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Music, writing, art are forever entwined
This is why I firmly believe that creative types (of any kind) are just a little bit crazy.
I have no idea why my creative muses decided they wanted to try being visually artistic, but they did. If you're brave, you can see the fruits of this labor behind the cut:
I've been looking at various contest communities to see if anything else interests me, and it appears there are a lot of "new" banner makers out there - hence, quite a bit of discussion on what programs they use. I've been thinking for awhile now that I'd like to have some sort of simple banner to advertise my "Fleeting" collection, something to break up the wall of text that accompanies the headers in the post. I thought, what the hell, I don't really need to do my very-important homework (*snerk*), let's see what's out there that's fairly easy to use but more sophisticated than MS Paint.
The process was...interesting...and after an inordinate number of hours, I managed to use this and this to come up with this, which will be accompanying my Inuyasha![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
un_love_you posts in the future:
First attempt has been trumped!
Holy God. I don't know how contest community banner makers do it, especially those that make individualized ones for three or four places worth of winners. There's nothing like building a whole new appreciation for these talented people, than after you've attempted to emulate them!
I'm not a visually artistic or musically inclined person in the least, but it's been a fun experiment to work with this - a different outlet for the muses, I guess. Just as they demand some certain song to work with, they like having a pretty visual representation to remind them of their jobs (if I can keep them in line, that is!). I've made a couple more for myself, which you can view on my Master Fic List, but I think this one is my very, very favorite:
I have no idea why my creative muses decided they wanted to try being visually artistic, but they did. If you're brave, you can see the fruits of this labor behind the cut:
I've been looking at various contest communities to see if anything else interests me, and it appears there are a lot of "new" banner makers out there - hence, quite a bit of discussion on what programs they use. I've been thinking for awhile now that I'd like to have some sort of simple banner to advertise my "Fleeting" collection, something to break up the wall of text that accompanies the headers in the post. I thought, what the hell, I don't really need to do my very-important homework (*snerk*), let's see what's out there that's fairly easy to use but more sophisticated than MS Paint.
The process was...interesting...and after an inordinate number of hours, I managed to use this and this to come up with this, which will be accompanying my Inuyasha
un_love_you posts in the future:
Holy God. I don't know how contest community banner makers do it, especially those that make individualized ones for three or four places worth of winners. There's nothing like building a whole new appreciation for these talented people, than after you've attempted to emulate them!
I'm not a visually artistic or musically inclined person in the least, but it's been a fun experiment to work with this - a different outlet for the muses, I guess. Just as they demand some certain song to work with, they like having a pretty visual representation to remind them of their jobs (if I can keep them in line, that is!). I've made a couple more for myself, which you can view on my Master Fic List, but I think this one is my very, very favorite: