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HIIIIIIIII! :'D HOW ARE YOU TODAY?

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28716808/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28716808/ Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:54:06 PST
Which probably aren't very weird, because i am, quite frankly, a temple to the ideal of normality, provided you subscribe to the right definition.

1. I am color-coded purple in my family. Have been since I was a wee child. I'm not even entirely sure if the fact that I was coded this way because it was my favorite color, or if it's my favorite color because I was coded this way and I'm incredibly susceptible to parental brainwashing. BUT IN ANY CASE, as ANY of my friends will probably support, I have to wear purple in some form or other on myself everyday. I am just lucky that I have purple shades for when Mr. Laundry pile has eaten even my purple corduroy pants. Yes. I have purple corduroy pants.

2. Everyday is a performance for an imaginary audience. I don't know if I'm the only one who does this. It's some weird, probably self-centered imagining that there is a group of people watching almost my every move. Kinda like the Truman Show I guess. Like...I can hear them talking about me in my head and I'm just trying to look cool to them, and I dunno if I'm failing or not. DDD: I PROBABLY AM. AUUUUGH, DON'T HATE ME, HEAD-AUDIENCE. WHY IS IT SO HARD TO IMPRESS YOU?!

3. The average age of the people I am attracted to is 40. ...I'm not even joking. BUT I HAVE A FEELING THAT THERE IS A LOT OF OLD-PERSON LOVE IN THIS AUDIENCE, SO I AM SO NORMAL OMG. But I'm blaming modern society for this one--older people are just getting hotter. It's the rising popularity of all those vampire cults; no one ages anymore. >:C

4. If you look at me at any given time, there is a 50% chance I am thinking of story or characters. For example, in that split second, I just came up with a perfect way to have Ned take his shirt off in a later story. YAY OBSESSIVE BRAIN. Anyway, this is why it's probably infuriating to talk to me, and why I go cuckoo bananas over what I consider well written story. SO YEAH, YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE, TRACY, RACK, PRATCHETT, AND GHOST OF ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. I'LL ALWAYS FIND YOU. ALWAYS.

5. I know what you're all thinking at any point in the day in any situation anywhere ever because I am Crispy-gypsy. WHAT? I AM NOT STUPID, STFU WITH YOUR RUDE THOUGHTS.

AW WAIT, THAT'S IT? NOW I HAVE TO GO BACK TO WORKING ON DEVIANTDEAD? SUPER SUCK. >:C

I tag everybody. BECAUSE, GODDAMMIT.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28700761/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28700761/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:42:06 PST
Also, ARGH DEVIANTDEAD ARGH. WORKING ON PAGE 13 ARGH. TAKING TOO LONG ARGH. MUST WORK HARDER ARGH. I PROMISE I WILL ARGH. FIRST DEATH IN 5 PAGES ARGH. ARGH.

AND UPDATED CHRISTMAS LIST--THINGS THAT I ACTUALLY DO WANT/NEED THAT IS NOT PAPER:

1. An external hard drive. I'm savin' up, betches. Gonna get me a terabyte because I pile up crap so easily on computers with all that artsy fartsy stuff. I JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW CHEAP I CAN GET ONE XDDD

2. A new cell phone. Now usually I don't give a crap, as long as it works. But this cell phone is from 2003. Or something like that. It's like, holy shit, how is that possible?

3. DeviantART subscription. For either this account or , but probably more for my other site. I usually don't give a crap, but since I'm hosting that "Artist Inspiration" challenge or whatever we're calling it, I suddenly wish that I could use thumbnails. D: It'd just make everything prettier. I guess I should save up for that too.

4. HEY, HEY, SOMEONE DRAW NED. THAT'D MAKE ME HAPPY.

NOW BACK TO WORKING. SOMEONE ALSO TRY AND CONVINCE MY SISTER THAT $1.00 FOR ONE OF HER SKETCHES IS REALLY REALLY CHEAP.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28660587/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28660587/ Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:41:53 PST
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...And seriously, look at my sister 's site. That style would be cute on a bookmark, right?

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28617025/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28617025/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:57:52 PST
Train museum is off and I woke up late XD I'm also getting more and more scared for deviantDead. As good as I feel my story is, it doesn't mean anything unless I actually FINISH the damn thing. SO MANY THINGS TO DRAW. And some really hard scenes/scenery is coming up in a few pages that make me wonder WHY THE HELL DID I WRITE THAT INTO THE STORY IF I CAN'T EVEN DRAW IT EFFECTIVELY?! FUCK.

Also, so hard to get myself to draw Ned today after Bum's Bums. IT...IT'S SO HARD. Like...I can't take Ned seriously right now XD But I'll try.

Also, my sister bought the new Mario game. MAKES IT EVEN HARDER TO FOCUS. WHEN THERE IS WII TO BE PLAYIN'.

I might actually end up doing the last few pages in pencils again when it gets down to crunch time again. AND THEN THE JUDGES WILL BE ALL "FUCK YOU, WHY DO YOU ALWAYS DO THAT?" and I'll be all "CURE ME OF LONG SCRIPT WRITING, PLEASE? ;O; IT'S A CURSE, I ALWAYS HAVE TO TURN EVERYTHING INTO A NOVEL."

Is it sad that I sort of have Ned's development planned out? ZOMBIE INVASION = THERAPY FOR TRAUMA! YAAAAAAY. I'm excited.

Hopefully I'll get far enough to get more stories out...I'm becoming really fond of this character.

I might do that 20 facts thing for him...we'll see.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28582131/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28582131/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:28:09 PST ose that's something to celebrate. That, and school/work holidays...and turkey. Though I usually get ham. Mmm. Ham.

Crispy's thankful for a lotta things this year. As stressful as life had been for a bit (and it tends to be still, even now when I'm supposed to be kicking it easy for a week), I'm still around with...generally acceptable mental functions. For all my lows, I've had my highs, met a lot of friends, talked to a lot of people I admire, and got to do some things I've never done before. So...fuck yeah, hella happy.

Also, I'm going to the train museum this Saturday.

But yeah! BE THANKFUL, PEOPLES. I KNOW I AM.

And, believe it or not, despite all the corn of the statement, I's thankful for you guys too. I think I'd end up being a self-hating slob (...more so'n usual, at least) if it weren't for random folks enjoying my art. XD

I WILL NOW GO BACK TO TONING PAGE 7. SEE YA!

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28533930/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28533930/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:21:13 PST
Anyway, discussed here: Omg i just cut my hair, Possibility of Special Christmas Commissions, Christmas plans, DeviantDEAD update, and Top 5 things I want for Christmas.

1. OMG I JUST CUT MAH HAIR. Had my sister hack off (yes, this is about as much care as she put into it) about a foot of my hair. It's weird not like...having my hair spilling all over everything as I hunch over my laptop, but at the same time it's a nice thought knowing that it will stop getting caught in things. Like doors. When the tops of your hair start tickling your buttcrack and you're too lazy to actually take care of it, haircut is generally a good idea. XD MAYBE POST BEFORE AFTER PICTURES. MAYBE. Except it will like...totally destroy the mental image a few of you have of me (which, I'm guessing, is either that I look like Weird Al or like creepy Rocky, since those have been my avatars). WE'LL SEE.

