http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Suikodeniac&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Suikodeniac en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:35:51 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/27333765/ http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/27333765/ Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:05:03 PDT
currently i have photographed the;
sheep

and remade/fixed but not photographed the;
monkey
rooster

and still need to remake/fix the;

dog
boar
cat

then i'm done. =] this will stand as a to do and reminder list and i'll edit it when the status changes.

i also noticed i accidentally left the comments option on my more recent deviations [when people added some comments, thank you =] ] as long as no one minds slow responses i'll leave it on, as i can type a bit these days and like hearing what you guys think.

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the weather's cooler finally and i should be working on finishing the plasticine stuff i started two months ago.

]]> ~Suikodeniac http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/23052591/ http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/23052591/ Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:13:19 PST
everyone stuck in your homes in colder countries because it's freezing and prolonged time outside = death/severe illness [and inside when the power fails], where power outages and failed equipment are the norm, feel comforted by the irony that that we have the same in reverse.

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if i say anything else positive i run the risk of jinxing everything again, =] especially as the improvement is fragile at best.

happy new year everyone and good luck in 2009.

]]> ~Suikodeniac http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/20447957/ http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/20447957/ Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:20:28 PDT
since i'm required to mush plasticine in my fists all day i've started making things which i will spam everyone's devwatch with =] i've disabled the comments as i cant really reply to them all which makes me feel worse than having none.

each figure takes about 7 hrs to make, with variables on size, detail involved, and how well my hands move on the day, but if you wanted to make your own and don't have injured hands you could probably make them in 20 minutes to an hour and a half max.



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you have reached my journal/gallery, i am currently unable to respond to comments but if you're okay with waiting several months, please leave a message at the sound of the beep.

-

joking aside, i really appreciate the comments, favourites and devwatches people have showered my account and pictures with while i've been gone [especially on the older series fan art], i've replied to a few but it's currently extremely difficult for me to type.

-text cut because i feel like it, i'm very ill and will be away for a long while, that's all-

especially the comments, as i know a lot of people put effort and constructive criticism,thoughts, feelings, encouraging compliments, and pure praise into these, and it doesn't sit well with me leaving them go apparently unvalued through not replying.

thanks again, i look forward to spamming you all with art and comments in the future hopefully =]


- ed

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a) Tell you why I friended you

b) Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.

c) Tell you something I like about you

d) Tell you a memory I have of you

e) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you

f) Tell you my favorite user pic of yours

g) In return, you must post this in your journal


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you can ignore the last part of the meme if you want. i only mandatorily tag people who do the same to me, so, tori, if you do this you have to follow the last meme line.

crazy da won't let me change my mood selection. liger i'm tired though [zft, no more deviations until i catch up please ]. i haven't been doing much work on anything art related lately but it's probably better for my computer [and i'm stuck on something anyway].

i unlocked the lucky chicken [try saying that fast] in my gba game, and it's not really a good reward for beating the game as all the standard characters...i'm sure any enemy seeing a giant chicken with twin bazookas strapped to its back, is likely too stunned to fire, but i'd still like a better end game reward.

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sure there are general constants [fan art, mecha, animals, manga/anime] but i get the feeling anyone who watched this account hoping i'd make more of exactly what i did last time would be disappointed.

given that, if there's anything you particularly like that you're interested in seeing more of i'd be interested to know what. not that i promise to make more of it, i'm just curious. ;]

also things are going really bad health-wise and my computer's trying to break, again, something that'd explain the lack of art and comment replies recently [like the last month or two, heh ;] ].

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1. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother & father's middle name)
...i don't know.

2. NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother's dad, father's dad)
david jack

3. STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name)
matlo
...uhm okay.

4. DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)
grey [i don't have a favourite animal xp] cheetah

5. SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
skipping this one.

6. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd fav color, fav drink, add "THE" to the beginning)
the red solo [i can't say i have a favourite drink either...i do like solo though. i seem to lack many favourite things]

7. FLY NAME: (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name)
lows

8. GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie)
mint oreo [no fav cookie either]

9. ROCK STAR NAME: (current pets name, current street name)
no pets. xp

10. STRIPPER NAME: (name of your fav perfume/cologne, fav candy)
lynx castlemaine rock 8]

11. PORN NAME: (1st pet, street you grew up on)
anthony north.


i tag zft ;]

