Happy 2-6 Day
There was a holiday last week. Did you miss it? Really? You have no idea what I'm talking about? Well, keep reading to find out more.
So yeah, there was not really a holiday (that I'm aware of) last Thursday. Strictly speaking I made it up like a few weeks ago. The name of the "holiday" is 2-6. It falls on the 2/6 (February 6th). It's biannual, as it also falls on the 6/2 (June 2nd) in case you happen to live in one of the many nations that put the day before the month when writing out the date.
This pseudo holiday is all about celebrating the Two-Six, the enigmatic super-powerful beings at the macro level of my Book of the Shadows series. Ideally I would spend the day expounding on, discussing, or otherwise making note of various details about the Two-Six. As you may know, however, this past Thursday was my previously scheduled State of the Realm address, so I had no choice but to postpone the planned commemoration.
At any rate, my commemoration is a rather simple one. I decided I would share an image of the Two-Six. It is one I've shared before; Drusilla (Two-Six name, Kali). Specifically it is the image from the holiday card I shared on Christmas Day. But, this is a slightly different kind of share.
Usually I draw my images by hand. I then scan it. If it is one I want to add color to, I do so through something like PaintShop (and in the future likely Painter). But as I noted in the original post in December, this was one I did the coloring by hand using colored pencils. I noted before that the scanned image was not entirely to my liking because in the scanning the colors didn't come out right, and my feeble attempts at correcting that in PaintShop turned out not so great. At the time I always considered that I would like to simply take a picture of it and share that. So I did;
The time-stamp is accurate. You can see the glare on the dress from the camera flash. I couldn't get enough good lighting during the daylight hours before, and with the flash off the entire image is hampered by the lighting in the room, so this will have to suffice for now.
If you're reading this post before 1:00 PM on February 11, 2014, then this is the only place you can see this image in this manner. Otherwise, you can head over to DeviantArt where I'll have it uploaded by then.
*Update, 2/11/14, 11:34 AM. The upload has been made to DeviantArt. Follow THIS link to get there.
So yeah, there was not really a holiday (that I'm aware of) last Thursday. Strictly speaking I made it up like a few weeks ago. The name of the "holiday" is 2-6. It falls on the 2/6 (February 6th). It's biannual, as it also falls on the 6/2 (June 2nd) in case you happen to live in one of the many nations that put the day before the month when writing out the date.
This pseudo holiday is all about celebrating the Two-Six, the enigmatic super-powerful beings at the macro level of my Book of the Shadows series. Ideally I would spend the day expounding on, discussing, or otherwise making note of various details about the Two-Six. As you may know, however, this past Thursday was my previously scheduled State of the Realm address, so I had no choice but to postpone the planned commemoration.
At any rate, my commemoration is a rather simple one. I decided I would share an image of the Two-Six. It is one I've shared before; Drusilla (Two-Six name, Kali). Specifically it is the image from the holiday card I shared on Christmas Day. But, this is a slightly different kind of share.
Usually I draw my images by hand. I then scan it. If it is one I want to add color to, I do so through something like PaintShop (and in the future likely Painter). But as I noted in the original post in December, this was one I did the coloring by hand using colored pencils. I noted before that the scanned image was not entirely to my liking because in the scanning the colors didn't come out right, and my feeble attempts at correcting that in PaintShop turned out not so great. At the time I always considered that I would like to simply take a picture of it and share that. So I did;
The time-stamp is accurate. You can see the glare on the dress from the camera flash. I couldn't get enough good lighting during the daylight hours before, and with the flash off the entire image is hampered by the lighting in the room, so this will have to suffice for now.
If you're reading this post before 1:00 PM on February 11, 2014, then this is the only place you can see this image in this manner. Otherwise, you can head over to DeviantArt where I'll have it uploaded by then.
*Update, 2/11/14, 11:34 AM. The upload has been made to DeviantArt. Follow THIS link to get there.
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