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There is a special Community Choice winner based on the entry with the highest number of s received between 12:00:00 AM (PT) December 16, 2009 and 11:59:59 PM (PT) December 22, 2009, so be sure to get all you friends involved and come back to vote! Remember, only favorites received within that time frame count!





Alright, so everyone who is really into this contest, if there is a picture you really like, don't it until the 16th so that your vote counts. I've refrained from ing many of the amazing works i've seen because i want to help contribute to the community vote. So to my friends who have already faved , and thank you so much for your support and ask your friends to help out between the 16th and 22nd take care everyone!











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Please let me know what you think should you feel the need, I always appreciate it, positive or negative (just don't thrash me too hard)

IN OTHER NEWS: this week is finals week! finally i will have no worries, uninterupted, top priority computer time for a month!! which means pictures i started way too long ago will actually get finished! and posted! YAY!! fair warning though, i'll probably work more on my books than pictures so i can't make any promises.

to those of you suffering through finals weeks, or holiday chaos, i wish you the best and hope a moment to relax finds you this holiday season catch you later and take care.












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youtube it, whether your familiar with yugioh or not










http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/28795084/ Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:55:54 PST
awuh!









http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/28283429/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:29:15 PST
yeah so i decided to poke my nose around the last contest entries to see what kind of pieces won and what didnt. the winners were amazing. well there were a lot of amazing entries that DIDN'T win as well. so suddenly i'm doubting my idea AND skill (which let's face it is still developing and in need of improvment) yikes.

AND apparently i've been mispronouncing WACOM for years! its not 'WAY-com' its 'WAH-come'.....yeah.

anyway, my entry has to do with my dream to publish my books someday and i'm wondering if maybe my concept is too simple or even not as original as i first thought it to be...i'll have to hunt around and see if i find anything thats too similar.





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Current Projects:

a zutara piece

a go-green piece for a contest

tribute to my babies


thats all i can think of. i really only wanted to post an updated journal and put a new stamp up.





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Mara has found herself a friend. Her nose led her to a guy named Aldon and she can't seem to leave him alone. i suspect she likes the way he smells or something (her k-9 atributes getting the best of her) because he's not the friendliest of people. He's sarcastic and mellow, nothing like goofy, fun-loving Mara. But who knows maybe having her around will do him some good, cause now it sure seems like he's got a stick shoved way up his ass!

ALDON:
23
6'4"
species unknown (he refuses to share much personal information, maybe Mara will change that)

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with the debut of my first coded journal is also the appearence of my new avatar, OC whatever you like to call her. As an OC she's not new, but her look is and so my alter ego from the past has now come back into my already crowded arsenal of characters and ideas to doodle. woo hoo. my friend and i were just trying to figure out whose character she really is. i created her first version (man i hope i can find an old picture of her cause it would be hilarious!) where she is more human. she kind of faded away as i was a little late jumping on the bandwagon of my friend's group OC storyline thing. then a couple or a few years later my friend brought all these characters back, refreshing the story and everything. and in doing so she took my character and gave her ears and a tail and a very interesting background story. she came to me and let me design her new look, keeping her essential personality as far as i know, placing her in a new better storyline.

now my friend and i used to love playing pretend and so we get together and talk about our stories and our characters and we're like kids playing make-believe again, haha. she's made many stories featuring ourselves as characters. so after a purple mermaid, and an orphaned fire-handler came Manae (Ma-nay-ah). she's my favorite of all my alter egos featured in my friends stories. since she's my new deviant face in a way i combined her first name with my deviant name and this new OC is Mara. yay




]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/23699231/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/23699231/ Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:08:50 PDT i'm testing out my new and very porr css coding skills....ugh



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i need to get my book fucking published so it can be turned into a movie and Chris Evans can play Raiden because he is SO the first actor i've seen that comes close to looking like Raiden. And the crazy thing is, i've known about Chris Evans for years, he's hot. But i didnt realize until tonight that he looks almost like Raiden!!!!! i saw an old picutre of him with longer hair than he usually has (i think it was a much older picture) and i was like HOLY SHIT he's practically my Raiden! *is melting as she types because Chris Evans is so hot!* its too bad hes like nine years older than be...then again, nine years isnt so bad...



