And it only took the boy 6.5 years!


<sub>Retired signatures:

Chinese definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Programmer's definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and getting different results.
A brief summary of Karma:
"Why are you being so mean to me right now?!"
"SO GOOD THINGS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU LATER!!!"
Good aural sex leads to eargasm. I love music. ♫
If you truly want to get someone to convert to a different religion, the best way to achieve this is to raise him Catholic.
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"saying that spriting is wrong is like saying that twin babys ar wrong!" -~trifldzzy as per [link]
"If you don't agree with our policy, you're simply not informed enough about it." -- dA Staff Logic
Through all the frustration, I lul.

I'm a member of #girls-girls-girls
I am a proud member of the ~stop-tracing club.

Special thanks to ~Ransie3 for the patterns used in this CSS layout, and to Icyworlds.net for their CSS layout designer!</sub>

Hey, guys!

I was on Google Earth having a blast with their street view, and I made some surprising discoveries.

1. They have no street views of Russia yet.
2. Tokyo is as awesome as I thought it would be.
3. Ireland and Scotland are AMAZING! I plopped right down at a castle in Scotland (but I can't find it again, sadly).
4. Madrid is gorgeous. I thought for a capital, it would be busy and have very little shrubbery, and be crowded and dirty, but it is amazing. It looks clean and has a lot of greenery. It even has a pretty little park in the center of it.
5. I picked a completely random location in NY, NY and plopped the guy down, and I looked around and thought, "Wait just a second, this looks just like the courthouse they film in front of on Law & Order: SVU." So, I looked up the courthouse location they use in the SVU series, and lo and behold, I was right! (48 Foley Square in Google Earth maps, if you're interested) What are the odds? Not just that I would plop on that exact spot, but that I'd also recognize it? That was pretty sweet.

I enjoyed a world tour, also stopping by London, Auckland, and Paris. I have to say, it was really fun, but it made me long to see those parts of the world in real life.

Thanks to all of you who offered suggestions and support on my last journal! I've taken a lot of screencaps and done a lot of reference work, and I think, slowly, I'm starting to get better at it. I might post the sketches in scraps later.


<sub>Retired signatures:

Chinese definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Programmer's definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and getting different results.
A brief summary of Karma:
"Why are you being so mean to me right now?!"
"SO GOOD THINGS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU LATER!!!"
Good aural sex leads to eargasm. I love music. ♫
If you truly want to get someone to convert to a different religion, the best way to achieve this is to raise him Catholic.
You realize if I were to paste everything you told me to paste into my signature, it would be about 500 lines long, right?
dA: Bringing together photobucket and 4chan one valid TOS report marked invalid at a time.
"saying that spriting is wrong is like saying that twin babys ar wrong!" -~trifldzzy as per [link]
"If you don't agree with our policy, you're simply not informed enough about it." -- dA Staff Logic
Through all the frustration, I lul.

I'm a member of *girls-girls-girls
I am a proud member of the ~stop-tracing club.

Special thanks to ~Ransie3 for the patterns used in this CSS layout, and to Icyworlds.net for their CSS layout designer!</sub>

You know what's ridiculous? Going over stuff I did back in 2006 or so and feeling like I used to be able to draw better then. Lately (by which I mean the past month or two), everything I do comes out looking like a kindergartener's handiwork.





It's depressing! How do you guys deal with it when stuff like this strikes you? Do you keep going and going regardless of how it turns out, or do you step away for a while? Any advice would be really appreciated because I am really disheartened right now.

I've been doing a lot of reference work both from screencaps, tutorials, books, and stuff I did back in 2006, but I don't feel like I am learning anything from it, which is unusual for me. When I try to apply it to a free-hand drawing, it goes right back to looking like cow dung (specifically cow in nature, as "dung" is simply not descriptive enough).

Also, let's all thank my buddy =plunderer01 for yet another generous subscription donation. Innat sweet?


<sub>Retired signatures:

Chinese definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Programmer's definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and getting different results.
A brief summary of Karma:
"Why are you being so mean to me right now?!"
"SO GOOD THINGS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU LATER!!!"
Good aural sex leads to eargasm. I love music. ♫
If you truly want to get someone to convert to a different religion, the best way to achieve this is to raise him Catholic.
You realize if I were to paste everything you told me to paste into my signature, it would be about 500 lines long, right?
dA: Bringing together photobucket and 4chan one valid TOS report marked invalid at a time.
"saying that spriting is wrong is like saying that twin babys ar wrong!" -~trifldzzy as per [link]
"If you don't agree with our policy, you're simply not informed enough about it." -- dA Staff Logic
Through all the frustration, I lul.

I'm a member of *girls-girls-girls
I am a proud member of the ~stop-tracing club.

Special thanks to ~Ransie3 for the patterns used in this CSS layout, and to Icyworlds.net for their CSS layout designer!</sub>

Have you ever had a crush on a cartoon character, or someone from the comics, or any character that isn't real? Who were they? How did you handle it? Were you jealous of his or her fictional love interest, or did you 'ship them? How far did you take it? Would you marry them like some Japanese marry fictional characters? Who floats your fictional boat, baby?

I'll go ahead and name the two that come to my mind:

Wheeler from Captain Planet
Gambit from X-Men

Both are dead sexy. And I was never jealous of Linka or Rogue. In fact, I very much wished the couples would get together.


