color was not my first pick, but it was the closest to my size. I set about to sketching ideas:</div>
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Then I was struck with a conundrum. Where would I put this dress while I was adjusting and altering and snipping and sewing and stuff? My sisters would not stand (literally) for being my models for my hours of pin-pricking and needle-pricking and scissor-pricking and so on (hee hee,<i> sew</i> on...).</div>
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So instead I convinced Sarah (with a great deal of difficulty) to let me use her as a model for a duct tape mannequin I decided to make, based on <a href="http://lindsay-lacey.blogspot.com/2012/01/project-duct-tape-mannequin_02.html">this tutorial</a>.</div>
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I believe the question, as I worded it when asking Mama for permission to do this craft, was: <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">"Can I wrap my sister in duct tape and then cut things with sharp objects very near to her?"</span><br />
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The process of making the mannequin took several hours in and of itself, but once it was finished I could begin work on the dress.</div>
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It makes the skirt look all ripply, in simple terms. To achieve such a look, Mama gave me very complicated instructions that I don't really remember and a demonstration. In short, I used quilt-binding on the inside of the dress and gathered the skirt to the quilt binding and sewed it there. It's very difficult to sew something on the inside of a dress from the outside, so I turned the dress inside out and hung it up again, but then there was an underskirt thing (Crinoline? I'm not sure what it's called... here you can see the depths of my knowledge in designing) getting in the way, which I hiked up and tied around the top of the mannequin with a measuring tape. Resourceful me.<br />
By the way, the mannequin thing is only a bust, not a full body deal. I didn't have quite that much duct tape. But I had a hanger on the inside of the mannequin and rigged it up hangman-style to our ceiling fan. This rig was there for several weeks and got pretty annoying, so occasionally I took it down to appease the other people in my house. (This is why I would like an art studio. I can do all of this stuff without me or my materials getting in everybody else's way, or vice versa).<br />
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Here is the lovely shapeless-looking monstrosity as I'm working on the pickups. Of course, it looked much better on the outside.</div>
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Now, I do have to say that Mama voluntarily took in the sides of the dress, which involved the sewing machine and was beyond my skill level.<br />
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Me and Papa right before we left for dinner, posing and being awesome.</div>
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530904394349365571noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791249896304294129.post-50015986569794509512013-12-12T12:47:00.000-08:002013-12-12T12:58:38.982-08:00TigerHa ha! It IS sooner! This is Sarah and what I mean is, the time between posts for me is sufficiently shortened! Woo-hoo! I also get two posts in a row! Though if you would have liked one sooner, I'm sorry, we've had a lot going on in the past month, house cleaning, decorations, friends and family coming over and lots of entertaining. We had 32 or so people at our house for Thanksgiving. So, although I've had enough free time for one I have excuses if you are unsatisfied. I've made three pieces of photoshop art in the past week but I will release them one at a time starting with...( pause for dramatic effect)... this one!<br />
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Now this was pretty simple to do. It's pretty similar to the Snow Leopard I did two posts back. I guess I like doing night sky background because it's dramatic, beautiful and easy. But, snow, especially at night, is harder, it's like a periwinkley-ish blue with white-blue outlines. I think I got this picture from Wikipedia, well, at least part of it, the tiger. The background came entirely from my own imagination, though I did listen to a lot of music while I did this, which is where I get much of my inspiration. The original picture is this.</div>
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As I compare the two on this post, I realize with some horror, I forgot the whiskers! But it doesn't really take away from the picture so it's okay. I got a fair bit of reception from my family and a long-lost Bamboo brand drawing tablet to help with future drawings. </div>
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On a side note, The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, comes out tommorow and I think I'm equal parts excited and scared. Because...<span style="color: red;">Spoiler Alert!</span> I'm afraid about the part where Bilbo takes the Arkenstone and Thorin is furious with him and in the last movie at the end he finally accepted him and this action will shatter any belief Thorin had in him in the first place. Also, the battle. I don't know if it takes part in this movie, but I'd really like Fili, Kili and Thorin not to die as soon as possible because they happen to be my favorite characters.</div>
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So! I don't know if this will be the last post of the year, but I'd still like to say, Merry Christmas!</div>
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441845282138935331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791249896304294129.post-66997410169767529082013-10-11T15:06:00.001-07:002013-12-12T11:38:19.589-08:00CentaurI'M LATE! It's Sarah and I know, but I have been sort of trying! I also have good reasons for being late except for one which unfortunately is the most prominient, I'm lazy. Yes, yes I know it's unbelievable but it's true. But as of now I don't think there are very many people that mind my being late except for Hannah. Hannah has been doing a fair bit of pestering me to do another post, not because she likes them but because I am a lazy slacker and I'm not very creative when it comes to writing at least a page's worth about someting you can see in a picture. And she wants to keep the blog up and running. I finally told her that once I got my drawing back from when I entered it in the fair the I would do a post on it. And I said I would try my best to get it done today. About four weeks ago. I guess I didn't quite do my best. Sorry Hannah. The drawing I eventually entered in the fair was an older drawing of mine of a lady centaur playing a harp that looked sorta like this.<br />
