http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Auilix&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Auilix en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:42:00 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/22024129/ http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/22024129/ Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:01:08 PST The Glass Urchin. It's not really my opus or anything, but it marks a huge step for me as a person and as an artist - it's the first time I've truly done a comic, and I'm 50 pages (an oral surgery, a new job, a new apartment, and very little free time) in and I still haven't missed an update day. Yes, I am still surprised at this fact. And the comic is teaching me a lot in return - basically how to get things done faster, but I'm also learning how to better my art. At least I hope there's some discernible improvements over the course of the comic.

Anyway, please take a look at it. It's nothing epic, it's not a fantasy about faraway lands and amazing creatures, or a hero or space or zombies. Well okay, maybe there will be a little zombie involvement. But it's my story, and I hope it bring you a little chuckle or interesting thought. I'll be continuing to upload more pages, past and present, as time permits, but do check it out in it's original format, updating Tues & Thurs, here:
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]]> ~Auilix http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/20710863/ http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/20710863/ Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:44:25 PDT
Super Barracuda! is a collaborative webcomic series, headed by myself, about the current election going on in our fair (and fairly confused) country. There’s been a lot of stuff happening now in the last leg of the journey, and the news is just so fantastic, it’s hard to believe sometimes. At least, we think a lot of it’s scary, but in an entertaining way. I’d love to get the word out more on the politicians involved and kind of cut through the lies, and I want to do it in a fun, truthful, and appealing way. And, okay, we admit it- we on the staff are all for Obama! But that doesn’t mean we wouldn’t like some intuitive comics from the other side of the fence, so please all you Republican webcomickers out there, do send away! We’re hoping to let this grow into a great webcomic community. And that’s pretty much the premise of Super Barracuda!

We’ve been continuously updating since we've started with new issues and old, spotlights on the politicians and opinions. All of the comics will be based in truth (although we've been receiving more opinions and other insights) and will have citations so that you, the reader, can easily get all the information you need. Learn more! Make your decision! Vote on November 4th, 2008!

Super Barracuda! Official site can be found here:
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Please send me a note if you would like to participate!!



]]> ~Auilix http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/20561361/ http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/20561361/ Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:09:00 PDT
Most of my stuff will be related to my comic, The Glass Urchin, but expect a lot of neat things to go up here. Don't forget to check out my website, here:
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Horay for new beginnings!



]]> ~Auilix http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/6746324/ http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/6746324/ Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:55:52 PDT

Wow! I got an upgrade to the real devArt from a friend! I'm at work trying to figure out this things TRUE potential... If it has one. Will attempt to make a poll soon as well. Yay, I feel like I'm almost one of the important people.... almost. Anyone want to tell me how an upgrade to premium can change my life?
Well Onna! wasn't the best but I'm happy I sold some stuff. Other people there seemed to be doing the same as ~atara n' myself so I am happy. I sold my kappa pice, my sirius x remus, and the ever popular plastic wings.
Right now I've started working on a short comic that I hope I can finish sometime soon. It's a small idea but I really want to make it look neat and professional. In other words it's going to take me ages to finish.
Note to self: must add a poll or something...
ps lacuna8 will be updated... someday.

Clubs I'm in


]]> ~Auilix http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/6626102/ http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/6626102/ Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:30:40 PDT atara, and we set up a new art group called Lacuna 8 (look for a link soon!) that will hopefully pump out great shounen-ai ish doujinshi for your fangirl needs. The first book will be Cloud-centric but who knows if we'll get it printed for the deadline? *suspenseful music plays*

Anyway if you're going to be in the tri-state area on October 8th or 9th, consider dropping by Onna! in NJ to visit us (and hopefully buy some prints). Wish us luck everyone!

