The Realm

So things are going well. I managed to finish the July Bullet Journal. Now it will be a race to finish August in the few days left in the month. Not sure I can do it. Will try for a space theme. Oh btw, I forgot to post the Gilligian's Island theme. I know some of you were interested so here it is.


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I tried other browsers for uploading photos to LJ, but all of them will be discontinuing Flash at the end of the year. WHY? I just sent a question to LJ asking what they will be doing about this and if we will all lose access to our photos? I hate all this change.

I'm getting used to my new tablet. I've made some art on it already. I'm trying to fix up the issues with Dawn of Fear. That will be very difficult to fix. As for the lag I will learn to live with it and work with it. Screw upgrading to subscriptions. Again I'm going into the future fighting, kicking and biting. Don't fix what ain't broke. Anywy, I've made one official drawing already and yesterday I made my first 100% digital drawing. That means the sketch was done on the tablet. Not sure what to think of that yet. But I'm hopeful I will get used to it and will no longer need paper. I have way too many sketches going back decades. I'd be so happy to be done with that and quit cluttering up my living areas. I've even considered tossing my old art that's already been scanned and colored. Anyway here is my drawing of my three budgies. Please comment and let me know what you guys think.


https://youtu.be/XUUtSrGlzIs

So it's very likely now that I will keep this tablet. I really didn't want to bother with the return and getting a different one. But I remember when I got my old tablet back in 2010 that I felt the same way. I was unsure, thought I didn't like it. Didn't know if I'd ever learn to use it. And then look, I couldn't draw without it and was so upset when it broke. Ha. I'm most happy about how fast my art has become now. I hope I can really crank out some amazing stuff finally. I've always been such a slow artist.

I'm waiting on a cactus to arrive in the mail today. It's another cutting of a Tephrocactus geometricus. I already have one but this will make my pair. Both are just single cute little balls. I hope they will grow for me and that I can eventually breed them.

Here is the pic of my haul from my birthday from everyone.



Most of this is from Chris's parents because they gave me a big Amazon card. But I got the cute macaw card from ACTipton, The Emu book from Jokerforever, a card from cactus caffeine, The cactuses, Ghostbusters and tablet are from Chris and pretty much all the lighting is from his parents. There's one set of lights I didn't show because they are already installed in the kitchen window. They were a pair of single T5 2foot lights in the 6500 k spectrum. I hope to get another pair in the 3000k for full spectrum lighting for the plants on that kitchen shelf. Oh and a new coffee maker that's the new model of the one I have. I will make a video doing a compare and contrast on that soon. I think it will be very interesting and no one has done something like that I don't think.

Oh man I need to update that icon now. Ophidius is holding my old dead tablet. As far as art goes he still represents my artistic side. No one else does really. Fear and George are no artists. George is a musician though.
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