Mini-comp

Hello again readers/followers! :)

Today I have a small competition for you!
The prizes aren't that big, 10 sd for a superstar/royalty winner or if you are non-ss you will get a cupcake gift and a special trophy drawn by me with your name on - you can put it in your portfolio blog or something. I would have given something bigger, but I can't because I am not a superstar myself :(

And here's the task itself:
Design a shoe.
It should be original and creative. It HAS to be black, white, grey and/or green. You can make a shoe with one of these colours, some of them or all of them. It's your own choice.
You can make a graphic of it, draw it on paper and take a photo of it, make it as a collage of different pieces of paper put together, draw it with chalk on the sidewalk... anything is allowed! (as long as you can see that it's a shoe, of course)
Upload it to a website like Tinypic or Imgur or Photobucket, and write your name and the link in the comments.
You are NOT allowed to copy any of the other entries or copy a shoe from Stardoll, i-Dressup or any other website and claim that it's a graphic you made yourself.

If you don't really know where to begin, here's a foot you can use to draw your shoe on. I made it on Pixlr. You can copy it onto your computer and use it for a graphic or print it out and draw upon it. Remember, if you're better at drawing feet than me, you don't have to use it.

I'm looking forward to see your entries!
I know the prizes are not that big, but wouldn't it be interesting to enter anyway?

The due date is Saturday the 4th, so you have a week to enter!


Maria/mgirl07

THE BIG RAFFLE!

This is your chance of winning a prize... and all you have to do is to is to follow this blog (if you haven't already) and write your username in the comments! Oh, and write if you are a superstar/royalty or non-ss, because the prizes are different.

The prizes


Superstars: 30 sd if there will be 0 to 10 entries, 35 sd if there will be 11-20 entries and 40 sd if there will be 21 or more entries! So you are welcome to invite more people, because then you have a chance of winning a bigger prize! (you have to sell something to me through the StarBazaar to get the money)

Non-ss: As I can't send you any stardollars and the graphics I make are already free, I've come up with a creative prize - you can be on this blog's next banner for several months until the next makeover!

I will write all the usernames on pieces of paper, fold them and put them into two hats: a non-ss and a superstar one. Then I will take a random one out of each hat, and announce the winner! I know there's something called random number generator and that sort of stuff, but the other is more interesting!

Note: if only one superstar or only one non-superstar will enter, I will put the two prizes together into one hat/category, and if there will be no ss/non-ss entries I will have to remove one of the prizes.

EDIT: the non-superstar winner can also get a cupcake gift if they want one, because I am non-ss myself and can't buy any of the other gifts!

Good luck!

The raffle ends on Tuesday the 31st of July, so you have about 4 days to enter!

The 14 party is here!

(sorry for the bad layout lol)

The 14 party is here! Stay tuned for:
- A raffle
- A small contest
- A graphic tutorial
- A new look & banner!

I will publish these things one by one now, and in the 2-3 days ahead, so if you are visiting my blog now, remember to check back later if you want to win some stardollars!

Look forward to...

 As you can see, this has something to do with the visitors number... and maybe also the number of followers!
Look forward to a small party with a new look, raffles and several other things! Excited? Wait until this blog reaches 1400 pageviews!
*hint* - the main theme is shoes!

Here is the shoe graphic by itself:

Aren't they cute?

Maria/mgirl07

First drawing for my little brother's book

HERE is one of the cars on the picture, and an explanation to what this is.

On this picture, the two bad guys get sent in prison for what they did (I'll explain the whole story when the next picture is ready).
Here is they yellow one separately:

What do you think?

EDIT: I have made the iron bars more visible:

Is it better now?

Quick update

Okay, this post is just to let you know that I'm not dead yet... and that I'm still working on a graphic. I have taken a break for some days, but right now I am working on another car graphic for my little brother, and when I finish the graphics for him I will continue with the Stardoll ones. The people who have requested a graphic, please be patient. I am very slow at making them.

Do you want these sort of updates in the future so the blog wouldn't become dead and boring? Or is it annoying that there are so many small posts without any graphics/drawings in? What do you think?




Maria/mgirl07

I got eliminated from SDNTGD...

Yes, but at least I came as far as Task 1! There are people who applied and didn't even get to the competition itself!
I deserved the scores I got, and I will use the criticism for my future graphics. I am a bit sad right now, but I'm not giving anything up! By the next cycle I will improve, and get further than task 1!
Here are my entries (for some reason, only the first one was shown/judged)

I actually like the second one more, so I don't know why only the first was shown. Maybe I made a mistake when writing the link, so it was invalid!