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My first Kindgom Hearts picture. [link] I'm actually pretty happy with how it came out. i wanted to keep it simple, no background and all. the main focus is the eyes because roxas and sora have the same eyes and noticing that was what inspired this picture. there were hands in the picture but i couldnt get them right (reaching out towards you) so i ditched them since they werent in the original idea, that was just me trying to be ambitious and do something beyond my abilities.

anyway, yay i finished. my first real post in a while, at least from photoshop. there are several others on the way (ha like people are waiting around for me to post) i just have to finish them. i have a habit of stopping and starting something new and going back and forth so that progress that is made is miniscule.

catch everyone later!

oh and when i get back i'll finish my new (and first KH2) piece which is now in progress. yay. its looking better than i thought it would, and yet exactly as i planned... ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/23012693/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/23012693/ Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:32:08 PST
cause i'm leavin on a jet plane, don't know when i'll be back again...

actually i do know. tomorrow i'm heading to NY for the weekend, yay! Comic Con 09! i'll be back monday and most likely totally exhausted...ah the things we sacrifice for a good time (like sleep). i'll bring back lots of pictures so stay tuned!

oh and when i get back i'll finish my new (and first KH2) piece which is now in progress. yay. its looking better than i thought it would, and yet exactly as i planned... ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/22992657/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/22992657/ Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:51:35 PST
Nicole is a girl struggling to embrace her normal life when she truely wants something more, only to find out that not only is she different from the other kids in her senior class, she happens to be the last of a nortoriously powerful and dangerous race from another realm. After falling through a portal into another realm called Faerinlore she meets Raiden, quite literally the guy of her dreams, who is influenced by his father's legacy and driven by a promise he very well might die trying to keep. As Nicole learns to accept what she really is she realizes she has been pulled into something more than she bargained for.


made a little adjustment. added one key factor thati missed, my sister pointed out, thanks Nay!

this one feels better. now i'm currently racking my brain for book cover possibilities... ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/22971168/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/22971168/ Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:45:24 PST
Nicole is a girl struggling to embrace her normal life when she truely wants something more, only to find out that not only is she different from the other kids in her senior class, she happens to be the last of a nortoriously powerful and dangerous race from another realm. After falling through a portal into another realm called Faerinlore she meets Raiden, a young man influenced by his father's legacy and driven by a promise he very well might die trying to keep. As Nicole tries to accept what she really is she realizes she's been pulled into something more than she bargained for.

help me out. let me know if this sounds like something you would read. if it doesnt pull you in tell me why. ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/21668273/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/21668273/ Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:18:19 PST
so comicon is coming. January for phoenix and February for NY. i'll be going to NY and maybe PHX. anyway i don't know what character to cosplay. i currently have my Yuna costume, that i have been intending on tweaking for better fit and accuracy. so now i'm searching for another character.

i'm hoping to find a female character with a cool look thats comfortable, and one that i can find the costume online or somewhere for sale. And i tend to be anal about accuracy and not looking cheesie and costumey, you know like cheat material and such.

Anyone have any ideas? Know any good cosplay websites or anyone who will do good quality commissions? Or even any character ideas? I'm not up to date with all video games or anime so i don't know many characters other than those of the shows i watch and the games i play.

i'm loving on my KH2 still but i dont want to be Kairi because she wears pink. And there are no other female costumes available on the web. gr. ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/20995327/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/20995327/ Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:35:40 PDT
so i finally got myself a playstation. i have been wanting one for too long! first game i got was FFX2, i know its a little backwards. went up to flagstaff this weekend my friend sent me home with a bunch of her games, one being KH2, again backwards, i know. i started and i LOVED it from the start. i love roxas! though i feel so sad for him... so today on the way home from class (with nothing but KH2 on the brain) i stopped at gamestop and picked up a used version of KH. i'm playing them both. though now that Sora has returned in KH2 i'm bummed cause i want roxas back, though i like sora grown up a bit, at least after he lost the shrunken clothes and got his new outfit. i still want roxas back though so i'll be too bummed to play KH2 for a while and give myself the chance to progress through the first KH. haha sora looks so little in the first one now that i have seen him in the second. haha and young wakka and tidus made me laugh!

