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Busy busy

1 min read
Sorry I've been so absent, been busy with uni and taking photos. My main account at the moment is at :iconrykan-: so if you want to contact me you'll have a lot more success there.

I'm sorry if DA have lost some of my brushes, but unfirtunately I made them on school computers and my old harddrive, so if you can't get them here, I'm afraid they might be gone for good, as I'm pretty sure they don't exist anywhere else, which is VERY annoying as I spent so much time on those ¬_¬
Sodding DA.
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Uni Excavation

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I've just been on a two week excavation with my University (a prehistoric site *shakes head* I wanted to go to the Roman villa! *shakes fist*). People in England, watch the Time Team Big Roman Dig! The students at Dinnington are my friends (I wish I could have done Dinnington too *pouts*)!
Anyway, expect an update and photos either here or at rykan4marius soon :D
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Good news

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Firstly, I just want to thank everyone who has +faved Foamy Tshirt Design; there are just so many of you who commented and +faved I can't thank you all individually ^^;
Secondly, thankyou to everyone who downloads my Crows Ravens brushset (and others) and use them so creatively.
Thirdly, just thankyou to everyone who looks and takes an interest :)



News

:bulletpurple: My parents should be moving soon, and they have promised to buy me a new camera (a PROPER digital SLR camera :drool: :p ) with some of the profit they make ^.^ Oh thank KITTINS, I've missed being able to take proper photos sooooo much T-T The 'digital camera' I do have is AWFUL. A. W. F. U. L. No matter how much I fiddle with the settings the contrast is always WAY too high, and colours come out looking odd. And the qulaity is just dreadful. It's alright if you reduce a picture taken at MAX settings to about 50 or 25% as it squishes out the imperfections, but even then the photos look terrible :'(
:bulletpurple: Also, univeristy has finished now. That's my first year over. I'm almost hoping I do fail my first year so I can go to the art college T^T Eh, if I don't fail this year I'm sure I'll fail my second ^^;
:bulletpurple: My boyfriend HATES being photographed with a passion so I'm either going to have to convince him to let me use him as a model or just take a lot of photos whilst he's sleeping  :evillaugh:
:bulletpurple: Hm, I want to try photographing smoke.... and also something to do with colour relating to music...
:bulletpurple: Also, bought me some acrylic paints to tide me over 'till camera tiem! They are only small tubes so I'm going to have to work out how to paint using less paint :s
:bulletpurple: And WHAT is up with uploading deviations and the LAG it has in appearing in your gallery/mainpage!?



Events

I entered the Celebration of Colour Competition with this deviation.

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Omfg x___X



These things don't just happen to me, how did this happen to me? XD

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Please tell me what brush sets you all would like me to make for you either by replying to this entry or by finding my poll :D



Edit~
Deviations

Finaly uploaded the new Crows Ravens brushsets :D






Coming Up

:bulletpurple: I've got lots of photos and stock on my old computers (if I can get either of them working) and some on this machine to upload if I get round to it ^^'

:bulletpurple: Very soon I'm going to upload my next set of brushes, being two sets of Crows/Ravens brushes :D (this is because my original one is so incredibly popular ^.^' )

Hmm...I SO need to go to Camden Market again and take LOADS of photos when I get my new camera.... :drool:
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Uni has been keeping me so damn busy I haven't really had an opporunity to take photos :cry: I'm hoping to get a SPIFFFY new 'spensive camera for my birthday in July so I can FINALY take GOOD photos on my own (previously used my dads Nikon but now I'm flying solo ^^; )
Did manage to find a data cable for my working digital camera (( ¬__¬ ) so I can upload some photos. Myuh.
Damn my boyfriend for hating being photographed ^^'

Mental note, make new ID
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More photos!

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Took four roles of film; two from the Open Garden's day a few weeks ago, one of an idea I had about flowers (which cause a huge mess XD ) and one about Wiccan ideas which I finally got to photogrpah when my rents went out during the daylight hours yesterday, lol.

My digital camera is still broken, but I'm REALLY hoping to get it fixed soon!

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Ok, as it currently stands, I have made the following brush sets;
All_Tattoo_01
All_Tattoo_02
All_Tattoo_03
All_Tattoo_04

And working on sets using the same brushes but twice as big and divided up into
Animals
Celtic
Crucifixes
Culture
Daggers
Dividers
Dragons
Hearts
Morbid_and_death
Nature_Magic_Myth
Pirates_and_Skull_n_Crossbones
Proper_tattoo
Roses_n_flowers
Round_the_bellybutton
Suns_and_moons

And there will be repetitions; ie, if there is a brush of a dragon and a flower, it will be in both the Dragon and Flowers set.
You'll have to forgive any repetitions; there are at least 200 images I am making into brushes, and I sometimes forget which ones have already been brushified

Still open to requests here! :aww:

AND I'VE FINISHED SCHOOL SO I ACTUALLY HAVE THE TIME NOW!
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