Japanese word of the update: isshoukenmei (which is kind of like ganbatte) which means "(i'll/you/we'll) do (my/your/our) best!!" It means to do something with all your power. It's kinda like a more powerful form of ganbatte (which means "i'll try hard" or "good luck!"). Anyway right now lacuna 8 is isshoukenmei-ing to get this damn doujinshi done on time!!! ]]> ~Auilix http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/5941762/ http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/5941762/ Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:19:29 PDT in other news i've been insanely busy with finishing up my semester here in japan >< it's crazy. i'm going to travel too, and i havent even had time to prepare it. wish me luck on my speech on japanese sex culture (aka why all japanese people are crazy pervs).
also has finally gotten into DA... and is becoming quite successful give her page a visit and see some neat stuff!
and as for my bit o' japanese this time, i will teach zuri! since i can't find it or any of it's forms in my electronic dictionary, i can't guarantee this 100%. all i can say it involves some dirty slang. the bit "zuri" itself means the motion of rubbing. one of my fave japanese words, paizuri (pah E zoo ri), comes from opai (meaning huge boobs) and zuri (rubbing). now just imagine what that one means. *mimes a hot dog being rubbed between two coconuts*. theeeeere ya go. it also makes other words, like another word for boy's masturbation is senzuri (sen = thousand), and girl's masturbation is manzuri (yes, man as in ten thousand). if i can think of any more words ill be sure to post them. anyway i hope this helps with your... er... daily life japanese usage? O_O ]]> ~Auilix http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/5398241/ http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/5398241/ Thu, 19 May 2005 03:54:05 PDT
yay i got a devArt subscription... for prolly only a week or so. but i still have it! yay! and i dont understand it's potential, but i'm sure it means i can do something cooler than usual... *wonders if it will inherently make my art better*

so is coming to visit me!! horay! she should be here any moment, she took a taxi shuttle from the kansai airport to my dorm in kyoto. i can't wait. hopefully much insanity here in kyoto will ensue.

also i figured to make my journal entries more interesting, i'll teach some japanese (since it seems most of my friends like the anime style or at least have some vague interest in japanese...)! anyway the japanese of this day/week/month is "poi!" you can attach it to the end of words to make sentences like "something-like" for instance adding it to the end of woman (onna) makes onna-poi which means "womanly." note that the poi is a harder sylable (don't know how to describe it really... written in japanese it's onnappoi (with a small "tsu" before poi, if you know what i mean). anyway you can use it in many ways like nekopoi (cat like) or kodomopoi (childish).
here's a sample sentence: gackt-san wa hontou ni onna-poi desu ne. (gackt its really womanly, ne?)

hehehe.... now to fight off boredom of waiting for a friend elsewhere...!

]]> ~Auilix http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/5263890/ http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/5263890/ Wed, 04 May 2005 10:00:38 PDT anyway i feel like that a lot... maybe it's just cause it's the spring. it like amplifies the emptiness in me or something. i wonder if god maybe made me the wrong sex or something. like he was like, here we have a boy boy boy oh wait it's a girl. i'm taller than all the girls in this dorm and some of the boys and i am totally flat. >< and i just never feel like a girl anyway... or maybe he put me in the wrong place or time. i have a need to see the world and though i find beauty everywhere i go, there is not a place i have found yet where i am truly at peace.
i guess it's part of being human right? you have to accept that emptiness inside of you or at least try to fill it with something else, like god or lovers or video games or doritos. i just gotta be me and move on...
ahh seasonal depression >.> at least it has sparked my need to draw myself out. ]]> ~Auilix http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/4995620/ http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/4995620/ Mon, 04 Apr 2005 08:08:43 PDT .> well i suppose it's ok just learning on my own.
one thing i found out when my compie was broken and i had to draw everything with clicky pencil, is that i really like background, especially intricate ones. i also really hate lazy backgrounds, like mono-color ones or photos (which i have done many-a-time before). so i am trying to get myself out of the habit of lazy backgrounds... but the problem is i suck at drawing backgrounds, especially on the computer. any pointers would be nice! i'm trying to draw less random stuff and more anime fanart, cause i think more people pay attention to stuff like that here, and in turn maybe i can get myself some critiques... ka? i just wanna get better at it!!!
oh and i highly recommend, if you've the time and $40, bone: the complete collection. it's jeff smith's entire bone series in one book, and it's one of the greatest, funniest, action-packed and charming comics i have ever read... and to think he did everything, the inking, story, lettering, drawing, etc. on his own! i wanna be like jeff smith *admires* ]]> ~Auilix http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/4366239/ http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/4366239/ Thu, 20 Jan 2005 05:35:15 PST ok its been a bazillion years since i last wrote in the journal, phweee~! what's new? we'll i'm still in kyoto, and i'm finally almost done with the fall semester (last day is tommorow, and of course i am now procrastinating from doing the big final).
i have been having the funniest time of my life here in kyoto, i've been meeting new people, seeing new places, and learning japanese. of course i miss all the people back home a lot, but i can't wait for people to start visiting me so i can show em around my city and all.
recently, shivi n i went to go visit the other half of bbr's staff who are now living in the city of to to the kyo, yo. it was only for a week but it was nice to hang with them and it was nice to be back in tokyo for the first time in four years. and i have a newfound love for harajuku and its shops (but not its prices... no way i'm paying three hundred bucks for a goth jacket! $_$)
some bumpy stuff came up a somewhat recently involving my moms health. i sometimes wonder what kind of cruel god has given my mom the many health problems she has... anyway i was depressed about it for a while but being away from home i guess helped me keep numb to stuff like that. i think it will be better when i get home and am able to help her out again.
as you may have noticed, i've been relying on mostly oekaki and photos lately. this is for two reasons: 1) i have no photoshop on my laptop and 2) no scanner either >.> so it won't be until august when something GOOD will come out of me (unless i somehow get decent in oekaki... *doubts it*).
nyan. ok, i go watch sousu paaku now.
ps- japanese cell phone kaomoji rock! o(^-^)o ]]> ~Auilix http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/3579047/ http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/3579047/ Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:06:42 PDT .>
there's one i pass every day at school, but im usually too in a hurry to poke around there. the whole city is absolutely stunning, but damn it i MISS MY CEREAL!! all they have here is FLAKES!