]]> ~Suikodeniac http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/17643152/ http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/17643152/ Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:10:11 PDT
personally i'd make a world completely metal, with mechanical lifeforms.... not sure how that'd work, but it'd be interesting.


anyway, about what i've been doing all this time...

i got my computer back and four days later got the flu, and my health has been not really computer worthy [beyond the occasional game playing] since.

i reinjured my left arm due to it being so freaking hot and having a virus through apparently the worst heatwave here for 3000 years [they're guessing, i assume] fairly much everyone got over exhausted or sick in the heat but it still sucks. two weeks where the temperature was over 35 degrees celsius, or 98 f, every day, reaching 110 f, with many nights where the coolest temperature was 30 celsius, or 86 f.

the hot weather seems to have gone now though so i'm happier, and have art related things planned as soon as i'm feeling better. =]

]]> ~Suikodeniac http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/16825432/ http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/16825432/ Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:46:34 PST Proitzen ;] i copied the lyrics from elsewhere as my japanese is not good enough to translate this [though i'm not sure the copied translations are much better than what i can make] and about all that i left on my computer before the repair people took it in were songs from or related to bleach.



- Put your mp3 / iPod / music player of some various variety on shuffle.
- Take the first line from the first ten songs listed / given.
- Mesh them together and make something new.

Blood is a river,
Children are taught to hate, parents just couldn't wait.
Lost on the way, no one to blame, no one to say,
Injured with pain and sadness, the you that cannot be healed,
You are the only "you".

Looking up at the night sky alone, I saw a comet,
Don't wanna lose, don't wanna cry,
Look up at the light of the stars in the night sky.
Count to one, it's okay to live,
For the people who always hold me up.


song credits;

line 1 ; news from the front - bad religon
line 2 ; don't drag me down - social distortion
line 3 ; nothing can be explained - bleach ost
line 4 ; d-technolife -uverworld
line 5 ; ichirin no hana - high and mighty color
line 6 ; houki boshi - younha
line 7 ; movin' - takacha
line 8 ; asterisk - orange range
line 9 ; my pace - sunset swish
line 10 ; arigato - home made
[think i got these right...]

...yeah, just be glad i didn't put it to music and try to sing. ;] i think i'll stick to art and stay away from songs. if tags are allowed, i'm tagging tori, simply because i want revenge.


and my computer is back, and in reasonably working order from what i can tell, but as all my files were moved off it i have a while to go before i catch up on everything. =] it's a start anyway.

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deviant art has evidently decided i need a comment swap, because it ate about twenty of the comments i hadn't read or answered yet [which i now have to go find] and brought me new reminders for things i'd already responded to.

i have a desktop full of half finished computer experiments i'll get to eventually as well.

i'm meant to be mentioning things of great excitement i've done lately, but i can't think of any i haven't already mentioned.

i'll update again when i do.

]]> ~Suikodeniac http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/16276774/ http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/16276774/ Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:41:54 PST ...yet it also means it'll take me a while to catch up. ;]

not ignoring anyone, i promise.

i have comments from the 13th unanswered.

]]> ~Suikodeniac http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/15995814/ http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/15995814/ Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:46:18 PST
see you guys when i feel less awful. sorry about the slow comments [and any possible detriment my picture of chad suffered from owing to flu-brain] xp

]]> ~Suikodeniac http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/15816417/ http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/15816417/ Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:08:07 PST
reading the news for once, it mentioned there were problems with the site for some people, but mangashare's been doing this too, enough so i've given up on trying to read or post anything for the last few days.

both sites are popular so i could just be hitting down times, or else my net connection is dropping out worse than usual, but it's driving me insane.

comments will be slow until whatever it is stops.

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anyway, for those of you who were aware i experimented with computer colouring seriously for the first time in order to enter a contest, i didn't win, but i have learned many new things about colouring. ~unknownspecies was right, the colours do not go all on one layer. you're meant to colour under the lines not over them, and digital colouring and painting are two different things.

considering i had no idea what i was doing i'm still happy with the result [and amazed i didn't wind up with a bunch of colourful blobs]. although i think i'd like to learn more about both colouring and painting on a computer. both seem interesting. i won't be doing anything further before i learn how to, though. there are so many tutorials on here and a lot look helpful, but i have no real idea where to start.

from the looks of things it might be a case of going through many different tutorials and taking a bit from each.

