I did it! I got myself one! An early birthday present from me to myself (^_^) It's so shiny and sleek and just super duper cool! Even the box is cool! I get some free software with it. I really like Corel Sketchpad for my doodles. And I'm learning how to use Corel Painter and Photoshop. It's my very first tablet and I splashed out on it, but it's worth it I'm not going to give up traditional media, but going digital gives me more confidence with the use of colour and gives me room to experiment. Hopefully this will show in my traditional work.

I'm a complete noob with digital art, so please bear with me while I experiment!

(^_^)

On other things, been super busy with work so haven't done much art at all. Trying to get back into it.

WIP status:
- VK Bookmarks (to do Kaname & Yuuki lineart and colour)
- Pencil portraits (Shia Lebouf, Prince Caspian, Alba, James May)
- Lineart and colour for various original sketches
- D.Gray-man, Bleach and more VK fanart ideas to sketch

I haven't blogged in a while, so here goes...

Work's been busy and stressful as usual. I'm not having to work so much overtime at the moment so it's good (touchwood) I've accumulated about 5 weeks worth of annual leave and hoping to take some time off. Do some more travelling.

Doing a lot of reading at the moment. Especially good to curl up next to the fire with a good book since it's autumn and cold My friends have convinced me to read Twilight. It's okay. I think the book is waaaay better than the movie. One thing gets to me though - I like romance and mushy stuff, but I can only take a certain amount of "I'm so much in love with Edward!" I hear the books get better so I'll keep reading. Vampire Knight and Fevre Dream (by George R R Martin) hold the special place in my heart for vampire stories Dracula and Interview with a Vampire hold 2nd place. Then Buffy I think. Haha, now that I think of it, Yuuki does a lot of "I'm so much in love with Kaname!" too!

But yeah, I highly recommend "Fevre Dream" by George R R Martin. It's totally gripping and dark. Joshua York is the name of the main vampire and the story is set in 19th century America. I've read it a few times and still leaves me with that nostalgic feeling... Hehe, if I had to imagine York as an anime character, he would look like Kaname with Zero's hair or an older Riku from Kingdom Hearts

To the Allen Walker fans - i'm working on it!!! (^_^)

I'm currently working on a series of drawings for Valentines day and I'm really excited about it. I don't think I'll be able to complete all by the 14th, but oh well... I actually meant to paint all of them, but IchiRuki turned into colour pencil work. I'll see how the others go (^_^)

Any special requests for pairings?

I want to draw so many things, but I can't decide which one to do first! My flaw is to think too much rather than do *sigh* I wanted to do a poll, but I think that's a subscriber only feature....although I think it gave me the option before.... might go check it out.