some random art

[kiramaru7]

I was going through my Shichinintai folder for some inspiration for "Deep" & found it too. Go me! ;p

But I also found an old pic I did of Sedako. She appears from time to time in my fics, usually in one of Sui's memories. She's his late wife. ;p And she got be in couple of fics. Anyways, I drew her for my old writing partner Vega-chan, as she "invented" her. Anyways, I thought I'd share her with you...

Comments

[peachmomoko.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is very beautifully done! What do you use to create your art?

[kiramaru7.livejournal.com]

*blushes* Thanks! I simply painted over a sketch I did in photoshop. Her obi was a pattern I found for a backgroubnd, I think... or it may have been fabric. I did it like 2 years ago, so I forget where i found it. Same with the butterflies on her kimono. They're from a free brush set. And I lost so manuy of my brushes, so i don't think i have them any more. *sighs*

[peachmomoko.livejournal.com]

*pats back supportively*

Hopefully you can find some more nice (free) brushes.

[kiramaru7.livejournal.com]

*huggles* It was probably a good thing, as I've found other good onese since then. ;p

I found a really good site with them.

[peachmomoko.livejournal.com]

*tilts head in curiousity*

Found? Where to?

[kiramaru7.livejournal.com]

:D here... http://angelic-trust.net/

[peachmomoko.livejournal.com]

Thanks... now I get to see if I can somehow make them work in GIMP :/

[kiramaru7.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

Let me knwo if they do! :D

[peachmomoko.livejournal.com]

Supposedly there is a way to convert photoshop brushes into gimp's format (found here (http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/tutorial-How-To-Convert-Photoshop-Brushes-4349-1.html)) but it requires being logged into windows, so I still have to: copy the files onto a flash drive; install gimp on my windows partition; hope I don't need photoshop installed; go through the steps at the website; copy the newly converted brushes back onto the flash drive; reboot back into linux; hope to gods the brushes work...

too much trouble for me at the moment. I'll give it a try some time in the next couple of months when I have an hour to kill and nothing else to do in that hour...

[kiramaru7.livejournal.com]

O.o Really? It doesn't sound worth the trouble to me. Maybe you can find some brushes that'll work with gimp. ;p

[peachmomoko.livejournal.com]

yeah... I think I'm going to download some of the 1400 brushes for GIMP from here (http://www.techzilo.com/gimp-brushes/)... w00t! Less hassle!

[kiramaru7.livejournal.com]

Good idea! ;p

[peachmomoko.livejournal.com]

so... turns out those instructions were for GIMP 2.2. I'm running GIMP 2.4 and all I need to do is place the extracted brush file and store it in GIMP's brush folder. Easy-peasy! (thank goodness I found out _before_ I spent an hour of my time 'converting' things)

[kiramaru7.livejournal.com]

YAY! Don't you just love it when things turn super easy?

[peachmomoko.livejournal.com]

*does happy dance*

I'm testing out my new brushes right now! They're super sweet and will make banner-making even more fun!

[kiramaru7.livejournal.com]

Yeah?! That's soo cool!! I cna't wait to see what you do with them! :D

[rebukes.livejournal.com]

I love your style. It's reminiscent of old Japanese art: The way you form your lines and the coloring and such. This one is definitely gorgeous.

[kiramaru7.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I LOVE old Japanese & Chinese art! *blushes* tahnks! As I look at it though, I can see sooo many places where I could do better. ^^;