http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Demon-Cabbage&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Demon-Cabbage en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:58:14 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/27495597/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/27495597/ Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:46:27 PDT
Strangely the title of that post never stopped applying...In fact I think lately it applies even more. I'm so busy I forget to call home or check in with friends every once in a while. (Sorry Suzy! I'm not dead, I swear!!)

So I've kind of been in a bit of limbo for a while now...questioning my capabilities, my future, etc. Beginning easily since last year and progressively getting worse really. Just every once in a while stressing out about it, yet always feeling just a little bit lost and unsure of what I'm doing. I always had this nagging feeling that I was "falling behind". Not because I wasn't improving in my skills, I knew I was just as every one else is though not necessarily at the same pace, but because I felt I wasn't applying them how I really wanted. I didn't feel I yet had any set style or way of working...that I didn't yet have an identity. Others I could see theirs clear as day.

It's not that I didn't think I have a style; I know I do (though it has changed a tad bit since last semester, ever since Brandes made me draw in the style of Charles Dana Gibson and I fell in love with parts of it which I've incorporated into it). I just didn't feel that my style always applied, like my way of thinking/working wasn't consistent every time. How I plan how to make a comic page for instance I knew was drastically different than how I planned for an illustration - but I felt they shouldn't be. Both are ways of drawing and in essence finding the best way to solve a problem. So why was one way easy (comic) and the other always a struggle (illustration)?

It still is, but I've had two "revelations" lately.

First of all, I realized I could draw in my style in my illustration class. God, I know, I should have known that sooner but it was like REVELATION. I don't know if it's because I've always had to hide my more cartoony style from my art teachers in middle/high school and pretend to only draw realism that I got it imprinted into my brain to keep them split like that forever or what...so school assignments I was always making realistic, maybe only a slight hint on the cartoony side, but stuff I drew on my own was always how I wanted to look. My thumbnails, maybe, were in my style - which usually led to the finished illustrations strangely not working as well as they did in the thumbnail. Then, BAM, this year I suddenly realize I CAN MAKE THEM LOOK HOW I WANT. Holy crap! I know there is a time for realism and a time for stylization, but suddenly knowing this I feel I already am making better illustrations simply because I don't feel...constricted.

If you know my style, you might not think they're not that different so might not understand why I was having this trouble...but just trust me when I say it is. I was always trying to force myself to think differently, and it was in a way that wasn't working for me. Now that I can click back to being me...Ooooh life feels better already. Optimism slightly improved.

Needless to say, this first illustration of the year where I'm trying this for class, I'm kind of liking how its looking already. And the kids in it are drawn more in my style than realistic. YAY. Should have it done & posted soon.

Secondly, and this relates to my feeling lost/unsure thing, have you ever had someone say something to you that at the time didn't mean anything, but then it sunk into your brain, and 24 hours later you suddenly realized something...? No? Er, well I guess now I have. I was in my Lit. of Comics & Graphic Narrative class Monday morning as always...well, my teacher knows I have a webcomic and he likes that I draw comics and is always asking for my opinion on things in class since I'm the only one in class apparently who specifically flat-out said that its what I do and want to do. As far as I know, he hasn't actually read it, he just knows of it existing and that its in anime/manga style. And he knows that the life of a webcomic artist is the one I totally want to have, though really its also the thing I've sitting here in unsure/doubt land about. It's also something I never willing want to admit to anything as what I want to do - he only knows because he bluntly asked and feeling on the spot, I blurted out "yes".

But anyway! So we're in class and talking about the works we read last weekend (Blankets by Craig Thompson, which I didn't read because I've already read it, and then Will Eisner's works). A few times he has brought up about how he knows people and students who are only into the art of comics and could really care very little about the actual stories - they care more about what "looks cool" and its what they want to draw. This has always been something I don't understand, be... ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/16755331/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/16755331/ Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:06:29 PST anything anymore...which for some reason always brings into my mind Dane Cook saying, "I can't even eat an English Muffin! D:"

Such is life right now. I go to school, come home, "relax" which I soon regret because it means I have done nothing productive, do homework, work on FC, take a shower, work some more on something, go to bed, repeat...It's monotonous and busy. That has to be possibly the worst combination ever made.

I don't mind working on these things, I just wish I had some time to do OTHER things every once in a while...yet the opportunities where I could have done something different I always miss and only realize they were there in hindsight! DX Oh, how foolish I be...

*collapses*

And that is the update of my life...

]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/16421149/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/16421149/ Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:11:47 PST
Though I've noticed something lately. I've been getting more into my comic a LOT lately...I mean, I was always into it, but not like this. It used to be "Oh, I gotta update that...eventually...hmm..." and now it's like I actually want to work on it all the time. It might be related to the fact I've written up so much of the script that now I'm all like, "YEAH!! I wanna get to this part!!!" I also have been wanting to get more people into it, but then I see other people who are younger than me and amazing and...then I'm just like, "...I'm going back to my nice little corner now..."

Though I realize more fans would give me more obligation for it, and I actually kind of want that...yeah, deep down I just want attention, appreciation, whatever. I've been kind of obsessed with statcounter too (Damn you Dan for showing it to me...!). It's a mixed bag. On one hand it's neat to see where people are from who read it, but on the other hand I also see how many people don't get past page 3...which sucks...Then I want to redo the beginning to be all like "LOOK! I'm better now! Please read...!" but at the same time I really DON'T want to do that because I find it kind of neat to see how I've progressed. (That's the cool thing about webcomics, ya know)

So bleh. Just bleh.

In summary, I'm becoming obsessive and desperate for attention! Help! DX

]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/14904326/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/14904326/ Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:19:43 PDT
It's homecoming week (oh joy, the excitement, it kills.) so I've got stuff to do for yearbook (Concetta and I are covering the game Friday, when I don't particularly care to go to...it will be the most painful hours of my life. What part of "for the love of God, don't give me a sports event" did Mr. Zoubek not understand?) I've found interviewing people is quite bothersome. First you have to FIND the people, then because the recorders aren't working for some reason, you have to write down EVERYTHING they say verbatim and have them sign that it's what they said (which takes longer). Worse yet, and I shan't lie, they really have nothing very interesting or exciting to say.
"The homecoming game has more people..."
"It's a lot more enthusiastic..."
"More pressure 'cuz there's more people who want you to win..."
"Leadership is important..."
No duh! And naturally, "We don't do anything different for homecoming game, we treat it like any other game." Thank you football fellows. You're making this very difficult. Hopefully the fans at the game will prove more interesting. (Though I shouldn't be mean, they are rather nice fellows...but they could at least sound excited themselves.)

So there's that, and I've got various things to do for various other classes, blah blah blah. Saturday morning I take the SAT (oh, can't contain my excitement there either), and Sunday's agenda is still under works apparently. Bah...just, much to do...on the bright side, my college applications are progressing at a nice rate. Nearly done actually. Two essays to write, one more recommendations to find, and then I have to send in my portfolio and that's it. (Though some things I still plan to edit for that, and one piece I would like to add in but I need it back first )

If life wasn't such a damn good ninja, I would beat it with a stick. curse its uber skills and stealth.

]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/14621791/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/14621791/ Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:34:35 PDT
So I do a search for the microphone, eventually find it, plug it in...

