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Sorry for going dead for the billionth time.

A lot of family issues have been plaguing me and I hardly have had the time, or the attention span to do anything worthy of posting. I draw a lot, still, but I don't post anything because I'm one of those types that firmly believes in quality over quantity.

I will try to get back to posting once I can get my mind cleared, but it may take awhile. I don't really wish to go into detail of everything, as it's long and angst ridden.

Though some interesting details are that I got to see snow again. That brought much joy to my frigid little northern heart. I <3 Chicago. I thought I was going to freeze, but I didn't, not even when it was -10F below out and I was running around in normal clothes + my sweater jacket, shawl, and gloves. Watching other people freeze was hilarious, however. I also learned quickly how to drive over icy roads. Funnnnnn. I managed a new driving record. 17 Hours straight from Illinois and back to Florida. Crazy crap, that. I was only there for three days, which did suck a lot, but there was really no way to stay any longer, and trust me, I wasn't going for a vacation.

Wish I was, I could use it.

I start my new University in three days.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/21606788/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/21606788/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:54:42 PST
I highly despise the term Feminazi.

Do not call me that. Call me a Feminist, fine. I'm really an Equalist, but I will settle if you can't get your f%&#ing definitions correct.

So I get called this term by a, well, I wouldn't call him an artist, even though he has it in his head he's this almighty something or another. I believe in equality. Equal pay, no discrimination. Granted, Some women are better then some men, it's a fact! But on the flip side, some men are better then some men! Guess what, it doesn't matter what your gender is! Or what your sexual preference is, or the color of your skin! What about this do people not get!?

But I digress. Back to this feminazi thing. It's rather ironic if you think about it. By calling a woman a 'feminazi,' when she's about equality and open mindedness, one should realizing you're comparing her to an extremely closed minded sect of individuals who committed acts of genocide upon an ethnic group?

How does that work out? Seriously, the people who use the term feminazi are the closed minded ones. It gets better, the guy who called me that, as well as said my art was shit ( though I don't think much better of his art, maybe even worse, I guess we're even there. ) turns out to be a total bigot about things he said to a friend of mine because he got pissed off since I cut him down to size. He said several nasty little racist remarks of what she sent to me. That's nice, call yourself an artist but is a total closet minded chauvinistic racist bastard.

Sorry for the angry journal entry, just needed to vent for a bit.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/21178906/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/21178906/ Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:30:49 PDT
Life is crazy. There's a lot of really bad things going on that I just really don't want to discuss on here and just rather keep to myself. It's midterms to boot, making me even further stretched out than I want to be.

The only time I draw is in class, and while I do have a good few things to scan, I just don't have the time TO scan or clean up and fix things, and it's just anathema for me to post something that hasn't been cleaned and least looks semi professional. Ugh.

Somehow I'm going to be more active around here, but that time just isn't now.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/20179947/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/20179947/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:22:04 PDT
Well, I had to take my car in for her oil change. Turns out that with all the running I've done for said friends this summer, just about everything is worn out. Brake pads and brake rotors. $170 - not too bad, and then they come back with a real killer, though. Her ignition is shot, though it's not my fault, as they said it looks to have been going for some time, probably since the older owner, and he beat on my baby. . . I have to wait to have her fix, as, my work check wasn't too great. ::sigh:: Until then I have loan of my mother's SUV.

::sigh::

My baby. . . I can't drive you. . . ::

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/20060147/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/20060147/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:11:40 PDT
I've taken off several weeks now, tried to relax, tried to spend time with friends, only to find myself very upset at several situations. I think I prefer my work, I rather be exhausted from it, then spend time with people who really don't care about me. I'm sick of being a loyal friend to all these people who are never loyal to me. I think I deserve better then that.

I'm especially upset that, after letting someone crash with me for a week, whom I took everywhere, because she had a fight, and then this person, once her issues are done, is going out with a person who betrayed me.

I'm upset at another person as well. But I'm figuring I'm just done with it. I don't really want to hear from them any longer, as, to be honest, I don't know what to say, and I don't want to blow up at anyone. As angry as I am, I don't want a fight, I just want to be left alone, I want to move on, and I want to stop being everyone's shoulder to cry on. I'm sick of being the one being cut out of the picture because I was the honest one. I'm just done. I guess if this other person wants to be friends with someone that continually talks smack about them, be my guest. I'm done. Just done.

Sorry to all my friends on watch, but, I just needed to get this off my chest. :/

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/19758669/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/19758669/ Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:31:40 PDT
I'm bothered with a few friends of mine, I must admit, I have some really great friends, but a few in particular have made me really want to question myself and their relationship with me. I guess it's complicated.

I'm about done with my summer semester, but fall semester is going to be kicking in as soon as I might think I'd get a break. Sometimes I feel like I'm going to snap, I haven't had a long break since High School. I've done every semester, including summer, since I enrolled in college. I guess I just want to get things done and over with, but sometimes I wonder if it's really healthy to do continue at what may be my most spectacular burn out yet.

There are days where I just wish I could quit. Like, leave, do something else, partake in a little wanderlust. I just feel like I'm precariously balanced between complete control and utter chaos.

I'd like to get some art up, but I just don't have any inspiration to do such, and I have no idea when I'm going to draw something again. I feel like my artistic career, if one could call it that, is over, and I've felt that way for the past two or three years. There were days where I used to draw a new piece every other day. Those days have come and pass and it seems that it takes me longer and longer to complete something. Don't get me wrong, I want to draw, but it just doesn't come to me. I can't force myself to draw, maybe some people can, but not me.

Sorry again to my watchers for the lack of art, I'd really love to post something, but I just can't. I can't say when I'll post, who knows, in three days, I could be bit in the arse with inspiration, but at this moment I just feel so uninspired.

Least no one can accuse me of spamming their devwatch. . .

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/19248718/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/19248718/ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:54:56 PDT
I haven't owned a transformer, in, eh. . . 10 years?

Jeez, the last ones I owned were the beastwars ones and I vaguely remember my parents throwing them away on me. To think, I had Airrazor, whom I hear is quite rare these days.

