Primordial Souls

... And the days will come and go...

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August 25, 2010

I really love how this one turned out. I was feeling wonderfully tragic the night I made this, I was just randomly upset and annoyed and - if you want the full story, check out my LJ about the corner de bad ju ju - I was sitting in the corner of death where my computer used to be. And I was listening to the Eclipse soundtrack (which has some lovely misery songs). I wanted to get the idea of a hole in my heart across and this photoshoot of Eliza was absolutely gorgeous, she looked lovely in all of them, especially this photo. The way she's bent to the side was great and the I used a gun stock to get the hole in her chest. I think it turned out really well, especially considering I was in the bad ju ju corner. :)

My favorite of this update. This was the first wallpaper I made outside of the bad ju ju corner and I think it came out pretty darn awesome. This was one that I made for Erin Nicole's challenge @ BuffyForums where she gives us random tarot cards and we make a wall based on our understanding of that card. I suddenly became addicted to this challenge but this was my first try. The card was The High Priestess and when pulled reverse, it fits Faith to a T. This wallpaper is showing when she kills Allan Finch and I used it to represent her out of control side. She's in the slaying for the kill, not to save people (such as when she's wailing on vamps instead of simply staking them), and she doesn't realize that she is about to stake a human until it's too late. She didn't know because she didn't care to stop, is the message and I wanted to get that across in this piece. The darkness and I used Buffy as the opposite, hence the lightening separating them.

This one came out exactly how I wanted, but not at the same time. I used the same technique that I used on a piece for "Seeing Red" regarding the coloring vs the black and white. This was another piece for Erin's challenge and the tarot card was the Seven of Swords, which in my understanding was about inbetween or indecision. Making a choice and I thought about a Slayer and then I thought about Buffy at the end of Season 2 when Joyce finds out what she is and is unable to accept it. Buffy makes a choice (albeit she knows what her choice has to be) between her home life and her Slayer life. She can't stay and make her mother understand and accept, she has to stop Angelus, but I wanted to get the struggle across. Buffy sees her mother freaking out and the giving of the ultimatum and she even says she would much much rather be upstairs painting her toenails and braiding hair and whatnot rather than having the weight of the world on her shoulders. But she can't and that's what I tried to get across. I also used absolutely no textures in this piece, which is a miracle because I can't not use textures. Go. Me. I kind of pulled a Wendy on this one because I remember her saying she doesn't use textures normally, she only uses stocks, which is what I did. Neat.

Love this piece and how it turned out. The third entry for Erin's challenge and the tarot card was Three of Cups, which is a sort of a celebration card. I really nitpicked on the meaning of this card for this piece because I showed when Connor is "born" - rather when Darla kills herself for Connor to be born, and that's what I wanted to show. This is a moment of celebration because it's something that should never have been and it's joyous that Angel is a father, something he should never have had. And yes, Connor does bring about some doom and gloom with his birth, but in the sense of the mother and father in this situation, it's a joyous event.

That is all for the art. I'm working on editing the first three parts of Some People Need Saving and will hopefully get some more written as time goes on. Work will definitely have slowed down as I have been working massive overtime for a trial that ended yesterday (we won - yay!) so I'll be getting my lounge on in front of the computer.

One new affiliate: Dream World! Lovely site with a lot of art to check out from the two owners. :)

Thanks for all the wonderful comments on the tagboard! The broken links should all be fixed in all the fanfiction, but if you run across something else, please let me know. I've also been collecting some photos for little graphic additions to each story so I'll work on those slowly but surely. :D

Bre... feeling: Content
Movie? Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Music? OneRepublic
Tele? BtVS reruns on LOGO
& Six Feet Under re-watch

August 10, 2010

In site news, Primordial Souls was honored with two Sites of the Month! Thank you so much to Dee @ Elucidation Art (super honored because I've been a fan of her artwork for years, her BtVS art still makes me drool with envy) and Hanna @ Fragile Dreams for the awesome awards and the kind words about the site and my art!

Considering the lack of updates, it's awesome to see so many people still visiting the site! I do have one art update - I know, lack of cool - but I screwed up the thumbnail when I saved it at home so I'll add that in later, when I get some more artwork to add on to the site.

On a personal note, I'm getting a new computer this weekend. Why the heck do you care? Well, I feel that will mean I'll get more done when I'm at home. I lack an awesome-level computer at home anymore and for the lengthy explanation, if you care, you can visit my LJ because there's an elaborate thought process behind it. But hopefully this will mean more art as I have ideas and thoughts, but I don't have the capabilities nor time at work to do them and then I just ignore my laptop when I'm at home anyway. So yay!

Kicking serious ass - a writing BEAST - on Some People Need Saving. Once I get a coherent plot generated, I'll start posting the updated version. :)

Thank you so much to everyone who has been tagging and commenting, especially on the fanfiction! It'll be a lengthy process but it will be worth it, I think!

Bre... feeling: Busy
Movie? The Sandlot
Music? Alanis Morissette
Tele? BtVS reruns on LOGO
It's all I watch on the weekends

July 13, 2010

I'm only asking this for the sake of the site. It would be helpful if I could get a little help covering the cost of the site and the time invested and all that. Also, I'm poor. :)

These ads would be as unobtrusive as possible while still being viewable. I don't know where I would I go or where I would get them, I haven't really thought that far ahead quite yet, this is mostly an idea and if you would be willing to give your feedback and opinions, I would be super grateful!

Should I add some advertisement on here? :) If everyone is against it, I will listen because I don't want to chase people off of my site, that would make me sad. Please let me know (down there)! :)

July 7, 2010

The new layout!

