http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Gracie-Gru&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Gracie-Gru en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:26:28 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/27275674/ http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/27275674/ Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:38:13 PDT I am actually not doing much today. I opened presents last night because with grad school, it's hard for my brother to find a spare minute. I got some fun stuff, including the Disney My Villains Monopoly game! Ratigan is on Boardwalk's spot of course! I am having lunch with my grandma and am going to the DMV to get my license updated, new picture, yay! Tomorrow night is when the party will begin. My cousins are in St. Louis today at the Cardinal/Cubs game so because they wanted to be a part of the drinking festivities with me and my brother, we're waiting for them. Don't worry, I'm a light weight, I'll mostly dance and laugh at them! In a way that's good. I was up till midnight with my best friend playing Villain's Monopoly and watching One Hundred And One Dalmations I won, I was shocked! I guess my childhood sister-like friend had kept me in the dark about the real rules of Monopoly so she could beat me all those times! Without her rules, I do JUST fine!

Yeah, fun times! Pictures will be on my Facebook and I can always add a link to some for you guys here. I am thinking of trying to get the fan-fiction stories up here for you, might be a while, so no promises of when, but I will try. I have to get 2 stories updated on the actual fan-fiction site for fans who have been waiting WAY too long for updates!

Have a WONDERFUL Friday everyone!

]]> ~Gracie-Gru http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/27147527/ http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/27147527/ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:56:56 PDT , found this on her journal when I went to say "thanks" for a favorite she made on my gallery, thought it looked cool! Here Goes!

:FIRE:.

[] You have a short temper. (Short only with certain personalities I think)
[X] You often act on your emotions without thinking first.
[] You are very competitive.
[X] You like to play with fire.
[] You are not a strong swimmer, or you can’t swim at all.
[] You prefer warm weather over cold weather.
[] You often lose control over yourself.
[] You can be quite reckless.
[] You sometimes hurt people without realizing it.
[] People have often called you insane.

Total: 2

.:WATER:.

[X] You have a calm, laid back personality.
[X] You like to go to the beach.
[X] You rarely get angry.
[X] When you do get angry, you know how to control it.
[X] You think before you act.
[X] You are good at breaking up fights.
[X] You are a good swimmer.
[X] You like the rain.
[X] You can stay calm in stressful situations.
[X] You are very generous.

Total: 10

.:EARTH:.

[] You are physically strong.
[X] You have a close connection with nature.
[] You don’t mind getting dirty.
[X] You form strong opinions on issues that concern you.
[] You could easily survive in the wild.
[X] You care about the environment.
[X] You can easily focus on your work without getting distracted.
[X] You rarely get depressed.
[] You aren’t afraid of anything.
[] You prefer to have a strict set of rules.

Total: 5

.:AIR:.

[X] You have a free spirit.
[] You hate rules.
[] You prefer to be out in the open rather than in small, enclosed spaces.
[] You hate to be restrained.
[X] You are very independent and outgoing.
[X] You are quite intelligent.
[] You tend to be impatient.
[] You are easily distracted.
[X] You can sometimes be hyperactive and/or annoying.
[X] You wish you could fly.

Total: 5

.:METAL:.

[X] You have a specific set of friends you usually hang out with.
[] You love making things from scratch.
[] You change your mind often.
[X] You occasionally feel insecure.
[X] You are different and proud of it.
[X] You are curious.
[] You are never normal just for the sake of not being like everyone else.
[X] You love the indoors. (I do, but I LOVE nature)
[] You would rather have a car or a television than a cat or a dog.
[] If chrome and gold were colors, they would be your favorites.

Total: 5

.: DARKNESS:.

[X] You spend most of your time alone.
[] You prefer nighttime over daytime.
[] You like creepy things.
[] You like to play tricks on people.
[] Black is your favorite color.
[X] You prefer the villains over the heroes in movies, TV shows, video games, etc. (sometimes, not always)
[] You don’t talk much.
[] You are atheist.
[] You don’t mind watching scary movies.
[] You love to break the rules.

Total: 2

.:LIGHT:.

