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Post by Asuka Was Here on Aug 14, 2006 17:44:05 GMT -5
Aww! The widdle Cougar clone is so cute! ^^ I won't even as why COugar's running around with him naked Yes, your Kimishima is astoundingly cute. Y'know, he almost looks like an image from the cover of a doujinshi or something. Ouch. That is a lot for a webcam, and I haven't even seen the updated version. of your collection o.0 o.0' whose soul did he get? And otherworldly plot devices rock
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Post by orochimaruchan on Aug 14, 2006 20:20:01 GMT -5
Well most of it was just because I didn't want to draw clothes, but I think that it gives off a kind of closeness holding him naked....
His other son is even better, his hair might be brown but it's slicked back like his is......
Well, I could either take large pics and end up with maybe 10 pictures, but you wouldn't be able to really see anything, but if I take pictures of almost everything in the room I could end up with like over 30 at least. I'm even getting more for my birthday, but they're pre-orders so I won't get them until the end of September. And then if it wasn't for a Japanese holiday, I'd have a box of Ragnarok Online Trading Figure #3 sitting in my room right now.
Blank soul, it's basically used to fix the parts of him that are broken, i.e. his legs for the most part. Since the soul doesn't have a "signature" on it, it just fills in the damaged parts and writes itself to his signature.
Yes, divine power is awesome and so very very useful.
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Post by Asuka Was Here on Aug 14, 2006 20:22:47 GMT -5
...Are you turning all this into a fic?
... and you, my friend, are an anime pack rat. Just have to say that. I wouldn't mind looking at thirty pictures, but other people might. ARe the pics in your sig from your webcam?
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Post by orochimaruchan on Aug 14, 2006 20:40:23 GMT -5
No, this is all in my head that I think about all the time. I'm not very good at writing so I don't do it a lot, I get really self conscious and can't focus. I'd rather draw stuff from it anyway, I can do that better, though I still get self conscious for some of that too...
There are people much worse than me too. Yes, they are from my web cam, but they're smaller than the originals, so they can fit. If I took pictures they'd be around 320x240 in size.
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Post by Asuka Was Here on Aug 14, 2006 21:08:17 GMT -5
Well, I can definitely understand that; I do almost the exact same thing. I have the vast majority of a fantasy story finished in my head, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get it onto paper. Although, for me, it's not so much a matter of self-consciousness as it is having a long timeline written up in my head and not being quite sure of where to start the story and what to write in later as flashbacks and such. So, naturally, being the doodler I am, I just keep drawing the characters over and over ^^' That's where Arra is from, btw. Kiyou, too, although I don't draw him nearly as often...
If there's one thing I've learned in the past 17 years, it's that self-consciousness is overrated, and sometimes you just have to stop, take a deep breath, and do it anyway. Seriously, you might want to try that sometime - inhale deeply, sigh, and say something along the lines of "oh well."
That's pretty good resolution for a webcam. I figured they were resized a bit, but those really are some pretty sharp images.
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Post by orochimaruchan on Aug 15, 2006 6:18:18 GMT -5
That's so freaky....that's the EXACT same problem I have.... I could do that but usually when I become self conscious, my creativity gets thrown out a window, not for drawing, but for writing. I can just grit my teeth and do it if it's something I really want to draw. But my mind tends to go to a blank for writing. In fact the best things I've ever written are when I was paying little to no attention to anything but a daydream, it also helps to change the color of the font so you can't see it, you end up with a lot of spelling and grammar errors, but the ideas are down so it's easy to deal with then, self conscious or not. They aren't nearly as sharp when they're bigger, they look that good because they're smaller, it can get a bit tricky to hold a webcam still sometimes. But I could set it to a larger resolution, something are 640x something, but you have to hold the cam even steadier so I don't like to use it. At least his eyes are nice...
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Post by Asuka Was Here on Aug 15, 2006 8:01:33 GMT -5
Mmmm, odd, isn't it? How much you wanna bet neither of us will ever manage to get anything down on paper? ^^ Really? I found I tend to write best on subjects I know well - like myself ^^ It sounds a bit egotistical, but really it's just because I know myself better than I know other people - it's easy for me to figure out what is/was going through my head, because I'm a firsthand witness to it. Trying to make up thoughts for other people's heads (be they real or fictional) is a bit more of a challenge. Writing with invisible type is actually a really good idea! I'll have to keep that in mind. I do the same thing with my digital camera ^^ I keep it on the lowest-resolution setting for taking pictures That is... a really lazy coloring job. Sorry ^^' A little sad, too, since it's a cool sketch.