I've had a couple of the little TF hero figures sitting on my router, but I decided for something a little bigger. ( The TF hero ones I have are Screamer, Grimmy, Shockwave, and Mirage. ) So I got sent to Wally World to be Errand Girl, and I checked that one, and all they had were the TFA Ratchet, which isn't what I wanted. Yesterday I got sent to Pensacola, where another Wally World existed, which I made sure to stop. There, finally, I found what I wanted, the TFA Starscream. Which is whom I brought home.

Quite curiously, he lives up to his expectations as a failure. One of his cannons doesn't work. It amuses me greatly.

I'm wondering what TF toy I should get next. . . I want the Starscream Masterpiece, but I'm thinking I should get a different character first??? I don't know much about the toys or figures really, but I know a couple of you know a bit on the toys, and I could perhaps use a few suggestions? Please? Anyones that you'd really suggest?

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/19104200/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/19104200/ Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:38:24 PDT
A thousand cookies for anyone that can find me refs for the hands. Yeah, yeah, I suck at hands to. Sometimes I don't know why I bother sometimes. . . XD

There are a few flaws to the face, especially the one eye, but I think I can beat the problems out fairly easy.

[link]

This is going to be my laptop project, for all those long hours in summer classes where the professor drones on and on, and me, back in the class, with tablet out and working on my art. . . <3

Thanks guys and gals! <3

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/18947336/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/18947336/ Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:37:30 PDT
My school fucked up big time, however. Three weeks ago, I had gone in to get my scholarship put in for the summer term, as the term I'm taking begins the 29th of August. Well, the scholarship covered my classes and my books, but I wasn't taking much, so my total was only something like $1000, but still, I can't afford that out of pocket, I just barely paid for that prescription. So, I go in, today, to pick my books up, but first I have to get my schedule, well, turns out, the bitch in the office never put my scholarship in, so it dropped my classes. Great. I get so sicked of being jerked around by Mrs. Amos, this is only the fifth or sixth time she's done this to me, I should be used to it. But seriously, she seems to enjoy wasting my gas screwing around. I go back to the Office, she's not in until Monday, but yet she is the ONLY one in the entire place that can put in my scholarship BUT, she's always on Vacation. So then I get the run around, and being told to go these this person and that person and everyone telling me, in the snottiest voice they can muster, "I can't help you." So, finally, the last straw breaks and I chew a lady out up one wall and down the other, I'm in tears because I've been screwed around WAY too much this week with everything going on, and finally she says, "Well, I'll get this to her first thing Monday Morning." YEAH RIGHT. I know you morons, if the Doctors can't call my Mother back on a life threatening issue, what hope do I have that these lazy pencil pushing Floridiots are going to do any better?

Monday is going to be hell on earth for Mrs. Amos, I swear, because I'm not leaving until my classes are marked PAID and I have my books. The lady is a WONDERFUL role model, amirite?

Enough with the rant. I chilled myself out a little today, but watching a little bit of Transformers Animated as well as a bit of Armada on the tubes. Animated is gradually growing on me, despite the funky animation styles. The original cast seems pretty true to their G1 counterparts. Especially Grimlock, they nailed the concept on him pretty good. Starscream was great as well, not a complete puss, like Armada. Which is why Armada eventually got shut off, even despite the cool design for Starscream, I couldn't get over just how off the character was. The animation was good, but I also couldn't get over on the reliance on humans. I'd really love to see a TF series that didn't rely on humans. Oh wait, there was one, that was Beast Wars, and I watched it religiously. Of course, Starscream had only a brief part ( d'awh ) and then they kidnapped my favorite character of the series, Airrazor, until, like, TWO SEASONS later, she comes back but all melded with another character, and then three episodes later, that character gets killed. LAME. It's interesting that Blackarchanea got into TF animated, but not Airrazor. I prefered Airrazor over the Spider hands down.

Eh, can't have it perfect, I guess. . .

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/18907340/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/18907340/ Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:21:43 PDT
How the fuck is that elective?!

Right now, she's basically a walking time bomb for a stroke because she has too much adrenaline in her system and it's making her blood pressure go through the roof. This prescription is supposed to suppress the receptors in her body to the adrenaline so it doesn't go nuts and they can operate.

The prescription is $700. What the fuck over.

Right now, I've been listing everything on ebay I can that I think I can get a price for, no matter if I paid 2x what I'm selling it for. The market on ebay has been shit to boot, no one is buying anything do the crappy economy of the US of A. Only people who have money are the Aussies and the Europeans, which, doing that stuff is a bitch, but hell, I'm going to have to do that. Right now, I'm sitting around twiddling my thumbs waiting for a lady to get back to me with her postal code to Australia so I can get a shipping quote.

::sigh::

While I'm waiting, anyone know a tut on painting a prairie sort of thing? Yeah. . . Not fun. . .

:out::

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/18800420/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/18800420/ Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:58:00 PDT

Uh. . . wut?

Anyways, I recently ( as in yesterday ) started a forum on Japanese Culture. Anyone who wants to can join and I would be most appreciative if people could join so some discussion worthy things would get up and going.

The more the merrier, they say.

[link]

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/18330896/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/18330896/ Thu, 15 May 2008 03:59:01 PDT
I'm currently out of school, but I've been really busy. I need to go on campus later today and get schedule for summer courses. Yay for me. But I have to if I want to graduate Fall Semester. Bwuah. . .

There's a lot of nasty discourse right now, and I'm really just trying to stay away from that sort of thing and keep to myself while being insanely busy. I have an antique show in a month, so I've been planning and buying stock while selling out old stock via the internet.

I've also have had a lot more responsibilities, I've been taking care of my mother because of her health problems. She has a tumor that is causing problems with her adrenal gland, this and that, and it rather makes her unfit to drive and such, so any of those things have been up to me. I don't mind, it just really wears me out. My mother will be going into surgery to have the tumor removed, hopefully soon, that is, when ever the dumb ass doctors down here can stop scratching their asses and making my mother run through monkey hoops. They highly doubt it's cancerous, which in one way is very relieving, yet these morons here are quite stupid, so that worries me at the same time. I mean honestly, my mother spent six hours in a hospital while having a fibromyalgia attack and they thought she was having a heart attack. . . ::sigh::

I really wish I could catch a break, but it's just not in the schedule. I really want to take summer off from College, but I don't think that's going to happen. I think I'm just going to have to hanker down this summer and the next two semesters until next summer when I get to go to Japan. Yet at the same time, I just want some hermit-dom Renee time that involves me at my computer being a computer geek and comfy at home. I'd really like to put out some art, there's a bunch of ideas bustling in my head. Right now, besides being busy, there's so many of them that just overwhelm me!