But if the second entry was also shown, it probably wouldn't have changed anything. I am still not good enough. Yet.




P.S. I am sorry if I sound mean because I am in a bad mood right now, but I have a little rant for you, the readers of this blog.

I get around 8 visits every day, and I often get new graphic/banner requests just because they are free. It means that many people like my graphics and I should take that as a compliment, but when you visit this blog can't you leave a short comment?
The only comments I get are when I finish requested graphic and the person who it's for writes 'thank you, it's nice' or something like that. But if I post graphics or drawings for personal use, nobody cares! The visitors who have randomly come across my blog quickly leave again without a comment or even a 'reaction' (the rating at the bottom of every post) to any of my posts, and those who request a graphic only care about their own graphic!

I'm not necessarily asking for a positive comment, but if you are writing something negative it should just contain some constructive criticism. What do you mean by 'constructive criticism', you might be wondering. And I mean don't just say 'this is ugly' but explain why and what I can do better! Just be honest, and say it in a polite way.

So dear readers, if you like my graphics, please let me know that! Comment, share your opinions! It doesn't take that long!


Maria/mgirl07

Car graphic for personal use

My little brother is obsessed with a story about cars my mum has found on the internet. The only problem is, that the story is unfinished! The first chapter was published in 2008, and the author promised to published more but never did it. Now it's 3 years ago since her last comment saying that the next chapter was almost ready, and the people who read it back then have forgotten it.
But my little brother has only found it a few weeks ago, and he wants an ending to the story! So my mum has made up a short ending, and I should illustrate it!

I will draw the cars separately, and put them together into pictures afterwards. This way we can also look at the cars separately.

This is one of the bad guys, who apologizes and becomes 'good' later on in the story, in the next picture. I am terrible at drawing facial features so you can't really see that those lamps are meant to be eyes and the mouth is barely visible, but I like it anyway! Today I'll draw the other bad guy, and soon the first picture will be ready!

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I can't wait to show you my entries for SDNTGD Task 1!!! (I'll explain why there are two)

Okay, that was quite random ^^

I'm back!

... and it's Friday evening (or should I say midnight?). It's 23:40, and I should go to bed soon, so this is just a quick update of all the drawings I made on the summer camp and the contest entry I just finished. Let's start with the drawings, then?

A pair of cute animals. Long story made short, I gave them to another girl so now I only have these photos. :-P

I think I have said goodbye to pencils for some time, because drawing with gel pens is now my all-time favorite technique! Everything looks sketchy and professionally made. Look at the drawing above, for example!

Another pen drawing.


And the ones below are the results of a funny drawing game that I played with a girl called Emma. Both players have a piece of paper, and they draw a head. Then they fold the top backwards, and change papers. The same with the body and the legs. In the end, you fold them both out. Sometimes the outcomes are quite funny:
(For some weird reason I can't add any text under the pictures, so I'll just say 'bye' here! What do you think about my drawings?)

See you on Thursday!

In about an hour I am going to a summer camp (so if you won't see me log on for 4 days don't go thinking that I'm dead or something)! I don't think there will be any Internet connection, and I wouldn't have time for it anyway if even mobile phones are not allowed. (of course you can take one with, it just has to be turned off most of the time)
I'll take my iPod Touch with, so if there will be wireless internet I will log on at least once, but otherwise, see you on Thursday evening! And wish me a good summer camp! :D
Bye!
Maria/mgirl07

P.S. I almost finished my SDNTGD Task 1 entry, but then I wasn't satisfied with it and started another. I was about to publish the first one on this blog, but I'll just send both of them in, and both will be revealed when the results are published!

Wowowowowowowowowomgomgomgomgomg!!!!!!!!!

Ok, that was random ^^

But there's a reason for all that wow'ing and omg'ing: I'm a contestant at SDNTGD Cycle 2! (Stardoll's Next Top Graphic Designer)
So I won't have as much time for my requested graphics as before, but don't worry, I'm not closing requests or canceling the ones I have now. Somehow I have to find time for everything. Somehow.

And to anybody who looks at this blog, I have a question: if you make a graphic that is inspired by a certain brand, do you just take a look out of their collections? Or do you need to, like, research the meaning behind the collection and put the most important clothes together in one outfit? It's the first task at SDNTGD, and I don't know if I' will do good enough.

  - Maria/mgirl07
(I hope there are no errors in this post because I am so excited that I can hardly type! Soemtimes it's a good thing to have spellcheck on your computer, it corrects most of the mistakes!)