Splurging, Spending, Squeeing

So usually I'm pretty frugal... until it comes to art supplies/stationary. :( (I have a really unholy fetish for such things. Stick me in an art supply store, hell, even an Office Max! and I can wander around for hours on end.)

I finally cracked and bought an R4DS for my Nintendo DS just so I could paint on DS Colors!"

First painting, and it's a Dragon Age fanart. Figures!



Also, with Colors you can make videos of the drawing process... it's really quite cool.

And so I uploaded my first YouTube video ever...



Then I discovered this website and splurged $60 on sexy sexy sexy waterbrushes, watercolors, dip pens, waterproof ink... oh guilt! I had better actually use all this stuff instead of just packratting like I usually do...

MS Paint hijinx...

Wow, haven't been here in a while! how I have neglected blogspot.

Been drawing in MS Paint on the shit computer here... haven't tried mouse art seriously since about the seventh grade (!) Drawing with a mouse... sucks.






But in a way, there is a kind of weird patient OCD enjoyment derived from paintbucketing everything in once I finish the linearts... kind of like building with Legos or something.

All this MS Painting made me nostalgic for the stuff I used to do in 7th/8th grade (5-6 years ago!) so I dug it up and conveniently put it side by side for comparison. Granted, I probably spent like 30+ hours on the larger two pictures while I spent like 30 minutes on each of the newer ones.

hmm, it's funny to see how far (or not!) I have come in 5 years...