Friday, July 20, 2007

currently listening: thank you by dido
oh, dido...prolly one of the most awesomely awesome artists ever...-le sigh- this song always makes me thing of looking over a quiet, beautiful beach from a contemporary beach house. detailed thoughts, i know. but that's always been my dream, to have a contemporary beach house on a quiet serene beach. clear blue skies, relaxing tides wiping against the beach...now THAT'S the awesome. no wonder i've listened to it 102...103 times on my itunes. 8>

i had myself a thought yesterday. over at dA, i watch endling because his art is freaking COOL. i've always loved that sketchy but epic style of his; it's amazing! well, yesterday i was reading over his latest journal about his OC tournament, ENDZONE!

the thought occured to me immediately that THOSE TOURNAMENTS are EXACTLY what we need over here! you know the whole OC war going on and the OC's getting more eminent these days? well, lets put your creations to the test! that's what i thought. i figured that it could be a big huge otaku phenomenon that anyone could participate in if they had an OC. it would be a good way to fill up the fanmanga section, i'll tell you that.

but yeah! i was thinking of presenting the idea to a news team member and see if they could get it up on the front or something rather to spread the news. but then i knew that it'd be a bit so that we could figure out prizes, requirements, judges, and whatever else we could think of.

i wouldn't want to be a judge because last night i revamped one of my old characters, dusty the mechanic, to be a possibility in this tournament, if it ever comes to be! i even created a new character, pinkers the gremlin, to be his assistant in the battles. got their designs finalized at about 11:15 last night. (couldn't sleep, wink)

so i was just wondering if anyone would consider the idea. -shrug- just think about it, maybe. i think it'd be a real blast!

in other news, i didn't get the final word on the kitten last night because since mum's new job doesn't give her an office at work yet, she tele-commutes from home and she's always working. so i'm ganna get her today when she's not busy. that's why i want to make a run up to hobby lobby or staples to get my colourless blender/new prismas! so i can get some MONO-E-MONO time. i don't care if that's spelled right. :B

CROSSING MY FINGERS FOR THE BEST! -crosses fingers and toes- we're in no rush, at least, because mrs beimer (my science teacher/kitten owner) said she'll hold apollo (KITTEN) until we finalize (most likely with a yes)

har's a picture of the little kitten we want to get, apollo!




he's about 8 weeks old now, very playful and cuddly, and sweet as can be, as mrs beimer told me! ^ ^ I'MASOEXCITED!!

so, in summary. OC tournament: yes or no? and kitten: root for me or shoot me down? dido: gotta love her.

now to go scan in my contest entries and colour them! -scrambles off-
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

currently listening: one voice by billy gilman
THIS KID...back in 2000...was freaking CUTE. DX he had hisself a really high singing voice you gotta love. but then he growed up and hit...PUBERTY. now he talks with a grown-up teen voice that i would NOT want to listen to over his kid voice. ; ; some beautiful things just can't last...at least this song does! i love this song to death too..

-eats hair- my day's fine! i'm excruciatingly tired, but i's fine all the same. it's been really hard getting to sleep because pillows hurt my neck so i's sleeping on just the mattress. but i have pillows all around me so then the bed gets REALLY warm REALLY quick. and the fan's loud...and my telephone's light won't turn off..so i just take my pillow and put it over my head. it'll make it easier for the killer that's ganna come to my house and suffocate me with a pillow! hooray...but yeah. it takes me quite a long time to get comfortable. last night i was up till prolly 12-12:30 tossing and turning. i got in bed at 10. D: i's sad now. THE INSOMNIA IS COMING BACK!

anyway. do any of you watch age of love? if not, you should. if you do, I'MSOEXCITEDFORTHENEXTEPISODE. you know, when they're all on the camping trip and i think it was maria telling off amanda. MARIA. she just is a backstabber! i mean, she was REALLY nice to mary and was kind of like a mother figure for her, but it was SO SAD at the elimination ceremony yesterday! ; ;!!! she just went and stabbed her in the back by staying. but...it was mary's time to go. i don't think she would be able to take it mentally. ; ; poor mary...

and so the babble ensues again. i've been talking to shirotsuki via email for a long time, i just realized. 8D;;;; i commissioned her back on june 4th, but we're still talking and talking strong strong! i guess it's because i just keep on drawing pictures for her. 9 9;;;; the other night when i was tossing around in my bed, i thought of an idea for a picture for her featuring asura and the yellow parrot again. i'll be sure to post it when it's done. it's a pretty durn funny idea, i have to admit. well, if you understand asura and typ's relationship. and if you really are slow, "typ" stands for the yellow parrot. YALLOW.

on her last reply, she gived me an inspirational speech on critique. 8D and said that she'd give me a sneak peek on the latest cross canticle work since i'm the one inspiring her! o o; i was totally psyched when she said my little pictures for her were making her work more and more on cross canticle's story. maybe i should keep doing them! but then she might explode...we really wouldn't want that. at least i wouldn't! half of you still prolly don't know (or care?) who she is.

