Lucid Waking

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Lucid Waking Turns 5

Five years ago today, I sat down at my shiny, new web-address and wrote an introductory post describing my creative writing blog endeavors. At that point, this website was going to replace my former blog that I had continued alongside my own stationary site called Brianna’s World. In the next half a decade, Lucid Waking would become the corner for my musings and creativity. It kept me practicing my writing and motivated me to continue my drawing. It showcased both of my self-hidden talents. For what it’s worth, I am glad to have this space where I can let people to see what I can do while hiding behind the anonymity of a computer screen.

Despite my daily struggles, this personal project of mine has kept going-at some times speeding along and others puttering to exhaustion-and I intend to keep it going, even at a snail’s pace if need be. I’ve always had somewhat unrealistic goals for myself and sometimes they keep me motivated to be better while sometimes they make me feel guilty and accomplish nothing. I have been writing recently, and I have two stories somewhat in the works as both are in the difficult planning stage. And, in honor of five years still going, I’m working on a new theme. For the next 5 years, I’ll rotate through all the old ones, but for now, a sneak preview of designs that didn’t quite make it towards the final banner.

Thank you for reading and waiting for posts for the last 5 years. Enjoy the day and have a little piece of cake on me!

Imagination

For lack of a better title. I worked on this during a few snow days that we had and was perhaps the most therapeutic picture I have ever worked on, though I’m glad that I’m finally finished with it. This is available as a print, so if you love it, you can have it.

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House Cleaning, Reminders, and Harpist

I’m not going to lament time passed, so I’ve been fixing and updating things.  There will be no posts (except maybe the 400th) until the new year because you need to vote on the Best of the Blog 2010! There isn’t much there, so no excuses! Voting will be from now until midnight on Dec. 31. I’ll publish the results on Jan. 1.

In other news: I’ve updated “Secrets of the Blue House” completely. You can read everything I’ve published on the page on the sidebar. Sorry, it will be finished next year, but the ending is in progress.

Third:

I finished this a while ago but didn’t publish it, so I decided now was as good a time as any. To see more information/larger version–>click on the picture. For information on prints and the like–> click here.

Don’t forget to vote: Best of the Blog 2010

Birth of a Nymph

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Practice…

…makes perfect. More sketches. I did the first one earlier than today, but I foolishly didn’t write down a date, so I can’t publish it on a separate post.

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Also, I’ve almost finished my first commission. Hopefully pictures of that will be coming soon.

1949 and Chillin’(for lack of better titles)

Sketching practice.

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Kitten Queen

More sketches.

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Creeped

More practice drawing.

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Shakespears Sister

Like I said, I’m trying to get more practice in on the drawing end of the spectrum. This was my first project, which ended up being a surprising exercise in shading without gray. I didn’t finish it, but I posted it anyway as proof of my efforts.

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Good Morning

Pencil on paper done in 3 hours for my friend’s birthday present. Not bad…

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