I try recording a bit, but it doesn't work. So I unplug it, check that the part that hooks into the part that goes into the USB drive is right. It is. I see it accidentally got set on mute, so I set that off and go to plug it back in...I haven't plugged it in yet, and it makes a sound like something got unplugged twice. So I'm like "Hm, delayed reaction? Wait, but I only unplugged it once..." So I'm like "Oh, whatever." and plug the thing in. I sit back up and look at my computer.

At the same moment that I read "USB has malfunctioned..." I start smelling burning rubber. An incredibly STRONG smell of burning rubber. It took me a while to place the smell, but I immediately knew it was not a good smell and that something was probably going to explode. As always, my immediate reaction when I think something is terribly amiss with my computer (like when it randomly started a countdown one day), regardless of how dangerous I think the situation may be, I calmly send someone a message on instant message.

I would have liked to message Steph, the computer expert, but she was not online.
Dan would have been second, but he too was gone.
I tried Craig, my third choice, but he got offline right after I sent my cry for help.
I would have loved to scream for my dad's assistance, but he was not home. (Damn back to school night)
So that left Michelle and Alli.

Now keep in mine, while I may be calming saying to my friends "Hey, I smell this, what do you think it is? What should I do?"...I'm already taking action. I am actually panicking. I am moving anything flammable away from my hard drive, unplugging anything that can be unplugged, and then smelling those things I unplugged from the USB ports to see if they were melting.

Michelle said maybe there was something faulty with my light bulbs so I should turn off my lights. I do this, but of course by now the smell is suffocating me, and I'm like "I'm pretty sure its not the bulb...*gag gag*" She explains to me how such thing has happened to her before, but all I'm thinking this:

"My computer mouse likes to explode.
The only thing my light bulbs do is screech before they burn out.
The computer is telling me something is malfunctioning.
I'm PRETTY SURE its the COMPUTER and I NEED to GET THE FUCK OFF IT BEFORE IT EXPLODES!!"

But I don't tell her any of that. Alli meanwhile only had this to say: "Well that can't be good." So I tell Michelle I'm thinking its the computer, and I'm going to turn it off and move to the computer downstairs. And the moment she types "ok" I'm like "YES. FINALLY."

I have never turned the computer off and with so much determination and energy before. I turned it off like my life depended on it. (Well, I thought it did)

I've been checking back on it every couple minutes...making sure nothing is on fire...it still smells awful...

Yeah. Just thought I'd share this while I wait for my parents to come home so I can be like "Ummm...I think my computer is going to explode if I turn it on. Help?"

The irony was I was finally going to finish the page of FC that I was late on, and now I CAN'T because I'm scared to turn my computer back on! Confound it! I have such a love/hate relationship with irony...

]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/14139413/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/14139413/ Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:29:09 PDT
Someday I will clean my room. All I managed to accomplish today was the desk. (I practically threw out a lottttttt of junk...) And I finally got a box to put all that stuff that's "sentimental to someone and/or me but let's all be honest here, it makes ugly decor". Say goodbye to public display of all those little ugly sculptures I made from back in the day, and to some of that random little junk that's not even really mine so goodness knows why it's in my room...oh yeah, they gave it to me forever ago. (I don't need this little thing that looks like a miniature bookend that serves no other purpose than to tell me what my name means and then have a random quote from the bible on it. It's nice, sure, but after having it for over ten years on my desk/visible in my room I don't need to look at it anymore!) Soooo it's all going in the box. Can't get rid of it, and I don't want to do that...I just want to remove them from my daily field of vision XD

I managed to clean out my desk that was so filled with junk I couldn't close it anymore, so that was good. (Haha, it closes! X3) So now I put all my art supplies in there for easy access as opposed to random locations in my room And all my pens are in a nice easy location too. And I say only pens because apparently I don't have pencils. I filled an entire little drawer (about 6in x 6in by 2in if I was to estimate) with just pens, lead, and one eraser. Oh, and two crayons XD I don't know why I have so many pens...I think I have enough for quiiiteeee a while now...

Well anywho, that's all...sometime later this week I might try to do the rest of my room, but that would probably end in vain. (it always does...-_-)

]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/13987129/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/13987129/ Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:37:47 PDT can't tell them what their "enemy" is thinking because they refuse to understand and then assume I'm siding with them!

It's insanity and stupidity.

It used to be we all kept our opinions to ourselves, and that was perfectly OK because then we could visit each other or call each other and be all happy and carefree. I don't know how it started, but somehow this is no longer the case. This has gotten to the point where my sister Alli doesn't pick up the phone when my other sister Steph calls. Every time my mom and Steph talk, Steph ends up in tears. Steph can't sleep, my mom has cried about this, I can't joke to Alli anymore for fear that I'll say the wrong thing and piss her off...and while this fiasco is going on between mother and daughters, my aunt, uncle, and cousin in Minnesota are trying to convince me to come to the college I was looking up by them while my aunt and uncle in Florida have already started counting down the days I go to a school by them!

Why is all this happening? I don't even know! Both my dad and I are standing in the background with our hands on our heads, totally shocked and distraught expressions, crying out, "What the hell!!!!"

All I've really figured out is this:

1) My dad hasn't chosen a side and he doesn't understand what's going on, nor has he had time to since he's busy trying to get a new job and get out of the one he's in (which, thankfully, is looking good and if he gets it he'll have more free time)
2) Alli thinks Steph is being selfish
3) My mom kind of agrees with Alli, and feels like Steph doesn't want to be with us anymore
4) Steph thinks they both hate her

But I have listened to their reasonings, and actually, I feel like I am starting to understand this more. I feel like, perhaps, I could tell them what the other is thinking and perhaps they'll understand. But I already have a feeling they wouldn't listen, and I fear they'd get mad at me. After all, in reality, the truth is something neither side wants to hear because it means they each gotta give. They have to compromise.

How do I get them all to stop this and listen to each other without hurting each other? And while this is going on in my immediate family, since my uncles and aunts are so far away I hardly get to see them anymore. Worse, we're never all together, which means when I'm with them is when they start bearing down on me all the reasons I should go live by them. I know what choice I would like to make, but I fear I can't even make that decision without hurting the others. They turned this college choice into a choice of which aunt and uncle I love more. The only solution there it seems to go somewhere else completely, but I really do love one of those schools.

I love both my sisters and my parents. I love all my uncles and aunts, and my cousins.

I don't want my family to just drift apart like this. Or worse, tear itself to shreds.

Only a year before I go to college, and by then I'm sure someone is going to hit their breaking point. This is only going to get way out of hand if they keep this up. What am I supposed to do though? I feel like I can't let this happen, but I also don't want to get involved. But I think I have to.

The only solution is to be honest.
There are things that I don't like to talk about - that I think no one likes to talk about - but sometimes you have no other choice.

I've started with Steph first since at least she's trying to figure this out. I'm gunna try my mom next, but I'm going to have to wait for a good moment I think...Alli I will try to talk to last, and she'll be hardest since she can be real stubborn and I feel like she's not even trying to help keep the family together. Naturally I've already been trying to keep my dad informed about what's going on when no one else is (while we take our dog Amica for a walk, or while he works on his resume) which kinda makes me feel like a spy. XD

As for my aunts and uncles...well, they might just have to feud that out on their own. But I think they'll be okay.

