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		<title>New Illustration: The Acorn Fairy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been browsing galleries, drooling over digital-watercolors and trying to figure out how to implement a similar style in my own work. PaintTool SAI has a watercolor tool (but no directions) so I decided to play around with it and see what sort of effects I could come up with. Seems a little more &#8216;air-brush&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalliann.com/archives/342</link>
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		<title>February Theme: Brother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new month and a new theme! As chosen by The Random Word Generator, the theme for February is &#8220;Brother&#8221;. Having a brother of my own, this was the first sketch idea that came to mind: If I had known that he&#8217;d someday grow into a gorilla, I SO wouldn&#8217;t have picked on him when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalliann.com/archives/316</link>
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		<title>New Illustration:  The Wreath Maker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ha- it&#8217;s finally done! Honestly I didn&#8217;t think this one would take so long but shading and highlighting the berries and leaves was suprisingly time-consuming; not because they were particularly difficult to color- just so BORING. Every time I&#8217;d sit down to finish those awful twigs, I&#8217;d find something more interesting to do elsewhere&#8230; Like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalliann.com/archives/310</link>
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		<title>New Illustration:  Blue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started this illustration as part of a four-piece series (featuring stylized Eastern ladies) almost two years ago. I got pretty far with it before I realized that I hadn&#8217;t resized it properly before coloring and that it wouldn&#8217;t be suitable for print. Frustrated, I took a break and forgot about it&#8230; until earlier this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalliann.com/archives/303</link>
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		<title>New Illustration: Lost In A Fairytale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided to ink and color both of the sketches I drew for this month&#8217;s theme of &#8216;crown&#8217;; of the two, I thought the rustic one would be easier but, no, the hundreds of sticks and berries that need shading and highlights are driving me insane. So this one zoomed to the finish, instead: When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalliann.com/archives/290</link>
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		<title>Plans, Goals, Sketches&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did 2011 seem ridiculously long and trudging to anyone else? Like a muddy walk uphill? Both ways? It&#8217;s silly, I know, but I feel such a huge sense of relief that it&#8217;s finally 2012. I am awash in the newness of the year. Giddy, even! I spent the whole of December trying to better myself, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalliann.com/archives/265</link>
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		<title>New Illustration:  Poppy Fairy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t had much time for drawing lately but I wanted to post at least one more illustration before the year ends&#8230; so here it is. This is actually the third version of this same picture. The first was done in traditional inks and ruined by a shaky hand and the second was finished digitally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalliann.com/archives/330</link>
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		<title>New Illustration:  Frog and Fairy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EMG-Zine is an interesting artists&#8217; and writers&#8217; resource I discovered this year. It&#8217;s an e-zine that features illustrations, fiction, and instructive articles based on monthly themes. I&#8217;ve submitted work a few times times this year and below is my latest illustration for November&#8217;s theme of &#8216;Frogs.&#8217; I love working from word and theme prompts; frogs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalliann.com/archives/218</link>
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		<title>Who doesn’t love pirates?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In highschool, I took a creative writing class, hoping to refine some of my story ideas and turn them into viable plots.  But I found that some things were easier to express in pictures than words so I&#8217;d fill the margins of my rough drafts with doodles, planning to return later and translate them into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalliann.com/archives/77</link>
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		<title>Glass half-full…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not even halfway through and 2011 is proving to be the worst year of my life.  In March, after a long month of struggle, my dad died of kidney failure.  He was only a couple weeks shy of his sixty-third birthday and thirty-fourth wedding anniversary. I miss him so much.  Things were never quite as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dalliann.com/archives/70</link>
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