Shop Mobile More Submit  Join Login
About Deviant Member ДжелUnknown Groups :iconcaptainplanetclub: CaptainPlanetClub
By Your Powers Combined...
Recent Activity
Deviant for 11 Years
Needs Premium Membership
Statistics 557 Deviations 18,319 Comments 74,702 Pageviews

Newest Deviations

Random Favourites

Webcam

Journal History

Activity


Fire and Wind Screenshot Sketching by chesney
Fire and Wind Screenshot Sketching
I was going through my old Captain Planet art folder and realized some of these weren't shared.  I'm not sure when this was done exactly, but I want to say 2006...  Maybe.  This was part of a self-challenge where I would pick a frame from an animation I liked (in this case, Captain Planet) and try to replicate it the best I could.  Oh, well! :giggle:
Loading...
Sketch from Birds of a Feather by chesney
Sketch from Birds of a Feather
I was going through my old Captain Planet art folder and realized some of these weren't shared.  This was done, I want to say, around 2006?  Maybe.  I don't know.  This was part of a self-challenge where I would pick a frame from an animation I liked (in this case, Captain Planet) and try to replicate it the best I could.  Not bad when you're looking at it with no reference, I guess, but I remember being severely disappointed when comparing mine to the actual frame.  And when I'm disappointed in a drawing, I usually add something silly, like Linka's speech bubble. :XD:  But it was good practice, and I think I'll do it again sometime. :)
Loading...
2014 Planeteers by chesney
2014 Planeteers
So, there is a challenge going on in the CaptainPlanetClub to redesign the Planeteers to modern-day standards.  Mine is really just a joke submission because I just can't seem to pass up a chance to poke a little fun at current American society.  I mean, we gotta have Planeteers kids these days can actually relate to, right?  Lol, Ma-Ti with a Bieber cut.  Ma-Tieber. :rofl:

Okay, putting my inner cynic away now.  I've been pretty busy with work, so I didn't get to spend the time polishing it up that I normally would, but that's the way of the world, and the sooner you get used to disappointment, the easier your life will be.  (Whoa!  I thought I put that cynic away!  Sorry!)

Fun fact: The tattoo I picked for Gi supposedly means "Foolish" in Chinese.  Of course, Gi doesn't know that. =P
Loading...
When I was a kid, I used to love Halloween.  It used to be one of my absolute favorite holidays, and I'll tell you why: For a week at least before the actual day, TV stations would play loads of classic '80s horror movies like Friday 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Jason, and so forth.  We would all tell each other scary stories during camp-outs at night, and put on spectacular Halloween celebrations at school.

We would turn the stage in our elementary school cafeteria into a mini-haunted house, the "rooms" separated by curtains.  Kids were invited to stick their hands into boxes with labels like "eyeballs" that were really just a bowl of peeled grapes, and "worms" that were really just pasta.  Then you could partake in a Halloween costume judging contest if you thought your costume was original and creative.  There was face-painting, cake-walking -- so many fun things!  Then, on Halloween, we all got to wear our costumes to school if we wanted to.  It was always more of a "free" day with more relaxed rules that we usually spent talking to each other about our costumes.  Then that night, people around the entire neighborhood would decorate their houses and yards all up with props and music playing from their tape recorders (oh, '90s!).  Sometimes people would use dry ice to simulate eerie fog. If a person had their porch light on, it meant they were celebrating and you were free to come knock.  If their porch lights were off, it meant they weren't home or weren't participating, and someone would not be answering the door.  I remember so well phrases like, "Ooh, that street has a lot of lights!  Let's go down it!"  And at the end of it all, you had a huge bowl of candy that lasted you for weeks!


...but it's not like that any more.  :(  Nowadays, hardly anyone decorates their houses. There doesn't seem to be as much effort put into costumery any more. Despite the past few years of carving several pumpkins and decorating my own house up a bit, I never seemed to attract many Trick-or-Treaters.  People just don't seem to celebrate it much these days.  Is it fear of strangers?  Is it disinterest in the holiday?  Is it lack of money to afford to decorate and dress up and buy candy?  Is it that parents are too lazy or busy to indulge their kids in it as much?  I've wondered, and I don't know, but I've been missing it for a while.  So this year, I sadly decided I just wasn't going to bother celebrating.

I turned off the porch light to indicate that I was not celebrating and went about my evening until I got a ring at the doorbell.  I answered it because I was actually expecting someone and couldn't see who was at the door.  To my surprise, I found a father and his toddler (dressed as a ladybug) and myself with no candy!  Then I remembered I did happen to have a few pieces of leftover chocolates and got them.  After they left, I wondered how I was going to indicate I wasn't participating if having my porch light off didn't work.  Then it hit me that perhaps I left the orange garage lights on!  Bingo!

(a small side story here -- a friend of mine was moving out recently and was going to throw out some orange moodlight bulbs.  As they were perfectly good light bulbs, they found their way into my garage last night at around 1:00 AM.  It didn't cross our minds until much later that it was also very coincidentally Halloween! (An even smaller side story here -- they're very impressive lights!  They turn everything that is green a dark, black-ish blue!)

It had looked indeed like I was celebrating.  I decided I would leave them on and turn the porch light back on until the rest of the very few pieces of candy I had left were gone.  I was able to successfully finish passing out all candy I had this year!  Haha!  :)  I think I had 3 rings at my doorbell in total before I cut out all the lights.  I wonder if I would have had more.

Another side story: a disgusting crab spider is in my garage right now, and he's only still living because of the spirit of Halloween!  Hurrah!


tl;dr: As an adult, I had a better Halloween on the year I decided not to celebrate it than all the other years when I really tried. :la:

AdCast - Ads from the Community

×

Comments


Add a Comment:
 
:iconboxingglovehands:
boxingglovehands Featured By Owner Jun 15, 2014  Hobbyist General Artist
i watch you my friend!
Reply
:iconchesney:
chesney Featured By Owner Jun 16, 2014
Thanks! :)
Reply
:iconboxingglovehands:
boxingglovehands Featured By Owner Jun 28, 2014  Hobbyist General Artist
my pleasure.
Reply
:iconjkrolak:
jkrolak Featured By Owner May 26, 2014  Hobbyist Photographer
:iconblank-spaceplz::iconblank-spaceplz::iconpinkiepiecakeplz::iconblank-spaceplz:Happy Bday by KmyGraphic:iconblank-spaceplz::iconpinkiepiecakeplz:
Reply
:iconchesney:
chesney Featured By Owner Jun 14, 2014
Thank you very much for remembering and taking the time to wish me happy birthday! :D :hug:
Reply
:iconmensjedezeemeermin:
MensjeDeZeemeermin Featured By Owner May 26, 2014
A very joyous year's ride 'round the sun on Carousel Earth starting today, with the ups and downs so exciting and fun that you only laugh and hang on the harder! May a year from today find you wiser, more skilled, happier, and successful, and reaching out for the brass ring with a big smile, eager for another ride! May beauty and laughter be your constant companions. May your friends smile to see you, and strangers look at you with interested respect. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Reply
:iconchesney:
chesney Featured By Owner Jun 14, 2014
Thank you very much! :)
Reply
:iconawash2002:
awash2002 Featured By Owner May 26, 2014
Happy Birthday 
Reply
:iconchesney:
chesney Featured By Owner Jun 14, 2014
Hey!  Thanks, buddy!  Sorry for the late reply!
Reply
:iconawash2002:
awash2002 Featured By Owner Jun 14, 2014
your welcome
Reply
Add a Comment: