Swanpillows speaks

So, those of you who pay attention to my illustration blog will have seen my post about the worth1000.com site..

Its a website where people compete in short little contests with their creative photoshopping skills, as well as other stuff.  I decided to join it, and I submitted something to one of their recent contests.  I’m fairly pleased to announce i was ranked 11th out of 44 entries, and received several very nice comments!  I’m sheepishly proud of this, and I really want to enter more… there’s a cool one just posted about turning celebrities into toys - this would stretch my photoshopping skills alot further than they were on my previous entry.

my ‘previous entry’ is this picture.. and the brief was this:
“In this contest, you are asked to update an old painting, swapping in a cartoon character for the original subject. Use traditional, two-dimensional characters only: No Computer Generated Characters (Incredibles, Shrek, etc.)”

So i thought it was pretty ok - the quality of the original miro was pretty dicey.. but i thought charlie fit quite well.

If you follow that link above, you’ll see the final results - they’re re-arranged so that the first one (not the batman one - that’s just a demonstration) is the one who won the contest, and they go on from there.. I totally agree with the one that won… it was the best. not as much for the second, but it was well executed.

anyway, sigh..

I’ve been really muddled this last week… or should i say last few weeks.. there’s been alot swimming around my head, and I’m feeling pretty fed up with some things that i desperately want to change about my current situation.  but i’m afraid i’m not going to go into it now…

I’m feeling a tiny bit better this morning - I took my car to the local garage.. since I got back last week I’ve had this funny problem with the reverse - it keeps feeling like the breaks are still one - lifting the back end of the car up when i try to reverse.. not good.  So, i’m proud of myself, i just dropped the car off and walked the 20 minutes back to work.. i’ll have to walk back and pick it up in a few hours. …and I finally primed those canvases for the libary’s garden (too complicated to explain just this minute, but my Mom will be happy..) - and i’m going to start sketching on mine tonight… god only knows when matthew will start his. ahem.

ah - I guess I should mention (for those of you not on facebook and not part of my family) that my grandpa did pass away recently and I went back to the states to attend his funeral - this makes two trips to the US within a few weeks.. which is why i’m super stressed.  its kinda fried my brain… other than that.. I’ve just been finding lots of other stuff to stress about.  I saw lots of family and now feel quite far away from them.. I also saw my good friend fuzz (yes, this is a test to see if you’re reading, fuzz), and its bummed me out a bit that I’m far away from him too.  sigh.

my lunch break is just about over now..
if you haven’t already seen them, please check out my dad’s blog where he posted a small selection of my photos from my most recent family trip to the states, its labelled “screw facebook”