CLICK NOW!

if you haven't gone to that link ever, i feel sad for you. it's the best link in the world.

so! i'm thinking i'll change the layout soon. not to a div, but to a new colour scheme/wallpaper. i just donno what yet...so i'm ganna prolly make my own wallpaper. YAY. it'll be a muted colour scheme like this, because bright violent colours hurt my eyes. possibly indigo. or greenish! maybe just total white...NAW NEVER. >:E EEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRG.

i'm ganna go work on crows's'ss''s's'ss's's''s's'sz last picture. :3 have a fantastic day.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

currently watching: courage the cowardly dog
WATCHING?! it had to happen. i'm actually rewatching the episode "the last of the starmakers" ;o; it makes me cryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy and laugh because it's funny when the swat guys are all flossing their teeth instead of guarding. and when eustace's money was actually experimental rocket fuel! that made me giggle a lot. but it was prolly the saddest episode in the whole series, along with rememberance of courage's past. ;ooooo;;;;;;;;;;;;;; to me, at least. if for some CRAZYHYSTERICALDUMBWEIRD reason you have NEVER seen this series, DO WATCH IT!! it's my favourite animated anything i have ever watched. EVER. ^ ^ i've seen every episode at least twice. but now they're coming out with a fifth season this summer! i'm so excited!! -FREAKSOUT?!?!!-

i'm so hyped up todays. I'MGANNASEEHARRYPAHTAAATHEESAFTERNOOOOON. yup. i know, worst time to EVER see a major blockbuster. on opening day at about...3-4 in the afternoon. -nods- well, i guess friday night at around 5-7 would be the WORST time. thank the lordy that's not the case! 8D i wanted to see the midnight showing but there were a lot of reasons we couldn't see it. so that made me sad, but to make up for it we're going to see it with our family friends the powes! well, actually only morgan and amanda because they're harry pottah freaks. hee...8D they'd be really mad at me if they saw i called 'em freaks. HURRRRR.....hur.

umm, lessee. i cannot draw a charging rhino. CANNOT. it's very hard because it looks like the rhino is just walking. AND PROPORTIONS?! they're hard too. so i need a new rock animal! serious animal, not like a pet rock or a rock squirrel. or maybe...maybe a giant mutant rock squirrel would work...anyway, suggestions? anyone? anyone? bueller....beeeeeuuuuller??? heeee...X3 i love that movie.

oh! that brings me to a compressed rant. i compressed it because i would talk to much if i didn't. YAY COMPACT? i like compact cars. they're nice.

so! this is the comments rant. i think i might've done it a'for, but i am not sure..well. it feels like that with this new art-stalking power that we were all permitted as well as our good old friends list, i have actually gotten less feedback from friends lately. it's very odd, from my standpoint at least. i actually have a sort of theory that developed from it. comparison time!

it's like when you realize that your neighbor, who we will dub fargus, has a brand spankin' new puppy named archibald! you look in sadness and realize that you want a pupper too, after seeing fargus have the time of his life playing in the frontyard with archibald. so you go inside and search online about different puppies. from what you see, they're very very cute! you just want one of your own SO BAD that you go and ask your mum or guardian that you must have a puppy. she says no. so you go emo in your room for your while just lookin' at puppers online and wanting one for yourself. so after asking mum/guardian multiple times, you finally get her to pry out yes! but she warns you of all the responsibilities of the doggy. you brush it off as trying to be manipulated out of getting one. so you go to the pet store and get your own little pupperdog, who we will call scotty. you take scotty home, and he is very very fun to play with the first day. but then after a few weeks, you don't cherish the time you have with scotty! you think of playing with him as something you could always do another time, or feeding him becomes a chore because you feel like it's just so boring after you've spent so much time with him.

YAP. i'm scotty and you are the secondary-POV story star who remains nameless for some reason. people who can only spend so much time with something they like begin to not cherish that feeling when they're able to have unlimited access to whatever it is they like. so i'm guessing that's the case! it's just like another everyday thing now.

i mean, COME ON. on my "trees & mud" picture, i got 55 VOTES and 9 FREAKING COMMENTS!?!!!?! IT'S CRAZY!

AUGHI'MSOSADNOW. hee, just kidding. but seriously, i feel like i've gotten a little less attention for some odd reason after we got these new stalker options! not everyone is being like how i described though, and you know who you are. so this is a public service announcement in disguise? maybe so.

but i just wanted to rant too. <3 RAAAAAAAAAAAANT. so i'm going to go draw a little and watch CtCD, if you know what that stands for. :B -looks up-

PS: I'MSOEXCITED.
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Saturday, July 7, 2007

currrently listening: battersea by hooverphonic
i <3 this song to death. ; ; if you like gits or origa, then i'd guarantee you'd like this song. it's really electronicy and has that origa feel to it. ^ ^ only in ENGLISH. YAAAAAAAAP. but yeah, really seriously awesome song.

i'm moving! -scoots her chair over- there.

but no, seriously, i'm moving out on august 5th. our house was put up on the market thursday and we got a solid offer from a family in florida. pretty dumb family, too. well, at least their parents are. they're trying to get us to bargain with a lower price because their son had a severe allergy attack in our house due to the cats. they said they didn't know about the cats being here and they didn't know that we had any animals and were told the cats were REEERREEEEREEE. all that said in a nasal-y voice. stupid people. they want my cats to stay out of the house until we move out! FOR 2 MONTHS. NONONONONONO. my fat baybees aren't going to be in the veterinary hospital for 2 months. we're supposed to get them back on monday, at that! ;O;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; i want my kitties heeeeeeeeeer! stupid stupid agent and stupid stupid clients. jim and julie are, and will always be, our favourite house-buyers anyway. X3

it's their fault that their son had the attack! they keep on coming back OVER and OVER (as said in my "trees & mud" comment) again. thus, we have to stay out of the house and kill time for hours on end and IT SUCKS. i HATE this family right now. at least we have a good plan to get a new house. there's a house across the street that really has a lot of possibilities about it, and we're going to see if we can buy that, renovate it, live in it until our new house is built, and sell it for a profit. :O all mum's idea. my mum is really smart when it comes to buying houses. and building them! we're going to build a big, cheap, energy-efficient, contemporary house. it'll be so cool! chelsea and i are already looking at furniture.