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I got it back with a blue first place ribbon (which doesn't mean very much, because everyone else in my age group probably got one too) and a comment that it needs more shading. I<span style="text-align: center;"> was a little annoyed that I got criticisim on my drawing, when most of my siblings just got praise for how well they did. But Mama told me when she took art classes they told her to make the shades from white to jet black so maybe that is what they meant. So I shaded it darker to look like this!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He swung the door open unceremoniously. The door banged against something behind it before it could open all the way. The general didn’t seem surprised, just kicked the door as far as it would go and gestured to the room.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“There you are, ma’am.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ash peered around the general. The room before them was a casual bustle of people playing cards at a corner table, getting coffee from the small kitchen, telling jokes. It looked more like a recreational room than anything she had expected of the debriefing room.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Directly in front of the door was a plain sofa with three young adults, two appearing to be just out of teen-hood and the third not even that old. The two girls were sitting next to each other, the slender dark-haired one was glued to her iPhone, and the stockier blonde girl chewed on the end of her hot pink braid while reading a popular sci-fi book. The young man, a ginger, was indifferently flipping a coin back and forth across the backs of his fingers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ash frowned, then looked skeptically to the general. “Sir,” she sighed, “I know I don’t look like an expert, but you don’t need to hand me off to anyone. I assure you, I can do everything I told you.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The general raised an eyebrow. “Do I look like I’m doubting you?” he asked, bewildered.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The young man glanced over at them. “Nah, it’s just us.” His legs were casually hooked over the arm of the couch, but he sat up gracefully, managing not to kick the girl next to him in the head. “It’s normal,” he told Ash. “We all look pretty unprofesh. It helps with the whole plain-clothes song and dance. The James Bond stereotype is just for ceremony, excepting His Majesty here,” he said, inclining his head to the general. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The general gave him a dour look, then turned to Ash. “This is Agent 06, Finnegan Flannery.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Fox, for short,” the young man said cockily. “Who’s the newbie?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I’m not a newbie,” Ash said before she could stop herself. Fox heard her.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Alright, who’s the newcomer?” he asked, with a small smile.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“This is Ashley Doyle,” the general said, considerably more formally than Fox. “For the time being, Agent 83.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“It’s Ash, for short,” Ash interrupted. The general only gave her a brief disapproving look. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Until further notice, Fox, you will be in charge of showing Ms. Doyle the ropes.” He turned back to the door. “Good luck.” Then he was gone.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fox gave her a wry look.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Sorry,” she said, uncomfortable, The general may think she was a rookie, but she knew enough to recognize that Fox was one of the agents very high on the ladder of authority and skill, and now he was getting saddled a “newbie” who obviously didn’t know what she was doing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>He winked. “For what? We all started out the same way.” He sat in a nearby computer chair and spun halfway to look at the two girls on the couch and muttered, “Expect maybe the general. We’re pretty sure he was a test-tube baby to begin with.”</span><br />
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This was the sequel I promised. Sarah also said she'd do some of her artwork soon, and the next post by me will be about what I've currently been working on. Here's the teaser:<br />
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Hey e’rybody! It's Hannah, and it’s also high time to introduce a few new people to our little blog! </div>
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I am pleased to present Finnegan, Lalitya and Babe! I would introduce their friend Ashley, but she is not available today, so maybe another time.</div>
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Don’t get overexcited, they aren’t real. These four folks (well, three, right now) are figures of my imagination, but they get along pretty well, and have endearing snark, so I might as well pop them out here for y’all to see.</div>
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Okay, left to right: Finnegan Flannery, Lalitya Jobs, and Penelope “Babe” Farrow. Actually, I won't often refer to them with those names - they prefer the code names Fox, Coon and Possum. See the resemblances? You may if you're from the South like I am.</div>
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The reason I said code names instead of nicknames is that these three are actually spies, with abilities as well as appearances that match their titles. I got the idea for this quite suddenly while my dad and my uncle were talking about something that was eating my uncle's barn kittens and leaving just the feet behind. Sorry, I might've warned you that this was not for the faint of heart... or stomach. In any case, they were guessing at what it might be: raccoon, skunk, fox, coyote, possum, bobcat... and got to talking about the different characteristics of the animals. </div>
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So, the story, quite undeveloped as it is, is focused on Ashley Doyle, better known as Ash. She's a rookie spy, and having just joined the as-yet-unnamed spy corporation, the rookie gets dumped on a senior agent, being Finnegan Flannery, also known as Fox, also known as Finn, also known as Finn Flann, depending on who's talking to him. Usually just Fox. And by association, Ash meets Fox's regular partners, Latitya and Penelope. Lalitya prefers Coon. Formally, Penelope's called Possum, informally, they refer to her by her nickname, Babe. No one has yet figured out how Babe is short for Penelope. </div>
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Here's me with one of my newest tentative pieces of artwork. Excuse the picture quality, it's an iPhone picture. This picture that is shown is not even the finished product. I am currently (meaning today) working on doing one of these on canvas. And if that works out, I may sell it! See if you can guess what medium I'm working with. </div>