]]> ~Suikodeniac http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/15740698/ http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/15740698/ Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:20:29 PST kankakanka was making sprites a while back, got flooded with requests, and has since put up bases so people who missed out [because the request numbers were in the hundreds] could make their own. thanks kankakaka, they're great =]

i made a maned wolf kurosaki ichigo sprite for me because i'm a geek, and a sprite of ~Proitzen's original character i offered to make, ~unknownspecies requested a sprite though i was going to offer one anyway.

[link]
[link]

~InoshishiUchi and ~Deus-Ex-Letum, if you two want me to make one, let me know, though as deus makes far better sprites than i ever could it'll be funny if he wants one.

the bases you can choose from are in kankakanka's journal. any character/colour variation is fine to suggest but the less additional items/markings, the better i seem to be at it [you want me to pile it with stuff, you risk it looking odd].

and as these are relatively quick to make, i'm not doing anything i shouldn't injury wise.

thanks to all the concerned people who have the decency and sense to yell at me or enforce rest when i'm being too stupid, stubborn, or obliviously determined to do as i should.

]]> ~Suikodeniac http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/15717649/ http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/15717649/ Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:14:00 PST
you people with your all computer art are insane, how can you draw and colour like that, yikes. it'd be faster to paint if i smushed my face into a paint tray, got my eyelashes covered in paint and blinked at a piece of paper [i am so tired, that was so much -work-].

anyway, something like 10 days of solid digital painting later, and i'm done. this was for a banner contest, but i already feel like i've won because -

- i did this practically no handed, moving my left arm/hand at all was causing problems, so it got a few drawn pencil guidelines then nothing else until it hit the screen. then i used only my left index finger and thumb without moving the rest of my arm.

- it is my first real digital piece, right down to the outlines. i was making it up as i go with almost all of these effects or drawing on what i know

- i got it done /just/ before the deadline, whoo.

- just because things happen; which stop me from using my arms, drawing right handed, or even left handed, and colouring using conventional methods, doesn't mean fate/circumstance/injury can stop me participating in life and entering a drawn banner contest if i darn well want to. it just makes it a heck of a lot harder.



all that said, winning would still be nice, but i doubt it's likely [nah i'm not telling them the lengths and effort i went to to either, it wouldn't be fair on the other contestants who also tried their best.] i also had fun doing it [some of the time anyway] hopefully i learned something of computer colouring [other than 'i will have to be insane or very desperate before i try this again']

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for injury update news, all joints are starting to pull together again at last, and now i can carefully, carefully try regaining some of the lost muscle while everything continues to heal/set. it'll be a long while yet before i can move my right arm/hand again though.

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unless someone one random appears and out guesses you all, ~unknownspecies won with 4/5 questions right =]

no one got a complete zero though and as everyone told me the questions were really hard, you did well ;]

i will now resume leaving the computer alone [because i'm starting to be stupid with what i can/can't should/shouldn't do], and thanks for participating. =]

]]> ~Suikodeniac http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/15557045/ http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/15557045/ Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:07:53 PST

;mobbed by people who're quite rightly telling me to stay put and not touch the computer;

;coughs and ignores said people for a moment;


my left arm is a little better, so as i'm very very bored not being able to do much all day, i made a quiz for everyone to take while i'm gone.


-QUIZ RULES/GUIDELINES/DETAILS-

person who gets the most right answers wins a commission to be completed as soon as i can move my right arm again, or sooner if they want a left handed picture [i am right handed] i don't do nudity/extreme gore/fetish/romance/sex pictures. competition is open to all though you'll have better luck if you know me really well, or use my gallery as a guide [and if you get everything wrong, don't worry, some of these topics are unlikely to appear in years of conversation]. note me the answers if you don't want anyone else seeing possible mistakes, or comment them anyway ;]

now that you feel properly encouraged not to participate;



- my favourite three final fantasy games are -

- 10, 12, 9
- 5, 8, 10
- 7, 8, 9
- 5, 7, 9,


- if i could be turned in an instant into one of these mechanical life forms, which would i most want to be -

- zoid
- cyborg/android
- voltron lion
- transformer


- my favourite childhood book series was -

- the plum rain scroll trilogy
- narnia
- space demons trilogy
- lord of the rings


- out of these i would find it most fun to be a -

- full metal alchemist
- shinigami
- inu hanyou/youkai
- ninja


- although i like many mythological stories my absolute favourite right from when i was three-ish has always been -

- egyptian mythology
- sinbad the sailor
- japanese folk tales
- beowulf


good luck. and yep, i'll leave the computer alone again and go back to healing, hopefully.