i still have lots more news, so don't you freaking DARE comment on just that.

i'm entering 2 contests because i have wiggle-room time to enter some! first of all, kaijin kinuma! she's really sweet and dropped a note by asking me to join and promote. and being the AWESOME (jokiiiing) person i am, i said yes! and here i am. so if you haven't talked to her about joining, do so! it sounds like a really fun shin-dig. i'm going to draw ryohei! and maybe a mud-covered dragon. prolly not, seeing as how i've gotten the mud fetish out of me by tromping around in my muddy backyard. it feels funny between my toes...

and midnightqueen's contest! it's a contest to see if you can come up with an outfit idea for her kingdom hearts original character, takara. now, i am AGAINSTS original characters for series. you might remember my air gear teams? well, they've earned spots in phantasma barrier. though i had to change them a little bit, i still made them into totally original characters, no air gear trace left. but you know, i just can't resist the chance to dress up someone else's character in a fun costume design. ^ ^;;; MY ONLY WEAKNESS!! -melts, slides into gutter-

and...i thought i had something else to say...>:V DURN YOU SUDDEN LOSS OF SPEECH.

oh! today's live earth day. luckiest day of the millenium. so be sure to catch the live earth concert tonight; it sure looks to be most awesome! i will prolly record it and watch music & lyrics with my mum and sister.

now i'm going to go play with my recently discovered 50-pack crayola pencils! we're going to play ring around the rosey, hide and seek, and maybe some clue!

PS: the new series with miss aroh and miss juvella and mistur lionel has a name! 'twill be called....DRUM ROLL PREEZE.

drum: -rolls around-

aasthen summon! :D....aha, kind of anticlimatic i know. but but but i've already got a plot going, the cover sketched, and the designs for my main characters are beginning to unfold! it's great, really really! lionel is still the main main character, then there's viola his best friend, and claymore the earth summoner! lionel and viola are wind summoners. they come from the leeeeetle wind town of trovain along with another boy named simon. he's not very nice to them. the nerdy cold type, you know. but yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah i finally did it!

I FINALLY THUNK!
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Friday, June 29, 2007

currently listening: above the rising falls by sephfire
if you're a kingdom hearts fan but have NOT listened to this song for some stupid reason, you are CRAZY. best kingdom hearts remix i've ever heard. you can get it over at ocremix.org under kingdom hearts. i'm surprised there's only 2 kingdom hearts remixes over there! it's blasphemy, i say; them remixers don't know what they're missing.

well, i have a lot of news this week! first of all, i got a website! no, not ANOTHER blog like this or deviantart, a freakin' real brand-spankin' new website! i have NO CLUE how to work the html there because it's a total blank webpage, but my mum and i are going to work on getting a layout up this weekend. i actually have a few ideas for layouts, buuuuuuuut i donno. X>??? which to use? anyway, it's going to be my official site. i'll update a blog there, post new artwork, possibly my manga (if i start to work, dammit! DX), prints, tutorials, and maybe even graphics such as icons, layouts, walls, and banners! i'll even have an official email! isn't that just awesome?? i'll have people email me about commissions and prints and everything...<3333333 it'll be like my own little otaku site! only i won't leave you guys here hanging. i'll post the link in the "website" slot on the menu here when the website is actually up and running. until then, no one knows the secret name! aaaahaha! but you guys are going to know a'for everyone else, because y'all are just special! MY DEAREST EGGIE BAYBEES. even though at least 90% of you are older than me. ._. durn you older people. i feel little now.

i finished shirotsuki's pictures and emailed them to her! 8D she LOVED them! started hugging me and throwing rainbowy hearts my way. there were 2 pictures; one a simplish one and one a big fancy posteresque. the simple one was asura and the yellow parrot babbling about something rather. the yellow parrot was prolly saying "ooh, this way, i see a sign!" and asura saying "that's no sign, you ding dong. that's a rock!" the posteresque was most all her cross canticle characters packed into a single page! there was asurarararara, yoru, the on-fire guy who i've yet to learn the name of, locke, moroi, cure, vice, ai lang, tanchou, shaoran, hari, shannon, and kagei! and i also had flora and alter-asura in there, but she told me that they actually didn't make it to cross canticle, only keys of the heart! o o; i felt silly for a minute, but then i laughed and said i'd still draw them because they're that cool. i wanted to add in karakasa, xiu mei, odyssey, and bristol, but dammit, they just wouldn't fit on the page. and the yellow parrot didn't make an appearance because it'd prolly be on yoru's shoulder pecking him and babbling about the rock sign. maybe pooping once or twice on his shoulder too, because parrots are known to do that. anyway, this was some big paper! 11"x24". i had to scan it in pieces! i'm debating on posting them here though, because in truth they were for just her personal enjoyment, but...ACK. i donno. i'll think about it.