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530904394349365571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791249896304294129.post-60546480121513765572013-08-22T06:52:00.000-07:002013-08-24T11:28:45.793-07:00Linh CinderGASP! It's been over a week! I thought I'd gotten over this forget-the-blog-procrastanitus! Well, fear not, I SHALL recover. It is my QUEST! ONWARD, TO DEATH AND GLORY!!! FOR NARNIAAAAAAA!<br />
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Oh, hey, it's Hannah, by the way - as per usual. I still have things to put up that have not yet been put up, one of which being the aforementioned other thing besides the last thing, or in other words, the thing I mentioned earlier, being the thing that I have not put up.<br />
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This is based on a character from Marissa Meyer's Cinder, a futuristic Cinderella story. It's part of an eventually 4 book series, The Lunar Chronicles. In any case, in the beginning words of a Wikipedia summary, "<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Cinder is a cyborg living in New Beijing after World War 4, with her step-mother, Adri, and her two step sisters, Pearl and Peony. Cinder owns a booth in the market place, where she works as a mechanic with the family's android, Iko."</span></div>
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The original picture did not have gloves, as I accidentally forgot them, so I had to resketch and rephotograph it to add the gloves ('cause those are a pretty important part). And also, to get the human-looking attributes to the face and body instead of the more cartoonish drawings I normally do, I had to base it off of a picture of myself. Yes, I went outside and set up a tripod and took some weird pictures of myself, while Sarah, watering the plants, gave me some strange looks. But all in the name of art.<br />
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The digital painting took quite longer, since I'd never done it before, and since, of course, painting is not just a jog in the park. It takes some time to get it looking right. About halfway through the process, I began to have some computer problems. As in, there was not enough room left on the hard drive to save my next draft of the file. The Cinder file, once I was finished, took up 4.27 GB, out of my hard drive's 73.2 GB, most of which was already used up. Fortunately, I have a second hard drive, which is a whopping additional 465 GB, so I moved the files over. Disaster averted.<br />
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Okay, I think now would be a good time to say that this is an uncomfortable post for me. Because as it turned out, in the middle of working on this project, Sarah, who was reading through the series again, began to feel uneasy reading it, because in our family we are not supposed to read "love stories". It would take a long time to explain, but my mom and dad don't want us to be developing unrealistic views of what love really is. And, it being a fairytale, there is, as expected, romance. Since this was one of the book series that Trinity had previewed instead of Mama and Papa, we took the book, belatedly, to Mama, and asked her if it was okay that we had been reading it. After looking it over, she said she'd rather we didn't, but that we might be able to read it again in a few years. So. Maybe once the last two books come out, in 2015, we'll be able to read the whole series. So I'm not really recommending this series to you - it's a really well-written series, but since we're not allowed to read it... Anyway.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Again, it's Hannah. Fear not, I assure you Sarah shall be posting again! But for the moment, my fan art is piling up on the back order. And so it's a coin flip between the two that I did a whole bunch of stuff - hours of computer time - on. </span></div>
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This is my best rendition of a legendarily epic fellow named Hatter Madigan. Seriously epic. Like, on the same level as Batman, Halt, and Pinkie Pie. You might not think that the last one's that awesome, but you just don't know Pinkie. </div>
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Anyway, Hatter is a character created by Frank Beddor in the Looking Glass Wars series, which I would recommend to you if you like fantasy or sci-fi or period drama or awesome things or chocolate chip cookies. He was, in fact, so cool that he got his own spin-off graphic novel trilogy. Hatter is loosely based off of Lewis Carroll's Mad Hatter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, except with several big differences - Hatter is a very somber, very sane bodyguard; a skilled fighter known as a Milliner.</div>
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So I put it into Photoshop and quickly realized I'd need to stretch him out considerably to keep him from looking short and plump.</div>
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So I took the original and added several virtual pounds of paint. When I was reading a book on writing by Gail Carson Levine, she stressed the importance of making several copies of my documents (she often had several hundred files at the end of a book, I believe) so that if you change your mind about deleting something, you don't have to recreate it by memory, you can just go back to an older draft. Since then I've done the same with my word documents and my Photoshop documents.</div>
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This is what my Hatter M file looks like now that I'm finished. Something I like to do is page through all of the files and see how it got from beginning to finished product. However, these files get so large and numerous that I have to move it to my secondary drive to keep it from overloading my computer's memory, which did nearly happen with one of my last projects. See, I still prefer to use Windows XP instead of the more recent versions Vista, 7, 8, and whatever else have you, so my family bemoans my very sluggish computer (that's one of the reasons I keep it - no one else wants to use a computer that takes ten minutes to start up and five to open a browser, even when it's Google Chrome!)</div>
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As you can see, not the same as the finished product. For example, he looks like a zombie, his overcoat is missing it's fancy-schmancy decor, he's short with a hint of a potbelly.</div>
