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Vitals

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

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Hey everyone, well some of you have probably heard about this, some not, but my Otaku account had been frozen and all my drawings deleted the other day and yesterday. Why you ask? Because someone turned me in for plagiarism!!! They accused me of tracing 3 of my drawings!! If only I could express how hurt, distraught, and then angry I was about this. The accuser left this awful Guestbook entry going on and on about what an embarrassment I am to artist like her and how I was “Busted.” I then check my PM’s and see that they had frozen my account. But I had a nice message from a moderator basically asking me my side of things. I told them that, like many artists, I used images done by the pro’s to help teach me how to draw anime because before I joined this site in October, I had never drawn any. I told him I used grid drawing when first learning to truly map out how things work in the faces, eyes, body, hands, etc. So the result of those images is a near perfect recreation of the original! No biggie, many people do it. But this person who turned me in is just plain…mean! On her site she’s going on and on about what a horrible artist I am and how she can’t believe I won the Best Fanart Award on Sesslover18’s contest. I’m not going to use her name on my post and I already deleted her GB entry. Although I’m sure you guys would stick up for me, I don’t need to get this person more ticked off.

Well, thank goodness, the moderator took my word over hers and un-froze everything. But this accuser goes on and on about my “tracing” and it’s only THREE drawings she’s complaining about!! She doesn’t say anything about all the others which are obviously not traced. She doesn’t listen when I say that I was LEARNING!! I had never drawn anime before!! I drew only photorealism! I would draw from an official piece then try my own. Like I told her, if I had a dollar for every person on this site who re-drew an official drawing, I’d never have to work another day in my life! It’s how people LEARN!! When people ask me for pointers when first drawing, I tell them, learn from the pros! How else does one learn how to draw? By practicing!! And how the heck can you trace through Bristol board?!?! This stuff is THICK!! I mean…it’s NOT possible! Oh man, I’m just so upset you have no idea. Although the moderator said that I could leave the drawings up, I will delete them. Not just because of this accuser but in case more like her come around the bend. So today is the last day my drawing of “Ed from FullMetal Alchemist,” “Kirara with Young Sango and Kohaku,” and “Inuyasha And Sesshoumaru” will be seen on this site. Oh but you better believe they are still on my Deviant Art account!
Although I’m sure she’ll be all over those ones too. I know she’s been there since she said that she didn’t believe that the photorealism drawings were mine either. Yep, too bad I had made a tutorial showing step-by-step how I draw photorealism so there’s goes her accusation too. I mean, it’s one thing to re-draw something done by a fellow fan artist but to re-draw something mass produced and sent out by the companies is something else. People do it ALL the time yet she decided to point the finger at me. Look at my new artworks…obviously, doing those drawings has taught me something and now they are all my own and I no longer need to rely on the pro’s pieces so please, just leave me alone and let me be.

Sorry, the post is so long. As you can imagine, I’m very upset as an artist as well as I was scared that I wasn’t going to be able to chat with you guys again. Plus, I’m very upset because my Doberman pincher dog named Freddie, who’s 14 years old isn’t doing very well. She keeps having these weird spells where she basically collapses and can’t get up or lift her head or anything. We took her to the vet Monday and he says she has a tumor on her spleen that will randomly bleed and make this happen. She’s too old for surgery and the vet says it doesn’t cause her pain so to just let her go. It may be corny to say, but Freddie is a family member in this household…she’s 14. She’s been around longer then some of you. The bond I have with her is over-whelming and when these spells happen, I’ll lay on the floor beside her and pet her because it hurts me so to see her like this. Up till now, she’s acted like a puppy and I don’t know what I’m going to do when I come home and she’s no longer there. Or when I eat her face isn’t 2” from my plate. Or when I go swimming not having her constantly drop her toys in the pool because she knows I’ll dive for them and throw them for her. Or when I lay on the floor not having her lay beside me and rest her head on my lap….sorry, I need to stop. I’m getting quite upset. These past couple days have over-whelmed me.

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