I had an art class in high school where the assignment was to draw a playing card I guess I was feeling extra that day because I decided that it'd be much more fun to make an entire deck of cards, so I did... and then I lost it. I was thinking about how much effort I put into making the cards just to lose them and I decided that the only way to rectify that wrong was to recreate the cards. Luckily I was able to find the original files I made all those years ago. I re-downloaded gimp so I could open the files and went to work giving the whole set a re-design that stayed true to the original idea while using my increased skills to make them even better.

After I finished I set a reminder in my calendar to re-design them again in 10 years. I don't know if future me will actually do that but it's fun to think about coming back to this later just to see how far it might go.

I volunteered to take pictures at LexSwing's Halloween dance this weekend, and the dancers gave me a challenge. I had high hopes when I started that quickly turned into one goal, just to get the photo mostly in focus. Photographing moving people is hard! ​

Am I crazy for voluntarily waking up at 5 am? Probably. Was it worth it? Absolutely! 

I've been watching a lot of sculpture videos on youtube lately which inspired me to get back into clay. It's crazy how much improvement you can get just by watching and learning from youtube. I'm pretty excited by how well my clay guy turned out. I made everything from scratch except for the tiny potion bottle. The wings were one of the most frustrating parts to make but they ended up being my favorite part of this sculpture.

Went to Red River Gorge this weekend. I took way too many pictures but these were my favorites. We saw Dog Slaughter falls, Eagle falls, and Cumberland falls. Even swam at Dog Slaughter Falls. 

One fire sword wasn't enough I just had to get a fire staff! Oh and we had s'mores this time. 

Decided to draw a poster for the first campaign our characters completed. Looking forward to drawing the poster for our current campaign.