though i DO SO HAPPEN to have a series of pictures i'm working on that will be the start of my print section on my website. they're actually for a new series i thought up in the shower! it has yet to have a name, but i'm working on the rough plotline now. eeee, i'm so excited! the first one is almost ready; i'll prolly be posting it later tonight! X3 i'm really happy today because arts have been going reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally good. i'm even starting practicing with my coloured pencils again! i have yet to buy a bigger prisma set, but i'm hoping to get one this weekend at hobby lobby or something rather. i still really hate my coloured penciling, but i'll give it a run and up it here to see what you people think. ^ ^

oh, austin was really fun toooooooooooooooooo! my computer design class was THE BOMB!! for my instructors, i had my teachers mr and mrs hankey from my school. 8D;;;; what a load off that was; i was so glad when i first read it on my schedule sheet. so i got to follow them around all day and talk and talk and talk. i felt a lot more comfortable than most in the class because i actually knew them outside the workshop. ^ ^; they were really nice too! and the BEST part is, i DON'T have to write or interview ANYTHING or ANYONE next year in journalism and yearbook! XDDDDDDDDDD i just have to design pages in the newspaper and yearbook! it'll be a blast!!

i also won 4 awards! <3 one in every category, i believe. computer design, graphic design, infograph, and publishing layout! it was so exciting. i believe i was tied in number of awards with another girl in my class named....katie. i think that was her name. o o;;; meep!

but yeah! the dorms sucked because they were extremely old and smelly, but the class made up for it double time! :DDDDDDD i was really happy. and now i'm happy to be back in my new UT shorts and shirt. i do hate the school colours because they're just...ARNGFASLKJCNVAPRI but i don't have anything else against the school other than said fact and that the campus was HUGE. i had to walk at least 2 miles a day just to get to my class, so that sucked. DX

anyways, that's all the news! i got to see if i can order gravitation ex online because i have a MASSIVE itch for it. ;O; the rest of the manga is totally banned from my house so i have to order or buy it in seeecret. X>

hmm...sometimes i ponder the fact of why i talk so much....oh well. so long for now, tweedies! i will be posting for sure tonights.
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Thursday, June 21, 2007

currently listening: dancing by elisa
HOKAY elisa is now officially my favourite music artist. after looking at messa's latest picture "my eyes on you" i read the artist comment, like EVERYONE SHOULD, and saw that it was inspired by this song. so i'm like, "alright, let's see what this is like!" so i went on itunes, listened to the preview, and i fell in love. <3 this is now my favourite song ever. it's one of those songs you shouldn't listen to unless it's the perfect moment. so i'm only using it when i have art to makes, which i do, so yaya! i'm happy i looked into elisa. ^ ^ mum let me download a few of her songs i liked, and now i'm just dandily happy. i really want to find the CDs though, but that can wait as long as i have a few songs to listen to and appreciate. <333333 you guys ought'a check her out too! i'm sure you'd like it. i think my next layout will be with this as background music. i donno.

ANYWAYS about the layout. i don't really like div layouts on this site because your archives won't be visible. and sometimes i need those to be visible for people who want to draw my characters and need a reference. i just tell them to look into my archives and there should be a reference, buuuuut that doesn't seem to work with a div. so i'm prolly going to have to fix what i'm telling people if i'm going to have a div. 9 9;;; i need help! 8D i'm a myotaku div layout retard. i'm a xanga genius, but not myO. > >;;;;;

i'm going to austin to UT tomorrow through monday! so you're prolly not going to hear from me allll weekend. i'm taking a journalism class that's required for next year. in specifics, i'm going to be in the computer design class, so hopefully next year i don't have to do ANY interviewing or writing of stories. that means, NO DEADLINES?!!! hopefully. i'm prolly going to be arranging all the graphics and making it better than the god-awful newspaper last year. <3 i like my school because they nurture my strongpoint instead of making me do the same thing as everyone else and not getting to practice my creativity. so i'm a happy bird! -bounces in her chair-

i'm posting in big paragraphs today. because IIIII LOVE TALKING! talk talk talk. babble babble fart. oops!

and there's my god-forbidden stupid moment for the day. i promise no more? one more's prolly going to slip in at one point in time.

OH. this is what i wanted to say. FRIENDS! i cannot go to your website if it has an excessive amount of cursing! i cannot read your comment if it has an excessive amount of cursing! i cannot look at your ART if your artist comment has an excessive amount of cursing! if you remember, i have a blocker put up by mother-dearest that refrains me from going to any site that has BAD WORDS. so if you like me talking and commenting...WATCH YOUR MOUTH. i have to watch my mouth too because if i curse too much i'm not going to be able to go to my own website or re-read my own comments and i'll be lost! ;o; so preeeeeeeeeeze watch your mouth if you want my two cents. if you don't, curse like there's no tomorrow! have nasty sayings and profane posts. keep me as far away as i can get! although that would really break my heart...oh well. it's your choice.

i have art to post! i finally got done with my entry for snow pheonix's contest. go join it! it should be fun. now i have to wait for a reply email from shirotsuki to see what vice's current hair colour is and what ai lang's colour scheme is. 9 9; yeeeees. then i can finally get back to work on her picture! and i have a random picture to work on! it's a cool picture. you'll like it!

now i have to go decide if i REALLY want a div and how to get it up so it looks at least half as good as i hope it'll look. take care, finchies!
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Saturday, June 16, 2007

currently listening: almost full moon by enigma
oh gah mawd if i had a nickel for everytime i listened to this...well, i'd only have 9 dollars. how's THAT for anticlimatic? but nonetheless i love this song to death. X>

iiiiiii'm going to go see fantastic four today! it got a D in the critic section. but i'll let you guys in on a secret: even if the movie absolutely SUCKS in plot and storyline, i still go if it has good graphics. XD i love good graphics! <3333333333333 and bagels. i just LOOOVE bagels. i had one this morning! but we are without cream cheese....WHAT IS A BAGEL WITHOUT CREAM CHEESE?!!?!! a bagel. i just put jelly on mine. grape jelly! i love grape jelly, but my alltime favourite is still strawberry jelly. yey jelly! and peanut butter. peanut butter is good for you! so EAT IT.

