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Saturday, May 28, 2005
The CSS course at Indianapolis went well - John is a fine teacher! Here are some of the projects I worked on:
- Converting google to css, complete with a custom logo x)
- John's workshop layout, with my own header image swapped in :D
- Yellow layout
- Indigo layout
There's one more layout, but I might actually be using that one, so I won't show it here. In all, I will have to say I'm very glad I went. Most memorable was the Ritchies' tradition of everyone taking turns sharing their insights from their morning devotions at breakfast. That was pretty motivating to me in getting my devotions in ^^;... but I did receive a lot of insights that week. One came from the initially dry and lengthy tabernacle specifications in Exodus - once Ruth mentioned that we are tabernacles of God's spirit, it all started to apply!
And now, Acen 2005 photos~ (I also made some cool sketches that I might scan in later). We had a bigger bunch this year: Tara and I, as well as Paula and Kari! There were a lot more people in general this year. A pity that the paper signs from last year got outlawed though; there was no glomping at all. Next time I go to Acen, or any anime convention, I think I'll browse the Artist's Alley a bit more thoroughly. I love that place. Who knows, maybe even I will be there some day, if I go down the starving-comic-artist route ^__^.
Some art from a paintchat I was in last night for like 3 hours:
- Neko boy! It's been a while since I've drawn stuff like that ^^; coulda been better.
- P-chat roleplaying with some other people. Everything drawn in the peach color is from me. It started with the big peach cat sketching a portrait of the tan fox, and went from there.
- More roleplaying; just me and one other person who did everything in the blue color. Has a very specific timeline, but generally goes from left-top to bottom-right. It was intense.
Paintchatting is fun; I would REALLY love to do it with some of you people from real life... especially you people who own WACOM TABLETS!!! *pokes Deidre*
Other stuffs:
The Praise Symphony prelude was great! I have video clips if anyone wants them. It has been quite an experience for me setting this all up, but I'm glad I did it.
Last Tuesday, my department decided to utterly astonish me by celebrating Victoria Day (the Canadian holiday for Queen Victoria), complete with food, as well as weaponry and a cardboard crown they pillaged from the Children's Institute costume stash. Oh, and shouts of "God save the queen." And flowers from Mrs. Rees!! That was so incredibly nice of them ^^;; I still can't believe it.
Kash, Weien, Paula, thanks, I'm glad you liked the comic. All the work that went into capturing the perfect "shuuu" of Vol in the top-right corner of page 2 was worth it, I think xD. (If you haven't, make sure you read the entirety of Weien's comment on my last post - priceless!!!) And good to hear from you, David and Shiowei!
Hmm, this layout has been here for about five months now. Just curious; what kind of layout would you like to see next? I'm thinking of possibly breaking out of iframes and moving from greymatter to a better blogging engine.
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I like the yellow css layout - and what's greymatter exactly?
Posted by unfair at May 28, 2005 11:13 AM
Agh... greymatter ate my comment. *wilts* Right now I feel like this, mourning for an old friend, but I wish that I looked more like this, composed and in control and with neat clothes, while in reality I probably look more like this. Just being me and bonding with elevators.
sigh
*And if the HTML doesn't work (or if the site I googled gave me bad code), I'll be a bit more like this. *hope hope hope* And now, for a retelling of ages past...
A fine student makes a fine teacher. *suspicious cackle* Can't wait till you get around to using the new layo for you know what. The indigo layout's header image is neat; I like the bird with the boy's head and all (and you thought that it was a boy with wings XD).
As for tab specs in Exodus: 'Make for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of hides of sea cows.' Isn't that the story of my life? ^^
Love the early FF cosplays; the 8-bit theater flairs are excellent (swordchucks, dice bag, etc). Though the sneakers seem a bit out of place, if not startling. Black Mage's mask is a great and much-necessary touch to the look.
*shameless plug* The paintchat wars were amazing for all of you who missed it. Everything from tic-tac-toe on a cat's stomach to an overdose of sugoiness. Be there next time! I might even tell you my one greatest weakness if you're present *tries to think of something interesting*.
Anyway, happy belated Victoria Day. 'When the sun refuse to shine she don't mind, she just leave this world behind/*She got wheels in her smile, she can coast along for miles...'
Finally, in response to 'Weien's comment on my last post - priceless!!!', well... it was free ^___^ (but donations are accepted, payable in food).
For an easy new layout, you could just layer something over the COD pics and Messiah sheets (start a trend eh?). Or if you want to drive us completely nuts, just use an upside-down font for your blog (maybe a backwards Lucida console?). Ha and they thought that Vivace 8 was hard to read! *gets beaten up*"
Ahwell. Have a nice day.
Posted by Weien at May 31, 2005 4:54 AM
ow! *eyes start to water* You poke hard!! lol, just jokin. =)
But anyways that Paintchat thingy would be fun(though I have no idea how to do it lol)!
hmmmmmm.....I think you should put your bs comic and other bs drawings, in the background of your new layout, that would be cool! But, like Weien, I like that indigo layout thingy too...hmmm..decisions decisions. *thinks a little too hard
*well, um...thats all i have.
God Bless!!
Posted by Diedre at June 3, 2005 10:39 AM
yummy, acen pix. good times, funny how some of my pictures were exactly the same as yours, angle and all. *weirded out*
Posted by paula at June 12, 2005 5:00 AM
I love those CSS Workshop layouts, particularly the yellow one. All your layouts are so cool. *grins
*Paintchatting? Now that sounds rather interesting...
Posted by David at June 15, 2005 2:04 AM
::wipes away tear::
;0; You've grown up so much! I can still remember when in 7th grade, the only japanese pop-culture thing you were exposed to was Digimon.... but those are still some undeniably good memories. XD Funky notes. Odd, odd codenames. Wierd four-square techniques named after "moves." All you Victoria~ ::squish::
But joking set aside, you've really flourished. I'm glad to see you're really pursuing you dream occupation in such a single-minded manner. And it all looks so fun!! Your current art also has some play in my awe at your uniqueness and flair. (T_T Wish I had a tablet. ::wants to paint chat::)
Will talk to you later when I get back from China!
Posted by Sunnie at July 18, 2005 8:16 AM
Hey Victoria!*You MUST add more to the BS comic... The coloring/art in that is intense! I'm envious... lol ^^*I've never heard of paintchatting before, but from what you've said it sounds like fun. Unforunately, I don't have a tablet, so I can't try it. -_-*Any layout you would make would look fantastic... I love how you incorporate you art into them. *God bless! ^^
Posted by Christina at July 21, 2005 2:53 AM