Yay!!!! I found my backed-up site files. Went scrounging around just to give finding them another shot, and there they were. Weird thing is, I'm pretty sure I looked earlier where I found them, but hey I'm not going to question it. :)   I still want to do a site 'remodeling' but having the old files to at least use as a foundation or until I have time to remodel,  just to put up when I find a webhost, is great.   :D

Spoilers for Torchwood Season 3, speculation on upcoming Doctor Who... and Season 5 of Supernatural

( Torchwood spoilers )

Well it seems the webhost I was using for my main website has gone '( Read more... )

I've been busy working through commissions, so haven't had much new art to share. However, as a diversion for when I need a little break from painting, I got sucked into vidding. Well, one vid so far.
( Supernatural Dean/Castiel vid )

So here's how I spent the last 3 weeks:

As I mentioned my computer was having a total hissy. Locking up randomly and for no apparent reason, crashing, rebooting, and then not booting back up until after dozens of attempts, and then even then sometimes it required leaving it off for a few hours to get it to boot up. Much suck.( Read more... )

Happy Valentine's Day!!! :)



( Happy Valentine's Day )

Happy New Year!!!

Here's some New Years cheer and well wishes for the year to come... in my usual 'pervy' style. ;)


( Cheers!!! )

Merry Christmas!!!

To celebrate, here's a little holiday goodness...
( Holiday goodies )

~N

Okay, I'm pretty much reaching my limit. On Sheezy Art , one of the galleries I post to, it seems like almost every painting I post lately draws rude comments, ( Read more... )

I'm in the process of trying to switch over my website. I'm getting tired of all the server downtime. And with my launching of my calendar and other art stuff, I would like things to running a little more smooth. I did get a different host for the calendar links page and have worked on an animated gif ad for the calendar that I'll likely being advertising as DevantArt and Yaoi! Gallery with, if they accept it. (Although I need two different ads because of image requirements, meaning I need to totally rework the one for Deviant. Bastards. ;)  )

Anyway, the website thing is going to be a pain in the ass considering almost every image I have linked that isn't at a gallery is through my site. So I need to go back through and relink everything. <sigh> I've been using this cool online storage site lately, Diino, but that doesn't help with the old stuff.

As for the calendar, here's a look at the ad:



I'll be putting it in my sigs too, whereever is appropriate. I don't know how many hours it took to do this. Partly because I was learning while doing in Photoshop. The one I do for DeviantArt has to be different dimensions, plus I'll probably censor it slightly. At least I can mostly keep it the same and just widen the image. I'll crop in the last 12 images to get that (plus the censoring) but the first part will be a little more work. <sigh> And here I thought I was done when I finished the calendar. Nope. Not even close.

~N

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I was waiting for the holiday to post this painting from the calendar.

 ( Thanksgiving surprise )

Finally finished!! Calendar's all done. Yay. It took a little longer than I expected. Partly because, yep pretty much got caught in the details and nitpicking, but I did try to contain myself. There's all sorts of things I'd still want to do to the paintings but if I did then it wouldn't be until 2010 that it'd be available.  ;)







( Calendar info )

Happy Halloween.

A painting for Halloween.

( Happy Halloween )

Yay! So I've finally finished the hair tutorial I've been wanting to write. It took longer to assemble the thing and write it than it did to paint the hair for the examples. :}

Here it is, for whoever finds it useful. :)


















~N

Oh, and I'm trying out a new file storage site since apparently my webhost is down or something. So far so good with the new fileshare. ;)

Edit: Here's a link to a larger version of the final image in case it's difficult to see the details in the tutorial:
Hair final

I'm trying to keep this journal pretty much art-related, but sometimes other topics will get the better of me. For one, Torchwood. Can't be helped with a show where the canon paring is m/m and very hot!!



The things I do for extremely hot actors... <sigh>

~N

Been busy trying to get through some of my commissions and with family and freinds visiting. So haven't been keeping up much with this journal, or much else for that matter.

But I've finally finished the one commssion that's been in the works for a while. It was a big project, even though it probably shouldn't have been, but oh well...










( Pretty elf and the villain )
http://neemeister.deviantart.com/art/Unending-Encore-Details-88894735


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Here's the first of several tutorials I'd like to do. While creating my own art I've come across some methods and tools that have made either the process easier and quicker or better and more detailed, or both. The 'technique' of this tutorial is how I've simplified painting details like chains, pearls, cords, etc without slaving for hours or days over them. Yet depending on how the method/tool is applied, the results can vary from painterly to photo-realistic. (For mine, I've gone a little more painterly.)



I only have one painting that's finished which uses the tool, Painter's Pattern Pen, so I don't have varied examples, But I have several in the works that have benefited by it. It's helped me a great deal, since I really like detail but never seem to have enough time to give my artwork as much as I'd like.

Anyway, here's the tutorial. I hope it's as helpful as it's been for me.

Accessory Tutorial

I just realized that I forgot to mention in the tutorial that another helpful aspect is while the color of the 'chain' is initially what the pattern base is, it's very easy to color-shift or alter the color in whichever way to whatever color you want after it's been applied to the painting (as long as you use a separate layer. If not, it still can be done, just not very easily.)

~N

 (So I didn't quite finish it in time for Easter, but with only a few days to work on it, I think I made pretty good time. Apparently, as I thought, I'm not more awesome, since once I got past the initial stage it took a lot longer. Plus I had less time over the weekend to work on it than I planned. <sigh> But still, to finish in about 3 days, from concept to complete, isn't bad at all. I'm getting faster, Yay!!



So here's the worldwide exclusive unveiling (until I get around to posting it to all the galleries I belong to  ;)  ) of the Sexy "Easter Bunny" ;)

It sucks that Easter is so early this year, doesn't give me as much time to get out a painting. (And with the St. Patrick's one taking longer than it should have...) But so far this one seems to be coming together rather easily and quickly. Maybe I'm just getting more awesome. (Or far more likely, more lucky, and with the seeming infinite re-do's on the previous painting, more practiced. <sigh>)


Well, here's an in-progress teaser of the Easter art. I suggested to my mom (a very devout christian) I could always do a sexy Jesus, but she didn't seem to care much for the idea (she's so easy to tease.) I told her then I'd have some of the christian art she's always trying to talk me into doing, but again, she seemed less than thrilled. <eg>  So it has to be a play on the Easter Bunny instead. Oh well.....  (It always was going to be the bunny anyway. ;)  )

So I have this plan, to try to do a painting for whatever holidays come up so I can build towards pieces for a calendar, and for the challenge of giving poor innocent holiday standards a pervy and sexy twist. ;) 

So I've had this journal for a while and never used it, except as a way to see other people's journals. I figured it was about time to put it to some use, although I hope I don't fall into my fear of getting too verbose once I've started down the slippery slope of actually saying something. ;)

Anyway, I was thinking of just using this as a place to post in-progress images of my art and maybe some comments on the process. I find such things interesting when other artists do them, so maybe someone will think the same. :)

But first, as a Happy Valentine's Day, here's my painting for the holiday.


"Cupid"

It's not quite finished. There's stil more work on the figure, more definition and refinement of the body and face, the wings, and other touches. I used Painter X, everything from the base sketch to this stage. Usually I make a pencil drawing of the composition, scan it, then work on top of it digitally. But lately I've been working from even the beginning stage on the computer. It doesn't lend itself to as detailed and refined base sketch as with pencil, but it has been allowing me to experiment a little more and to work faster. This took about 3 or 4 days.

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