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spacefall's birthday. A rougher version was used on a MoonPig birthday card with the text, "A Date For My Diary ...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!". It's a portrait of River Song posing with the diary, as featured in the Doctor Who series 4 episode Silence In The Library and played by Alex Kingston.
This took almost 15 hours work on the tablet PC, two hours of which was the original sketch and more than four hours was the airbrush colouring on the face. This is now the most time consuming piece of artwork I've produced. It's also the first 'drawing' of a human I've done that I think is recognisably the person it's supposed to be. At full resolution the face fills the screen (click 'Full size' at the bottom of the LJ scrapbook page).
- Music:House: Three Stories
09:51 Hmm I must have been extremely tired as I slept an hour past my alarm...
13:43 We've been having an extremely musical morning with autoharp, flute, xaphoon, recorder and YouTube :)
14:29 The Crocus Cafe was shut due to it being Sunday so we've got to the Savoy Cinema about 30 minutes too early for WALL-E. We're 1st seated tho
17:05 WALL-E is probably simultaneouslyh the sweetest and the most anti-commercial film I have ever seen. Highly recommended - I laughed, I cried!
23:33 Phew just spent yet another two hours and 45 minutes on my artwork having put it aside for a couple of days. Setting aside again now...
Aggregated from my Twitter timeline by LoudTwitter10:50 I'm working from home today which means I was able to get up at my normal time but do an hour more on my fan art piece before starting work.
10:53 Oo my bargain sale price Doctor Who DVDs just arrived. Including the partially animated reconstruction of The Invasion. 2nd Doctory goodness
18:03 Well after a further 3.5 hours working on the fan art piece today it's finished and I'm really happy with it. It's about 11 hours work total
18:08 Rather than upload it now I'm going to set it aside for a bit & see how it looks with 'fresh eyes' later. I regret not doing that with Staal
18:14 Just watched Moebius part 2 with geeky alt universe Sam and Daniel and lots of time travel fun. This may well be my favourite SG-1 2 parter.
18:15 Now cooking vegan bangers and mash with ketchup for dinner, mmmmm comfort food. Also corn on the cob for a starter, mmmm on-use-by-date food
21:11 @crackerwax I'd say five's The Gadget Show is close to a geeky gadget version of Top Gear as it's generally high end gadgets & 'challenges'.
21:28 @crackerwax I think the bald guy, Jason loves the tech and is generally enthusiastic. I'd certainly watch the sort of show you're suggesting
22:13 I thoroughly recommend the re-constructed 'The Invasion' Second Doctor DVD, really excellent. Especially the Cosgrove Hall animated episodes
Aggregated from my Twitter timeline by LoudTwitter07:33 I think it rained quite a lot overnight - I just had to duck and run to avoid being splashed by cars going through a huge road-side puddle!
07:41 I am very thoroughly earwormed by Under The Pines, Jonathan Coulton's song about a love affair between Leonard Nimoy and Bigfoot...
12:48 Gah I've walked all the way to Victoria Market and it's closed due to the union strike. What a waste of my lunch break :/
13:31 I ended up walking the extra 10 minutes to The Natural Food Company to buy some unnatural vegan goodies. Made it slightly less of a waste...
13:52 Mmmm fake vegan mars bar...
17:13 I did an hour's overtime screwing up my plans for the evening simply because everyone else spent 3 hours at someone's leaving 'lunch' :(
22:33 I have been drawing for the last three hours and fifteen minutes and have finished the face. Just the entire body and background to go...
Aggregated from my Twitter timeline by LoudTwitter08:00 NOW 70? When I was first buying music that was now 20. Even more depressing I haven't heard of 2 thirds of the bands on this one...
08:06 There's an official Unison picket line at the entrance to the council offices. Ie, 3 people with placards.
16:37 Hmm the strikers have all gone home already. I wasn't at all tired today, woo hoo!
16:43 iPhone 3G, 'The phone you've been waiting for'... I'm pretty sure any phone I'd be waiting for would support media messages and copy & paste
18:25 I've decided to start a ludicrously ambitious piece of fan art involving several different source images and an actual human character o.O;;
19:13 Well I've found all the source images needed for this picture ...seems the minimum I can work from is 13 >.<
21:02 Phew! I've just drawn the entire sketch layer in scribbly 1px pen, all took a little over an hour and a half. Most of that was the face.