Hmmm . . . I have really enjoyed these last two months in terms of creative thought though. I haven't been burdened with a shitty role play and being guilted into it because the other person was supposed to be a friend. Oh, am I ever glad that train wreck is over. It was just so sick, and the other person wanted nothing but to play a victim, it was just. . . twisted. And stupid, let's not forget stupid. That's over and I've been able to get back to thinking on my original story project. I do have a bunch of new ideas, and I really would also like to sit down and pen down some of this story, yet again, it's just not in the plans!

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/17931768/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/17931768/ Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:42:39 PDT
The week has been really busy, school is really winding down. I'm just so glad I don't have jury or music theory this semester. I think I would die if that was the case. I have about four papers to write, a good chunk of math homework, several speeches, and then a horde of exams and all in two weeks.

::rubs face::

My mother has been in and out of the doctor's office, and there's been a lot of things wrong and there's a mystery lump on her kidney, and everyone's worried, including me. Right now, she's having to consult a surgeon. I'm really worried since cancer runs in my family, especially on her side. She's already had cancer once to where it was a "6 months to live" scenario, which was really scary, but she beat that, but I'm just worried that she's got cancer again. It's just really worrisome.

Another thing, I let my doggies out, and the pups that Muffy had in January ( which I'm still trying to sell . . . ) and they got carried away and beat one of the pups up really bad. They had him by the throat and everything. I thought they killed him, because he wasn't moving at first. I think he is okay, but we're not sure, but there's no animal vets open, nor will their be any open until Monday, so we're just going to keep an eye on him, and Mom is just as good as any vet with things like that. . . Yet still, I'm a little ashamed of my pooches for getting that rambunctious and hurting the one so badly. . . ::sigh::

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/17839506/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/17839506/ Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:40:38 PDT
Isn't that how it always is? Teenagers can't wait to be eighteen, they can't wait to not be teens.

I'm no longer a teenager, and soon I'll be 21 in September. Everything is just moving so fast. Like a blink of the eye, I'll be 25 before I know it. It's strange talking to people I've known for years, one guy whom I've known since I was 13 and he was 16. He has a child and another on the way. It just seems so crazy, doesn't it?

Another guy whom I've known since I was thirteen, he's in the military, we talk all the time. He may even be moving quite close to me in a year or so. We had a real good talking, talking about our hilarious spats, and our old friends whom we've lost contact with and how we wish we still knew them.

I'm only twenty and I can't help but feel old.

There are times I wish I was still 13. I couldn't draw a stick figure back then. Yet I miss being so care free. I had nothing to worry about. I didn't have to worry about money, a car, grades, nothing. My biggest drama in life was XWA. It's so funny when I look back on all the arguments I had. My friend agreed on this. It's funny, but at the same time, I can't help but wish that's still how simple life was. I realize there's more to life, but at the same time, I just feel so maddened by it all these days. Though the future's looking up, the present is still so rough.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/17765755/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/17765755/ Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:01:41 PDT
Where to start. . .

In my Anthropology class, the teacher was out, but her Husband teaches, and he teachers at the University I have thought about transferring to. I've heard a lot about their anthropology program, and how good it is. It's one of the best in the US. I think a few spots under UCLA where Liza Dalby teaches. UCLA is like, big bucks though. Haha, no way. Anyways, this University has been offering me a scholarship if I enroll next spring. He tells me that, after six months to two semesters, that the University will send me to Japan! Not only free, but paid as well! Not only that, the exchange center is in KYOTO. I about passed out.

So, I have figured out my way to Japan, and you bet your asses off I am taking that.

After that Cloud 9, had Biology, we had an exam. I am fairly sure I aced it, I knew just about every answer but one, and it was multiple choice on that part, so, great for me!

I had Wind Ensemble and we played two new pieces which, somehow, I completely sight read and played correctly.

Been playing Shamisen as well, and the first piece in my book is, "Sakura, Sakura." What timing to start playing Shamisen and play that piece of all pieces?

I played at school for awhile, then went home, then realized I forgot my book, yet, I have sang Sakura, Sakura, for Choir, and I was able to play my shamisen by ear! Completely! This instrument might just really work for me! My theory lessons have really come in handy as well, as I can actually tune it by ear and realize when it's sharp or flat.

And the icing on the cake? 68 Firebird, Baby. No, I didn't buy one, I wish, but I stalked one from Campus all the way to the other route I normally don't take going home. What a gorgeous car! It was powder blue, all original, no hot rodding crap on it, just, ::gasp:: beautiful! I wish the guy had went to a gas station or some such, I would've been surely asking about it. Just wow.

I haven't had a day this good in a very long time! Though it may not last til tomorrow, I will enjoy it for what it is worth.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/17724298/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/17724298/ Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:27:45 PDT
Ignoring a friend for a week because you're mad at them, yet you haven't told them why, isn't cool. I don't like games, and I feel rather lost at what I did wrong. I've nothing but tried my best to be as good of a friend as possible, yet I've been blocked ( or something ) by said person a week. Instead of blowing up and ignoring someone for a week, try talking things out. It works, a lot.

Hum, but anyways. Currently downloading BSG: Razor, since I've missed it, like, every time it's been on. The first episode of season four was amazing, it had some wonderful omwtfbbq moments, especially with Tigh. No spoilers, sorry. Anyone else guessing the identity of the fifth and final cylon? I don't really have an idea, yet, though I have a bunch of ideas of who it isn't!

I'm curious into looking for a BSG or BSG galaxy oriented RP. I think it would be fun, though I would like to do something away from the Galactica. Continunity problems always bug me. I think I'll be looking into finding one or making one in the weeks to come.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/17645779/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/17645779/ Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:32:13 PDT
Yeah. . . Last week was a real ball in the park, yep. . . .


Not everything is bad, financially, I'm in pretty good terms. . . I still have some March money left over. . . Not for long though. I did a lot of selling with other work on the side as well, that was absolutely, fucking nuts, but it did pan out in some ways. I got all kinds of junk out of the place or in the process of such. Scaled back my musical instrument junk. Down to three clarinets and a tenor sax atm. With a Shamisen coming in. Okay, okay, I got ride of 5+ instruments and traded for the one. I swear, I'm actually going to learn how to play shamisen, yep. . .