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Sorry.

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Three Things You Want To Do Before You Die:
1.) LIVE FOREVER, BWAHAHA.
2.) Play every video game ever made until I'm sick of it.
3.) Learn enough Japanese to watch an entire half hour show of it and understand everything.

Three Names You Go By:
1.) TMSS
2.) Ed
3.) ZFT

Three Screen Names You Have Had:
1.) Vorkosigan
2.) DarkMetalDecepticon
3.) ZeroWing

Three Physical Things You Like About Yourself:
1.) My elongated canine teeth.
2.) My long limbs.
3.) My blond arm and leg hairs (yes I'm struggling here, shut up )

Three Parts Of Your Heritage:
1.) Australian
2.) Decepticon
3.) Cybertronian

Three Things That Scare You:
1.) Dying.
2.) The well being of my friends.
3.) Ticks.

Three Of Your Everyday Essentials:
1.) Computer with a net connection.
2.) Drawing materials.
3.) Video games.

Three Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
1.) Toast crumbs.
2.) Fuzzy socks that resemble a blue Slimey from sesame street.
3.) A detached sling.

Three Of Your Favorite Bands/Musical Artists: ....I kind of don't have any. Okay fine, *guts an OST*
1.) Shiro Sagisu
2.) UVERworld
3.) MASH

Three Of Your Favorite Songs:
1.) The Riddle
2.) HoukiBoshi
3.) Rewrite

Three Things You Want In A Relationship:
1.) Someone who likes at least some of what I like or doesn't think I'm weird for liking it.
2.) Someone who sees and accepts me as I am, rather than trying to make me into their dream person and ignoring what's actually me completely.
3.) Preferably not to be in one at all.

Two Truths And A Lie (in no particular order):
1.) I liked Autobots as a kid.
2.) Tigers are my favourite animal.
3.) I have a great affinity with things mechanical.

Three Physical Things About The Preferred Sex That Appeal To You:
1.) I
2.) Don't
3.) Care

Three Of Your Favorite Hobbies:
1.) Video games.
2.) Drawing.
3.) Annoying people

Three Things You Want To Do Really Badly Right Now:
1.) Move my arms normally.
2.) Play a video game.
3.) Hit something.

Three Careers You're Considering/You've Considered:
1.) Fine artist.
2.) Mangaka
3.) Archaeologist

Three Places You Want To Go On Vacation:
1.) U.S.A
2.) Japan.
3.) Egypt.

Three Kid's Names You Like:
1.) Anything that can't be mangled too much by people teasing.
2.) Or shortened.
3.) And anything that doesn't sound like a mythical animal or native american indian tribe or dubiously named cartoon character on the basis some idiotic parent thought it would be cool.

Three Ways That You Are Stereotypically A Girl:
1.) Occasionally I like/draw 'cute' things for no real reason.
2.) I'm polite? (well, usual lack of swearing...but many girls I know swear? I don't know.)
3.) Don't like most sports that much.

Three Ways That You Are Stereotypically A Boy:
1.) Haha, fairly much everything I like.
2.) Not interested in hair/clothing/jewelery/shoes/makeup/romance/pairings/crushes.
3.) I have problems remembering names/faces (apparently this is a guy thing).

Three People That I Would Like To See Take This Quiz Now:

Not a clue, take if you want to, it's just a pity I can't make Tori take it again

]]> ~Suikodeniac http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/15080502/ http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/15080502/ Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:32:51 PDT And your problem would be... out favourited the previous maximum favourited Annoyed and out paged viewed 002-Love. First right-handed picture of mine to beat both left-handed title holders. Overall happy, but slightly mixed feelings about that.

Anyway, am recovering from the virus and I bring art! (yes, along with sleeping a lot I drew a few things as well), it won't be scanned for a while yet though.

Something else neat, it seems a few new people have been favouriting and commenting on Voltron's Red Lion (yeah, guess who just looked up how to link to deviations in the help section ). Makes me very happy as I love mecha/robots but am not that good at drawing/colouring them (particularly Zoids) and was pleased with how Red turned out. Seems a decent way to colour robots, so, short of learning how to use digital effects and colouring I might try that combination of media again for future mecha/robot colouring


Edit: Dammit Tori, stop tagging me!

1. Add up the price of the clothes you are wearing.

Have no idea, these aren't my clothes.

2. Add up the pageviews of all the accounts you own.

This is my only account, 316.

