Splots and penguins

Wednesday and the 22nd......

Today was fairly uneventful other than having to get into town early to do all the christmas food shopping and to make sure that the cars had enough fuel as all the news was going on about doom and gloom (nothing different there then!) and how everything was once again running out on the countdown to christmas.........got a lovely coffee with mum and my little brother, managed to hand in a book that I'd managed to get a fine on for being late back to the library =_=;; I think I also bought my comics today........seeing as saturday when my ritual of buying comics is normally conducted was to be christmas, so yes today seemed to be a better idea to buy my lovelies............was good actually I got the latest issue of Chew, Curse of the Worgen (yes I like WoW), a one shot about Vork from the Guild, latest Bleach manga and another volume of Girl Genius to add to my collection :) Nothing makes me happier than having a decent comic to read, but that is generally on a saturday.........so normally once I have my comics, I'll venture for a coffee and then head home to live in my room for the entire afternoon just reading my comics in quiet........it's a lovely time, but it's also lovely to go back down and join in with my family - only problem is this is all normally on a saturday..........so I felt very out of sync, which ended up with me leaving my comics to lie on a shelf until christmas evening where I finally read them.........

anyway, todays desing was based on the lovely pattern found on my dress from Topshop :) these little flower looking things that I call Splots are very easy to do as long as you do everything you want to do with each colour first rather than doing one splot at a time and planning which colour to pick up next......

I used black liquied eyeliner, pink metallic Barry M, gold metallic Barry M, blue metallic Barry M.......it's also fun to leave gaps so your skin colour can fill in some of the splots layers.......

see?? they could be flowers, but they're far more spot ish......or splat ish.........either way, they're decorative, so I call them splots..........

and here I am in Starbucks.........one of my prefered coffee shops, but saying that I go into every single coffee shop in colchester so I suppose I don't have a favourite.........but yeah, Starbucks is definitely better at latte's than anywhere else.................

Oh yeah!! For christmas I emailed an artist that I like called Yuri Kore.........I love her art, it's just really beautiful!! So for a christmas present to my mum I emailed her requesting a portrait of my mum with a penguin (my mums fave animal...) luckily she said she'd love too.........so after a few emails, finding the price and finally paying for it and sending pics of my mum all I had to do was wait to see what she'd do..........this is the result that she emailed me!! Isn't it cute?!?! It's done from a picture of my mum when she was younger holding me as a baby, I love how her hair and eyes have been done.............it's all hand drawn as well! Plus Yuri dated it 25/12/10 as I told her it was to be a christmas gift, I can't wait to have it and get it framed for christmas!!! :-D

well, that's all for today! xxxxxxx

Jagers!!

Tuesday...well, this was the 21nd........very close to christmas and my dear friend Liam was back from uni and had not bought any christmas presents........so I ended up meeting him for a chat ans shop about town...........

yeah, he looks like he's a metal head............strange really as he was shorter when I'd last seen him and his hair was short...........now he's slightly taller than me (unheard of in our friendship groups - seriously he was short!) and actually looks like he listens to the music his T-shirts advertise :) 

yeah he wasn't pleased that I was taking his picture........anyway, was great fun as we wondered everywhere - with him explaining how he and his family buy joke presents for each other..............

Oh yeah! I gave him his christmas present today, which was a pack of D.Grayman playing cards and a rainbow striped Teapot - like me he's a BIG fan of D. Grayman and since being in uni he's realised he likes tea..........luckily he loved his gift! Then as he hadn't got me anything he vanished to the back of Evolution and re-appeared with the cutest looking Hippo teddy that's pink with white polka dots, yep he bought it for me for christmas!! XD It's the cutest thing ever and now lives in my room <3

yeah, this is how I was dressed today.......my cat shirt, with raggedy waistecoat from River Island.......the theme for today was the Jagerkin from Girl Genius

heh, this is the Jagerkins insignia......basically Jagers in Girl Genius are the best warriors possible who are then subjected to (I can't remember quite what at the moment ^_^;; ) which turns them into Jagers......Jagers have a BIG thing for hats, they are very important to them! The fact is that in battle they take the hat of the warrior they've beaten - there's also a size issue, as all Jagers want BIG OVER THE TOP hats to show off............They used to work for the Heterodynes - the very family who's ancestors created whatever tunrs someone into a Jager..........Jagers can live for a VERY VERY VERY VERY long time, my favourite Jagers are definitely the Jager Boyz => Maxim, Ognian (Oggie) and Dimo

Basically Maxim is purple and wears purple and red, Oggie is normal but with a horn growing where his ear should be and he has two toes on each foot with two nails for each toe, and Dimo is green and lost his arm in a battle in a sewer (slight spoiler if you haven't read it)........There's also Jenka, but I prefer the Boyz - no offence Jenka!!