<sub>Retired signatures:

Chinese definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Programmer's definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and getting different results.
A brief summary of Karma:
"Why are you being so mean to me right now?!"
"SO GOOD THINGS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU LATER!!!"
Good aural sex leads to eargasm. I love music. ♫
If you truly want to get someone to convert to a different religion, the best way to achieve this is to raise him Catholic.
You realize if I were to paste everything you told me to paste into my signature, it would be about 500 lines long, right?
dA: Bringing together photobucket and 4chan one valid TOS report marked invalid at a time.
"saying that spriting is wrong is like saying that twin babys ar wrong!" -~trifldzzy as per [link]
"If you don't agree with our policy, you're simply not informed enough about it." -- dA Staff Logic
Through all the frustration, I lul.

I'm a member of *girls-girls-girls
I am a proud member of the ~stop-tracing club.

Special thanks to ~Ransie3 for the patterns used in this CSS layout, and to Icyworlds.net for their CSS layout designer!</sub>

Hey, folks! This journal is going to jump around from topic to topic, because a lot of things are on my mind (don't worry, they're pointless thing) and none of them are long or interesting enough to be their own journal entry. If you get bored, just skip to the next +++ (see how kind I am, organizing this to suit your boredom?)

First, I would like to know if any of you know of a good way to thin out lineart. Sometimes, I make my lines too thick and when I go to color it in Photoshop, it doesn't seem right. I've tried creating another layer of white lineart and placing it slightly off over the other lineart, but that doesn't work. I've also tried selecting the lineart, then contracting the selection down by a few pixels and deleting everything outside the selection. That doesn't work so well either. So, is there a way I can trim down my lineart lines?

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You know what blows? When you're down to the last sip in your glass and all the ice has clustered at the bottom. You KNOW it's going to come crashing down on you as you tip your glass back to get that final sip, but you do it anyway and sure enough - SPLASH! And then you have the nerve to get upset even though you knew it would happen! Oh, come now. I know you've been there.

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I am a very succinct person. I like to get my shit across as efficiently as possible, and I don't think it is unreasonable to expect the people I work with to at least try to do the same. In order to be more efficient, I often ask groups of questions in one email. "How do you want this? And what size should this be? What color did you want that?" And do you know what I get in response? I get an answer to ONE question. ONE out of, like, five. Is it really that hard to answer them all, or are you just so absent-minded that we have to do this one question per email?

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Who is your favorite cartoon character? Or characters, if you can't narrow it to just one.

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These are my tektek.org avatars of Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler.



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Now for some kitty cat pictures!

This is Georgie! A while back, he was having some bad diarrhea, and then started throwing up a lot. My vet said it was likely cancer after we tried a lot of treatments, but it just didn't seem right to me and there were some unanswered questions, so I switched vets. The new vet, who I will be going to every time now, got it right away! Due to his FIV, his gums had been inflamed for some time, and the inflamation had moved down into his bowels giving him runny stool and a sensitive stomach. He is now on a steroid shot once every 4 weeks or so, and it has really turned him around. He is back to his old Boo-Boo self!









This is Bourbon.









And here are some of Bourbon and one of the kittens. This kitten is SUCH a love. All he does is love. He gets in my lap any time it is available, and purrrrs. He looks up at me when I stop petting and won't quit until I start again. And every cat he sees, he runs up to, butts his head under their chin and then wraps his tail around their necks. In fact, in this first photo, he is in the process of wrapping his tail around Bourbon. He doesn't know how to do anything other than be sweet and love!













How precious is he?!



Penelope





Maxwell (I SWEAR, it was so hard to get a photo of him. He wouldn't look at the camera, and when he did, he would look away mid-snap so it was all blurry.)





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This is the food we ate at The Horseshoe. It looks a lot better than it was. It was great, don't get me wrong, but the cinnamon roll was a little stale. The Horseshoe has an awesome buffet. They offer several different kinds of food: hickory barbecue, Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Southern, etc. Google "tunica goldstrike" to see the hotel and casino we stayed ad, and google "tunica horseshoe" to see The Horseshoe, which is right next to it (within walking distance). I do have more vacation photos (mostly of our fabulous suite) but they are on the disposable, and the vacation snapshots on his iPhone aren't that great. Besides, that's a lot to upload and link to, and I have a sore on the side of my mouse button-clicking thumb so I really haven't got the patience for that. I'm starting to curve off into bitching now, so just fantasize about this food. The wontons were heavenly, by the way. Best I've ever eaten. So light and fluffy and...








<sub>Retired signatures:

Chinese definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Programmer's definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and getting different results.
A brief summary of Karma:
"Why are you being so mean to me right now?!"
"SO GOOD THINGS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU LATER!!!"
Good aural sex leads to eargasm. I love music. ♫
If you truly want to get someone to convert to a different religion, the best way to achieve this is to raise him Catholic.
You realize if I were to paste everything you told me to paste into my signature, it would be about 500 lines long, right?
dA: Bringing together photobucket and 4chan one valid TOS report marked invalid at a time.
"saying that spriting is wrong is like saying that twin babys ar wrong!" -~trifldzzy as per [link]
"If you don't agree with our policy, you're simply not informed enough about it." -- dA Staff Logic
Through all the frustration, I lul.

I'm a member of *girls-girls-girls
I am a proud member of the ~stop-tracing club.

Special thanks to ~Ransie3 for the patterns used in this CSS layout, and to Icyworlds.net for their CSS layout designer!</sub>