Distraught week

Somehow a lot of negative things managed to pile up on this week. I concentrated too much energy on things that actually required very little, such as this week's art piece. Had some trouble with my drawing tablet. The thing seemed to have lost all my carefully laid-out appliaction-spesific hotkeys, that I spent an hour or two setting up. I made a backup file this time, which will hopefully prevent tragedies like this from occurring in the future. Anyway, about the picture. I had this vision of drawing the wooden plank acting as the "front gate" into the mine in much more detail than I actually managed. I drew this landscape with my usual blurry style, and exaggerated the effect by adding light wind filters here and there.

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Also, here's a special bonus picture a certain visitor drew. 

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Home away from Home

I was not at home this weekend, but I happened across a drawing tablet (Bamboo Fun) at the residence of my Significant Other. This, combined with PhotoShop Elements 6, allowed the creation of the following piece of blurry scenery. This work is done mainly with all sorts of brush types combined with different brush modes / blending options (whatever they're called...). I learned that you can also attach a blending method to an entire layer! How cool is that?

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