]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/13710048/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/13710048/ Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:55:24 PDT
...I'm just bad at showing it.

So anywhos, as evident by my mass-postage-ness today, I haven't been dead. Laziness mostly, I'm not gunna lie But whatev. Summer's been pretty interesting thus far.

I found out that I'm not a "true-righty" apparently (I do some things lefty, which I already knew), and have a bit of ADD. (I found this out because my sister got diagnosed with ADD and my oldest sister has OCD, so my mom figured it would be a good idea to have me tested and make sure I'm okay ) Though I'm not diagnosed with ADD yet - I take the test Monday - the doctor was kind of interesting to talk to. He asked a lot of random questions.

I amused myself by trying to question his reasoning that I'm secretly a lefty and tried to insist I was purely right-handed. (I just wanted to see what he'd do, honest, no bad intentions...) He was very good at being insistant that I was left-handed, and our score (because we all know I was secretly tallying up our verbal "victories") was pretty evenly matched...but then this happened:

HIM: "Have you ever seen anyone ride a skateboard?"
ME: "Of course."
HIM: "Show me the stance."
ME: "(within like 1 second) Like this~"
HIM: "That's a lefty stance."
ME: "What?! No way! Well, it was my friend Kim [K.] who I watched skateboard and she's a lefty, so maybe I learned this way from her..."
HIM: "Not possible, and you didn't even hesitate about it."
ME: "Touche`. >_<"

So he won that battle, but it sure was fun while it lasted lol XD I probably shouldn't try to question doctors, especially the psychologist type, but they make it so easy...and the psychology ones always have the best answers. They always seem to know when they're right too and then they get all excited to prove it to you. It's great.

Everyone needs a friend whose a psychologist, just to try and mess with them.

I need to get myself one lol.

]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/12045205/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/12045205/ Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:55:33 PST
...and very, very good Spanish movie.

Wow. That's all I have to say: wow...The movie is completely in Spanish so you have to read English subtitles, but it's easy to get used to and after a while you don't even really notice. The movie is very good and the effects and everything are excellent - just amazing. Naturally, the gore and violence is done so well it's frightening and many times during the movie I had to look away because I was so freaked out.

I have yet to determine if it was a happy or sad ending though. o_O Still, it was good.

If you don't mind blood and violence and disgusting-ness, then by all means go see it before it's gone! If you cry at the sight of blood, then I wouldn't recommend you going to see it - even though it is good.

Just had to throw this out there. Because it's that marvelous of a movie (even if it does give me nightmares like I fear it may)

]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/11368127/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/11368127/ Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:37:34 PST
DAD: "Oooh, I like it! It's quite nice. Very good."
ME: (thinking: "Of course you'd say that...>_>") "Sure. Oh, and I did this today too! ;D"
*hands him other picture I did that I like darnnit*
DAD: "...this does not get me excited."
ME: (thinking: "And a still life does?! o_O")
DAD: "But I still really like that still life!"
ME: "-.-"
*takes pictures back*
*sulks away*
(later) ME: "I'll show him...I'll color that picture I did that I like! Maybe then he'll like it! Argh!"

yeahhhhh...I don't get it. Still lifes are...nice in their own right, but...I personally don't care for them too much. Where's the intruige? Landscapes are slighty different - I enjoy to look at them, but not to draw them.

But if I color it that's going to be two pictures I have in progress at the same time...and the other one is quite large, which was supposed to be part of my sociology project until after three hours I hadn't finished one person yet in the picture and I realized there was no way I'd finish it in time to include it.

Regardless, I'll color it. That'll show him. Probably not, but I'll try anyway...because I want to color it anyway XP

(...FFXII rocks my socks! Yay Balthier! :3)

]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/11127204/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/11127204/ Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:24:54 PST
Once upon a time, we bought one of those fancy smancy laser tag things. Ah, yes, it was quite a fun game. However, after a while, we began to lose interest in it and sought to play new games...the batteries died anyway, and we didn't feel like replacing them.

One day, my sister Alli and I went down into the basement when all of a sudden: beep. beep. beep.

"What is that...?" Alli asked nervously.

"Hmm," I said. "It sounds like the laser tag game. I thought the batteries were dead?"

"Me too..."

Back then, I was either braver or stupider than I am now. So I went to investigate (Alli followed a safe distance behind). I saw the gun (which is what makes the sound) sitting on the ping pong table, lights on and it was definately beeping. So I go to pick up, but then it stopped beeping. Unnerved, Alli and I ran away - but only after I quickly took the batteries out. I tested the batteries with the battery tester and confirmed that, yes, they were dead.

We never put any new batteries in it.

Over these years, it has seemingly disappeared. We knew it was still in the basement, but we didn't know where.

So, now these many years later, it comes back to taunt me. And what a day it chose - I had a nightmare last night, I woke up at 6 this morning feeling sick, and now I'm home alone.

Everyone's gone.

I go downstairs. And suddenly - beep, beep, beep. At first I only knew the sound was familiar and I couldn't remember what it was. I followed the sound and the moment I realized it was coming from the basement, I knew what it was and I freaked because I KNOW there shouldn't be any batteries in that thing.

It won't stop beeping.

I can hear it from the second floor.

It started freaking me out so much I closed the basement door just to lessen the sound. I know there is something to be afraid of, but it's...unnerving.

Well.

At this moment, I'm going to now investigate. But I'm bringing Amica (my dog) with me.

If I don't return...

the laser tag did it

]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/10930532/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/10930532/ Sat, 02 Dec 2006 22:21:30 PST
But she kept asking about it...

And today she released her wrath upon me. So I spent over 8 hours - straight, in one day - completing it for her.

I have never been so tired in my life.

It's amazing I haven't grown sick of the song. In fact, I want to listen to it AGAIN. O_O It has become the song of my head. D:

Naturally it didn't save perfectly though and the timing on some is slightly off and different from how I saw it when I was working on it, especially with some clips that got cut off on the end of them. But it still came out rather decently I guess. She was satisfied, and I'm too tired to care anymore.

So enjoy:
[link]

]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/10895383/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/10895383/ Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:27:47 PST
My monitor has been doing its own thing these recent weeks, and for about 12 hours it decided it would show me a world without the color green...

My monitor has always denied the existance of the color green, but by using default settings I was able to evade this belief it has. However, it decided to make all the default settings equivalent to a near black screen, turn off my backlight and not let it come back on, lock contrast and lighting, and let the power of "reset" have no effect. The only way around these issues was to reset until the backlight became a value of 225 (which is not in fact technically possible, but at least the light was on, right?) and then do the dreaded "user colors"...yes, the section that does not believe in green.

So I make red and blue each 255, and am stuck with green at 0. Being as easy going as I am, I decided to explore this new world without green...and I became frightened. Some people had skin looking carrot orange, others became black, and some were just a strange shade of neon pink. Anything pure green was now a black hole, and one website I visit that happens to have a green colored layout soon became simply an abyss with links. (because those conviently did not disappear) Reading one webcomic with a character whose clothes happen to be quite green, she ended up being displayed pretty much as floating body parts. (the background was black, and the green turned black, so...)

And strangely, after a while it started to hurt my eyes so I had to get off. (After keeping my computer off for the night, it ended up semi-fixing itself the next day. Good enough I could fix the rest myself)

So, remember kiddies, the color green is good.

