I am so freakin' excited about the new Wacom contest! I've drawn one thing and am halfway finished with it and plan on doing at least one more. I need/want a new tablet SO bad! Mine is getting old, the mouse no longer works right and my pen is wearing out. Poor thing. It has served me well. It would also be nice to have the new software that comes with it. I forget how small my little tablet is until I start looking at pictures of others' tablets or the picture of the large one up for grabs. *sigh* I REALLY want to win this contest. I skipped out on the last one, intimidated by the other entrees but. . .I'm going to try this time. I can't win if I don't try, right? I think I'm good enough to enter this time. . .I think I'm starting to hold my own. I'm so self-conscious of my artistic abilities. . .I think it comes from being made fun of for being an art geek for YEARS! Now everyone tells me I'm good but its so difficult to judge that when I watch a ton of amazing artists that have been working at it longer than I (I gave up on drawing for a few years), they've had longer to acquaint themselves and play with Photoshop and the like (I didn't even know programs like that existed until we got our desktop and it came with JASC PSP 8 and then my tablet came iwth Photoshop CS) and. . .I don't know. I'm rambling now.

I have been putting a ton of effort into this Wacom entry. I have two others sketched and scanned and waiting their turn for Photoshop. ^-^ The autumn themed one will come a little late in the season, but it will come. ^-^ They may be delayed, however, in favor of my second entry into the Wacom contest. Don't think I won't be begging you guys to fave my entries during Community Choice week.

I SUCK AT TALKING! I want to fave soooo many things but find myself picking and choosing because. . well. . .I suck at talking and so many artists get pissy in their journals about crappy comments. What am I to do? I can add my "CUTE" to the rest of the list they didn't look at, I can fave and run, I can attempt to critique and be called a flamer, or I can not fave. . .*sigh* None of those options sound good. So. . BEWARE ARTISTS! I SUCK AT TALKING! THATS WHY I DIDN'T COMMENT, THAT'S WHY MY COMMENTS SUCKS, THAT'S LIFE! Someday I'll make that into an ID, too, so I don't have to keep putting it in my journal.

Oooh. . .my thoughts have been literally CONSUMED by the Wacom contest! I'm enjoying my lovely new haircut, marveling at all the journal's in my in-box announcing open commissions. Sometimes I wish I could do them. The moment I promise to draw something for someone, my brain seems to lock up, my hand disobeys my every command and it is suddenly the LAST thing I want to draw or think about. And the couple of times I actually did commissions, I never got paid. I still owe ~ahiru-chan38 a duck, I believe. (I still try, my friend! *sob* I'm sorry!!!!!) So. . .I learned real quickly I can't do commissions. . .yet. ^-^; I am SOOOO enjoying my new keyboard. Labeling each layer in Photoshop is sooo much easier and quicker than using the on-screen keyboard. No new thumbs today, my friends. I apologize. Perhaps next time? I think I hear Photoshop calling. . .

Features are from my favourites.

Hook Line and Sinker by ~kamicheetah

Watching and Waiting by =sesfitts

Hello Kitty Painting Impostor by *imaginism