[X] You are very polite.
[X] You are spiritual.
[] When someone is in trouble, you never hesitate to help them.
[] You believe everything you see or hear.
[] You are afraid of the dark.
[X] You hate violence.
[X] You hope for world peace.
[X] You are generally a happy person.
[X] Everyone loves to be around you.
[X] You always follow the rules.

Total: 7

Water! I knew it! Then Light, Earth/Air/Metal, Fire/Darkness, sounds like me chick-a-dee!

]]> ~Gracie-Gru http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/26945097/ http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/26945097/ Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:56:17 PDT

So tomorrow is September 1st, meaning it's 17 days till my birthday, but not just my birthday guys....my 21st! And actually, I'm more happy that I'm passing this milestone than I am about being allowed to consume/purchase/transport alcohol in all 50 states of the US. I'm serious! Yeah, it's nice knowing that I can actually go to clubs and hang out with my cousins when they go up to the city to party and spend the night in a hotel, but it's more about the fact that I'm allowed now, not so much about the act of partying itself. I was just the kind of girl who didn't party or do anything that was illegal, and that meant if someone was sneaking in some booze I didn't want to be there. I didn't buy a fake ID, I wasn't interested, and so many people I know in this town are like that. I was a goody-goody that way! But now I can let loose a little bit, and it's not like I want to go crazy or anything, but just to know that the option to go out and meet some people is there, that's really nice! I'm psyched!

So anyway, life is good. Things are looking up, and art will be SO much easier to get up here now! It's all good!

]]> ~Gracie-Gru http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/25944673/ http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/25944673/ Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:30:50 PDT
The Saga of Poe

Poe is our only surving cat now. He is a male blue-point Siamese, thus being male, thinks he is king of the jungle! So recently we've bought a flea collar for him and let him go outside around our trailer park for a few hours each day, since he's fixed, to "be male". Thursday my cousin took him out and since the neighborhood kids like to harrass him, he flew out of my cousin's arms and took off when he heard their screams. Thought nothing of it, since he always comes back. At 4 that evening, the little bugger had not shown up. Gracie starts to get nervous, as does her mother. Poe knows his way home, he NEVER goes out too long. 12 hours since he left, no sign. We call all over, go all over surrounding neighborhoods, nothing. The night passes with tosses and turns. Where is he? Did someone take him? Did some animal hurt him? He doesn't have front claws, what if he couldn't fight back? What if he is lying somewhere bleeding out? All those thoughts flashing through our minds. Next morning, still no Poe. Mom instructs me to make a flyer. Numb with worry, I make one out and fall back asleep crying as she runs all over town sticking up flyers and going to the newspaper to put an add for a lost cat. All day we couldn't move without thinking he was gone. We went to dinner with my aunt, uncle, and cousins trying to get it out of our minds. We thought either someone had him and the add would help, or he'd just decided to take off and never come back. That night at around 10, we decided to scout the neighborhood one last time before letting it go to fate. We called, we shined a flashlight, we went into a brickyard that flanks our park, calling all over, our dachshund Bella with us, who by the way, could tell something was wrong. We spent at least an hour, maybe an hour and a half looking. We came back home. Mom sat on the front porch reflecting, I went inside to do the same. We were dreading accepting the inevitable, that our cat was not coming back. When Mom came in, I had been sitting for 10 minutes, maybe less, when I heard a meow. We had always been having those "missing animal delusions" where you think you hear them but it's something else entirely, but this WAS a meow. The second time I heard it, I said, "I swear to God, that's a meow." Jumped up, went to the door, Poe bumps past my leg into the house!!!! I burst out crying I was so shocked and happy. We took a lot of the flyers down over the next few days, but are happy our beloved cat is home, with nothing but a small cold to show for his insolense. Needless to say, he will never go outside alone again without a cat leash!