We need the color green.

Otherwise we'll all be carrot colored floating body parts, and that's not pleasent.

]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/10790998/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/10790998/ Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:04:05 PST
But anywho.

I thought today was going to be bad, but it turned out to go quite well. At least until I got home and two interesting things happened.

-INTERESTING THING ONE-
ME: "Lalala, what is on TV - remote? What happened to you? You look different. Hm...Oh, will you look at that, we can finally use the free On Demand we've had for the last year...I guess the cable box was finally replaced. Hm. *thinks* Let's watch stuff! "

-INTERESTING THING TWO-
*turns on monitor*
ME: "O.O WHY IS MY SCREEN THE COLOR OF BLOOD?! OH GOD-OMEN! OMEN! OMEN!"
*panic attack insues for 1.5 seconds*
ME: "Well, glad that's over. *resets monitor settings* Yippee! "

Yeah, today was special just for those things lol. I love the Hysterical icon thing. It rocks. <3

]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/10735836/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/10735836/ Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:50:12 PST
Apparently, deviantart thinks I'm listening to Rob Thomas' song "This is How a Heart Breaks"...I am not. Good song, but I am not listening to it. Well, it tried I guess. I'm going to leave it and let it believe what it wants.

Bah, I'm so behind on the next FC page >_< Well, not really. I have maybe 1-2 hours of work left on it, but this week has been so busy I haven't really had time. Strangely, lots of homework this week. Which is never fun. D:

I really want to do that "100 Theme Challenge" thing. It looks like fun! But I really don't have time. -_-; Maybe during the summer...

Bah, and I was talking to a girl I know on my bus about guys and apparently put her into a state of shock because I've never had a boyfriend. O_o I didn't realize it was shockworthy news? Eh, a boyfriend would be nice, but I don't think I really need one. Besides, many of the guys at our school are either jerks or clueless >_>

]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/10104715/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/10104715/ Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:48:35 PDT
Sign 1 - deviantart's new website, made to confuse me of course.

Sign 2 - 340 deviations, 33 messages (o.o)

Sign 3 - ...I had to look up my username. Maybe that should have been #1?

Sign 4 - The age on my ID is wrong o_o

*cough* Yeah...Needless to say, I have been drawing, just obviously not posting anything. I'll do that now, for the sake of making it look like I do produce works of magicness xD ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/7417616/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/7417616/ Sun, 25 Dec 2005 20:43:24 PST What is this insanity? o_O

CHRISTMAS! YAY! *dances*

*cough* Anyway...I mostly got DS games, which is quite alright with me. ^^ I got Animal Crossing, which made me most happy Plus I watched more Live Action Sailor Moon, which in itself is hilarious. (Luna is a talking cat plushie!)

One of the DS games I got you're a doctor and you're supposed to do all these surgeries and stuff...it took me FOUR TIMES to pass the first thing-which was some dude with cuts in his arm-because I couldn't cut in a straight line apparently o_O Although the last time I failed that one actually was because apparently if you can't bandage properly it injures the patient xD

I'm so giddy, oh so giddy...and Greg is apparently coming over to my house tomorrow. It was like he invited himself and yet he didn't...he called and let there be this long awkward silence until I asked (I already knew he wanted to come over since we'd talked about it). But this means I must clean my room ;_; So...much...crap...AHH! And Alli made me throw out meh doodles because I have no room for the stacks of 'em! Everytime I think I'm making progress, I turn around and THERE'S MORE! AH!

Ah, and I've come to the conclusion Greg naturally sounds angry on the phone. In person he usually sounds tired yet kind, but on the phone he sounds tired and I'm-going-to-eat-your-soul-ish. Hm. Partly why I dislike phones. But alas...

I must...clean...darnit...*dies*

Feel the glee, yo. ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/7391606/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/7391606/ Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:27:02 PST What is this insanity? o_O

Did I miss something? I come online and all of a sudden everything's all different and perty...What are all these options?! What is the star?! WHAT'S GOING ON?!
*spontanously combusts*

*comes back to life*

We're going to temporarly-which I can't spell-assume it has something to do with the Christmas spirit...yes...Which reminds me, when I opened the door to let my dog outside today it was awfully warm. To which I immediately responded by yelling to Alli "Spring's coming?! Did I miss Christmas?! WHERE ARE MY PRESENTS?!" So typical of me I suppose...xD

I'm in a rather good mood though ^^ And yet, it doesn't feel like Christmas...except for the usual thing where Alli and I tell eachother what we got for each other. Today it went like this:

PARENTS: We're doing more shopping!
*parents leave*
ALLI: So...what'd ya get me?
ME: The Treasure Planet soundtrack 'cuz I know you love that movie.
ALLI: Cool, cool...
ME: So...what'd ya get me?
ALLI: Steph and I pulled together and got ya the first season of Naruto.
ME: Awesome...x3

I shall convert my dad to Naruto! Mwahahaha! Though he is not a diehard fan, soon...soon...At the very least I've gotten him to recognize the show, pronounce the name properly, and recognize most of the characters. As little as that may be, for me it is a step in the right direction. =3 My dad is NOT an anime fan at all, and neither is my mom. The only show we got her to watch was Fruits Basket...Ah well.

Whoosh. My x-mas shopping is more or less done. This year teh gift for my friends was cookies 'cuz I'm cheap. If you didn't like it, too bad...*glares* Anywho...still happy ^^ Though I still have many things to scan. Ah well. Later ^^

Feel the glee, yo. ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/7330378/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/7330378/ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:53:08 PST
What is your name?: Technically Laura, but I prefer Senka...don't ask xD

Are you named after anyone?: My middle name is after one of my aunts, my first name isn't after anyone. Yet I still dislike it.

What's your screename?: (What ISN'T my screenname??) Demon-Cabbage, Alchemist Senka, and Revex are the main ones

Would you name a child of yours after you?: Ha! Though that would be hilarious, no. I will not torture they with such a common name xD (I'm referring to Laura, not Senka. I still wouldn't anywho)

If you were born a member of the opposite sex what would your name be?: My parents didn't even know what they were going to name me until I was born, so they don't know what they would've named me if I was a guy. Personally, I'd want to be named Cyrus if I was because I love the name.

If you could switch names with a friend who would it be?: Kira. I love her name.

Are there any mispronunciations/typos that people inflict on your name constantly?: They keep calling me LaurEN instead of LaurA! Is it really that difficult? Don't even ASK about the last name...o_O

Would you drop your last name if you became famous?: No...it's part of my identity! xD

Basics

Your gender: Female, yo. xD

Straight/Gay/Bi: Straight as a ruler fresh from the store.

Single?: Sadly.
If not, do you want to be?: I am not applicable! xO

Birthdate: May 31, 1990!

Your age: 15

Age you act: Supposedly older. Though I have my moments...

Age you wish you were: 17. I love that number for some reason xD Besides, then you're upperclassman and since you technically aren't an adult yet, you're still excused when you act immature! xP

Eye color: Blueish mostly, with some yellow, gray, or green sometimes. Depends. Right now they're pure blue ^^

Happy with it?: Yup. My dad and one of my sisters have the same eyes. ^^

Hair color: People label my hair as "Dity Blond", but I put streaks of purple in it. W00t!

