Friday, July 14, 2006

Boy, I have not had luck with how I’ve timed my posts….
It appears no one, save the lovely Vakala86, saw my previous post (upon return home), nor the one before it (the one I made while in Williamsburg). ^_^;

Allrightie, guess that means I have to reiterate what I said on the previous 2:
The previous 2 posts contain the recap of my vacation in Williamsburg.
Though I appreciate anyone reading through it, since it’s rather long you may feel free to save it for when you’re really bored or something.
^_^ So, unless you’re somehow really interested in reading about what happened during my vacation, you can just quickly read over those last 2 posts at whatever point you have the time and interest.

Okey-dokey, onto today’s post. ^o^

Hopefully I’ll be going on at least a manga-run tomorrow with Josh. He’s busy tomorrow night, so that prevents us from doing a sleep-over, but I think we’ll be doing that next week. ^_^ We’ve got a lot of movies to watch together (all of which he’s already seen, but wants to watch with me): Sin City, Shaun of the Dead (awesome!!!! *o* ), Fists of Furry, Kill Bill Vol. 2, all of which I already know I’ll like. =^^=

Moving on, I thought I’d give a special gift to you guys for being so patient with my long posts, and my zombie/karate movie fanboy-ishness.
So, I decided of something cute (not that I normally dislike cute stuff of anything =^^= ), and since most of you are Fruits Basket fans, I found the perfect piece of art to share.
Here’s a little something for all you Fruits Basket-cases; “Fruits Basket Card Group 1” by snow:


Though not appropriate for the month of July (*swelter*), I always love winter pics. Plus, despite the fan I’m not a Fruits Basket fan, I still find this adorable. =^^=
Winter coats add a sort of thickness to a character, and combining that with chibi-proportions only heightens that effect.

Speaking of Fruits Basket, Josh and I have a running joke about Fruits Basket being made into a high-budget Spanish action-movie. “Basketo de Frutas”. XD
We have these mental images of Yuki and Kyo jumping from train-cars and yelling at each other in Spanish. X3 Cracks us up every time.

Speaking of Josh, I need to upload the birthday picture I drew for him a few months ago. Like I said, I already showed it to him, and he was quite impressed. :3 Heh heh, I’m not surprised. X3 My first time drawing something like that…..
Regarding that pic, I’ve run into a bit of a snag in uploading it here. You see, the original is 1183 x 908, far too big for here. And down-sizing it makes it loose a lot of its quality. It’s probably even too big for Photobucket to carry without compressing it (did they recently tighten the size it can be before they compress it or something? A lot of the photos/pics I upload there to show you guys get ruthlessly compressed).

So, any ideas on what I should do? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

And speaking of birthdays (and subsequent art-related gifts), Miyoko-chan’s birthday is today.
She didn’t warn me ahead of time!!!! ToT I wanted to draw something nice for her!!!
Man, I should have sawn this coming. Now I don’t have a nice birthday-picture ready for Erin-chan. T_T

Well, maybe she won’t mind a late piece of birthday-art. Hmmmmm, I’ll ask her when I visit her site today.
I already have a *secret* piece of art I did for Erin-chan almost ready to submit, but I don’t want to give that to her for her birthday (you’ll see why when you see the pic XD ). So, I gotta’ do something original for her! But what? :p Hmmm, maybe she’ll have a suggestion as to what she’d like to have me draw for her. I’ll be sure to ask her that too when I visit her. ~_’

Oh, and speaking of The Erin-chan, her dad’s now home from the hospital! ^o^
A big thank-you to everyone who prayed for him while he was in there. Thankfully, he’s now back with Erin and the rest of their family.
Congratulations on a full recovery! b^_^

Well everybody, I’m off to visit and comment on your sites.
I’ve been feelin’ really down recently (more on that some other time), but hopefully my manga-run with Josh tomorrow will clear that up.

OK everybody, I’ll see you tomorrow!

Here’s today’s Art-Feature.
“Authoritarianism” by varjag:


A powerful real-world political portrait. If only journalists could capture such artistic photographs when reporting on an issue.

Anyway, I find this piece extremely impressive. Such portrait-esque poses and positioning is hard to capture when taking a real-life on the spot photo.
Despite being an on the spot photo while on location, this piece still seems to carry serious political and societal significance in what it features, reminding us to always, always, be thankful for our freedoms….

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