Ice Princess (image)

Okay, this took me forever.  Currently, the area where I live is having record-breaking cold temperatures, so I thought I'd do something to reflect the season.  Hence, this image was created.  I really had a lot of fun playing with different brush patterns for the snow like thingies.  I also experimented with hue saturation and the hues themselves.

This image is a big step for me because it is completely and utterly ORIGINAL!  I have had to look off other pictures to draw my previous images, but I wanted to try a new approach for this one.  It's definitely not my best, but I think its pretty good for a first try.  The lineart was done with Inkscape while most of the coloring with GIMP.

Anyway, I'm dead on my feet so I'm signing off.

Peace out peoples!

KobaltWolf

Deidara (image 2)

I thought that I should do another Deidara image because my original one was so weird.  So, I decided to draw everyone's favorite blonde Akatsuki member in one of his most famous positions.  I'm pretty pleased with the result, but I might go back in later and edit it some more.  

I spent like 7 hours on this thing and I am tired! I had a lot of fun with the background though.  I wasn't sure what to put in it, so I finally decided on a simple red outline to draw the viewer's attention to Deidara himself.

I was going for Deidara's slightly-insane-complete-pyro look.  Did it turn out alright? 

Peace out peoples!

KobaltWolf

200 VIEWS!!!! (random poem)

As the title suggests, The Kobalt Board has reached 200 views!  YAY!!!!  Yeah, I know it's not that big for most people, but it's big for me, so THERE.

To commemorate this historic event, I thought I'd write a little poem. . . .

Roses are red,
The Kobalt Board's blue,
We love this blog,
So view, view, VIEW!


. . . .I mean it. . . .view. . . .

Yes, I know it's a terrible poem, but I'm on a sugar rush.  Too much ice cream.

Anyway, let's shoot for 500 views next.


Peace out peoples!

KobaltWolf

The Kobalt Board Banner (image)

I was really bored. . . .so I made this!  The overlay took forever, but I'm relatively pleased with the result.  It was at first supposed to be this really awesome, detailed wolf howling at the moon, but it turned into this.  In case you didn't guess what it was, it's a banner for the. . .wait for it. . .Kobalt Board!  

This is my first time doing the letters free-handed.  I used Inkscape to do most of them except for the "r" and the "d" in board.  I used GIMP for those, so that's why they look a bit different.

Anyway, hope you like it!

Peace out,

KobaltWolf

Here I Stand (poem)

I'm sorry to say it, but I was kind of in a depressed mood today.  My brother and I were watching a documentary about the effect of greenhouse gases on Earth's biomes and it just made me furious to see how much we've messed up the planet.  I wrote this poem to reflect how I feel.  I'm not going to tell you the exact themes because you should be able to decipher them yourselves.  If you can't, then I didn't do a very good job of writing this poem!

I look from the precipice.

Nothing but gray,

As far as the eye can see.

Uniform, unchanged,

Dark even during day.

Here I stand.

I direct my eyes downcast

Against the sting

Of the wind across my face.

Feral, ferocious,

Fierce against my wing.

Here I stand.

I wrinkle my nose, disgust.

Assaulted scenes,

Drift fore without embrace.

Pungent, prevalent,

Remorse without trace.

Here I stand.

I curl down my lips, distaste.

Loathing the nausea,

Trying to cover my face.

Repulsion, revulsion,

Like sulphur lace.

Here I stand.

I cover my ears with haste.

Cries that never abate,

Jarring through all protection.

Clashing, crashing,

Without correction.

Here I stand.

I stand on the precipice,

Never moving, never losing ground.

I see through, relentless,

Tangent in air,

Through to the emptiness,

That surrounds everywhere.

I never move.

I stay.

I stand through it all.

Here I still.  I stay.  I stand.