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Hey everyone!

I`ve updated the about Melwen page since the character has been getting a bit more developed lately (it`s definitely not done yet though) and I have made a new character portrait of her. The new character portrait was mainly because I thought my 3d art skills have improved so I could make a better portrait but there are also some minor things I changed to her appearance while I had the change. E.g. I made her hair more honey coloured instead of very light.

Isn`t she lovely? I think she looks a _lot_ more realistic than the previous one did. And as Jacob so nicely put it ‘I like her better because she`s hotter’. Don`t we all want to be hot? *g*

I don`t know what else to blog about right now, just wanted to show you the new Melwen. I may edit this later when I think of something else to blog about, or I may not…who knows?!

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…

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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?