so yeah, i stopped at the beasts castle in KH2, hopefully i will be able to stay away and finish KH. plus the guy at gamestop said chain of memories is coming to PS2 in december so maybe i will even get to play that before i go back to KH2!! yay...

i miss Roxas...

where oh where could my Roxas be?... ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/20531140/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/20531140/ Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:38:36 PDT
long story short, i went in for an eye exam to get colored contacts for the NY anime festival (i'm going as yuna) but it turns out i actually NEED contacts...

WHAT?

yeah, i'm slightly farsighted, and with all the close work i do, reading, drawing, writing, PHOTOSHOP (i stay up for HOURS staring at this screen!) my eyes will eventually go bad, not that everyones eyes dont eventually go bad. But since i do so much close word i'm going to get glasses for when i DO work at my computer and read and stuff, so that my eyesight wont gradually get worse. with glasses i will keep my eyesight better longer...

so next week, when i get my real contacts (i'm wearing contacts now! and its so freaking weird and annoying! first day so i have to get used to it.) i will be getting my glasses...that is SO weird to say "getting my glasses" i used to take pride in saying i had perfect vision. well not anymore!

its not that bad, i'm just being dramatic. i actually think its kinda cool. 1. that i caught it before my eyes started getting NOTICABLY bad (all thanks to my NYAF plans) and 2. cause there are some frames that look decent on me. ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/20506389/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/20506389/ Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:51:05 PDT
[link]

It is based off an idea for a book i have that i shared with her. i dont want to reveal too much because this picture can be a major spoiler, but i wanted to show anyone who might read this!

Yay! The girl's name is Camarie, but i'm not telling you what she is doing in the water or what the splash is! muah hahahahaha! ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/20492262/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/20492262/ Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:45:15 PDT
so this was my big zutara arguement presentation: [link]

it also gave me a chance to play with using two light scources, each a different color and each casting their own shadows.

i'm satisfied with it. it started out as some sketchy little idea that had a lot of potential so i ran with it! i like how it came out despite how simple it is and how fast i finished. like i said i may go back and tweak some.

HOPE YOU LIKE IT MY FELLOW ZUTARAIANS!! ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/20455448/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/20455448/ Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:43:46 PDT
of all the deviations i have submitted with my OCs from my books, they have all been about Nicole. There is the one with Nicole AND Raiden. but Raiden hasnt yet had the chance to appear solo. i have been working on a piece since before the summer, i'm taking my time with it because i want it to be as good as i can make it. I put a lot of time and planning in the background alone (trying to get out of the habit of avoiding BGs) and i've tried to make him as true to the person i imagine as possible. I dont know how soon...or late, i will finish this. I've been careful not to get into that "i'm gonna finish it tonight so i can post it" mood that i sometimes get into. My eagerness to post will affect the quality of my work. So i just wanted to write a little something in tribute to Raiden, probably my favorite character, if not Gordan (which reminds me i really want to introduce Gordan to the deviant world cause i love him and i think you will too!) Especially since the most Raiden has gotten was a profile appearence in the kiss scene(with his eyes closed so it doesnt really count for either of them...)

i'm also working on a major one of Nicole after he most radical change in the third book. The picture isnt a particular scene, just a fun dynamic pose to show off her new (final) look. ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/20416449/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/20416449/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:22:28 PDT
it kinda bums me out that my first really good deviation has to be marked as mature content (beecause of nudity) and so no one can see it. Well people can see it if they are curios enough to click on it. but because i am not on of those famous deviants (you know the ones where thousands of people watch them and are alerted to each new post) yeah no, i'm not one of them. so only a few people will ever click on my first picture worth looking at! if it wasnt marked as mature then people would have been able to see it when it was posted new but then who knows how long it would be before deviant took it off because it WASNT marked for the nudity. oh the humanity. maybe, gradually, it will be noticed. but i think not...-_-