Snagged a few other things. I behaved myself in one way and not in the other, with finances. Instead of buying a bunch of small, piddly things, I bought only a few items that were a little pricier, yet, were things I really wanted. I mentioned the Shamisen, that should be in by the weeks end. I bought an Obi-dome ( brooch for over an obi ), which, though really not in my list, I got for under $50, and it's very Maiko-esque, and the larger obi-dome go for $250 generally, so, I feel I really got a deal. I've been in a sort of an exhausted stupor, but I seem to be on cloud nine after winning the pinnacle of my collection. I managed to finally, finally, get a real Geisha's Hikizuri. I've very happy, though I should be shot for what I spent on it, but still, I didn't dent my finances, because I sold what I already had that was collecting dust and doing nothing, a step forward methinks.

Though I have several Hikizuri, most of them are stage and were never worn by a Geisha, this one, most certainly is, so I am very happy about that, and to have such a piece of history.

If I've thrown anyone off, Hikizuri is the trailing type Kimono that is worn for stage or by entertainers like Geisha and Maiko.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/17293322/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/17293322/ Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:36:22 PDT
But, I will be needing breaks from it in between. I am looking for some lineart to color. If you have something laying around, feel free to submit it, and I might color it. No promises, but I'll surely color something for someone.

Cya.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/15478187/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/15478187/ Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:59:01 PST
Speaking of coloring, I may pillage someone's gallery for lineart. . . I dunno, I rather color, no inspiration for drawing is to be found. Whenever I try to draw, I don't like anything, so I tend to scribble it up and toss across the room. I have gotten some chances to take more photos of Dee, we just haven't had a chance to pick out the updates. There should be updates to Yuzen eventually, just not now, maybe next week. Dee and I are both very busy.

::sigh::

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/14860448/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/14860448/ Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:51:47 PDT


If you like my work with Japanese inspired subjects, you may find it of an interest. We will most likely have constant updates upon it, unlike my own little art account. ;

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/14721080/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/14721080/ Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:34:09 PDT
Gah, me and my need to prove myself. I want to play it as damned fast as the flipping recording! I MUST! It's an issue of pride. I have two weeks. Five days to get it up to speed for Recital Work shop, and another week after that to get any quips out of it by Recital. DAMMIT. Why the fuck did I ever want to be a music major?

Oh yeah, because they said I'd never make it. Hahaha, yeah, I still suck, or so my instructors say, yet I've made more progress then any of the other music majors( even they will admit to that. ). Yet when ever I do recital I get shit loads of compliments.

Oh, don't mind my cussing, I'm just frustrated that I can't play 20 notes in one second like the douche bag playing the recording. Never fear, I'll get it. . . .

My front teeth feeling like they're going to fall out.

Oh yes, lawl, I will be updating soon. I have that cute little coloring thing about done, I just want to get some more practice in before I finish it up. I hope the person I'm coloring it for will like it though. I've really tried to do 3-D shading with lineart, yet keep the integrity of lineart preserved. Well, we'll see I guess.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/14710138/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/14710138/ Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:17:16 PDT
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Hopefully, tonite, there will be something a bit nicer up. Not my drawing, but a little coloring thing I'm working on.

I'm looking at my gallery and I'm finding I'm a touch tired of the Japanese style, Bijinn art. As beautiful as it is, it's getting boring for me, at least for the moment, it was a huge inspiration for awhile and it certainly helped to pop a few pieces out, but expect me to start going back to the things were with some inspirations in clothing design and not much more. Meh.

I'm still just trying to learn to draw men. . . . It's . . . hard, to sat the least. After this coloring project, I may pick up another one to color so there can be a few things nice to look at in my gallery that aren't a freaking month old. My next drawn piece, that's nice, and isn't my character designs, is going to be of a MAN, dammit. . . .

Okay. . . Time to go to class and die. . . and doodle. . . men with men. . . ..

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/14663684/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/14663684/ Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:40:08 PDT
Don't forget my scraps, I'll be uploading some back sketches that'll probably never see CG. Look at those, okay? Please?

I'm actually been working a lot in my sketchbook on drawing men. I'm really quite terrible at them. I want to jump the human transformer's bandwagon. I love that stuff. Blame it all on and for feeding me massive amounts of wonderful Transformers Role plays. X3

Then blame wonderful artists like for further inspiring me!

Gah! NEED TO DRAW HOT MEN. PLEASE. . . .

I know, I have the most obscure freaking fandoms. Giant Robots just turn me on so badly. . . .

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12905922/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12905922/ Wed, 09 May 2007 23:09:37 PDT
I am not quite back on Deviant Art. I have been detoxing from Lineage 2 for several months now. It didn't take much time once Thursday rolled around for me to cave to L2. Hell yeah. Lineage 2 Private servers are the greatest thing EVER. Oh, and I got my B grade for my Shilien Knight and SwordSinger. SO HOT. I just love the look of the Dark Elves in Lineage 2. So buxom, such hips. . . . ::drools::

If women looked the like the Dark Elves in Lineage 2, I would so be a lesbian by now.

Anyways, I might post a little doodle or something of that sort in the next couple days. Maybe tonite, all my clan mates are sleeping, such newbs sometimes. Nah, most of my clan mates are from Germany. Most of them speak better english then the flipping American players.

On a more somber note, I am truly disappointed in an inspiration of mine. A certain artist I have found, is not a digital painter but a photo manipulator. While I have nothing against manipulations, I love many photo manipulating artists, I just have much against people who pass their work off as something it is not, and then not give credit to proper sources. I will not discuss this artist's name, because it isn't nice. But I must say, I am very disappointed, and somehow, my dreams of photo realistic cg seems very dim. But, I still have the wonderful arts of Joe Linsner and Michael Wheland to keep me most happy.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12530807/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12530807/ Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:51:36 PDT
Theory sucks because I suck at theory. :/ I think there's three more tests before exams, and then the project grade counts as a test, and I want to do good on all of them because the exam is going to be a bear and if I can do good on all of these things, I'll do good on the exam, and I might scrape by theory without killing my gpa. ::wants to keep her 3.5::

I will probably only be taking three classes, four at the most.

