Kitty's Drawings

Eeeeeeeeeee it is here! My precious beasty beast. It is soooo shiny and FAST and super awesome.
It arrived yesterday just a little after 5pm after the delivery man almost sent my dreams dashing to the concrete by having a little trip on the front step! Yikes! I saw that box wobble and images flashed in front of my eyes of the little Apple logo laying forlornly amongst shattered glass and broken LED chips. Oh noes!!!!!

Never fear! The boxes made it inside where I immediately ripped them open and started to assemble my machine. Meanwhile you can imagine the fun the kitties had with the massive boxes! What is it with kitties and their insatiable love for cardboard and paper products?
My only small setback was having to install my Airport Express card (essential for geeking it up online), which is a task usually assigned to a qualified Apple tech as it requires delving into the guts of your computer. Thankfully it wasn’t too hard – if you’ve ever installed some RAM it’s not much more tricky than that. Handy to have small fingers as there is some serious fiddling involved trying to get these itty bitty cables to clip into their spots. I spent a good 20 minutes trying to put one in while keeping the frustration at bay.
After that I was good to go! Hook up all the cables in their appropriate places and turn it ON.

Behold, the SHINY:
(and my swanky office chair. Cool huh?)

(ugh cables)

Yaaaaaaaaaay!
And its sooooo FAST I just can’t believe it. I can power up Photoshop CS4 in three seconds flat (yes I counted)!!! That’s about 20 times faster than my MacPro at work – however that is bloated with 3D software and a virtual machine to run Windoze. But STILL.
Oh and I have named him Erebus – the Greek god of darkness and shadow, son of Chaos. See, I have this habit of naming my computers after Greek legends. Always loved the stories as a child and the names sound so cool. My work computer is called Icarus and the old Macbook Pro lappy is Prometheus.
But I have to go off to Tassie this weekend so I won’t get a chance to test out it’s prowess when it comes to actual work. When I get back I will get right onto that little test let me assure you.
Well I am off to pack for the trip. Early night tonight! Gotta be up at 3am. Eep.
Bya!

(and YES I know I am a SERIOUS geek shuddup)

You know how I’ve been whining about needing a new computer??? Well I finally bit the bullet and am in the process of buying the ultimate beast of all the Apple products….

Nooo I didn’t go with the new iMac as there’s some issues with the 27″ Intel7 ones….And I can’t wait 3 weeks plus for delivery. Impatient lass here.

So MacPro it is with the shiny new-fangled LED monitor. Not cheap. I’ll be paying for this for a while but I definitely need it – I’ll be able to draw with lots of layers now! And use large brushes without any lag. Yay!!!

Pretty:

Powwwa!! It’s gonna dominate my desk. Yeeeh. Can’t wait to get it. Photos to come of course.

Meanwhile – I’m doin some drawing. Will show you all soon when I get the go ahead from my client
Byeee!!

Hellooooooo!!

Well I’m not drawing anything that is worth showing just yet….Not drawing anything that I can reveal anyway. There is stuff in the works.

So I thought I’d show you my desk…Since we moved house I’ve got a lot more room. That is to say – I have room full stop…where I never used to. The laptop was used true to function – on my lap. Lol.
Now I have a nice big desk and so I spread out my junk. This is about as clean as it gets. I am no organisational nazi – as long as I know where everything is then I’m happy. As you can see, I’m in severe need of some book shelves of some sort. Small, desktop ones for all those books. And some drawers would be nice to stuff my million pens and pencils in. What you see here is just a fraction of the stuff I’ve got. Most of it still resides in the garage!

Okay to start with – this is the Macbook Pro and my Wacom Intuos3 tablet. A little bit of an uncomfortable setup – the keyboard is too far from the tablet which means I have to lean over to see what I’m doing. NEED A DESKTOP COMPUTER. So drooling over one of those pretty new iMacs. One day it shall be mine.
Sorry about the grainy photos too. I suck with the camera.

The general crap next to the laptop…iPhone, pencils, scanner, disused Nintendo, business cards…and if you’re wondering what the hell that big white thing is (cos everyone who sees it asks) – its the subwoofer thingy for my speaker system.

Some magazines and the pencils I dragged up from the garage today. Intend to put them to use soon. oooh and see the metal ruler stolen from my high school. Dragged that all the way from Tassie. Heh.

Some anatomy and drawing books. Yay!

My sketchbooks. A selection of what I’m using right now. I have about 5 on the go. Seriously. Picked up some more today…Notemaker were having a sale just a few blocks from our place so we bought up big. Heaps of O-Check, Rhodia and Moleskin stationary on sale. Sweeeet. I got some coloured drawing paper and that nice sketchbook on the top of the pile there. Mmmm paper.

And finally, the view from the desk…Because my photos suck I’ll explain it a bit….The study is on the mezzanine level so it looks over the lounge and kitchen. Out those windows (which reach to the ground and are the doors to the courtyard) is the street behind our place. There’s a pretty tree currently full of bright purple flowers. Nice and relaxing to look at. And yeh, our house is pretty freakin’ awesome! Love the exposed brick and the excellent lighting. The building used to be a cable tram engine house and the architects preserved the outer shell. The whole complex is amazing and won a heritage renovation award of some such. Noice.

So there you have it! My work space….still needs a few things…I want a new chair too. But I’m happy I got so much room to spread out. Yay!

Oh and that pic on my computer is what I’m working on at the moment. It wont stay black and white either.

Hope you’re having a good weekend!

Muted shades in case you’re wondering. Heh. Me and my stupid post titles.

So this week has been a bit busy – but the weekend less so. I’ve spent my time doing some serious baking. Jonny wanted some more apple cake and I got three lovely meyer lemons from a colleague which needed to be added to a cake too. They both turned out pretty good – the meyer lemon loaf is cooling as I write. A small taste reveals that it is indeed delicious. Every part of the lemon was used – the peel is soaked in a syrup made from the juice and then chopped up and added to the batter. The remaining syrup is drizzled over the cooling cake making everything so lemony – mmmm. Tis good!

But enough about baking – today’s drawing is a (sort of) request from my brother’s girlfriend – she wanted me to draw a unicorn but I drew a horse instead. A quick one today – this took about 30mins. Drawn entirely using Corel Painter with no initial pencil sketch. I think if I do a sketch then things work out better – I’m not sure why. So this isn’t anything too flash.

This week I’ll be printing a couple of my recent drawings. See how they look and maybe setting up an Etsy shop with a few unframed prints. That is provided our internet stops being SHAPED and I can send the full res file to myself to print at work. Nothing more frustrating that slow internet. Grr.  So keep an eye out for my shop yay!