As per my last post, I'm starting to get back into art a little. I have a couple of canvases waiting and all the paints. Now I just need to decide what to do... but I also finished the watercolour portrait I was working on. It's basically an elvish version of Seph from FFVII. In the current storyline I'm playing in, he's cut his hair, so it definitely called for a new portrait.

I'm quite pleased with the way it came out. Not bad for a rusty illustration graduate. I really ought to do more anime work, it's one of those styles you need to keep up with if you want to stay any good at it. Compared to so many of the artists out there, I feel like such an amateur.

I know, I know... I haven't been posting again. Not having my own computer is really getting to me. And there's absolutely no sign of when or if I will ever get one. It's so depressing. What's worse is my husband can't seem to understand WHY I need my own computer so much or why I even like working on the computer because he claims to hate it.

He then also likes to give me a hard time when I stay up late using the computer after he's gone to bed and then therefore wake up sometime in the early afternoon. Let's think about this... I like to have some privacy when I use the computer. I'm really particular about this and its another thing he can't seem to understand in the slightest. And also, what exactly do I have to do in the morning when he's doing his job on the only computer in the house? I don't have anything to do. I didn't think I would ever mind being a house wife, but I always assumed I'd at least have my own computer.

I actually have a job on the books right now, as it were, doing business graphic design. But I've done just about as much as I can with pen and paper. I need to move onto the computer. I need to have my own set up, my own programmes, etc. I also need to be able to actually use the computer whenever the inclination strikes me, because thats how I work. I'm just lucky that the guy is a friend of Philip's and really patient.

In other news, it looks like I might start doing some artwork again, if only for something to do to keep myself from going insane. Right now I'm finishing up a watercolour character portrait of one of my favourite RPG characters who has recently been resurrected for the anime-fantasy RPing forum I've started. It's turned out really well. (And by the way, the secret to really lush skin shadows on an anime style portrait is a purple wash.) In a couple of days I think Philip and I are going to get some water mixable oil paints. I've never used them before but I love oils, so we'll have to see how that goes. I hear they have a different texture from real oils and that some people don't care for it. If I end up liking them I'm going to do some pieces and see if I can't put them up in one of the many galleries in York. I've never seen so many fine art galleries. And the best thing is... I actually have solid ideas for some contemporary paintings that I think the market will eat up.

If I actually sell any of them maybe I can finally get a f'ing computer. Wouldn't that be novel?