Once upon a time ...

... there was a little artist that almost forgot about her blog ... ^^

First and foremost: Happy Samhain (Halloween) and celtic new year everyone! =) Hope you're having fun celebrating or whatever you're doing =) (I'm gonna spend the day working)

Long time no hear. I've been doing a lot of stuff lately. First of all finishing the family commission, had to hurry up with this one but finally got it finished then. Also overcame another obstacle by doing so - the problem to be only able to draw when I feel like it. Normally I'd ruin a picture when I draw without having some muse ... but it apparently now works without too. This makes it possible for me to take more commissions :D (Still I'm full atm having 3 waiting, one sketched today). 

But for now, here's my latest works:

The first one's the family commission. Not much more to say on this one except for that it costed me the last nerve and way too much time ... but I'm happy the client liked it in the end so everyone's happy.

The 2nd one ... well. It was originally thought as entry for that artistic journey contest .. but as I wanted to adjust it to the template I discovered that the picture was way too high and the main part disappeared under the template where nobody would see it ... And if I'd pushed it up the rollercoaster rails wouldn't fit the template anymore ... so this piece is nothing but an epic FAIL. Still I uploaded it :) So this is kinda like Nightwish's Song of myself or stuff. My inner artist's world. Quite some chaos if you ask me. As for the symbols:

- All the planks lying around = part of the boat (that represents my life) that broke as I got shipwrecked on this forsaken island
- Paintbrush and pencils = my tools of the trade
- The ocean = that one that made me what I am today
- The puddle on the island = the tears I've shed through all the time
- The paintings floating in the water = the artworks I gave away and regret it nowadays
- The flying swan = all my hopes leaving
- The rollercoaster rails = blue and left alone just like my path is
- The clock: golden because the most precious thing we have -  Life. And my time is running out.
- The guidepost = past (dark) and future (bright)
- All the sheets = all my expectations and silly dreams. The "save me" is red because it represents my suicidal phases.
- Well last but not least - that stone block I'm hanging over is a reference to a certain band I'm sure some of you will recognize. ;) 

So all in all ... life goes on. I am already sketching the next commission and waiting for a "yes please begin" for the 2nd. I also try to drown myself in work at the moment to not get distracted too much. 

I wish everyone a lovely weekend, see you all next time =)

P.S.: Does anyone of you know a video editing program for computers with a weak (1,2 GhZ) processor that doesn't wanna render a week for a 5 minute video?

The road goes on...

Hello =)

How's everyone doing? I know, the last entry isn't that old yet but I wanted to keep you up to date what's going on here :)

First of all - I decided to do more traditional stuff again. Well that actually happened when I stumbled upon that artistic journey - contest on deviant art ago... 3? days. I know I have little to zero chance to win since it's almost impossible to transfer the pattern lines exactly onto a traditional piece but ey - in is everything! I'll try it. And at the same time I can let out something I wanted to do for a long time. Some kind of "this is how it looks within me" - picture

Here's some WIPs for you, after cleaning it all out again and re-pre-drawing I started coloring today. There's also gonna be a video or two of the making of this thing. :)

These days I'm also thinking about focusing more on painting since I don't have much fun in doing portraits anymore in some way. What do you think, should I continue or concentrate more on painting? I'm unsure, like with so many things at the moment.

I also can proudly announce that I lately finished the sketches for the Imaginaerum paintings so I'll begin this too before the new album comes out. Much to do, 7 paintings and one to re-do left so I need to hurry to get the series finished. It's gonna be awesome :D :D

And ... I think I've got a new title song for my life. I lately stumbled upon this on youtube and it blew me away x) But hear yourself. I love it ^_^ And I like it to see that also the music department is slowly but surely waking up.

So far for now,  I wish everyone a wonderful week :) See you all next time!

Lightcatchers

Hello =)

I'm dearly sorry for not writing again so long ... I just had forgotten the blog in some way ^_^°

So what's new? 

Health is restored ... finally. <3 There hasn't much been going on the last weeks I can hardly write anything except for that I'm quite busy at the moment with the arts, learning italian (200 days left until I probably have to use it... :D) and maybe someday continue writing ... 

The only thing WHY I'm writing today is to tell that I've lately joined a photography group that originated in the Stargate Planet chat and has condensed into a facebook group.

I now today uploaded my two submissions in Anadoriyen's blog and I wanted to show them to you too :) So here they are:

The theme this month was "light". I didn't have many ideas on this until the deadline and I don't have many even now. But I think the two pics I did are an average result and I'm satisfied with it. Curious what the next theme will be. 

Well... so much for now =) See you all next time! =)

Block entry.

Hello :)

How's everyone doing?

