TJC is having a hard time with getting my job in order. They've said that I have the job since I was in Texas for Samantha's graduation, but for one reason or another HR, payroll, and whoever else is in charge of this all is dragging their feet through the mud through all of this and I still don't have a position that I can guarantee is mine.
The tricky part to all of this is that I want to set up my apartment and a place to live as soon as possible. I have a month before I need to be there. A MONTH. That's scary to even think about that I only have a month before I'm living in a different state starting a new job as a full time faculty.
Today Alicia said that she wished I wasn't so happy to get this job. Or that I wasn't so happy to move. She's happy that I have a job, or not, but she's not happy that I'm happy and is upset that I'm not willing to stop being happy for her to be happy. It's confusing and I don't even get it. She's just anxious about the entire thing.
The thing that hit home for me today was a random video on Facebook of Margaret Atwood talking about writing. She said something along the lines of if you're not writing it's because you're afraid of something. I haven't written a line in almost a month. I have the entire outline done. I know what needs to happen next, but for one reason or another I keep pansying out and not writing what I know I should be writing. I'm giving excuses, and I'm giving all sorts of reasons of why I'm not finishing that novel, and I know that they're just excuses. I know that I'm coming up with the lamest most unoriginal reasons to not write, so I'm going to try to put myself responsible to this blog.
Right now, I'm at almost 70,000 words. I'm going to get out of my head, and allow myself to write an ugly baby draft. It'll be ugly. It'll need serious edits, but at least it will be out in the world. Wish me luck.
Jul 12, 2018
Jul 11, 2018
Daemons
As promised, some updates on what I've been painting lately.
First brimstones. I did a few layers of wash and dry brush and came up with this. . .
But then I watched a few more things on youtube and it had a fairly good argument about contrast, and upping the contrast that you're working with on your models to help the details pop a bit more. I decided to give it a shot and came up with this.
I'm sort of a fan. I'm going to try playing around with it more and more on my next favorite model of all time. Then I tackled the heralds. Two heralds, one crooked on it's base and realizing that I don't care enough to fix it, PLUS a weird flaming base that I didn't know what to do with, and this is what I've got. I'm not super in love with either of them, but I do like the color fade to white on the tips of the tendrils.
So, brimstones kept me happy and taught me a bit, but then I started to tackle some color blocking and planning on this guy, and fell in love. It's a burning chariot with blue horrors riding shotgun. I've started to think about using that whole contrast thing, with the color blending that I run in just about everything I paint, and this model is going to be a fun trip.
It's going to take me a while to do all of the fire the way I want it to be done, plus the body blended the way I want it to, plus keeping the blues looking high contrast, plus doing the screamers to match all of the other screamers I have, PLUS making sure the metal looks right. It's going to be a heavy load, but just doing the color blocking today has made me fall in love with the sculpt and everything that can pull out of it.
First brimstones. I did a few layers of wash and dry brush and came up with this. . .
But then I watched a few more things on youtube and it had a fairly good argument about contrast, and upping the contrast that you're working with on your models to help the details pop a bit more. I decided to give it a shot and came up with this.
I'm sort of a fan. I'm going to try playing around with it more and more on my next favorite model of all time. Then I tackled the heralds. Two heralds, one crooked on it's base and realizing that I don't care enough to fix it, PLUS a weird flaming base that I didn't know what to do with, and this is what I've got. I'm not super in love with either of them, but I do like the color fade to white on the tips of the tendrils.
So, brimstones kept me happy and taught me a bit, but then I started to tackle some color blocking and planning on this guy, and fell in love. It's a burning chariot with blue horrors riding shotgun. I've started to think about using that whole contrast thing, with the color blending that I run in just about everything I paint, and this model is going to be a fun trip.
It's going to take me a while to do all of the fire the way I want it to be done, plus the body blended the way I want it to, plus keeping the blues looking high contrast, plus doing the screamers to match all of the other screamers I have, PLUS making sure the metal looks right. It's going to be a heavy load, but just doing the color blocking today has made me fall in love with the sculpt and everything that can pull out of it.
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