Happy with it?: I would, but I hate how people call it "Dirty Blond"...I don't know, I just hate the term.

Lefty/righty/ambidextrous: I'm a righty alright.

Your living arrangement: The smallest bedroom in the house because I used to share a room with my sister...so when I finally got my own it was because they emptied another room.

Your family: Mom (Donna), Dad (Andy), Steph, Alli, and me! And of course random other family members who now live far away...

Have any pets?: My dog Amica!

What's your job?: Right now I have none. I want to program video games.

Piercing?: NO! O_O Just, NO!

Tattoos?: I kind of want one, kind of don't...but right now none.

Obsessions?: They come and go xD Right now Avatar, Star Ocean (AGAIN!), and my DS ^^

Addictions?: Anime! Manga! Video games!

Do you speak another language?: I'm teachin' myself Japanese, and I did some Latin, but I HATED it...

Have a favorite quote?: “How can you stand to live in a world where M&Ms fall from the rainbow?!" (that was me...I meant skittles darn it!)

Do you have a webpage?: I did. Once upon a time.

Deep Thoughts About Life

Do you live in the moment?: Ehh...depends if I'm having that "lemonade feeling" or not xP

Do you consider yourself tolerant of others?: I'm tolerant to a fault I think.

Do you have any secrets?: Everyone does, myself included.

Do you hate yourself?: Sometimes.

Do you like your handwriting?: Noooo...I can't read it! It's like print and cursive got together and had a child and it looks bizarre! @_@

Do you have any bad habits?: I used to bite my nails, but then I got braces and couldn't. So then I changed to biting my lip, sometimes till they bleed. Guess I'm an anxious person, ay? o_O

What is the compliment you get from most people?: “You're so nice! ^^" Apparently I'm going to take over the world with kindness.

If a movie was made about your life, what would it be called?: “People Suck, Come Prepared"

What's your biggest fear?: Dark wooded areas alone in the dark! Or churches alone in the dark! Both those beat out my cat fear...

Can you sing?: Heck no! When I sing people tell me to shut up...at least my sister does. The rest lean in and say "I..can't...hear...you..."

Are you a loner?: 'Fraid so.

What are your top priorities in life?: Being the best at...something! Anything! Mwahahahaha! http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/7322396/ Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:50:08 PST
*tries to refrain from destroying computer*
*cough*

But anyway...There are a lot of pictures I haven't scanned that have actually come out rather decent. I need to do that...eventually...I did a picture of Ed from FMA snowboarding (which I drew without a ref., so its not quite right), one of Teho looking all prince-like (which for some reason makes me laugh), the children of two certian characters of mine (and nope, it ain't Teho and Nisha's. The couple isn't official yet, I was just fiddling with ideas...you'll know who the two in question are when I upload it), and a few others...

I'm so behind in EVERYTHING...it makes me cry and yet laugh xD Seriously though, I've only been doing my math and english homework lately and pretty much nothing out. Maybe Patrick really IS a bad influence on me...I'm too easily influenced I think. And yet at the moment I don't care, even though I know I'm going to be yelled at later for it. Right now I'm gunna stop typing though because it's spazzing and turning my spaces into indents, which I must go back and fix... ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/7141428/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/7141428/ Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:05:00 PST GAH!! *dies*

Whenever my little cousin comes over, something always ends up broken. This time, he hasn't broken anything. Sort of. He just happened to be here when I discovered my DS was broken. (Coincidence? I think not...he's cursed!)

Yeah, well, I was playing Trace Memory (awesome game!) and got to a part where you need to "blow the dust off" or whatever...So I'm sitting there blowing away into the microphone. For ten minutes. And nothing was happening. I looked online and it said you had to blow...so I kept trying. And trying. Until I took someone's advice and grabbed a blowdryer and let it blow on it for ten minutes. And nothing happened. So I put the game in my cousin's DS, took a breath, and blew...and it worked perfectly fine. Only conclusion? My DS' microphone is broken. Grand, just grand.

*sigh* So now I have to send it in for repair...at least it's still under warrenty.


Though in other news, I gotta love my family...they're hilarious xD

Mom: (in cheery tone) Woops, I almost set the house on fire!
Carl: (in an even cheerier tone) Okay, I'm glad you decided not to!

Or even...

Dad: Oh no, you're not putting the rat ornament on are you?
Carl + Alli: It's a rabbit!!!
Dad: It's scary enough to be a rat.
Carl: That's only because it looks like someone painted on its face....

And you can't forget...

Carl: ...what are you doing?
Mom: I shred the half of the letters with our address on it and throw away the other half.
Carl: ...why don't you just shred the whole letter?
Mom: Because.
Carl: *takes the half to shred* Here...*tears it so only the itty bit with the address remains* Andy! I have something for you to shred!
Dad: *takes the itty piece of paper* ...What is this?
Carl: You need to shred it! It has your address on it!
Dad: ...okay...*goes to shred it*

...I love my family...(Carl is my mom's younger brother BTW, and we were all laughing hysterically when my dad actually went and shredded the paper...it was tiny xD) ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/7115354/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/7115354/ Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:51:26 PST
Strangeness...well, our CS teacher isn't very good anywho; but that's probably because she's a math teacher they taught C++ during the summer since we don't have a CS teacher. Ah well, she's really nice though. *shrugs* *thinks a moment* Maybe too nice even...she lets us turn in things late without penalty, she doesn't check our homework, hardly ever marks us tardy when we are...and then she wonders why we all fail the tests xD Last test I got a 47%, and that was one of the higher scores o_o;; Sadly, it brought me down from an A in that class to a B+...Then again, I wasn't there the day they reviewed and of course the one question she threw out was one of the few I got right -_-

I was going to say something else and now I forgot...hmmm...Oh yeah, now I remember! xD I've given into the old obsession I used to have with MMORPGs! They shall eat my soul, and yet I won't care as long as I still level up! ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/7059358/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/7059358/ Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:16:49 PST
---

SENKA: Yes.
KOUSUKE: Indeed.
SENKA: But they dance!!

---

SENKA: Fear my wrath!!
*starts throwing buttons at Elwood*
SENKA: ELWOOD! RUN! *pulls out scissors* Must...cut...hair!! Rawr! Rawrrr!!!
KOUSUKE: Hm.
*beats up Senka*
SENKA: Yay!

---

SENKA: Man, I'm beat...
ALLIKAT: SENKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! *huggles Senka*
SENKA: !
ALLIKAT: meow ^^
SENKA: ...you're not...Alli...
ALLIKAT: Ay?!
SENKA: There's something...different...I see...right.
ALLIKAT: Yup!
SENKA: Huh...I have Kousuke with me.
ALLIKAT: Elwood?
SENKA: My apprentice. Oh, yeah, a bunch.
ALLIKAT: Cool!
SENKA: You have Ayumu.
AYUMU: ...

