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i'm happy to hear that things are getting easier for you it has been a tough time.. and you can only grow stronger.. so some small amount of good has come from this difficult time

take care petal

o god, i can't access my SW fan site. i don't know what's happening-its just vanished! i'm near hysterics!

comment.

hope you're ok sweetie

awww i love random nights out

Yeah, but do you know how incredibly difficult it is to get a decently salted pretzel in Indianapolis?

I mean sure, you can get them, but the salt is either

a) poorly distributed, so's you have these clumps on one side and de nada on the other half, or

b) the distribution is fine, but the salt crystals are so honking huge that you spend twenty minutes trying to let each bite dissolve in your mouth so's not to scratch the esophagus as the 36 karat salt rock slides down to the gulliver.

Pretzels...can't some things just be perfect?

Man. We could seriously have a discussion about all the frighteningly similar parallels between our two respective not-so-good relationships and have about a month's worth of subject matter.

My heart breaks everytime i hear about what you are going through....I just like you have an old fashioned view of marriage.

I realize that the words of people on here and other places for that matter do very little to help.

But...just know that I love you and you will come out of this a stronger person ....remember "that which does not kill us only makes us stronger"

I've got nothing really interesting for my journal either...Aside from a daily log of my frustration with the new Hulk videogame, that is...I wish I had the motivation to get back writing on my KotOR fanfic.

Thanks!

I don't post on kfm's fanart threads, but I did post a pic of my fanfic main character, Lal, a while back on the main page. To a small degree, I'm re-doing Lal's appearance, however. When I first started writing Lal, I had in my head several images based on actresses and a porn model...ahem. Basically, Monica Bellucci, Elizabeth Hurley and Veronika Zemanova (I'd link an image, but most of them are from untrustworthy sites).

The last pencil drawing I did of Lal came out looking like a cross between Hurley and bellucci, whereas the one I submitted for KFM looked closer to Zemanova. I prefer the Hurley/Bellucci one now, so that's the look I'll go for in future pics.

I didn't like the Carth or the Canderous pic I did, so I'm redoing them both as well. But I like how Bastila and Juhani and Mission turned out. They're in the process of inking.

As to what I use, well, that's Photoshop 7 (I never felt CS was worth the upgrade since I don't tend to do photo work). I draw by hand and scan in the pencils to Photoshop. For a long time, I had no photoshop at all, and colored stuff on the page with Tombow, Staedtler and Marvy markers. That used to look okay until I scanned it in. The tremendous resolution capabilities of even the average scanner made the colors look very, very bad.

So, I taught myself how to color in Photoshop once I got it. And then, since I am most comfortable working in a comic book style, I learned how to digitally ink as well in Photoshop. Still learning, of course. I find tutorials on the web every so often. Renderosity.com has a lot of tutorials that come in handy, but most of them are for 3D programs.

I guess another reason I don't post on KFM is because of personal preference with art: I've settled into a comic book style (that was one style I used, but not the only one in the past) and in my mind, Star Wars art should be more...photorealistic. That is, more like the cover art on a novel or movie poster than the stuff I do. But I just said, "Screw it, this is what I'm best at" and decided to go comic book style art, with inking and comic style coloring and so forth.

The next thing I need to get a better grasp on is color theory.

I wish I'd listened more to my mother about it. She was an art teacher, and I get my skills from her, really. But when she was alive, I never really listened to her. Too late now, of course. I'd have liked for her to see the stuff I can do now.

When I get finished with this pic, I intend to submit it at kfm, but I prolly won't post it in the fanart boards.

Do you have a fanfic you've written for the game? Or are in the process of writing? Mine used to be up on the old site Adria ran, but cutting and pasting it into the upload panel at kfm would be far too much work, so I just put it up here. Feel free to give me some feedback if you wish. I'll do the same if you've got a story up.

But your coming back right??

i feel those sentiments

hope you are doing good....

how about this...


....ha ha...J/K....unless your into that sort of thing...

its broken.....

... I'm glad that things are turning out relatively well for you.

I'm glad you two talked it out but sorry as well for the outcome. Drop me an email if you need to talk, ok?

thats cool, even though things may seem shitty now eventualy things will work out, everything happens for a reason...(ultimate clich i know, but true i think) .....well no matter how bad things are you can always get drunk! ....keep your head up thats a pirate man in case you were drinking captain morgan or somthing...

Thanks for stopping by my journal sorry to see you had a shit day.

xoxo