Apr 242015
Carja
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Apr 222015
Hello and good Wednesday gentles. Today is the day we go on a new journey into the world of mash-ups. Let us proceed!
It’s more Star Wars Rebels this week. They released a trailer for season 2 at Star Wars Celebration and it looks awesome! As for today’s picture, as always, click on it to bask in its enlarged glory!
Cyran was the most unlikely of choices to dress up as Hera, what with him being a boy and all, but really his rabbit ears lent themselves so well as Twi’lek lekku (head tails) that I had to make Hera into Hiro. The original version I drew was all coloured and shaded but I couldn’t shake the feeling that the legs and feet were off. I don’t usually go back in such a major way, but I slapped on a new layer over Cyran’s lower body and redrew the legs and feet which I feel turned out much better. Just to show the difference, on the left is the approved final version and on the right is the original.
That’s all for this week. Even though we just went through the Ghost’s crew we’re not done with Rebels yet. We still have some villains to visit. Find out who next Wednesday!
Apr 212015
Apr 202015
Hello there! It’s time to blog it up, Animus-Style, which is to say, ramble on until I run out of things to talk about.
My remembery (made-up words are fun) is not what it used to be. Or maybe it is and I’m just not remembering correctly. As I was walking home from the post office today I had two things to share. One which I thought would be fun to talk about in this week’s blog and the other which I just wanted to share with friends in my area on Facebook. By the time I got home, I’d gotten the two confused and shared the former on Facebook and couldn’t even remember the latter! Good on you, brain! It took me a minute or two, but I did end up remembering the latter, but still. The walk took less than ten minutes!
The story I wanted to share here was about the package I picked up at the post office (hence the walk home). A few weeks ago, I ordered five Read-Along Book and Record sets on discogs.com from a seller in India. A day or two after paying, I got part of the order refunded to me and a note from the seller explaining that it was because it turned out that one of the records I ordered was cracked. The sad part was that it was the record I was most interested in out of the five. However, on top of sending me a refund, he said he was going to send me the record anyway! To that I have to say that Dr. Suresh Chandvankar, you are a class act!
Fast-forward a few weeks and finally the records arrive. Now I order things online all the time, so even though I enjoy getting things in the mail, there aren’t many surprises involved. However, if you’ve never ordered anything from India, let me tell you about how my package arrived. Rather than being sealed in a box or an envelope, my package was wrapped several times over in a thin piece of fabric and sewn closed. Fab once ordered something a chess set from India and it arrived in much the same fashion so I know this wasn’t a random thing. I am curious how commonplace it is. Any Indian readers out there able to fill me in?
The other bit of news I was going to share on Facebook was about a store closing which won’t be very interesting to people who don’t live near me, so I won’t go into any more detail. With that not said, this concludes this week’s blog. Have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday! Carja V.