besides meeting japanese people, i've also made friends with a lot of international students here in the dorm. everyone is nice. i think ill become good friends later on (when i am not too tired out at the end of the day to socialize much... and by socialize i mean play soul caliber in the loungue). oh yea, and i found out that australians really hate america (not that most of the world doesnt) and are really voicy about it. one aussie told me she poured herself a drink and cheered when 9/11 happened, which IMO is a bit far... but then she is one of those characters who like to speak her mind always. i mean it's not like america ever invaded australia or anything >.> Oh and btw- don't you all worry, i absentee balloted for kerry.

anyway i've also picked up ffxi. FUN. first ten levels really are dreary but this weekend i experimented a bit in partying with people and while the two others were sucky, the third party rocked my socks. there was a lot of unity and we were overall very successful. i'm glad i'm meeting a lot of really nice people in ffxi. the game is hard as hell but i suppose thats what makes people cling to one another so much. and i'm going to attempt to upload a dev screenshot of me and my bf's character. if you're wondering why i chose cat girl race- i was originally going to do male human, but then i saw a mithra character who looked so much like the main character of my old catnip comix that i couldnt resist. so you can pretend my mithra is a guy. or something....

anyway cheers, or as they say on the other side of the world- kanpai! ]]> ~Auilix http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/3150394/ http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/3150394/ Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:50:47 PDT
It was painful. And I am so blind I couldn't see a thing. But it was exquisite still. I can't believe my little stupid MET ken and tetsu. My eye still has pangs of pain every now and then, I wonder if it's possible I got an infection from my evil contacts?

I've been working lately, an office job. $12 for surfing the web and reading books, yay! I'll prolly start brushing up on my Japanese soon, since there's an entrance exam type test for Ritsumeikan.

I do have art, but since my job is a M-F 8-5 typa deal, I've been a bit busy. I've been doodling a lot at work, perhaps I'll just scan in some doodles, better than nothing.

