How crap a blogger am I

Okay, so for those who don't know, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month.
(www.nanowrimo.com) and is the initiative to promote writing by getting people to pen 50,000 words or about 175 pages, in a month. Sounds hard? It can be, but it's also fun, and very fulfilling.

I'll be having a go this year. I have a story in my head and I have started to gather some notes.

More on this soon.

How crap a blogger am I

well, since the last time I worte in here I have updated my other blog maybe half a dozen times. Man I am so garbage.

What's been happening, tons of stuff basically but as far as DA goes, I have started to mass about with different effects on my tablet, and experimenting more with layers. Recently I have discovered the wonders of multiply layers which work ina very similar way to watercolour washes. If you like pencil sketching these things are great fro blasting some colour into a piece without worrying too much about obscuring your lines.

See my most recent pices such as:
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and
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Okay, they are not works of art. Not yet. But each of thse took me about 40 mins to colourise. I am delighted with how quick nice effects can be achieved. This is particularly useful for getting some quick images ready for my writing group to illustrate characters or locations.

okay, so I am going to try blogging agaian, but I want a fresh start, hence....

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take a look, maybe leave a comment every now and again, it will help motivate me to continue.

Cheers.

MM

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Is a free Corel painter clone and is pretty durned amazing. It has a lot of painters features, and is so easy to use, especially if you have a graphics tablet.

I am not one to condone this package over that, but as a free little package, this is awesome.

Steongly reccommend it for those artists on a budget.

See 'The Face' for a 45 minute painting in said package.

MM

My gosh how time flies.

Well, that's it. My degree is over. Done. Dusted. Never to be worked upon again. I have put in seven years of five nights a week, plus weekend work on getting my BSc (Hons) in Computing and ICT. NOT fun when you are in your thirties, holding down a teaching job and starting a family. My eldest is seven and I have been working on my degree all the time he has been in the world!!

But it's over. I still can't believe I will not have to be putting in that sort of work effort again. Well unless I do my masters, but that will be a few years off if at all.

To all those whom I have neglected over the last few months. My apologies. You deserve better. But his final project has dominated my existance for a loong time.

As you can see I have got straight back to drawing, and I submitted story last week which has won a Pick of the Week prize, so I am, very happy to be being creative again.

Watch thsi space for a Lot more pics.

Love you all.

MM