Bamboo Art: Part II

Aah, yes part two. Last post was about digital art. Now I will focus on Bamboo. No, not the plant that panda's eat bamboo. Wacom Bamboo Tablets. They are fantastic.

Please explain.
Well aren't you excited today.
I am interested.
Yes, well I'm about to tell you. I'm always looking for new art methods. I love drawing and painting and am open to trying anything. So when I discovered the world of digital art, you know I had to try it. I already own Photoshop Elements, as my mother is a big photographer. In digital art you can scan a sketch and color it in, or do it completely from scratch. I, as the newbie digital artist, just colored in a sketch. It looked fine, but nothing like I wish it would. I figured it was because I had a mouse instead of a tablet. I've always wanted a tablet. They're pretty much a flat... tablet, with an attached pen that you can use instead of a mouse. You can sketch straight onto the computer, and it has much more control than a mouse.
So I Googled it (I love Google!) and found Wacom Bamboo tablets. Wacom is a very good and trustable tablet maker and Bamboo tablets are one of their most recent projects. There are a few varieties including Bamboo Fun, Bamboo Touch, and Bamboo Craft. After delving into research I discovered the best option for me: Bamboo Pen. Bamboo Pen is a simple tablet using just a pen like tool that you touch to the tablet surface, being able to navigate, ink documents, and draw in programs like PhotoShop.
One of the coolest things about Bamboo Pen is that is comes with Corel Painter Essentials 4. In this cool program you can use over 90 different brushes to do many cool tasks. You can turn your photos into paintings, or do your own digital art on a blank canvas. This is exactly what I need, and apparently it has even more options than my Photoshop Elements. Lovely.
You're right, it totally does sound like an ad now.
: P The absolute best thing about this product is the price. I was looking through other tablets and they were coming up at around 500 dollars or more! And the Bamboo pen is only $69! I can totally afford that. An amazing deal for an amazing product. Plus the site had cool videos : )
There is a very big chance that I will be purchasing this product. I will update you on the news if/when I do!
This time I'm not ending it with "Ain't that dandy?"
But you just did! ROOOAAAR!!!!

Bamboo Art: Part I

This post is in two parts, because it's rather long and about two different things: Bamboo and Art. Both of these things are exceptionally cool, and I just had to post about them. First, I will discuss Art. Not just any old art, because that's for some boring old blogger who wants to discuss Monet. No. I discuss things more interesting than that.
Yeah right.
Whatever. But the art I like is digital art. I'm a very Internet savvy person (lol...) and i have discovered many a cool site. One of these is DeviantArt.com. Deviantart is a site where various random people from all reaches of the world post their artwork in different art forms, like photography, traditional art, and digital art. This is where I first located the realm of Digital Art.
Digital Art is art created digitally.
Really? I would never have guesses.
Shut up and let me explain. Now where was I? Ah. Digital Art is art created digitally. Using programs like Photoshop, Corel Painter, and Paint Shop Pro, artists can create various forms of art using differently shaped brushes (soft edged? hard edged? texture brushes?) varying opacity ( to create better shading and coloring techniques) and endless varieties of colors.
You're starting to sound like an advertisement.
Yeah. That's because it's cool. Just wait until next post; that'll definitely be like an advertisement.
I can't wait...
Yup! So anyway, it's really, really cool. Through many Google searches I also found a site called Elfwood, where users can post their drawings for others to review. I love this site. I have found so much good digital art on this site, by some amazing artists. One of them is Cris Ortega. You absolutely have to check her art work out. I'm pretty sure I will do a future post reviewing my favorite pieces of her work. But for now...
Another amazing digital artist is Natascha Roeoesli. All of her art is done on the computer, and is absolutely spectacular. Beautiful fantasy art...
Diane Ozdmar also does amazing digital art, as does Adele Lorienne, Annah Hutchings, and Rachel Anderson.
All of these people make beautiful artwork, all painted digitally. Check it out, it is absolutely, amazingly, freakily fantastic!
Wow, that took a while.
Ain't that dandy?
ROOAAAR!!!

I have uncovered something amazing!

