Monday, November 20th 2006 - 12:42PM :

General goings on:

Reading a few other people’s Blogs and Live Journals the other day. I gotta admit I find it pretty fascinating finding out how everyone leads their lives or what goes on in their heads!
I’d be interested to know if anyone had read this blog all the way through from the first post until this one.

Then I thought.. Hmm, perhaps I should post something in the OM blog? Well, as far as my life goes, things are busier than ever. I’m still freelancing (doing a few illustration and web designs jobs at the moment). Also been doing another part time job since August (doing more web design stuff at the office). It’s all front end photoshop, html and css design, so at least I don’t have to worry about php, java and the rest of it (at least not at the moment) At the end of the day, I’m an artist/designer so the less I get to look at lines of code the better! On top of that, I’m in my final year of uni/college. In all honesty, I don’t know if I’d say I’ve learned a massive amount of new stuff, but it’s been a good opportunity to experiment with what I know and has taught me a few indirect lessons like what it takes to make a living out of art working or designing and how to get on with people better (socially).

Every so often I think about Organic Metal:

Since working at my new office job, I’ve gotten a lot better with CSS. Before I just knew how to change font types with it. So I wouldn’t mind re-working the majority of OM’s html and CSS content! I doubt I’d ever get around to it and the site works, so I ask myself, would it be worth re-working it just so the code looks cleaner and it runs a little faster?

I’ve been wanting to re-draw the OM character on the left to something new. Something more representative of me, Organic Metal, or my preferences. Originally this character was a bit of fan art I gave to Duncan Law-Green for his Britanime website, so it feels a bit weird having her on every page of OM.. When designing OM I just used that image as a place holder until I drew something better that would fit in the gap.. but in the end, anything else I tried fitting in that space didn’t look as nice! Another thing is, I had a cool Devianart Member offer to supply me with new vocals for the navigation links, so it would be good to re-do the character AND get the new vocals in the Flash navigation all at once.

When will these updates happen? Probably not until next year! As I say, got so much work to do, that I’ll be kept slaving away until Xmas most likely. Then my plan is to have a break. Maybe go back to playing Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (best PC game I know!!) for a few weeks solid

Bomu writes:

Date Posted: 21:11:2006 Time Posted: 06:26PM

Hi Dianne. By "dry year", do you mean "not had much work in the way of art commissions"?
- As it goes, I've had lots of requests this year, but I've either been too busy to take them all on, or they didn't pay well, so I turned them down. Heh, despite my 'busyness', you wouldn't know it by browsing the OM gallery and seeing I've not posted up any new art for the last year! Wow, I should do something about that!

*will go vist your myspace page now*

dianne writes:

Date Posted: 20:11:2006 Time Posted: 01:02PM

It sounds like you've had a dry year as far as your art commissions are concerned. Some day, I hope to have some original art for you to do, a book cover. Writing and editing is similar to art in that you have those many stages before the work is complete.
Feel free to drop by my profile at myspace and read my blog if you like. If you have a profile there, I would love an add as well. I will even blog about your services if you let me know what sort of links to add. There I go again - call me Bloggerella!

Previous entries: [1]