2. There is actually a possibility of special Christmas commissions, but like I said I wanted to make it so that they're not so time intensive as they've been sometimes. SO, I was thinking of doing BOOKMARKS. Or Bookmark sized artage. It'd be easier for me since they're smaller and I'd be drawing them on bookmark size. Plus, there's only so much you can cram onto a bookmark *laughs* Right? I'd have to work out how much I'd charge, but how does that sound to you dudes? The bookmarks would be like... jumbo bookmarks I guess, 2.5" x 8.5" and can range from sketch to colored as always--I'll have an example up soon, I guess.

3. I asked about the bookmarks since that's what I'm doing for a few of my friends (as well as some larger pieces, because I'm cheap and can't afford to get anybody something cool like clothing or a cell phone :C ). IT IS ALSO LINKED TO SPECIAL CHRISTMAS THING I'M DOING. FOR A CERTAIN FANDOM. You guys know which one since it's the one I've been geeking out over for the past...what, year? DEAL WITH IT. YOU'LL SEE ANYWAY.

4. DeviantDEAD...I haven't worked on much today. D: BAD CRISPY. I'm sort of scared that I won't get it done, but I WILL WORK HARD. I SWEAR. NO MORE SLEEPING IN, NOT LIKE TODAY, CRISPY. Anyway, have page 4's quick sketch done, just need to tighten things up, and then ink, and then tone, and then letter. Oy. Hopefully will have it up by later today. Later as in...late. Boo.

5. Christmas list:

1. Paper. I still want more computer paper. Just like on my birthday. *laughs* Something to draw on.


2. I...actually kinda want some Micron pens now. Or Sharpie pens. Those are what I'm inking with right now, they're pretty decent, man. I just want inking supplies.


3. Yellow Submarine. I don't have the DVD yet. I need it. Seriously.


4. ...Cardstock...I...yeah, I kinda want a lot of cardstock, same way I want a lot of paper.


5. I DUNNO...God, I'll be lame and name something that isn't linked to me artistically..um...Beatles Rock Band for the Wii. I dunno. But GAH, I REALLY JUST WANT CARDSTOCK OR BRISTOL BOARD OR MORE PAPER OR SOMETHING. I NEED MORE PAPER. AUUUUUGH.

...This made me realize how lame I am. HOW NICE.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28448903/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28448903/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:16:42 PST
Expect the first page sometime either today or tomorrow! Though you're not gonna see much past Black frames and establishing shots, but HEY. GOTTA START SOMEWHEREZ.

2nd off: Thanksgiving weekend. YAY! Have the whole week off. And since I have no homework during that time other than to study my scene form the Glass Menagerie, I am going to spend that entire time finishing up commissions. Then I'll take another break and possibly open up for small christmas commissions, if anyone's interested. I just have to figure out what I can do that won't be like...ALL CONSUMING and things. Probably sketch deals.

3rd off: I'm sad--all this planning for my Magic Train webcomic to come out this December, but I dunno if that's gonna happen thanks to all the projects cropping up. Might have to wait until next year. BUT, plot is basically figured out as are the character designs and a lot of the environmental ideas. I'm just going to take a trip to the train museum (hopefully next week if neither me or my cowriter DIE *prays this isn't so*) so I can do sketches and study things and then comic might come to a start!

4th off: I'm so over this semester, how about you?

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28413910/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28413910/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:17:30 PST
So...I gotta figure out the composition of the page and hopefully pare down or tighten up the script as I go. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with what I wrote, but there's so much happening...I just hope that I don't fuck with the pacing too much when I abridge this thing.

Imma try to keep it UNDER thirty pages ahahaha >.< THERE WILL PROBABLY BE FIFTY KAJILLION PANELS ON ONE PAGE LOL

Another thing of note: Ned is a bit less analytical in this story. Much less than he was before--you do get more of a glimpse at his past in this one, more understanding of what had happened to him...This doesn't explore Ned's intelligent, scientific side so much as it explores the EMOTIONAL bit of him. So there is expected crazy here, since his fits are associated with his emotion. *laughs*

I just hope people won't read this and be all "FUCK HEY...WHERE'S ALL THOSE REFERENCES TO SCIENTIFIC STUDY AND STUFF?" Ned's got a bit more to him than that...

Though...I also think he comes across as REALLY CRAZY in this one, but I WANT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THAT'S MAINLY IN RESPONSE TO THE SITUATION? I wasn't expecting him to actually reveal himself in this way so early in the game, but the team up was just a bit too perfect for it, I think. SO YOU GET INSANE NED.

Also, how many points off will I get if there are no zombies actually SHOWN in this story, do you think? o.O

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28392875/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28392875/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:26:40 PST
WHAT KIND OF IMPRESSION DO I LEAVE ON YOU GUYS?! SERIOUSLY. DO I ALSO COME ACROSS AS AN IDIOT OR SOMETHING? BECAUSE SOME OF YOU SEEMED TO BE ASSUMING I WAS ONE OR TREATING ME LIKE ONE. And here I thought that the majority of the time I presented myself as an intelligent, somewhat self-absorbed though also somewhat self-esteemless person with a sense of humor. DAMMIT. I MISSED.

I really tried to make the joke obvious. You guys make me sad. D: You guys need to...I dunno, play more brain age or something. PAY ATTENTION.

Though,I thought it was funny, the person who thought I was drunk or high. That's awesome.

But seriously, people. You guys depress me. Especially since I've talked about how much I've hated the people I was portraying yesterday. I could either say that I'm a good actress/writer in regards to it OOOOR I could say that you people think I'm a jerk.

Thanks a lot. >:C

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28381646/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28381646/ Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:10:33 PST
A big ol mucho thanks to , , and , my best irl friends evar, especially since they find this stuff as hilarious as I do XD Thanks for taking part in making me look like a bitch! THIS WAS FUN.

The journal and art piece were meant more as a joke than any sort of explicit commentary on any particular person, though I suppose you could think of it as such if you want to. just happened to be a "nameless jellicle cat" for Halloween and we came up with a horrible backstory for her while trick or treating. I loved (the hilarity) of the character so much I promised me friend I'd draw her...so I did. WIth the usual backstory of a middle-school CATS OC.

Though, throughout the course of the joke, I ended up questioning the clarity of my humor. D: I thought it was obvious it was a joke. APPARENTLY NOT TO SEVERAL PEOPLE. XD

Also, some of you really think I'm capable of that? D: SERIOUSLY? I mean, I'm not calling myself the poster child for maturity, but REALLY? AHAHAHAHAHA THAT'S HILARIOUS.

ANYWAY, if you'll excuse me I've got a Quaxina comic to plan.

This is so not the last that you've seen of her.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28376425/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28376425/ Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:00:31 PST and gaiz, omg, they're JERKS and ATTACKED THE INTEGRITY OF MY ART AND OF ME AS AN ARTIST. I MEAN, WTF. They called Quaxina a MARY SUE. SHE IS NOT A MARY SUE. I don't are what they think, but they made my feelings hurt, and that's just not cool. I didn't ASK for a critique, they shouldn't give me one. >:C

((Also, heeeey there , , are we up for Star Trek next weekend? When does your semester end so that we can make plans--we still need to do the train museum too so that we can do some research. - Also, I have some new ideas for Magic Train that we might be able to incorporate into the script, so when you get on AIM, chitty chat time, ja?))