3. What have you eaten today?

Pizza, udon noodle soup, a pasty.

4. Write the last thing you heard?

Know

5. List 5 things you see next to you.

Half eaten pasty on a plate.
Beast Wars DVD.
Robotech DVD.
Transformers comics.
Exercise weights.

6. The first word that comes into your head?
Booyah (absolutely no idea why)

7. One funny thing that’s happened to you today?

While watching Robotech, Rick was complaining to Minmay(sp) about how whenever he talks marriage she falls asleep. Someone in my family walked past at that second, stopped, and stared, and we both cracked up laughing. Unfortunately I was drinking coffee at the time.

8. Put your music player on shuffle. Click the skip/next song button 5 times. What’s playing now?

Beats me, I kill the playlist each time I finish with it, and turned it off just before this edit. It'd likely be songs from the bands involved with Bleach or else Transformers the original movie's sound track, as I've been listening to both recently.

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Hm, ah well. So! Busy, but inspired. This is more for my reference than yours

Things I am hoping to catch up on soon:
One Lioncorn picture - done
One Dinosaur picture - done
'Heaven' Theme
Cheetah cub picture - done
Something robotic/cyborg - done
More Suikoden III art. - part done


Other random miscellaneous things I need to draw but may/may not be putting up here:
Inuyasha pictures for a site. - done a few
MCOG related stuff for a site (might even do this one digital, it depends)
Present for one Matsumoto. - done
Customized Zoid of a friend.
Chibi Polta. - done


Think that's all :/ I'll cross them off as each is completed, even if it isn't scanned yet.

]]> ~Suikodeniac http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/14822739/ http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/14822739/ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:55:29 PDT

Post 8 random/interesting facts about yourself:

1. I play the airguitar, in public! YEAH! Subsequently I'm probably embarrassing to be seen with in public. I have a head/sweatband with Rock, Paper, and Scissors, and Air guitar championships advertised on it, it's one of my favourite things to wear (again, likely embarrassing).

2. I'm six generations Australian, my ancestors were some of the first people to arrive in this state. Despite this I have relatively no distinct cultural heritage I can identify with (either from what my ancestors had or from Australia itself). I'm proud and happy to live here most of the time, but it's not like my half greek or half itallian friends, who even if they've never seen Greece or Italy have a heck of a bond and sense of identity in being part whatever (while ignoring their Australian side and the country they live in almost completely). I don't talk like Paul Hogan or Steve Irwin, I sound relatively normal and about the most common difference it makes to my language is that I spell words with an over abundance of U's and S instead of Z a lot.

3. I have been playing video games since I was fourteen months old I'd rather not imagine life without them and I hope I'll always be able to play them. I play most game to completion, and some I play over and over and over and over and over and still find them fun each time.

4. I am now more ambidextrous than I was at the start of the year. I can write and draw left and right handed despite being right handed. Note I didn't say I could write and draw well with both hands

5. I like weird things, and am generally not afraid of stating I like weird things; as I like so many weird things or things that people may be afraid to admit they liked that if I tried not to talk about all the weird things I like and do I would have nothing to say to anyone ever. ;D

6. I don't really like music. That is, I can appreciate it, especially at concerts with real instruments (which I love), and have studied it at highschool, I like playing instruments and making up tunes, but I am not likely to turn on a radio, ever. Or constantly listen to music by various contemporary bands. The only music I really love is usually something either videogame or cartoon/movie/anime sound track related, in which case I will listen to it on eternal loop until the people around me start making whimpering noises and begging for it to stop.

7. I have no true favourite colour. This seems to disappoint people and make it hard for me to take personality quizzes on which favourite colour is a required question. I like many colours and specifically colour combinations. Grey may possibly be as close to I have as a true favourite, I like it for its versatility, various shades, relation to many metal colours, and compatibility with other colours, eg, Red.


8. If my stomach and teeth could cope, I would definitely be 100% omnivorous *chews on a piece of metal*

]]> ~Suikodeniac http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/14793165/ http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/14793165/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:34:48 PDT
"List ten things about your art, then tag ten people to do the same."

1. I can now draw with some degree of skill, both right and left handed, due to an injury earlier in the year that I am still recovering from. A majority of my gallery's content was drawn left handed. I am Right-handed naturally and drawing left-handed makes me feel upside down some how, is awkward, difficult and slow, but I can draw left handed. Thanks to some encouragement and the fact that it seems sad to let that go to waste, I am still going to draw left-handed occasionally, even though my right arm is recovering and mostly usable again.