---

SENKA: You, Ayumu, go find Kousuke and Elwood.
ALLIKAT: Um...dunno.
SENKA + ALLIKAT: Hm...
*Elwood enters, carrying grocery bags*
ELWOOD: Dunno, I'll help ponder.
SENKA + ALLIKAT + ELWOOD: Hm...
*Kousuke enters*
SENKA + ALLIKAT + ELWOOD + KOUSUKE: Hm....
SENKA + ALLIKAT + ELWOOD + KOUSUKE + ZOSUKE: Hm....
RAZUKI + SRAXEK: ...
AYUMU: ...Allikat is still your sister, Senka.
SENKA: You had a cat? Wait, she had a cat? A green cat?
ALLIKAT: Yup! ^^
ELWOOD: Oh, that makes sense.

---

SENKA: But I like fruit-!
KOUSUKE: Slightly.
SENKA: Huh...
KOUSUKE: Kind of suspicious... Both!
SENKA: Well, that's one mystery solved. ^^

---

ELWOOD, KOUSUKE, GREG: . . . *awkward silence....*
SENKA: Inhumanity!
ELWOOD: I approve.

---

ELWOOD: Uh...Wah!
KOUSUKE: Eh!
SENKA: CAT PAW OF DOOM!!

---

SENKA: Yup! They're also assassins!
ELWOOD: Isn't that dangerous?!
SENKA: Haha, it's all true!

---

ALLIKAT: Assassin...?
SENKA: Stalking...?
GREG: Ah well. ^^

---

SENKA: Yo, Sephon!
ALLIKAT: Correction, AlliKat.
SENKA: Indeed.
ALLIKAT: The oldest.
SENKA: Quite so.
ALLIKAT: Miss perfection.
SENKA: Yup.
SENKA + ALLIKAT: She's a stalker.
ELWOOD: great...
AYUMU: *sigh*
GREG: Yay! ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/7059299/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/7059299/ Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:04:03 PST
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ELWOOD: I'm hungry...
ELWOOD + PUPPIES: Nooooo!

---

SENKA: Fascinating, really. Really?
ELWOOD: Hm...
SENKA: Anywho...let's go Elf Wood.
ELWOOD: EL-WOOD!
SENKA: Nah...
ELWOOD: ELWOOD!
SENKA: -there's no time for that.
ELWOOD: What?
SENKA: Come on! It's mine, back off! Noooo! Ha!
ELWOOD: I was joking.
SENKA: Huh?
ELWOOD: It's only wood.
SENKA: . . .
ELWOOD: *sigh*

---

SENKA: ...the time zone! Yes! Very good. Actually, I didn't do anything.
CYRUS + ELWOOD: Huh? What?

---

SENKA: Yes.
KOUSUKE: Correct.
ELWOOD: Oh dear.

---

SENKA: Hello?
CALLER: Hello, is this Senka the Shadow Alchemist? Yes, I am Senka.
SENKA: Wait, what am I ordering? SENKA: Oooh...spoons. You know what? Maybe I don't like spoons. heehee...Spoons! ^^

---

KOUSUKE: Hm? Hello? HA!

---

ELWOOD: Hello? Savlaximier. Anti-Evil Weekly? Hey, wait a minute...! I can't believe this! Oh, alright. Hm...
SENKA: CURSE YOU NATSUME!

---

SENKA: CURSES!
KOUSUKE: A little, perhaps.

---

SENKA: You guys hungry?
ELWOOD + KOUSUKE: uh...o_o;;
SENKA: *shrugs* Suit yourselves. I'd like some chicken please. ^^ Huh? ^^ But I want chicken...Chicken...I want chicken...I WANT CHICKEN, DARN IT! Wahhhh!! Yay! Is that so?

---

KOUSUKE: Senka, did you ever go to school?
SENKA: Yes Kousuke, I do love you


... And I think that's a good place to end for tonight...I should be going to bed. I didn't even get to go through them all o_O;; Not even half way...ah wells. Nights. ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/7009682/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/7009682/ Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:56:48 PST
My hand is better! Has been for like a week...*gets smacked on the head* I was grounded for the first time in my life because I didn't turn in a five point assignment...And those are the highlights of the past two weeks or so that I haven't posted xD

I have drawn more of the comic, but have yet to scan them just because. Though I will say the last page I drew somehow made Zev more popular amongst my friends and I don't understand why. They just say he's cute when he's angry. *raises eyebrow* Alrighties...

*runs off* ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6885906/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6885906/ Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:05:57 PDT
Irony is going to be the end of me, I just know it... ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6874203/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6874203/ Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:49:47 PDT
Around lunchtime I started to feel in a bad mood and I kind of didn't want to stay after school for JCC (Japanese Culture Club), so I took out my phone after school to call my mom and tell her I wasn't going. It took my phone like 5 mins to turn on, only to display "low battery, turning off" and then turn off a second later. So I was like "okay...I'll just go home and call her." But of course by the time my bus came, I convinced myself with some help from RFC it'd be okay to stay for JCC. After all, if I finished the page I had left then tomorrow I could get to Zev for Amy.

Well, I didn't finish the page because I was so distracted by everyone's talking, and then things went horribly wrong. Someone took my ruler and started swordfighting with someone else, who had taken RFC's ruler. I hadn't realized they'd taken it at first, and when I did I wasn't incredibly concernced. I figured they'd lose interest quickly and I even joked that mine would win. But my ruler is plastic while RFC's is wooden-I think you can predict the outcome. Next thing you know...SNAP! My ruler is snapped in half.

I was pretty overly peeved for several reasons:
1) They hadn't asked
2) It wasn't even my ruler (it was my dad's) and I pretty much don't have another usable ruler
3) I was already in a bad mood
4) I'm suffering from "angst music withdrawel" (don't ask...)
5) I'm more a less rule follower, and I suppose it just ticks me off that it all could have been avoided had they not decided to swordfight.

So now I'm rulerless and can't make any more pages for a while. Perhaps Michelle will lend me her ruler (she probably will since she was there) until I get a replacement. What's kind of funny though is that's it's really ironic. Here's why it's ironic:

-On the ruler I'd written "Beware! Weapon of Mass Mayhem" because I kept accidently whacking myself and others with it when I use it. Irony: I'd labeled as a weapon and it ends up being destroyed.
-Earlier I'd wondered if my dad would be mad that I wrote on the ruler, especially since he didn't know I had it. Guess what Dad...

I think there was more irony but I can't think of it right now...and I probably overreacted a bit, but that's what happens when I'm in a bad mood and something happens to tick me off. I know I probably won't get in trouble with my dad since I know he really doesn't care about this sort of thing anyway. I've become a lot more short-tempered than I used to be...I remember a time when I never yelled at anyone o_O I do feel kind of bad for exploding like that, but at the same time I don't really feel like I should apologize to them.

Ah, more irony: One person who really ticked me off last year, but I never yelled at and who would probably enjoy seeing me ticked off...wasn't in the room during the fact. He entered just as we were leaving.

One solution would just not to work on the comic during school so I can save my rulers from destruction, but I don't have as much time at home as I do at school (as odd as that sounds)...I don't know and I'm going to go now to try and get myself to cool down a bit...