i love my little babble-offs. usually in the day-time i have one-sided conversations with the wall...er...my family. ahaa. they don't listen so they don't talk back. 8D;;; i talk too much. it's like if-- WHEN i post some big huge entries, like usual, i only get a pin-head amount of comments. i'm not reaching out for comments, just want to talk a lot and know i don't bug you. ^ ^;;;

now...i forgot the main point of this post...uh-oh. well, lets make it just as long with other mini-ish topics!

iiiiiii posted 2 pictures yesterday and the day a'for! the day a'for picture is my first released picture of lydia. the yesterday picture was for myanimeworld149's contest! GO JOIN IT! it'll be fun! also go join snow pheonix's contest. ^ ^ they're both really good contests; as i said, we need to band together and support our fellow otakus! i have to work on my entry for snow pheonix's...i must work on that after fantastic four!

ummmmmmmmmmmm i'm still trying to work on my comics. X> i have already told you people that i have sketched up to page 20 for ecstasy resistance; well my colouring is going only so far lately so it might be a while before you see all those pages. but i've plotted out a lot, yes i have! :] and for undone, i want to get a buttload of pages done so that i'll be able to upload them all and get the series done kinda quicker than expected by getting batches of pages done and posted one after another. yey! aaaaaaaaaand i'm going to maybe halt picture perfect, much to my discontent, so i can get started on phantasma barrier and anywhere can be. then when those are going smoothly, i'll start back up with picture perfect and maybe even start guardian and magic magic! that's the problem with having so many series. 8D;;; i have to work out how to get them all up and running without problems or conflicts in scheduling. oh well. my mind tinkers too much; i come up with ideas for stories all the time and end up having to trash some because i would be overloaded!

-BOOM!- i 'sploded from too many series. uh-oh, i'm not done yet! -BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!- there i'm done.

i also have to get a div up! i have a kingdom hearts layout i want to code and get up here asap, but the coding is going along kinda cautiously because i hate having to go back and finding all the little detailies i screwed up on. ack! i have a pretty layout ready though, don't y'all worry. well, i have about 7-8 layouts i could use...uh-oh! houston, we have a decisive problem.

and i have graphics for the winners of my contest! i just need to uploads them all to imageshack, get my links, and i'll note you winners with your priiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiizies. yey!

i gotta go now. i STILL have to finish allie's sketch and colour it in photoshop. i'm doing kind of a promo for cross canticle. ^ ^ i hoooooope she'll like it!

aaaaaaaand i babbled a little too much...oops. sorry! quit reading right now!
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Thursday, June 7, 2007

currently listening: beauty on the fire by natalie imbruglia
my faaaaaaaaaaavourite song by natalie imbruglia! always has been, actually. miss imbruglia is the awesome. i'd love to meet her! ^ ^ ...or coldplay. X3 either one would be sweeet.

i'm cranking works out! i finished all the sketches for contestants in my contest except for one, but i'm going to geet'r dun real quick like the others so i can get them posted hopefully later tonight! i kinda want to get it done before my mum's guests come over, but if i don't, that's okay too! i have all the time in the world. well, no, i don't...i have too much to do.

haaaaaaalright. now here's where the post gets to it's main topic.

as you can prolly see above in my profile, nothing but commissions are offered from me now! that's because 1) i'm waaaaaaaay to busy to do anything for free now. i have picture after picture to do for people, and then i have to plot, write, and draw manga series. and 2) i have been cheated multiple times now in trades and collaborations. i do my part of the trade/collab, and then i either post it up here, waiting to be viewed by the partner in crime and anyone else who wants to see it, or note it to them. sometimes, i forget to note them about it being done, but i always do remember after a little bit. still, that doesn't explain the fact that many days, weeks, maybe even MONTHS later, that "partner in crime" does not even START their part. they say "oh, i removed all my pms" or "oops, it slipped my mind!" or some jibberjabber of an excuse. i have been OKAY with it up until now, because i've officially gotten PISSED at the amount of times i have to note people and say "did you ever start your part?" and them saying no.

most you guys don't even KNOW how many trades/collabs i've started and have just dropped off because no one else finished their part. they must all think it's like nothing ever happened! well, hah, now you have to PUT SILVER IN MY HAND to get a picture from me. THAT is how pissed i am.

now, people who have been in this situation with me are probably thinking i'm just pointing an angry finger at them, but OHO, no no, there are a lot of people. ugh. i'm just TIRED of it.

i will enter contests, because i do love contests a lot. and i will hold future contests and you will get prizes from those! but other than that and commissions, NOTHING. no gifts, requests, trades, collabs.

ahhh....it feels SO good to get that out! ^ ^ now, to at least start allie, sasukegirl100, and chelseas' pictures! woooooooooooork. then shoooooooower. then myyyyyyyyyyyyyyythbusters. <3
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Tuesday, June 5, 2007

currently listening: mi swing es tropical by...
quantic and nickodemus! the title would have been too long if i had their names. i don't like the title to go past the little end of the box, because i'm just ocd like that. anyway i have mah mocha frap and this song to get me going today! -dances around ¿MEXICAN STYLE?- if you're too lazy to listen to it, it's that song on the ipod commercial where the people are dancing in this rainbow of colour. AWESOME! i love it because of the beat! it just makes you want to get up and dance and hop around! -does just that-