Anyway, to understand why I love these four characters (well three of them anyway) check out this link....

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080310

Later after a lot of shopping and coffee and chatting about anything and everything.......I wandered up to Idian Ocean to have an indian with my dear family...........was a lot of fun and I had a surprise visit from my friend Piran who actually walked all the way there from his house to give me my christmas present which was the Fable book about Balverines that I'd wanted ever since it had come out!! I was really pleased!!! :)

Once again, my mum has to prove that I am always eating...........healthily might I hasten to add, as it's important to eat when you're at a meal........I mean, how rude would it be to just sit there?

anyway, the initial drawing is all outlined first in black eyeliner (that means eyes, cracks of the skull, everything!) then filled in with gold Barry M liquid eyeliner.......It turned out fab and has only made me more determined to come up with a Jager character and go as one to Expo next time!!

well that's all for Tuesday! xxxxxxxx

Tron!

Ok, well for monday I decided to go to the cinema with my little brother to see Tron as we'd both seen the original and wanted to see what Disney had done for a new release.......turns out it's an entirely different story.......then again it's amazing so heh, yay I managed to explain it without any spoilers!!! Go me!!! XD

Tron is owned by Disney........heh just thought I'd put that little gem in there............anyway, tron is amazing so if you haven't seen it do please go or at least buy the DVD when it's out :) Plus Daft Punk are in it!!! <3 Sorry I'm a big fan of Daft Punk and thanks to this movie my brother has finally started listening to their music, which is awesome as now he wants me to get him the music and take him to see them if they do a show any time soon :) so yeah, this movie was awesomes for more than one reason :-D

My lovely little brother who is currently taller than me and looks older than me =_=;; I'm not complaining, I just wish that when I have to tell him what to do or explain things that I didn't have to look up at him and feel like a child talking to an adult......it's a rather annoying feeling, but I'll get over it as I want him to be really tall and amazing! As he's my little brother and frankly I think he'll make something amazing of himself when he's older and even if he doesn't I'll always be proud of the little twit :-P

heh, I keep ranting on strange subjects lately huh? Maybe this is an outlet for my strangeness or perhaps my delirium? (joke in there somewhere, that perhaps my father and other people will get.....I hold no high hopes of that though)

anyway, today because I was going to see a film on pixelated creations on the grid and because I was about to listen to Daft Punk music I desided to copy the arrow design that's on one of their helmets in one of the many pictures of Daft Punk that you can find on google :) I was rather chuffed at how this lovely turned out XD

as you can see I have done every single pixelated square and then filled it in............if my counting of numbers is still firmly definite, I'm pretty sure I've made this smaller in width and length when compared to the pic of Daft Punk, but I'm not particularly bothered by that I'm just chuffed it worked :)

Incase anyone would like to try this, start by working out where the arrow will be, then draw the lines going down to a certain length........then work out where the triangle at the bottom will appear - draw the lines out working out how many boxes you'll want to place inside, then draw the steps to the tip.........once all of that is complete, join the steps together with horizontal lines to start off the grid inside the arrow.......then continue by drawing all the lines down and there you have your little pixel arrow :) I hope that made sense ^_^;;

then fill with the most showy colours you have!! Well, I had a blue dress on and the pink really shows up against the blue...........but you could do technically anything! ;)

How do I look? heh I really like the arrow..........maybe I'll do it again at somepoint

heh, once again my little dog has joined in on my photos.....

and made me laugh :-S

heh, that's right girl pose for the camera!! heh it's funny I need to post a pic from ages ago where I went off for a tour with my orchestra and my little brother bought himself some green hair gell and had decided to give my dog a green mohawk............it suited her, not that I'd admit that to him ¬_¬

Oh yeah, basically while we were in the cinema we kept hearing this wierd loud noise..........when we walked home we came across this, apparently the council were fed up of everyone complaining :-P

You see this is North hill and with all the snow it was impossible to walk or drive on it.........turns out it couldn't be gritted either as it's a main route but not a main road - now doesn't that sound contradicting? I mean if it's a main route then obviously it's a main road as it would be the most used road for it to be a main route??

Anyway, they had this scooping all the snow and ice down to make a barricade at the bottom of the hill :)

and that is all for monday...........byes xxxxx

Sledding

Well, I got behind once again........but it had been snowing and I have gone through christmas and boxing day.......so do forgive me for being behind again ^_^

Right well, today I went sledding with people as it had considerably snowed and everyone was basically back x

Colchester Parks lower hill near the roman wall is the best place ever to sled......