Just thought of one more tidbit of irony...I had asked RFC to teach me in the ways of chaos, and what should happen ten mins later? I'd say it was chaotic. (Did you see how much irony that was?! Good thing I love irony I guess...) ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6859040/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6859040/ Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:18:19 PDT
mon-fri: do as much as I can of rough sketches for the comics (which you can find in my scraps)

sat-sun: ink/color a page (I'd do more if possible, but I'm slow at this one xD)

I shall try to work quickly, but well...if I can...*shifty eyes* Thus far I've done at most 2 pages a day, but usually 1 and maybe a panel or two of another. It depends what I'm drawing. It starts slow, but I assure you...soon it'll get good ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6839347/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6839347/ Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:29:16 PDT
I found my pens...I found my pens...along with pretty much anything else I've ever lost in my life xD So I found my pens and shirts, CDs, and a whole lot of other stuff I'd even forgotten I'd had...AND I found one of the phones! (we've been missing two of the cordless phones for months)

But since I found my pens, so I can ink the pgs of the comic I have so far and color them ^^ Isn't it exciting? xD ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6835933/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6835933/ Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:48:37 PDT

Tapped! was about a boy named Kureji who's a "Tapper", or someone who can tap into another's potential and allow them to do something to the best of their ability-but at the cost of his own happiness. He doesn't know he's a Tapper of course until the criminal Deron and his accomplice Zakida are sent to Earth to spend the last of their days there. It was actually pretty interesting, and I loved Kureji's two good friends Chira and Shikiro. (I swear I was Chira in another life xD) I might have made the comic to this if a certian person "borrowed" the pages I had made and sort of never gave them back...

Rulenkuma was one I never really liked too much, although I did love the characters. Basically two countries are at war and some years ago a group of people gave 8 children, 4 from each country, different powers to try and end the conflict and blah blah...Yeah, not one of my greatest ideas...Though I did like how whatever power they were given, until the power was awakened they'd be the complete opposite of whatever power they had. Ah man, I loved all of the characters from that one...You had Kito, Jisma, Draxe (who was really accident prone!), Cortnay (who had "persuasion" as her power and she always wore a duck hat), Gemin, Razuki (my favorite...), Sraxek (another one of my favorites, though I never really determined how his name was pronounced), and Valrina. So...many...ah!

The Tales of Senka and Elwood was the hilarious journeys a crazy alchemist named Senka and her apprentice Elwood! A lot of anime characters appear everyone once in a while, mostly One Piece and Spiral characters, and it's pretty insane. This was really just a bunch of script format stuff I had done for fun, and only one had made it into comic format. ("Tale XXVIII. Enter AlliKat!") Still, fun stuff. I love Elwood's hair cuz it goes swoosh to one side and it's just fun to draw xD I used to think his hair had always been like that until one day I found a picture where he'd had "normal" hair...and then yesterday I found a whole notebook where his hair was like that! o_O Scary...

A Future 2nd Chance started with a plot...but I don't remember what it was anymore since by page 20 it was completely gone and now was completely random. It was still pretty funny though. It had gone a total of 26 pages, and interestingly the last page ended with one of the characters exclaiming they've completely lost the plot, so then Brad dresses like a ninja and sets out to find the plot xD

(Untitled)! One that never got a proper title! *gasp* Anywho...this one had been about a kid named Damon and his friend Carey who have the power to spread diseases and work for an underworld group which gave them this power. (so there's actually a large number of people working for them across the world who can also spread disease) The more disease the spread, the more demon like they become, until they finally turn full demon and are sent to hell. (which really sucks, doesn't it?) So for the sake of having balance, there was also a group of people who can save people from diseases. The more they save, the more angel like they become, and when they become angels they go to heaven. Damon and Carey find out two people working for heaven, Ezekial and Arial, and things start to go into chaos when a man named Labrav shows up whose half demon, half angel. It was an interesting concept, but I don't know if I'd try to do it again.

classic line: "I saw Rica! Running! Being Healthy!" xD

Man, I've had a lot of failed projects...! I hope it doesn't happen again with this one...o_O ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6813849/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6813849/ Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:05:23 PDT
I've redone the first few pages of my comic it isn't even funny...I'm hating how to start it, and I'm even more hating some of the suggestions I've gotten. I followed someone's advice on what to put for the words, and though I think the art turned out awesome, the words I realized 4 hours later were really lame. I want to redo it now. Again.

*cries*

I'm never going to get any of this done at this rate...to make it worse, I lost my inking pens so now I can't even ink what I have...it must be a sign from god to redo those pages again. I think the sign last time was just plain because they were bad, or something like that...

*starts whacking head on table* ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6773831/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6773831/ Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:16:17 PDT
*cough* But that's actually not the point of this post...

Rezen has a different eye color now...twas slightly random. I was watching Saiyuki and one of the guys has different colored eyes, and then I remembered how RFC wanted Rezen to have two different colored eyes. So I was intrigued, and I tried changing his eye colors to see how'd it look...he looks so kick-you-know-what...o_o

So now I want to keep his eyes their new color. I'll post the updated version of the flash with his new eye color in the profile eventually...right now I'm too amazed and I gotta go. But I'll tell ya...it's sweet. His left eye is like a grayish teal and his right eye is gold...and it looks so awesome...*fangirl squeel* That reminds me...his chibi picture was the one I was supposed to do next...

I'll do it...eventually...*sweatdrop* ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6750309/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6750309/ Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:35:37 PDT
I still stand by my opinion, I just mostly regret posting it, especially when I know the person who was sort of fuel to the fire of my bad mood reads this...so to you I especially apologize and I reallyreallyreally hope you don't hate me...just please try to get, I'm not and wasn't mad at you, I was just annoyed. Maybe really annoyed. I'm not great at apologies, but...just want you to know...

Sorry. ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6749393/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6749393/ Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:57:16 PDT
There is a difference between giving someone suggestions on how they can fix their drawing and taking the drawing to fix yourself, without their permission. You know who you are and if you are mad or upset and don't understand what I'm saying, think of it this way...

How are you helping them improve by fixing it for them? So they can see how it should be, according to you? That's great, but not everyone is a "copier artist" (what I dub people who can copy what they see). I'm rather a "mind artist" (what I dub people like me who can only draw what comes to mind) and for people like me, seeing the "correct" way something should be drawn does me no good. At all.

Besides that, what attitude do you think you're giving off when you do that? Rather confident in our abilities, aren't we? That in itself can be annoying to people at times; don't make it worse.

So I can't draw backgrounds. Fine. When I actually try, you don't have to fix it for me. Let me practice for myself or tell me where it looks off.

So the [rabbit] ears are off. Fine. You know I don't draw animals, let alone half-animals, that often. You don't need to fix it for me. Tell me "move it to the right" or "make it shorter" or something. Not "I'll fix it!"

So, what have we learned? Time to sum it up:

1) "Fixing" someone's drawing doesn't help them or their abilities.
2) Tell them what's wrong with it and let THEM fix it. Let them learn from mistakes.
3) If you must, offer to fix it-don't feel obligated.
4) Don't try to fix it right after they declared they liked how it came out. Wait a while, and THEN offer your suggestions. If you wait a while, at least they'll believe it looked good at first glance.

I know I may be sounding mean, harsh, whatever...but I'm in a bad mood and it was annoying me. If you're going to flame me or whatever, fine. Go ahead and yell. I was just hoping maybe you'd read my perspective (after typing that, I see how ironic that is...) and perhaps understand that I don't want my pictures fixed, I want suggestions. I want to fix it myself.