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...And now with the help of the Liquify tool, I've given him a chiropractic adjustment. I called this de-hipping, just 'cause I made it look like he wasn't being all feminine and sassy. But he still looks positively ghastly in the face, and that's because I tried to follow a "painting a photo-realistic face on Photoshop" tutorial on Pinterest. First of all, this picture's not supposed to be photo-realistic, second of all, the person who made the tutorial was working off of a real picture, not a fuzzy idea in their head, and thirdly, I stink at following tutorials without skipping around impatiently. So I just went back to the original sketch, made the drawing's skin a tad rosier than white, tossed on a handful of brass buttons and heart appliques, and <i>voil</i><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>à</i></span></span>! </div>
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So this wasn't exactly a Photoshop tutorial on how to fill in a sketch. I kept a whole lot hush-hush, mostly because it's way too boring to write down step-by-step. When I do it, I just sort of feel my way around, making faces at my computer screen and erasing stuff and covering it up and finding references on what metal actually looks like and stealing the designs from people's boots and consuming large amounts of salty snacks and getting advice from my siblings and playing around with colors and freaking out because I thought I ruined everything and making teeny-tiny recalibrations and adjustments and basically spending a long time acting like I know what I'm doing until it looks okay. If you really want to know something about Photoshop and how to edit stuff, go ahead and ask, but all I can really say is that it helps a ton to have a mother and older sister who have absorbed the program and it's capabilities so much that they can do all sorts of freaky photo adjustments without going "Oooh, I wonder what this button does!"</div>
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<i>To God be the Glory,</i></div>
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It's me, Hannah. I have returned! And I have art.</div>
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This here was a sort of an off-the-wall idea. I was supposed to be sleeping, actually, when I sketched it, but I didn't expect the idea to stick and was just planning to outline it briefly. At around 11:00 pm. But it turned out well, yes?</div>
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The subjects here are based on Trinity and I (the one on the left being Trinity, on the right being me). The hairstyles are ours, as well as the fashion choice - Trinity specifically requested the left outfit. It came up because I was considering Trinity and I taking pictures for our other blog, <a href="http://quillinherquiver.blogspot.com/">A Quill In Her Quiver</a>. I was hoping the pictures would reflect our personalities as well as our interests. But what I've really done the most of over the past few months is draw or do other artsy stuff instead of writing, so I've sort of been considering Trinity as the writey one (she's better at it anyway) and me as the artisty one (frankly, I'm the one who's better at that). So that's what I was thinking of when I made this picture.</div>
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See, what we're doing here is fending of the Bordum. The best way to do that is with creativity and imagination. Unfortunately, the powers of creativity only work at full strength when you get trapped, and that's where we are, with our backs against the wall - or back to back, that is. So Trinity and I whipped out our fancy vintage pen and palette and paintbrush (sable-bristle paintbrush, 'cause that's the best kind, so I've heard) and blasted the Bordum to bits with our Colorferno and Wordbullets (Trinity says hers look more deadly).</div>
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So we are the Creativity Warriors.</div>
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In case you're wondering, Trinity's Wordbullets do spell out real sentences, which read:</div>
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<li>Error. The computer flashed.</li>
<li>"Yeah, Mr. Incredible, you're the best." <i>(a paraphrase from The Incredibles)</i></li>
<li>That's the thing about Jim, you never know what he's about to do.</li>
<li>I'm a better liar than I should be.</li>
<li>The robot's metal treads bumpity-bumped across the rough gravel.</li>
<li>I had never worn a crown before.</li>
<li>Once upon a time </li>
<li>All was well. <i>(Harry Potter)</i></li>
<li>Lightning crackled overhead.</li>
<li>"Fascinating," he said, cocking an eyebrow,</li>
<li>A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong. <i>(Ranger's Apprentice)</i></li>
<li>Little Bo Peep had lost her sheep</li>
<li>At the stroke of twelve, she'd said. I had just assumed she was being melodramatic. Old ladies were like that sometimes.</li>
<li>"Stay away from me!"</li>
<li>The princess was the most beautiful in the land.</li>
<li>Look, I didn't want to be a demigod. <i>(Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief)</i></li>
<li>"I bet you don't even know what you're talking about."</li>
<li>"Why won't you trust me?"</li>
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...<i>this</i> snow leopard picture from Wikipedia.com and took a sample of the fur tones from this picture and "painted" over the first picture (on another layer), until it looked more or less like this.</div>
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I had some difficulty making it look like fur instead of an oddly colored fur less cat. I added the spots on his head and neck with I think a soft round brush and then used a chalk brush to make his spots look furrier and direction to his "fur".I also had to use a spatter brush on his nose because it used to be just a solid color, I used the spatter brush on other parts of his fur using alternately lighter or darker colors depending on which color patch I was working on, to give him ticked fur. I did " burn" some parts where there was shade to make his fur darker. By then I was pretty satisfied with how it turned out because I could hide background layer and it looked like a complete picture...except for the background which was non-existent. So I gave him a dramatic night sky background and changed the lighting to a more suited night time lighting and came up with this! </div>
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And I'm extremely pleased with the results. The entire process took three days I think, though I didn't spend the whole day on the computer for three days in a row. Maybe, three hours a day. Today's included post writing, profile writing, background creating and signature editing.<br />
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Thanks to younger brothers who are constantly encouraging and God for allowing me so much free time.<br />
