NeverEarth

Psh~ I haven't updated this in over a year. XD But that shall change! ...Probably. Eventually. When I get my scanner working. >.> But seriously. I've taken a break from the tablet in order to further my drawing skills on paper first. Mostly using charcoal, pencil, and pen. When I'm better at all of that, I will go back to slugging my way through tablet art, for which my goals are the various fanarts for my favorite books and the eventual creation of my own world. Said world is already in the developing stages (I'm on Culture right now, and just kind of jotting down ideas as they hit me), and it's going to be awesome (Warning: Flattering my

So today was the opening of the 37th Annual Balloon Fiesta, here in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Largest gathering of balloonists and air balloons in the world. International event. It took them fifteen minutes just to name all of the countries launching balloons. And let me tell you: There is nothing quite like getting up at four in the morning just to watch six hundred and fifty air balloons take to the air at dawn. Last year there were 900, but apparently they thought that was too many and cut down the amount of balloons allowed to take off. Le sigh. So I went. I took pictures. I'll be putting them up throughout the week, and probably next

I don't know how it happened. Suddenly, I was drawing the avatars of my Specter friends on Gaia; these cute little chibi things that I like the original drawings of better. But I found myself drawing them, and lining them in Illustrator, and giving them the basic colors, and then shading them in Photoshop. And I liked the results, mostly. I can't remember what I was doing, but I found this one pokemon picture somewhere (I think it was Eevee and Umbreon), and I absolutely loved it. So I started drawing pokemon. Vaporeon came first, and after I decided how to draw her, I got to work. Took me a while to get the head right, but I got it. Then I d