GO ONTO THEIR SITES AND TELL THEM THAT THEY'RE POOPIE FACES. TELL MARGYYDOODLE THAT DR. MARIO LOVES HER AND TELL SHANDRA17 THAT SHE RAPES PEOPLE IN THEIR SLEEP, SHE SHOULD BE ASHAMED.

I'M CRYING, PEOPLE. THEY REALLY REALLY HURT MY FEELINGS. SO FUCKING MEAN AND CRITICAL.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28325513/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28325513/ Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:32:12 PST
I saw the characters I was up against and knew immediately what I was going to do. How awesome is that? And I actually get to reveal more Ned past in the first comic! Awesometastic.

And I gotta kill someone. :C Oh well... I know how I'm doing that too.

Typing up my script now. I'm going to have to really schedule this out considering I have so much stuff to do from now to December.

I am looking at everyone's stuff and I'm still really friggin' surprised that I got in. So much good art.

Oh well. Gotta keep truckin'! Time to type out a script that hopefully won't make the comic last fifty pages. >.<

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28317242/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28317242/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:27:27 PST [link]

SO WHO ELSE HERE THINKS THE ZEMECKIS COMPUTER ANIMATION, PERFORMANCE CAPTURE REMAKE OF THE BEATLES' YELLOW SUBMARINE MOVIE IS GOING TO BE SCARY?

I'm not going to go OMG IT'S GONNA SUCK just yet (even though I has problem with MoCap performances for animated movies), but I do have worries on how they're going to pull it off... I mean... A lot of Yellow Submarine's charm comes from the artistry of the entire spectacle. It was very style-specific, I'm just wondering how he's going to pull off something that's very 2 dimensional design. You know?

Maybe he'll discover a new, similar style for it. Maybe. As long as it doesn't assault me with badness.

I also hope he doesn't do his usual realism thing and make the Beatles characters hyper-realistic. It's not only the whole Uncanny valley and Dead Dolls sort of things to deal with, it's also the thought that I would find it KINDA CREEPY TO HAVE GEORGE AND JOHN RUNNING AROUND I DON'T KNOW.

I knew about this for a while, ja, it's just been bugging me lately as I work on commissions right now and am thinking a lot about art. I can't judge something I haven't seen yet, so I won't really, but I do have my worries.

What do you think?

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28310211/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28310211/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:01:39 PST
Dad constantly forgets that I draw for moneys. I know this wouldn't bother most people, but when I'm working on something and then he chews me out for it and decides that if I have time to draw, I have time to do a million other things to prevent me from drawing. So, while I'm working on a sketch, or coloring something in photoshop, I ended up getting chewed out and dragged off of shit. He also doesn't get the whole "let me finish this part first, it'll end up looking weird if I just leave in the middle of it." I don't know if I'm the only artist who finds it infuriating to have your concentration broken when you're in the middle of the "art zone" but...auuuuughghghghg!!!

And he borrows the money I make. Constantly. Gaaaaaaaah

WHatever whatever. Anyhoo, he's yelling at me to do something right now, so I gotta go. >.<

I just want to finish this shiiiiit

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28258857/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28258857/ Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:02:56 PST
Oh God, I was so afraid I wouldn't get in... this was my first attempt at an OCT... I will definitely try harder on my actual entries, and see how well that ends up. We might actually see Ned looking good in action instead of half-assed.

THANK YOU JUDGES! And thanks to everyone who encouraged me to keep on doing this.

I WILL DO MY BEST.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28220520/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28220520/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:51:02 PST
WHO'S SKIPPIN DOWN THE STREETS OF THE CITY SMILING AT EVERYBODY HE SEES?

WHO'S REACHING OUT TO TICKLE A HORSIE?

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28201702/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28201702/ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:01:21 PST needs to find ways to distract me from actually getting work done. No, this is not a complaint.

1. All right, you winner, what's your name? Give us some basic information about yourself; age, height, profession (if any), apparel, etc.

M'name's Ned...or Roach...or dirty, stinkin' homeless guy if y'really wanna go with that. Dunno how old I am--doctors put me at the 36-45 age range last time I checked up, which was a couple years back. 'Bout 5'10", I make m'living collecting cans and stuff, not much else. Got m'self m'hat, m'jacket, m'shoes, just the shite I need, y'know? Bare minimum for survival an' all that.

((Creator here! His real name is B******* D*******, he's 39 years old, 5 foot, 10 (and a half) inches, he used to be a P******** of A*********** and E***********, and the rest is all true. ...Yes, I'm censoring everything, because not everyone knows his past and I like to keep it that way. You can try and fill in the blanks if you want!))

2. Describe your life, pre-apocalypse.

Usual stuff! ...mainly loitering an' dumpster diving. Studying the local society and heirarchy of City culture, catching up on trends...

((All he remembers of his life before the clinic is some jumbled fact that he was studying something before the amnesia hit. So he devotes a lot of his time studying city dwellers and just plain trying to survive. Ned's been doing this for the past two years.))

3. In fact, how would you describe yourself?

...Dunno. Stinky?

((Yeah, stinky. But he's also intelligent and a bit off his rocker.))

4. Did you have any hobbies before the zombie break-out?

Don't got much time for hobbies... Collected bottlecaps for a spell but m'ockets got full and heavy and I got sick of it. ...Drinkin' usually.

((He's a somewhat alcoholic actually, when he can get it. That's something that actually spilled in from his life pre-amnesia. Though, he wasn't one in that Ned at 29 picture I posted. THINGS HAPPEN WHOOOOOO))

5. Any friends?

Charlie owns the music shop nearby--fills me in on what's popular nowadays, not that I listen to it much for pleasure. Not m'taste, but it's good info on how children are bein' raised. He gives me food now and then too, which is also good. There's a li'l girl named Marie, what not, that comes by an' gives me leftovers from her lunch after school afore she heads over t'her dad (which is good, cuz that guy don't like me much, I don't think. Got lotsa friends, actually. Mostly they give me food.

((Anyone who helps you survive is a "friend," I suppose. Which is why Mrs. Chang is not one of Ned's friends.))

6. Do you have any weapons currently, to fight the zombie menace? If so, how did you acquire them? Why did you choose them?

I got Lucy <3. Picked her up real recent during a fight--filched her from a boutique window, but that's okay because I needed it. Th'rest of her fell off, though. Huh.

((He's referring to the mannequin from the store window in his audition comic. Lucy is actually the name of someone who was very dear to him pre-amnesia as well. Ned forgot to mention his food sack as a weapon, but that's probably because he doesn't think of it as one right now...He also has a can opener in his pocket. Whatever good that'll do.))

7. What is your best memory, pre-apocalypse?

...Don't remember it too clearly but...blue sky, long grass, an' trees. Real calm and warm. ...Or, I s'ose the day that they threw out all that food in that Italian place and I ended up eatin' okay for the first time in a while.

((The first memory is of Australia...The second is from a supposed cockroach infestation of Parcheezi's Italian Restaurant. Not that Ned minded. Ever.))

8. Your worst?

Jail. The Clinic...

((Jail, thanks to Mrs. Chang...the Clinic wasn't really that bad, but that's when Ned's confusion had started to step in. Pre-Amnesia, there's some pretty bad memories there; it could be that part of the amnesia is him trying to repress it.))

