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I`m sorry for not blogging the entire weekend, I was busy with lots of stuff. We don`t celebrate halloween here in the Netherlands but I got to enjoy it a bit anyway since we always get special halloween icons for a month on the plaza. Each kingdom picks a theme and your icon gets changed to a character from that theme. Like, PotC or Star Wars. Usually, it`s loads of fun!

Unfortunately…this year was an anticlimax, to say the least. We`d all been expecting awesome themes (I myself had hoped at least one kingdom had the sense to pick True Blood) but we were gravely disappointed by the following themes: Imladris – NCIS, KD – King Arthur, MT – Marvel Superheroes, Rohan – Star Gate, Shire – Firefly, Lothlorien – Scrubs, Fangorn – House, Mordor – A song of ice and fire.

Half of us had to google who we were since we had never even heard of the characters. I`m in Lorien so I`m now a character of scrubs. I`m an ugly old man named Bob Kelso and I don`t have a frigging clue who he is. I`m jealous of Fangorn, they got the fun hospital *lol*

Anyway, enough ranting…time for some art! I made this one on halloween to show my obsession with vampires. I`d never attempted to make a vampire before so I guess it`s quite alright for a first shot…

(again, click to see full size)

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Turns out my sister wasn`t being pure evil and ignoring my emails all day long after all, she`d just neglected to check her email the entire day because of her laptop being broken. (so technically she did ignore my email but I`ll forgive her since she had a reason to do so). So I called her with my cellphone – which I for once did not find a useless invention – and she decided to come shopping with me! whoooo!

So while waiting for her (mum had to pick up some food with the car before sis could use it to get to me)  I ate a billy-sandwich at the IKEA while watching the helicopters come and go from the hospital. It was quite amusing…except for the fact that it took sis over an hour to get there. But I forgive her for that too since mum was being very slow with picking up the food and too lazy to take her bike. BOO MUM.

There was an awesome guy playing the bagpipes in the city, he had a leopard print on his bagpipes. He was like…the pimp of pipers! But he got a bit creepy when we noticed he was EVERYWHERE. When we were at one end of the street he was standing there playing music. We were like ‘whooaa awesome’  and continued on shopping. A little while later we reached the other end of the street. And guess what? HE WAS THERE TOO. I suspect he teleports…which makes him even more awesome!

I bought some proper tea while we were shopping and it smells so good (with proper tea I mean tea leaves, not the less tasty variant that comes in teabags). And and and, I got a gorgeous steel book version of the movie Silent Hill, for only 10 euros. I think Silent Hill is a GENIUS movie so ofcourse, I couldn`t resist this offer.

When I got home I finally got some inspiration and time to make new art again so I bring to you – Bored Fairy and Bored Fairy closeup! *g*

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I just spend a looong time staring at a puzzle in professor layton until I discovered that I`d be counting wrong all the time. I`d managed to think that there were 100 mm in a cm, while there are obviously only 10mm in a cm. I fail…big time.

Anyway, I`m finally starting to get a little less stressed now my internship is coming to an end and I have a few less duties on the plaza. At times, I`ve even got spare time left. It`s not much though…but at least it`s something.

Having a bit of spare time also meant that I finally found some time to work on new 3d art again! The next one is a work in progress, I don`t think I`m quite done with her yet so I won`t add her to the digital art page yet. I just wanted to give you a little something to look at.

Queen

I`m also considering to write a tutorial on how to make these. (I`d give away my secret of how easy it actually is though *g*). Would anyone be interested in this?

As you might have noticed some things have been changed about the site lately. I have added adsense blocks in an attempt to earn some money with my blog. Even if it`s just a few dollars a year I`d be happy. Tell me if they are too annoying though and I`ll remove them. I tried picking the smallest size possible to keep them from being too obtrusive, I hope I succeeded.

Another thing I have quite drastically changed is the Digital Art page. A lot of the art on that page was outdated, stuff I made when I only just started doing 3d art years ago. When I looked at them I was embarrassed of them, and though I quite often heard that they were pretty I just didn`t want to show them anymore. So from now on only the more recent art can be seen there or the older art which I can live with (though that probably won`t stay long either…I`m just waiting till I have enough new content to fill a page). I also divided the art by categories and I have increased the size of a thumbnail from 100×100 to 150×150 so you guys can see the preview a bit better.

Unfortunately, no one has clicked the pictures yet since I changed it while they used to be clicked quite often before I changed it. Did you guys like the old design better? Is that why you stopped clicking? Or do you no longer feel the need to click them since the preview is big enough to see the image. Please comment and if the general opinion is that the old design was better I`ll change it back *hugs*

Also, my internship only lasts for two more weeks so in two weeks I`ll finally be able to get more active online again. I can`t wait to return to full activity on the plaza. What I can`t wait for either is the halloween icons! I`m sooo curious as to which icons we`ll get for halloween. I`m desperately hoping for True Blood, but unfortunately I have little hope for it since the show is a _bit_ mature

I`ve been quite busy lately and have added a few more digital art pieces to my digital art page

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