| RPG CHARACTER DANSEN! |

I've recently been in a serious art slump with nothing to draw, aside from the birthday gifts I owe, the art trade I've yet to start on -shot-, and the webcomic pages I need to finish... BUT! I feel the urge to design characters. My brothers had come up with an idea to design an RPG. Not an ACTUAL game because they were not video game designers. They merely designed characters and drew out scenes from the RPG according to events of the "game" they talked out.

For anyone who's been in a forum roleplay, whether on Gaiaonline or an acornrack site, the idea is to go about this roleplay through picture form. First, we design the characters, putting in the artist description their essentials. Then, once characters are designed, you pick another person's character and draw out a scene between the characters with a short description about what's going on. In short, it's a game of tag. I draw a scene, someone else responds with a different scene, I respond to that scene, so on and so forth.

Yeah, I know - kinda lame. >w< But it's a good way to get out of an artist slump and stimulates you to go beyond your normal artistic limits. Ya know - forcing you to draw backgrounds and perspective and character interaction. It's a fun project, I've done it in small scale with friends. Of course, the key to this is to note the person you're responding to with the link to the scene you made so they don't go oblivious to your input. >w<

YEAH. Crappy idea, but meh. =w= Might catch on, might just die in a gutter. Anyone interested?

| CHARITY PLUG |
- Batch One auction begins! Check the journal for details and current highest bid.

| AUCTION |

The charity auction I joined, , has now begun its first batch of artists! Please stop by the auction's account (given above) to view the journal entry with the details of the auction and to place your bid!

Funds from this auction go to Gleaning for the World, where 99.7% of the proceeds go to disaster programs. Please read the rules and legalities - [link] - so there's no confusing about how to go about with the bidding and the artists.

There are some awesome artists in this batch!


Other artists, aside from myself, include:


Please check out these amazing artists' galleries and stalk them at the auction. I mean.... -cough cough- <<; THEY'RE ALL FABULOUS! >;D

|| HULK MOVIE SPOILER! ||

HOMFG HOMFG HOMFG HOMFG HOMFG! -comic nerd flail- I went and saw the new Incredible Hulk movie and it was AWRSOME! Dx I liked it loads better than the first, anyhow. There was CG up the ying-yang, but the reason I liked it so much better was because they took so many things from the old Hulk TV series. xDD Like the opening scene from the old movie (as well as the opening theme) and there was even a moment where the ending theme song was played. xDD I about LOLed my pants right then and there.

AND HOMFG! The guy who played the Hulk in the TV series (the biggun' who was painted green) is in the movie. xDD He's a security guard, but he's still fupping huge. This guy is like BAM BAM! GUNS! I loled. =w= ANYWAY! The SciFi chanel was having a marathon this week showing a bunch of the old Hulk programs. >w< I watch many of them - and then laugh at the cheesyness.

ANYWAY! I think I fail at this marathon thing. =__= I'm just not able to pump out things daily like some people can - I'm slow and I tend to have real life get in the way.... a lot. Like having to convince my father three or four times a day that yes - he is indeed in his own house and, no - my brothers are not here anymore. They're both out of the country. BUUUUT he's a kick for shits and giggles cuz he's crazy and a grumpy bear. =3=

ALSO! I have recently become part of a charity auction in the works for the Earthquake funds in China. Please check out 's journal for more information - every effort can help make a miracle.

| THINGS TO DO! |

1. Finish prize prints
2. Finish secret birthday present for - SHH SHE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW SHUDDUP! >O
3. Finish art trade with cuz she rocks socks.
4. .....there was something here... oh, yeah - get around to buying the frickin' photoshop software for my Mac so it's not just sitting idly on my desk. DDx

| PEOPLE I LOVE |

EVERYONE! But my sexy mind-ninja gets special cred cuz she's amazing and is all ninja...ie....

| CLUB SAMMICHES |

| JEEBUS! |

I'd been so wrapped up with finishing prints and catching up with the 30-day marathon (hosted by ) that I hadn't noticed my pageviews have hit over 9k. =w=; I know it's not a lot compared to some others, but it's still loads to me. And my coloring tutorial and "Sun Rest" picture have racked up favs faster than I thought. @3@ Thank you all so much, my watchers and passerby's, for you favs, views, and comments - I really appreciate them, even if I can't always reply to them or personally thank you. =^^= <333333

| UPDATES |

I'm almost done with about two of the prize prints I'll be offering at this years Metrocon. A good friend of mine, , asked me to make prize art for the Risembool Rangers panel (please check it out if you're a fan of Vic Mignogna and are going to Metrocon! :'B ) If you're interested in finding out more of the Vic fanclub, the Risembool Rangers, please contact for information on the Rangers website.

The idea for the prizes was to make art of characters voiced by Vic Mignogna, i.e. Vega from Streetfighters, Viral from.... some anime I can't remember the name of, Fai from Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicles, and, of course, Edward Elric from Full Metal Alchemist. I'm debating on which other character to draw, because I want to make five prints. SO! I'm putting it up for debate for my viewers!

I wish I could make a poll because I'd put it up, but I can't, SO - by way of comments. Shout out (type in bold) which character you want me to draw in the fifth print and the most votes gets the win! Duh.

Things to Do:
1.) Finish prize prints.
2.) CATCH THE HELL UP IN THE MARATHON HOLY JEEBUS! Dx
3.) Make character ref sheets.
4.) Finish art trade with
5.) Finish issue one of "Tera-Virus" manga
6.) ...........YER MOMMA! >: B

| CLUB SAMMICHES |

I give permission for these clubs to put up my work.

| UPDATE |

I'm currently joined in on a 30-Day art marathon held by - a new picture every day for 30 days. =[]=; So far, I only have up one, but I've finished Day 2. I fell asleep at 9:00 last night waiting for my mom to get off the phone with our relatives in Puerto Rico. @____@ -fell asleep to the Colbert Report, surprisingly enough- I woke up at 2 in the morning and was all, "=____=;;;..... Hell no I'm not dealing with my slow-arse internet."

So, here I am, at school, wishing I'd put that picture on my flash drive so I could've come to school and uploaded it here. Buuut I didn't. << So, there. I'll put it up when I get home. I've gotta finish Day 3.

Hopefully, I'll be able to make it a oekaki. I've just discovered the magic of Google site translations -slow- and so I used it to translate [link], a site introduced to me through the wonderful art of . My internet makes it lag just a little bit, but I'm gonna register and upload my pictures on that site, so I can put 'em on dA. << There's no guarantee it'll come out fabulous - I kinda suck at oekaki. But I wanna learn cuz it looks fun. If all else fails, I'll use photoshop 7.0 or open canvas. XDD I'll watch some more of Janaschi's art animations and see. -fails at backgrounds- Dx

| SHAMELESS PLUGS |

A friend of mine, , is writing a manga of his own and is searching for an artist willing to illustrate or color for him. If anyone's a fan of Naruto or Bleach, then you're bound to like his story. It's an amazing combination of Naruto ninja-theme and stunning powers and fighting like Bleach and character plot. The characters are fun to draw and he's willing to let the artist have his/her way with the design.

For more information on the story, get the first hand account with the author himself - don't be afraid to drop him a line!


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