Fire Kitties

Saturday morning around 3AM- I am sitting up in bed, can not believe Poe came home, and can't sleep. I am reading an old favorite book to help me fall back into dreamland when I hear Mom's phone go off once. It goes off again. I know by now it is my brother, probably wasted and drunk-dialing us as he likes to do. But when it rings a third time I think something must be wrong. I answer, my brother is talking panicked and scared. "Grace, I pulled up to my apartment and it's on fire. I don't know where the cats are, the fireman says one might have gotten out. Oh God, oh God, get Mom." I try to calm him down while running into Mom's bedroom, screaming that she needs to get up, Graham's apartment is on fire. Mom bolts up out of a dead sleep and starts to come unglued. My poor brother! He was finishing up school at U of I and was coming home in August to do grad school at ISU, living with us to save money. His cats, Lila and Rita, are two Siamese that we rescued last August from a kitty-mill basically in some ladie's home in Missouri. They are his babies, and he adores them. What do we do?

My mother panicked as we drove over to my aunt's. I knew I couldn't make the hour-drive myself as I had to keep my mom calm. My brother was alive, I kept telling her. Everyone had gotten out, it was just the cats. The fire they think started in the apartment below my brother's second-story residence by... ]]> ~Gracie-Gru http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/25513297/ http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/25513297/ Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:23:39 PDT It is a common fact that in the Midwest the winters are extremely cold and the summers are extremely hot. I thank God for my AC and a friend's graciousness in letting my mother and I find relief at their in-ground pool, so we can avoid the crowds at the public ones and find peace.

My life? Hmmm...complicated, but going places I believe. I am trying to just "be", do my best and let God help me along with things I can't control.

My art...WAY behind. I have not been practicing much, though I do check this almost every day and love commenting on all your lovely talents! I hope to remember my sketchbook on my next visit to my aunt's who has a printer, though the main attraction is my cousin's new son and making fools out of ourselves for him to giggle, "oooo", "aaahhh", and make cute baby faces at us. I have been looking at different artists I like and doing my own interpretations of things of theirs, testing out their methods or just sketching down things I like. I do have a trace I did with Ratigan from my movie poster, (yes it's framed in my room, it's the one where he's learing over Big Ben and Basil, Olivia, and Toby are in front with Dawson hanging on the end of Toby's tail ) Anyway, traced him because I wanted to work more on color, so we'll see how that is received when I get it up. Will make it top priority to get these up SOON! Loves!

]]> ~Gracie-Gru http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/21164155/ http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/21164155/ Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:25:07 PDT I can't give an excuse, because I try not to, but I can give the explanation that life is always crazy around here and I've just been trying to keep my head above water. I read and listen to music more for stress relief than I draw, drawing is more of a hobby I have to practice on, and when you're stressed, you just want to do something that requires no practice I guess, I don't know. But I PROMISE I will work on some things and get them up on my aunt's scanner for ya'll. I'm going to be trying to work on hatching and cross hatching in works, and when I get a steady job I will be making a big purchase of Prisma markers (I've always wanted them), so I'll be working with those too hopefully in the future. Also may post my favorite Fan Fiction works up. Till then, hang tight and enjoy art in general! It should be enjoyed!

Later Peoples!

]]> ~Gracie-Gru http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/20883895/ http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/20883895/ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:30:54 PDT got tagged with this and I thought it was a cute one, so I stole it from her. And off we go....it's long, I blabber.

1. I am currantly going to school for my certification to be a phlebotomist...fancy word to say I will be drawing blood for a steady income.

2. My brother and I just drove 12 hours total the other night to pick up his two new Siamese kittens (they're two expensive in our state). He named them after Lila and Rita from "Dexter".

3. I love my British people. I call Kate Winslet "My Kate" and Hugh Laurie "My Hugh" though I've never met them.

4. I am spiritualistic.

5. "The Great Mouse Detective" was an important factor in getting through my seriously long and painful bout of depression and anxiety, it is also the reason I am a member of deviantART, not because I am a WONDERFUL artist, lol, but because I love the fanart and other amazing work I see here. I may post my GMD fanfiction, or the best of it here, someday. Who knows...

6. I have an addiction for reduced-fat peanut butter. I don't know what it is, but I can just eat spoonfuls of it with milk. It's not helping my plan to lose some LBs at all.

7. I have to have a form of diet soda at least once a day or I get VERY cranky...that must mean I'm a caffeine addict too...great!

8. I'm having fun with this, as I can't sleep and I love giving random facts in detail!

9. My first CD ever was "Alvin and the Chipmunks 35th Birthday Party" where they took oldies like "Leader of the Pack" and "Do Ya Love Me" and did their thang!