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P.S I changed the eye color because I think that this blue is prettier. :)Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441845282138935331noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791249896304294129.post-28025630898216574122013-08-06T18:11:00.001-07:002013-08-06T18:11:57.846-07:00A Short Post With Eyeballs Included<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Hey, everypony! I'm not dead!</div>
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But you wouldn't know that, hmm, because I've been gone for over two months! And I said I'd be putting something up soon. Shame on me. For this post, ignore every excuse. I have no good ones. I am going to (I'm not gonna say soon, but eventually) put up the post I was planning on. But today is not that day!</div>
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The ideas for these came from Pinterest (of which I am on frequently). There are a lot of sketches of just eyes. </div>
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And the way I did it was derived from this tutorial: <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/26529085275129304/">http://pinterest.com/pin/26529085275129304/</a>.<br />
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I used a mirror for reference for the lower four pairs of eyes. That meant me staring strangely at the mirror, then scribbling furiously on my sketchbook, then making the same face, then scribbling furiously, for about a half an hour during storytime while my dad read The Rats of NIMH.<br />
Excuse the eyebrows, mine are profuse enough to need combing. Mama and Trinity despair of them and subject me to monthly pluckings. And mine are the only ones I can use for reference so... oh well.<br />
And that last set of eyelashes and eyebrows look orange because I meant for their host to be a redhead. However, I'm not well acquainted with ginger facial hair (I shall just assume that's a good thing), so it might not have turned out so well.<br />
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These were done by being sketched out with a pencil and then edited in Photoshop Elements. I'm still working on different techniques for photographing or scanning my pictures - mainly photographing. I haven't scanned them in so long, cause we used to have a pretty lousy scanner that would ruin my pictures. I've got a pretty light touch when sketching, which had to be trained into me (I used to recklessly chisel my drawings into the paper, but I've gotten better at that), so the scanner, and often the camera, has trouble picking up the lighter lines.<br />
Also, as you can see, the paper tends towards orange-brownness, no matter what I do with the camera, while the actual sketch paper is rather white. Any suggestions?<br />
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And I do have a host of others things stacked up in reserve to be put up here, including one I'm working on that I'm currently rather fond of (having a bit of trouble with, but still, rather fond of). In addition, Sarah may very well be putting up her first post soon! Yay!<br />
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She and I have been dabbling with painting on Photoshop, not just editing and stuff, but actually painting, in a manner of speaking. There are a lot of not-helpful tutorials on Pinterest that I've been able to chop down to something I can understand and almost use. Then there are slightly more helpful tutorials that I've not really been able to use. So let us see what turns up.<br />
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<i>To God be the Glory,</i><br />
<i>Hannah</i>Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530904394349365571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791249896304294129.post-8722396632641059462013-05-10T10:43:00.000-07:002013-05-11T10:45:41.437-07:00Dental FlossGood day to ya'll and sundry! I hope you have been very well. I have been very busy. Spent a lot of this afternoon shopping for Mother's Day and a lot of yesterday afternoon at the dentist (there are so many of us in our family that we do all of our appointments on the same day to save time running back and forth between home and town... we were there from 8:20 AM to just after 12:00 PM).<br />
I have not been on for quite some time, due to a big project that I <i>thought </i>would take a lot less time than it has. I've just finished it (I think), and barely in time, because I need it tomorrow. But that will be for later, sometime very soon.<br />
I had to put something or other up here, and didn't know what it would be until last night. Hee hee hee....<br />
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She showed it to me, then put it up in my face and said, "MINE." Very clearly and bluntly, cause, doncha know, I won't remember any other way she says it. Then she left to go watch the Avengers with the rest of the family in the living room.</div>
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Trinity comes into the bathroom to a carefully prepared scene.<br />
There's silence for a moment as I rush to follow her into our room. I didn't see it all, but I'm pretty sure her face went:<br />
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If you haven't heard of it, it's a spectacular series. Hilarious, intelligent, with a ridiculous but lovable cast of characters, my favorite of which are shown below. Juvenile genius, bodyguard, and fairy vigilante included.</div>
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This is just a personal idea of what they'd look like, by the way. I was sort of revolted at the interpretation in the Artemis Fowl graphic novel. Butler's not a neanderthal, and Foaly is supposed to be a centaur, not a horse-man-hybrid-mash-up. Plus, Mulch has 'tombstone teeth', not rabbit teeth.</div>
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I also took a bit of artistic license to be able to fit them all together. As you know, if you've read the books, Minerva and Root wouldn't be able to be in the same room together, given the events in The Opal Deception. Said events that wreak havoc on fangirl emotions. And of course, Mulch would have gotten rid of his prison garb as soon as possible once he was on the surface and traded it in for his mining outfit. But he wasn't tall enough for me to show the more notable aspects of that outfit (cough cough), so I settled for a sterotypical prison shirt. Not that the Haven would be likely to use stripes for their prisons anymore. </div>
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Artemis' outfit is based on an Armani suit. Because I pay attention to the little details, if not the big obvious ones. And Foaly's lower body was copied from one of Sarah's centaur drawings, which was copied from another centaur drawing from a library how-to book. But that's just because I'm not very good at drawing animals.</div>