2. I hate my mistakes and failed attempts but, without them I would never learn how to make pictures that weren't mistakes and failed attempts. My art teacher made me keep my less than wonderful attempts at things even though I wanted to throw them away, and I think not only did I learn from them, but looking back I can see what progress I've made.

What turns out well is excellent, and what doesn't turn out well is important in knowing how to make more things turn out well, in both writing and visual art


3. I have no real preferred media or subject or even paper size or format (and worked very hard while studying to become skilled in multiple media). Unless I set out to specifically draw something my art process usually involves first thinking of an idea, then what subject matter could be used to represent that, then what media/format would best represent the subject matter. That said, sometimes I just set out to draw something in conte because its fun, or charcoal because I want to make something black and white with shades of grey I do generally like detail and media that allows me to use it, but can enjoy both viewing and making pictures in any media of almost any style or subject.


4. I am better at realistically copying things, and well known for it, however that's not the kind of art I ultimately want to do XD I'd much rather be able to make things up from scratch than act like a glorified outdated camera. I would love to become proficient in anime/manga style, cartooning or just weeeird made up creatures.


5. I have been drawing my entire life, ever since I could hold a pencil, and was drawing recognizable identifiable pictures at age two (you'd think I'd be better at it by now, really ). I have always been obsessed with detail, four year old me realized planks had woodgrain and nails and added them in as best I could (yeah, there is no hope, it's ingrained). I was one of the few kids in my school class to work out the sky went clear down to the horizon and drew it such while everyone else would do a tiny strip of blue near the top of their pictures. Inaccurate detail annoys me no end, always has, I'm trying to work on that though, and I can really appreciate art that isn't 100% accurate or meant to be.


6. I am not good at digital art, my art courses never included it. It's something I'd like to work on, specifically as a webpage designer. I have had some success scanning non digital art and working it into a webpage, but a large amount of it looks dull or doesn't scan well. Computers have so many colours available and digital colouring has a nice solid feel. I'd love to be able to work as well with digital programs as I can with standard art media, and particularly like solid simple colours/pictures, or pictures that look as though they've been done using oil paints only via a computer (heavy layering, extreme detail, darkness working up to light, etc).


7. At least half my art is fluke. Not many people know that. They see one or two really good pictures of mine and think "Oh wow you can draw well all the time" which is not the case. I know how to apply certain media in certain ways to give certain effects, I studied all that but when it comes down to it there's a lot I can mess up in every individual picture and if it makes it to the end without being ruined, and is how I want it to look it's a miracle. I have bad days and sometimes I'm sure an alien has sucked all my artistic skill and talent clear out my head and all I can do is draw ugly weird doodles.

Some people are good all the time, I'm not one of them I've included both bad and good scraps/devi... ]]> ~Suikodeniac http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/14780252/ http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/14780252/ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:28:47 PDT
Anyway, sick = drawing more, as I don't feel like doing much else.

New pictures Some right-handed, some left-handed, some both.

Write more when I feel better.

Ignore the mood, I'm not tense I just like the scratching smiley

]]> ~Suikodeniac http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/14527026/ http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/14527026/ Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:11:21 PDT Many thanks again to everyone who commented, and I'm very sorry for taking so long in replying.

My right arm is going well and I've drawn a total of three proper pictures with it currently (Cue dance of extreme happiness) watch out for them soon.

I became reasonably interested in left-handedness while unwillingly left-handed. I am right-handed although I've always been slightly ambidextrous, and have never tried drawing or writing to any great degree with my left hand before this injury (everything seems backwards and strange). I found a lot of things (example: scissors, taps, doors, the english language) are not really meant to be used left-handed and also read there is a fair amount of negative bias towards left-handed people in many countries still.

I have a few friends who're exceptionally talented artists and left-handed, and although it's confusing to me to draw that way, I know they'd feel that way if they tried drawing with their right hands

One of the ways given that right-handed people become left-handed is through an inability to use their right hand for six or more months (in which case even after they're able to use their right they prefer to use their left) - I couldn't use mine for four, and started 'thinking' with my left hand for the last two of those months, in other words I'd automatically attempt to pick something up with my left, go to touch something or write with my left.

