and...the results of boredom i was waiting for my dad to get home from work last night and went onto paint.net to mess around, and this is what i came up with i had this concept in my head for awhile, but i was going to paint it was acrylics originally... though as i look at this, i think i still will paint it on canvas with acrylics someday, because i think that'll look better.

anyhow, i said paint.net would not be my primary coloring programme, and i think i still stand by that. i also think i'm too stubborn to give up ms paint but for ms paint, it's just easier to color things, whereas on paint.net, there's too many buttons for me to color any linearts. so, for paint.net, i think i'll just use it for emoticons and random nonlineart paintings like this

oh yeah. it's called "out from the murk", because lotuses (one of mah favorite flowers~) are grown in lil' ponds like this, and they have to grow through black mud and several feet of water before blooming. i thought that was kind of philisophical, and can be used to describe someone going through the hardships of life before gaining total consciousness before they die. neat. anyhow, end fun story.