to those people who watch for my zuko/katara deviations: i've been working on my unfinished zuko. i'm not sure how well he will come out but after him i think i will try katara, maybe with a different style than zuko...i havent made up my mind yet.... ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/20333775/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/20333775/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:32:18 PDT
ever find yourself attacked by an idea, or an image, a sudden flash of inspiration that always seems to find you at the wrong time? Like when you're exhausted and you just want to lay down on your bed and slip into unconcioussness, or when you know you're suppose to be writing notes on the movie your watching in class but instead you just have to get that idea down. I love these moments as much as i hate them. I feel like i'm controlled by my imagination sometimes, like whether i like it or not, whether i want to or not, whether i'm ready or not, ideas are going to come to me. Its like a switch turns on and i fall into that familiar one-track state of mind where the world around me is my imagination. This can be dangerous as it happens while i am driving often.

last night i was attacked TWICE!! i lay down to sleep and for some reason (DANICA) i'm singing "who's afraid of the big bad wolf" and as simple as that there is a picture in my head that i just cant set aside for later. (and by this time its 2:30 in the morning, i've stayed up late watching yugioh for old times sae on you tube) once i finish and i'm surprisingly satisfied with the result i lay down again, even more exhausted. But after i pull the chain and the light goes out and i find my way to my comfortable bed, it happens again. only now i'm hearing Raided (one of my characters from my books) in my head talking to Nicole. I'm a freaking slave to my books, to Raiden and Nicole and their story. So i get up and blindly grab for the chain to turn the light back on. I write what Raiden is saying and suddenly i'm tearing through the scene in my head and putting it on paper. By the time i am content to close my notebook it is four in the morning. -_- m alarm was set for 9. great.

So that was my little inspiration/exhaustion episode last night. i just wanted to write about it.

with my luck it will happen again tonight...note it is 12:30 now, i still have plenty of time. -_- ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/20140906/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/20140906/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:53:11 PDT
I havent paid much attention to my poor wacom this summer. i can make excuses that i've been busy, never home longer than a week, but that doesnt change the fact that i feel like i have a tiny hole in my spirit. i have been paying more attention to my books than my art. and thats not fair...i'm trying hard to finish my room! so i tend to keep away from my computers, both of them. so i can TRY and finish! alas it is still less than half way done. and now i'm severely depressed because i just talked to my (sorta)big brother who is in iraq and i miss him so much.

Anyway, with all my free time i feel guilty for not getting back to my wacom. (i havent finished ONE work this entire summer. now summer is over and i still havent used the poor thing) i feel even more guilty that i cant keep my mind from my books. AH!

Okay the tears are gone now, i miss you terry, see you at christmas time! be safe! damn now their back... ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/19908713/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/19908713/ Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:25:07 PDT
THAT IS CORRECT!!! Chelsea has entered the world of APPLE!!!! I am now the proud owner of my very own black macbook! Aranehl is now MOBILE!!! MUAH HAHAHAHAHA!!! its freakin amazing. anyone who had possibly been debating whether or not to switch and get a mac (HA like that many people read this) i would recommend hands down that you DO! Mac blows PC out of the figurative water!

I read Breaking Dawn in two days last week. not what i expected but still a good read. i cant say it was a satisfying ending though...i dont know. BUT MY NAME IS IN THE BOOK!!! CHELSEA THE RELATIONSHIP MANIPULATING VAMPIRE! MUAH HAHAHAHAHA! ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/19383219/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/19383219/ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:41:10 PDT
saw hellboy 2 tonight. it was pretty awesome. it didnt rock my socks like ironman did, but it was definately worth $6.50. yeah.

i'm surrounded by crap and yet i still write and draw ^_~ you'd think a girl would learn.... ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/18329670/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/18329670/ Thu, 15 May 2008 00:20:00 PDT
Ironman has taken the top of all my movie charts! It kicked Constantine, V for Vendetta, and Ghost Rider's asses!! (and let me tell you i LOVE those movies!) OMG i'm gonna freak out until this movie is released on DVD! i cant wait! and since everyone in my house is now asleep i had to rant to SOMEONE! even if that someone was empty box in cold-hard internet space. oh well. IRONMAN ROCKED MY SOCKS OFF!!!!