10. I love my rodents and small animals, I had mice and guinea pigs growing up and would love a rat or hedgehog.

11. I am among one of the millions of Americans who secretly enjoys shows like "Cops", "Jail", and "Locked Up". It's my morbid sense of curiosity I got from my mom.

12. I hate Britney Spears but there's something about her pop music that I enjoy...forgive me!

13. I LOVE my Broadway and plays! Musicals are the best though. I have seen Wicked twice and I would love nothing more than to be in it...dream big I know!

14. I'm good in front of kids and in formal situations, but outside of that, I cuss, with a few exceptions of words, but yeah, my mouth can be a potty!

15. I randomly will quote movies, books, TV, or just start singing. Doesn't matter who's around...

16. I was so imaginative as a child I literally talked to trees and would ride my bike around talking to make-believe people. I would change three times or more just so I had the perfect outfit for the right "make believe game". I liked being off alone more too, though I enjoyed my friends.

17. I have an 18-year-old Tonkinese cat named Louise who has been with me since I was 3. She has outlived her biological aunt who served as her mother, and another cat and a dog of ours.

18. My dad has been dead for two and a half years and it still feels like he could walk in the door any minute. He was my best friend, and he taught me so much about art, music, and above all...life. Miss you Daddy!

19. I can do many accents, but I'm told my English ones are the best.

20. Done! Off to bed with me now! Toodles!

]]> ~Gracie-Gru http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/18517354/ http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/18517354/ Mon, 26 May 2008 19:45:07 PDT

1. Name one book that changed your life.

"Mists of Avalon" by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It brought out my spirituality and made me more aware of my feminine power.


2. One book you’ve read more than once.

"Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone", it's a tattered paperback but it's signed by JK Rowling, one of the most freaking awesome moments of my life!

3. One book you’d want on a desert island.

"Mists of Avalon", hehe it's long and empowering

4. One book that made you laugh.

"The Diary of Anne Frank" She was so observant of everythign around her and the way she wrote scenes was so comical, I felt such a deep connection with her when I read it

5. One book that made you cry.

"Water For Elephants" by Sara Gruen

6. One book you wish you’d written.

"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte, a classic and an amazing display of wit and romance

7. One book you wish had never been written.

"Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-In-Chic Peek Behind The Pose" by Paris Hilton

Why? Honestly...do YOU believe she wrote it all herself?

8. One book you’re currently reading.

"Broken For You" by Stephanie Kallos

It's cover interested me and it's gotten amazing reviews

9. One book you’ve been meaning to read.

Finish "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy and another one I've always wanted to read... "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton

10. Name five of your favorite stories:

I'm taking this to mean children's stories, and since I have a love of them, I'm doing it this way

1. ANYTHING Patricia Polacco
2. "Papa Gatto: An Italian Fairy Tale" by Ruth Sanderson
3. "Beauty And The Beast" by Marianna Mayer and Mercer Mayer
4. "Mirette on the Highwire" by Emily Arnold McCulley
5. "Bootsie Barker Bites" by Barbara Bottner

]]> ~Gracie-Gru http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/17120570/ http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/17120570/ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:34:04 PST posted an interesting post, "Is referencing the same as copying?" I had no idea, but I guess many people on this site feel that if you use a reference picture and do nothing different to the pose than you're not referencing, but rather copying someone's work. Now, I've never referenced anyone on this site's original work but rather movie shots, and I always put that they're my interpretations (because let's face it, I'm not the greatest out there folks) of the pose or picture in question. But that still makes me a copier? Isn't that how one practices? Referencing? I free-hand the stuff I post, that doesn't make any difference? Your thoughts on this...

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]]> ~Gracie-Gru http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/12514023/ http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/12514023/ Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:48:41 PDT
So far here are artists I’ve found her copying and pasting into her “pics” section for the page.













So tell her to credit you if you wish at [link] or [link] for the Ratigan pics used (that would the last two icons I've listed)

]]> ~Gracie-Gru http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/12313389/ http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/12313389/ Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:09:50 PDT

TYPE YOUR FIRST NAME WITH YOUR...