If you really want me to improve...
let me. ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6730355/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6730355/ Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:07:00 PDT

I finished my homework. Sorta. I didn't do half of my math because 1) it was taking too long and 2) I don't really get what I'm doing. I have to draw a picture for Patrick for his birthday because, well, I promised I would. But I sort of postponed drawing it until today, and today is one of those days where everything looks terrible...and I REALLY don't feel like coloring it...I know I promised him, but I reallyreallyreally don't feel like it...x_x

And he'll kill me if I take longer than this weekend to do it, so I must give it to him tomorrow all pretty like. Hm. Anyone think I can get away with just giving him the colored chibis I did?

My mom's not feeling well, so she wants me to stay in the house with her >_> so much for going to RFC's house today

And Alli is coming home next weekend, so I must get all books (and CDs...) back by thursday. Especially the books Mary has because she's not even supposed to have it...(she still hasn't told me she has it and I hardly see her long enough to ask for it back >_> )

Curse you world! Curses!

]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6721508/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6721508/ Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:19:20 PDT
Now they're MAKING ME GO AGAIN! This time, for our youth group at church. Since we're such a small group (*cough*threepeople*cough*) they want everyone to go...WHY MUST I RETURN?! *cries* It was scary enough the first time...And why do I always go with people who aren't even really my friends?! o_O Megan for example was on the verge of being my ex-friend then, and Sean (whose idea of which this belongs...grr) is what I consider my half-friend. The other one never even comes to church very often. I don't even know the guy's name! o_o;;

Save...me...please...



8:16 PM Update:

A lessson to the wise...when normal batteries explode, they go pop. When costco batteries explode, it sounds like someone just blew up something huge right next to you. Seriously. (You can safely assume the batteries in my mouse exploded again)

ME: lalala...
suddenly...BOOM!
ME: OMGWHATWASTHAT?! *looks around crazily*
MOUSE: fizzfizzfizz...
ME: What the he...oh. It exploded. Again. *sighs*

Man, costco batteries are freaky. They last a long time, but still... ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6699023/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6699023/ Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:26:21 PDT
I want that shirt...It rocks...T_T

As you might have noticed, I've put up two of my old pictures on here. And on another unhappy note, my tablet isn't working right now. It's having...issues...

Stupid tablet... ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6690572/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6690572/ Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:48:55 PDT
I'm so excited!! *dances*

My mom said I can make a premium account on cafepress...to put it simply...

RFC - Expect Keshi's shirt to be available soon!!!

*dances more*

I'm so buying the shirt...I'll put up the link in a few days. ^^ ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6678755/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6678755/ Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:31:35 PDT
"Awh"? I don't even know what sound that is, but oh well...

Patrick said no: that he liked me, but he didn't like me like that. *sigh* I guess I'm disappointed because I actually thought he might say yes...when he told me at first, I was disappointed, but that's all it was. Disappointment.

But then when he left, I started feeling sad. And everytime I start to feel better, he CALLS. About homework for the class he's failing, sure, but still...he just HAS to call me and torment me with the sound of his voice...

and I just lost all brain power...

*collapses* ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6672633/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6672633/ Mon, 03 Oct 2005 20:09:41 PDT
I remember during 8th hour I was like "No...maybe I shouldn't..." then after 8th was over, I was suddenly like "What the hell"...I think. Unlike the time with Greg, I was completely calm about the entire thing-even after Amy called and I told her I did it. Then 5 minutes after my conversation with Amy...

"I wonder what Patrick would say if I gave him the...note...OH. CRAP. I DID give him the note! Ahhh....!" *goes into panic mode*

Hehehehh...yeah...not sure where my brain was, but now I'm kind of wishing it'd stayed away until 8th hour was actually close... ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6660895/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6660895/ Sun, 02 Oct 2005 15:22:41 PDT
I posted what I have thus far of the trailer for FC on SheezyArt since I:
1) had nothing better to do and
2) they allow you to put up incomplete animations as actual parts of your gallery.
I was curious to see what people would say about what I have so far...and it has TWELVE pageviews and ZERO comments. NONE. Is it really THAT bad?? That's so...scary. And sad. But mostly scary.

I mean, come on...most of the other incomplete animations have like 6 pageviews and at least half of them commented...but none of them have for me!

*starts freaking out about how perhaps I've been wasting 3 weeks of my time*

*goes into corner and cries* ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6652372/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6652372/ Sat, 01 Oct 2005 15:48:33 PDT
I even made a little 9 min. recording while I was trying to fix it and about how I hated it xD I don't think I'll put it up though. Unless...TWO people want me to! HA!
And let's not forget the over an hour recording RFC and I did xD But I haven't been working on the flash for that because around the time I was was when my internet crashed oO So I'm afraid to. Yes... ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6635790/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6635790/ Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:24:56 PDT Good news: I uploaded a more recent version of the trailer! Dun dun dun! Watch little Jesho and Rezen explode things!

Bad news: I also just realized that on the internet, the music and the animation don't correspond correctly. I don't know why, but for some reason online the music is ahead of the animation-so its not lined up right. And after all that work to line it up...it's lined up right on my computer, but online, no.

Grr.. ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6609656/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6609656/ Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:39:05 PDT
Record! Record!
Record! Record!

Mwahahahaha!

*gets knocked unconscious* ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6600647/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6600647/ Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:48:53 PDT
I was talking to my dad while drinking some kool-aid when my dad asked me to go ask my mom something. I said "okay" and then turned to head upstairs...

The next thing I know I'm standing in my parent's room a few feet away from my mom, still holding my kool-aid that is now slightly emptier. I just stood there a few moments thinking:

"Wait...how'd I get here so quick?

"Well I must have walked up the stairs since that's the only way up here.

"But I don't remember walking up the stairs...or getting even near the stairs for that matter.

"And why's some of my kool-aid gone? I guess I drank some more. I don't remember that either...

"...

"Why am I here again? Oh yeah..."

And then I finally asked my mom my dad's question and decided to ignore my bizarre leap through floors. But it was still kind of weird and kind of freaky...


In other news, the rough animation of my flash is like 33% done! (I did that math) I was hoping it'd be more than that, but ah well...I haven't put the latest on yet, but eventually. The latest bit makes me scream like an insane little fangirl. I think it's cuz Rezen is there and he's all fulldemon like and cool...yay.... ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6588621/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6588621/ Sat, 24 Sep 2005 09:16:09 PDT
In unrelatedness, I've decided school must hate me and I'm a fool for not realizing it sooner. And that's all...for now... ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6549677/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6549677/ Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:15:02 PDT
Gah...this mass load of homework isn't helping...

*starts sinking in quicksand*

Ah, dang it... ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6514452/ http://Demon-Cabbage.deviantart.com/journal/6514452/ Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:22:16 PDT
*awkward silence*

*cough*

Anywho...

Pleasepleaseplease look at the flash movie I'm working on in my scraps! It is my treasure, even if so far it's incomplete...I want some input, even if it looks pretty bad right now...

In unrelated news, I feel like I'm on some crazy sugar high right now...which is good since I have lots of junk I need to get done. Work on my animation, homework, animation, homework...

I have no life. It got lost somewhere between english homework and animating I think. Either that or it ran away without me...that's not a happy thought. Hm...

*awkward silence*

Okay then...away I go...for now...Don't forget to look at the flash movie I'm working on! *nudge nudge hint hint*

*runs away* ]]> ~Demon-Cabbage