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Category Archives: art

Spinning a yarn

20-Mar-08

I first learned some basics to crocheting from my paternal grandmother during one of my visits up in Washington state. Essentially, I learned how to start with a slipknot and how to chain, but that’s about it.
Last autumn, I started to pick it up again and bought myself some basic supplies and a book for [...]

Trinket

18-Mar-08

I’ve recently taken to browsing Etsy. I knew about the site and its wares before, but never bothered to register an account for either buying or selling and didn’t take the time to give it a good look in the past.
Over the last week, I’ve been browsing here and there and made an account for [...]

Fiction

15-Mar-08

I picked up the His Dark Materials trilogy yesterday, with my nifty 20% off Borders coupon and a giftcard for the local mall left over from Christmas. I decided I should read something new, as I can only go through Dune so many times before I remember every line so vividly I can recall it [...]

Super Deformed

21-Feb-08

One of the “essential” sub-types of anime/manga-style art is something called “Super Deformed“, often shortened to SD and commonly called “chibi“, although the latter isn’t entirely the most accurate term, as it simply means “small”.
SD is often used for small little caricature drawings of key characters, usually in whimsical or humorous situations. Sometimes it’s [...]

[Art Geek] Pencils and Pens

12-Feb-08

Hello. My name is Asia and I’m addicted… to art supplies. Specifically pens and pencils. Throughout my childhood and adolescence, my favorite stores to browse when I went somewhere like a mall or shopping center were stationary and art supply stores… and within stores, I usually made sure to browse the electronics/video game sections (if [...]