~Horseyangel

Cap'n Weird {ahoy, mateys!}

My new challenge =]

Mon Jul 13, 2009, 9:27 AM

^{I know what you're going to say.

Oh no.

Oh well, you don't have to join me. You can if you want to, but this is a new challenge I have thought up to inspire my manips.

The Michael Jackson Challenge

1)Big Boy
2)I Want You Back
3)ABC
4)The Love You Save
5)I’ll Be There
6)Rockin’ Robin
7)Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)
8)Blame It On The Boogie
9)Destiny
10)Can You Feel It
11)Walk Right Now
12)Lovely One
13)Ben
14)Off The Wall
15)Thriller
16)Beat It
17)Billie Jean
18)The Girl Is Mine
19)Say Say Say
20)Rock With You
21)Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
22)Man In The Mirror
23)Scream
24)Earth Song
25)Take Me Back
26)One Day In Your Life
27)She Drives Me Wild
28)Another Part Of Me
29)Just Good Friends
30)Wanna Be Startin’ Something
31)Give In To Me
32)Human Nature
33)Black Or White
34)P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
35)Remember The Time
36)The Way You Make Me Feel
37)Who Is It
38)Dangerous
39)In The Closet
40)Stranger In Moscow
41)Baby Be Mine
42)Burn This Disco Out
43)Blood On The Dance Floor
44)Will You Be There
45)This Place Hotel
46)You Are Not Alone
47)Keep The Faith
48)Liberian Girl
49)Speed Demon
50)Lady In My Life
51)Rock With You
52)Heal The World
53)Got To Be There
54)Dancing Machine
55)I Am Love
56)Childhood
57)Dirty Diana
58)Smooth Criminal
59)Ghost
60)Bad
61)Leave Me Alone
62)Someone In The Dark
63)I Just Can’t Stop Loving You
64)Remember The Time
65)Jam
66)Gone Too Soon
67)Why You Wanna Trip On Me
68)The Lost Children
69)Cinderella Stay Awhile
70)We’ve Got Forever
71)Just A Little Bit Of You
72)You Are There
73)Dapper Dan
74)Dear Michael
75)I’ll Come Home To You
76)With A Child’s Heart
77)Up Again
78)All The Things You Are
79)Happy
80)Too Young
81)Doggin’ Around
82)Johnny Raven
83)Euphoria
84)Morning Glow
85)Music & Me
86)Ain’t No Sunshine
87)I Wanna Be Where You Are
88)Wings Of My Love
89)Maria (You Were The Only One)
90)Love Is Here And Now You’re Gone
91)You’ve Got a Friend
92)Workin’ Day And Night
93)Get Off The Floor
94)Girlfriend
95)She’s Out Of My Life
96)I Can’t Help It
97)It’s The Falling In Love
98)Heaven Can Wait
99)You Are My Life
100)Privacy
101)Don’t Walk Away
102)Whatever Happens
103)Threatened
104)This Time Around
105)Can’t Let Her Get Away
106)Girl Don’t Take Your Love From Me
107)One Day In Your Life
108)We’re Almost There
109)Take Me Back
110)The Greatest Show On Earth
111)People Make The World Go Round
112)We’ve Got A Good Thing Going
113)Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool
114)My Girl
115)What Goes Around Comes Around
116)In Our Small Way
117)Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day
118)You Can Cry On My Shoulder
119)Speechless
120)Break Of Dawn
121)Heartbreaker
122)Invincible
123)2000 Watts
124)We’re Almost There
125)They Don’t Care About Us
126)You Rock My World
127)One More Chance
128)What More Can I Give
129)Butterflies
130)Cry
131)Speechless

Phew...just the list has exhausted me. And you thought you were sick of MJ before I started this...sorry! I might not be finished until the year 3000...wow. 130 manips, that's a lot. Well, goodbye for the next century!

~Horseyangel}

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Mood: Eager
Reading: Once

Happy Canada Day!

Wed Jul 1, 2009, 7:45 AM

^{Whoo, go us Canadians ^.^ I am trying to persuade the British to celebrate our ways. I sent one of them a text at 2:00 am Canada time, which is around 7:00 am British time, to remind them very subtly that it was Canada Day. Like, HAPPY CANADA DAY!!! That is skill.

"Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It’s not nice."
I've been meaning to say that I am really sad about Michael Jackson. I am halting the BB picture for now. Now I'm doing a picture called "Misunderstood: Tribute," which, yes, is for Michael Jackson. It's him as a boy, as he was. The reference picture is so cute, it's tragic. It makes me sad, anyway. I have to fold it over (it's in the newspaper) every time I go into my room, because I can't look at it. I haven't started it yet because I've been busy. What did you think of his death? I was shocked, and then I kind of fell ill, and then I couldn't stop thinking about it, and I still can't. And I can't stop singing Man in the Mirror. It's SO sad! Well, I think it is. I can't believe he's dead. That's like Elvis dying. It's horrible. I think the worst thing was all the rumours, and not knowing what's true and what's not, if any of it is, and if it is, how much of it is. I just think it's sad, everything, and how he himself kept calling himself "the loneliest person in the world" even since he was in the Jackson 5. And also the fact that he said "No one will ever know how much all these wicked rumours have hurt me." And also the fact that he thought he needed to change his face. Actually, I think almost everything concerning Micheal Jackson is sad, so I'll stop now, or else I'll go on forever.

