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Icon contest and GIFTEH FEATURE!

Journal Entry: Wed Dec 30, 2009, 7:27 PM
LUFFLES!

Have I mentioned that I love you guys? Special props to the TS gang, you guys are great! If I haven't already made it clear, I'm taking a step back from doing requests to focus on gift art for characters on The Secret [link] that I know and love. Contest prizes too, of course! Hint hint, February will mark TS's 2nd birthday and there will be lots of contests to celebrate!

I just get this amazing feeling when people make me stuff out of the kindness of their heart. TS members who draw or make an image of my characters will likely have some surprise gift art coming their way in the coming months!

FEATURES OMG
Most of the stuff I ever get from people is because of kiribans and stuff, which is awesome! But now people have started making me GIFT ART! WHOA! I feel so warm and fuzzy inside! Lots of Khepri love going on. He's having a rough time with mare drama and injuries and all. I'll probably have a Khepri vs. Wind fight image up once I finish Spider Web's pic for *CloverGraphics. Exciting! Well, for anyone who's seen him nearly kill himself trying to get revenge.

Kiribans!


Gifts!


Oh yeah, how about that aforementioned icon contest, eh? In the spirit of never making my own icons (it's not that I'm lazy, I just tire of my own work a lot faster) I wanted to see what you lovelies can come up with! I love pixel art and drawn ones, since I suck at that stuff.

Previous icons:


Soooo...
THE BIGGIE: My dA icon. Must be 50x50 px and featuring a chestnut mare with some sort of white markings. Transparent backgrounds and/or animation = bonus points! I will use it for at least six months, probably more. I will feature you in my journal, and I will make an image of one of your characters if you have any.

THE SECONDARY: A new Twitter icon for me. It can be any size, within reason (up to 300x300 is fine), because the site resizes them automatically but displays the full-size icon on the user's page. You can do anything random, it does not need to be horse related. I seldom tweet about horses, so it's probably a good idea to go for something geeky instead. I will feature you in my journal and tweet about how awesome you are, if you're on Twitter.

All entries for either category will be featured in my journal. The top placers will have additional art from their galleries displayed as well.



Commissions are still open for USD$10, if anyone outside the TS community wants a piece done. Or anyone in the TS community who isn't on my secret shortlist of characters to shower graphical love upon. ^.^

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  • Mood: Joy
  • Listening to: Devour by Shinedown
  • Watching: Transformers 2
  • Eating: Lime chips
  • Drinking: Mountain Dew
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Spec has a sub?!

Journal Entry: Thu Dec 10, 2009, 6:35 PM
Say whaaaaaat?

A huge thank you to *CloverGraphics for buying me a 3 month sub! This is so cool, I've never had one before! You'll be seeing her character Spider Web gracing my gallery in the next week or so.

Check out her stuff!



I also encourage you all to go check out the awesome new group #equimanipulate
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If you like horses, enjoy making and/or admiring photomanipulations, swing on by! You'll be sure to find lots to add to your favourites, not to mention some inspiring stock and helpful tutorials!

I guess I have a lot of new stuff to go figure out on dA now! Any suggestions for my next features?


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Maybe looking for a studio site

Wed Nov 4, 2009, 2:42 PM
  • Mood: Defeated
  • Eating: no soup for you!
Hey guys...

I love Another Studio and I don't want to leave them, but I don't feel any support over there. Making images isn't easy for me, as I'm not artistically inclined, so without a support network I lose motivation really quickly. Maybe I should just keep taking requests on The Secret since I hear from more than just the requester over there, but we have a small graphics staff team so I have to keep the pool of requests small, and that means less selection for me.

I like studios and I want to be a part of one. But AS feels a little abandoned nowadays, and after all the work I've put into making images there I just... I feel unappreciated. We've not once been thanked for our hard work. Am I expecting too much? There's no community left and the admin team is difficult to get a hold of. I feel like such a tool always mentioning what needs to be done in the Cbox, but I don't know what else to do. I don't WANT it to die, but I have no power there. Even the mods can't do a whole lot.

Does anyone know of any photomanipulation studios (prefereably on an Invisionfree or Proboards platform) that is active, nice-looking and friendly? I've been invited to Insincere and I've had a look at Scythe, VOS and Imagine That. None of them grab me instantly. I'm very wary of new sites, since I don't trust admins to be as ridiculously active as I am. I'm a real sucker for gorgeous skins (especially ones not in pale grey, that's so overdone) and I feel more at ease when the power is distributed so things don't all fall to pieces when one admin gets busy and poofs. I'm a member on Surreal Studios, but I was rejected there in the past so I'm not incredibly keen to go throw myself at them again. Also their skin really doesn't appeal to me right now, and that's a big thing for me.

I just don't know where to go. I figure it might be easier to fit in somewhere where one or two people already sort of like me. Then I won't feel so invisible.

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Give me all your money!

Thu Oct 8, 2009, 10:44 AM
  • Mood: Tired
  • Listening to: Shinedown
  • Reading: this
  • Eating: the charred flesh of a cow (in burger form)
  • Drinking: the blood of my enemies
Hey guys, what's new? No really, I like talking to you guys, so just start rambling.

I've been okay lately, been having more panic attacks cause of midterms and public speaking and being broke and, well, generally my anxiety and stress is through the roof. Photoshopping is pretty relaxing, which is probably why I've been posting so many images lately.

I know, I know, I never post depressing journals. But if everyone else keeps doing it, well, maybe it helps somehow.

If anyone not-broke wants to commission me, that would be cool. It would help. I don't expect people to pay money for crap they can get for free, but the benefit is I'll do whatever you want as opposed to being picky about which requests I lay claim on. Heck, I'll even do wolves, which I have avoided like the plague in the past (along with mythicals). I'll even swipe my boyfriend's tablet and work on not sucking so hard at manes and tails.

To be honest, I don't expect anyone to be interested. But if you are, drop me a note or comment. I probably won't charge more than $10USD, which seems to be the going rate, but considering how many hours I'll put into it you're barely paying for a tenth of the work it takes. Still, every little bit helps.

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mini-rant time!

Tue Sep 22, 2009, 10:08 AM
  • Mood: Annoyed
  • Listening to: electricity
  • Reading: this
  • Eating: TUNA CASSEROLE AWESOMESAUCE!
Should I be threatening to leave or something to get attention? xD Seems like everyone's done it at least once. Seriously, what's with people getting all disillusioned about photomanipulation lately? It may not be "high art" like that fancy-pants stuff you do with your hands, but frankly there's not much photography and drawing/painting that I absolutely adore. Most of it bores me, so I mostly follow photomanipulators. At least I can learn something from them.

For the record: I am not an artist. I'm a writing student and this is a hobby for me, NOT my career path. Maybe if more of us stopped taking ourselves too seriously we'd be able to chill out and not get burnt out.

On a lighter note, if you don't follow ~saregona, you really should. She has dial-up so she hasn't been able to go around getting much exposure yet, but she totally deserves more attention for her work!

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