Watashi wa honti ni blurry eyes deshita! ]]> ~Auilix http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/2978361/ http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/2978361/ Sun, 08 Aug 2004 19:02:48 PDT On the boardwalk, only one other person besides her and her mother dared walk in this lonely atmosphere. She could see him far behind them, becoming a physical form underneath the few lights that lined the walkway, and fading into the darkness again. Ahead in the distance, red lights flashed upon the entrance to a club. A police car. As they walked on, the girl craned her neck to see over the tall, shadowed dunes. The building wasn't very tall, but there was a second story where it seem a lot of people were gathered. She could hear laughter and chit chat echoing over the street to the beach. There was probably no need for the cops to be outside. Maybe there was someone famous there, or perhaps someone rich. Like a Great Gatsby party, she thought.
"You missed your calling," said the mother. The girl was startled. How did her mother know that the whole summer she had been thinking that same thing? "You are so curious, you should have been a cop or a detective or something."
Ahh, that was it, she thought. "Maybe," she said aloud.
It brought back thoughts of her home. Although she was born and raised all her nineteen years in the states, Americans would never think of her as "American" from her Asian looks. But, without a country or a people to identify herself with, she wasn't Asian! Her parents were both born and raised in Europe, but if she told that to a questioning American person, they would only get mad at her. Asian people would flat out refuse to believe her. "No, but what are you?" they would say.
Truth was, her ancestors lived in the west side of Russia, and they were called Kalmucks ("the people left behind" in Mongolian. they refused to invade China with Genghis Kahn, and thus stayed in Russia). However, the Russians never totally adapted the Kalmucks, and the Kalmucks can't understand Mongolian, so the girl couldn't call herself either of those races. And in fact, the Kalmucks were nomads, so they never had a set home anyway!
Deep down, she was envious. Envious of all the people who had a place they could call home. A little flag they could wave for people that reminded them of home. She had none of that. Did Kalmuck people even have a flag? Although the largest population of Kalmucks in the US resided near her home, no one knew about them. And it didn't help that far in the recesses of her grey matter, something was saying "You don't belong here." That thought made her restless all summer, and she could only hope that she would find the answer in the country she would be visiting next. If not, she thought, maybe she was meant for a different time or a different place altogether.
She looked out the the dark blue horizon filled with ocean, clouds, and fog, and sighed heavily. If only she could find that time or place. Was she destined to fell uncomfortably listless all her life? Or would one day she be given an oppotunity to change things? She could only hope.

-----------I've always wanted to narrate a bit of my life heheheh. Going to ota this weekend to see the greatness that is laruku! anyone else going?---------------------- ]]> ~Auilix http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/2800284/ http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/2800284/ Sun, 04 Jul 2004 07:23:04 PDT no luck there. plus none of my real friends have devs, even though i only have two friends that call themselves artists.
i AM super happy that people do subscribe to me though (a few people)! thanks you guys makes me feel as if someone is checking out my art, now and then.
in real life... checking the mail is my main event. that has become the highlight of my day. the time when the mail comes. every day i check through said mail, and there's not a single word for me from japan. mostly it's junk mail. nothing from RU Study Abroad or any of the scholarships I applied to. it's beginning to make me uneasy... when is this stuff supposed to come in? it's already july!
speaking of which, happy fourth of july guys! i hope you see tons of cool fireworks! ]]> ~Auilix http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/2703158/ http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/2703158/ Sun, 20 Jun 2004 10:23:35 PDT
last night i took my liscence-less little sister to a parking lot to learn to drive a little bit. man does she suck! but i sucked in the beginning too so it's ok. only thing is she seems to accelerate around turns and stuff... not a good idea. anyway the parking lot had a lot of bats flying around, they were so cool looking.

and happy fathers day to everyone! ]]> ~Auilix http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/2624179/ http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/2624179/ Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:21:58 PDT anyhew... been working a little here and there, not that anyone's particularly innerested. been browsing thru many-a-book, and especially travel guides to japan. i thoroughly enjoyed HP III the movie, and since i have not much else to say, i'm going to repost what i already posted about my likes/dislikes *this is long!*