Clarinet Lessons ( 2 hours a week )
Piano Lessons ( 2 hours a week )
Statistics ( 3 hours a week )
and maybe some assorted science or history class.

But at the most, I'll have 10 hours of college a week. Homg. That's HALF what I've been doing. I did 21 my first semester, and I'm at 17 right now because I dropped german because staying up at school until 11pm at night is so not cool. I cannot do that, not with theory so early in the morning. And that's half the reason why my theory grade blows goats.

So, sorry guys, going to try to have a fun little piece up for you in May. I'll stick around here and comment and what not, but no art. I don'tn have the nerves for it.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12476845/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12476845/ Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:04:08 PDT
Ear training test on Tuesday. Joy. A little hardwork over the weekend should allow me to pass that sucker with at least a B, Ear Training is probably my strong suit, I was pleasantly surprised on a pretest for Melodic Dictation ( which I haven't done since December) and I was getting all the rhythms right and half of the intervals, so I was scoring 75% at. Scales will be no problem, I think, I can easily determine major, natural minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor, etc. Harmonic dictation is a whole nother bear. I need to work really hard over the weekend on that.

It's Thursday's test that's the problem. Analysis. I suck at it. It's horrible. EVIL EVIL. Macro and Roman numeral analysis, NO PROBLEM, but cadences? period construction? hell, modulations aren't even that bad, but cadences I can't get in my head for anything. So, I'm going to get some tutoring hopefully.

I know this means nothing to most everyone, but I'm just a little spastic. An upper classmen told me next year's theory is A LOT EASIER. So, I am just trying to get through this Theory class and hope it doesn't tear down my 3.5 GPA too much.

Back to art.

Regrets is sitting in my sketchbook, fully inked, but unscanned and on worked on. I am going to use a baby blue with red on it, a little something softer and less violent looking then Scars, but I don't know when I'll pull myself together enough to work. Probably early May, when I'm freed from my college duties, except for lessons, and maybe a few other classes, BUT NO THEORY, NO CONCERTS TO ATTEND, NO JURY. My three largest pains evaporated, at least until August. I am trying to hold it together until the end of April, then I'll have my mental break down, and it will produce lots of goth-tastic art.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12449058/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12449058/ Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:49:54 PDT
DIE.

I get sick of art snobs, "OH this kind of (insert anything) isn't art! It has no soul!"

I especially hear this from the traditional art artists. I get so sick of the term "traditional" To you "traditional artist" who think their shit doesn't stink and they have the all seeing eye of what is art, f&^% you.

-.-

Sorry for that little rant. But I had to let some steam off.

However, this is working excellent for fuel for practicing, the more frustrated I get, the better my playing gets.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12421887/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12421887/ Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:38:41 PDT
Still working on "Regrets" I am done with the sketch parts and I have gone straight to inking and free inking the white spaces. I recently discovered a Phano China Marker. It conceals all my booboos in inking wonderfully. I doubt I am not the first one to discover this. Now I can successfully ink in traditional media only. I hate digitally inking. It's painfully slow even with a tablet.

Well, I am just letting people know, once again, my real journal can be found at [link] . It's friend's only, so leave a post on the first entry you see, tell me who you are and add me, and I'll add you back. It contains my rants and my annoyances.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12408864/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12408864/ Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:50:15 PDT
It was awesome. It's a Japanese flick, no, not anime. It was really a neat film. And finally so nice to see such a kickass female character! I really like Azumi's aura and personality, it's the kind of personality I've been trying to develope for Setaiha.

It's definitely a good flick, and it did tide me over for a bit. I am so hoping that blockbuster will get a copy of SAKURAN when it's subbed for english, and I hope it will be availible in the US.

You can probably rent Azumi at any BlockBusters, it's a fairly new release, they actually had about 5 or 6 copies, so, I will buy it when they sell the back copies when it goes to the normal section instead of new releases. The music was EXCELLENT in it, not so much traditional, like I expected, but still some nice stuff. The fighting in it was so cool. I cracked up about Bijomaru though. Hooomygawd, it was like what Sessomaru (sp?) from that silly anime Inuyasha would look like in person. And he was a total nut, and he was wearing make up, alla kabuki, but it wasn't shiro nuri, but just a light powder, but he was wearing rouge on his eyes and lips, and I think they had his hair waxed a bit, it was just a touch stiff, and his costume, it was all white and flowy, and he's cutting people to ribbons. HILARIOUS.

I am guessing Bijo is beautiful man, Bishojo, Bishonen, Bijin, and I've yet to hear beautiful man, so, Bijo must be it. I as of yet do not know what MARU literally means, but I know that it's used to describe a type of obi, but there was a series of boats that used it, like the Kobiyashi Maru, but then there's names like Ichimaru ( the geisha, you anime dorks ), and now Bijomaru. WHAT DOES MARU MEAN??? I must know. . . .

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12394969/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12394969/ Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:39:19 PDT
Maybe there will be a FRESH NEW update sometime this weekend.

I am working on a piece alla Scars style.

I am thinking of doing a four part series.

The one that will be next, will be "Regrets"

I think the other two will focus with Shavera and Rhenrhian, where as Scars and Regrets has to do with Setaiha and Luthayen. And this time, Regrets will show Luthayen a little better. I have a few different sketches of him and I have about finalized his design. He's quite handsome. :3 White blonde hair, bright blue eyes, traditional greek style body build. Oh yeah~ <3

I may do a scan dump picture and ask the audience on their favorites for large pieces of them. Or finished. I have two sketch books to pull a massive amount of scans out of. I use the 100 page Strathmore sketchbooks, and each have about 25 pieces that are scannable. I recently started a new sketchbook. Always a little odd with a blank sketchbook.

Please look to

I will be uploading TONS of stuff soon, or I think I am. LOL.

<3

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12379780/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12379780/ Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:19:10 PDT
I've been so busy, I couldn't even update with an OLD PICTURE. GAH. Suckage.

Sorry for the small size, but it is one of my most fondest pieces of mine that I do have the full size for.

I am thinking, maybe tomorrow, I will drag out the dinosaur to pull her harddrive and see what I can't pull off.

