Continuing to hack at the background to Britiannia. Seems so simple in principle, yet it never looks quite right. Of course I suppose that could be because I am looking at it an inch at a time, and see every flawed pixel on it. I may have lost some objectivity here.

That and I am distracted, and have to keep telling the voices in my head that they are paranoid.

I am likely just going to follow through using the look that it is taking on now, and move on to a new project. As I gain experience I can always go back and revisit it. (What are the odds of that. How many people do YOU know who were going to take a year off of college then go back?) So I have got to finish it, even if it is not to my liking, before I can move to my next idea.

So stay tuned. Same Ultra time. Same Ultra station.

I have developed a serious deviant Art addiction here. But it does not neccesarily mean my doom. Today I discovered CWS's work on dA. Yesterday I was fortunate enough to find Zion by princessofpessimism. Looking at the work of these two, I quickly came to the realization that I am an impatient artist. Even in the piece (i before e except after c except for the word piece it seems) I am practicing my coloring skills on now I have come to realize I am rushing my photoshops. The attention to detail that make both of the examples I mention memorable, is lacking in my own work.

Now a smart person might be able to use this ephiphany to their advantage. Maybe even a not so smart person.

This community thing can give one pause to reflect can't it? Small steps Elle, small steps.

As you may have noted from my galleries that I am a HUGE fan of comic books. I blame my mother, who promised to buy me one a week if I would actually "READ" them and not just skim through them looking at the pictures. With that agreement, my fate was sealed. I was reading before entering kindergarden, but had a four book a month comic book monkey on my back.

Don't let the rest the addicts protests deter you from the truth. Superman is a gateway comic. He seems harmless. But then you are reading Wonder Woman. Batman. God help you--The Legion of Super Heroes. Then one day, the soda-jerk at the drug store turns you on to Spiderman. The downward spiral picks up speed from there. You have been drawn into the depths of the Marvel Universe.

Before you know it you are doing odd jobs to earn extra money to pay for your comic book habit. Instead of cartoons on Saturday you are cleaning your room, helping Mom and Dad to earn that fifty cents. When you get older, you take on odd jobs for the neighbors until you are old enough to baby sit and finally earn the big bucks.

The situation continues to deteriorate, until one day, you find yourself trapped in the deviant Art zone.

I need an intervention.

Somebody help me.