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So many 17 year olds....O.o

There are soooo many 17 year olds on here! O.O And a lot of 20 year olds....O.o I was looking for members around my age (the age that we would be in the same grade from late '94 to early '95)...AND THERE ARE SOOOOO FEW! TT^TT

The only ones I know of are harvestmoonluvr, moonlit dream, Cherryshock, Ametsu the Ninja, and FUNimation...well...that I can remember off the top of my head.

And I'm looking for people who are active members on here and post a lot of art and stuff...BUT THERE ARE SOOOO FEW! TT^TT

I feel so lonely...>.>

And WHERE ARE ALL THE YOUNG MEMBERS!? I'd like an organization thingy that is in order of youngest to oldest...No, I think that'd be really weird....O.o But still, imagine it, you could welcome all the younger members and honor all the older members...

Also, I'm still changing my style again...I'm kinda shocked. I thought I decided on one, but then I realized how uncomfortable I was with it...so now I'm trying to go more with lots of shadows on the lineart (which is really fun) and not so detailed and crazy colouring...unless I want to.

I'm focusing on trying to make MANGA, not COLOUR...I kept focusing too much on colouring and not enough on lineart, anatomy, stylizing, and writing a story. So I'm going to try and force myself to practice manga more...>.>

I want to do some practice ones, and COSPLAY WARS and Gemini were SUPPOSED to be for practice, but I don't think I'm at that level yet. So I'm thinking of just going to practice with my versions of Grimm's Fairy Tales, because I love those stories and I like making my own interpretations.

I also seem to have a problem with....trying to make something mysterious but not really telling you anything...and...I mean NOTHING. Like the reader is just reading it and thinking 'Woah, what just happened...?'

'EXPLAIN, MOVIE! EXPLAAAAIIINNN!!!'

Sorry, that just reminded me of Nostalgia Critic! XD He keeps saying when movies don't make sense...mostly during Quest for Camelot...XD

So I need to practice on that...Ughh...I got to stop procrastinating...I've been doing nothing for weeks...I got to get in gear and start forcing myself to do things.

I'll start by forcing myself to read more of Grimm's Fairy Tales....no, actually, I've been dying to read more all day...but it's ruining my eyes...XD Oh, well! XD

GOOD BYE, DEAR PEOPLE! I SHALL SEE YOU WHEN I GET BACK ON THE INTERNET....TOMORROW!

Challenges

This'll probably be short...I don't know how much time left...until...until...UNTIL I MEDITATE! TT^TT EEEEKK!! No, it's not something bad I just want to tell you some stuff before I go and meditate.

So I've been wanting to create a challenge...but I'm not sure what to do it of.

One idea is to choose a story from Grimm's Fairy Tales and draw something to represent it.

Another is to draw your favourite singer(s) in an anime style.

But I'm not totally for those...nor do I think that many people will want to do them...Just so yah know that I'm thinking about that and I'll probably make a challenge in the future I am telling you this.

Another thing is that...Well, I have so many challenges I want to enter...and then I have ideas...combined for them...XD

Like if I take the music challenge, plus the time challenge, plus the make me impressed challenge...I have an idea for all three of those...XD But I can't do that so I'm going to have to come with individual ones.

I also brainstormed for that music challenge...and I have a list of different pictures I want to do and I like them all...And I can't choose which one I should do...TT^TT I'm not sure which one will work the best because they're all completely different.

And most of them are scenes rather than feelings...I mean, it's the stuff I see in my head when I listen to a particular song.

Like for one of Kra's songs, it's a bunch of nails and bolts falling out of some guy's hands...Or for one of Alan's songs it hugging some mountains, or for one of Base Ball Bear's songs it's a girl drawing on a black top...And then for one of Exist Trace's songs it's a girl being pulled away while black ink seeps out from the ground and from he skin...

So, yeah, they're all scenes...But then I have one for Ever Little Thing and it's basically some girl in an elevator with broken pieces of stuff just standing there, but not making eye contact, and the picture is crooked.

That's what I see when I listen to it...but I don't know if that counts since I also have to show the beats and stuff...But if anybody's listened to Alan, or Kra, or Base Ball Bear, or Exist Trace, or Every Little Thing they usually have songs more with the melody rather than the beat or rythm and the melody gives me a scene in my head rather than splashes of colours and what-not...

