Eliza-the-artist

In November I wrote about coloring with Crayola crayons at work between calls. I was also researching ways of turning photos into b&w line work so I could color them. Well, I found an incredible how-to online, and then my laptop's harddrive died. It was repaired, but I lost Photoshop. I went to visit my brother and sister-in-law and he restored it, giving me a legal copy of CS2. I've done a bunch of celebrity pictures now, but I go through and toss out more celeb photos than keep them. Its because not every photo lends itself to a good b&w copy. And since tax-time is over (as of April 15th,) its slowed enough at work to start coloring again.

Because of my job, I am on the phone all the time. But also, because of the nature of our business, especially towards the end of the day, around and after market close on Wallstreet, the calls dwindle. I am left, on a good day, with a good chunk of time between these calls, and when I'm not sending random one-lined e-mails to my BFF, or cleaning off my forever unorganized desk (especially to make room for all the Lego sets!), I color. What began as any simple little do-dad hobby when I was a wee kid, and eventually paved way for me to attend art school, has now come back as a new fun activity. Even though I'm pushing 26 (or 30, it still fee

Two years!? You're KIDDING me! Has it been two years?? ONE year?? Well two years since last journal update and possibly lest on an art submission. It wasn't that I didn't want to upload, its more a matter of simply forgetting. I'm sure many know how it goes...get the career job, get a social life, forget about DeviantArt. Forget you have it, forget it exists, until one day you're like "Oh riiiight, DeviantArt. I have one of those. I think. Hmmm, password retrieval. Click." Not like anyone pays attention to livejournal anymore, either. Myspace and facebook took care of that, even though I despise Myspace and I'm out of school so I don't hav