Man, it’s been a while. The best thing is that I really have quite a few things to write about. Cooking, music festivals, creations, travels… not to mention my Beloved One, but he will be featured in most of those topics, so be prepared :P.
I just don’t have time to physically sit and write it all down. At the moment I have like four drafts and I can’t finish any of it. *sigh*
[Damn, boyfriends really ARE time-consuming XD <3 <3 <3]

So what am I doing here, then?

Twitter

Yup, I can has a Twitter ;). I’m not quite sure if I’m going to write something there, though. As for now I use it only to follow others, designers or design-oriented websites, mostly. It’s really great for this purpose, you get a lot of useful information in one place.
I guess I like the idea of miniblog. And it will come in handy when RT is up (‘coz it will be up, someday >_>), it seems like a good way to keep people informed whether any of my sites has been updated. Espacially since it happens once in a very long while :P.

Lazuri, again

Since she is my favourite OC so far (and the only one which has been shown to anyone ;)) I decided to use her once again. This upcoming piece will probably be used for Radioactive Toy’s main theme. If the outcome will be satisfying, that is. Not much done so far, but I’ll let you take a look :).

I know, I know, her hand sucks. I didn’t pay any attention to it, it’s more like “Hi, I’m Zooey’s hand and I’ll be placed here” XD.
I’m quite happy with her other than that.

Introducing: Shiriel

Yey, my second OC in progress! Lazuri will always be my favourite, but I didn’t want to exploit her too much. So here’s my second girl, Shiriel. I came up with this name when I needed one for my World of Warcraft account (yeah… XD), but I don’t play anymore and I still like the name. It doesn’t have any meaning, it’s just a mix of Shi, japanese for death, since she was supposed to be fighting type of character and Ariel which I really like as a name.
This is just a conceptual sketch.The only thing that -stays- is her face shape. The rest is a simply concept of colouring, because the first thing I came up with when started creating this character was colour-scheme ;).
And I really can’t decide if I want her hair to be curly or straight… or what.

I guess I’m into profiles and half-profiles lately >_>.

WARNING: Your mental health may be endangered ;D

In the end, if you ever wondered WTF with this entry’s title, check this out:
[and remember, I warned you~!]

Oh, I guess I never mentioned it: I also have My Anime List if you’re interested ;).

This post seems a little bit messy, but oh well. I’m really going to TRY finish few more things sooner this time >_>. Yeah, try <3.

A while ago a posted some WIPs of a vector of my OC Lazuri. So here she is, finally done.

As you can see her eyes have a different colour now. This shade of blue matches her perfectly and I didn’t want her to be mistaken with some sorry excuse for a vampire :P (Twilight Saga, anyone?). She does not sparkle, even though she’s a pirokinethic. So yeah, I will stick to this colour.

So, here’s the wallpaper featuring Zooey and done entirely in Illustrator. It’s also my little tribute to “Twin Peaks”. How? The quote (and this post’s title) has been taken from it. I must admit that it’s weird series, but I’ve seen both seasons and I love it.

But back to subject, the wallpaper:
1280×800
1440×900
1680×1050
2560×1600
Feel free to use it ;).

I used this wallpaper as my project for Multimedia Software. I hope I pass >_>. My sourse file is a bit messy and has only one layer… mainly because Zooey has been created as a separate file, then grouped and put in the background file.

Well, I’ll see tomorrow ;).

Side note: I’m messing around with this place quite a lot. I keep changing both sidebars, I changed the names of Pages and placed Archives as a separate Page as well.
I guess I’ll keep using 3 coloums themes forever, simply because there’s a lot of stuff there and I really love the way Vi.net looks right now <3.

The second term (or fourth, depending on how you count them…) started and it’s hard. There’s this thing called Econometrics. Mathematics, statistics, economics and probability in one. *dies* My brain simply turns into water every Tuesday.
Fortunately, I’m at school three times a week and once a month Mondays are free~!
Unfortunately, on every “free” day I’m supposed to be at work. Including weekends, sometimes. Well, my boss thinks that I should spent every afternoon working.
I wonder for how long I’ll be working here… Since I got my promotion I’m being lectured 3 times per day just because. But well, that’s a subject for separate entry.

When it comes to entries, I have some things written and saved at home (since I no longer trust in WordPress’ drafts), but I just don’t have time to sit and finish anything or make it sound decent.
Ha ha, I bet everyone would love my MUSE review (which got deleted dammmmmmmmmmit!) if the actual review part consisted of “I love it you must listen to it it’s awesome omg I love muse <3333″, right? XD So yeah, I deffinitely shall rephrase few things there ;D.

Besides I opened RT which has been even more dead than this place, but I’ve been working on something, actually. Vector of my OC Lazuri (done in Illustrator~ and yes, it is spelled with “R”).

Few work in progress pics:

I will write more about it when I get it finished <3.

There are two more things which kept me busy for the last few weeks: books and video games.

