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Hand Stuff

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So for those wondering where I am--I was working quite a bit on the Skies of Arcadia map (as well as other digital projects which won't be posted here due to privacy reasons) but I had to take a break due to my hand hurting. After a few days it seems to recover but then I start another project and it starts hurting again, so it may take me some time to figure out how I can do the things I want to do without permanently damaging my hand... Perhaps I'll look into tablets, perhaps I'll do more physical drawing rather than digital work. I'm not sure yet which approach I want to take and it will take some experimentation and time to figure that out, of course.

Apologies to anyone looking forward to more of my work. I certainly haven't given up creating things, but damaging my main hand permanently is a very serious concern and I don't want to take it lightly. It may be some time before I start posting more consistently again.

Best wishes until then!
-Carlotta
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Invisibility.

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I've been absent for quite some time and for that I apologize. "Life is busy," of course, but there's always an excuse and really I just haven't put art as a priority until recently...  but I'm planning on getting back in the game again.

That being said, I desperately need to improve my sketching abilities (which are practically nonexistent right now) and so I will most likely not be uploading the low quality sketches that will occur from this process--but I need the practice anyway, and it's about time I just buckled down and did it even if there's no output!

I HAVE been working on a big sprite project, though, and I'll post some of the work when it's closer to compilation.

I hope your art year went much better than my own, and best of luck to all. <3
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I've finished enough tutorials to set that aside for now (maybe I'll get around to some painting process tutorials eventually). Here are the new matting and framing tutorials! carlotta4th.deviantart.com/gal…

They. Took. FOREVER.

Anyway, now I can finally get back to creating art. First, I plan on doing a few studies of some various artists just so I can get some more experience with oil paints... I still consider myself inexperienced with oil, and I have yet to paint many simple things like a human being (if can that be called simple). So creating studies should help. I also plan on gilding a frame for the first time. The finished frame probably won't be posted here since it'll just be a boring old frame, but the process of gilding was covered in my framing tutorial if you're interested in learning how to do it (did I mention those tutorials took forever? Check them out!).

Lastly: One of my eggs got into a museum exhibition lately, but I was so last-minute and rushed when submitting it that I had to think up a price for it on the spot... and I foolishly, VASTLY underpriced the thing. So now I'm hoping no-one will buy it because I would have priced it twice as much as it's listed it for (I completely forgot the material costs and time spent creating the glass cases. Bah! How foolish!) Moral of the story is this: Know how much you want to charge for your piece before you get to the museum. (I also hope no-one buys it because I want to secure the ring more carefully and varnish it after a few more months. Why on earth did I ever put a price on that thing?! I don't think well when I'm flustered and pushing the clock!). Yeah. So don't do that.

Post-lastly: I got my order of Niroot Puttapipat's book, "Aladdin" in the mail and I am very happy. I've been eyeing his works for quite a while now, and it's wonderful to finally have one of his books. himmapaan.deviantart.com/galle…
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In about two weeks I'll be posting some more things. It's still crazy busy over here, but I've made some stained glass windows and I have a show with painted eggs coming up, so hopefully I'll get some pictures up for that once my time frees up a bit more.

EDIT: Okay, I finished the show. So I've posted the eggs in my "Paintings" gallery here: carlotta4th.deviantart.com/gal…

I've found a better process for painting eggs, so I'll update my old journal post here: Painting Eggs for whoever is still interested in that sort of thing.
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Busy busy.

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Sorry, guys. I've been ridiculously busy since school started, and I haven't had time to do any art but the assignments I get (and they're not my kind of art. "Expressive" figure drawing and all that... abstraction isn't really my thing).

I hope things will slow down soon, though, because I want to draw and paint again. I would like to explore the aspects that my intaglio prints opened up to me, so that should be fun.

I've also been taking a framing class from a museum framer, so I should be able to post a tutorial on proper, conservationist framing at some point in the future*. Hopefully that would be helpful for some of you.

*Note: Some point could theoretically be a long time away. I'll probably wait until I've learned everything in the class before I try and teach it.
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