Art 9

I figured it'd be easier (for me, anyway) to break these posts up a little bit.

So, June. A lot of stuff happened in June. I'll try to focus on the art side of things, though.

One small thing - I drew a picture of someone's D&D character, and then forgot to photograph it before I gave it to them. Doh. It was a good picture, too.

There was a costume party at the start of July, so much of June was spent planning and making a costume. I forgot to photograph the final product of this, too... My costume was of a "post-apocalyptic bandit". Something a little Mad Max, a little Tank Girl, but mostly just whatever I made up. There were torn, safety-pinned, and scribbled-on jeans, a jacket I made myself(!) and an assortment of bits and bobs, mostly plastic guns. There was also a rather good mask purchased very cheaply from one of those variety stores, decorated with a Sharpie. The overall impression was of awesomeness, but of course you'll just have to take my word for that. I'll take a photo of the jacket and the mask, though. They're slightly less awesome without the rest of the costume.

While searching for a birthday present, my sister and I went to a lovely little gallery across the road from the library called Unsunk Funk. Featuring redesigned clothing, it also showcases a lot of beautiful and strange work by local artists. Definitely worth a look, if you can.

What else, what else... Oh, a surprise present from an overseas friend - Vol 1 of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, writing by Alan Moore and art by Kevin O'Neill. The art is sharp and inky - kind of punk, I think. Combined with the story, it has that lovely anachronistic steampunk feel.

Speaking of Alan Moore: The Ballad of Halo Jones. I should be getting this soon. I remember it from when I was a kid - strange and sad and scary. I wonder what my impression of it will be this time?

I'm once again reading 2000AD comics. I love the stories and the art contained therein, and have ever since I was very small.

Art 8

Something I quite like are table-top role-play games, like Dungeons&Dragons, World of Darkness, etc. At the start of June I picked up a World of Darkness core rule book, and flipping through that afforded me a bit of inspiration, and I came up with a couple sketches. I have dodgy phone camera pictures, but can't upload them at the moment. One sketch contains tentacles, the other contains zombies, or possibly ghouls.



Somewhere along the way I downloaded a program for making 3D shapes. I haven't explored it much yet - finding it a bit intimidating. It was the same with gimp at first - something with a layout that I was entirely unused to. Presumably I'll get the hang of it eventually though... I'm thinking this will probably be most useful for making things for Second Life. Or I could get a 3D printer!



Hm, what else... Still working on various pictures on the computer. The tree one, and the Blue Foundation one, and now another. This will be for a texture I'll import into Second Life, for a kind of grating thing.



Second Life! Have a made an entry yet about that? Second Life is an MMO, sort of. Or possibly a virtual interactive social environment, I dunno. It's a thing where you make an avatar and do stuff. There's a bit of role-playing, but I haven't really explored that side of it - I'm thinking my 'net connection probably isn't steady enough to really handle any combat-based rpg's, which are, frankly, the only kind I'm really interested in. As for what kind of stuff people do do there - it really depends on the person. I have a friend who hosts live DJing events - that seems fairly popular, but my connection isn't always up to it. I have another friend who gives tarot readings, and a couple others who build things. For myself- I guess it's another creative outlet for me. It's fun making different avatars, and building exotic structures and things. There's some really beautiful 3D art on Second Life - forests and castles and mountains and caves and stuff, as well as cities and things. I think I'd appreciate a few more treasure-hunt style things. There's a couple I've done before - kind of passive mazes runs and stuff - but there's potential for a lot more. Maybe there's not enough money in it, I dunno. Yep, there's certainly money on SL - it always reminds me of that song by the Hilltop Hoods - "Come sit with me honey, I got half a mil in Monopoly money". It's fun, anyway.