aaaaaaanyways, my weekend! i had a FUN weekend. on friday, i didn't go to a-kon like i wanted because it was too short-notice for my mum (she wasn't feeling well) so we waited for saturday. i set my alarm on my cellphone to 6:30 in the morning so i could get ready really fast! and in the morning i SPRUUUUUUUNG up from bed and clad myself in my blue sundress, jeans, boots, my lucky harmonica necklace and LOOOOTS of bracelets. what can i say? i love accessories! then i grabbed my bookbag and RAAAAAAAAAN downstairs (quietly so i wouldn't wake chels up) to my mum and dad's bedroom. they were both STILL asleep (time: 7:00AM) so i shook my mum's shoulder saying "c'mon, we gotta get their early so we don't have to wait in liiiiiiiiine!" she woke up, my dad too, and said, "you're dressed already??!?! you look so pretty, taytay! :D" so after them deciding who would take me (my dad won), i hopped around in the study here to find stuff to bring! i brought my ipod, camera, cellphone, sharpie, maps to the adam's mark, and my autograph book! jus, an autograph book. when extraordinary artists are just a 25 minute drive away, you don't bring a NAPKIN to make them sign! you get an autograph boooook!!!

so dad and i hopped in the car and drove lickety-split down to the adam's mark with no troubles at all, except parking. there was this lady there TAILGATING us to get a good spot. so after paying for the space, we walked fast to the hotel! er, one of the buildings of the hotel.

we looked around and saw NOTHING, dood. just a concession stand with breakfast foods and a few people i knew were going to the convention. so we asked one of the people where to go, and she was nice and told us that we needed to go to the other building for all the anime junk and to sign in. this building we were in was for tabletop, mmorpg, card, etc gaming. so we walked FASTER to the other building and saw this HUUUUUUUUUUGE line of people getting their badges and wrist bands! so we got in the line and started to wait for the first time that day. and i took pictures! i'll post them sometime later though because my stupid hooker-upper for the camera is being stupid. GRAGH.

the person at the end of the line had to hold the end of the line had to hold a big sign that said END OF LINE. ^ ^ so once my dad and i got our wristbands to get in, the lady told us we were freeee to wander around wherever we wanted in the convention! she was really nice! so i just started leading us around, taking pictures of cosplayers and other lines. there were so many lines, i didn't know what most of them were for, but i didn't pry. so i just took pictures. loooooooots of pictures.

i was leading my dad around the artist alley when i got to the very back corner of the first floor. i saw prints of "to market to market...", "whisperings" and "homesick" then i thought, OH. MY. LORD ABOVE. i had found shirotsuki's booth!!!

so i hung out there for who knows HOW long, looking at THE SKETCHBOOK and looking at prints of all her works in her gallery <3333333333333333 it was awesome. though when i first got there, she was busy making a commission sign, so i couldn't talk to her. i just looked at her sketchbook getting a feel of things. then this one girl started talking to allie (shirotsuki) about how her name was allison and she heard about her from orchestra (or something rather). allie got all excited and said, "your name's allison too? how cool! i like stringed instruments, but i can't read music, i just play it..." and she started talking a lot (XD) and i joined in saying i played cello and stuff...then this one boy there said, "hay, can i commission you?" and allie said "sure!" and i said, "oh, can i commission you too? and she said, "of course! gee, the sign's working already!" so i gave her $20 dollars and she said, "oh, i need y'alls' names and emails so i can make sure you're not spam? i do get spam. i also want to know where i should email the picture when it's done, too." so she got an index card to write on. then i saw the other guy's name and it was TAYLOR NELSON. so i blurted, "OMG, my name's taylor too!" and allie looked for a second and said, "THIS is cool! it's like we're playing match-up er something!" so we laughed about that...then she gave us her email on an index card and said that's where we'd send the information of our commissions. GASJLDFAJKS;DKFJA;OWRUN;! so now i have her email! >:D ahahaha! just kidding. so then i said thanks and started on my way again, then i thought...AUTOGRAPHS?!??!!?!!!!!!!!!! so i jumped back and said, "i'm so sorry to bother you again, but may i have an autograph and picture?" she looked at me for a second and said "....SURE!" so she signed on my autograph book and i got a picture of her, then i went on my way.

that was the highlight of me for a-kon.

i walked around with dad some more, stopping by multiple booths and getting my autographs and pictures from different artists, most from deviantart, like sleepar, pzb, zureul, herms85, and so on...i didn't get to see scott ramsoomair or the guys from explosm, but it was still the awesome!! -dances some more- i saw the explosm guys' booth because of the big banner, but it was too crowded to get a good shot of them or an autograph. XDDDD;;;; ahaha...

pzb was really nice. my dad and i talked to her a while about tablet arts and my situation at the art event and it turns out that that kind of stuff happened to her too! so it made me happy not to be alone on that AND that she was really nice. my dad bought a bookmark from her because he thought....well, i don't want to embarass him, so i'll leave that part out. X3

then he and i got in a line, not knowing what it was for, and we asked what it WAS for. this lady with her grandkids and friends said it was to get the autographs from the voice actor guests! so he and i got a REALLY good spot (like 6th in line) and started to wait again! then the lady said "oh the line is OVER HERE. move plzkthx" so we saved our spots for us and the people around us and started to wait AGAIN, still in the same position in line, thank god. and, quoting from my dad, "we weren't going to start waiting again."

so i took a lot of pictures of characters from the line, including namine, some guy with a kfc bucket on his head, and fai. then at one point in time i JUMPED out of line and ran to get a picture of THE BEST JACK SPARROW COSPLAYER EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRR. when i caught up, he was posing for a picture and i took a quick one too while he was like that. then, when we were done, he did a clumsy little japanese bow and wavered off like he was drunk. <333333333 srsly, i WISH y'all could've seen him!!! the clothes, jewels, hair, actions AND personality were all SPOT-ON!!! hooooooooo dood.

