Colours

Sometime last year I thought it'd be cool to make a post about colours, but, umm... I forgot to :D But today I've got a newsletter from COLOURlovers.com and remembered! So, basically COLOURlovers.com is everything you'll ever need from a site that's dedicated to colours. It's even got a new pattern section fro you to enjoy! I'd also suggest reading around the blog for various colour-related things and, well, just go and see :D

If you're having troubles with naming colours, then try using the online Colour Thesaurus, because you might end up doing something likethis.

And, umm... another similar site is myPANTONE.com, but I'm not too familiar with it since I haven't got an account there, but it should be great as well :]

Pillows

My dear friend Johnson gave me a Supernice link and insisted on an update. How can one refuse? Who doesn't like pillows? It's an essential item in any chillout room and, well, in any bed I guess.

And, if you want more nice pillows, Henry Road will offer you some!

Nightmare Playgrounds

A friend named Milda showed me some Nightmare playgrounds and I am glad I haven't been to any when I was a child :D

We <3 it

<33 We<3it.com is the place of all places! It's wonderful! I am incoherent, so I am copying stuff from the site's about page and going to go and register there.

What it is

We Heart It is a social bookmarking tool for images and videos.
We see many great images on blogs and websites around, and now you can put everything you saw and liked on the same page to look again whenever you want.


Some of my findings:
- Zeptonn
- Mcbess.com

Oh wait, just two so far :D

The Little Chimp Society

Oh my, I am updating again! It's because a friend o' mine showed me a link to Thelittlechimpsociety.com and I started to wander around, found some wee gems there, then I found some more through other places and et cetera. As always, most of them are at Flickr.com :D

First of all, you've probably noticed this Moleskine notebook obsession, right? There are tons of communities, websites, groups and whatever dedicated to them and now I have found a site that engraves art on the covers with the help of them lasers. The site is Engraveyourbook.com and, if you visit their flickr page, you'll see that they engrave stuff on iPods and MacBooks too. Makes me want to buy all those things just for the engravings :|

Ok, now that we're done with the covers, let's see what hides inside those books. Flickr.com is full of groups with those, but the sad thing is, people seem to post their stuff in every possible group and anywhere you go, you see same sketches and pages. It's sad :< But, to my surprise, Moleskine City seems to contain some different and, mostly, better stuff. I mean, just look at the artists that I've found on my short stay there:
- Vantazy;
- Esek One;
- Foom23;
- Enanna.sun.

Wah, I have decided to make my updates contain less stuff, but be more frequent, but, ehh, I'm sorry :D I've still got one more link to post and I'll be gone :D

The Desktop Wallpaper Project!

Free[k]hand

There are two certain Flickr.com groups that I am a member of and often visit: Notebookism and Drawing Journal. The titles are pretty self-explanatory I guess. So, anyway, every time I go there, I spot one or two drawings similar to the picture above and, somehow, I never clicked on the artist, although I really liked them. Now I did, though, and I have acquired a new contact in my Flickr contact-list :]

Miguel Herranz a.k.a. Free[k]hand is a wicked illustrator, my friends, but I seem to like his sketches more than finished/official works. Or maybe it's just me *shrugs*. Apart from his Official Website, you can spot him on
Flickr and on Blogspot too!

Enjoy enjoy!

P.S. note the new link lists on the page's left :]

Randomness

Looks like I died again and no excuse for that this time, so I'll put in some random links that I liked recently :]

A friend named Agniya showed me a really neat Russian Calendar. Agniya is cool, she once found something for an old update of mine. <3 I went to visit her and a few people in London last week btw. :]

Then there's Flickr.com again, because I like that site the most now. I found a group where people make and post songcharts. Just click and see for yourself :]

Also, Blogspot is full of wee gems as well. So I'll show you two of them today:
- I Took Photos
- Photoshop Disasters
no explanations needed I guess? :]

And, finally, something that's not kawaii for once :D

Thank you for reading, I hope the next entry will come sooner than this one did :D

Badges

I've always wanted to make an entry about badges because I happen to have a slight obsession with them :]]

First of all, you will love Prickie.com as much as I do or maybe more, because there are tons of awesome badges + links to the artist sites and such. It makes me want to have a credit card so I could order them goods, but it also makes me not to want it because it'd be too hard to choose and I'd end up spending all of my money on those :D

Another good place is the Badge Review blog that's updated daily and has a huge list of links to other badge related stores/sites.

And I've got addicted to Flickr, so I've also found a nice group dedicated to badges. You can post your collections there :]

I have outdone myself

By not updating for ages! Thought I'd at least make a [probably] last entry for the year 2007 and... try to be better in 2008? I am working on the update now, but I am not too sure about the 'being better part, sorry :D

I have decided that I don't really like DeviantArt anymore as it's over-crowded with either crap or the 'popular' artists have all started to look alike and that's kind of bothering. Of course, there're still people that I go there for, but not as much as there used to be :< So, if I want something really good, I go to our wee Blogspot, my current favourite of EVER Flickr or artist portfolios, but let's stay with those two goldmines for now, um? :]

Blogspot:
Kris.likes.to.draw - good style
Faitetrit - A French artist
Matte Stephens - Birds and other lovely creatures
No-eye-candy-here - A fellow Lithuanian
Mistake by Kuanth - Look at those things!
Armina - monsters and there was something else

Flickr:
Magelis - my happy forest friend <33 You can see a lot of me in there :D
Dzian-dzian - Milda is cool, I know her in person and I am not ashamed to brag about it!
Cinamonas - I met him once :D A photographer for this one Lithuanian magazine called Pravda and, yeah, I forgot to be humble again :D
Fotoaparatas - Another Lithuanian with his amazing photographs. I have recentlly found out that I've got a weakness for tiny flowers.
Lastleaf - I especially like the older works
Eat your carrots - Aaaahh! Can't get enough of it, I think you can find them @ Blogspot as well.
Malota - aaaaaaaaaaaah!!
Senioritapolyester - Where do they come from? ;_;
Himnôfeda - Good style *pats*
Greentheory - I like them :]

Ah, enough for now! Let me flee~

I nearly skipped a month.

I kind of forgot this place existed :D Haha, I hope I haven't lost my... three? readers yet!

So, since we're drawing skulls in uni, I was browsing around for examples to study and found Skull-A-Day. Skulls seem to be trendy nowadays.

Then I found some polaroids by Grant Hamilton along the way. These are cool, it's an interesting approach to photography in general <3

And now I make my exit, because that is all I have for now. Do not fret, though, I'll try to make a second entry before the month expires!