As soon as I was even able to move my right arm a little that started vanishing rapidly, and now even though it isn't 100% healed or usable I automatically attempt to do something with my right arm

Now that I can actually move my right arm to some degree and use it for things such as typing, drawing and writing, my left arm has, except for things my right arm physically cannot do yet, been resigned in what I do to the status it held prior to the injury.

Although... The other day I found myself picking something up with my right hand, and writing several letters on it with my left, before I realised what I was doing, so maybe there is a little left-handed/ambidextrous remnant left from this

I fervently hope my right arm continues to heal, and I never have to be one handed again, left or right, for that matter, but I also wonder what I should do about my left-handed drawings. Some of them I and several other people really liked, and although most weren't up to par with what my right is capable of, they were pretty impressive for using the hand I don't normally use.

I don't honestly think I have the patience to continuously draw left-handed when I have the easier and better option of using my right, but at the same time scrapping all that work and potential in my left-hand seems a waste.

Maybe, occasionally, I'll try drawing with my left-hand sometimes. Just because.

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Inspiration is on a low ebb and drawing isn't really easy right now so don't expect any pictures for a while. I am gradually building up the muscles in my right arm again by replying to some long over due comments, but the control and use of my right arm is fairly limited for the moment. And yes I promise to at least try not to over do things in my excitement like I have a habit of doing :/ (and normally ruin months/weeks of hard work in the process) boring as it is not to

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Anyway, injuries and rehabilitation talk aside... Thanks to everyone who's commented on or favourited a picture of mine! Friend or not It's been great reading your comments and compliments and seeing that even though I'm right-handed, and was only able to draw with my left-hand, I could still make progress on pictures as well as subjects that people like. I really appreciate it. If I haven't replied to your comment yet or thanked you for a favourite it'll happen soon as I gradually catch up with things, and I'm sorry it hasn't happened before

Thanks again

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I'll be back when I can type and draw with at least one hand again

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My right arm is gradually looking like it's back on the road to healing (as opposed to off the road and crashed in a ditch) and I'll see the physio tomorrow again to hopefully confirm that and start again with the tiny build up exercises.

In the mean time I have hurt my left foot, but that's really neither here nor there as I can still walk on it and apart from hurting a lot it's gradually getting better as well.

All in all I have been somewhat slow in my comment replies, because of various rehab rubbish and general crud feeling, and for that I apologize. I will get to them all and reply, it just might take a while

Several people seem to like my left-handed drawings and that makes me really happy (some have even been favourited, and by multiple people! ). I only started this as a way the stem off the creative flood that I couldn't act on with my right arm busted, and as a way to kill the one armed boredom. I thought after my first few attempts that I'd never be able to do anything but bad scribbles with my left hand, but I'm slowly improving. And it's good, I'm really lucky I can still express myself in this way and convey ideas, or just doodle for the heck of it It's all good.

And who knows, by the time my right arm heals my left handed drawings may even be its equal

I haven't been drawing as much lately (Commenting isn't the only thing that's lucked out currently) but I do have several pictures on the runway and ready to take off, I'm just waiting for a helpful relative to come along and help out with the scanning (Yes, the scanning lessons went remarkably well). I have colour withdrawl symptoms also, so I've been trying to work with conte left-handed with limited success and lots of mess (it's a lot harder to use left-handed than my mechanical pencil). There's really no detail to it but I'll scan those too.

I'm also doing the 100-Theme Art Challenge with my ZFT and friend, Proitzen! I had no idea there were 100 though, still, we're onto three now and going well Some of the themes are so odd... 67% is one of them o_O ]]> ~Suikodeniac http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/13274172/ http://Suikodeniac.deviantart.com/journal/13274172/ Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:04:49 PDT
I just woke up from a very disturbing dream where everything was weird and where I was aware it was very weird, then woke up and everything still felt very weird (my current lack of eloquence is evidence that I'm still kind of asleep ). It reminded me of a video game I used to play when I was four, and part way through the game everything went upside down and you had to navigate about a multistory mansion crawling about on the ceilings...

Er, anyway, speaking of weird backwards upside down things, this entire collection of scribbles will be drawn left-handed. Being right-handed I've never really tried drawing left-handed before, but, since my right arm's been stuck in a sling the last two months and seems it will be for a considerable time yet, I've started using my left.

Expect crud and you won't be disappointed

Updates will be sporadic, being obviously one-handed I can't operate this scanner on my own. I also have no idea how successfully I can train my family to scan anything, let alone pictures, but we'll see...

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