21:03 Hopefully tomorrow won't tire me out and I'll be able to do the rest in one marathon evening sitting...
22:41 Spent another 30 minutes re-touching the sketch to get the proportions right, also scaled and cropped it to be ready for the airbrush layer.
22:42 Now I should stop watching regeneration scenes on YouTube and go to bed :)
23:15 Whoops, well I ended up watching all the regenerations...
23:35 I am FAR too easily distracted :/ ...also Glasshouse by Charles Stross is a thoroughly excellent book that I heartily recommend to all!
00:02 Apparently if I go to bed halfway through creating a piece of art my brain continues to plan and draw and visualise in lieu of sleep... :(
Aggregated from my Twitter timeline by LoudTwitter18:07 My Get Well Soon card for the4thcircle arrived, it looks like it turned out really well, will definitely use MoonPig again! is.gd/U2y
18:11 Got some really nice comments about my General Staal painting in the various places I posted it, definitely encourages me to draw more...
18:14 Think I'm going to do National Art Making Month again this year, creating a new piece of art every day in August. Means no BiCon costume tho
18:28 I {heart} season one House! Vogel just arrived. Classic.
19:11 Wow that's depressing, Auschwitz: The Great Escape on five feels that it needs to explain what the holocaust and concentration camps were...
19:19 It's a very good in depth documentary otherwise, watch it. It just depressed me that it assumes the average viewer wouldn't know the basics.
21:05 I'm enjoying a new podcast, Radio Free Skaro, a Canadian Doctor Who podcast, I especially like the repeated impressions of Phil Collinson :)
21:06 Nice to see and chat to my parents this evening ...over the webcam and Skype that is :)
Aggregated from my Twitter timeline by LoudTwitter07:58 Every morning the big film poster at the bus stop earworms me with ABBA...
16:11 My soya yogurt pot shows intact pears & sliced peaches in front of what must be a sizable vat of yogurt captioned 'presentation suggestion'
17:32 Wow sainsbury's have added milk to their ketchup recipe!
20:10 Just realised that my missing window keys are going down a crack between the wood and the tiles in my serving hatch! Strong magnet anyone?
22:26 My fan art got a mention on today's LJ who_daily round up - is.gd/Tjb - so it was worth posting it to one of the Who art communities
22:29 After being exhausted all day, I've had loads of energy all evening - I've done 4 Escape Pod episodes worth of chores! More than all weekend
03:54 Argh the final spin cycle of my economy7 towels & bedding wash just made a repeated banging noise so loud it woke me & probably the building
Aggregated from my Twitter timeline by LoudTwitter13:54 Hmm I was obviously a bit more tired than I though. I got up after 9 hours sleep, read two graphic novels then slept until 1:30pm... whoops!
21:12 Spent 4 hours on this piece of Doctor Who fan art, Staal The Undefeated. In a change to my usual style, it's airbrush only: is.gd/Snz
21:33 Truly in awe of kimble's l33t cycling skillz -- cycling from East London to Canterbury is no mean feat! Well done kimble!
23:55 Really wishing my upstairs neighbours would turn off their noisy TV and go to bed...
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The image to the left is a full colour version of my previous sketch of Sontaran General Staal, The Undefeated.Unlike all previous pieces I've created, this is entirely coloured using the airbrush tool and does not include black lines. I actually started by drawing black lines and colouring underneath them, but I found that it actually looked better with the lines layer turned off.
This just took four hours work to complete, not including the original sketch. I think this settles whether to use black lines or not when trying for a realistic 'digital painting' effect. I think this looks far better than anything I've drawn before!
Now I should probably eat something as it's got quite late while I was hyper-focusing on my painting...
- Music:7/7: The Angels of Edgeware Road
11:40 Just had a pleasant morning in bed, listening to EscapePod stories and then reading my friends page backlog. Now to do some chores...
13:16 Had cooked breakfast for lunch, tasty. Although odd to have two meals in a row including Linda McCartney sausages.