then i got back in line and we talked a lot with the girls behind us and the lady in front of us, 'cos they were all REALLY nice. ^ ^ then everyone started screeeeeeeaming because we were finally starting to get autographs from the guests! so when i got to the first guest, my heart was just POUNDING. i saw wendy powell first, and she was kind of tired. ^ ^ she said it was a bad hair, face, eye, arms, feet day and we talked for a little bit and laughed, and i got a picture and autograph. it says "stupid humans! <3 wendy powell - ENVY FMA - ".then i saw chris patton (<3333333333333!!!!!!!) and he was actually pissed off when i saw him. one kid was being a little brat in the line, and he was just ANGRY about the conduct. but wendy and my dad settled him really quick and he started signing my autograph book. he said, "so, taylor, have you been drinking water and keeping hydrated?" and i said, "ohooo, actually, i forgot my bottle at hooome. ;o;" so he laughed and said, "ohhhh taylor, taylor!! that's going to be my message for you. DRINK WATERRR!" so i got a picture of him pointing to a bottle of ozarka. ^ ^ a real custom message! it was "hey taylor! drink water! chris patton" i made sure to get a big bottle of water when i got home. then i got signatures from peter ss. beagle and samantha inoue-harte and a picture of them hugging. ^ ^ we talked to them about how they got started in the biz and laughed with themmmm~ then i got to the next voice actor, vic mignogna! i'm sure EVERYONE knows him as ed from fullmetal alchemist, but i liked him as dark in dnangel most. <3 he was REALLY nice and shook my hand and asked how i was doing, then gave me the message "<3 to taylor! vic mignogna". then i got a picture with him and i hugging. he said bye and i said bye and then i felt accomplished for the day! and hungry. so dad and i decided we'd make one more run-around the artist alley to get pictures then leave. it was a fun con, even though i only stayed 5 hours on saturday morning. my parents refused to take me another day because it would be expensive. 8D;;; I STILL LOVED IT!!!!!!! though if any of you went, i'm sure you wouldn't recognize me and i wouldn't recognize you. ^ ^;;; that's the only downer. o well!

so yesterday i emailed allie about my COMMISSIONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! i asked for sané searching for the fairie kingdom behind the library. X3 i gave her an up-to-date reference sheet as well as a big description that was somewhat specific. i was scared i didn't pay enough or i was too vague, but she said it was just what she needed AND a picture too! ^ ^ so it made me REEEEEEEEEEEALLY relieved. she said it'd be done either today or tomorrow and she'd mail me the actual sketch!!!! so i'm just FRAZZL'D. it was such an awesome weekend! and then yesterday night i watched the abyssssss. X3 it was a good movie, and good graphics too for a movie made 10 years ago.

i almost DIED during jaws iii because of the terrible graphics. XOOOOOOO it was horrible! but not the abyss. the abyss was GREAT.

aaaaaaaaaaaanyways, i'm on a roll of sketches and contest entries, and i want to be able to get a div layout working today, so i'm off! -flaps off-
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

currently listening: sayonara solitaire by saeko chiba
because of goldy saying sayonara in her posties?!?! i liiiike this song though...<3

contest winners are in the previouse postie! go see and congratulates them, preeze. <3

ASDFJKL;! i cannot colour the thank you picture because i have lost my brain! -it scutters under her desk- and my willpower for now has gone PHHT. plus, it's too big a file to upload to the fanarts, so i just post it here, and if i coloured, it'd be too big to uploads to a hosting site! DX i cannot resize or else it'd lose all its splendor. POOP.

so har's my thank you for 2000 votes, contest enterings, and whatever else you may think of that i can't spit out right now!



so i guess i'm going to have to explain a few characters to y'all since i know you don't remember/haven't seen all of 'em.

i'm sure you can recognize all the big undone, picture perfect, guardian, ecstasy resistance, and phantasma barrier doods, right? 'kay so we'll start in the upper left corner.

the girl with the balloon is lydia, who always seems to float away to some post-apocalyptic area in the world of bell, where she lives. in this picture, and most others, she sports a balloon dress!

below her with the eye thing is dom, who is spying on miles and tripp over to the right some, tripp sporting a beanie and harassing miles in one way or another. if you STILL can't see them, they're the ones right next to lucille. dom, tripp, miles, and sebastian (seen smoking behind rita and marilyn with his back to the camera) are the main stars in my other series all*wing. i'll 'splain the plotline later.

to the left of olivia is luna, who i told you about when 'splaining blackwings win in my contest! she is an knowledgable being in the dreamworld that olivia and cheng are now experiencing. who knows where she learned so much about it? nonetheless, a big character in anywhere can be.

below luna and olivia are eric and jordan, who play minorish roles in picture perfect. eric (left) is the poet teacher. he's really cool. and jordan (right!) is the art teacher! he's reeeeeeeeally clumsy. X3;; but both guys are still loveable teachers!

below THEM we can see (left to right) salome, juli, carmen, and megan from picture perfect. all four of them play bad-guy roles. >:' they're all really mean. and if you recognize the origin of salome, you win the intranetz!!!11!1buttons!

the little star being and skull dood are kipo and flizz! actually, flizz is part of the bad-guy squad, but we give him a cut of slack because he's short, so he gets front row.