I am needing full sizes for :
Black Roses
Silver Strings
Sunken Dreams

Three older works, they were on my old gallery, I have only tiny versions of all of them. Sunken Dreams and Black Roses were HUGE for that period of time.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12345383/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12345383/ Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:20:15 PDT
I will definitely not be posting anything new for this week. I've got so much catch up work to do. I was sick the whole week before Spring Break with food poisoning, so I missed all but one day. Not to mention my major procrastination skills. Most of our stuff is getting Due and we're getting ready for finals. I just noticed we didn't have Midterms. Wow. I'll be done with Spring Semester in little more then a month, around April 29-30th and maybe a few days into May. I will not be taking many classes in the summer, I need a break for 1, and 2, my main scholarship doesn't cover it, so I only have around $500 saved back, and that's going to cover lessons, Piano and Clarinet. Though, Travis tells me, if you pay for them yourself, it's much cheaper, like, instead of $150 a credit hour or more, it's $60, if so, then I'll probably do like, 7 credit hours, not going to do fulltime if I'm not going to get paid for it. Not in the summer when I can be working a good job. Or doing commissions again.

Now, about the update. What do you guys want to see from my old work? Anything you're particularly curious in? Let me know on here, and I'll see what I can dig up to appease ya. I will probably update tomorrow, to let everyone get a word or two in.

I will be busy this whole week, so, probably no scraps either. I just finished my Report for European History ( which, was given out at the beginning of the semester and due today, and I just did it now, 7 hours before it's due. It's a pretty good paper actually. Cores are too easy sometimes. I have about 2 months worth of Math work to fling together by Next Monday, and I have 2 packets to do that were assigned when I was sick that are due Wednesday, so, I will be doing that tonite. I have four ear training excersices to do as well, those, I'm going to do, next week, with math and all, eh, going to take me a little to get to them, and I'll probably do 2 of those a week. So, I have them in before the end of the semester.

These next two weeks are going to be crazy, and the ones after it, too. I have my Music Theory Project starting next week, and I am so, going to try to keep atop that one, if there's any project I will not get away with procrastination, it will be that one. And I am one of the best procrastinators you'd ever meet, but, I know, damn well, I am not going to get away with on Theory.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12324157/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12324157/ Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:11:01 PDT
Your next chance for kiriban is 3,333. If someone had gotten it, I would've have waited until the 4000, but, nah, going to give ya guys another chance at it.


Anyways, wanted to ask, what would you guys think if I updated once every week with some back art? Most of you guys are new on my list, so I wouldn't think it much of a problem, and a lot of it was never posted or never very long. A lot of them are smaller though, I no longer have the hi resolutions because most of them were lost about two years ago, though some of the hi res's seem to be misplaced as well, I may go boot the dinosaur up to do some digging, or I may just make a copy of the entire harddrive on my portable.

Yay or nay? I want to keep some semblance of an update rate, yet at the same time not have neglected pieces laying around.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12315403/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12315403/ Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:11:26 PDT :3

In one year, my hair had grown nearly a foot, back to the length it was before I cut it. I am thinking of having some frosting done. I still have this thing for dark hair with white streaks in it.

Today, I have not at all worked on Bleary. No drive what so ever. There are reasons, not just because of the lazy muses. Tomorrow I must work on my report for history, shouldn't take me long, then I need to practice Clarinet. Durrrrr. . . .

I am amused, though, for certain other little reasons. :3 <3 <3

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12304027/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12304027/ Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:49:35 PDT
300 was HOT. Is there a mail order for one of those Spartan men? I'll take one, thank you, maybe two.

The in progress file has been uploaded, so, if you care to look, please do. The title is probably temporary, but it may stick. I feel titles are very important in a piece.

I started on the backround for a bit, I think I worked for an hour and that's all I could get myself to do. Tomorrow, I'm going to least finish the arm of the galaxy there, and maybe put in the star field, and if I REALLY feel good, maybe stick some planets and ruins in. I am thinking about making Estavien having no moons, just the planets in the solar system to light it up, they're close, as you can see. Moons, blargh, boring.

Today I bought Eragon and Eldest, I saw the movie the other day, it was awesome. So, I'm sure the book is better, I don't know when I'll start them though. . . . . . . ><

Also, one of my lithopane demitasse came in. BEAUTIFUL. It's this rare orange moriage, and it's like mint, the cup just has a little stain on it. Since, for now, I am stuck in a cracker jack box, I am trying to curve my kimono appetite, and collect something smaller, so, the demitasse work well for me, plus they're still japanese and geisha related. I may start a post card collection of Geisha's. Right now I have two, one of a very iki(chic) Geisha, and another one of a Tayuu at a Koto.

Anyways, I'm going to head off to bed and attempt a decent morning's rest. After all, in two days, I will be back to college and my short lived return will most like come to an end or be very limited except for rotten sketches.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12290443/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12290443/ Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:10:52 PDT
And I have so much work to be doing. I am absolutely fighting to work on my main CG project.

I'm going to see 300 tomorrow, hopefully that'll stir some inspiration.

I feel like crap. Blargh.

I notice there was a print request on one of my pieces. If you want prints, send me a note. I will do prints of any piece you want. There's to great things to this, not only does Deviantart not make tons of money off me (yeah right ) but the print comes to you SIGNED. Now how great is that?

(And I could really use a few bucks, because I have to completely pay my summer semester of college, and thus far, I only have $500 because my big scholarship only covers Fall and Spring Semesters and I have to take lessons for sure, and I want to kill a few more cores. )

Kiriban is coming up real quick now. As I said, you have to be on my watch to get it. . .

Well, I am going to try to force myself to get some more work on this, I want to least get the shirt, the corset, and shoulder plate done. Tomorrow I may do the backround for a change of pace.

I am curious if I should post an in progress file. Mainly just the face. It's probably one of my best faces, I say it easily surpasses Wayward Soul. And right now, it's the only reason it still lives.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12272572/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12272572/ Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:32:06 PDT

I am a screw ip, I'm sorry. GAH

Amuse yourselves at my braindeadness. It was like 2am, pff.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12265626/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12265626/ Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:15:43 PDT
Yes, a photo account I just started.

Not only do you get to see my garden, you get to see the zainy antics of my two macaws when caught of film, that you only heard about in journals!

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12263590/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12263590/ Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:35:29 PDT
I still need to do the last one, bad me, will do that when I have class, because I don't touch the sketch book when I'm home, sketch book is for on the run, I do projects when I am home.