(from left to right) Simon, Chris and Piran..........3 friends of mine from Sixth Form

Tiggy is the girl on the left here, she's Pirans little sister who I get on with immensely......although I did find myself wishing she'd warn something other than snow boots as heres had no grip as far as snow was concerned - which really puzzled me as why the heck would snow boots not be able to grip snow?!

yeah it got considerably late and we ended up vacating the park for Pirans house which is basically just a walk from the park..........

sorry had to take this, I just thought it was such a beautiful image when we were walking........strange as it kinda looks like the sun is still dropping while the moon has already risen to the skies........did that make sense?

Well after sledding and going round Pirans with everyone, I ended up walking to Nando's to have tea with my family........it was freezing, slippery and very dark and creepy.........but luckily I have a look about me when I'm determined that basically reads to other people as 'bother me and you'll die!' which is annoying sometimes, but other times like then was extremely useful!

a few pictures of colchester with snow at night :)

Here's the design for today it's to go with a new dress I have :)

just a tough of black eyeliner........

see............lots of random paint brush splats..........it's really pretty :)

Steampunk clock.......it kinda went........

well it was late and I was tired, so as much as I'd love to say there's a reason for how crumpled I look in these pictures I can't.........I'd been sledding, was cold, tired and now quite frankly wanting nothing more than to go to bed...........

Well that was sunday I guess xxxxxxx

Blue Darling!

Saturday!

I love saturdays.............they're a wonderful day where I can actually just sit down with a coffee and read my comics, which is probably the nicest part of my week........actually no there's no probably there, I look forward to saturday just for that fact!

Anyway, I was wearing a very lovely blue Darling dress with lacey bits and such, well the design on  my face is based on the middle of one of the lacey bits, but instead of being all blue I've altered it by adding gold and silver and then leaving areas blank........I think it's turned out marvelous, but of course you're allowed to think whatever! Anyway, this was done using black eyeliner, Barry M metalic gold and blue eyeliner and silver glitter eyeliner...........

You can see the pattern slightly emerging in the lacey bit on the neckline of my dress..........hopefully? heh maybe I just look a bit too closely?? Anyway, I think it looks great! XD

Funny actually I was catching up on Girl Genius (comic that I collect and read online => http://www.girlgenius.net/ ) and I realised just how much this looks like a William Morris wallpaper design =_=;; I realise they're two different things that I've just mashed together!! But um it's because Girl Genius is a Steampunky comic with Jagerboyz (extremely cool and funny things) in and well Steampunk is very victorian in look and William Morris wallpapers are very victorian in look............anyway, check out the comic as it is brilliant!! Also check out William Morris as his prints are very cool!

Back to face art.........I feel like I've just put together loads of different patterns and colours today!! I mean my earrings don't really go except for the curly decorational bits on it, but thanks to the lacey doylie-esque parts on the dress it all matches.........strange really............

closer look incase you couldn't see it earlier :)

not sure the necklaces go.......but they looked pretty and went with the different colours :)

Yeah, thanks to the cold I've found fluffy socks!! They're brilliant.............I must sound like such an old lady at the moment, but it's true I can't stand my feet getting cold and these are brilliant in my boots :) hmmmm........I wanna make a jager costume now, I really shouldn't mention Girl Genius it does this to me everytime but I can't go through with a Jager costume as I can't find anything to make my teeth look sharper :'(

Anyway, I'll say byes now xxxxxxxxxxx

Black and Gold

Friday!

Ok, well today I was wearing goldy looking stuffs......so I got to use my new eyeliner from Lucy for the first time ever and it's amazing!!!

Seeeeeeee!!!! The metalic gold liquid eyeliner by Barry M is brilliant!! normally I'd have to use eyeshadow and then clean up the lines with the black eyeliner, this way I just had to draw the gold in and it was all clean and pretty!! I really love this pattern that I've done!! XD heh, is it sad that I'm excited about how nice an eyeliner is??

closer look.......as you can see the design started as a swirl shape coming off of my eyelid like a big eyelash, but then I decided to finish the shape with a block that would fall down behind the curl......inside the shapes are different angled and sized zig zags of gold - based on my t-shirt dress with it's gold sequins........

It's done with Barry M metalic gold eyeliner and black eyeliner.......

here's a quick look, as it was cold and I wasn't going to take my coat off even for this blog!

Thought I'd show you what I'd been doing.........well tada!! So that grandads still taking part in christmas he now has mini christmas trees that I found mini baubles and lights for...........

also has his own little wreath and a proper baby christmas tree for his tree...........it really cheered nan up and looks fab! Sorry if this isn't what you're into seeing or if it wierds you out, but family is very important to me and my family are very into celebrating christmas - so it wouldn't have felt right if he didn't get a little christmas spirit to keep him company :)

Well that's all

Bye xxxxxxxxx