Saturday, 27 June 2015

United States of America Marrige Equality

This week on the internet, the United States of America has finally made it legal in all states to allow same-sex marriage. Which is great and I am super super happy for you over there! Really, I am! What else I am hearing is that Australia needs to catch up and do the same thing, and I wholly agree 300%, the only thing stopping us is one thing. One man. Tony Abbott.

He is highly against same-sex marriage, because his views of everything, including women, lie back in the 1950's. He is a sexist, homophobic bastard who needs to take his head out of his ass and get things together, because he has ruined this country and it's name.

We will not see marriage equality here in Australia for another year or two, when he is voted out. Once that happens and someone with a brain in voted in, THEN we as a nation can openly, and easily, try to convince the new PM to make this thing legal. But until then, until Tony Abbott is voted out, we will have to wait for the ability to marry anyone we please, with no problems.

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News articles about Abbott and his view down below:

Thursday, 11 June 2015

My view: Wacom Intuos Small Graphic Tablet (with pen+eraser)

My first sketch
On the 28th May, 2015, I ordered my very first graphics tablet. It arrived in the mail the next week and I was happy to get it so I could get it set up, ready to use.

Since I haven't used a graphics tablet before, this was a weird thing for me to get use to, but it took me no longer then a day or two. Obviously, when it was set up, I opened up Photoshop and started drawing, again, it was weird and odd at first. I decided quickly, that the easiest way for me to get use to the tablet, would be to simply, use it as a mouse or an expensive trackpad with a pen. I do think that did help.
Now, going into this, I wasn't the best drawer, was alright, was not the best; but I do think it will encourage me a bit to draw a little more. I have been getting use to it. I've been taking photos of things, and tracing them in Photoshop, like for example, my sister's dog and my King Dedede amiibo. It's been a nice experience and I really am enjoying using this new thing.

I picked a Waccom tablet because I feel they are a good, reliable maker of graphics tablets, and I've had my eye on them for about two years, which is how long I've wanted a graphic tablet for. But now I've got one, it looks great and I'm loving it. I know this is a basic tablet but I know I don't need anything fancy since this is my first.
I would suggest, that if you were thinking about getting a graphics tablet, please look at what Waccom has to offer~!

My King Dedede tracing