Well! It’s certainly been hectic here recently!!
I’m slowly catching up with the website work I have on my list, woo hoo!
Learning a new work flow using Adobe CS4 has been really fun and now I’m confident that producing websites is going to be a ton faster and be all the better for it!
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I’m still pulling together areas for the Dustyghost.com website right now, including portfolio of websites, graphics, 3D and other bits and bobs.
I have a rather unique way I want to do this, and although it’s going to involve allot of work, it’ll be worth it if I can pull it off.
The DustyGhost.com website will, with a little bit of elbow grease, be the flagship for all the websites I have created so far!
For the first time all my different hobbies and skill sets will come together and will hopefully, finally, be worth all the frantic learning, investment and practising in both website design, 3D rendering, digital art and animation!
The best thing is others who are involved in getting DustyGhost.com off the ground are contributing too!
When the site goes live, more details about the creation process will be revealed, and just who did what bits.
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In the mean time I’ve eased back a bit from all the work I’ve been putting in, to take some much deserved time to go back to one of the things I love most… ART!!
Or, more specifically, the right way to create art!
I started Sketching a long time ago, about 9 years, and have never really taken the time over that near decade to learn how to do it properly! I’m not bad at drawing, but I’m by no means a pro!
I really used to get depressed about what I had sketched and then give up for days on end. Now, for the first time ever, I seem to say, “OK how can I make it better!?” then I draw some more and go “Look! I learnt something new!!”
I’m getting addicted to this as I seem to be improving in just this one short week of trying to re-learn to draw again! It’s still amateur stuff to be honest (I’m REALLY rusty!), but it’s getting better, FAST!!
For the first time EVER I realise that if you don’t give a crap about how bad it looks, nor how others will look at it, you can achieve sooooo much!!! It’s all about attitude and confidence when learning, I guess!
It’s addictive when you’re like this, I never knew that before. I always wanted to sketch because I thought it would be cool to be able to. Now I just love doing it for the love of it! I actually feel real enjoyment, even on the really rough stuff!
And best of all, learning to sketch again seems to be improving my digital work! It’s odd but developing a good sketching technique can be passed right through to what I do in Corel Painter when sketching there! Cool!
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So, all in all the Balance is coming back into my life!
And I’m really happy and excited at the same time!
Yours,
Dusty 
Durian