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Updates - June 5, 2009

First, I have added in another skin. Now, when I add in skins, they are technically completely different layouts on my part and they take me a moment to get them the way I want to them, so I apologize since I did go from having four to one in the space of the four seconds it took me to delete them. It'll take me a while to get back up to that and beyond.

But anyway, the new layout features the sex that is Steven Strait (shirtless, Marilyne, shirtless!). When I first started considering making fanart that featured Jacob from the Twilight Saga, he was my Jacob. Because there are great pictures of him out there that work well with the drama-rama that is Twilight. So the new layout is sort of both for the actor and the character Jacob. You can check that out here.

An affiliate update, added in two fabulous new artists:

Definitely check them out. If you requested affiliation, I either tagged you and am waiting for a response or... I suck and missed yours. Please feel free to tag me again if you're still interested. I also went through and did a little clean-up of my current affiliates and deleted quite a few because their sites were offline. If you believe you were deleted in error, please let me know on the tagboard or through not-so-snail mail and I'll get you back up there. :)

Art! Adding in six new additions...

So... who saw the New Moon trailer? Who FREAKING LOVED IT LIKE ME?! It's going to be amazing, and I had to art something from it, anything! And this scene just screamed drama, look at Edward's face, come on now! I love the simplicity of the text and letting the images speak for themselves, because this scene is the catalyst for everything that happened in New Moon and they should say it all. The dark textures and coloring are so pretty, as is the blending.

So heartbreaking, when Edward kisses Bella's forehead and then disappears. I wanted to capture Bella falling apart in the forest after he leaves, which is the focus of the composition. I love the blending and the glass stock. I wanted to focus on a relationship between black and white (the black hole inside Bella) and the chaotic coloring (Edward throwing her life upside down by leaving). Just look at her face. This movie is going to be ten shades of EPIC.

Hey hey... Steven as Jacob! That's such a dramatic picture of him, he looks so heartbroken and thinking back on it, I should have added in a different image of him as he answers the phone... but alas! This is a slight remake of this wall, just because I didn't feel the drama of the scene was coming across, so I changed the composition, some images, the coloring and the shading. I wanted to focus what his words really meant for Edward, and how Jacob feels about how Bella reacts.

All the cool kids are doing it! How can I not art this scene all over again with the new Italy scenes? I really dislike the coloring in this piece, it's the opposite of the death that is lingering in the sidelines, waiting to play. The composition is nice. I might just re-do this wallpaper, thinking back on it. It's not how I envisioned it, so I'll work on that.

Made for a seven deadly sins challenge, this is focusing on gluttony, and who better than the Master in 'Prophecy Girl'? Not only does he thirst for the Slayer's blood, but the power and the freedom that will come from it. I loved his lines in that scene, when he's talking to her, the hunter vs the hunted. The lion vs the lamb, it worked very well for the idea behind it. And that image of him is deliciously creepy. His hands, man. His hands! :P

I knew I wanted a layout with him, but I like making my layouts from wallpapers (usually) and this was the base for the new skin. Just a pretty and bright and so-crazy-the-stocks-make-no-sense-but-that's-okay sort of wallpaper. Plus shirtless Steven. Always a good addition. :)

Alrighty, that's all for now. I want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone (especially Lenka, that was really sweet to say! :D!) who has been posting in the tagboard, you guys honestly make my day every day, and make making art so much funner (yeah. It's a word, accept it, just like that was an awesome sentence). I appreciate it so much! :). To answer a few questions, I do plan on delving into the Dollhouse fandom and I can't say yes or no to the Charmed question, I'd need to rehash the episodes and find some good caps. :)

Updates - May 29, 2009

A simple Twilight piece. I made this a while ago, it was the first piece I'd made in a long while and, at the time, I was wanting to emulate Amber's style, her shadows and dark colors and for some reason, I chose this scene.

I have a love/hate relationship with this piece. I love the concept, but I don't like the final product. I have to take a stand and say that Blue October rules me, and it rules this piece, so perfect for Edward and how he feels about Bella in New Moon. I wanted to show Bella's state of mind after he leaves, that she's so broken and scattered and unable to understand why.