About the kiribin, you have to be on my watch for at least a day to claim it. I've been warned there's rotten people that just hunt for these sort of things, and I am not drawing for anyone who just wants something from me.

Sorry to be mean about that, but I want to make this availible to the people who continually support me, not someone that wants a piece of me.

Anyways, I am going to be working on a project now for at least the end of the week, so probably no updates until Sunday, and maybe later, this project is HUGE, and I may burn myself out and have to shove it off for a few weeks later. Most you guys know how I like to pull vanishing acts.

I'll try not to fail, but who knows with my fickle little muses.

I need an angsty emo boyfriend again just to be depressed so I can draw more. Lol. 13 is a great age to be an artist because you're always whinning about something or depressed about anything. 19 sucks because your emotions start sorting themselves out and less effects you.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12253037/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12253037/ Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:00:56 PDT
Now give me love! I demand it!

I am now dreading another project of mine, because Empress, I worked on nearly non-stop, now I almost know why I hardly update. I must figure out how to speed up my process!

Please, if you have time, leave me a few words on Empress, I would really like to know what you have to say, I always love feedback.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12237819/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12237819/ Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:08:40 PDT
::sigh::

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12225069/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12225069/ Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:14:37 PDT
Anyways, tomorrow I'll probably take a break from my ginormous piece to work on a little piece of beefcake and something cute. Two rare things in one day, holy shite! No guarentee's. The beefcake will be on Rhen, it's pretty much all drawn out, just needs to be printed and inked ( I don't do digital inking no more, it just sucks, period, there is NOT A PROGRAM that I've ever been happy with the inking on, never, and it's faster with a trusty ink pen ), then it's offed to coloring, it won't be super uber fancy, but it'll be nice, which you guys seem to like my more similified pieces, I mean, look at Ashen Feathers and Scars vs Memoire and Frozen World. No guarentee's, I'm OC so I am liable to do anything. I could do a Picasso tomorrow, you just never know, I will say that there is a 75% that I will do an update.

I am saddened though. Whatever the fuck did the US do to Within Temptation. What is this "WHAT DID YOU DO?" Hence my journal title. That is not WT, that is pure, steaming shit. Thanks again US record companies. You charge us exhorbirent fees for crap music. Go die. I fart in your general direction. You guys suck. You take good bands and destroy them. Goddess help us if they get Ayreon, or, omg, Nightwish. Though I think there is a good chance Nightwish is dead. Nightwish without Trajha is not Nightwish, even if she is a bitch, they just lost their signature sound, it's sad. I hope WT knows what's good for them and goes back to Europe. I'm trying a bit of Epica, but I am not quite sure I like them that much. They remind me of Metallica, not by their sound, but the fact that most of their stuff sounds the same, so much the same, it sounds like it is all in the SAME KEY. >< I hope as I progress that I'll get to some better stuff. And their female lead is SO GOOD, she has a wonderful voice, I just wished for a little more variety and just a bit more emotion from her, she can be a little flat emotion wise. Which makes the voice go flat as well. Yuck. Anyways, enough babble.

Cya.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12187731/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12187731/ Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:20:24 PDT
I went to Recital today, good selection of music, I really enjoyed it, it was a bit long winded, but still a very nice recital. I play in the next recital, which will be in April, the 2nd week, if I remember right.

I've basically cut the Lineage 2 crack out of my life, I'm focusing on my art stuffs, music and visual. I'm down to 1-2 years of having to live here, then I'm off moving. I say one to two because it depends if I pass this horrible thing called Music Theory 2. I'm still passing, mind you. I'm aceing every class but theory, it is HARD. I'm going to get a touch of tutoring, going to see if I can get my grade back to a B. Final Project is coming up, if I can over compensate on it, it'll raise my grade up, like, by a million, plus it'll totally prepare me for exam time.

I need to do my ear training to, that'd probably help me too. ><

I'm thinking of writing a tutorial on how to draw a correct kimono, and the intricacies of it, anyone be interested? I've never really done a tutorial, but hey, I think it'd be fun.

I'm going to open up some sketch requests. Feel free to ask for me to draw something for you, scrap stuffs, mind you, I'd prefer no manga stuff, k? There's some stuff I really like, but just because I like it, doesn't mean I can draw it! So, let me know your requests, and I'll print them off, and I can draw them during my most boring college algebra class, that is so easy, btw.

I'm off to sleep land, cya, have fun, and don't do anything crazy I wouldn't do.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12123486/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/12123486/ Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:40:38 PST
Pretty much good things over here, I just got my professional model clarinet in, which, has really drawn me away from doing anything visually artistically.

I don't want to post too much, I like to post finished work, I don't like spamming, so, I'm going to probably only pull a few rather nice things that can be polished up over the weekend, I may update my sketch journal with the rest, should is get scanned. I am going to be opening a writing journal very soon. My muses have returned in a lot of ways, as I am working on about a thousand new characters and story, so I will be trying to write this story as it comes out of my brain.

Love ya.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/11102762/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/11102762/ Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:02:42 PST
Then I'm free!

Thus far I've pretty much aced all my exams, I think my GPA must be around 3.6-3.9 and that's without knowing my grades. . . .

I only got $45 for my two books. ::sigh:: Jerk offs. Paid almost $200 for the both and I get ripped off like that. Oh well. . . Least I had a scholarship. One good thing about being a Music Major is that my books generally last for two classes, so, more or less a year, so I only have to buy my core class books every semester, and I'm taking 3 cores a semester, and for German I get to use the same book next semester like my music books, so, only two books to buy this semester. Hopefully, when I renew my scholarship, I can have it paid to my bank account, bringing my total for my clarinet to $1900. Only $300 to go after that! Which, I may get off from what's the remaining bits from my other scholarships. My classes were only $1300 this semester, down from $2200 from last semester because I am hardly taking any lab classes, in fact, I am only taking one and that's Piano. So, maybe I will get enough to afford a few new mouth pieces. . . . ::drools::

Oh, btw, I found the ultimate way to fake the flu. Unfortunately I figured it out a little too late into the day. Drink a starbucks-in-the-can italian roast on an empty stomach. >,< Ohmyfreakinggoodness. Not even diluting the sucker with milk will stop it from eating your stomach like paint thinner. (which, without the milk, it tastes much akin to it!)

