Cupcakes and other sweet things

The strange part is... All I can ever draw is cupcakes and other candy type things. I guess that is good considering my blog name is Candy Constellations but it is slightly unoriginal. I should think of an animal I could draw.... Thinking.... I decided! Sweet. Now To draw some cute things.

I really need to fix my layout on this thing. I should make a way smaller banner and make it much cuter. That is my goal. Haha. But I also have to start drawing things that are not cupcakes, Whoops!

Cutest Give Away ever!

The Blog Miseducated which is a cute DIY and crafty type site is having a really fun give away! So enter enter Enter! I found the site through Audrey Kitching's Twitter since I adore her and her pink hair.

The image below is linked from her site of all the cute things she is giving away! So Go enter~


Here is a link to the official page: Etsy Goodie Bag Give Away

Hmmm.

So there is a lot on my mind lately an it involves many things that I need to document. Which is sad because I am leaving for camp today. I guess it's good for me to have all of this time on my hands to sit down and write out all of the things that I am thinking about. But let's just say a lot of random and crazy things might happen but that is perfectly normal now isn't it?

Anyway, This camp is a really great thing. It's the Valerie Fund's Camp Happy Times. And it is a camp that helps make a week of fun for kids who had cancer. I started going to this camp as a child and it was so much fun and such an experience. This is the last year that I can go to be a Leader in Training and I figured, Why not?

The Camp this year runs from August 16th until August 22nd, and they bus the kids from several hospitals to this camp. Since I have class August 23rd I will unfortunately be leaving the camp a day early in order to get to school on time for move in. But I think all in all it will be a great end to my summer.

I was going to play with one of my sketches this morning but I realize that I just took it off of my computer last night. So, Maybe I'll do some playing before I have to leave.

Sprinkle

Meet Sprinkle my vector person. Or bust rather. I'm quite proud of her. It kind of just came out of me like a blossoming flower. I have Kari Darling to help with the anatomy of her eyes. It's quite a lot harder than most people think. I thought people were easy and I was very very wrong. I'm glad I finally made a person with out copying a actual human or human parts.

I have been meaning to do a cameo piece and I know this doesn't really count but I think it does get quite close. The colors were very necessary thanks for asking. I need to work in bright colors I think. very odd I know. The brown was added to make the other colors pop more. It complemented the piece quite nicely.

This is hopefully not going to be the last piece that involves something other than candy. I do enjoy this quite a lot. Thanks for looking~ And Reading this.

Kari: Weird Dybbuk

Nikon D5000

So today I got a new Nikon D5000~ Exciting! The good part about it is that I now have a Nikon SLR camera that I can use whenever I want and I can use for all of my creative purposes. There is no real negative part about the camera except that my little close up lens does not work on the D5000. Which means I'll need to buy a new lens or ask my grandfather if he has one that will fit the camera.




The iffy bits about the camera are that you can't just plug it into a computer and transfer the photos you need to install some silly program to do it. The other negative part of the camera is that despite how fancy the name sounds, it is no more fancy than my old camera. The major differences between the D5000 and the D50 (My old camera)is as follows. The Nikon D50 was your basic 6 megapixel SLR camera it could however autofocus motorized camera lenses even if they were not specifically made for the camera. The D5000 is a 12.3 megapixel SLR camera with HD video capabilities. The negative is that they don't as readily accept other lenses, it will take any lens with a Nikon bracket but will not autofocus them. The next one that will autofocus lenses not made for them is the Nikon D90.

Nikon is so funny with their naming of things. Who would have thought that a camera called the D5000 was a lower grade than the D300. Weird. It's a good camera either way.

Birthday Wishes

I made this card for my friend for his birthday. I used India ink on Bristol board to create the designs and then cut them out and glued them together for a nice handmade birthday wish. And yes Photography is half of the fun.

The one thing I really regret as far as the card goes is that I wish I had made other people wonderful cards for their birthdays as well. I know a handful of people would definitely appreciate them more than others would.

Also, Knowing now what I didn't know then, I would have definitely used gloves and been more careful because of the ink's nature and when working with glue it leaves traces of ink wherever you touch.

People

So I attempted to make the darling Ren into a beautiful vector creation. her hair and face are lovely but the pompoms are not what I want and I definitely think I need to practice a lot more. It was a good piece to practice on, I just need to figure out how to properly coordinate everything in my head onto the computer.