James Duke

Thanks guys I'm glad you like them!

Got some new stuff for anyone who wants to see it

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Thanks Glad you like them.

Been busy practicing realistic drawings. Kinda getting bored with my cartoonish ways of drawing people/things lol. Anyhoot, since I've been in a Beatles mood the last couple of months, I decided to try my hand at drawing one of them. The Beatle I chose to draw this time around, was George Harrison. The first pic is the drawing and the other is the original. All I used was a .5 mm mechanical pencil and a black crayola colored pencil. Not sure how long it took, but either way, I'm happy. My practicing is finally paying off. Only thing I've noticed wrong, was I kinda messed up on his eye and his hair isn't highlighted in the right places, the shading is off in a couple of places and some other little things, but otherwise, it's as close as I can manage right now. Next month = new tablet and new Photoshop, so I can kiss pencils and paper goodbye! Gonna try my hand at sculpting too. Just need to get money for the clay, tools and oven.... >.< Pics will come of my sculptures whenever I get to make them.

Thanks everyone Unfortunately my trial of Photoshop expired and until I get money to get the version I used, I can't make anymore space pics. All I have left is a very ancient version of Photoshop elements xD and it sucks for stuff like that. But in the meantime, it's pencil and paper time! In a couple of months I should hopefully have the good one again and a better tablet too.

Thanks It's my favorite planet one. I like the first nebula the best though.

Some more space pics I've done.

Looks like I'll make it tonight. I'm actually there early so I don't forget it ^^

Alrighty. I'll try to make it. But like I mentioned earlier, I can't make any promises. But I'll try my best to be there.

Sounds like fun ^^ Maybe it'll get the chatroom going again lol

I've never experienced a normal hurricane. But in '08, Ike came through and transformed into an extratropical cyclone, but it collided with a cold front that was coming through the same time and made the storm worse. We usually just get some rain, maybe a thunderstorm, from hurricanes after they weakened inland.

Yeah. tonight on the news, they said 18 confirmed deaths from it. It's sad. And it's only the beginning of hurricane season too.

Today at 1:51 pm Est, a 5.8 earthquake rattled the Eastern US. States as far away as Ohio felt the tremors. No deaths were reported, but there were some injuries and damage. I live in Knox County, Ohio and I was taking a nap in my room, which is upstairs (I live in a 2 story house) at the time. I felt my bed shaking and woke up and looked around, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary, but I noticed my birds were making more noise than usual. My cockatiels and parakeets are usually quiet when I'm sleeping, but even they were making noise. When I went downstairs, (about 2 hours later...yes, I stayed in my room that long xD after I woke up) my mom told me there'd been an earthquake in Virginia. I got online and looked it up and now I know what the shaking was from. Scary stuff, especially since it was my first ever experience feeling a quake like that. 18 counties in Ohio reported feeling it. As far north as Cleveland and as far south as Dayton. Ones I know for a fact are Knox, Franklin, and Licking counties (Central Ohio area). Did anyone else feel it? And if so, where at?

Thanks Garrett! For a little guy, he's a real handful! lol We got him a friend today (a 2 week old chicken chick) so he's calmed down a little (he was really wound up and always trying to escape before). Thanks Roger! As of right now, we have 3. Two hens and the little one. The peahens are pretty quiet, though they'll honk once in awhile. The males are the loud ones lol. Not as bad as my two little bantam roo's though xD The only time they're quiet is when they're sleeping.

^^ Thanks a bunch. To be honest, when I first saw the cracks in the egg, I almost started crying cause I was so happy. Lucky just took his first steps a little bit ago too. It was sooo cute to watch.

I've been pretty busy this past month, what with taking care of my chickens and peacocks and all. One of the peacocks started laying eggs last month, so I've been incubating them. Well, I had one due to hatch at anytime, so I was busy getting things ready for the little one. Well, yesterday I was at an appointment and when I checked the eggs before I left, they were the same as usual. When I got home, roughly 2 1/2 hours later, I go to check them again, and to my surprise one of the eggs was cracked. Knowing a chick was due, I immediately announced it to everyone else. That was around 4-4:30 pm. And for the rest of the day and all night, we were up checking on the egg. Finally, after almost 13 hours, my first peachick was born at 12:47 am on 6-16-11. We named the little one Lucky. So now he's comfy living in a 20 gal aquarium with a stuffed monkey to sleep with and a washcloth to sleep under. And here he is, baby Lucky.

I'm positive now it was a satellite I saw the other night. It was a constant light that faded as it got further away. And it moved in a straight line. But I'll never forget the first time I thought I saw a satellite passing by, but it turned into a mystery object. It was winter of 2000. I was only 10 when I saw it. It was the weekend and I was staying the night at my grandma's house. My mom, dad, brother, sister, cousins and aunt were there too because we had all eaten dinner there and my oldest cousin was staying the night with me. My dad went outside to his car for something, so I went with him. It was a clear night with a full moon and being in the middle of winter, I decided to get a look at the sky while it was still clear. My grandma lived out in the country, so the stars and all were really visible. As I watched the moon, I noticed something off to the left side, moving slowly. I started watching it and the next thing I know, it started to zig-zag and speed off and stop instantly, then go the other direction and do it over. After about 5 minutes, it went towards the moon and disappeared. The next night, after I'd gotten back home (we used to live out in the country as well), I went outside and looked at the stars again since we had gotten lucky and had two nights of no clouds. And that's when I saw it again. It was in the same area as the night before and did exactly the same thing as before. After that night, I never saw it again. But a person we knew at the time, said he'd seen the exact same thing in Croton (it's a small village roughly 10-15 minutes from the tiny town of Appleton, where I lived) the same night I saw it the second time. Then there was a more recent one that occurred last winter, but that one I think might've been an optical illusion. There were a lot of clouds that night and it made it seem like stars were moving when they weren't. I love watching meteor showers. But seems like everytime I want to see one, it's cloudy that night. Or it's too cold to stay outside more than a few minutes. As for the software I use, I use Photoshop. With the space pics, I used a trial version of Photoshop CS3. Normally though, I use Photoshop Elements 2. I like CS3 a lot better though. More tools and options to do more stuff. When my trial ends, I plan to try out the newest one, CS5. If I had the money *cough$680cough*, I'd buy it. I highly recommend it anyone wanting to do digital art ^^ Tablets come in very handy too, but I'm now short of one. *mumbles something about irritating little brothers*

Sounds sweet, I'll go check it out and see if I can find it =3 I was outside earlier and saw a satellite go by. I was watching this jet fly over head when I saw something else moving, so I started watching it. It didn't zigzag, stop suddenly or change direction, so I concluded it was a satellite lol.

Astronomy is my favorite hobby, ranking right up there with raising birds. I like to watch the stars and imagine if one of them has any planets like Earth. I honestly don't think we're the only life in the universe, intelligent or not. What are the odds of there only being one planet in the entire universe with life? xD My telescope was a really good one. I forget the brand name it was, but it had a small motor to rotate and adjust the angle. My brother used it once and broke the lens. But I still go out when I can and watch the sky, just to see if I can see a passing satellite or the ISS or even something I can't explain (happened a few times already). But to make up for the lack of a telescope, I like to watch this show called The Universe.

Astronomy is my favorite hobby, ranking right up there with raising birds. My telescope was a really good one. I forget the brand name it was, but it had a small motor to rotate and adjust the angle. My brother used it once and broke the lens. But I still go out when I can and watch the sky, just to see if I can see a passing satellite or the ISS or even something I can't explain (happened a few times already). But to make up for the lack of a telescope, I like to watch this show called The Universe.