I still like my job. What an awesome thing it is to like one’s job. It’s been a little more humid than usual the last few days after several days of rain, and yesterday it felt hotter than it has yet at work. The thermostat reported 90° in the room, but it felt about ten degrees hotter. We are not used to humidity around here!! There is an air conditioner, but it only blows on one particular spot and the air doesn’t circulate. Which is fine if you have leisure to stand in that one spot, but the spot where I have to do most of my standing during most shifts is not that spot.
I’m honestly not even really complaining about this; I like being warm, and the heat is so shocking to customers when they come in that it provides an instant, easy topic of friendly conversation, which is always nice. It does rather sap my energy, though. Plus there was this fly that wouldn’t stay off my sweaty leg… but I still like my job :D
As of yet I’ve seen very little of the standing-around-getting-paid-to-do-nothing aspect of this that was promised me by my co-worker. I believe the reason for this is that I’m just not very fast at tagging incoming orders yet. She’s like whoosh whoosh whoosh and has them tagged and then five minutes of down-time before the next customer; whereas by the time I get a bag of shirts turned right-side-out, unbuttoned, and tagged (dammit, people, unbutton your damn laundry when you take it off), I have three more bags to deal with. Which is perfectly OK. I’m fine with getting paid to work, you know?
So at work yesterday I got an idea for a picture I wanted to draw, and then when I came home I started drawing it. And it looks soOoOo good so far!! It’s just the best feeling in the world when a picture actually turns out nicely, since so often they don’t. But now I can’t decide whether to color it with Prismas (which was the original plan) or with the computa (which is faster and easier). I’m leaning toward computer color, because I am lazy, and because I interrupted my Rose Pale chapter 5 picture to draw this and computer color would get me back to that sooner. But we shall see. I will get dressed and watch this week’s Tiger and Bunny and then make my official decision.
Prismas are colored pencils, right? What do you think of them? I’ve been using “color dictionary” which I have no idea if it’s even available outside Japants (or even IN Japants anymore, despite recent evidence to the contrary, I don’t color my pictures that often… I’ve had the same set of pencils for well over six years).
Despite my own adventures in at least tegakie style arts and seeing my brother produce stuff with actual arting programs for the computer, I’m STILL wary of putting computer generated art in the same league as the hard copy kind… I know there’s a slew of challenges unique to that medium as there are with physical mediums, but… I still can’t get over the “Yeah, but there’s always control z!” mindset (or whatever the equivalent would be for whatever program/platform one is running). Well, the paintbucket feature was really nice (you know, back in the day… I haven’t touched photoshop or anythning similar in *years*)
Although there is the “there could be SERIOUS problems” factor in the fact that digital mediums can get deleted accidentally VERY easily and the time spent on *serious* arting projects is not insignificant. Thankfully, hardcopy will never delete itself!
Although a well placed fall of coffee would probably ruin both equally, no?
oh, and duh, I wanna seeeee your preciousssss!
Prismas are excessively nice. They’re expensive, and worth every penny. I find it very difficult to use other types of colored pencils after having gotten used to Prismacolors, though I am far from an expert.
I have never heard of this “color dictionary.” Your colors, I’ve noticed, tend to be very rich and well-blended; what sort of thing is this dictionary?
The availability of Ctrl-Z is one of my favorite things about computer coloring :D That, and, if I decide I can’t stand the way I’ve colored something, I can make a new layer and try again.
I am extremely pleased with how this picture is turning out thus far. I’ve been working on it all day, but I’m afraid it won’t be finished tonight. But whatevs; I shall be happy whenever it’s done.
P.S. You never did tell me what fiction you were referring to that involves bony hands!!!
hahaha! color dictionary is just the retarded name Tombow gave what I thought was a nice but not exorbitantly expensive set of 90 colored pencils (there are nine boxes of 10 in color families). In Japan, they’re about a buck a pencil, but I just looked ’em up for US distribution and they’re anywhere from $55 to $80 per 30 pencils (they come in boxes of threes, but I’ve seen/purchased individual pencils for about $1/each)
The only colored pencil piece with an appreciable amount of PENCIL is that Trowa I did, but it’s nice having so many choices for shading. I was worried the colors would be SUPER flat compared to the UBER saturation I got with the markers, but it turned out okay. I just had to press *hard* to lay the color on thick enough to fill the pocks of the paper (seems like all the “high quality” paper is intended for NOT colored pencils… paint, markers, and softer graphite would have no problems filling the valleys but colored pencils never seem to get the job done without a lot of *effort*)
Is this post referring to the faery picture you drew?!
P.S. that fiction with the bony hands is a GW WIP I’ve got doing, but finding time to do more than check a few pages at a time is hard. Hopefully by the end of the year? (I want to let it sit around and NOT think about it for a while before I post it, too… get away from it then go back and re-read it to see if it still makes sense, you know?)
Yeah, nicer-quality paper often is indeed more textured. I’m in love with watercolor paper, myself, for both watercolor and colored pencil… and it’s definitely more work to get the pencil to take properly. Gotta keep the damn things sharp all the time. There’s another reason I like coloring with a tablet: no horrible sharpening involved. Ugh, sharpening.
Markers are still rather an unknown for me. I have, like, five, and I have managed one or two pictures that I didn’t hate using them, but they still just seem alien to me. What kind do you use?
Yes, this post was referring to the faery picture. The coloring ended up taking about eleven hours. I’m soOoOo happy with it *__*
YAY BONY HANDS GW FIC. I look forward to reading it someday!!!!