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Some of the people in my house argued that Holly wasn't short enough, but I had already "downsized" her once, and once is enough for me. Trinity pointed out that Foaly looked "like someone who would sell insurance to little old ladies". Oh well. One certain person mentioned that I gave Juliet the same haircut I give Trinity whenever I draw her, and also voted for me to erase Minerva entirely (she doesn't like her very much - at all). Ahem, well, excuse me if I actually thought Artemis and Minerva were a good pair.</div>
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And no, I didn't add No. 1, or a certain pair of human brothers, or Opal Koboi. Maybe later. I'm sticking to these now.</div>
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Please tell me what you think! I'd like to hear what your opinion of the characters are supposed to look like. For those of you who have read the books, this is just my personal idea of what they look like. You have your opinions, I have mine. I try not to enforce popular book character appearances... much. Except for Arya, from the Inheritance Cycle. Have you seen the Eragon movie? "Raven black hair", the book said. "Green eyes", it said. She's an elf, folks! Would pointed ears really break the bank? Red hair, blue eyes... grumble grumble...</div>
Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530904394349365571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791249896304294129.post-76676034272064300492013-04-02T15:17:00.000-07:002013-04-03T08:04:11.599-07:00Easter Project 2013'Ello, 'ello, 'ello, it's 'Annah h'again.<br />
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It's been spectacular today. So relaxing.<br />
Today is a celebrated day for the children in this family. Why? It's not anyone's birthday or anything. I didn't know until Sarah told me last night. All she did was ask: "What's tomorrow?"<br />
So I answered "Tuesday" like normal people do.<br />
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The normalness did not last long, as she kept on asking: "And what else?"<br />
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My very confused and desperate list included -<br />
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- The 2nd<br />
- <i>Tuesday </i>the 2nd<br />
- The second day of the month<br />
- The third day of the week<br />
- The first Tuesday of the week (seriously?)<br />
- The day after April 1st<br />
- The day after April Fools'<br />
- The day after the Weasley Twins' birthday<br />
- The day before the last-quarter moon<br />
- A week before next Tuesday<br />
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"WHAT IS IT?!?!"<br />
"It's the day of A Thousand Names."<br />
"Did you just make that up."<br />
"I didn't <i>just </i>make it up, I made it up, like, a minute ago. Also, it's a rest day tomorrow."<br />
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Now if you don't know what a rest day is, I'll tell you. We're home-schooled, the lot of us, and have a home business and live in the country, so we often have a lot of work to do. Not too much get-up-early-exercise-that-mind-until-late-afternoon-like-public-schoolers stuff, more physical, get-up, get-dressed, clean-the-kitchen, fold-the-laundry, stack-wood, move-plants, make-the-lunch, put-your-brothers-down-for-a-nap-so-we-can-get-stuff-done work. Our schedule isn't REAL tight, but sometimes, like this week, it's pretty full. We had Easter at our house this year, with, what was it... two... two... eight... twelve... five... four... around thirty-three people.<br />
First, when we got up in the morning, at seven, to get all fancied up before we left, went out and had our coffee cake for breakfast, like we do for almost every special event. Then we got to open our Easter baskets (yup, we still do that, even though we've never done the Easter bunny), then we rushed to get ready for church. We had to drop by a friends' house first so they could follow our car (they were visiting our church for Easter), and we still managed to make it to the church almost on time. After church we had to speed home to meet our grandparents and cousins, who had already let themselves in.<br />
That was only the warm-up. THEN we had fun. Fun that includes hauling a round of wood about two feet in diameter six feet in the air with chains, tow straps, and some creative T-stake work, all to make a big round target for us to THROW TOMAHAWKS AT.<br />
No joke. We did the same thing for Thanksgiving. So far no one is dead. Except for the target, which we bedecked with an unclaimed trench coat and a milk-jug full of water for a head. That was fun.<br />
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That wasn't even the Easter egg hunt. That's the real challenge. The little kids' hunts are all the same. Not so with the older kids'.<br />
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Okay, this is how it works. Since the first time we've started splitting the hunts into older kids and younger kids, our parents and aunts and uncles have made it their mission to destroy us all. Their motto is, "If you still want to hunt eggs, that's fine, but we're not going to make it easy for you."<br />
Even my seventeen-year-old sister is still at it, but the hunt has been getting harder every year. Let me show you what I mean.<br />
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<strong>Little kids:</strong> <br />
The eggs are hidden across the yard, usually in pretty easy places. "Hard" for them means there's an egg above eye level. Then the kids get to go find them. The end.<br />
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As for the older kids. Ah ha ha ha. I have to separate this into sections. I'm trying to describe this, and it just sounds unreal. Our family is awesome.<br />
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<strong>Older Kids, prior to 2010:</strong> For awhile the eggs were hidden quite creatively. Once when we were on a church egg hunt, one got stuck in the hollow of a tree. I have no idea what happened to it ultimately. Around 2009, it got a little harder. The older kids' group was split into younger-older kids and older-older kids, and the older-older kids had to give the younger-older kids a head start. Torturous.<br />
Prior to 2010, there wasn't really anything special done to the egg-<em>hunters</em>,<em> </em>but from around that time to this, the eggs are hidden EVERYWHERE. Under a pile of mulch, on the roof, up in a tree, inside of the front porch light, up the gutters, in the adults' pockets. This is no joke. These are where the eggs are found. If you follow a random adult around without them noticing, they'll just meander around the yard, dropping eggs in places we've already checked.<br />
<strong>Older Kids, 2010: Three-Legged-Race: </strong>The adults began to get more creative. According to the rules, the kids are randomly put in pairs, and have one of their legs tied to the other person's. Then it's just "Now get the eggs before anyone else does!" That year was quite interesting.<br />