14:18 The Romulan Commander in this episode of TNG is Abby from Survivors!
14:21 See I thought it was Zoey, the equivalent of Al in the evil leaper episodes of Quantum Leap ...turns out that's also the same actor!
16:26 Decided to start watching Crusade again, I was put off because I knew the story goes nowhere. I'd never get to Sleeping In Light otherwise.
20:41 Practiced autoharp for half an hour. Amazingly it was still pretty much in tune. I'm even more convinced that left handed is the way to go.
22:41 I've signed up for a flickr account to share the best of my artwork online. It'll just be full colour tablet PC art for now is.gd/RY1
22:59 Right, I think I've probably customised my flickr account and added my art to enough groups now. Tomorrow I may even draw something!
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From left to right are the original sketch layer, the black lines layer and the finished coloured image with the background replaced with the original sketch for comparison.
The original sketch was drawn at screen resolution then scaled in The Gimp to print resolution before the rest of the image was drawn over it.
- Music:Crusade: The Well of Forever
10:14 kimble's dropped me off a work an hour later than normal and I'm still the first one in. Must be Friday...
10:15 Last tweet extremely late because I forgot to accept the certificate. Bloody Twibble...
14:02 Having a Thai meal out with flippac. Sort of as a celebration.
15:49 Gah my watch has broken. What is this the month of fail?! Bloody entropy.
17:25 Just been to a work leaving do saying 'have a nice life' to two workmates on their last days. I'm now hyper on too much black coffee...
19:28 I'm trying out that MoonPig greetings card making service. It seems really good, very flexible. Allows PNG uploads but fonts only work in IE
19:30 I'm kicking myself for not thinking of sending this card on Monday though, Stacy is out of hospital now but it won't arrive until Wednesday.
19:44 kimble's just found a linux Worms2 clone that will work at HD res under MythTV, this has me looking for a Linux Dance Dance Revolution clone
20:53 Watching the Bionic Woman pilot ...not grabbing me so much so far...
21:25 StepMania seems to be the best OpenSource DDR clone has masses of fan made song/step files and also clone files of US and Japanese DDR songs
21:27 Also there's numerous Linux and dancemat combatible PlayStation to USB adapters available. So I'm going to be wearing a hole in my mat soon!
21:45 Mmm bangers and mash for late dinner. Thank you Linda McCartney!
21:59 Watching SG-1 episode Moebius Part 1. I {heart} alternative universe geeky Sam and geeky Daniel! Thick glasses++ :D
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15:05 I have mostly positive news and am mostly relieved...
18:03 I has a barakta and kimble!
21:41 Lab Rats now on BBC 2 is officially face achingly hilarious.
Aggregated from my Twitter timeline by LoudTwitter07:44 Why is it the day I get to the bus stop more than 5 minutes early, the bus is at least 5 minutes late?
07:50 Ended up on the next bus. My usual bus never showed up...
12:57 Yuck no, I really do only like bananas when they're starting to go black, yellow bananas are ...wrong.
13:03 Spending my lunch break listening to highlights of Jonathan Coulton/Paul & Storm live concerts. Filky goodness :)
16:36 Is wet.
17:06 Seeing if my laptop is actually workable on my laptop...
17:40 On the sofa is quite a comfy position for drawing ...yes I just spent another 30 minutes on Dalek Caan >.<
17:46 They've completely cut away the hedge in front of my building door and removed about two thirds of the hedge under my window. Looks ugly :/
19:39 Watching Bone Kickers, does for archeology what Bugs did for technology. Got to love a show where the characters are saying the plot's crazy
19:42 So far it's patently absurd, crazy, ridiculous and unbelievable ...and that's just what the protagonists keep repeating :)
19:52 Templar Knights wearing jeans, t-shirts and grey overcoats? Classy.
Aggregated from my Twitter timeline by LoudTwitter18:07 Got home, did a couple of chores then played flute for 50 minutes. Always a good way to wind down after work.
20:33 Just touching up my naked dalek... ;)
23:12 Whoops just spent more than 2 & a half hours re-touching the image I drew on Sunday including re-drawing several parts. Lost track of time!