9. DO YOU LIKE TO DANCE?!

Sure! If y'got the right music.

((It's a sad sight, don't ask him to do it.))

10. Do you play any instruments?

Nah, but m'friend Nate sure can! Violins and Cellos and Trumpets and ever-thing.

((Guess what he's referencing.))

11. What's your fighting style?

...Don't study fighting. D... ]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28160324/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28160324/ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:38:14 PST
SO...

Commissions today then. And then I will try and finish up the rest of my zombie-fighting hobo comic tomorrow. And hopefully it won't suck.

Y'ALL LIKE NED, RIGHT? DDD:

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28135736/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28135736/ Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:59:23 PST
ALSO I THINK I NEED TO SAVE UP FOR AN EXTERNAL DRIVE. Y/N? CRISPY NEEDS MORE SPACE.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28114211/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28114211/ Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:27:55 PST
I AM NOT A ONE TRICK PONY. I CAN DO MORE THAN JUST CARTOON! I AM ALSO A GOOD WRITER. POPULARITY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW GOOD SOMEONE IS--I CAN BE GOOD WITHOUT BEING POPULAR. I IMPROVE EVERY YEAR. I AM DECENT AT MOVING BODIES. I KNOW ANATOMY WELL ENOUGH. I KNOW HOW TO PUT VARIATION IN MY CHARACTER DESIGNS. I CAN DRAW FASTER THAN THE AVERAGE BEAR. MY TEACHER SAID THAT I'M GOOD ENOUGH FOR A STUDIO--IMAGINE HOW I WILL BE WHEN I GRADUATE. I CAN ACT. I CAN SING (ON KEY AND IN TUNE TOO!). I CAN MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH. SOMETIMES EVEN WHEN I'M ACTUALLY TRYING TO! I CAN PLAY GUITAR. I AM A HIGH-GRADE BULLSHITTER AND I AM PROUD. I AM WOMAN HEAR ME ROOOOAAAAAAAAAAR!!!!







NOW SOMEONE TEACH ME HOW TO COLOR WELL. PLEASE? ;O;

No. No, seriously, please.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28021866/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/28021866/ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:45:36 PDT
Also, ever get that scary feeling that your artwork is either stagnating or getting worse? D:

AND YOU THINK THAT I WOULD BE MORE PRODUCTIVE WITH THIS RESEARCH PAPER SINCE IT'S ABOUT THE BEATLE'S ARRIVAL IN AMERICA, RIGHT? BUT NO, I'M STILL A LAZY BUM. I COULD PROBABLY WRITE THIS DIRECTLY OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD W/OUT REAL RESEARCH AND I'M STILL NOT DOING IT. IT'S DUE IN A FEW DAYS. FUCK YOU, DUE DATES.

And I'm also supposed to be making my art website...designing it and putting it together and making it work and all that. I was supposed to start working on that half a month ago D: Not a line of code written.

You ever kind of want to reach into yourself and tug out your procrastination genes?

And your ADD genes?

And the ones that make ya hungry or tired when there's work to be done even if you weren't hungry or tired a second before your brain or someone else rereminded you that there was work to be done?

I'm smart...I know that much.

But I'm lazy.

I'm pretty sure they'll end up zeroing each other out and I'm going to turn out to be absolutely nothing in the end. With a bag of potato chips, though, hopefully.

DAMN YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27985795/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27985795/ Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:26:44 PDT again despite thinking that it had started to get better. I haven't gone to get checked up yet--hoping it'll pass by tomorrow, but if I still have a fever over a hundred later on Tuesday, I'm thinking I should go see the doctor just to make sure it's nothing suspicious.

Pretty much the majority of my friends circle is stricken by this. My bro is sick and my sister just got sent home today with a fever and nausea. YAY CONTAGIOUS.

Coughing makes everything hurt. When I talk, I either sound like a chain smoker or a really bad Ash Ketchum impersonator. Not cool.

Worse thing is that my drawing sucks when I'm sick. I haven't even touched DeviantDead entry today. I hope I can get it done.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27944661/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27944661/ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:07:56 PDT
...me and at least two other performers. There's a good possibility of more.

We'll probably have to cancel the Haunts tonight and tomorrow.

I'd like to say that this entire expedition this year has been haunted, thinking back about it. *laughs* Oh well. I'm going to go take a shower...I shouldn't be online with a fever.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27931677/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27931677/ Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:54:27 PDT
The whole experience so far has been interesting--you never know how many ghost stories there are lying around town sometimes. And I totally didn't know that I was acquainted with actual paranormal investigators with K-II meters and all that jazz. *blinks* I'm starting to suspect that in general I hang out with a somewhat eccentric crowd at times.

I only found this out when we were taking a dinner break after rehearsal last week and the owner of the bar/restaurant we were at came up and asked if they were the people doing the ghost tour. When they said yes, he started recounting some weird happenings on the premises (this restaurant wasn't on the mini-tour stop list when we walked in), and they're just like "Wait a moment" and then some of the people we were with started whipping out these gadgets.

It was liek...whoa. Ya know. *laughs*

ANYHOW, yeah, High Street Haunts. Wish me luck.

Or you know. Break a leg. One of those things. Merde. Etc.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27905827/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27905827/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:08:48 PDT
Anyway, if I had a subscription I might've turned this into a poll or some such, but right now I am just relying on the fact that people might actually read this journal (for some reason--EXPECTING SOMETHING OTHER THAN A USELESS RANT FOR ONCE, PEOPLE? WELL YOU'RE WRONG!) and answer question truthfully.

And it iiiiis...

Why did you start watching me? (Include fandoms, technical reasons, threats from the mafia, etc)

Aaaand...

Why do you watch me now? (ex. Fandoms, technical reasons, "I couldn't figure out how to unwatch you yet, but I'm working on it >:C )

I'm just curious, bored, and self-esteemless as usual.

Oh, also, anyone who leaves a comment going "DRAW MORE CLOPIN, WHY AREN'T YOU DRAWING MORE CLOPIN ANYMORE, YOU SHOULD DRAW MORE CLOPIN" or "DRAW MORE BATMAN" or "YOU SHOULD DRAW MORE *INSERT RANDOM FANDOM HERE*" my answer is quite simply "pay me first." I wonder if anyone knows how frustrating it is for people to keep poking you to do things you're not as interested in anymore.

ANYHOW YEAH THANKS.

Oh, also, I'm doing this because a friend told me to help her, and I guess I'm late because I kept forgetting and crap (and not checkin' ma facebook messages) so... If anyone can help, would be good. *nods* I don't know her personally, but mah friends called in a favor. :3

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27658662/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27658662/ Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:39:32 PDT
Anyway, another one of my usual big butt thank yous to you people who've put me on watch since the last time I did one of my usual big butt thank yous! I used to go to individual pages and thank you guys personally, but I haven't done that in a bit... so...

THANK YOU!!!! EVERYONE. ESPECIALLY YOU. YEAH, YOU.

Wonder if I'll hit 500,000. That'd be pretty boss, huh?