FUCK!! THE IRONMAN SOUNDTRACK IS OUT OF STOCK AT AMAZON! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/18031770/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/18031770/ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:41:14 PDT
GRADUATION!!! i have a horrible case of senioritis, i cant stop thinking about graduation!! after that its off to florida for about a week, THEN up to NY for another TWO weeks! huzzah, starting off the summer celebration with practically an entire month away with friends. Once i get home my buddy from virginia will be here, horray!! and then JULY!!!!

July is when AVATAR comes back and i CAN NOT wait!! As you can see my latest entry is of Zuko and Katara, yes i'm one of THOSE fans but i dont think the idea is so far fetched now. I was never really keen on the whole katara + aang thing for numerous reasons.
1. he's like 12 and she's what...14 or 15, cause i think sokka is 16. whatever. (Zuko is about 16 i believe) HE'S 12!!!
2. She treats him like a brother/son! ew!
3. before the invasion on DoBS when aang kisses her, her blushing didnt strike me as the (omg i'm so in love) blush. It was more like the (omg he just kissed me...and HE'S 12!!) blush.
4. Furthermore, in the new trailer ANOTHER aang kiss attack happens and this time she doesnt blush, she looks down right unhappy when she pulls away. what does that scream people?!
5. The LOOK on her face when she hugs zuko!! i mean come on!
6. They say theres a fine line between love and hate. i'm gonna go with that one. i'm a zutara fan the whole way through!
7. OH! and not to mention zuko and katara's little moment in the cave the shared (i lost my mother) moment. Even though she was pissed he took his evil sisters side i still count this in his favor (not the taking of his sisters side. the moment)

ok i've rambled enough....goodnight....oh and thank you to all of the people who liked my newest picture and who faved or collected it. i have never has so many at one time it was the coolest sight EVER!!!!

Thanks again my fellow Zutara supporters. i'm so glad you liked my picture!! i love you all! zutara till the end! woo! ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/17722050/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/17722050/ Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:51:27 PDT
I really have to give thanks to Inuyasha, or more so the creator of Inuyasha because I absolutely fell in love with the characters and the story when I was in seventh grade and it is essentially why I am WHO I am today in some part. Who I am as a writer and as an artist is in most part due to my love for Inuyasha. I was a weird one, not like other anime-ers because I was only interested in Inuyasha, I could care about nothing more than him, I had no interest in any other anime. I loved Inuyasha so much that when I discovered fanart I was amazed that people could create pictures better than the actual animation I fell in love with!! I wanted SO BAD to be able to do the same! So I started to draw and didn’t stop until…well I didn’t stop. I wasn’t satisfied until I could draw Inuyasha myself, FOR myself. Around the same time I discovered fanfictions and I realized this was the way I could have things the way I would have liked to see them. I admit I slathered my stories with romantic tension and actions until I couldn’t stand Inuyasha being with Kagome anymore, hahaha.-- After all I never really liked Kagome as a character, or in general, she does have a very annoying voice. I was always a tad disappointed with the fact that she was such a helpless ditz (which is why I LOVE Sango since she's a girl who can kick ass!) but I always thought that Kagome gave girls a bad rap, or at least holds us back to that damsel in distress standard (not to mention cancelling out the hard work Sango does to prove that not all girls are helpless). I was also increasingly angry that she is given an amazing power, her sacred arrows, and she eventually does become a fair archer and yet most of the time she sits on the sidelines screaming and being helpless. AND she uses her priestess powers in the first episode TWICE(!!!!!!) but never again in the entire show….WTF…. She had all the potential of becoming a strong female character and yet never developed any further than the girl who fell in love with the guy who was already in love (and with her past life no less). -- Anyway…I didn’t invent someone new for Inuyasha, oh no, I did what any other self-respecting fangirl would do and I put MYSELF into my fanfics. And I didn’t just put myself into my stories, I came up with a story that told HOW I wound up in Kagome's place instead. (I thought myself to be a literary genius at the time ^_^) And soon the fanart of Inuyasha and Kagome stopped because the fanart of them stopped. As I put myself into my fan-fiction with Inuyasha and the gang I replaced Kagome with myself in my pictures because I usually did a picture or more for each story. (Wow I have written a lot, well there's a lot to say and this is a LOT of who I am today)! I have never stopped loving Inuyasha, I still watch it, though the beginning episodes are slightly painful to watch because the animation is horrible in comparison to the later episodes. I still sleep with my little big Inuyasha doll (I actually cant sleep very well without him!) So I thought I would do a tribute to the start of one of my greatest passions drawing and writing: stories and drawing of Inuyasha and (embarrassingly enough) myself. --which eventually turned me into a freak for writing in general and thus lead me to the freak I am today with characters of my own whom I love and a three book project that I REFUSE to give up!

