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Birthday
• 1982-12-21
Gender
• Female
Location
• New York
Member Since
• 2004-10-17
Occupation
•
Real Name
• Lindsey

Personal

Achievements
• Being asked to be a guest artist at the NYAnimeFest and winning a fan manga contest where my entry will be published in the back of a real manga!^_^
Anime Fan Since
• 2002 when I happened to flick on Cartoon Network and was sucked into Inuyasha and didn't stop watching it till I finished the series
Favorite Anime
• Inuyasha, Rurouni Kenshin, Ouran High School Host Club, Fullmetal Alchemist, Black Cat, Naruto, Fruits Basket, D.N.Angel, Chrno Crusade, Gravitation, Loveless, Code Geass, Soul Eater
Goals
• To become an illustrator
Hobbies
• Drawing, reading, running, skiing, movies, video games...and obviously anime, scuba diving, and belly dancing.^_^
Talents
• Art! But I can also sing hello in 21 languages, and sing all U.S. presidents in order, thanks to Animaniacs! I also kick butt in video games!^_^

myOtaku.com: ElvesAteMyRamen

Monday, June 4, 2007

With my latest Loveless drawing, I got many people mention they like my backgrounds as well as the way I draw the hands. Why thank you, I appreciate that but the reason I�m bringing it up is because backgrounds and hands are what I find to be the biggest problem amongst fan art. I tend to see people who �hide� the hands, i.e. the hands are kept behind the character�s back, hidden in pants pockets, sleeves that happen to be too long which can be okay with some images however, it�s not a good idea to ignore hands. How do you expect to improve on something if you don�t practice it?
Same idea with backgrounds. I see many who don�t give a character any backgrounds which again, if okay in some cases but often, an image can be GREATLY heightened if the characters are put into an environment. I have a perfect example with one of my own drawings of Sasuke. I did this drawing of Sasuke and when I originally drew it, I had no intention of giving it a background but after I finished coloring it and scanning it, I just looked at it and thought, this NEEDS a background! So I grabbed my acrylic paints and slobbed on a background and just look at the difference:

I�m certainly not saying that is the �perfect� drawing or anything but I�m just trying to show those artists out there that giving your characters environments can make a HUGE difference and it gives your drawings a new life. I sound so corny but it�s true! And hands are an important aspect to drawings as well because hands are extremely expressive and can really make or break an image. There, my little teaching is over. *passes out Oreos*

Why is it, if you�re skinny everyone just assumes you�re always hungry? At work yesterday, my supervisor brought in some food and he kept on shoving food at me saying, �C�mon, look at you! You must be hungry!� I mean, just because I�m a string bean doesn�t mean that I�m starving myself! Feh! I have a bird stomach and don�t eat much at a time so people don�t believe me when I say I�m full. My body, my tummy, I say I�m full, it means I�m full! *wags finger at them*

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