But I know that he would never have harmed a child. He was only a child at heart himself.
"And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I’d see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead."

“I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.”

So finally, I'll just leave you with one last quote.

“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” - Michael Jackson, 1958-2009}

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Mood: Disbelief
Reading: Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Eating: Chocolate Magnum ^.^
Drinking: Frozen water all day.

Svera Knows Best.

Sat Jun 27, 2009, 5:34 AM

SVERA
^{*Svera is an amazing artist. Like, one of the best pencil artists I know.* As you may or may not be aware, I love drawing, much more than I like photomanipulation. However, I have stopped uploading my drawings (I have only done so on one occasion, after which it was soon deleted) because it ruins my sense of privacy. Anyway, recently I received the opportunity to ask *Svera some questions, which she was kind enough to answer for me (Be warned...my questions seem really stupid )

~Horseyangel I'm trying to draw humans. Do you have any tips?
*Svera Humans are difficult to draw, but like always the most important thing ist practice. Nobody recognized my first humans either and for a time I've drawn only those people with a very individual face, so I could be sure people will know who I've drawn although they didn't look like the reference

~Horseyangel With practice, what did you do? Draw the same human over and over till he was recognizable, or just keep trying new people? How did you start...like, with the eyes or what? I never know where to start.
*Svera I don't think it matters who you draw, even if it is the same person over and over again. After a time you'll develop some technique with will make you able to draw other people as well.
More important is to use references you're really interested in. Drawing portraits can be boring very fast, especially when you draw hair or skin texture. So first of all look for a reference you really like and where you want some time spent with it.
I normally start with the eyes, but I've also seen people starting with the form of the face. Just try things out until you know what is the best way for you.
Most artists work with some kind of grid. You divide your reference in squares as well as your paper. This way you can easier see how the proportions are.
Or you could try to measure these things. I normally start with the eyes, because this way I can use the distance between the eyes to compare it with the distance to the nose, the mouth and so on.
I'm not very good with explaining things, but I hope that helps you a bit

~Horseyangel Wow, thanks The thing I struggle most with is shading...I never know whether I use the edge or the pencil or what, or where, or how dark or anything. I've seen blending tutorials, but those are for after you've done the initial shading...which I can't do.
How long did it take you to get so good?
*SveraYou're welcome
I usually start with a soft shading with hard pencils (mostly F or B, sometimes 2B). And than I begin to darken with softer pencils (3B to 8B). There are always many layers of pencil strokes. These layers look a bit like lots of Xs. This means you never make pencils strokes only in one direction. For skin it's good to make circles, it resembles a bit the skin texture.
How long did it take you to get so good?
Hard to say. I have been drawing since I can hold a pencil, so now for approx. 20 years. But I started with real portraits at the age of 15, so for that one I needed 10 years.
I got a lot better since I joined DA two years ago, because then I saw what other people could do and tried to achieve the same.

~Horseyangel So never stroke in the same direction. Thanks, that's really great advice...I've been shading wrong! I want to draw this... so I'll try shading his skin in circles, yeah?
Whoa, 10 years. That's actually quite quick because your standard is so high. That's very inspirational, thanks for your time and help! Now I can practice so I can one day be as good as you.
^{*Svera Nice reference Yes, for most of the skin you draw in circles. For the area around the eyes you could draw with lines, because of the wrinkles.
I guess you could learn it a lot faster, if you would draw mostly portraits. I just draw many other things as well, so it takes more time to improve.
You're welcome

~Horseyangel Thanks again for all your kind advice. I will try to do everything you have told me

Be sure to check out *Svera's gallery. Here is one of my favorites of hers: girl in the water

*For other amazing pencil artists, go here!}}

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Mood: Pirate
Playing: I'm writing a history essay. Yeah. Fun.
Eating: Nothing, I'm sick >.<

I can't ride.

Sun Jun 21, 2009, 6:35 AM

^{Okay. If you were taking horse riding lessons, in a group, and one day a new person turned up in your group, what would you think? What would you think of her if she couldn't canter properly, or kept putting one leg too far back? Would you think she was an idiot?

Because I want to know what people think of me when I ride.

I only started riding around a year ago, and I only go every month or so, excluding Christmas/summer, because it's really expensive So in all, I've probably been about 15 times in my life. That's not very good, is it?

And now that I'm riding in a group, I always feel like I'm doing things wrong. Like, I'm too close to the horse in front, or maybe too far back, or maybe my stirrups are too long or my heels aren't down or I'm not sitting straight enough. Or maybe I should have been able to mount from the ground like everyone else instead of using the block. And I should probably know how to pick a hoof, for crying out loud.

It's not the horses I don't know how to act around - it's the people. And that's really quite sad

Also, why is it so hard for me to pass the crop from one side to another when everyone else can do it without tangling up their reins and taking about ten centuries??}

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