Stargrace

A little Qutey

My little fae monk Qutey posing above. I created the image for her paper doll over on EQ2players, which you can find here. I didn’t like the bland one that most characters have, and I love the way you can customize this one little image of your character. I absolutely love the way it turned out and I couldn’t be more pleased. It didn’t take that long either, mostly because the background is simple, and the image is so tiny that there’s not a lot that needs to be done to it. I’ll be making others for my other characters, as well as seasonal ones I think. If anyone else wants one, just let me know. All I need is a description of what you’re looking for (If you’re looking for something specific at least) and some screen shots of your character. The better the quality of the screen shot the better the over all image of course, but I think I could make due with whatever people had and tried to fix them up. I’m really having quit a bit of fun with it what can I say.

I also leveled my brigand today, Sensual managed to get three levels and two aa from wandering around Fallen Gate. A few fabled and masters made their way into her bags as well, so over all it was a great day.

Besides the adventuring, Yamini (the alchemist) finally made her way into T7 crafting. That’s right, after almost two years piddling around and barely leveling her, I made it to level 60 alchemist. It took forever, mostly because I had no real motivation to get her higher. Now that she’s made it to 70 I’ll take a break for a few days and try to re-gain some vitality for that mad march to 70 before RoK comes out. Then of course comes the harvesting I’ll need to do in preparation for RoK and the grind to 80. While I’m glad that there’s a level increase, and I think it’s much needed, I’m also not looking forward to the fact that I’ve got 5 level 70 adventurers and crafters. It will of course give me something to do.

Really looking forward to GU39 because of the new revamp to guild banks. I’m a neat freak when it comes to Torrent Knights and their bank, everything has its designated spot. So being able to label them and set the withdraws for them by bank is great. Very proud of the guild for making level 25 as well. Calreth has been grinding writs like they’re going out of style (maybe they are and no one told me!) and doing all those fancy heritage quests along the way. Now if we could just get five more before RoK comes out. I know if I really pushed at it we probably could, but I’m proud for even getting as far as we did.

I had an amazing talk with Kilanna this morning, it’s so great to be refreshed about EQ2 again and playing. Now, I’m not playing quite as much as I was before, due to the whole loving photoshop thing, but maybe that’s exactly what I needed. A little break to remind myself why I love this game and eventually always come back to it.

Deathtoll and Thanksgiving

Firstly, happy turkey day to all those up here in Canada, I’ll be celebrating it with family, both today and tomorrow. That’s a whole lot of turkey. No such thing as too much though I suppose. Last night I managed to sneak into a Deathtoll (ok, so I didn’t really sneak, but doesn’t that sound better?) raid with Arsenal, new guild that I joined. I have a few friends in it, so it makes the guild better from the start. The raid was a little messy, but it was also late, and the typical tank wasn’t there, and a healer was missing. But before long we downed Tarinax and what not, so that’s always good, right?

Of course breath of the destroyer dropped, which is an item I’ve wanted forever and just never managed to get yet. Last night was no exception, not that I was utterly heartbroken or anything since it was my first raid with them. I spent a good portion of last night taking screen shots of “spooky” places so I could work on some headers and more graphic stuff with photoshop. It just takes me time to decide what it is that I specifically want to do. I played around with a few more signatures yesterday before I left for the evening.

So happy turkey day, and enjoy that stuffing. I’ll be back to make a larger post tomorrow.

Signature Goodness

I’ve always been envious of those people over in the EQ2 players forums who had these absolutely amazing forum signatures. I’m a fairly artistic person, besides writing I have a DeviantArt site here, the problem is I know little to nothing about photoshop or any other drawing / graphic program out there. I’ve always worked in very traditional mediums, pen and ink mostly. So I’ve got the artistic flare, but never had any means of carrying out my designs. Especially when it came to photo manipulations or anything else of the sort.

So above is the first signature I designed! I must admit, I had help. First of all from my brand new photoshop CS2 bible (which is by far one of the most comprehensive guides I’ve ever read) and also from the signature forum here, specifically their posts on resources and tutorials.

I admit, the signature may not look like much, but come on now it was my first shot! Very first. I didn’t know how to do anything, and that includes making the lighter blue boarder and having the image over lap that, which I am proud of I’ve got to admit.

Hopefully there will be more work in the future, and if anyone would like me to experiment with signatures (or desktops) of their characters, please feel free to email me high quality screen shots and I’ll see what I can do (email is posted on the top left of this site)! I’m so excited, eventually I want to be able to do pieces like Luna here. I know she does it professionally, and the quality of her work has taken years and years, but in time, maybe I can accomplish something of the same degree, and if not, well, at least I’m having a blast trying!

Oh, as a side note. This attempt was not at trying to smooth out edges, or adjust the image of the fae, but to learn a few technical things that I had no idea how to do. Specifically the boarder and making it faded slightly, applying the fae image over top, and the text, and working with layers and adjusting them and what not. So I know the image is not the best quality, and her wings are cut off (next I plan on learning how to move that image that I apply to a background.. I still don’t know how to do that) and there’s all sorts of other flaws that I can see, but hey, it’ll get better with time!

Tagged – 8 Random Facts

Tagged again, this time by Calreth over at Thermonuclear Exchange

Rules

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. List eight (8) random facts about yourself.
3. Tag eight people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving them a comment on their blogs.

– I’m not going to tag anyone else, so I’m sorry if it dies with me, but feel free to post your own eight random facts if you’re interested in picking it up! So many tags and what not float around these blogs I’d hate to have people start getting cranky with me.

1. When I was around 13 years old, I taught myself to write with my feet. I couldn’t bare the idea of losing my hands and being unable to write since it is such a huge portion of my life.

2. My cat likes to play fetch. Not exactly a random fact about me, but hey she’s a part of my life, so it counts. She has these little plastic mice that she drags across the house and chases after them, drops them slightly out of reach, and does it again. Then she’ll get bored. Of course.

3. I have a tattoo of a small dragon, a graduation present from my parents.

4. The adult fun super store here in town is giving away free edible underwear if you buy a costume for Halloween. How’s that for random. Before you start wondering what sort of perverted woman I am, it was actually a commercial on the radio mentioning it first.

5. I used to be a girl scout.

6. I’m allergic to real gold. Not white gold, but the yellow coloured gold. I can’t wear it in my ears or in jewelry, it makes me puff up and get all itchy.

7. I’m left handed.

8. I didn’t start getting interested in fantasy until I was 15 or so, my brother got me started on books that he used to read and by a mud he used to play.

Quitting? Naw, lets just call it taking an extended break

So it’s come to that time of the year where I cancel my EQ2 account at least for a little while. I’ll be wandering around in WoW and attending to that thing called “real life” that we all like to avoid. Unfortunately I’m just not feeling satisfied in EQ2, nor am I feeling challenged, or anything else that would keep me in the game. I’ve given my msn out to those who want to keep in touch, and my email can be found at the top of this site. I’ll still blog and work on some digital images, but until RoK comes out, I just was not happy. I won’t call it quitting, since I always come back, but a break is needed.

Hopefully my readers will check back from time to time, and enjoy the past posts here! I knew when I created the blog that it wouldn’t just be limited to EQ2, hence the other categories. Safe travels no matter what mmo you find yourself in!

For those who are interested, you can keep reading about my mmo adventures here.