Anyway BACK TO WORK, CRISPY.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27650531/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27650531/ Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:17:42 PDT
[link]

I WILL PLAY WITH IT LATER. FOR NOW? SCHOOL.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27642805/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27642805/ Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:28:19 PDT
But yes. Friend says I should to keep up with dramaz. And then someone mentioned Simon Pegg as a reason. *laughs*

Not sure though... I'm probably going to either end up neglecting it or abusing it, I'm betting. And going on about Magic Train. And stuff. *laughs*

I just wish I had more to talk about other than the progress of the webcomic preproduction. ...I would probably also probably go "AUUUUUUUUUGH COMMISSIONS I CAN'T DRAW DWARVES." *laughs*

OH pah, whatever, I'll get one anyway *laughs*

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27514032/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27514032/ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:11:31 PDT
Yeah, I need another reason to drive me batshit crazy.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27486465/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27486465/ Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:41:51 PDT ?

IF NOT, CHECK YOUR WATCH LIST AGAIN FOR ME PLEASE? DX

and feedback again on this problem, please DX I'm wondering if maybe this is just another watcher again, because someone who had things working for them didn't get the updates. da helllll

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27479087/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27479087/ Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:19:31 PDT
I GOT THAT. >.<

Well, good news is that I've gotten most of my commissions sketches done, I just need to scan them in. Then I can start finishing on coloring up more stuff, and then I'll be done with this batch.

Also, b1nd1 liked my art piece. Hee. She said it was whimsical.

IN ADDITION...

You ever like...have someone you admire watch you and then you sit there and wonder if they're really even paying attention to you?

You ever cram so hard for a test you want to cry and then realize that the test is several days off from when you expected?

Ever sure that you knew all of your lines and then when it really mattered, pretty much flubbed the most dramatic part? DX

OR have a picture in your head and can see it perfectly, but the moment you put a pencil to paper you're pretty much doomed to fuck up?

HAVING 3 TESTS IN ONE WEEK ON THE SAME DAY?

GET STICKY GUNK ALL OVER YOUR NEW BEATLES CD?!

REALIZE YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE EATEN ALL THE CHIPS AHOY BECAUSE NOW THERE'S NO MORE FOR TOMORROW?!?!?!

I HATE THIS WEEK, BECAUSE THIS IS ALL IT'S BEEN SO FAR.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27412023/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27412023/ Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:23:55 PDT GhiaMGM ))

Okay, people, it's Sunday the 27th! This is what I've gotten so far, thank you guys for participating! If you've still got something, like a concept or whatever to show, don't hesitate my peeps. This week's artist to be announced tomorrow.

Week #1: week.

1. - Falling Down

2. - LOOK MA, NO LINES!

3. - Public Transit

4. - Catch a Falling Star

5. - Mermaids Don't like Go Fish

6. Sound Wave

7. I wish this was less horrible

8. London Rooftops

9. Dino Rider

Note if you have any artist ideas for later weeks.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27384556/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27384556/ Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:43:07 PDT GhiaMGM SITE, CAN YOU DO ME A FAVOR AND ANSWER A QUESTION?

Are you guys getting updates on my journals and my art? Because I have gotten more than one complaint about not having any of the updates coming through on ~GhiaMGM (I've posted like... five journals, and nineteen pieces of art already), and one of my watchers actually told me she had to go check her watch list and noticed that all of the boxes next to my name had been unchecked somehow and she had to recheck them all.

If you haven't been getting updates, can you tell me and then check your watch list for me? I want to know if this is just a fluke thing D:

Also, if it's something I can fix. *blinks*

OH, also if you didn't catch my other journal: [link]

Join! :'D

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27383493/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27383493/ Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:04:11 PDT site, just thought I'd put it here because Diane told me to. Sorry for you guys who got more than one post!))

Alright so... after ranting over and over and over and over again about people we wish we were... Me and my apprentice (YES SHE IS STILL MY APPRENTICE, I DON'T CARE IF THE PROGRAM IS OVER >:C) ~DCD-108 (probably best known on my crispy-gypsy site as the girl who gave me all those retarded Pirates ideas and the one who first called Tracy Butler an Alien Cyborg) has decided to chain ourselves to a weekly art challenge in order to improve!

The basic premise of the challenge is this:

• Weekly, we pick an artist. Dev-Artist, Traditional artist, fan artist, original artist, whatever, but an artist is chosen.


• From this artist's gallery (or public works or whatever), we each choose on or two works that we want to draw inspiration from


• We are given a week to do a piece of art inspired/influenced by the artist and the artwork


• CRITIQUE TIEM. REAL critiques. "This is how to make it better" etc. Even though we suck and probably will give each other bad advice. *laughs*

Basic rules

1. Post what you have at the end of the week, even if it's unfinished. Better to have something than nothing?I will probably break this rule so many times


2. It has to be INSPIRED by the artwork you chose, not COPIED. Inspired, not copied. Inspired, not copied. Feel free to try and emulate technique or maybe a few quirks or little bits, but no direct copying.


3. Due every Sunday.

I could probably post stuff on a journal and say "OKAY GO TO PEOPLE'S PAGES AND CRITIQUE" or something.

SO GOOD IDEA? BAD IDEA? WHUT? If you guys don't want to do it, me and Diane can just do it between ourselves, because we're dorks. What I learned is that you can really improve by "studying" people's techniques. Know that I don't mean tracing or direct copying or anything like that... I just think that this is a way to really get the creative juices flowing as well as some development in art technique. BUT WE'LL SEEEEEEEE *high fives Diane*

This week's artist of choice is *B1nd1.

Slight disclaimer and stuff?: And people will probably go OMG YOU GUYS ARE COPYING THAT'S LAME, But the way I see it is we're STUDYING techniques, yeah? I learned everything I've ever done, every style I've ever had, I will admit that I learned it through "copying." This isn't any attempt at taking other people's artwork and saying that it's my shit or my style. It's just trying to get a bit of variety in my artwork and going off in different directions I might not have gone afore. Yeah? Don't take this as an attempt at plagiarism or anything D:

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27326938/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27326938/ Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:53:52 PDT
*plugs her other non fan art site again for the hell of it*

~GhiaMGM~GhiaMGM

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27311741/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27311741/ Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:21:37 PDT
Anyhow, spent a day out with friends, got some sympathy, some grape-ade, had some fun. Played some Metroid, watched some Babylon 5 ((And sexy John Partridge)), so no probs. This'll hopefully blow over.

Anyhow, my head hurts. *slips away*

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27300832/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27300832/ Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:32:34 PDT
Irrational, closed-minded, closed-ears, son of a bitch who never apologizes and always thinks he's right. I wish I could give him menstrual cramps so severe that he feels like throwing up. Then maybe he'll know why the fuck I passed out last night.

I told my family I would finish the dishes later last night because I could hardly move even with medication. He saw me up early today because I had to take more. I told him I would do it later.

You know, it's really unfair to be called a lazy good for nothing, when you're TRYING to get him to leave the sink so you can do the dishes, right? I got the "If you want to live like a fucking pig, go find somewhere else where they'll tolerate you" speech.

And now I'm crying.

I hate my fucking period.

Oh, also friends to my sister Glo

Tell her to keep her nose out of things. She's younger than me, if she nags me in a bad mood, I am going to go back to how I was before I learned to deal with my anger. I don't know why when I finally learn to control violent tendencies they decide they can say whatever the fuck they want to me, but they can't. And in this family heirarchy, as my younger sister, she should learn to keep her mouth shut before I hurt her. I mean it.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27182685/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27182685/ Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:08:56 PDT
I mean, it was RABID a few months ago, and has started to fade off, but I STILL GET LOADS OF THEM AND Auuuuuuuuugh I'm starting to get sick of those popping up into my note center >.< Seriously.