I didn't want to change the actual layout too much because I really liked how the last one looked as far as the setup, but it was much to bright and cheerful... not that this one isn't, the coloring was just too much for my brain after a while. It worked well, that layout, but this one works so much better! So mostly just new imagery, nothing major changed. And if you haven't noticed, a small disclaimer because Kate Winslet's bottom is present in this layout. As is Anne Hathaway's bra. And Eliza Dushku's shoulders... and if you're really too sensitive to these things, you should leave as you probably don't want to read the fanfiction. :) It also contains a manipulation of Bella/Kristen Stewart that I made recently, I've been experimenting with those a bit since my muse has seemingly died somewhere in my mind.

This layout was also made to the soundtrack of Eclipse, most specifically The Dead Weather's song "Rolling in on a Burning Tire" which is where the lyrics on here come from.

Affiliates!

I did a huge clean-up, actually what I spent most of yesterday doing at work in between, well, work. It took me all day to get through them! I added in eight new affiliates and took out a great deal more than that because either (1) your site wasn't up any longer, whether it was because your host disappeared or because your site was literally gone from the internet or (2) you didn't have my button up on your site, or any link anywhere that I could see. If you think you've been removed in error and you think I fail at life, please let me know either on the tagboard or through not-so-snail mail and I'll add you back in! I didn't remove your site if you haven't updated or if you have a hiatus sign up because I understand that. I will try to be more consistent in checking and keeping them more updated. I also tried to get to everybody who left me a message on the tagboard for affiliation. If I missed somebody, please ask me again! I usually never say no except for extreme circumstances, which can be seen on the Affiliates page. The list was getting ridiculously long and if your site wasn't around any longer, I took it down because I don't have time to be chasing people down and interrogating them as to the status of their site. :)

Art!

Just a few new pieces of art to add in:

A simple New Moon piece. I made this when I was feeling desperate to make some Eclipse art but I just couldn't get any inspiration, mostly because I hadn't read the book in such a long time (which I'm reading on and off right now to get some ideas for art) and because the movie had yet to come out and all I have are random screen captures of randomness that I couldn't put together to save my life. Alas, I made this piece based on an image of Sam carrying Bella out of the forest, which I really loved and same with the one of Charlie carrying Bella. I haven't seen much art based on that scene and it was simple, especially with the text from the book, with all its double meanings. :)

This was made for my Bish (aka Sarah)! It has been such a long time since I've gotten my Buffy/Angel love on and they are forever and always my OTP. I don't care what people say! Bella/Edward be damned compared to Buffy/Angel! This is a simple couple wallpaper, nothing too fancy. I did a manipulation for Buffy (my first manip in... pretty much forever, since a Twilight wallpaper I did forever ago) so I'm nervous about that because I don't think I'm that great at them. Alas, it came out dark and morose and I like how I did the double image on the two of them and the text? The best text ever, thank you Angel. So this was a little giftie to my Bish, per her request. There's never too much Buffy/Angel. :) I keep saying that, but it's true!

Supernatural! From season two, nothing new. :( I didn't really keep up consistently with the fifth season but I've been saving the reruns on my DVR so I'm catching up slowly but surely. Alas, I mostly made this piece because I found a wonderful gun stock that was just pretty as heck. This was an experimentation with stocks mostly and I wanted to do something else with the composition in this scene (heck, I've arted this scene so much, I'm amazed I found some other way to use it) and I really like how it turned out, very grungy and it fits nicely with the text that I used. :)

Made for Heather's challenge. I wanted to get some good ol' fashioned rage across here... or fury, I think is the part of the challenge I took on. That was mostly in the coloring and composition. I really loved this scene, Allastair is so cool and he has the best accent in the world, so creepy and so perfect. When he's torturing Ruby, it's very dark and his anger at having to even be on that level, dealing with the shenanigans between demons and angels. What he has to say about Ruby and the general demon on the upper level is too hilarious and beautiful when he's talking about and I wanted to communicate the joy he gets from torturing Ruby and the contempt he has for her that he has to be doing it in the first place in a place he doesn't particularly enjoy. On a side note, the wonderful Heather gave me an award for this piece! :)! *hugs*

Awards!

I've accumulated some awards that I'll be adding in later on, I didn't think it was so important to postpone opening the site up while I got those on the list. One very important one is from the wonderful Erin Nicole @ Dearly Devoted who made Primordial Souls her Site of the Month for March/April! Thank you so much, hun, you are amazing! (By the way, go check out her socks rockin' layout!)

Fanfiction!

So in my down time at work on lunch I have been re-writing Some People Need Saving! This is all thanks to the wonderful Cindy who posted on my tagboard and I randomly starting attacking it... very randomly. I'm mostly re-writing this one because I have a loose idea of where the story is going but I'm mostly using it to get back into Buffy/Angel fanfiction! Yay! Good times.

Thank you so much for the continued feedback on the fanfiction, it's really so appreciated and it definitely keeps my attention on them. I'm planning on pulling them all back together and starting the huge re-write, which I think I'll post as I go along so I'm not making everyone wait another year. On that note, if you are interested in this, which stories would you like to see first? If anything, I'll start working on the ones that people have been responding to recently and, of course, finishing Only Time (which has somehow become an epic little fanfiction, branching out more than the original in too many ways, but like I said before it just needs to be fleshed out as I have most of it outlined). You guys all rock, everyone who has commented on the tagboard or sent me an e-mail! :)

I'm really gearing towards fanfiction right now because my fanart has taken a turn for... well, nothing lately. It randomly spurts out but I'm more into writing at the moment. Maybe one day I'll sit down and make headers for all of the stories like I used to have when the site first opened.

I hope everyone enjoys the layout and likes the new art! :)

Bre... feeling: Excited
Movie? The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Music? The Dead Weather & The Black Keys
Tele? Supernatural reruns

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