1.FINGERS: Grace
2.CHIN: gfvra ced
3.ONE FINGER, EYES CLOSED: htdvt
4.ELBOW:gfvtraz cde (Geesh I suck!)
5. NOSE: grace (Okay I'm good with the nose!)
6. PALM: ghrfa ce r


1.) List Four fandoms you have.
Fandom...what's a fandom? Somebody refresh my blonde little head and I'll repost!
Ratigan- Lord you're pathetic!

2.) Have you ever slept in the back of a car?
hehe, they're called 17-hour car trips to Florida, North Carolina, Virginia

3.) Have you recently dyed your hair/cut it?
cut...yup yup yuppers! I love my short hair, it's not blunt anymore but more sassy, I like it!
Ratigan- It's ugly
Grace- Hey, I'm not the one with the greased-down middle part BUD!
Ratigan- *blows raspberries*

4.) List four people that you look up to the most.
Daddy- He taught me this world is beautiful and life is precious
Vinny- He makes me laugh!
My Favorite Authors- They've inspired me and kept me sane with their works
Diane- Awesome artist, writer, GMD enthusiast


5.) How many pets do you own as of now?
3 cats and 1 dog

6.) Which do you prefer white or black?
I like both, actually grey is more my thing!

7.) Who is your most played character?
I don't play Ratigan, he comes on his own free will
Ratigan- I do not, you drag me from the portal..."Gov I'm lonely!"
Grace- Shut up!

8.) Choose one or the other, not both:
-Being stuck on an island with your best friend
-Being stuck on an island with 5 acquaintances

Being stuck on an island with my best friend

9.) Name three aspects that tell who you are.
Great Mouse Detective addict, aspiring writer/singer/dancer/actress, horse lover

10.) If you could have a power what would it be?
To create my own little worlds

11.) Who was the last person you talked to?
Miss Annie, I got to see her pretty sparkling ring! I'm so happy for her!

12.) Who was the last person you said "I love you" to?
Annie and Kate

13.) Write down the first five words that pop into your head

1) a
2) little
3)bag
4) of
5) cocaine (I'm not a druggie, I swear, I've been listening to Regina Spektor!)
Ratigan- Sure.....*Grace punches him* Ouch!


14.) What's one thing you wish you could do better?
dance!

15.) Do you like the way you are?
Yeah, I'm pretty much getting out of that teen "I hate who I am" thing, life is much better when ya love yourself!

16.) Choose, Summer or Winter:
I agree with KP, I have to say Spring, though I'm also a huge Fall fan as well!

17.) Choose, Rain or snow:
Rain. I love playing in the puddles! And snoozing!

18.) Water or ice?
Water...ahh, refreshing clean water!

19.) List two odd things about yourself:
1) I have lead in my head from when I accidently jabbed a pencil in my eyebrow (okay graphite, but I was called "lead head" at school by friends for a month after it happened!)
2)I love buttermilk pancake batter

I'm not tagging people, I think most of them would be angry if I did! So...take the quiz if you wanna! Ratigan will love you!

Ratigan- I love no one! Except my kitty...and yours.

]]> ~Gracie-Gru http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/11403408/ http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/11403408/ Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:12:30 PST
I use reference pictrues of GMD all the time, but I've never drawn myself. I have trouble with proportion, and I hate the grid method, but I just have trouble like drawing Ratigan say in a pose he's never been in a picture from the film in, like, scratching his head while looking into a mirror.

Any advice on how I can break my stupid perfectionist pessimism and learn to study different positions? I have two books on drawing people, so I'm sure there's some stuff in there, but basically I just need to know how I can find my own style of drawing, my own interpretation of people, and be happy with it, even though it's not picture perfect looking. I know that's the cool thing about art, all the different perceptions, but without hours of erasing and whining, I usually get no where. How do you find your own little art style? Like KP's rendition of me. THat was really good! Just how do you get those little styles of your own? Just experiment? Practice, practice? What are some things you guys do or did to help you learn to draw what you saw in your head, how to make something have form and not look like a stick figure? How to get your drawings more cleaned up, not as much erasing? Any comments would be appriciated. Thanks!