the girl to the right of kuon with the long hair is elecea, my surprisingly oldest ecstasy resistance character! she's gone through COUNTLESS design changes, at which i have finally settled on this one. and next to her is LUUUUUUUUUUCYYYYYYYY (lucifer), the prince of the imperial empire in ecstasy resistance. elecea is his attendant, kinda like his loud and noisy shadow who always seems to be in some weird predicament.

if you don't recognize the guy on lucifer's right, SHAME ON YOU! that's aiden, stupid. just not in his pajamies.

the fluffy brigade is resting atop lucifer, aiden, and adele! the members (from left to right): penali, tobale, giko and harrenhal! you remember harry....<3333333333 the girl above giko and harry with the swtdrop...if you don't remember HER, you should have your head stuck in a blender, because that's MELODY!

the guy on jeremy's right is marcus, who i also told you about after announcing sasukegirl100's win. i already told you, he's a real sports junkie. actually, i cameo'd in my roughriders sweatshirt for him to sport (PUN! -shot-) in this picture.

the three above marcus (goggles, frowny, and giggly) are the stars of ANOOOOOTHER series, magic magic! goggles is aaron, the war-crazed dood. he has a chicken gun. frowny is jesse, my mute emo! he doesn't like sign language, so he has a small whiteboard with a marker. and giggly is magic! she's a funny girl always wearing excessive amounts and layers of clothing with weird designs. really fun person, but there's more to her than meets the eye...

lesseee....the lady getting all fangly face at alarica is illujara, the holy mother, who i've spotted in a few descriptions of various pictures.

next to her are adele's 3 best friends making a totem pole of a sort! zephyr is looking up at flutura who is claiming to spot adele, and on her head with a big grin is clera!

below them is quinn, who was in an earlier picture of mine titled "save yourself". she's a girl with serious mental problems. but loveable, nontheless! and next to her worrying over the poofum bun is miss juliette! if you forgot her, i would proceed to take your head out of the blender and start shooting darts into your legs.

oh, i forgot the other library staff that take care of sané! i told you aiden...then the little guy laying on the table is shishu, a nymph that plays pranks on sané. then zahr, who is the bird guy with kopzy on his head! i've told you about zahr and kopzy...yeeeeeeeees.

kay, the bear (if you can spot it?!) is named bear just like my bear, bear! the girl on his head is josey. they're really close, bear who found abandoned josey and took her into his protection. they travel around the world as peas in their cozy pod!

above them are jing and kinsuk, who are commanders whose sheet i always forget to put up. jing is yoinking down kinsuk and daydreaming fondly of how he'd live with kinsuk...because he's the only BLATANT homosexual in ecstasy resistance, but oh, how i love hisself sooo...<3 he's jumpy and cute, always trying to get kinsuk's attention, but kinsuk almost never seems to notice. X> my pooor baaaaaaaaby! -hugs him- but yeah, they're both killing machines under the skin. aww..

the boy sprouting leaves out of the right side of his body is tree! yes, tree is his name. if you make fun of my tree, i will take those darts out of your legs and proceed to pour salt and lemon juice in the holes. >:E NO ONE HARMS TREE. though right now i am because i put him in the bad guy section of e.r. and he cannot see. X>...-pours salt and lemon juice in eyes-.

the five girls to his direct and lower right combine to form one of my air gear oc teams. I KNOW I KNOW i'm absolutely terrible for making ocs for air gear...but i can't resist. XD these girls make up athenangels, a team solely focused on illusionary tactics. i haven't decided their ranking, but i'm kinda leaning towards b-class...yeah, b's goooooood. the girl crossing her arms and directly to the right of tree is gwen, the leader. below her are katrina (left) and terrie (right), below THEM are amy (left) and morganna (right). thar all jabbering except gwen, who wants them all to hushit.

the 2 girls above gwen are nevaeh (left) and eia (right) they're just characters that spilled out of my head a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time ago. around the time i first started liking animes. X> i donno what storyline they'd have, but they're still characters i love.

the 3 boys above them...i'll leave that for last.

the lady with the have-shaved head, the girl with dice pigtails, the guy in the ski gear, the guy with the metal plate over his face, and the guy with little bags under his eyes make up my other air gear team, base jump! half-hair is dalal, dice-tail is sammi, ski-man is bevin, plate-eyes is marc, and sleepy is rocco. actually, rocco is constantly ill. they can never seem to get him better, which eventually leads to his failure in the parts war battle with ikki's team. and ski-man has more to him than meets the eye! no one knows what he looks like under all the ski junk he has piled on except the rest of base jump. ISASECRET! shh! but yeah...they're a b-class team as well. i just like b-class. X>

NOW those three upper-right boys are my oldest, oldest, oldest, OOOOOOOLDEST characters ever. the closed-eyes is takaru, guy with something in his mouth is suzumo, and the other kid is aoi. EEEEILOVETHEM! i rosed them back up from the dead to be in this picture, though sadly they'll prolly return to the file cabinet in the back of my head after i'm done with this explanation....; ; i love them still though!

ahouu...i am feeling delirious after the explanation and picture! -feels woozy- but that's what i get for drawing 103 characters in one picture. i counted just now with red dots. XD;;;;;;;;;;; i dun gone and dunit this time! -falls over- preeze excuse all spelling and grammar mistakes toooooo because my eyes and fingers are tired. ; ;

PS: the kitty and mouse in my elbow are lolly (kitty) and taz (mouse). they're for various special occasions in the year; i put them on cards and in pictures. X3....PEEKY AND BONBON MAKE THEIR APPEARANCE AGAAAAAAAAAIN TOO!
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