Please excuse any spelling or word issues, this was written in a diary type mode in which i couldnt keep up with the thoughts as i typed. Hope you enjoyed learning more than you probably cared to know. ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/16424014/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/16424014/ Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:43:23 PST
alright everyone...hahaha like theres a lot of people who know who i am in the deviant world. this week my college classes have started anf i regret to say that it looks like this semester will require more time and effort for me, which translates into less time and fun for deviant. i hoping that i will get the weekends for me. but it does look like most art related activites for me during the week will be for my drawing class. -_- yeah...

to the zutarans: i know i have promised a new piece. it is currently in the blue stage. meaning its a rough drawing done in blue pencil. next is regular pencil then scanned to my computer for the full make-over. but i cannot say when that will be. sorry. and i can actually say that this is a good one. so far at least.

one does what one has to do i guess. for me its ASL 102, ENG 102, and Drawing 1. gotta love eductaion baby!! woo! O_o right...anyway...i have also been on a roll with my book so i may devote more time to that than to drawing on the weekend. but like i said before, i'm not popular artist here in the wonderful world of deviantART, sadly...

hoping to "see" you soon...

say goodbye....=[ ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/16051623/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/16051623/ Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:03:40 PST
well i learned how to make animated icons!!! my new one is one i made in like ten minutes to show my friend how i did it. so while that distracts me i must admit that i have not gotten anywhere really on my comic. other than drawing Nemo, Camile, and Icarus, and the sceptor and key from the old movie. grr... as i admit that i realize i kinda promised a series and failed to even finish the first picture that gave me the idea. i'll probably ditch it since i didnt like it. theres a few new ideas in mind for a different spring. not to mention the issue i had with the girl's arm in autum. grr...every so often i'll think about summer and winter (winter more often) but dont draw anything. maybe because i'm also trying to write 3 books, as well as take two college classes this (my senior) year. its so easy to make excuses...grr...

why i've fallen behind more-so now than i would have: its almost christmas and so i have been drawing a lot of pictures for my friends and family. all of my time in photoshop is actually being spent on my moms birthday present which is two days after christmas. AND i broke my space button a week or so back and so i havent been able to type anything and i feel like my book is backing up. BUT my dad the genius miracle worker who knows everything about anything figured out what i fucked up and now MY SPACE BUTTON WORKS!!! i was so happy i just cant even express.

and now i have become severely depressed by the movie P.S. I Love You and so all i want to do is write love scenes and draw pictures of lovers and stuff like that which will only make me feel more bitter and alone but i really dont care in the least since i am so use to feeling bitter and alone that i am totally fine with it...that was one sentence. wow. ok well i may be going a little overboard because i havent gotten to type in a while since my space button was broken and so i have been craving a long typing session to satify the thirst for my fingers stumbling across my keyboard looking for the write letters to make my words (cause i refuse to look at the keyboard the entire time that i type.) but i will admit that i look down a lot and that i hit the backspace button more than any of the others sometimes...yeah

so i think i should stop typing. especially since i just finished telling everyone or implying at least that i havent had the time to do much lately and yet i seem to have the time to ramble on and on about how i dont have the time for anything and how i'm probably going to be bitter and alone until i become OLD and bitter and alone. ok? ok.