]]> ~Gracie-Gru http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/11385681/ http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/11385681/ Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:30:36 PST
Luv ya guys!

]]> ~Gracie-Gru http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/11186049/ http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/11186049/ Mon, 25 Dec 2006 08:58:07 PST
I think yesterday was the hardest as far as missing Dad, Mom and I opened a few of my presents since Graham wasn't too much into the whole family stay-at-home thing and went out partying with friends. I got some cool stuff, including several GMD pins (my favorite the "Let Me Be Good To You" pin with Basil and Ratigan on it), a 1st edition SIGNED copy of The Book of Joe by Vincent Price, lol, yes it was the copy he gave to one of his vets, I found that amusing since I always wanted to be a vet when I was little, lol, and this beautiful sapphire ring. Still got some stuff to open, if we can ever get my bro's butt out of bed. Might have to take a meat cleaver to his head!

Then we go to my aunt's where hopefully I'll stuff myself with food and won't have to pay the ultimate price via my Crohn's acting up. Mom's already sick, poor thing!

Well, Happy Christmas, and if you don't celebrate it, Happy Holidays or Happy Day or whatever! hehe

*Does a little dance* BABY ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU!

Ratigan- Turn that woman off! That carnary-like voice...yeesh!

Grace- Hey! You call me a canary!

Ratigan- Yes, but I never have to hear you go an octive above all humanity at 11 in the morning, after a night of the cats jumping on me.

Grace- Aww, poor poor Ratsey!

Ratigan- WHAT?!

Grace- Opps! Toodles folks! EEK! *jumps over sofa and arms herself with Ratigan's cane* Scratch me and I whack your knees in!

Ratigan- Give me that!

Hehe, I love doing this silly little dialogues. Don't ask why, I have a small life, it amuses me!

]]> ~Gracie-Gru http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/10900058/ http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/10900058/ Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:02:15 PST
Hehe, how can you not love Alan? The only time I found myself wanting to bash him over the head was when his character in "Love Actually" was a jerk, and I was quite ashamed of myself for that. *hangs head* So sorry Alan! But his Sheriff of Nottingham...PRICELESS! "Shut up you TWIT!" haha *claps*

But he is a very good Snape, is he not? A little harder to hate though, even when he's a bastard to Harry. I don't know what it is, but I'm very fond of those witty, slick villains/characters *cough* Ratigan *cough* Gregory House *cough* Geoffrey Rush's Marquis De Sade *cough* They're just too deliciously good to hate! They make me laugh.

And many argue (as I do), that Snape may not be a villain after all. Certainly not the first person you'd want to run to for help or support, but he's not entirely soulless. I can't wait for movie #5. To see Alan and Dan arguing during those lessons...it's gonna be good! To end this odd journal entry devoted to the observation of Snape obsessions we have, I'm posting a quote from the trailer for Order of Phoenix.

Harry- I'M NOT WEAK!
Snape- THEN PROVE IT!

If you change Harry to me and Snape to “World”, that mimics my exact situation with authority figures!

Ta-ta my dear art freaks!

]]> ~Gracie-Gru http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/10778908/ http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/10778908/ Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:33:06 PST
Ratigan- And you will pay for it...
Grace- Uh oh....[runs]

Hehe, check 'em out dear friends!

]]> ~Gracie-Gru http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/10250798/ http://Gracie-Gru.deviantart.com/journal/10250798/ Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:56:14 PDT
I haven't been on in forever, my quest in practicing art was put on hold with my Dad's illness. Daddy passed away four months ago, but he left us to a place where he feels no pain.

I don't have a scanner anymore, but I do have some new things to post, and am going to start drawing more and more and try to submit them. I'm also thinking of posting some fanfic up here too.

Anyway, thank you all for sharing your skills, they make me smile!

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Unfortunatly not much for you to look at right now except a picture. I am getting a scanner today from a family friend who's never used it, so I should have some up either tonight or tomorrow.

I would LOVE any comments, suggestions, anything to get my artistic skills flowing. I have trouble with taking people and changing their facial expressions/positions, so hopefully books on anatomy and stuff will help. But as I said, any advice is appriciated!

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