tartan-tardis

Happy new year everyone!I've had such a lovely holiday.  Being at home (for the longest holiday since I started uni) has been fantastic!  Seeing my family again, cooking Christmas dinner for the first time ever, catching up on reading and good tele!  I've done quite a bit of painting while I've been here but since mum doesn't have a scanner I'll be uploading everything once I'm home! :)2012 was was such a good year and 2013 looks set to be just as good!  Among other things, I'll be going to LeakyCon in the summer, going on a Highland trip with the Harry Potter Society in a month and then in September will be starting my final year of uni! ...

I've not written on here for ages but suddenly got an influx of views and felt a bit embarrassed at how out of date my journal was.  Anyway, it prompted me to update it a little!   I've now finished my second year as a music student and can not wait to start my third! All the courses are ones that I've chosen and ones I really want to study - so no more keyboard skills or style studies!! harahh!      I've recently finished Game of Thrones - the book that is, not the TV series, though I am looking forward to that too!- and it's now my new obsession.  I absolutely loved it!  It's taking some self control not to get the second one - I promise...

It's amazing how much time you can spend browsing Gimp tutorials. I've been at it all week, I swear it's taking over my life! I just keep thinking of study leave and all that time I won't have for art and other fun stuff...So I should make the most of now, right?I've scanned in a load of drawings but I'm using the University scanners and the only one free was the crappy one.  Actually, they're all pretty crappy.  So I've been trying to clean them up on Gimp but it's taking a while.  Is there a fast way to do it?  And while we're on the subject, does anyone know exactly what an Alpha channel does? I've seen it on tutorials but I don't reall...