As for the books, there’s a Polish writer Jacek Piekara. He wrote quite a few short stories (five books so far, 400+ pages each) about Holy Inquisition, or rather one of the inquisitors: Mordimer Madderdin. The thing is that the world Piekara created is a bit different than ours. It is a world where Jesus Christ didn’t die on the cross, but He descended it and, with the help of apostles, cold-bloodedly murdered half of Jerusalem (in Polish this ‘cold-bloodedly’ part was said more pointedly, but I couldn’t find it in any of my dictionaries).
I didn’t really want to even start reading it since I’m an atheist and this whole religious crap just doesn’t work for me, but I gave it a chance. And now I love it. I don’t know if there’s a point in writing anything else about it here, because most of you won’t read it anyway.
It just kept me busy for quite some time. I really have been reading a lot lately. Piekara is just my latest obsession.

Now video games, or a game I should say. Heroes of Might and Magic III. It’s old, I know. I haven’t played it in quite a while and I’ve already forgot how playable it is. It’s all my sister’s fault! One day she asked me if I wouldn’t play with her as an ally. I agreed. Since that day I must finish at least one map per day x_x”. Still, it’s better than my Dungeon Siege obsession. I have been playing it for… four months? Day by day. Few hours per day.

Anyway, now you see that I had better things to do than blogging ;) (yeah, especially the last paragraph).
Ok, I shall end by now, it’s time to at least pretend I’m actually working ^-^.

Well, well, well, finally something more optimistic ;D.

If you remember, three weeks ago I was writing about my studies. My best opinion was about Multimedia Devices. Now it’s even better ;).

Like I said before, we already had classes with tablets. People had such a great time playing with them that our tutor decided to repeat the classes. This time Wacom lent us some tablets.

On Monday, the tutor asked if I’d like to make a short presentation on how to use tablets, meaning: I was supposed to sit and draw something in more or less an hour. With a use of Cintiq 12WX, not my regular Intuos3. As you probably guessed, I agreed.

On Wednesday, I had a meeting with my tutor and a representant of Wacom. I was told that my presetation will be open to public. It was the first time when I started panicing. Just a bit ;). It was kind of too late to withdraw, anyway. Second good news: presentation shall be in Painter X, not Photoshop. Yeah. All I knew about Painter was the fact that it actually existed.

Thursday: me and Cintiq, together for one whole day. I must say that it’s really great and I enjoyed working with it, though I had 12 inches version and it was a bit small. Working with it, looks just as if you were using paper. A big advantage of the device is also a fact that after 12h of working my eyes weren’t tired. And I guess it’s just more comfortable and natural than regular tablet. Though I am really happy with my Intuos3 A3 ;) and I deffinitely do not regtret buying it. As Wacom’s representant said: “Cintiq is just Intuos3 with LCD display.” When it comes to pen pressure and pen tilt sensitivity, they are exactly the same.

If you’re thinking of buying a tablet, Wacom is the only option ;). All you have to think of is what you want to use it for. If drawing than what? Vectors? Digital paintings? Photomanipulations? Or maybe you just want to write on it and make your computer navigaion easier? Whatever your choice is, Wacom has a tablet which will satisfy your needs :).

Ok, end of this shameless advertising. No, Wacom didn’t pay me for it ;D. It’s just my honest opinion, since I had a chance to work on other tablets as well.

Back on presentation. Thursday + Cintiq + Painter = Panic! (not really at the disco). I had no idea on how to use Painter and I couldn’t find any good tutorials. I was messing around, trying new things and writing down the tools which might have been useful.

Friday: day of presentaition and my great failure. A word “panic” doesn’t really explain what I felt.

I sat in front of Cintiq, started working and were supposed to comment what I was doing. Unfourtunately, all I could have thought of was “OMG, why isn’t this piece of crap [meaning: Painter] working?! It did just yesterday! How shall I fix it?”. I was like this for almost an hour, or at least up ’til I moved to Photoshop and my picture actually got a little better.

After an hour I was done. Applause. I truly believe that most of the people clapped just because they were happy that it’s finally over. I didn’t even bother to stand up and take a bow. I just wished the ground would have swallowd me up.

Here’s what I did:

I’m not happy with the picture, I really am not. I know that it will be coloured again (because the lineart is the only thing I like here). Just imagine how bad it would be without blood splats and those dark/dirty stains all over his… clothes.

The first time I opened it at home, was late Sunday evening.

Now as I think of it, I know that I simply was too ambitious. With my knowledge of Painter X, I should have chosen a more simple theme than Pyramid Head. But I just couldn’t resist ;). I didn’t even manage to actually finish the whole picture. He is done, but where’s the background? Vision of another hour spent on this image simply made me sick ;).

When RT will be up (hopefully in few days) there will be a section with Illustrations. Pyramid Head will be my first or second piece in there ;).

Now, I said that this post will be optimistinc. Yes, I am happy that I took part in it. I might not be happy with the outcome, but at least I got to know mr. Wacom’s representant ;), which I wish to shamelessly use in near future (and I mean the acquaintance here ;)).

It really was a great fun after all, not to mention the fact that from my whole group the tutor have chosen me for the presentation. And I’m glad I did it. Seriously. Oh, and I got a leash ;D.

As a side note. Remember my project on CG&M? The game whatsoever? Well, in the end we did a short Flash animation and you can watch it here. It doesn’t really end, so when you see the “The end” screen you can turn it off. When we tried to make it stop it didn’t even start >_>. And if anyone wondered: the music is Franz Ferdinand’s Do You Want To. Enjoy! :D