Wallpapers Like Whoa

I've realized that it's been a very long time since the last time I posted some graphic that I've made. They're mostly wallpapers from various fandoms (because I'm me... so yeah)

Wallpapers:


A wallpaper consisting of my favorite John Green quotes. Both from books and from his youtube videos.


When the Avengers came out, I had to make a wallpaper. It was begging to be made.
I'm pretty proud of it, if I do say so myself.


Yesterday, while trolling tumblr and listening to spotify (like the productive adult I am), Alex Carpenter's Time Lord Rock song Bow Ties Are Cool came on and I was struck with inspiration.


Claudia Donovan (from Warehouse 13) is my spirit animal.



Graphics:


It started out as a Tardis, instead it came out like this. I still really love it.


Alohamora!

Caffeine. A writer's life's blood.

It's been a while since I've made something on photoshop that didn't have some sort of fandom tie.

Today, in between taking care of my wounded husband, I was playing on StumbleUpon. Now let me tell you, this thing is your best friend and your worst enemy. It is the procrastinators BEST FRIEND. While flipping through sites, I 'Stumbled Upon' a site full of photoshop tutorials.

Normally when I run across these, I'll click on one and it involves ACTUAL drawing. Which is something I don't do. But this site had a lot more 'Use the tools of photoshop' type tutorials. After flipping through a couple of pages I found a tutorial that I wanted to use for a wallpaper.

This is how it turned out...

Though I'm not a coffee drinker. I figured a cup of coffee would look better than a can of Dr. Pepper or Pepsi. I also chose to use one of my favorite quotes by Caprice Crane (the full quote can be found in my sidebar).

I'm rather proud of it.

Nerdfighting... In Your Pants!

As John said in the video, Nerdfighteria is going to be starting a new site called Your Pants, and is haveing a contest in designing the logo for said site.

So, just to try my hand at it, I came up with two logo's.
I'm pretty proud of myself.
Both of them are made from scratch. &hearts

First:

I'm pretty proud of myself for drawing the 'A' from scratch.

But I think I like the second one more...
Second:

Thoughts?

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's.... WRITERS BLOCK!

a villain that attacks poor unsuspecting citizens at the most inconvenient moments.

Every time I feel like I have writers block I think of John Green.

Q. How do you deal with writers’ block?
A. I just give myself permission to suck. I delete about 90% of my first drafts (the only exception to this rule so far has been Will Grayson, Will Grayson) so it doesn’t really matter much if on a particular day I write beautiful and brilliant prose that will stick in the minds of my readers forever, because there’s a 90% chance I’m just gonna delete whatever I write anyway. I find this hugely liberating.

I also like to remind myself of something my dad said to me once in re. writers’ block: “Coal miners don’t get coal miners’ block.”

For the past little while, I've been having serious writers block. Not the kind where I can't come up with any ideas at all. It's the kind where I can't come up with any NEW ideas.

I have a small obsession with super heroes, and for some reason, I can't seem to come up with any other ideas than ones about superheroes. I have about four drafts of basically the same story from different perspectives, and can't seem to get out of this rut.

So I decided that I was going to force myself to write more in at least ONE of my superhero stories. Hoping that if I get further in them, then maybe that'll free up some of the space in my brain to come up with a new ideas.

In Photoshop weekend news, I made this reflective floral design by following this tutorial. It took me (roughly) six hours to make from scratch and I'm pretty proud of it.

Also, as you have probably noticed. I also redesigned my blog background. It certainly describes the fact that my head is in the clouds most of the time. The redesigning took me FOREVER to figure out. But I did it and I'm really proud of my self for it. (:

Photoshop Weekend.

This weekend I went and saw Burlesque. It's such an awesome movie! I give high props to Cher and Christina Aguilera. The music, the dancing, its SO amazing! I highly recommend seeing it.

Anywho, afterwards I was browsing my favorite Photoshop Tutorial site and ran across this amazing tutorial for a Casino Style Sign. I was giggling so much I knew I had to try it. At that moment I decided to try and make at least two things a weekend that didn't just involve alternate photo coloration, or icon making. I've been wanting to try and challenge myself with different tutorials and such, and this was the perfect way to start.

Even though I followed the tutorial to the letter, I'm pretty impressed with it myself.

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the second tutorial I followed was this one for Roses with a Splash effect.
Although it's not as good as the one in the tutorial, it's still pretty good.
(this is a picture from my own wedding, pictures taken by Wendy G.)

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I'm hoping that if I keep doing tutorials, eventually I can start making things all by myself. Things that are awesome! *crosses fingers*