merlyn and wulf's excellent adventure at JediCon

JediCon2008

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

There are way too many things taking up way too much time that I want to and need to get done.
How the hell did I get so busy and still manage to feel as though I accomplish nothing?

Can we have more hours in the day please?

*grumble* back to writing and other time consuming things.

On another giggly note.... we are headed to Jedi Con, big star wars themed SciFi con in Düsseldorf, the last time I went to a con was in Dartmouth NS and there I met David Prowse ( OMG) which was started the whole daughter of the empire nonsense...who knew??? This photo is take from Wolfcon (I think), or something along those lines in Halifax .... this was me in one of my many Vampire outfits. It's like at least 10 years ago...but what is SUPER scary is I still have that vest, those boots and the sunglasses and the teeth. Lost a chunk of weight since then tho...

Oh yay for the past and all its silliness.

springy

Our weather, this time of year is glorious. When it seems like everyone else is getting the rotten end of sheila's Brush we get warm föhn winds, crystal clear skies and brilliant sunlight, with just enough cool coming off the snowy mountains to make going out for a walk/ run enjoyable.

I am grateful for it because now that I seem to be addicted to getting the heck out of the house and running off some pent up energy, my writing has improved greatly.

Writing takes up so much time, who'd have thunk it? I spend hours and hours editing right now, and then more hours writing the new stuff... not to mention the other little bits and pieces that get done in between along with the house worky stuff and the contemplation of the art projects which I need to get a leg up on, none btw are SCA related which is a good thing.

It seems that as far as the SCA is concerned I am in serious down time. I know I go through these phases and after 4 straight years of a pretty busy and interesting office, as well as mass production of scrolls I had to stop and take a break. People will think this is typical, she get's her laurel and then buggers off, but IDC what others think and when I am ready I will be back, I have been in this hobby for 2o odd years, believe me interest comes and goes.

Anyway the latest distraction has been screen shop manipulation in photoshop.

Here is the latest one, I like it but it needs work still.

different kind of art work

Lately it seems I have been using my computer as a drawing tool rather than a pencil. IN my desire to illustrate my fan-fic novels I have been doing the endless quest for the perfect Screen shot, after all I can actually get Merlyn and Thrawn together in the SWG game so why not use it to my advantage?

This requires hours and I do mean hours of work. First of all setting up the shots is a lot like photography except my camera is the printscreen button. Then I take the raw footage and fix it up in photoshop.

It takes hours and some of the touch up work is done like spot toning pixel by pixel. The end results are rewarding though as you can see from above.