cliodhna’s wave

they do, they really do! I am learning excel spreadsheets at the moment to add to my growing list of programs I can find my way round in. I am becoming a computer geek. Not quite though, there is still a lot of things that stump me and a lot of times I will accidently do something and not be able to fix it. For ages I couldn’t figure out why all my typing would suddenly go into Italics and I could never work out how to turn it back again until I realised I was hitting ctrl+I instead of shift+I when I wrote capital I.  Now I know.

My brother said he was going to give me one of those drawing tablets. My sister has one to do her animation and they are really cool. Photoshop is amazing, it has so many details. I just found the button to change the brush selection the other day. All these cool brushes and I didn’t know they even existed! Of course it all has to be used sparingly, even I with not much knowledge of photoshop can look at designs sometimes and know exactly what effects were used and in what order. I suppose true originality shines through whether you have pixels or paint.

The picture above is called ‘The Poet creates his world” and I have been fiddling with it for days now. The problem was too many details so I got rid of flowers and then the mountains were bothering me, they weren’t sitting into the backround when they were blue so they got greyed and then a highlight on the foreground mountains to bring them in front and give them some detail.

Its funny with this stuff, I think I am finished but then when I show it to people or just leave it alone for a day or two I will find someway to tweak it to make it stronger. Sometimes I just want to finish things too quickly and I have to find the balance to know when to change and when to keep working. I was painting for a while deliberately doing it fast and trying not to think to much but this is the other side, careful consideration to make every element have a purpose or a place in the overall design.