But I have an idea for a BoA song and it has dancing and random stuff in there, and for a FLOW song is has upside down stuff and random music stuff, and then for one of AAA's songs it has airplanes and jet streams and jumping and sky.

They're still kinda like scenes...but...I think in scenes so I don't know what to do! TT^TT

My dreams are like movies, if you don't know.

Gahh...I really want to write that tragic romance thing that I dreamed of one night...it as so epic! X3 And I can still see the characters...>.>

Oh! Would you guys be interested in me changing a boring world into a dream world where I post my dreams, if they're exciting? Or would that be weird?

'cause I've realized that I don't like writing about movies...or giving proper critiques, like where you summarize parts and be all specific and what-not...'tis very boring...>.>

I'll just have to remember my dreams. Like I can't remember my dream last night...maybe I should make a journal.

Yeah, I heard of some kind of class thing where the teacher makes you write down your dreams and keep them in a journal every day. It sounds really awesome and fun and since most of my dreams are rather epic, I think it would be really interesting to read! XD

Though I have the random dreams where nothing really happens. Like when I went to a Johnny&Associates convention (those don't exist), have I told you guys this? Well, for some reason I was on stage and looking out to the people coming in and the groups. All of them were new groups and they had Hey!Say!JUMP, which was the only recognizable group...and some visual kei group...O.o And I kept hearing that NEWS was coming in and I was getting so excited, but they never showed...TT^TT And then they announced a newER band and they kicked me off stage and then I woke up.

Yeahhh....that was....a dream that I can't forget for some reason, but it was very disappointing. Maybe it kinda reflects how life can be annoying sometimes...or how I went to the anime convention thing and never got to meet Spike Spencer....>.> But I think this was before then...>.>

Well...maybe this post wasn't so long...Anyways, I want to hurry up and meditate so I can work on that 1 hour challenge thingy...I don't know what I'm going to draw, yet, but that's because I know I'm going to meditate soon....

Okay, bye!

DA Meme

I'm bored and I only have enough time to do a meme...and not enough inspiration...because when I have only a bit of time left I can't do anything....'cept post random crap on here. So let's get goin':

1) Answer the questions below
2) Take each answer and type it into the dA search box
3) Take a deviation from the first page of results (may use ' popular' or 'newest' ) and post thumb (for subscribers) or link (non-subscribers)
4) You can't copy the persons answers who posted this before you
5)Check out the art, because it´s from pretty cool people

1. The age you will be on your next birthday [link]
2. A place you'd like to travel [link]
3. Your favorite place [link] <-- Not really sure what to put
4. Your favorite object [link]
5. Favorite food [link]
6. Your favorite animal [link]
7. Your favorite color [link]
8. The town/state/etc in which you live [link]
9. Name of past pet [link]
10. A dream come true [link]
11. Your nickname/screenname [link] <-- Used my MB name
12. Middle name [link]
13. Favorite Smell [link]
14. Bad habit of yours [link]
15. Your first job [link]
16. Favourite Movie [link]
17. What are you doing right now? [link]
18. Whats The Weather Like? [link]
19. Favourite Sport [link] <-- I love einlee, one of my favourite DA artists! ^ ^
20. Favourite Music/Style/Band [link]

Took me a while to do...I wish there were more..I like looking at pictures...

I'm glad they didn't ask for my first name...because that's a very used title on art. But the pictures that I'm looking at are FANTASTIC. And for some reason my name is commonly associated with androids...O.o Which is cool...XD

Wow...took only 1 hour out of my life...Guess I should go read some Grimm's Fairy Tales to fall asleep...

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...Wow, Super Junior's Sorry Sorry dance is really easy...XD Except for at the tutting part! TT^TT But, yush, I was just looking at the dance for that...