Yes, I was exploring the music video section on Fios OnDemand last night with my sister and I uncovered something spectacular. Now before I go on I want to get one thing straight: I DO NOT like Justin Bieber. I think he is way over-hyped, sounds like a girl, isn't even a good singer if he was a girl, and isn't even that cute. But we were looking for something to do and Justin Bieber music videos were what resulted. I'm very sorry everyone, but that's just what happened. I don't know what came over us: we also listened to Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Camp Rock and Nick Jonas and the Administration.
Can you get on with it? What did you uncover? I'm on the edge of my seat here.
Yes, I can tell you are. So... while we were paging through the JB videos, we found one with Jaden Smith. I absolutely love Jaden Smith. I have to go see The Karate Kid. Anyway, he was featured in the music video for "Never Say Never" with Justin Bieber. It's like my dreams had just come true! We just had to see it. Apparently, it was on the soundtrack of the Karate Kid. It was mainly Justin Bieber singing, and dancing with Jaden Smith. Then, wonder of all wonders, Jaden Smith started rapping. I was like, OMG! What is this guy not? He's a good actor, an awesome rapper, really good a karate, and a pretty good dancer. Plus he has some sweet dreads. Oh, and he's the kid of Will Smith. Honestly can you get any cooler than that?
Yes...
Shut Up, I think he's awesome. So yes. That is that. We all love Jaden Smith, don't we? Oh, a link to the video: Justin Bieber and Jaden Smith: Never Say Never. *Sigh* Oh and to top that off, he tackles Justin Bieber at the end of the video and leaves him on the floor. All my dreams have just come true : )


Wow, you didn't say ain't once in the post!
Ain't that dandy?
ROOOAAAR!!!!

Threadless: My Very First Actually Interesting Post

While exploring the vast reaches of the internet I (or rather my sister) uncovered from the depths a rather interesting site called Threadless. She, being the sharing and curious girl that she is, sent an e-mail to me sporting a link to this site, and imploring me to go "check it out". And I, being the curious and wondering (not to mention beautiful, smart, funny, random, and useing way too many fancy words right now) girl that I am, gave in to her pleas and visited the site.
Okay, honestly, get on with it already!
Humph.So yeah, I went on it and found it was pretty cool. Yeah, uh-huh. So yeah, I like found out some things on it, and like yeah I want to, like tell them to you people. Yeah.
...really?
Okay, okay! So on Threadless, you can create a design for a t-shirt and submit it for reviewing. Then members of the site rate your design from 1-5. After a period of seven days the voting is over. If the judges on he site like your design, it could be made into a t-shirt that people can buy.If you get your t-shirt printed you win 2,000 dollars and a 500 dollar gift certificate to the site! Thre are so many cool designs on there to purchase, and so many cool designs to rate and review.
If you get the chance to visit, please check out PinkRiver's profile (aka mine) and critique my designs or rate them. Thanks!
...wow, you went so long without interrupting!
That's because you weren't rambling or doing anything stupid that I needed to let you know about.
Ain't that dandy?
ROOAAR!
My designs on Threadless.com

Rainbows and Hippos Rule!

Ah, okay. So before I go into an in depth analysis of my thoughts and what exactly I will post on here, I would like to state my rules for the blog.
Rules? I hate rules! Blast and Botheration this thing is stupid!
Not that kind of rules. Nothing stupid that your teachers would make up to try to bring order in your very un-orderly classroom. No these rules are fun! These rules are exciting!These rules are amazing! These rules do not need any more stupid adjectives and exclamation points!
!!!!!!!!!!!
Shut up. Rule one: I will try (try my very, very best!) to make this a daily thing. But of course that ain't gonna happen. Between going to the lake where there aren't any computers, forgetting, and power outs there may be a number of reasons why I don't post daily (don't forget just not feeling like it...) Even if it ain't gonna be daily, I will aim for at LEAST once a week. Weekly, I like the ring of that. Oh and if I don't manage to post once a week, it'll be monthly, but monthly just don't have the same ring to it.
Stop rambling! And stop using the word ain't. Remeber grammar class?
Well, I don't like to. Anyway, Rule 2: I will try my best to make this exciting but seeing as it is called "My Thoughts on a Boring Life" That may not always happen. And anyway, I ain't gonna be able to tell what you find exciting soo...
Would you like the definition for rambling? AND STOP SAYING AIN'T!
Lols to the max. And now I totally can tell that I'm rambling and I'm sure no one will even care what I have to say: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite!


Er... It's 5:30
Ain't that dandy?
ROOOAAAAR!!!!!!