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Post by orochimaruchan on Aug 15, 2006 8:44:32 GMT -5
Well, I'll eventually have to do something if I ever hope to pursue manga as a possible career. But there are some other stories that I have that I could write about easier that I could do.
I always write about my character. She's my own personal character that I know inside and out. In fact I identify so closely with her, despite being made up, that when I dream, she's the one in my dreams instead of me.
I know it's a bad coloring job, I tried to do a normal job on it but for some reason it didn't come out right and after 2 more times I just gave up. I just really wanted to draw Kazuma, but I couldn't' think of a good pose.
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Post by Asuka Was Here on Aug 15, 2006 8:56:22 GMT -5
That's true ^^ But, you could always go into some sort of somilar career - digital illustration or something. That's a pretty deep connection. My dreams aren't usually like that - actually, they're not usually like anything; they're so random. o.0' It's not a bad pose, it's just sloppily colored. You could have at least erased the red that's bleeding way over into his shoulder.
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Post by orochimaruchan on Aug 15, 2006 9:19:11 GMT -5
Yeah, I'll probably end up dabbling here and there, but right now I need background, which is what school is for.
A lot of mine are random too, but it's always my character in my place, which can end up being a really weird experience if I realize when I wake up that I was actually my character.
I did that on purpose, but whatever. I actually really want to draw a big pic of Kazuma, but I can't think of a good pose to use. And I actually need a good couples pose right now too, my brain has been failing me lately....
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Post by Asuka Was Here on Aug 15, 2006 15:30:30 GMT -5
Yup - school is very good for obtaining a well-rounded background in the arts and such. You're in college now, right? May I ask which one? I'm going to start applying in a few months, and I like to ask everyone's opinions. ...I had a dream once in which there was a cartoon rendition of my kitchen with assorted early-style mickey mice jumping around on kitchen bottles. The entirely thing, like an old cartoon, had only five colors - black, white, red, yellow, and green. Beat that in randomness -.-' Really? I think it looks kinda odd... or at the very least, it looks like you were being sloppy. I'm drawing a blank for good poses (I always do ) so I can't help you there. Good luck, though. I think I'm going to go draw another s-CRY-ed character close-up after I get a bowl of ice cream
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Post by orochimaruchan on Aug 15, 2006 21:29:45 GMT -5
I go to community college, I went to Cabrillo in Aptos California for 3 semesters then had to take the forth off because I moved. I'm suppose to start at the community college here in Oregon at the end of September. I was barely a C student in high school, so I have neither the grades, the skill or the motivation to go to a real college. And while I could transfer somewhere after I finished my GE, nothing has caught my eye, except maybe an art school, but I'm not sure where one is in Oregon right now. I would also have to declare a major and I don't want to do that yet, I haven't found one that won't make me take a lot of classes that I'll never need. Which is why I will never declare anything with computers as a major.
My random dreams aren't board appropriate. But I got something better. I do a really interesting thing when I sleep sometimes, I'll sleep with my eyes about half way open. So while I'm dreaming, I'll also be looking at my room and I'll realize it. But having a first person view dream, i.e. your viewing the dream in first person instead of like watching it like anime, and figuring out that your someone else is a little freaky, that happens with my character a lot, so when I look at my arm or look down I see her arm or her body.
Curses, I need a couples pose, the last one I came up with I'm using for another Scryed pic. I almost have the line art done on that one.
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Post by Asuka Was Here on Aug 15, 2006 22:17:50 GMT -5
I'm actually considering doing something similar; except I'm going to apply to state colleges. Southern CT is looking pretty good now, actually. I don't lack the grades to get into a good school, I just lack the motivation. I am the lazy bum to end all lazy bums, and that is my greatest flaw in life.
So academic isn't your forte, big deal. You're a great artist - why don't you try out a career in studio art or professional illustration? I think you could definitely pull it off. Personally, I'm going for graphic design and possibly a second major in Spanish, just 'cuz it'll make me more employable.
What do you do, dream of porn? o.0 And... that's actually kind of creepy. The eye thing and the first-person thing, although I've done the latter now and then. Usually I'm an outside observer to my dreams, though. Once I had one where I was there, first person, but I was reading the story of the dream like a manga even as it played out in motion before my eyes. I remember turning back to this one particular page several times because it had a cool illustration on it ^^
I've also been known to get up when my alarm clock goes off and turn it off without waking up. I tried putting it on the other side of the room so I'd have to stand up, but then I somehow walked all the way across my room, turned the clock off, brought it back to my bed, and cuddled it for two hours, after which I woke up hugging an alarm clock displaying a time two hours after I had set it to go off and wondering why it wasn't on the other side of the room o.0'
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Post by orochimaruchan on Aug 16, 2006 3:21:58 GMT -5
Me too, but I don't consider it a flaw, I'm just waiting for something better to come along....