And the key to dancing well is lots of practice. It'll just come to you suddenly. I know this because I couldn't do it very well at all a few weeks ago, and now I'm like a master...at some parts of it...No, I'm exaggerating, but I'm much better than I was before! XD I train in the shower! XD

Sorry , I just thought of that when I was listening to the song...which I've been listening to for the entire hour I was doing that...That and Tako Luka's version of Po pi po...XD

Okie! Time to go read! Reading makes me really sleepy, that's why I think it'll work with putting me to sleep...I fell asleep reading one time...O.o But I remembered the whole story so that's good! XD

Oooh! Yummy! X3

Random title...XD

I read my DOGS manga...XD It was delicious! The action was sooo yummy! X3 Really, I loved the action scenes...Even though I finished reading the pages...I took extra time to stare at them...O.O

And the art...<333 Ahh, it's soooo wonderful! I've been wanting to do more inky pages like DOGS and Shirokuro Kitan, with not as much tones (because, I think they're ugly, but without them...it also looks ugly...just, too many tones looks hideous sometimes) and lots of inky shading stuff. That is fun and easy....on the SAI....it is...But when I use manga studio it's really annoying...And I'm afraid of running out of supplies when I do it traditionally...So I'm probably going to be a CG mangaka. Like Deadman Wonderland's artist...I think he does his by the computer because I do not detect any traditional feel to it. The lines are too bulky to be done traditionally, and the tones are also done too clean.

Shirow Miwa does his traditionally and you can tell because sometimes his tones are off a bit, or little mistakes like those are throughout...But I only examined DOGS vol.0 in that way...I can't remember vol.1 so much....XD

My only problem with DOGS is the story. It's written well and all, and it's really original and really interesting and I LIKE the story...but it seems to much like a bunch of individuals with their own story meet. And that just doesn't feel interesting or as fun. It's a bit of looking towards the future, but then you think of everyone separately and it's just really weird to read DOGS: Bullets and Carnage and not think of it as overly predictable after reading Dogs...>.> Seriously everything that happened in that first volume I knew would happen. Only think I wanted to see was how it was drawn! X3

And Shirow Miwa's little comment at the end of Dogs about he was unhappy about his style and he knows he can work on so many things, but he really liked his characters and would like to write a whole story with all of them in it...I could really relate! I'm sure a lot of you can relate to that, too!

That you keep trying to draw really well, but you can see all the faults and it makes you cringe looking at some of them, especially when you're writing a manga. And then when you come up with AWESOME characters, and then you want to actually make a story for them....XD

That's happening with me right now. I created a character based off of Maki Goto...she was going to have her personality, but I went for a more spicy and cool personality (not that Goto Maki's isn't cool, it's just too nice and sweet, I want a show-off character). But she looks like her and has some of the same kind of fashion style...except for she has an eye patch...Dunno why...I think it's because as I was coming up with her I looked a picture of Ciel and thought 'Hey, she kinda looks like Ciel, she should have an eye patch, too, that'd look cool.' But because I think it's annoying when people have different coloured eyes under their eyes or something like that (though I do understand that a scar or something could mess that up) I decided she doesn't have an eye at all! XD And that her eye patch it permanently over her eye...like...nailed to her skull...or stapled...Not sure which, but you can't take it off.

And why? I dunno...I didn't go that far! XD I was just thinking about her personality and how she looks! XD But I want her to be tough and have some kind of weapons.

Speaking of weapons...I want to create a manga like DOGS, and I know I've been talking about my character Tobias and how he's all pimp and what-not, so I've been wanting to do a seinen manga for a while now...And I just came to any issue....

I DON'T LIKE GUNS! TT^TT And I don't know how to draw guns, and then for other weapons...yeah, I don't know how to draw them, either...O.o But I thought of a cool way to hold a gun (the proper way! X3)...but I don't know how to draw a gun...TT^TT And Yukiko has a plastic gun...which I cannot draw.

So I'm going to start practicing how to draw guns and other weapons and researching them, because I have no clue about any of them...>.>

Back to DOGS, I really like the character designs. I like Giovanni's design the most, but I like Badou as a character the most! X3 I don't care if he smokes, even though I'm totally anti-cigarretes, there is just something about him where I support him smoking! XD I think it's his dependency...just his comedic points and stuff. That and he reminds me of Takeru from SuG.

Hey! Since I don't have an pictures in this post, yet, lemme post a comparison:

No, they don't look alike. I think it's their smile. Don't they come off with the same kinda essence?

And I want to also practice smiles that those. Because I love those kinds of smiles! X3

But Takeru has dimples and so does Maya, which I find are some of their best features, and I want to draw a character with dimples...but every time I try it looks weird...and I've never seen an anime character with dimples...I don't know how to do it! TT^TT But I really want to figure it out...