Just...please don't send them to me. I don't buy into them. At ALL for several reasons... And...I just... no more, please. >.< What I hate is sometimes I'm waiting for a note and I end up with THREE of those in my message center.

I guess you guys are trying to be precautionary (or just trying to perpetuate a chain letter DX) but if there's anyway you can just NOT send it to me, that'd be boss. THANKS!

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27098060/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27098060/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:52:40 PDT
[link]

Take a gander. showed it to me, and I loved it. Just lovely. Also, I like the voice over >.< Something about his tone.

ANYHOW, this is just me using the power of journals to bother whoever cares to be bothered. :3 Have fun!

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27056411/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27056411/ Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:47:04 PDT
This usually wouldn't have anything to do with me now, since I have my own computer and it's running okay, except that now people are kicking me off lappy to do their own crap and it's cutting into my work time >:C

I'm just really annoyed now >.< This compy has been living and then dying for the past year or so, and I'm wondering if that's just telling dad that he should get the computer he's been talking about for forever and a day *sighs* I'm also wary about letting my family onto the laptop because sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who has a tiny idea over what to do with computers in this house.

Joe will probably play some online game and get a virus on my laptop. I'm pretty sure that's what started the problems in the other one, but little Joe doesn't listen to his elders, does he? The bastard.

Anyhow...I should get back to work while no one's asking me to check their email or let them look up pictures of George Harrison or something. Argh.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27002407/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/27002407/ Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:18:38 PDT
Today you found a pile of white paper near the acme hole puncher waiting to be punched.

That was my paper. Why did you take it? I was standing right there!

You're just lucky that I've got 3000 more of those at home and that we were having such a lovely conversation, otherwise I would have hit you. >:C

Don't do it again.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Crispy Monster.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/26887923/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/26887923/ Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:30:05 PDT .< And someone's right, if the urge leaves me later, I can always just abandon the damn thing. But I doubt that'll happen, really.

It's ~GhiaMGM ... Nothing on there yet, but probably will be before the night is through... I've got at least one thing to post anyway. :3 Just have to scan it in.

It'll mostly be sketches of original characters, maybe scenes, designs, and whatnot. Mostly done in my cartooning styles. Main point is that they's my original ideas.

Let's see how this works!

And no, the account name refers not to Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer. >.>

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/26881816/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/26881816/ Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:34:10 PDT
That doesn't mean I'm going to abandon this one... I mean, I'm the crispy-gypsy, I guess I will be for life in a sense, but I've been going through some changes and thinking about it.

I've reached that point in my "Artistic career" (I call it that because after so many years with artsy-fartsy teachers it's gotten stuck in my head...also, I need to sound somewhat pretentious and self-important) where I want to do my own stuff. I mean, I have for a very long time been coming up with my own original stories, and if you've hung around me long enough for me to trust you with my own ideas, then you'd know how passionate I can get about things ((Right, ~BlinkPink?)). You know, to the point that I'm obsessive over my stories and I won't shut up about them.

The thing is that as of late, the feeling of needing to do my own original ideas has gotten stronger. This deviantART account started out as a fanart account, and despite having had a webcomic posted here and several other original tidbits, even now, five years later, it is still a fan art account. I think that it might be something a little psychological regarding my perception of the account, what I mentally link to it, but for some reason, I really can't see myself starting to post anything but that under this name.

I want to have an account where I can put my original stuff and not feel lame about doing it. Part of it is that a lot of the time, it's very difficult for other artists to actually take your art seriously or your skill as an artist seriously if what you're known for is doing fan art. Now I understand that a certain amount of creativity comes into play when one draws them, but the fact that the characters are preconceived and never really came from your brain draws away from whatever ideas you put them to (at least in my opinion, or how I've seen people in my actual art class react to my fan art). Unless of course you do it with such phenomenal skill that it doesn't matter anymore, but I'm not exactly at that point yet.

I guess in a sense I want to be taken a bit more seriously as an artist. In my art classes, I get a bit of respect from other people... more from the people who've never seen my deviantART site, and believe me, I would never send anyone I admired my deviantART site if they ever asked to see my art. Not that I think that the art I put here is subpar (well, okay...maybe a little), but because I feel like there's a bigger chance that I won't really be considered an "artist" or what have you when all I seem to have to offer are other people's ideas...

So, I was thinking about setting up another account for my original stuff. I know that a lot of you are probably sitting there thinking "What, she actually does original stuff?" and I know I probably give the impression of a total fan artist. Which isn't true! I swear it!

I want to put up story and design concepts and different things, because I've got a lot of them. I think a part of me is afraid that my original stuff won't get any recognition just for the fact that it's "Original" and God knows that that's true. Another part of me is a bit afraid that if I move onto a different site, the people who're watching me that I actually REALLY admire won't follow me there and the people who I want to see this stuff won't actually take a look at it at all.

But at the same time, I'll be able to show people my deviantART account and not feel like a total idiot. Or have to say "Ignore that" or "I swear I can actually draw my own stuff." I remember when a friend of mine showed someone at Pixar (TOTALLY WITHOUT MY PERMISSION) my deviantART site, thinking that I'd be alright with it. I really wasn't. For all those reasons. I used to have a blogspot, but I can't stand to maintain those very much. I seem to have been doing an alright job with deviantART which is why I made this my choice.

I was also thinking of making my own website, but I don't really have the skills as of yet, but hopefully I'll learn soon.

So what do you think? New DeviantART account, yes/no?

And, in addition, if I DID set up one for original art, would you actually be interested in looking at my stuff? Because I know the majority of you only watch me because I draw your favorite characters (or, in some cases, because I draw your characters). I mean, I even know some great people known more for their fan art who hardly get any attention on their original art, despite how great they really are.

What do you think?

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/26787260/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/26787260/ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:16:32 PDT
We watched the Swan Princess and was really loud and obnoxious, but that's okay because my neighbors hate me as it is.

~thenumber42 came and gave me a fucking awesome Beatles poster. <3 So much love. And Paul-person gave me paper. I now have like... 3,000 sheets of paper. I am happy.

Margyy person gave me two sketchbooks (one is purple. That gets automatic win points) and the other is smaller and pink, but the paper inside is awesome.

Jenn made me a hat. It's also purple. Thank you Jenn, it is awesome and I am wearing it to school.

Glo got me a Stephen king book. <3

~HakumeiPhantasia Got me 3 Stephen King books, 2 Terry Pratchetts, and a couple of really nice handwritten letters and hilarious birthday cards. Thanks!

All in all it's a fun time, and I'm happy to say that I am now 19 years of age. One step closer to OLD but, hey, no problem with that. :3

I should head off now, though. School at noon. Acting class. Fun.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/26575289/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/26575289/ Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:11:39 PDT .<

Eleven days until school starts. Double Blah.

Anyhow, my friends when their birthdays come around always mention something like a birthday list. And I'm like "...WHAT?!" because we totally don't do that where I come from. I guess it's a point where we really don't have money, so asking for something specifically instead of just appreciating the gift we get... that's kind of weird.

But I'd thought I'd do one anyhow...