1) the new scenery was awesome and stunningly beautiful. *this* is the world of harry as i imagined it. unlike the first two films where the director failed to bring out the true beauty and potential JKR wrote, this one fully captures everything i thought would be beautiful. sure some of the set moved around, such as the whomping willow, hagrids hut, and some of the castle locations, but hey, all the better for me. it's just more beautiful that way. in the book it might have been convenient for JKR to have hagrid's hut be right near the castle so they can always look down from the gryff tower and see whats happening. however in the film theres no need for that at all, so better to put a long pretty bridge in it to be aethetically pleasing. alfonso even made the best work of the great hall's ceiling and the castle's paintings (these now are even better than before, and much more "magical" looking).
2) the acting is wonderful. the kids are much better actors. hermoine, having grown into her mouth, now doesnt seem as annoying as she once was. everyone else is wonderful as usual and sirius x lupin are so cute together. gary oldman used to be my fave actor ever, and although he is not the "hot" sirius i imagined, he surely is one of the best actors for the part.
3) music, being not as loud and blaring as it was before in columbus's super happy ending crap, is a perfect fit for what goes on in the movie. not once did i find that it was irritating or too annoying, like in the previous films.
4) actual camera movement was a lot better as well. instead of boringly trailing the kids at thier level throughout the movie like before, alfonso cleverly arranges each scene to keep you rivetted to the screen. he uses overhead shots, shots from underneath, shots that pan quickly from interior to exterior, and many more.
5) comedy... there was a lot more funny comedy, and less of the silly predictable kind from the previous films. ron was delightful to watch, and so were minor things, like the whomping willow and buckbeaks personality.
6) plotline... you can tell that alfonso had to cut out some major things, and sadly the mauraders was one of them. however, he did it for the best interest of the audience i think, and as the film was 2 hrs and a half long already, it was good to make those cuts. had he strayed into talking about people in the past, i think it would only further confuse people who hadn't read the books before, and it really has nothing to do with the main story at all. one of the things columbus did badly was crop out the crap, like the whole polyjuice thing from chamber of secrets, and i was glad that only a few scenes in this one felt as if they could be left out. there is NO DOUBT that even more things will be cut from book 4 and 5 because of thier sheer volume, so all the people who are complaining about crap being taken out and changed, better get used to it, because theres no way i'm sitting through a movie that portrays book 4 or 5 with EVERYTHING that happened. i am probably one of the more feverent maurader fans, having collected doujinshi and made some of my own. however, seeing them not in the movie doesn't really phase me. it's one more thing that i can keep to myself, that people who simply watched the movie will never understand. as far as i'm concerned, it will keep out the lame fans who don't bother with the books.
7) graphics. thank god they got rid of the crappy terrible cg-ed people (neville on the broomstick and harry on the troll in I, harry on the broomstick in II). those were SO annoying... >< ;;;;; this time special effects were much better, and the map, beside that one minor flaw (see below) was great. the paintings look better, buckbeak was so adorably intimidating, and "padfoot" looked superb. the dementors themselves were so horribly scary, just how i imagined them. in the scenes where they float outside the castle were where they were best looking, and they protrayed the fear that JKR wrote so in-depth about very nicely.

minorish gripes:
1)mooney??? mooney?? i know he's not a natural speaker of english but maybe the graphics designers who did the map would have noticed such a spelling error, smack dab in the front of the map. and "mooney" is my second fave character...
2)no nearly headless nick..... ]]> ~Auilix http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/2522542/ http://Auilix.deviantart.com/journal/2522542/ Thu, 27 May 2004 16:01:47 PDT Anyway today I went to get Microsoft Certified for Word, but i FAILED! Yes, I failed a test about WORD!!! A program i have been using since at least fifth grade and I failed! I blame it on the fact that the computer was slow and when I needed to print something out, it froze for at least three minutes. It timed out and I couldn't finish the last four problems (out of 32- so each ques meant a lot!). AND the fact that I didn't know what a FormatPainter was. What the hell is a Format Painter?!? If anyone knows, please tell me.
And I've been going on a reading streak lately. Apparently isolation and excessive sleeping and reading are trademarks of culture shock, according to our Study Abroad Advisor who was prepping us for next year in Japan. I would think, oh yes I'm going thru culture shock, except I've been in the same house I've lived in for the past 19 years of my life. ::... On my summer reading list so far, besides many books on Japan and Kyoto, and Harry Potter 5 which i am rereading for my dear mum, are two Artemis Fowl books (i reccomend!), All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (i plan on doing a fanart for it), The Plague by Albert Camus, Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, The Case of the Snowbound Spy by Hildick (when I was a kid I used to read the McGurk books all the time-- i loved mysteries), and the Brit version of Harry Potter book 1 (yes... HP was translated from english... to english).
Anywho, been spending most of my time drawing and entertaining my little sister with Friends episodes from season 10, but i really should be getting a job soon. This summer I'll need it the most.... ]]> ~Auilix