Forest Downpour

While this isn't an incredible piece, it's a beautiful proof-of-concept.
My new trick: Gradient Difference.
If you take the gradient preset of red, blue, and yellow, and you set the mode (at the top) to Difference, you can use it repeatedly over itself for a wild little multicolor effect. If you take that effect and cycle the colors with H/S/L (ctrl or cmd+U) or with Levels... (ctrl or cmd+L), there's lots of exploration to be done. This one was made by a layer of verticals set to difference mode and 50% opacity laid on another random one colorized green. I like it, though it's nothing incredible.

Iku versus Okonau

I am rather annoyed with this character. What character is it?
This one.

行
It has a double meaning.

I hate double meanings.

行く, iku, is a word I am familiar with; it means "to go"

行う, okonau, is a word... but wait... THE SAME KANJI ??? That's retarded.
okonau is the verb "to do".

I have them straightened, so there's no confusion... but I am still learning more complicated verb conjugations, and how and I supposed to know which is which in a real context ???

That's my annoyance of the day.

彼 は 読み書き が できる。
kare wa yomi+kaki ga dekiru.
He can read and write.

And that's the word for today - できる/dekiru - to be able (to).

Boys Like Girls

My Favorite Band Ever!!! Look them up... They're incredible.
I've kinda been a fan since high school. (those were the days...)
The Great Escape and Heels over Head are some of my faves.
Five Minutes to Midnight and Hero - Heroine are also incredible.

Even those with a slightly different taste might like Thunder and Learning to Fall.
Everyone should hear their songs, if only once. Some will like some better than others, but they're bound to like at least one... unless they're very picky people.

I just got the CD, and it was worth it.

They're my inspiration, and I'm excited to get home to my amp and my bro's drums...

I don't know what I'll write, but it will be something inspired by them. It'll be so strange being home when it happens...

I might write about a number of things - there's going to be a lot of things going on in my life in the near future.

Liquid Sky

I made another combo with my Liquid Heat and Violet Splash.
This one's nothing special; however, it's slightly different in that I used VS twice
and LH once. I used the blending modes Lighten on LH and Overlay on 50% opacity for the top VS.

I think it came out well; I may make a pack of all my recent works for wallpaper in a bit. I don't think I have enough to do so at the moment, but I will. If anyone's interested in getting the compilation, I may put it on DeviantArt and put a link here on my blog. Also, if you click on the images here in my blog, they open in a new window in their true size. You can right-click->save them from there.