I should learn to focus..... ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/15514074/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/15514074/ Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:09:51 PST
I recently watched the OLD movie Little Nemo i use to LOVE it as a kid (even though no one else seems to remember it!) and so i was thinking about a few things. Like since Nemo was chosen as prince that totally means he is betrothed to Princess Camille. AND that means that one day he'll become king, am i right or am i right??! So what if this kid grows up, thinking this was all a dream until one night he's sent a message and find out he has asend to the throne??

Also, at the end of the movie the Nightmare king was destroyed and nightmares were gone forever (this was obviously symbolic of Nemo's nightmares since in the movie it was his dream and the whole slumberland nightmare land coflict is his own inner conflict that he deals with to end the nightmares) but i realize that nightmares could never be defeated. So they must return because lets face it EVERYONE has nightmares. We'll say that since the Nightmare king is gone Nightmares have run amuck and become even worse without the nightmare king.

So Nemo has to return to Slumberland to become King, marry the Princess, and bring some sort of order to the mahem of Nigtmareland and the nightmares that are wandering out of their dark corners where they should stay.

I THINK it's a pretty neat idea. After watching the movie i wondered how the two "lovers" would behave as young adults. How would Nemo turn out, especially if he loses faith in hopes and dreams because of something that has happened while growing up that brings the nightmares back.

oooOOOOooooo hahaha i'll get right on that people!! theres a lot of steps to go through. FIRST: design the characters as their older selves. THEN: develop the general and specifics of the story line. (it really is a lot when it comes down to it -_-)

I should get started..... ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/14534914/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/14534914/ Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:23:55 PDT
I was doodling something in my 6th period today. Its anime style which i dont really draw often anymore, mainly in the eye department. But this one came out more anime than anything i've drawn recently. Its a sad girl in the spring time, wearing a sun-dress and holding a big ol...spring type hat. And as i was scanning it i had the idea to do one for each season. Which means i've just signed up to do 3 more pictures that i alread dont have time to do.

If anything i'll have the sketches done soon. But there is no telling how long the poor things will sit on my hardrive waiting to be turned into lineart on photoshop and then eventually, something even better.
My wacom, i'm sure, has also been resenting me because the most use i've been getting out of it is just as a plain mouse pad. Poor thing, it need to be used for something much better than just moving a cursor around my computer screen! ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/14403338/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/14403338/ Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:23:40 PDT
So i'm still working on too many things at once. A dual scene piece from my books, its an experiment project as well as just for fun. I've been working on the lineart for weeks now. Not having the time to sit down and do a huge chunk of it. And not being able to afford giving up a whole night to do so either.

I also just finished a VERY rough sketch of an egyptian piece that needs to be SUCCESSFULLY scanned to my computer (i just tried and it was screwed up!)! A lot of editing has to be done to it so i'm hoping my mediocure skills in photoshop will be enough to put a woman back together and give her legs a little bit of a stretch. ^_^

I ALSO have a new character design, Raiden, the male lead in Kiss, and Blindind Love ^_^! He is my first attempt at a relatively detailed man-body. (i had intended on designing his outfit but i couldnt bare to put clothes on him after i did so exceptionally well on his torso!)

So i'll be doing my best to get stuff done. But i will be getting busy in the next week and on. -_- i'm entering a pageant (god help me) for scholarship purposes...cause anyone who knows my knows i wouldnt dress up in gowns, strut around in heels and a bathing suit, and pretend how much world peace means to me, just for the HELL of it! ]]> =Aranehl http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/14034624/ http://Aranehl.deviantart.com/journal/14034624/ Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:48:30 PDT
I'm Uploading all my sketches, in my scraps, because thats all i really have right now. I just recieved a wacom tablet for my birthday and i dont know what to do! i've started and almost finished one ting but then got caught up in several other works all in different stages, and some coming from different ideas and backgrounds. Not to mention i'm trying desprately to finish editing my book in as close to one sitting as possible (meaning i don't stop for longer than a day) because i couldnt do it in one, obviously!

So i'll be doing my best to get stuff done, and we'll see how it goes. I really want to make a pixel ID as started by scrotumnose(only name i could remember for now) and others. But i feel bad about working on it without finishing AT LEAST what i started. ]]> =Aranehl