I know it's been a long long time since my  last entry. I'm a little lazy at the moment ... But today I've got a lot of pictures for you :)

I haven't been doing so much during the last month since I seem to have a nasty artist's block and can't get my a** up to do anything ... Still I'm trying to defeat it by doing random stuff ... Here's what I've been doing lately.

The upper two photos were shot at the Spitzingsee near here where I live. I always love it to be up there in the mountains 

For the other 3:

First one is my painting for "A Lifetime of adventure", song from Tuomas Holopainen's "Life and times of Scrooge" ... I just had to do a picture for it since it was flying around in my mind for a longer time now and I was enchanted by all the reference photos I found <3 Besides that I have that book here and I do kinda love it too ^_^ The painting didn't turn out the way I really wanted to have it but I accept it that way :)

The other two are just a sketch I did to kill the block I have ... and to train my face composition skills which aren't really there yet. That person's the high priestess from the novel I'm working on. Though she looks nothing like she looks in my head. I just saw some headdress on deviant art and that's where it went to from there on. One day when I get better in digital stuff I will show you the real one :D

And for everything else ... 

Health is still bugging me a little at the moment, I'm now taking the 4th (or even 5th or 6th?) pack of antibiotics this year ... -.- I really hope this will change somewhen soon because I'm fed up of being sick.
 

And there's another entry to come soon since I joined a photo project of a friend. I will share the results with you :)

Until then I wish you a happy sunday and a good start into the new week :)
Cya'll :) *vanishes*

New, everything new! :D

Hello =)

How are you all doing?

Here everything is going the normal way again. The check at the doc resulted in everything fine, the computer finally works as it should (I even made it to put in the RAM after all...). And I made it to set up the microphone that I got from a friend so I can now plug in my guitar and keyboard and turn my desk into a little studio xDD This is incredibly awesome since I always wanted to do something like this. I'm like a child entering a playground now that I've got these possibilities *_*

The keyboard is veeeeeeery old ... I don't even know anymore when I got it from my parents for christmas... must have been something around the mid- to end 90s... But it still works and I love it <3 (Though sometimes a KORG workstation would be more interesting... xD)

I also made it to set my graphics tablet back up and it's now working fine on the windows 7 :D I can even make digital drawings now which I'm practising from time to time... I won't go completely digital anyway, just not my thing -.- But it's nice for certain things. Here are two of the latest practise results :D The 2nd one is a self portrait out of pure boredom xD

So ... yeah. I'm gonna start working again today now that everything's fixed and fine again. So glad to have my life back :D

I'm btw also working on getting an awesome video editing program so I can present you better videos in the future... I hope it works and my computer here's not too weak for it... -.-

But for now - See you all next time :)

Update.

Hello =)

I just wanted to stop by and tell you that after a phone call to the doc on monday I am officially healthy again now =) But still I will go there today or tomorrow getting a big check done just in case. I'm worrying a little.

And the computer is finally all set back up, the graphics driver is finally the right one and working (I now have that stylish transparent stuff from Win7 :D). Just the RAM we bought doesn't fit so I need to go back to media markt to get one that fits... But that should be the smallest problem. 

So then, I'm wishing you a happy new week and am gone again =) *waves*

Back online... finally.

Hello me hearties =)

I'm so sorry for being away for so long again ... I had big computer and health trouble in the last few weeks... 

But everything from the beginning: 

First I went to Ingolstadt to take care of my bosses pets as I told you in the last entry. So far so good. In the first week I catched a mean cold. In the 2nd I got myself a salmonellosis from I don't know where (yet I suspect the waffles I ate to be the culprit...) and rushed home in a short moment of doing a little better. I don't know how I made it to get home without having problems. 

I then became a cabbage for a few days at home slowly dehydrating not knowing what to do. I then decided to go to the hospital for a few days because my circulation was already making problems, they gave me infusions and I got back on track then. We didn't know yet what I had to that time. When I went home then after 2 days just because I couldn't stand the hospital anymore I got told I had salmonellosis... awesome. Off to the doctor, getting some medicine (antibiotics since I had an urinary tract infection too...) against it. From then on I could watch myself getting better day by day. Today I'm doing as well again as before I went to Ingolstadt. 

After getting home the next problems occured. Our computer was broken. Graphics card dead. Before that the internet had gone because the network adapter didn't recognize the network cable anymore ... Got myself a new computer then on monday, letting it all being set up by my boss, carrying it home. Internet still wasn't working so I had to phone the internet guys to get told that the DSL splitter was broken, apparently due to a thunderstorm that had happened a few days before where a lightning bolt had hit a tree not far away from the house...

