Connie's Ramblings

Here is this weeks starting image:

Loved the smile on the childs face while out playing outside and wanted to do something about getting kids outside to play and off the tv’s and electronic games. Conviently it turns out that International Turn off Your TV Week is coming up April 21-27..

So here is mine..

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…

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

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….