bye bye xanga!

Heyy everyone! I'm so sorry for being so inactive.... To tell you the truth, xanga is VERY old for me & I have been very busy lately :[ This past year has been very hectic because of my Sats, college apps, and art classes that I've been taking at Pasadena Art Center. I've actually decided that I want to major in Graphic Design and I really hope that I get into an Art College ^___^ And yes, I AM in my senior yearr. Ugh I'm getting old. I started xanga when I was 14 years old and now, I'm 17 & I think it's time that I moved on. If any of you guys want to talk to me, visit my facebook or even im me on aim :D I'm always active on those two places. hehe~

Facebook: http://hs.facebook.com/profile.php?id=673372754

SN: SamSung16Oo

btwww, here are 2 of my digital pieces that I've done this past 2 months ^____^

For the first one, I actually took he picture of my friend playing his cello & I used the displacement tool on photoshop cs3 to edit the whole thing and for the second piece, my friend took a picture of my other friend and he let me edit the picture & I flipped the images. All the brushes and designs are made by me. I've decided to never download brushes from sites anymore and now, I make my own brushes by hand & then scan them later. :D

HAPPY BELATED HOLIDAYS!~

Okay, Christmas was yesterday, but I'm saying it now.... my internet was super laggy yesterday & I couldn't really do anything about it T.T I just want to wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS & a HAPPY NEW YEAR~ :) That's the least I can do >.< AND, I have a gift for you guys:

Operation: Ouran Christmas... SUCCESS!~

I hope you guys like it!~ ^______________^  It was very time consuming to vector everything over again, since the origional scan had all these test in it >.< But, it was really worth it at the end :)

AND here are the wonderful gifts I recieved from my friends here on xanga :)

 -Thisone is from XLunarlightdesignsX :) Isn't it awesome? Thank you sooo much from  this pretty wall :D

-This card it from MoonlitxShadowxDesigns ^____________^ You are really awesome~ Thanki for the wonderful card :]

-Doncha just love Cloud? I know I do :3 Cindy(AncientWhisper), I didn't leave xanga XD I've just been way more into making wallpapers.... But, I'll be back :] Thanks again for the hot Cloud christmas card :D

THANKS YOU GUYS! I LOVE ALL OF THEM!~

ohhh yea! BTW, my parents bought me a drawing tablet! Hurray~ :) I didn't think they would get me one, but they did XD Now, I'm off to go mess around with it & give out christmas cards >:]

Happy Holidays you guys B)

<33 Samantha

Turkey Day :3

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! EAT LOTS OF TURKEY~

(EAT LOTS AND LOTS OF TURKEY EVERYONE!~) -Sorry for the lack of updates :(

No new update with my layouts... I have been infatuated with making wallpapers and also VECTORING! O_o    I just figured that I needed to learn how to use photoshop. Well, to tell you the truth, I watched a vectoring tutorial video for 2 minutes and went straight to vectoring something in photoshop cs2  XD I'm almost done with vectoring my kh2 one but I didn't really work on it much because of school... Anyways, here's a preview of it:

<333 Samantha

P.S.

Check out animepaper.net :3 They have AMAZING wallpapers there and this site really inspires me to create wallpapers even more ^_______________^

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DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN! It's finally here! O.o The kh2 wall

Can anyone guess what I vectored for the bg? :3

Here are the scans that I used for this entire wall to vector:

Enjoy~ ^_________^

I'm finally backkk :) Sorry if I took so long to update my xanga -.- I've been extremely busy.... During the time when I wasn't on xanga I was basically moving, no internet, and school started. Goddammit! School is hell right now... I'm taking 3 AP classes which are: AP English, U.S. History, and Spanish Language (All three are AP courses) I never knew that it could be so hard. I had trouble actually managing my time actually. I really wanted to update my xanga but, I had no time..... Sorry if I worried any of you guys... I just read some of your comments and I promise to write back to everyone. ( BTW, Andrew, sorry to worry you so much ^__^) Well, I'm finally back I guess. Thanks Everyone for leaving comments on my xanga!~ I promise to go write back to you guys right now... Even if it's like 2 months late -.-

My gift to you guys is a wallpaper I made a week ago :) Hope you guys like it~ It was origionally supposed to be a new layout but, wtheck, it turned to be a wall afterall XD Maybe I will edit it to make a layout out of it. ^__^ Who knows wat I'll do next :D

*After clicking on the image, right click and "save as target"

Does anyone know who it is????!??! xD I'm pretty sure that everyone knows :3

Anyways.... time for me to go reply to everyone's comments they've left to me :O AND, I am officially back, unless if I say that I'm on hiatus :x

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BTW, Omgg~ I am finally using photoshop! O.O Never thought that I would ever love it this much... But I only use it for vectoring though XD I had no clue how to use photoshop because it the controls were different compared to PSP9 but, after watching a video on  vectoring for 2 minutes I got it right away XD Elaine hates me for that... Here's a preview of what I am vectoring these days :)

I'm not that great at it but, it's my first time ever attempting vectoring XD They were both done on photoshop, it's just that I have them open on PSP9 >.<

-Samantha

 Long time no see everyone? XD Just only 2 weeks of no new updates. Lol! Wanna see what I got for you guys? :3 Really wanna know? O_o 2 layout! Muhahahaha!~ One with Johnny Depp ( first time making a movie character) and then the second one is from FFVII: Before Crisis. I do hope that you guys know what that is. I was planning to use the Before Crisis layout for myself but, I just thought nvm. -.- Here you go:

http://www.xanga.com/CATest8

http://www.xanga.com/CATest9

I made a webjay playist for both of the layouts with the songs that I thought that matched perfectly with the layout. Hope you nobody minds about that >.> ALSO! I made 2 wallpapers from FFVII & FFXIII XD It came out pretty good I guess:

Just click on those screenshots to get them -.- They're both by 1024x768. To save it, click on whichever wallpaper you want, then RIGHT CLICK it & press SAVE TARGET AS. Got it? ^_______^

BTW, July 25th was Black49's brithday! Yayyyyy! :) Everyone a happy 13th birthday :]

Lastly, In mid August I may not be on for a while because I'll be moving houses. So don't be suprised if I don't respond later in August. So please don't freak out XD

-Samantha (aka CrystalAeris)