Yesterday then that splitter finally arrived and I could FINALLY go back online, check all my stuff, answer messages, pay bills, and start to continue to set up the rest of programs still needed here on the pc... it's almost all done today. Just a few things left.

As for now everything's slowly becoming like it was before and that's a good thing.

And - to end the boring stuff from above - I haven't been lying around in bed all day, as I was doing better after the cold I started to drive out to the refinery in Ingolstadt, taking photos since I'm quite fascinated of that place for whatever reason... (I think industry places like these are interesting and quite creepy at the same time.) So I have a few photos that I can show you =) Here you go: 

I've also been doodleing a little when having no computer, sitting in front of TV in the evening ... In the end it became a whole picture, one that I already wanted to do for a certain time now, inspired by MandragorA ScreaM's "Medusa" with a little of "Anubis" in it :) It isn't perfect and I am far away from the style of people who know how it works but ey, it was worth a try xD But see yourself:

So ...I will continue setting the computer back up now and start working again in the next days to finally finish my commissions and stuff... there's so much that's been left behind in the last weeks, I've got a pile of work to do :-/

For now I wish you all a lovely weekend, and see you all next time =) *vanishes*

A vacant review.

Hello me hearties =)

As promised, here I am back again after setting up my basecamp here in Ingolstadt. My boss is on vacation now and I'm taking care of the 4 kitties, 2 guinea pigs, lizards etc here. And to be honest - I'm sick with a cold here (don't know what this is every time I'm here for a few days I get sick ... o.O I blame it on the oil refinery that's just around the corner...), got the CD today and am now taking a break from cleaning everything up ... I also have to do the entry from here because my computer at home apparently died, I need a new one :( Will be going home in the next few days for a visit and having a look at this thing what's wrong with it...

So where was I? Ah yes - I wanted to do a review for the new Amberian Dawn - Album "Magic Forest" =) 

On the whole picture I can say - whow, what an Album. One big pile of bombast just how I love it :D I've got me the limited first editions with two guitar instrumentals on it.

For the cover - it's a lovely design, yet I think it doesn't quite represent the awesomeness on the CD itself. But I will overlook this. 

As for the songs:

1 - Cherish my memory

It was already one of my faves on the teaser and I still am right. A catchy, rythmic tune that stays in the ears, nothing more to say, I love it :D Incredibly awesome to be listened to in the car on a nice summer day with open window x)

2 - Dance of life

Lovely melody line, yet not one of my most favourites. For me it's just a fill-in between the next two incredible songs. Still it shouldn't be left aside since it's still awesome, the chorus is strong and it's a great composition.

3 - Magic forest

Well what more is there to say than - dang, this piece has it all, melody, bombast, incredibiliness ... and is an inspiration bomb for me x) I love this fairy tale story line stuff. You can't hear this song too often.

4 - Agonizing night

Also one of my faves on the album and from the teaser already. Maybe my most favourite of the album all in all. It bursts of bombast <3 Symphonic metal at its finest. Very great for doing errands, listening to it in my car having the window open x) Also lovely for driving to the mountains. It was also a good companion in the times when I was sick... my job was to get through the agonizing nights...

5 - Warning

Lovely for high speed driving xD Another fairy tale song that makes your thoguhts wander, very good :D I like the storyline with the child wanting to go into the forest to sing.

6 - Son of the rainbow

Did someone love lily of the moon here because there's another one of this type? xD For me personally very good because I love lily of the moon too. 

7 - I'm still here

Another one bursting of bombast. Great arrangement, nothing more to add. I love the intro. I wonder what this changeling - thing is about.

8 - Memorial

Another catchy one like cherish my memory that stays in your ear and won't move out of there anymore. Which is good. Great contrast also the male voice, so that is Markus Nieminen then? Still I think the male voice is a bit misplaced. But the song is still great.

9- Endless silence

Also interesting in the lyrics, I wonder what's behind it. Melody stays in the ear. Represents very much of my personal experiences during the last few years.

10 - Green-eyed

The only ballad (?) on the labum and the 3rd fave of mine. Awesome voice acrobatics by Capri and another pile of bombast that makes images appear in front of my inner eye. Also makes the mind wander with its lyrics...

And the guitar instrumentals (Dance of life & Warning) - nice to hear for inbetween but I think they're more interesting for people who play guitar :D Still they're awesome for a highway ride :D I myself would have liked some normal instrumentals here.

And again - am I the only one who thinks Capri sounds like Celine Dion? xD 

10 out of 10 points for this pile of bombast of an album. Me gusta. Amberian Dawn pwns Nightwish. Nuff said.

P.S.: Picked up the computer now, it's not broken yet my boss wants to have a look at it so I took it with me. I'm positive about the result.