Art - It's Not Just About Drawing (Part 1)

I love to browse artwork on Deviantart.com because I am reminded, again and again, that art is not just about drawing.  There are so many beautiful and breath-taking ways to create art that I never knew existed.  Below is a sampling of some of the unique styles of art that I have discovered on Deviantart.com that are far beyond paper and pen.  

Sculptures

Sculptures, poseable or not, are abundant on Deviantart.  Wood-Splitter-Lee is by far the most talented sculptress I have ever seen on Deviantart, period.  Her fantasy animals (shown above) are colorful and majestic.  If I had the money, I would buy one of her sculptures in a heartbeat.  *sigh*  Maybe one day...

Clay Miniatures

I never knew clay could look so delicious...  All of these miniature foods, made by the incredible Fairchildart, looks good enough to eat.  They are delicate pieces of art that would look wonderful in a dollhouse.

Origami

By Mangakasma

By Origamimodulowe

And I thought folding a paper crane was difficult enough.  @_@  Origami, specifically 3-D origami, is becoming an art sensation that is bright, complex, and requires tons of paper.

Furniture

By Erez-mor

By ColeHastings

I'm especially a big fan of the awesome monster seat.  :D  These unique pieces of furniture brings a dash of fantasy into anyone's home.

Jewelry

By Create-A-Pendant

By PeregrineStudios

By YelerCrakka

I'm such a sucker when it comes to jewelry, whether it's girly or totally nerdy (the flower is beautiful, but I'm a huge fan of the Zelda ocarina rings and Pokeball bracelet).  If I had it my way, I would order every single piece of custom jewelry on Deviantart.


This post is already huge, and I have many more categories to showcase!  Looks like I'm going to need to write a follow-up blog post about art that's not drawing.  :)  Be on the lookout for the sequel, which will contain more awesome art including:
- Crochet/Felting
- Photography
- Baking
- Face paint/Special effects
- Costumes/Cosplay
- Beading
- Stuffed animals

Swearing and Youtube

I love Youtube!  If I want to find old television shows, I can find it on Youtube.  If I want to see if a new video game is any good, I can find it on Youtube.  And there are so many creative and hilarious series, too.  There is just one big problem with Youtube...the swearing, in both the videos and the comments.

No matter what I'm looking for on Youtube, swearing seems to be everywhere.  I love watching people play video games on Youtube, especially scary video games, but they have the tendency to cuss a lot when they're scared.  Heck, even when they're not scared, they cuss a lot.  It's a shame, because there are quite a few people on the Internet that I've had to give up watching because of their language.  It's a painful severance every time...  I discover them, check out their funny videos, and become a hopeless fan girl.  If I ran into them on the street, I would scream and ask for their autographs.  After a while, however, their swearing gets to me.  As much as I try to ignore it, I have to unsubscribe from them and walk away forever.  Well, that's not exactly true.  My biggest guilty pleasure is to sneak back onto their channels and watch their videos (and get caught by my husband, haha!)  Nevertheless, I know I have to break the habit, because being exposed to that much swearing isn't good for me.  It's just not fair!  Why do they have to swear so much?  :'(

The people I had to give up...  From left: Markiplier, the Yogscast, Pewdiepie, and Yamimash.

There is, however, a ray of hope for me.  There is one Youtube user that only uses minor swearwords, is amazingly creative and talented, and is doggone cute: Tobuscus.

a.k.a. Toby Turner

Although he still swears, he is 95% cleaner than any of the Youtubers listed above.  And he creates all sorts of interesting videos: shorts, animated cartoons, music videos (with songs he writes and performs himself), literal music videos (hilarious!), video game walkthroughs and commentaries, rants, vlogs, and more!  He is so cool and nerdy and epic, I have officially added "meet Toby Turner" on my bucket list.  I still would not recommend his channel for kids under 12, but he is a clean alternative to all of the potty-mouths out there.

Of course, there is at least one person on Youtube who does not swear at all...me!  Inspired by those listed above, I have begun recording myself playing various video games and uploading them to my Youtube channel.  So far, I have videos of Minecraft, Slender, and Tokyo Jungle with many more to come.  I also have music videos, shorts, and frogs!  Check my channel often for new videos, and if you have a certain video game you want me to play or want to see a tutorial on how to make something, please let me know through my email or the comments below.  Youtube might be a breeding ground for swear words, but there are some clean people out there who want to entertain without bad language.  Keep trying to find those people, and long live Youtube!

My First Experience with HTML

I don't like math.  I respect it, and I respect those who understand it, but it's not my thing.  Yesterday, however, I was forced to use math to upgrade my blog (*le gasp!*)  My blog was starting to accumulate a lot of stand-alone pages, so I thought it would be nice to sort them into drop-down menus.  My mom uses Wordpress to do this on her website, but come to find out, you can't use Wordpress on Blogger.  So I turned to the ultimate resource: the Internet.  To my delight, I found many posts on how to create your own drop-down menus.  To my horror, all of the posts were about using HTML to do this.  HTML, which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, is a kind of computer language used to tell websites what to do and how to do it (I think).  In a nutshell, it's math language.  Therefore, my reaction was:

 

Stubbornly, I continued looking for another (much simpler way) to create a drop-down menu on my blog.  But alas, I couldn't find another way.  It took a whole day to process and accept this.  Finally, I took a deep breath and sat down to try and figure it out.  At first, I was completely overwhelmed.  Seeing all the numbers, symbols, and pointless words made my head go blank.  Thankfully, the tutorial I used was simple and easy to understand.  You can find the tutorial at the blog "Home Take 2: How to Create a Drop-Down Menu In Blogger."   Somehow, someway, I began to understand what I was doing.  I could actual change the code to bring about the desired results.  I changed the color of my text, the names of my menus, and added links.  My drop-down menus are not a work of art, but I did it!  I'm so proud of myself!  Granted, I'm in no hurry to try my hand at HTML again, but it feels good knowing I can do a little bit of it (with lots of help).  If you are like me and get overwhelmed by math-y things like computer codes, then there is hope!  If I can figure out HTML, so can you!

I still don't like math...