I am amazing though, even suffering from that, and no sleep absolutely at all from a late night art bug that kept me up until I had to leave, I still managed to ace my College Algebra exam. Go me!

Hopefully I can get a few projects done, if only small ones, and hey, maybe I'll do some commenting as well! Wouldn't that be awesome? But hey, don't expect too much, because I plan on doing A LOT of sleeping to make up all those 2am'ers and 3am'ers studying Music Theory.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/10492138/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/10492138/ Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:56:26 PDT
Hee. . . . Been late a few too many times on exchanges. ^^

I'm not stuck in the rut on this one, it's just finding a moment to work on it. But I'm over the 50% point, and I should get four or more hours to work tomorrow. Easy day tomorrow, finally a break day. A break day with no concerts to go to or any parties to go to. . . Wowza. A day all to myself. Amazing.

Only thing I have is Music Theory and Piano, and then my two hour practice time, and I have to run some packages to be shipped out, so, only seven hours of time is taken up by stuffs! LOVELY! Ohmigosh, I love it.

On a bit of a sour note, though, I am very upset at a certain someone who is still trying to drag me into a conflict with another person. Eii. Stupid crap. I wish she'd go away. . . ><

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/10318544/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/10318544/ Sat, 07 Oct 2006 20:19:37 PDT
I am sick, and I am tired, very much so, please give me a few days of rest, I will try to get a piece on Sunday, but I am making no promises, I have a show to go to and then I have to go see the Symphony.

Sorry.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/10290168/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/10290168/ Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:16:43 PDT
Oh crappers. . . .

I already miss it. Do you know what a hassle doing and reading comments without it? Yes, I'm spoiled, I know.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/10285008/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/10285008/ Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:07:53 PDT
Today's daily IS up. So, it looks like I'm back on track. Lot of things going on.

Like my more important things, like school. Speaking of which, I am almost to the $600 mark on my Clarinet fund. I should have $1000-1300 next month, depending if I get another $300 check again. That would be NICE.

I will be taking, what I am calling daily commissions. $5 will buy you a daily commission slot, and the money goes to my fund for my clarinet. The quicker I pay it off, the quicker I can buy a few spare mouth pieces as my toys. << >>

Aliena, please let me know what you would like me to draw for you. :3

Suggestions for Daily's are very much welcome, again. I'm just mentioning it again.

Thanks guys!

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/10273172/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/10273172/ Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:55:50 PDT
I'll try to still find something for the daily.

Oh, 45 hits to 1000. Think we can get to 1000 before 7 my time ( when timer resets?)

Free request, remember?

Oh, still taking requests for daily updates, just post something you'd like to see. No guarenteed to happen, though one's chances increases when it has to do with my characters. ;3

I'll try to have Project 1 done tomorrow or the next day. ::sigh::

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/10257687/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/10257687/ Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:49:46 PDT
Remember, my 1000 hit is coming up, be on the watch! X3

No real update to my list right now, going to go look through my exchange info so I can start my sketch later tonite in German class.

Daily update will not be until after 9.30 CNT. I won't be getting home until sometime around there. But the Daily IS done, I just don't have a scanner at my beck and call. I decided my Geiko needed a friend.

If anyone has a request/suggestion for my Daily Update, please do drop a comment. No guarantee that I'll do it, but there's always a chance I will. Oh, and ideas for my characters are always a plus! So, leave me some ideas, inspiration is so hard these days!


Also, if anyone wants on my LJ, I'm on [link] !
Squee!
Just a note, my journal is for more-or-less extreme outbursts, and contains vulgar and obscene language at times. But then again, sometimes I update sneak previews of my oh-so-secret projects. Hee! I know, I know, I'm so shameless about getting attention, it's horrible!

Shavera out. :3

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/10249129/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/10249129/ Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:11:37 PDT
I'm currently hunting for something to update for my daily, but I can't find anything! And My inspiration is absolutely lackluster save for my current project, which will not be finished today, even though it's 75% done. I am expecting to have it done Tomorrow ( if I get a chance during school ) or Tuesday. And it's, like, RETRO RENEE. Heavily detailed, lotsa of details, good stuff. :3

After that, I'll be working on the more complete of the scrap in progress pieces. That's definitely got to be finished. Got a few other major projects to finish up that have been sitting too long before I can start a new big project. Yes??? Oh, snap, I just remembered, I have an exchange to do as well. Hopefully I can get that sketched in non-computer periods, so I can get a good solid idea, and once I do that, it's all good. So, here's my little list of projects:

Project 1 - 75% Due around Tuesday, Possibly Monday - under wraps, no sneak peeks!

Project 2 - 30% finished, no due date, would ideally like it finished around the 19th -20th. See my scraps for "Timeless," Title pending.

PE round 46 - Not started - Plan to start tomorrow! Would like to see the piece finished a week from the beginning, so before project 2. And no previews! For sure!

Project 3 - 60% finished, most everything's there, save some detailing to clothes, and backround. There's some in progresses of this baby floating on my photobucket. My, so called, "Big face" piece. No Due date, expect it around Late october, early November.

And of course, I'm trying a new thing called Daily Update. Mostly consists of sketches that will be moved to Scraps so to eventually have a nice, clean, presentable gallery, yet having something to show for myself every day.

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/10225614/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/10225614/ Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:56:08 PDT Okay???

Have fun!

]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/9903892/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/9903892/ Wed, 30 Aug 2006 04:44:55 PDT
I'm not going to go all out and price everything out with little dollar amounts for this or that. Just email me, @ jadedinnocence AT mchsi.com with what you want, or an example of what you want, and I'll give you a price for what a piece like that would cost. Yay? My gallery here: [link]

I would prefer natural media commissions, but will take only a few digital commissions, like 3. I have more time between classes then I am home. >< May also mention that my prices are rather cheap at this time? $15 will get you a piece like "In the Darkest Memories." So. . . Commission me! ]]> ~Shavera http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/9165340/ http://Shavera.deviantart.com/journal/9165340/ Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:58:42 PDT
Crazy, I know. There's actually a few reasons why I did this!

I don't know where to start, as far as getting back into the swing of things, so the best bet is a clean slate, yes?

And we all know of my horrible run in with the nazi moderators! Oooohh. My love-hate relationship with dev continues.

Not to mention, I get to get away from the prying eyes of a certain few individuals!

Go me. Now for the PE list of awesome-ness:

~Shavera