List of 10 things I want for my birthday (but will probably not get cuz we's all poor around here)

1. Reams of computer paper.

I'm serious too! I really want to get lots and lots of computer paper for my birthday. I always ask for it anyhow. I just like stockpiling it until so that I can guarantee I'll always have something to draw on. And it's only like... 5 bucks depending on where you get it, so... I'm like, encouraging them to be cheap with me. YAY.

2. Stephen King books.

I need moooooore. >.< No seriously. He has a kajillion books out and I only own like... five. Must remedy that.

3. Terry Pratchett books.

SEE ABOVE.

4. Artist sketchbooks

You know the stuff that some artists put out full of their sketches and things. I like staring at art books in general with sketches in it when I don't feel so great at drawing. Having some of these would be great.

5. Beatles stuff

Just cuz. I still need Yellow Submarine on DVD anyhow. Beatles Anthology also, please. AUGH, need.

6. Cats Ultimate Edition DVD

BECAUSE. COME ON.

7. Ringo Starr: Photograph

...I'm like that. Don't make fun of me.

8. George Harrison: Let it roll

Okay, truthfully, that would be more for my sister than for me, but still.

9. Art books

Same reason why I would want Artist Sketchbooks I guess. Inspiration. I already have one of Normal Rockwell and Salvador Dali, and a few movie art books (hunchback, pirates)... i kinda want the one for Tarzan, as well as get some Hirschfeld and Leyendecker or something. Da Vinci. Etc.

10. Um...I dunno. More paper? Strathmore sketchbook or something.

...I really don't think much on what I want. This list was pretty hard to make, I had to scrape in my brains to figure things out. That's pretty sad, isn't it? The only adamant thing in my head when I started to set this down was "COMPUTER PAPER PLEASE? OR A STRATHMORE PAD OR SOMETHING." I already got a T square for Christmas and plenty of pencils, I just want more paper. >.< I'm a sad person. Seriously.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/26485552/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/26485552/ Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:15:03 PDT
ANYHOW, what makes me an idiot.

I told you a long time ago how the costume designer of the play was the mother of Mark Walsh, who works at Pixar, right? Well, she broke her leg a bit back, and I totally forgot about the deal we made regarding me putting together a portfolio for her son to look at. Actually, I had though that there might be a possibility that I wouldn't get to meet him after the accident happened.

WELL, it actually happened that she came over to the theater to watch the play!

...And her son was there!

AND GUESS WHO HADN'T BROUGHT ANYTHING TO SHOW?!

I hated myself. But luckily I had a legal pad that I had doodled on that everyone was telling me to at least show him, but I figured that I would only end up embarrassing myself.

Reesha, one of the board, though, brought him over and introduced me to him.

NEXT EMBARRASSING THING IS that she introduced me AS A FURRY. WHAT!?!?!?!

And he was like "...Uh oh. The drawing type or the costume--"

"NOOOOO DON'T EVEN." <---Me

Jennifer was sitting nearby and laughing at me >.> Anyhow, he looked at my doodle and was surprised to find out how old I was and told me that he hadn't drawn as well as I had when he was 18 years old. Which is nice to know. I draw better than a Pixar Artist did. Yay!

We had a little chat, mostly about animation schools and what classes I can take, but I had to get back to collecting tickets so he gave me his email and told me to contact him later.

I feel so stupid. >.<

Anyway, other than that, the play was...interesting. *laughs* Some of the kids missed their cues and we had a problem with the audio system that resulted in the music being too loud, but otherwise, loads of fun!

Remind me to keep my binder portfolio with me at all times, please. >.<

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/26471165/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/26471165/ Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:35:18 PDT
Sorry. I gotta get this off my chest, it's driving me insane.

My friend Shawna had a recent spat with her mother that resulted in getting kicked out of the house and she ended up flying out to Kansas to live with her real father. Imma tell you that when she did that, she was acting with interesting optimism, even though we were all worrying over her...

AND OF COURSE it didn't end up so hot. Now she keeps calling me telling me how depressed and how she hates it there and how she's getting into fights with her father and all this stuff. You ever also get that feeling where you can't tell people "I told you so?" even though you really want to? Yeah. Going through that.

Anyhow, she called today and asked to talk to my mom, and apparently she begged mom to buy her a ticket out of Kansas. Something about how the ticket prices were going to change, go up from $160 something or other to $300 tonight and how she promised she'd pay us back etc. etc. etc.

The thing is, that she probably asked the worst people to ask >.< We're having problems paying rent and bills and you can see my mom anguishing over this. We just can't afford it. And Shawna keeps begging me to tell my mom what she's going through and how she needs to get out of there and AUGH >.< I want to tell her "No." Because, truth is, we CAN'T afford this! But how the hell do you tell someone that?!

This is added onto the stress I'm getting from working for the play... Backdrop painting isn't as uneventful as I thought it would be. There were catastrophes and shit and... ugh, I don't know.

And I'm still talking to her...and she's pulling the "I've known you since 6th grade" stuff and I feel horrible.

*head-desk* Someone help me, if it's possible. If not, then SOMEONE GIVE ME COOKIES AND MAKE ME FEEL BETTER DDDD:

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/26162458/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/26162458/ Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:57 PDT .<

YOU ARE NOW HALF A CENTURY OLD. OH MY GAWD.

Anyway, I'm sorry that I couldn't buy you those tickets to see CATS (Actually I was GOING to, but you were all "Oh no, unless you buy tickets for everyone else I don't want to go...I don't want to go alone" etc etc etc)... I also didn't buy you anything else. I will get you the special edition DVD, I swear >.<

You will have to settle for a stupid drawing.

Which I will get to that right now...

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Tommy, the enthusiastic kid, came back and raised a bit of hell, but I like him. The kids are warming up to me and I might actually get to start painting tomorrow. FINALLY.

Oh! And I met Mark Walsh of Pixar's mother today! I saw her now and then working on the costumes for the play, but I wasn't aware of who she was until she sat down beside me today and we started talking about my interests and I brought up that I was working towards animation.

She started dispensing advice about what schools are good and where I should go, about how schools aren't teaching you everything you need to know to get into Pixar (including CalARTS and San Fran AoA, apparently, which surprised me a little). She also told me to never work for Dreamworks, likening it to a Ford Assembly Line way of production. *laughs* Who knows if that's just her speaking against the competition or what, but she told me stories about it.

And apparently she's Dory! Mark used her facial expressions for the fish.

She offered to tell her son about me and see if he could help me in finding out what I needed to improve upon in order to get a job with Pixar and told me to put together a portfolio for him to look through. I'm not going to get my hopes up and expect things, but that was a very nice offer from her. If it ever happens I'll be scared to death and have nothing to show but crap. YAY!

Anyhow, I can't wait to start painting yet.

]]> ~Crispy-Gypsy http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/25882907/ http://Crispy-Gypsy.deviantart.com/journal/25882907/ Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:49:15 PDT .< I'm not going this year. The tradition is broken! *cries* I should've bought a ticket when Calvin told me to, when we were sitting in illustration class NOT doing our work.

Anyway, the question is, are any of YOU guys going? Just out of my own curiosity! :3 I'd like to know how many people are popping over to the SD convention center.

random news:

Things are doing okay over here. Working on commissions, working on writing something novel-like, working in that theater thing (yay, but some of the kids are brats >:C). Reading a lot! Still have Stephen King.