<strong>Older Kids, 2011: Marco Polo</strong>. There was bad weather that Easter, so for a while we all thought that we couldn't have an Easter egg hunt, or that we would only hunt eggs inside. The second part was true, but the parents stayed true to malicious form. The eggs were hidden in our aunt and uncle's cluttered garage The kids were randomly put in pairs. One person has a blindfold, the other one doesn't. The person who can see can't touch any eggs or touch their partner. The blindfolded person is the only one who can pick up eggs. And no, they weren't making it easy for us. Eggs were hidden from floor to ceiling and inside the bases of foosball tables. Eventually we had to take our blindfolds off to search for the last few eggs that none of us seemed to be able to find.<br />
<strong>Older Kids, 2012: Relay Race.</strong> By now we <em>knew </em>something evil was coming, we just didn't know what. The adults went outside and spread the eggs around, then brought us outside to tell us the rules. You can only put your bag/basket in one place. You can choose the place, but once you put it down, it stays there. And you can only put one egg in their basket at a time. And there's over a hundred eggs scattered everywhere. So in other words, you have to run back and forth about fifty times trying to get your bag full. Up- and down- hill on tilled clay. Toward the end there was only one important egg left, and it was buried under a mound of dirt. Originally it had been buried somewhere near the surface, but when someone dropped a hint about an egg being buried there, everyone was up to their kidneys in dirt, tossing it this way and that way until the <em>camoflauge-colored </em>egg was completely buried. Eventually my uncle bull-dozed the whole pile with our Kubota, and my older sister (Trinity) got it.<br />
<strong>Older kids, 2013: Disco Era.</strong> Present day, just as tough. Here's what they did to us. After the typical little kids' hunt, which we helped organize, we all had to wait till it was dark. Meanwhile, the parents put light sticks inside large eggs, sprinkled smaller eggs with lightstick juice, spread the eggs across the yard, <em>placed decoy light sticks</em>, then set us all loose. Then the adults walked around amongst us, shining flashlights in our faces to ruin our night vision.<br />
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Oh, and if that is not enough. Years ago the adults had the idea to raise the stakes. Monetarily. As in, they hid eggs full of money. Back in 2012, the "important" egg that my sister got, that was a money egg, which is why we were all so desperate for it. Usually the money eggs are enormous, partly transparent ones, but sometimes they'll put it in normal-sized eggs, just to shake things up<em> more. </em><br />
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Yes, that our Easter. I forgot to mention that between the tomahawk- and knife-throwing and the Easter egg hunts the majority of the kids went running around in our woods gathering ticks, playing tag, and dangerously reinacting The Hobbit in that Sarah and Darby climbed a tall familiar-looking evergreen tree with my younger sister and I snapping at their ankles. We also informed my bewildered cousin that his new name was Azog.<br />
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Oh, yes, I forgot what I was saying so long ago. When I go off on rabbit trails I <em>really</em> go off on rabbit trails. Today being a rest day was so special because the day after Easter, when we were all exhausted from aforementioned strenuous exercises, we had to go into town to do work for most of the day. Because of all that, Mama proclaimed today as a day of rest. No extra work besides the typical obligatory chores, and we could sleep in, which meant I was in bed until 9:30, and also that I have plenty of time to do a post. So that's how the opening sentences come full circle to this point. This point, which is also a good place to post something about my actual art subject for today. Sorry, I just like to talk a lot.<br />
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The decoration of an egg. Voila to you all. This is a work of art to be marveled at, for those who dare to take upon the quest of squeezing the yolk of a chicken egg through holes the size of a pinholes and have doubtless wasted breath till they were red in the face, I salute you.</div>
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Whoever did the original did it much better than I did, but I imagine they do it as a job. I took a few creative liberties, which were almost necessary, 'cause they don't actually tell you how to do it. That's what I usually do. I don't know when I've ever followed a tutorial exactly - I normally change it up at least a bit to make it my own.</div>
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5. It's pretty difficult to sand tacky paint. I don't know if the person who made the original used a different kind of paint, but just-dried fabric paint is close to unsandable. Try sanding Jell-O or something, and you'll get the idea. Not dry stuff won't flake away. It will uncooperatively crumble/squash.</div>
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6. Don't leave the egg down low! In a house of toddlers, this should be a given. Eggs are delicate and break. I kept mine inside of a bowl most of the time, except when I painted it with 3D fabric paint. At that point I turned the bowl over, set the egg carefully and firmly in a wad of poster putty so that I would have even access to the outside edge without the egg rolling over and messing up the paint, and shouted "Don't touch it!" at anyone who got too close. It's a miracle mine didn't break, in a house full of children under four feet tall.</div>
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Also, the advice that I gave earlier about having to make a hole on both ends. I haven't experimented over much with it, but the hole-on-both-ends thing is tried and true. Best option for now.</div>
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7. Try to check your tools before you start the project. Don't pour your paint and then go looking for a sponge brush, which you may or may not have. I did not have one, and wish I did. I think the white paint job would have turned out more smoothly with a sponge brush instead of a bristle brush. (Those brushes probably have special artisty names. I have no idea what they are. One has a sponge on the end. One has bristles on the end. Why complicate things?)<br />
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So I hope this was interesting. Have you noticed I like starting paragraphs with "Oh", "So", "Okay", and "Anyway"? I also like lists. And I try to make dramatic/creative/memorable entrances. Keep that in mind, as I will continue to try to show myself up. Except on the oh-so-okay-anyway thing. Another habit to break, along with procrastination. I'll work on that later.<br />
