So I had to take my sister into the city yesterday – she is such a smart little cookie she got herself accepted to a Bachelor of Biomedical Science and this is her first time at university! As it so happened, I stuck around to check out the introductory lecture covering a little of the course stuff… mainly to show her where the building is, but hey, I got a free baggie out of it too, and a chuppa chup.
Because I, for one, don’t actually intend to take a degree in biomedical science (lacking the basic skills in anything remotely biomedical), I spent the lecture doing a few sketches of people around the room in a brand new little sketch-book I grabbed the other day at Ikea. Again, I have to say that these packet of 30c pens have just been far too fun for words… they’ve made me bounce over to a style I usually neglect, generally opting instead for a finer, shaded, measured approach. Having but one tone to offer, these pens are fairly unforgiving in the matter of sketch-marks… its go and be damned if you get it wrong, because there’s naught way to fix it once the stroke is made. Its fun!
And that, my friends, is my final word for the night. Its time for me to head to my slumber, to dream of pixels and prims and other things that make me go ‘ohhhh, pretty things!’
Some more Sanu stuff for today, and fun things besides! Today I’ve released a couple new items, one of them being another limited edition release: the Geartime Locket set. This set perfectly matches the Geartime monocle, which is no longer available for purchase. Only 50 will be sold, only 42 are left at the second of this posting, so you’d better move quick if you want it!
Last night I was playing around, making more pretty things… pretty things are pretty, after all. This monocle set was the result of that playing. I may yet do a full additional set to match these monocles, because I think that I can make something quite refined to match. I love how the rich, deep copper and the lighter blush of the pink compliment each other so beautifully.
Anyhow, that’s it for the Sanu releases today. Stay tuned for some sketches!
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February 17, 2009 in
Bunnies, Digital, Sanu Stuff and second life.
Tags: Bunnies, bunny, jewelry, micro-prims, monocle, monocles, new release, sanu, second life, steampunk.
Yes, I’ve been neglectful of updates over the past couple of days… yeep! I’ve been so busy releasing new stuff for Sanu that it just slid by the wayside. The picture above is just the first – a monocle I made a little while back originally for my Lucky Chair, now available for people to buy. It comes with two monocles and the earrings to match. Isn’t it cute?
I’ve recently moved into a brand new location – a sim called Scribble. With the move, you just know I had to update the Lucky Chair with something a bit new and exciting to celebrate the new location. Therefore I made… you guessed it… monocles! They’re now properly signed (rather than the temporary one I popped in store) and added to the regular line. I will be updating the lucky chair with something new fairly soon, so keep an eye out.
Also up in store now is an additional set of jewelry designed to match the Scribble monocles. I did want to display the monocle in the signage too, to show it all together… but… well, you just know that someone out there isn’t going to read the text on the sign with the great big letters saying ‘MONOCLES NOT INCLUDED’ and see the sign above it saying ‘Monocles’ and still not connect the dots. Am I jaded? A little. But lets face it – it would happen. Disgruntled IMs from indignant customers make me grumbley.
This one is not a new release – but I thought I should throw it up here anyway. This is the limited edition Geartime monocle to fulfil the request of a few people for something a bit more steampunky. Only fifty will be sold until they are no longer available at all – and there are less than 5 left in store! So the thing is, if you want one, you’d better move quick.
Phew! That’s enough of the Sanu stuff for now – I should be posting a sketch later today, if I can find the time (and my damn back would stop aching). Have a great day all!
Some may knock Second Life, but say what you will: if ever there was an example of ‘every little bit counts’, this is one of them. Nigh on everyone at this point has heard about the bushfires raging down in Victoria and the subsequent devastation caused by them – including most of the people who spend at least part of their time in Second Life.
One Second Life resident has put out a plea for donations to go towards the Australian Red Cross Appeal to aid with Bushfire relief – many vendors have answered that call by setting up donation kiosks and selling items with either part or all of the proceeds from their sale going directly towards the appeal fund. For a list of participating vendors, please see here.
Sanu has also joined in offering an item for those who wish to donate – 100% of the proceeds for these tiniest koalas will go directly towards the Victorian Bushfire Appeal and they are transferable for easy gift-giving. Why did I make koalas? My family here is intimately involved with the care of orphaned and injured wild-life, giving them a home and raising them until such a point as they can be released back into the wild. Some of you may have seen the images of koalas who have been affected by this sudden heat-wave down south, and of course, the subsequent burning of their habitat. Along with the human cost of these horrendous fires, the cost to our wildlife is high.
If you are a resident of Second Life, consider teleporting to Sanu and either purchasing this item, or simply donating to the cause using the donation kiosk provided.
This, my dears, is Scruff. Although an unassuming little owl, he does have a rather interesting way about him. He’s enthusiastic – its what sets him apart from all the other owls – nay, all the other creatures. He’s not the best, he’s not the brightest, there’s certainly smarter, fitter, and more beautiful creatures out there, but none may match him with the pure passion with which he approaches things. Everything he does, he does with a raw enthusiasm most have seemingly been weaned off of.
Can you ever watch a child, with their eyes shining bright, their hands simply covered in every colour imaginable with the sheet in front of them smeared with the most ungodly mess of paint, and not smile? For sure, what they have produced is generally fairly lacking on the artistic front, and things are undoubtedly going to be a pain when it comes to the ‘cleaning up after’ stage, but the look on their little faces when they hold up their hands so proudly, saying ‘look what I’ve done!’ – well… its something I don’t see so much in adults. This pure, enthusiastic joy of creating for the sake of creating, or doing something just for the process of doing something, rather than necessarily the end result… I like it.
My hubby can tell you that every so often he will come home to find me engrossed in something or other – it doesn’t really matter what – only to see me giggling with insane glee at discovering something… or perhaps figuring out ‘ahh, so I can do things this way’, or getting a stroke of a pen just right to the point where I just know that I cannot touch it even once more, because what I have already created is simply perfect. Its rather incredible just how much fun one can have when you’re just doing something simply because you enjoy it, not because you have to do it, but because you just really really want to.
Oh… and I still paint with my fingers. There really is just no better way sometimes.
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