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:party: Happy Birthday dA! I can’t believe that dA is now 14! 


I signed up for my first deviantART account on October 16, 2005, after spending a couple of weeks of lurking and admiring all the beautiful art on the site. I can’t remember how I ever found this site nearly a decade ago, but at the time I was really into fan art and I think that I must have followed a link from someone’s website over to here. 

When I first joined, I was in college and I had just switched my major over to art and I wanted a place where I could post some of my creations and get some feedback. Over the past 9 years, I’ve learned a lot from this site and the dA community. The tutorials that people submit to this site are absolutely invaluable – everything from drawing, to digital painting, to html, and editing journal skins.

More recently I’ve been fascinated with animated .gifs but I never knew how they were made or how exactly to make them, or even what program to use, until I ran into a few tutorials on here and eventually learned how to create them in Photoshop.



First Try



The first animated .gifs that I tried making were
fairly simple and contained only a 2-3 frames:  

For Sale at Etsy by foxyboxysolutions   For Sale at Etsy - Sold by foxyboxysolutions




Second Try



After some experimentation, I tried some new things,
such as animating single letters and fading text:  
                  
Handmade with Love stamp by foxyboxysolutions   Reduce Reuse Recycle Stamp by foxyboxysolutions   :iconetsyconnect:   OurCreativeCreations sticker by foxyboxysolutions




Using Photos



I later tried making one out of photos that
I took while drawing a sea shell.

Seashell Drawing Process GIF by foxyboxysolutions




Still Learning



I haven't had much time to create any .gifs lately,
but over the weekend I decided to try making
a new one. It's a lot larger and longer than
any other ones that I've made and it was far more
complicated (it took nearly 3 days to make).

In this one I had a lot of fun experimenting with different
things and doing things I had never tried before.

Animated Floral Coloring Book Page Design by foxyboxysolutions

 

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What's been going on...



It's been ages since I last updated my journal on here – it was just too complicated to write updates with that old journal skin.

Anyway, not much has been going on around here – I dislocated my knee on Jan 31st & have been laid up for weeks. Thankfully it's on the mend and hopefully I'll be finished with physical therapy before Easter.

At least I don't need any more of those electrical muscle stimulation treatments, they weren't so bad if you don't mind looking like the bride of Frankenstein afterwards – all that voltage is murder on your hair. LOL, just kidding there's not enough voltage to make your hair stand on end.  :D  It's really not so bad when on a lower voltage, it just feels like an odd tingling sensation but when it's high, it feels more like hundreds of pinpricks. Thankfully, I had an icepack on my knee during the treatments which dulled that sensation somewhat. At any rate, it's better than having a tooth drilled without novocain.  

I'll be reopening my Etsy shop sometime after March 18th, although I won't be taking custom orders for a while yet.




Fun poll...



:reading:  Since I haven't been able to do too much, I've been thinking of writing again. I absolutely love writing sci-fi and I've had an idea in the back of my head for some time now for a story–that's why I have the sci-fi POV poll up on my page.

I've asked the question before on dA & on Yahoo Answers and have received 39 replies – here are the results that I have so far:

• 66.6% – POV of the Aliens
• 17.9% – POV of Both
• 15.5% – POV of Humans

So what POV do you think would be the most interesting for a sci-fi story? If you have time, vote in the poll or leave a comment to let me know.



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Hello!

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Hi Everyone

I've been so busy these past few months that I haven't visited my page here in ages, in fact I don't even remember the last time that I visited my page. Yikes! When I logged in, I was surprised to see so many favs and I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who's favorited my items! :deviation:



I love making animated buttons – I just learned how to do it back in September – and after all the favs I've gotten on my Etsy buttons, I'm thinking of making some more as soon as I get the time. :D



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Open for Business

After eleven months of work and planning, Foxy Boxy Solutions is finally open for business, and it's going great! Currently, there are 101 items for sale in the shop and I'm planning on updating the shop weekly with new items.



Sneak Peek: Wednesday, Nov. 16 Update


One of the new items coming to the shop this week:










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Just for fun: An alien civilization invades Earth - what point of view would be more interesting for a sci-fi story?

7 votes

the point of view of the aliens

the point of view of the humans

both point of views

other - leave a comment below

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