Author: Sue

I have been writing in various forms since I was a child. I write about what is going on in my life, what I enjoy, and the struggles of dealing with chronic illness and mental health issues. I love live music, football (Scotland and Dunfermline Athletic), reading, Formula 1, Stock Cars, and eating lots of vegan crap.

Techology? Enough please.

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I seriously can’t take it.
After the almighty Windows fail of yesterday, I switched on my laptop today and it tells me their is no audio device driver. It was there last night. How did it vanish over night.
I did manage to go to the HP site and download it, and i have it now.
Crazy.

I am supposed to be tidying up, but I obviously got distracted by important things, like blogging.
I am finishing my flag drawing. Which is supposed to be a tattered flag, and the message is going to be like a thing like ‘how united is country where its lying in tatters’ or something like that.

Also been inspired by the reccent Harry Potter competition http://news.deviantart.com/article/86393/ and am aiming to create something for Fleur Delacour for Wednesday the 29th July. Whether or not I am ready for then will mean that I’d have to hold off till friday the 31st. (which may well happen as I am working all day Monday, tuesday, Wednesday of that week).
I have something in my head very blue, and ice queen like, mostly because she is part Veela, and that is how I imagine the Veelas being in my head.

Backwards in coming forwards

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This morning I went to switch on my laptop to get a message saying that Windows was unable to boot. I couldn’t even start windows in safe mode.
I phoned HP and was on the phone for 45 minutes between 4 different numbers and was offered no help. Which was a major pain in the ass.
I then phoned the Tech Guys, who supply my cover from Currys, and was on the phone to them for 5 minutes and they got things moving again.
The only issue is that I had to return the laptop to the factory settings, so its back to square one and I have nothing on my pc.
The only good thingabout that is that I now have photoshop cs4 trial installed. Hooray.
I’m having to put loads of songs back into my itunes again.

I am so happy, I thought it was going to end up costing me money and it hasn’t.
I can’t say how relieved I am

Not so much fail as I thought

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Well, despite all my whining I was doing before, I am not as bad off as I thought I was.
I am still motivated, so I have been doing a lot of drawings in my sketchbook and that. So I am still being creative. Just being a bit peeved I have to use MS Paint to scan anything in, which is just in inconvienience really. I mean Paint is pants.
I have been playing with Corel Painter, but you need a lot of practice to work it properly. I can make a good mess on it though :D

I did eventually get round to painting my hand (no, not that one), which I don’t hate. I love watercolour, and its nice to be able to use it too let of some frustration.

I have an another attendance hearing at work. Oops, maybe I should cut down on the sicky days. I have tried, and its not my fault I had the flu. I mean I couldn’t talk, so I couldn’t do my job. Stupid work.

Anyway, I am enjoying my job more, and despite being more skint than I ever thought possible, I am generally quite happy.

Slightly anxious about the whole brother/army/Afghanistan thing, but I have already blogged my two cents about that http://riotgraphics.blogspot.com/2009/07/government-govern.html

But, for once in my life, I am chilled and happy.
Something tells me to make the best of it whilst I still can.

Oh, and because I have been listening to Black Flag and Anti-Flag all day and am in fact drawing a flag, its Flag Day. So happy flag day

Headache

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Why the hell have I become so dependant on computer software. I mean I never used to use anything, just paint and draw. And now the software has gone tits up, I feel so lost.

I think I like the security that I can view pieces on my computer, before I post them. I have a hand I am going to paint, and then Im going to scan in my sketch book.  I’ll get that all done tonight.

Its kinda nice to focus on painting and that. I mean I spent all afternoon yesterday sitting painting in the garden. Which was something I haven’t done in forever.  And it felt so nice.

I have totally fell in love with art reccently, and it is such a stressbuster in my life, and I can’t say how much I appreciate being able to do things like paint and draw. Its been such a major part in my whole life, and it always will be.

The best thing about coming back to my art, is that I am to see where I’ve improved. Like my portraits are slightly less alien-looking that what they used to be. And I can also see my own style developing with my draw, which I suppose is me showing the way I feel most comfortable.  I suppose I am quite a sketchy drawer, but I like looking at things like that as well.

I suppose it shows a lot of expression, and I like that in comparission to works which are strict and realistic. I mean of course that is beautiful, but to me it may not express me, personally. Which is why I got into art.

Summer of fail

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Ok, now one of the main things I need to edit my paintings and drawings i have done is photoshop. And my Adobe CS3 has ‘fatal errored’ over the last two days, leading to me deinstalling the whole thing.

Pain.:S

I dont have a working copy at home. So I thought I could install the CS4 trial untill I could get CS3 back. But the stupid thing is refusing to install.

So before I had a dead CS3, and now i have an uninstallable cs4. And the Adobe website is useless in giving any support. The tool they give, can’t even detect the photoshop files I’m having an issue with. So good help there, Adobe. Pat on the back for you.

I am giving it a break, I’m deleting it all and starting from square one tomorrow. Despite me whining a lot, this blog is to say that I am not gonna be uploading much in the next while (unless someone can give me my beloved cs3 back).

I may photograph my sketchbook, and paintings and the like. I have like 3 commissions that i cannot do, I am sending them photos of sketches and stuff, and its going ok so far. But I can’t do anything digitally.

I feel like I’ve lost a limb. 😦

Todays work

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Day 5 and I’m still going strong. I have produced a lot of work so far.  Although I have been saying I’d do two pieces a day, the last few days I have been doing at least 3. I also have 2 mixed media pieces which just need to be finished.I have decided that if I keep this up, I will have enough stuff to filter down to make a half decent portfolio.  I can just edit out everything I don’t like. I am getting the hang of more tools on photoshop which is why I am doing this in the first place.

Todays work (17/08)

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To update my two pieces of work a day. These are what I have done today. A digital piece and a mixed media one.

As well as doing these, I also walked the seven miles from Inverkeithing to Dunfermline, in the rain. Not my brightest moment.

Summer fun

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Not exciting as it should be this year, mostly cause I’m having to be restrictive with my cashflow. :/

Plan is to force myself into being creative regularly. I know it sound odd, but I really cannot mess up college again next year. So by motivating myself over the summer, I hope that I can continue it into college.
My aim is to create 2 pieces per day. That includes when I go out places.
It can be traditional or digital, as long as I attempt to do something.
Hopefully, when I get in the swing of things, I will continue this work ethic.
Thats what it is, because its no longer just a passtime. I am hoping to make a living out of this. So I need to stop kidding on and be serious.

On a good note, walked the two miles to work today, which sounds good. If I hadn’t lazed around all weekend doing very little, cept eat.

I swear I am two steps forward, one step back.
So that this has a better feel, I will also be posting any creations on here and all my blogs. This is to show I am an active worker, and to create like a show of my work.