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Any thoughts? Comments? Smart remarks? (That was the spiel from my dad's radio show a few years ago). Go ahead and comment, here or there, in a house, with a mouse, in a box, with a fox...<br />
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And Happy Easter, from both of us! Jesus Christ is risen!<br />
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Great cheesepuffs, that was a lengthy post.<br />
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<em>To God be the glory,</em><br />
<em>Hannah</em>Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17530904394349365571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8791249896304294129.post-41985817512060699842013-03-26T11:00:00.000-07:002013-03-26T11:00:02.165-07:00New Sort Of Snowman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
It's Hannah, again, as it has been for the last every post ever.</div>
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So, I missed the last few days with my posts. Do you wonder where Sarah is? Cause this blog is a sister thing. Well, I'm trying to convince her to do something, though she is positive she has nothing to talk about ever, except, "This is a picture. You can see what it looks like. Well, that's it, then."<br />
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This is a NEW sort of post! Again. I'm just a trendsetting rebel, aren't I. This <em>is</em> art, but it's nothing I've ever done before, and it's certainly nothing I could fit on a sheet of paper. This was new, but if I do say so myself, I am an adaptable sort of person.<br />
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So, Thursday. I think it was Thursday. No, Friday. Whatever. Two days ago, Sunday. Four days ago Tuesday. So four days ago.<br />
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Friday was a snow day. A big snow day. With perfect snow. <br />
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Do you know what perfect snow is? I shall tell you. Perfect snow is when the three inches of fluffy - yes, VERY fluffy, lovely snow - can be thrown in the air and sprinkle back down on you like glitter (glitter?), crunches together into hard balls of deadly weaponry, <em>poof</em>s when you kick it, packs down to sled on, sticks together for snowmen, and melts away in a couple days with little to no slush. That is perfect snow. Well, that is perfect snow according to hard factual description. I'm not much of an eloquent snow-describer.</div>
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Well, we had perfect snow. All of my siblings who are capable of speech apparently agree, because they all went to go play outside. We made a sled-slide on our stairs, and igloo on our deck, snow angels out in the field, snowmen in the yard, and snow ball fights everywhere. <br />
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As for the snowman. Heh, heh, heh. <br />
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My precious.<br />
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It was supposed to turn out as a normal snowman, I swear. Who does snow sculptures in real life, really? Do you sculpt snow like you do with clay? It's not nearly <em>that</em> flexible and forgiving. So how does one do a snow sculpture?<br />
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I'll tell you. If you're me, you use a Pepto-Bismol-pink pocket knife like this one.<br />
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It's wonderful. Razor-sharp and totally awesome. Every practical teenage country girl needs a pocket knife. And unlike some people think, it's not just for bad guy intimidation. It's very useful: to cut string, plastic bags, zip-ties... as long as the wielder is responsible, the knife can be put to good use. Like for carving snow sculptures!<br />
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So I began rolling a ball. Harder than it looks, but easier than it has been in my earlier experience. What you have to do is pack a normal sized snowball. Just put it on the ground and begin packing snow around it. Soon it will get to the rolling size. If you live in a place with lots of dry weeds underneath the snow (as opposed to... a desert?), you will probably get a lot of dirt and weeds stuck in your wonderful ball of snow. You have to either pull these out, or cover them up with more snow. If you're planning to carve a lot, you should probably pull them out, I think. Resurfacing weeds were a big problem for me.</div>
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The thing is, though, if it's cold enough to keep the snow from melting, it's gonna be COLD. But if you keep moving around picking up snow, you might work up a bit of a sweat. But I had to work on this in two different intervals, 'cause my hands were getting all tingling and alternately numb and painful, and Sarah was practically begging me to come inside before I <em>died of hypothermia</em>.<em> </em>I packed the snow first and carved it a little, then finished carving it the second time. I don't have any pictures of the carving process itself, so we'll skip straight to the finished product.</div>
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In making this, I was planning to base it on Lucy from the Chronicles of Narnia. I was in fact, planning to make her standing up as if gazing at the lampost. But as I walked away to warm up inside for the first time, her back looked like she was sitting on a rock or something, so who am I to mess with semi-perfection? In any case, my nickname for the sculpture is <em>Dear Heart, </em>Aslan's pet name for Lucy Pevensie.<br />
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Yeah, it's not great. It's my first snow sculpture, and her face, I know, is too protruding. I didn't have another chance to work on it much more. After two more photo shoots with my parents' phones so they could post some pictures on Facebook (during which I added a nose to the girl's face), we had to go into town for the night. By the time we came back, the poor girl was decapitated, and two days later she looked like this:<br />
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Oh well. That's what snow does. And I'm pretty much bored of snow now.<br />
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So! What say you? Feedback is... very welcome. I love comments a lot.<br />
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Last thing: most of the pictures were courtesy of my sister Trinity, and she actually has a photography blog, <a href="http://www.trinitygraphix.blogspot.com/">www.trinitygraphix.blogspot.com</a>.<br />
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That's it then!<br />
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<em>To God be the glory,</em><br />
<em>Hannah</em><br />
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