^{Good afternoon or whatever and hello. It is my first day attempting to mingle in with this Creative Tribe thing.} My name is @NoNamesLeftToUse The Writer/Artist Himself. ^{Today, I will be attempting some writing and some art.}

False Alarm

^{I heard somewhere that if you need attention, just yell, "Fire!"}

Obviously it worked because now you're here.

Today I'm going to attempt to do an actual art post.

I don't normally do actual art posts. Normally I just ramble on about something. I'll spend sometimes more than a day working on something artsy, then I'll slap it down somewhere inside my post, and talk about something else.

I've probably done that hundreds of times. I'm nervous.

I have to be creative but I don't know how.

Everyone in this Creative Coin Tribe is judging me right now. I can feel your eyes looking at me.

But I'll be fine. I just need you folks to know this is a big day for me. Thursday. I'm a huge fan of Thursdays.

Maybe I should do the art thing now?

^{It's not too soon, is it?}

Welcome to the actual art portion of the actual art post. I am a digital artist.

I should probably start out by mentioning I made the image above that says, "Fire!" all by myself.

In order to make something like that, all one has to do is take a blank digital canvas, make it black, bring up a new layer, select the tool that sprays color down in that fashion, then write, "Fire!" Once that's done, I resize and center the word, "Fire!" because I'm sloppy and all over the place. Then I merge the two layers together, save the file, hopefully don't forget where I put it, then upload it here.

I'm proud of it.

Moving along.

^{This is going better than I thought it would.}

Normally, when I produce my artwork, I zone out, and always forget to stop to take screenshots of the process along the way.

Because this is my first time presenting my work in front of the this Creative Tribe thing, I decided not to forget.

So now I have to spend a whole bunch of time cropping these damn screenshots and explaining borderline insanity to you people with the hopes I come across as someone who is not messing with you or wasting your time. This is going to be hard.

The Artifact

^{That's the fancy name I gave the finished work of art!}

Step One:

Today I decided to first split my blank digital canvas into four sections. When I paint onto one section, the other three sections will paint themselves to match the section I'm working on. I do not do this for every image I produce. It's just one of my many ways of getting things done.

No. I'm not being lazy. I'm building up what I call my "base."

Observe:

_{All of my work starts with a blank digital canvas.}^{The green circle is the tool I'm using. You can ignore that.}

Now things start to get intense. Are you ready for this?

First I wanted some blue!

^{Two kinds!}

Then I grabbed a new layer and put some black underneath for some strange reason!

Then I went crazy with some green!

Then I started to see red!

Then yellow came along to say, "What's up!"

Then I guess I wanted more black!

Now I want to start mixing it all together!

This usually takes awhile and it's really boring!

Still going!

Now I have the base I want to play with!

So it's safe to say:

^{That's half random, half planned.}

And I've already been busy for quite some time.

At this point, I've made a little playground for myself. I spend that amount of time making a 'base' so I'll be able to spend less time producing the actual image I have in mind. The main colors I want to use are all in place. Now I can use hotkeys to select back and forth from the color on my canvas, to the brush tool I'm using. I'll be able to move and shape what's there, kind of like I'm sculpting or messing around with colored sand. And of course I'll be applying new layers on top and using my trusty spray paint like tool (my favorite) to paint over things and create an actual "work of art."

The Artifact

^{Took a long, long, long, long time to finish.}

I would never torture you with another train of process images. I also don't like being watched while I work.

So through the magic of television...

Now you get to see:

The Artifact

Tah-dah!

^{And now I'll just let you think about that for awhile.}

Have a nice day.

Credits:All art and images seen here were produced digitally, by me.
^{"Experiencing internet issues today. If I don't respond right away, it's not because I'm dead."}

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