With that major picture project out of the way (I like to take on a challenge once in a while to keep things interesting), I can now finish up that letter, which won't be hard, I just have to sit down and type out the end salutation and beg up the ink catridge to print it up. That will be a load off my mind when I finally get it printed out and ready to mail.
It's been a calm week otherwise, it rained here today. I love the sound of rain falling, it's very relaxing, which I needed today.
Everyone, thank you for the feedback on the picture, I really appreciate it. Now to get to the important things.
Comments:
Outlaw Melfina:
Drawing is a passion of mine, I just can't seem to stop. I do take breaks, but nothing lasts more than a week. It's not so much my being inconsistent, it's just that what I see and what I get are two different things, and in this case, that was bad for the whole drawing, so I trimmed out the bad stuff.
Devibichrist
Well, I've never been shot personally (nor do I want to be) but I do hear it's painful, so given the circumstances, I think I'd freak out like that too.
Angel Slayer
No thank you, I've seen what mixing meds can do to a person and it's not pretty. My idiot brother put himself in the hospital by mixing two things that shouldn't have been put together. He's all right now, but he was way out in left field for almost a whole day. I linked the picture at the top of my post, so if you haven't seen it yet, have a look.
sworn.secrecy
I linked directly to the picture at the top of my post, so it's up there now. I owed the library quite a bit of money myself, but they up and changed the library card system and all that went away on it's own. I had to get a new card, but at least I'm in the black with them again.
Yensid:
I saw your comments and appreciate them. I wasn't exactly going for "annoyed" but I think whtdragon would agree with you on that point in terms of the mood she'd be sporting when dressed like that. So in the end it works anyway.
beyblader
Thanks for checking on it for me.
I do that same thing to myself all the time, every time I write out West Virginia when I talk about where I live, I get that classic John Denver song stuck in my head, or if I'm really air-headed at the time, the Japanese reversion that was used as the theme in Whisper of the Heart (Mimi wo Sumaseba for the purists). At least I can carry the Japanese reversion in terms of tune, the english one comes out like a hillbilly croaking it. In terms of bittersweet, an old Dolly Parton song comes to mind for that word. The strangest things will pop songs into my head at the strangest times too, I get a lot of Simon and Garfunkel stuck in my head, mostly songs I don't know all the words to which really drives me nuts. Lately though, Mrs. Robinson, The Boxer, and The Sounds of Silence have been the songs getting play time in my head, Kodachrome gets in there too at the oddest times, and one of the weirdest ones they did, 7 O'clock News/Silent Night (the words to Silent Night are sung overtop a news broadcast) just happened to switch on the other day, and I've only heard that one once or twice.
Mamma Vash:
A lot of the artwork turned out by accident really. I did try to make it look good, and that part of the picture came out great in my opinion. I just wish I could have done the other half more to my own liking.
Must be referring to the quiz result below. I don't even remember taking that one, but I'm trying to randomly post different results every once in a while. I may be delayed with doing that, there's a bug is my quiz manager that needs to be sorted out (one of my results that duplicated won't delete). I actually haven't seen the entirety of Vash yet so I wouldn't notice those things right away.
I know, it's wonderful to get lost in the same anime over and over again. Spirited Away is a prime example of that for me, but any Studio Ghibli film does it to me, I get lost in Last Exile every time I see it, I get lost in Escaflowne too. an interesting factiod, Yoko Kanno's music was inspired by the Jazz scene of none other than New Orleans.
whtdragon
I anticipated that reaction, which is why the title of the picture is "I'm in Trouble Now" and I start off the caption by giving you permission to retaliate. If it gave you the giggles though, that's a good thing right? I'm glad you liked it, and thank you for your compliment of the piece.
I promised I'd be a good sport about any retribution so I'll help you out with a few things about me that you may not know. Here's a rather frightful picture of my "human" me, you have to work from some sort of reference right? I am a very timid dragon, I don't really like social situations (people make me terribly nervous) and I embarrass very easily. I'm not much of a swimmer either (I can't physically do it, and it goes back to my timidness too). I hope those things help.
Breakfast Squid
Sometimes challenges are very tough to do. You know, they sound easy, but in practice it's a whole different story. This is the part of the picture that turned out well, and I think my time on it was well spent too. The dress turned out better than I expected it to as well, which is always nice. It's really a shame that the unposted part didn't come out like I wanted it to come out.
Magnus Lensherr
The part I posted is the better portion of the whole picture, I'm not complaining to much about what's up, but what I couldn'tget up because it wasn't what I wanted it to be. I did try to give whtdragon the details, if she chooses to share them that's her business, I just don't really like to go in depth explaining my art too much so I won't do it myself. That said, I don't want to hear from her that people are harrassing her for info on the picture either.
I think if I got a picture to look exactly like I want it to look, or exactly how I see it in my head, I'd sell that one for a cool million as my best artwork ever. I get a lot of really good ideas in my head (like my recent lizard man soda jerk challenge), but I'm not skilled enough as an artist to put those mental pictures to paper yet. I may actually try this challenge (and the one I issued) again in another year and see if things come out better the second time around.