Finished a book called "With Strings Attached or The Big Pink Job" which is a Beatles fantasy novel. I know you're all going "WTF" but I actually really enjoyed it and will probably draw scenes from it later. *laughs* Here's the website, where you can read the first half of the book if you wanna: [link]

Just a fun fantasy/fanfic thing.

Also AUUUUGH subscription be running out. It makes me sad.

I think Imma go watch the Beatles Anthology now.

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Spent most of my time bothering hanging around with , who is awesome--always fun to meet other devART people! I caught sight of a few of my High school chums too, which was grand!

Big thankees to ~thenumber42 for buying my ticket and then buying me dinner. <3 I owe you pictures and shit, seriously. I also left my "Cliche'd vampire says YOU VANT TO BAI SOMEZING" picture on your Artist Alley table, so tell me if someone stole it before you got back. Also, your friends are fun.

Also I would like to add that KEESEHOUNDS ARE FUCKING CUTE AUUUUGH I WANT ONE >.<

anyhooooo my legs hurt. So...resting.

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If y'all are going, hope to see you there. :3 Anyway, need to sleep. *hops excitedly*

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>.<

You can get used trade paperbacks for 50 cents apiece at the library store and I bought a shitload of books. That includes Stephen King. (Because the Terry Pratchett books are ALWAYS GONE >.< ) I remember a time when I was all "I don't like thriller/horror/etc, so I'm not going to pay this guy any attention, I don't care" and now I'm thinking "Jeeeesus I like this dude's stuff."

I finish a book and then if it has an accompanying movie, I watch it.

I just finished Green Mile.

Movie makes Crispy cry. *head-desk*

Also I think I'm in love with Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes. O.O She's brilliant.

ANYWAYS I just wanted to say that because it's been bothering me. BACK TO COMMISSIONS.

PS: If anyone wants to get me a birthday present, a Stephen King book would be nice >.>
Or a ream of computer paper. 8D

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They seemed to like me. :3 There was some complications regarding the position because the workshop didn't have enough kids in it, so there was some questions on whether they could afford to have me ((I had enough fun today, though, that I would have done it for free, but I'M NOT TELLING THEM THAT)). Though, the directors and the project head apparently had only nice things to say about me, so they're going to have me come in for two weeks (paid, yay) and if the eight kids they need come in, then they might be able to afford me for the rest of the program.

Which I would like! I don't usually like kids, but these were pretty nice and open and...not jerks. I helped around with the little activities, and met this kid named Tommy--adorable little kid. When it was announced that I would be the one painting the backdrops and the castle he came right up to me during the activities and started talking about how castles were hard to paint, and did I think that I'd be able to do it? When I said yes, he perked up and started asking if maybe he could help me out because he used to pause his Aladdin tape and draw the castle off the screen.

Adorable. He was just nice to me the rest of the day. :3

Also found out that he was on an episode of extreme makeover home edition, and he told me about how they'd made him this bed with a whiteboard over it, and the curtains that you drew around were a sort of chalk board. I thought that was cool.

The kids are all of those acting breed, I guess; lots of stage productions under their belts, and several commercials. There's this one girl who I got this sort of "I can do anything" vibe from, but when it came to dancing time, she couldn't get the moves right Ahahahaha... she got confused.

They forced me to dance of course... But I kept up alright. I used to be in a hip hop dance group (DON'T LAUGH), so I guess I was a bit more used to it. Singing too. Yaaaaay.

ALSO, THE DIRECTOR IS SO GAY, I LOVE HIM. <3

BUT YEAH. HOPE THIS ENDS UP ALRIGHT. SOMEBODY POKE EIGHT KIDS INTO JOINING?

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My friend says not to worry... I'm worrying anyway.

...I hope they like me. >.<

Illustration portfolio, please don't suck.

Wish me luck!

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Oh well. Nothing to report, really, except that I've slipped a little bit out of my artistic rut. The main problem, however, is that I've realized how painfully insecure I am about my own art. Urgh... There are specific people that at first glance I think I'm better than (bad me, thinking like that...I'm a horrible person, YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE TOO, STOP JUDGING ME), but then they get more acceptance or whatever and I start to wonder if I'm not on par. Now this is a different comparison than before--It's not about idols, it's about peers.

Comparing myself to my peers (especially the ones I don't like very much >.> makes me even more depressed. AUGH. I hate it. I also should start telling myself that art is not a fucking popularity contest--the amount of acceptance you get from people is not a good way of judging how well you are or how much further you have to go. Especially for someone like me who is best known as a fan artist. I've understood the words of this concept for a long time, but then there are times when I look at someone who's vastly popular and I start very stupidly using that as a basis to say they're better than me. Or worse! The few times when I actually jump onto my fucking "I'm better than everyone" box! GRANTED I do that when I'm feeling stupid and insecure about everything and it's just my sad, misguided way of making myself feel better...

Not that it helps considering that usually ten seconds later I'm curled up in a fetal ball muttering the same frustrations to myself over and over again..........

I guess there's no point lying in yourself when you know the truth of the matter.

But that doesn't mean anything. *head-desk* I should stop thinking about this.

ANYHOW... going to stock up on canvas from Aaron brothers tomorrow... Yes, people, I can actually paint with PAINT. Who knows, you might see something from me one of these days... at least the portrait I'm doing of Nanay and Tatay for their anniversary book. I just need to restock on Acrylics. I used up everything except for the yellow, and I'm not a fan of gouache on canvas...

Still working on commissions. Sorry that I haven't been productive lately. Nothing's coming out right. But at least I have the want to draw.

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I say this because I'm partially going through one of those right now and it leaves a kind of weird, anxious and empty space in my chest as strange as that sounds. Like something ain't right.

But don't worry about me. I always come back again.

ANYHOW, I realize that I tried to combat these feelings by looking at art of artists I admire. I don't know why I thought it would make me feel better, because usually I just end up feeling worse about myself.

But then, if you're anything like me, you end up getting on the thought process of "Oh. Oh they're ten years older than me. I'll improve in that ten years, and I'll be just as good as they are now." Or something like that.

AND THEN OF COURSE INSTEAD OF STAYING WITH THAT LINE OF THOUGHT AND USING IT TO DRAW CONFIDENCE, I go off to search for samples of art from when they were my age just to justify myself. Tell myself that if my art is on par with their stuff at their age.

And then, you know, fall down on my knees crying when I see it, realizing that either they're much more talented than me or that maybe I'm just not working hard enough, Goddammit.

Does anyone else do that? Try to benchmark your progress on the abilities of your idol-artists (writers, athletes, etc etc)? If so why? If not, why not? Do you think this practice is beneficial? "harmful"? Pointless?

Just thought I'd end it on an essay question. :3 I've been musing over this the past few days when I was looking at things like Normal Rockwell art and the usual artists that I rave over. Just wanting to know opinions as well as see if I'm not the only one doing this.

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ALSO had a really scary incident happen in a nearby neighborhood. They tried to evict a suspect in an elderly abuse case from his home in the mobile park and he started shooting and barricaded himself in the house. After a while smoke started coming out--house was on fire. Jesus. I saw the smoke--rising up like crazy. Nothing but sirens and helicopters shaking the house yesterday. They got the fire out after the roof collapsed, and a search found a man's body in the bathroom.

You don't really expect that from a quiet town like this. Huh.

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