Right now it doesn't matter much, I still need background to ever get noticed, I don't even have a portfolio or anything. And since I'm almost completely hanging by a limb here, I kinda have to take things in stride so I don't totally freak out on myself. I really really don't want to do that anymore....
Not always...........blame Cougar..................................*runs*
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Post by Asuka Was Here on Aug 16, 2006 8:50:48 GMT -5
With me, it is a flaw. I take laziness new extremes and don't care one wit if I never get anything done I'm not waiting for anything - I just can't be bothered to do anything at all, and I'd probably sit here the rest of my life if I could. o.0 A good first step, then, would probably be to make a portfolio ^^ Best not to freak out on yourself, though; it's generally not fun. -.-' No comment.
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Post by orochimaruchan on Aug 16, 2006 10:14:00 GMT -5
Well , yes I could easily do that as well, but I realize that if I ever hope to make a manga, I'm going to have to do something about it. Yeah freaking out is not fun, but the future is quite less scary than dying, I do not want to go there again. .....................I........I love Cougar
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Post by Asuka Was Here on Aug 16, 2006 17:53:58 GMT -5
We know you love Cougar. Nothing wrong with that ^^ And yes, dying is generally a bad thing, so don't be doing that anytime soon. We prefer our fangirls alive here
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Post by orochimaruchan on Aug 16, 2006 23:08:45 GMT -5
I want to draw a couples pic even more now.
And it may sound like a joke but I really freaked myself out about 2 years about dying. It got to the point where I forcibly kept myself awake for about week. I think I had about 8 hours total sleep that week.......it was a very bad time.........
And before I forget for like the fifth time, I tried to take pics of my room with my web cam, but they're too blurry, so I have to get my digital camera and take pics. I can take a picture of my new hamster now though too.
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Post by Asuka Was Here on Aug 16, 2006 23:59:13 GMT -5
Actually no, I can totally understand that. I once somehow ended up watching parts of one of those sixty-minutes-esque news documentaries, on the subject of people who were buried alive and somehow rescued, proclaimed dead when they were alive and woke up in morgues, and exhumed bodies where it was revealed that they died after being buried and there were fingernail scratches on the inside of their coffins and all. It creeped me out so badly that I couldn't sleep for two nights and then I got scared of death and the like. I think I may have been permanently traumatized by it all; even thinking about it now I get a little paranoid. I know the odds of being buried alive are one-in-a-million at best, but I'm rather claustrophobic and prone to panicking, so the thought of it just.... totally freaks me out.
As an athiest, I have no belief that I'm going to go on to someplace better when I kick the bucket. It's true that I believe that, but I'll say this: It's a lonely belief, and it is very, very disturbing to think that someday I and everyone around me will just... cease to exist. I just have no evidence to the contrary. But you know, it might be part of why I take such an interest in fantasy and anime and stuff - when you have elves that live for hundreds of years, two-thousand-year-old shinigami, immortal vampires and demons, and the like, you can at least indulge fantasies where you're not quite so ephemeral, y'know?
...I am SO going to have nightmares tonight... ^^'
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Post by orochimaruchan on Aug 17, 2006 0:55:39 GMT -5
I used to watch all those shows about bizarre events and mysteries, but it never really freaked me out, except that one about chupacabra, it scare the freak out of me. But my fear was more along the lines that I thought if I fell asleep, I wouldn't wake up again, and that's really really freaky. A long time ago, like maybe 6th, 7th grade, I made a decision that I wanted to be cremated when I die, and I still do, I don't really know why, but that kinda of solves that whole coffin problem. I like small spaces, little niches and such, which is why when we were moving I didn't freak out like my mom when our living room had like 500 boxes in it and there was little space to even move. I have a bit of hydrophobia actually, not enough to be actually afraid of all water( I can bathe and such), but any water that I can't see the bottom of, like the ocean, rivers, lakes, and the deep pool, I totally freak out, I can get a sort of vertigo and I've almost hyperventilated before.
I am not at all an atheist, but immortality is fun, in fact my character is a perfect immortal in the storyline, not even god(if there were any left anyway) could kill her. She can also give out a form of immortality. I'm just really disllusional...
All my nightmares are about spiders, just spiders, always........*cowers on the floor*
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