So with all this inspiration I'll go make some really awesome characters...XD

Oh! I also got Grimm's fairy tales...but they were really weird...and lemme give you examples (copy and pasted from my journal on DA because I'm lazy):

I like them, they're really interesting, but then when I'm done reading each story I think 'Well, that was pointless, why did I even read this?'. 'cause the story where the Virgin Mary punishes this girl because she lied and that's a sin so she took away her children and the people thought of her as a man-eater until the girl told the truth. My question is...Why did she refuse to tell the truth even though life would be better off if she did? And she let her children be taken away, and then in the end when she fears death she tells the truth and then The Virgin Mary gives her back her children and they all live happily ever after. What a selfish person. Why would you let somebody take your children away just because you didn't want to tell the truth?

Then another strange one...but this was strange because it had no point....O.o Umm...it's about how this young king falls in love with a woman who loves gold and the faithful servant does everything to make him happy, but because this woman is...I don't know...cursed, I guess? He shoots this horse so that something bad wouldn't happen to the King, he burns his wedding thingy, and then he sucks out some blood from the golden woman's breast. All because he overheard some crows saying that the King and golden woman person will never be together because of the bad things that would happen, and what somebody could do to stop it. But if they told anybody of this then they'd turn to stone. And since all those things were really weird the King condemned him and then the servant explained why he did it and then he turned to stone. But that's not the weird part.

Then the King and his new wife are so depressed by this. And the King somehow talks to the now statue servant...somehow...and the servant says that to bring him back to life that he would have to cut off the heads of his children and sprinkle their blood on his statue and then he'd come back to life. So he did it (Why...?) and he came back to life, but then he put the kids back together and they came back to life...Sooo...what was the point of that story?

It was interesting, anyways! XD

And I didn't understand the story about the Frog Prince...she through him against the wall and he turned back into a Prince...? Wha? How does that work? Because she freed him from the well? I think he freed himself...That whole story made no sense to me...and the Iron Heinrich...what was that point of that? It just happened that the prince's servant has a torture device on him and he slowly died while they were riding in a carriage...O.o I dunno...it was weird...

Or this other one about this cat and mouse who made a pact with each other that they can live together and provide food for eachother (not eating eachother, this is more civil than that), but for when winter came they decided to store some fat in a pot and put it in a church because nobody steals from the church and that they shouldn't eat it unless for an emergency or when winter came. But the cat lied and made up excuses so that she could slowly eat it all, and she did and when winter came they had no food so the cat ate the mouse. The point of that story was that life is life, deal with it...Yep, but that was a disappointing ending. I thought the mouse would condemn the cat...O.o I dunno, but it was still interesting! XD

And that's all I can remember right now! They're really weird stories, and I told them poorly...because I can't really remember all of it.

Soooo...Bye-bye! ^ ^

THEY CAME!! ^ ^

My books FINALLY came. But the package they were in as weird...There was like strings with the tape...that or the tape turned into some weird new substance because it was really hot outside and the package was really hot. But I'm happy I got them anyways! ^ ^

I also have a few questions to ask that I've been wondering...

First off (before I forget)...Do I leave really cheesy comments? Or like really gushy stuff. Like how I love your picture so much and stuff? Does that get on your nerves, because I'm afraid my comments are really weird...O.o

Also...aren't my comments a little simple and a bit annoying? They seem to be saying that same thing. That I like different parts and that you did a great job...It annoys me...But I want to comment on a picture that looks good, I just have hardly anything to say...TT^TT

And...hentai...mostly men draw it. I just wonder why? Why do men draw hentai? What do they know about the female body? It's just weird...>.> Do they look at pictures or something? Still, just looking a pictures probably won't help?

And why do people draw boobs in weird positions? I've noticed that a lot. Like in a real life picture they aren't doing anything weird...like if they have their arm between them, they don't part separate ways, and it doesn't look really weird. So why do people do that? Also, why in anime do boobs go everywhere they're flying or there's a gust of wind? And how do boobs ricochet off each other!? There is a sprite of Mai from King of Fighters and that's what hers are doing...O.o

Does nobody notice weird mess ups in things like that? I was always wondering why certain things looked really weird and they looked really bouncy compared to real life...O.o Is it men who are making unrealistic bodies for women that do things that aren't realistic?

Sorry, weird questions, but I've been wondering a lot of those things for a while. I even asked my friend if any of those things happen to her ('cause she has massive ones, no offense to her...XD)...she said that it never happens. So why do they draw that or animate it? It just looks so weird...O.o

Again, sorry! :P