This was more of an experiment, I just chose a random scene from New Moon that featured Laurant and ran with it, because I wanted to use this new still from the New Moon set. Basing the piece off of the text alone, it's pretty cool, but as far as an actual scene piece, it sucks. :P

How freaking amazing and perfect and epic are the New Moon set pictures of the Italy scenes?! So freaking amazing! And as a result, I had to make something (not including this layout, le har), because I love my older piece of this scene, but OMG peeps! New images! I just wanted to focus on the moment when Bella is with Edward again, and it's as if their separation never happened, her chest hole never existed. Awesome.

Another piece that I was mostly experimenting on. I loved the idea of Bella and Edward's worlds colliding in Breaking Dawn and the impact it has. Now, did I get this idea across through the piece? Questionable, :P But I really love the colors that I got out of this, I've been on a weird coloring kick and this is a definite sign of that.

This was made for a lyric challenge, the lyrics I used are from Audioslave, and the idea is that Bella and Edward have to be separated by the simple basic fact that they are different. Bella = human; Edward = vampire. But that doesn't change their feelings, that they'll wait for that day when they can be together, hence the upside down image of them below the back-to-back images (weren't those outtakes awesome?). Composition-wise, really liked this piece.

OMG! New Moon poster!! So freaking awesome! I love this, it's like Twilight, which each new image that comes out, I get more and more freaked out with spaz!excitement and then I can't breath in anticipation for the movie... which is looking like it will be awesomer than Twilight. I like this Chris fella... anyway, based on the poster, I took a few quotes from the end of New Moon, about Bella's boy/emotional crisis.

Made for a seven deadly sins challenge, this was actually a remake of a very old wallpaper, as well, one that I've never been able to get a grip on, I just couldn't get the composition right... and then this happened, after about four hours of work. *wipes sweat* But I'm very proud of this one, it's pretty. It's classic Buffy. I adore Buffy.

Another remake of an old wallpaper, this one actually replaced the old one in the archive, but for comparison's sake, you can view it here. Definite improvement, the old was wacky imo, and the new is wacky in a better way. :) This was made too little, too late for a remake challenge.

Another remake! Holy moly! This was made for that remake challenge, and it's so much better, compared to the older wallpaper, which is still in the archive. I wanted to show the darker side, as opposed to the shock value of what Spike was doing. More that he's so deluded in what he believes about Buffy, and Buffy's honest fear of him. I prefer this one over the old, because the idea it gets across is lovely.

And yes... another remake. Clearly this is a pet-project of mine, I'll be going through some of the older ones and seeing if I have new ideas and then remaking and replacing in the archive, just a good old fashioned update. Anyway, this was an old, old piece that I had removed a long while ago. The composition mostly remained the same, it was the coloring and the texture that needed changing, and this one is definitely darker, especially considering the reason why Xander is turned away from her, such significant imagery.

Another one! This did replace the older piece, which again, can be seen here. Clearly... improved. That was just an old, old piece that had no direction, and I loved the idea of Buffy having this epiphany, hence her larger image and the bright lighting, like... hello! :P

I'm always suprised when I realize I don't have more IWRY wallpapers... probably because this is a remake as well! The older wallpapers of this scene never made it to the actual site - ever - but I do love this piece, it's a very different view on this scene. It's more a look into Buffy's mind, as she's watching Angel walk towards her, that her instincts are telling her it's so wrong, but her eyes aren't lying and it's what her heart will always desire from her first and true love. The composition is awesome, too, imo.

Yep, another remake. From an old, icky wallpaper, which you can see here. This one is so much better, look at the close composition, the subtle lighting over Faith's face and the negative space surrounding it, so pretty! There was also a request for a tutorial on this wallpaper and how to achieve that negative space and work it into the wallpaper, so be looking for that soon!

I still have not had a chance to go through my tagboard from the last few months, to update affiliates and links and whatnot, but I damn well will, I swear! I have some vacation coming up, and I'm hoping to have a sit-down and get everything up-to-date and gorgeous again. But I need time, people! :P So if you had a request for affiliation, or link change, or whathaveyou, I will get to it. I swear. :)

That's all for now, I hope everyone likes the new layout and the little changes. Planning on adding in some new skins soon and a stock image section that I've been working on in my downtime in RL. Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has commented on the tagboard, your comments are seen and appreciated and loved! :)