Two NAPP Battles in the same day. I finished this one up last night. Here is the starting image…
Wasn’t terribly inspired with this one but this is what I came up with…
Archive for March, 2008
Running a bit late this week with Easter and I was setting up the new laptop… it is for travel not a desktop replacement so I went for small and light and chose the Dell XPS M1330… so far I like it… especially since the clean install on it to get rid of the ‘extras’… Now that I have Vista SP1 on it things are doing quite well for the most part other than for some reason ZoneAlarm will not register any clicks made by the Wacom tablet… quite odd. Not sure if it is ZoneAlarm, Wacom or Vista’s Tablet drivers… UPDATE: I did a clean reinstall of ZoneAlarm and everything seems to be working properly now…
Anyway… Here is this weeks starter image for the NAPP Battle…
Just did this up quickly this morning… Bunny and bunny/chick parts from stockxchange
Happy Easter!
Finally have our first spring flowers a few crocuses around the yard.
Other news would be that I finally broke down and bought a new laptop. I’ve been complementation getting one for the past year as my old Toshiba Pentium 3 from 2001 just wasn’t cutting it anymore. With desktop computers I build my own… not an option with a laptop so I now have my first Dell.
Owned it less than 24 hrs before formatting the harddrive and doing a clean install within a retail version of Vista Ultimate. Once I realized I needed the AHCI Intel SATA driver during the install things went pretty well. I’m writing this on it right now using the Wacom Tablet and handwriting recognition. Very nice for there laptop- but not sure it is something I’d ever use on any main computer since tin a very efficient typer. Benefit of having to take typing and having wpm drills in high school.
Another week, another NAPP Battle! (each week on NAPP an image is selected from stock.xchng and members create something with it) Here is this weeks starter image.
At first look I really had no idea what to do with this image… looks like someone threw a bunch of water on the girls face and her expression is kind of depressing… several members on the board turned it into abuse public awareness images… I wanted to go for something a bit happier…
This is what came out of playing around with it. Umm.. yep more butterfles.. I really didn’t like her mouth 
so it worked… Also reminds me I still need to finish my drawing too… Incidently, the Blue Morpho Butterfly photograph is mine, it was taken at the Butterfly Conservatory in Niagara Falls.
Here’s another version
giving her skin a bit of color and adding makeup…
* Note clicking on any of the images above will give you larger versions….
