A Beary Day

Tee hee.
I drew this for a random person on a forum. Her little avatar is dressed as a grizzly bear and I wanted the challenge of drawing fur. Well, the fur ending up looking...well, harsh. So I deleted the fur layer and decided to just do an airbrush look.

I really like it. Grizzly bears are surprisingly easy to draw. The puppy gave me some difficulty, but I just drew him twice and then called it done. Over all... I THINK IT'S SO CUTE.

Anyways, in other news.
I was looking at local dogs to adopt today. I do not know why I torture myself with doing this! I can't stand to see doggies without homes. Sigh. I want another dog. I have Frappy and absolute love him. But I'd like a friend/family member for him who isn't a turtle stuck in a tank until he's big enough to not be gnawed on. Plus, I want a big dog to cuddle with too!

Well. I happened to find the most beautiful 9 month old husky/wolf mix. She's absolute adorable and I want her! Too bad I do not own or even rent a place with a yard. Otherwise she'd be mine in a heart beat. I have all the time for a husky. Just no yard. Sigh...

Anyways. I babysat Abby last night and we picked out a movie on xBox Live to watch and I was going to sit down and SEW.

Too bad I used up all of my fleece! UGH!
I could have swore I had a large stock of fleece. So, my sewing plans were canceled. I was really disappointed. I had this idea of what I could do to start earning some more money for my new sewing machine and yet here I was, nine o'clock at night, with no materiel to use. Depressing! But I still feel hope. I plan on going to Carson soon to stock up on my fleeeeece for this rad idea I had.

I might draw some pictures and show you the idea rather than tell you. ;]

Alexis

Graphic Tablets are fun!

Oh yeah, bby~!
Look what I did for three hours!

Curtis and I got a new graphic tablet for our computer. It will aid me in my drawing and stuff. Now I just need a scanner for all those pictures I draw in notebooks! Then I can use my graphic tablet to edit them to my liking, color them in, whatever, you know? I can't wait to start designing! I've already got some ideas in my head...

My main goal in this picture was to learn all of my tools. And considering it's my first drawing on a really good Art program, I'm somewhat really happy with the results. His skin turned out A LOT better than I could have hoped. Of course, my drawing skills/style could be improved. But hey, drawing on a graphic tablet is hard. You have to get use to NOT looking at your hand as you draw. Do you know how hard that is?

Man, I've got a hand cramp!

New Layout Time! And A Little Rant

So, I've monetised my blog. Hopefully that'll do SOMETHING, right? And now I am in want of a layout to call my own. I got particullary clever with livejournal layouts, journalspace layouts and also with myspace ones, however I'm thinking Blogspot layouts are going to take me sometime to catch onto. I'm also hoping to get a TABLET for the computer with the money mother is paying me to clean out the old house. I have been wanting to test one for about six years now but never really willing to invest. Which is sort of sad. However this time I have promised myself that I will not flake out! I want to create my own graphics for my layout anyhow.

Mother recently moved out of our old house which was slowly poisoning her, again, and pretty much left anything she didn't instantly need. So, my sisters and I (and somehow my boyfriend) have offered our services to just through everything out. It's mostly junk anyhow, all intoxicated with mold and just useless. We'll try to sell the couch and bed frames seeing as how brand new they semi-are. Plus, I can't stand to see such a comfortable, good looking, huge couch go to waste.

On a side note;
A friend of our's found the blog of my mom's ex's fiance. Apparently, her and the lucky bastard are getting hitch. But shhhh, it's a secret because my mom might show up and ruin it for everyone! OH noes! Why in the hell would we want to waste our time coming to some fake marriage anyway? Their whole relationship is based around lies, as we have read, and it would only be a waste of OUR time to try and stop this poor lady from making a huge mistake like my mom and his wife before mom. She honestly thinks mister liar pays child support and that we want to RAISE it? What a hoot! That guy hasn't paid child support since we were forced to get a restraining order because he would follow us around in his stupid silver car with the license plate 'BATMAN'. Obviously we could never tell it was him! What a douche. As I remember, he was only paying three hundred for child support (for like two months) and the minium PER CHILD is three hundredish. So, he still owes us for Kaydance. Oh, and they both are not even eighteen yet, so he still has some catching up to do.

Not that ANY OF US want his money after what he's put us ALL through. All of the mind games and torture. I just wish I could find this lady and tell her the truth. She needs the truth. Even if she decided to actually go through with marrying him, at least she could be warned, you know? Physical and mental abuse are hard to go through when nobody believes you.

But for now, all I will do is pray that things go different for her and for her son. They need all the prayers and blessings they can get. To you lady; Good luck, don't be fooled, and stop writing about my mom. First of all, you don't know her, you only know HIS side. Which is mostly lies. He's got TWO ex wives who say the same thing. Isn't that a sign? Second of all, you are starting to sound a little obsessed with publicly bashing my mom. Not only is that morally wrong, it's slander. What goes around, will come around on judgement day.

Peace out~
xoxo
Alexis