Here I am. Just being lazy like all the previous days (which make a bit over a week). I was going to write my essays for arts history during the holiday. And in fact I started, but after writing about 10 lines I went out and never continued. In addition there's more schoolwork waiting for me as soon as I get home...

All this would be easier to accept if I had done at lest something. Even something like drawing, painting, photographing or writing my own stuff... But I haven't done even that. Whenever I open my computer (which happens several times a day and usually for at least a couple of hours) I just listen to music and browse random websites or play Bubble Shooter or Minesweeper. And I'm not even near to get bored to them. X)

Still... I'd have ideas for drawings. At least three of them. I just should get started! I know I'll regret this later, but now I'm just going to sit here and listen to music.

(It seems that this text has a wrong date. I don't get why. It's right on the Finnish side...)

Merry Christmas! :D

It's snowing, the fridge is full of food, everybody is at home and iTunes is playing Raskaampaa joulua -album. I don't need anything else.

It's not a Christmas related nor a typical picture for me to do. It's there just because I finished it maybe five minutes ago and I just couldn't leave it out from this post. Problems with scanning in this pic: Colours (they're brighter in real life) size (it's bigger than A4 so everything didn't fit in and the paper didn't partly touch the glass, which made the pic blurry).

And yeah, the anatomy and such things are not right but I was experimenting with colours, not trying to paint a perfect human body. :P

Google is the best friend of those who don't kow what to do. X) Yesterday, after downloading some fonts I realised that I didn't remember where I should place the files so they'd work. After about 20 minutes of randomly searching the place from my computer I got bored and decided to find someone who knows better. I think I took less than 5 minutes to find out where the files must be placed and do it.

Today then. For some unknown reason Photoshop was on grayscale. I was wondering why all my colours were gray and again after random searching I noticed the text "gray/8" in the corner of the picture window. I was clever enough to go and find out what does it mean and how it can be switched off.

I also found myself a nice toy from Photoshop: brushes. Tons of free brushes to download. And often I'm not even reqiured to give credit to the one who has made them if I decide to use those bruhses somewhere. I can't really use the program so well that I could really do anything with it, but Phtoshop+GIMP together give me some results. Even Paint is in use sometimes. ^^'

Maybe I'll change the look of this blog again in the future....

Congratulations Finland! It's independence day. :D

While waiting for the president's party (it's broadcasted in TV) to begin, I decided to change the look of this blog. It even worked in the end. I managed to learn some HTML by wathing my friends making their own websites. Thank you for letting me spy you. :)

There's no more snow... Well, at least it's not as wet as it was in the beginning of the week. But there must be snow for the Christmas... Even I don't know how realistic that wish is. Soon I have to move further to north. X)

Though the winter is lacking snow it has darkness. After 3pm pretty much all the light is gone. That's the best time to listen to good music. Just sit down and enjoy myself. Or talk with someone if I feel like doing that.

Recently I've really listened a lot of music. I bought me that "Heavier Christmas" -album and then I also borrowed Amorphis' Elegy and Charon's The Dying Daylights. In addition I also listen to Eluveitie, Sinisthra and Harmaja from YouTube. Without forgetting anything else I've found earlier. A free moment without listening to anything is pretty rare.

I've also been paying attention to what I buy. I've built my small pile of CDs in this one year, which means buying 12 records within that time. And if I've been nice enough that number might increase as soon as Christmas comes. Uh. I'm happy I haven't have been the one who has paid them... And I don't eve dare to think what happens when I have to. Because these CDs just keep coming. Like now, I know the release date for Eluvetie's new album, from Apocalyptica that info can come any time and also The Rasmus is at least planning a new album. Maybe this could have been forseen.

Just by the way, last weekend I used a couple of hours to make a birthday card for one of my friends. It turned out rather nicely, though the people in it can't maybe be recognised. In fact the whole card is one big inside joke. However, this is how it looks like: