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Friday, December 21st, 2012
Presents!
I was going to take a photo of the mulled wine we made tonight, but I got too distracted drinking it! So, instead enjoy some of the lovely wrapped presents awaiting their chance to go visit my clients (and never return, heh).
Categories: Daily Art, Words Words Words
Tags: words
Weds Night Gaming
Thursday, December 20th, 2012
I won at Eclipse, yay!
So, if you didn’t already know I was a complete nerd, here’s another brick in the wall. Every Wednesday evening that we can manage it, my BFF and I have a quick dinner and then head over to Endgame in Oakland for their Open Boardgaming. The crowd there is largely into the sort of games most people have never heard of, but which I greatly enjoy. This isn’t Monopoly — for one thing, there’s usually a much steeper learning curve (and a bigger price tag).
We played Eclipse ($100 and well worth it if you’ve got the cash and nerd friends to support it — this is not my copy, heh) tonight with 4 players, which took about 3 hours total including the 30 minutes Jeff spent teaching us the rules at the start. We explored space, colonized planets, and kept our space empires from going bankrupt in our quest for victory points. I played black, and as you can see we started out in four different quadrants and explored towards the middle, and out to the edges. And I won! Mostly because I built 3 monoliths, yes, just like the ones you’re thinking of. They’re worth points in this game! Also, my supernova exploded, but not until the end when it didn’t matter. Whew.
I hope you’re finding time to do the stuff you love to do, with the people you adore, too!
Categories: Daily Art, Words Words Words
Tags: nerd, words
Bilbo at Home
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
Bilbo hanging out with my other holiday decor
I finished my hobbity Valentine this week, and I’m so delighted with the way the art turned out that I put it up with the rest of my holiday decorations. Halloween and Christmas do rather run together at my apartment, well, to be honest every day is Halloween here, heh. I’d say a lot of my decor is my own art, but really I have so much stuff from action figures to plushies to a skull in a paper crown that my art is only a percentage of the total volume.
Dusty though they are, my many, many shelves are a source of wonder to all who behold them!
For the curious, pictured above are some mini Christmas stockings, part of a set of pewter Endless from The Sandman, a Malfoy family crest pin, a portion of my wee duckie collection (it’s small but it’s fierce), my tentacle egg, and a random wacky Halloween toy my roommate gave me.
Hope you’re having a great week, and enjoying this brief respite from people asking you to buy their stuff.
Categories: Daily Art, Words Words Words
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Holiday Progress
Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
holiday cards and Valentine designs in progress
Given Instagram’s lovely new TOS, I figured I’d continue my week of silly posts with the alternate photo tools on my phone. I keep wondering what will happen when someone’s photo of a third party’s copyrighted designs (say, a car, given that all car designs are legally protected in every which way they can) ends up being used for a commercial purpose by Instagram, when the person who took the photo didn’t own the copyright of the thing in the photo in the first place, and therefore couldn’t actually pass it on to Instagram. This is a bit different than everyone else’s likeness rights worries, but then, I never take photos of my likeness, so it makes sense I’d think of it another way.
Other companies’ idiocy aside, I saw The Hobbit and I unabashedly loved every minute of it. I pretty much spent any slow time trying to remember which dwarf was which, and therefore the nearly three-hour movie passed in a blink for me.
Today’s photo is one of my personal holiday cards (yes, some people got tentacles), and the inks for one of next year’s Valentines. Ironically one of my designs was Instagram-centric, so I’ll probably be scrapping that idea and sticking with the other nerdy concepts. It’s too bad, too, because I loved the silly wee painting I did for the front!
I hope you’re staying warm, dry and happy this week, whichever holidays you love best. Personally, I’m a fan of Halloween, Christmas, the solstice, and of course the New Year! How about you?
Categories: Daily Art, Words Words Words, Works In Progress
Tags: wip, words
Skully sketch
Sunday, December 16th, 2012
Skully sketch by Amy Crook
This is about how I’ve been feeling all week, I think. Here’s hoping your holidays are as stress-free as physically possible, at least!
Categories: Daily Art, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: coloring book, pen and ink, sketch
Sharing Warmth
Saturday, December 15th, 2012
Sharing Warmth, Sherlock fan art by Amy Crook
I sent a Moo card with the main image on it to one of my Sherlock bookmark buyers, and she said she’d never seen it, and sure enough, I’d never posted it. Oops! It’s nicely seasonal now, anyway, with Jack Frost nipping at all sorts of things all over the hemisphere. I really think Sherlock makes it, though, forever interrupting with his own importance.
Sharing Warmth, 5″x7″ pen & ink and Copic markers on paper.
Categories: Daily Art, People, Figures and Faces, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
Tags: copic marker, john watson, lestrade, pen and ink, sherlock, sherlock bbc, sherlock holmes
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S is for Spirals
Thursday, December 13th, 2012
S is for Spirals, calligraphic illumination by Amy Crook
I originally planned on doing Sharpie for S, but in the end the spirals won my heart. I used clean, simple shades of blue and silver for the S, perfect for a Steve or Susan that needs a bit of sparkle in their life.
S is for Spirals, 5″x5″ pen & ink, Japanese watercolor and glitter gel pen on paper.
S is for Spirals, detail, by Amy Crook
Above, you can see the light shining off the silver glitter spirals. Below, you can see STAR all spelled out with my alphabet.
S, T, A & R, calligraphic illuminations by Amy Crook
Categories: Daily Art, Illuminated Alphabet, Series and Books, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: alphabet, blue, calligraphy, for sale, glitter gel pen, illumination, pen and ink, silver, spirals, watercolor
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