23:36 Phew, I've uploaded the 9+ hours work total ultimate edition to my Doctor Who and Portfolio galleries ...although I noticed a few faults :/
23:36 Now really really past my bed time! o.O;;
Aggregated from my Twitter timeline by LoudTwitter16:38 Is it me or did Loud Twitter fail to ship yesterday's tweets over this morning?
16:57 Just randomly met @nyecamden moments after I got off my bus home, had a brief chat then parted ways. What are the chances?
18:20 Re-watching the Who finale over a nice curry :)
19:45 Interestingly the end of the finale made me cry this time, probably as I wasn't spodding. Still put off by the Scottish accent at the end...
19:46 Now watching In The Shadow Of The Moon, the Apollo space program in the words of the astronauts who lived it.
19:59 Fake headline spam of the day 'Clinton says: Hilary cheated on me' and 'Apple files for bankruptcy'. Points for effort but no v1agra thanks!
21:03 Just found the web comic 'Doctor Why' via spacefall - community.livejournal.com/ - funny!
Aggregated from my Twitter timeline by LoudTwitter22:15 Just spent another hour & a half re-touching the Get Well Soon card drawing. It looks SO much better at full size now & I can draw straight!
22:48 I have to conclude that it's much harder to draw at print resolution rather than screen resolution, or at least much more time consuming...
23:29 Bah, can't sleep. Not in the vaguest bit tired :/
16:38 Is it me or did Loud Twitter fail to ship yesterday's tweets over this morning?
16:57 Just randomly met @nyecamden moments after I got off my bus home, had a brief chat then parted ways. What are the chances?
18:20 Re-watching the Who finale over a nice curry :)
19:45 Interestingly the end of the finale made me cry this time, probably as I wasn't spodding. Still put off by the Scottish accent at the end...
19:46 Now watching In The Shadow Of The Moon, the Apollo space program in the words of the astronauts who lived it.
19:59 Fake headline spam of the day 'Clinton says: Hilary cheated on me' and 'Apple files for bankruptcy'. Points for effort but no v1agra thanks!
21:03 Just found the web comic 'Doctor Why' via spacefall - community.livejournal.com/ - funny!
Aggregated from my Twitter timeline by LoudTwitterthe4thcircle who's been in hospital since Tuesday (this took me 6 hours to finish, which is why it had to wait until the weekend):( Spoilers for Doctor Who 4x12: The Stolen Earth... )
Stacy, stay happy and GET WELL SOON!
- Music:Scraphead Challenge Final
12:46 Argh overslept until the afternoon but there's still 6 hours to Doctor Who. Extra long episode but feels like an extra long wait...
12:53 Enjoy London Pride everyone who's going! I'd love to join you but I needed a weekend off.
16:20 2 hours and 20 minutes to go... I'm planning to watch Turn Left and The Stolen Earth again before the finale in order to 'reduce the wait'
17:20 About to start my 3 episode Who marathon including the finale. I have snacks and drinks ready & I've listened to PodShock to get in the mood
17:49 Just realised that I have successfully avoided all spoilers, no confidential, no trailers, no commentary podcast. I've only read speculation
18:11 30 minutes to go. Please don't be a disapointment, please don't screw it up!
19:07 Poor Sanjay's a widower now...
19:50 I was not disappointed by that finale, 2nd best finale of Who I'd say. Although it wasn't what I'd predicted, I called the ending on IRC :)
19:51 Now watching last week's and this week's Doctor Who Confidentials over dinner. Truly a Who marathon :D
19:57 Oh what a surprise, the Outpost Gallifrey Doctor Who Forum is down...
21:01 Oh & Donna is still officially my favourite companion ever. And series 4 overall is as good as series 1. Although 3 had some amazing stories
22:34 I've decided to watch Austin Powers 3 as I've managed to never see it before...
22:43 Huh is Austin Powers working with UNIT or what?
23:03 Ridiculous amount of product placement in this...
23:25 Oh I like the white subtitles on a white background gag :)
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So yes, to summarise, SQUEEEEE!!!!!!11
Now we have no more series until 2010, only 5 specials including 2008 and 2009's xmas specials. Eep! (OK I imagine there's more Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures).
- Music:Last week's Doctor Who Confidential
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