Art I have been working on learning digital art myself, and while everyone is sitting at home during the Covid-19 Virus outbreak you yourself your even your children can download a digital art site and start learning how to draw digital. Like I said I am teaching myself and have yet to read a book or study any online learning spots, I am just learning through trial and error. The download I use is called Krita and it is 100%free now I am sure you can buy more brushes and options if you would like but like I said I am learning. It is hard to figure out at first, learning layers and brush pen settings, your lines are not as easy and you have to figure out how to re-learn to draw. But using digital has so many awesome benefit’s, such as you can constantly add to or remove to the digital art as like there was nothing there, allowing you constant growth in your artwork, unlike paper or canvas art that once it is done you can not 100% re do again. I just did a Jar drawing on Krita and I would like to show you a few steps that I took and how I saved multiple steps so that way I can go back and just change the inside of the jar and keep the outside jar the same. So if you follow a little with the photos I will show you how i went from a simple jar to a jar with depth. As you can see, I slowly moved through this bottle one even looking as if it was a bottle with water on the inside. And honestly that was a random mistake, but it looks so cool. I decided to keep it! You can also see the lines on the original Jar are still very rough and not the best. As I worked on it, I continued to smooth the lines as I went, but the concept is still there for other drawings that I would like to do further down the road. As you can see from the screen shots of my computer you can see the layers in the right hand side of the photos, each layer lays the depth of the art as if the liquid is actually in the jar and not placed outside of the jar. This is new to me and making myself learn this concept is interesting, but the best part is I can change the layer as needed. Using this method can allow me to work on one thing and not disrupt the actual image, that is how I managed to change the color of the one to look like water. I was just messing with changing the background color to of everything to a teal color and after I decided not to do so I changed it back to white and left the layer up while working on other layers. Then when I went to look through the layers, I found that the light teal was left behind. So, all by mistake I made it look as if it has water inside the jar. So, take your time to learn layers and how to build the look, I am constantly learning more about how to change things and also importing photos and changing them on the site themselves. I took a drawing I did and messed with it so see how it would turn out. I don’t know if ill do so often, but I like the fact that I can do so if I really wanted to!
Anyways this is your little intro into Digital Art on Krita (BTW, not sponsored)! Thanks for reading and remember to follow me! All art is NKS Artwork done by myself the Chronic Artist and available to purchase copies!
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Multiple Sclerosis Yes, this exhausting, over worked, and annoying, tired that we suffer from. Some days its just a underline feeling of tired, one that you could just take a short nap and then waking rested and recharged, or other days it’s like a nonstop daunting feeling that your cased in cement and unable to move or even breath. These days are usually after you forget to limit yourself and the response your body has to that mistake. This mistake can cause you a numbered amount of down days, those days you just hate life. Your body flairs and every fiber of your body hurts. Today I feel this way, because I didn’t listen to my body tell me to slow down! It yelled at me and I ignored it. I go days feeling amazing even forgetting that I myself have Multiple Sclerosis, to have that S.O.B run up and smack me in the face. It is one of the worst feelings I have ever had to come to terms with and one I still fight now and then. I grew up in a small farming town, to two amazing hard working parents that instilled in me the work ethic of an Ox, and then one day your working hard, highly active, and doing life well, this shows up and you have to constantly swim up stream every second your awake. You can’t do something today because you did something yesterday, now you must stay down and be out. So many people assume that we can easily just get up and fight through it or take a nap! These people don’t truly understand, this pain, this tired, this inner emotional pain we have. I hate telling people no and explaining that I can’t because my body wont physically doesn’t allow me to move. It's not a cop-out on the work or the excuse of lazy. I seriously thought the same thing years ago before I had my first major flair and after I still tried to tell myself that I can fight the pain, tired, and illness by just overcoming it. Boy was I wrong, and now I watch others judge me because I limp out of nowhere, or cancel plans, or say I’m tired even after I just wake up, for them to say “oh I get that way” “just get over it”, “your will be OK, just try this…..”. When all we want is for someone to listen and understand that we honestly can’t get moving, over it, or to take a “magic pill” to feel better. This pain might not be visible to you or others but to us we feel it. It is here, it is horrible and all we want is people not to judge others when we say we can’t and make us feel worthless, because we can’t continue a happy charade to just please your idea of what we are. Offer to have a make up on a girl’s date, or activity. Offer to help do the dishes, bring dinner, or just sit with us when we can.
We are the chronically Ill and we are chronically tired! Don't forget to follow me. I will also start selling my artwork stickers in a week or so including my sleepy sloth! Who wouldn't want this cute sloth anyways! Multiple Sclerosis March is Multiple Sclerosis Awareness month, and I hope you will follow along with me this month to share and spread awareness of this chronic illness. Let’s start by explaining what Multiple Sclerosis is in medical terms. “Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an unpredictable disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body. The cause of MS is still unknown. Scientists believe that a combination of environmental and genetic factors contribute to the risk of developing MS. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease.” Quoted from (https://www.nationalmssociety.org/What-is-MS) Now that that is out there, what is M.S to someone diagnosed with it? Well to me M.S is the great scary unknown, It’s the worry of waking up one day, not being able to walk, use the restroom, see, or move a body part. It is the worry that my husband will someday have to change me, wash me, see me in hospital beds, unable to do anything to protect me. It is watching my mother blame herself, feeling unable to help her child, worry all the time that she won’t be able to be near me! It’s not being able to enjoy the activities when you want to, being in so much pain you can’t move and no pain medications work, being so tired even after just waking up, losing your eye sight every day in one eye when your stressed, hot, or tired, and the numbness, twitching and shocking of your muscles and other body parts. Even with all that negative and scary information, M.S is also the positive, It is watching the weakest people overcome and succeed past the expectations. It is watching people who have no hope, fight and help others learn to fight through the hardest parts. The community who raise awareness and funds to help the ones who can’t help themselves so they can have a fighting chance. It is the ones who truly listen to you and your issues who understand on a deep level. The ones who will call, message, and even send EMS to you if you are suicidal and depressed. I have seen the best encouragement in people who are the most effected to those who are still mild in their progress. Just because one is scared themselves doesn’t mean we wont help others overcome their fears and worries. Multiple Sclerosis cant scare the best of everyone and it is ok to feel those feeling, that is the human in us. As it is said “The only one to kick our ass, is our own selves”. Continue to fight, to try, and remember to breath! Having M.S stopped me in my tracks for a long time. I have went from wanting to become a teacher to being to scared of the medical issues and time needed off to continue the journey. Even then though I continued being a nanny and babysitter for families. Now that I’m starting Ocrevus that option is ending also, so I decided to start up to start selling my art works and doing commissioned art works. As latter you will see those post to start buying. The funds of this will go towards my medical costs. As many of you know it is expensive to be chronically ill, I myself spend close to 30,000$ a year and that’s out of pocket. Sometimes its more and sometimes its less. So a little extra helps allot. Anyways this is M.S and this is the Chronic Artist saying thank you for reading and following. It means allot! |
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