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I was going to draw and keep up......... We saw how that turned out. Feh. I need a scanner.
I'll update when I do.
Hasta!

Don't let the bed bugs bite... ]]> ~The-DCG http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/14393823/ http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/14393823/ Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:47:35 PDT
So I didn't post for a very long time, mostly because of the broken computer, then, really laziness. But I plan on being better! (And I'm in classes this semester, so I -have- to draw. ) Expect more on this front soon-ish.

It keeps on goin'... ]]> ~The-DCG http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/10240027/ http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/10240027/ Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:37:34 PDT In good news, I've finished three books and a videogame since it went down. Last night. /sigh AND I should be on the way home soon. Lass than 2 months, perhaps as little as 1 1/2. But I probably wont update until then. Super meh.

"Do you ever look back fondly on those days you used to be nostalgic?" ]]> ~The-DCG http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/9897316/ http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/9897316/ Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:42:22 PDT
Mood: Woo!
Listening to: Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Reading: Dzur - Steven Brust
Watching: Last Exile

I got it! Today, in my very own mail, I finally got my tablet!! That is, my Wacom 6x11 Intuos 3. I'm so estatic! Even being over here can't dampen it! (Although, getting ahold of the think was a pain in the ass. First, I had to wait for the IRS to get around to depositing my refund. THEN I ordered my toy from Amazon, but they wouldn't ship the tablet to an APO. {I guess it's subversive.} SO I 2-dayed it to my loyal priest ~APCCP-Mattemo and had him turn around the same day and mail it out to me. And it's HERE!)

I'm sure there is gonna be an adjustment period, as I get used to the tablet. The only other tablet I had was a tablet PC- and it was so bottom of the line, right-when-they-came-out slow, it couldn't even RUN heavy duty art programs like PS or Painter. Heck, I used to have to turn down the video effects to play Diablo II!

ANYhow. I should stop bragging and get to drawing. I just wanted to share my joy!

"Commin' in outta the rain, you hear the jazz go down." ]]> ~The-DCG http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/9725099/ http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/9725099/ Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:55:12 PDT
Mood: Holding On
Listening to: R.E.M. - Nightswimming
Reading: Ringworld - Larry Niven
Watching: Buffy the Vamp. Slayer

So, really, life has been pretty boring. My attempt to spur my creativity with excersizes ended ignomously after only 2 or 3 days. Then, I finally got the new hard-bound sketch-books I'd ordered, which -did- spur my creativity. Nothing like blank pages in a totally blank book to make you want to inpunge thier purity with marks. How destructivly human of me, eh? But the Ollie fan art and the Shark-maid were right after one another, along with several sketches. (Including one of ~tea-san's Antimony from Gunnerkrigg Court. A wonderously great comic- if you haven't read it, you really should.) I tried to draw the Silver Surfer, on a suggestion from a friend, but I really only have the vaguest memory of how he looks- and again, only the vaguest idea of how a surfer would look (body position wise) on a board.

We're on the downhill slope now. /me knocks on wood. Three months left 'til we should be 'boots on plane' on the way home. I'm hoping that Isreal holds off on the whole enflaming the entire middle east thing until I'm gone. Because I've got nearly 10 years in, and am less than seven months from being gone. In fact, I'm so nearly gone, what they see now is in all actuality my after-image. 'So HOLD OFF, ye war-mongers! I'm not out yet!' This public service announcement brought to you by me.

PS- Read Narbonic too!

"Egg, Face-hugger, Chest-burster, Queen?" ]]> ~The-DCG http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/9395346/ http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/9395346/ Sun, 16 Jul 2006 13:54:11 PDT And your thoughts don't fit together...

Mood: Present
Listening to: Supertramp - Logical Song
Reading: I need a new book. Soon.
Watching: Seven Samurai - Go Toshiro!

Well, in two weeks I still have accomplished nothing, artistically speaking. I have decided to try exercises- schoolish- to try and break myself out of my funk. I figure I'll draw things I see around here. Maybe concentrate on objects and background, since I tend to be extremely lazy with those. We'll see how that goes.

You ever get wierded out by the dichotomy between 'plot-rules' and 'game-rules'? I mean, like, when you can get extra money from stealing from something than from killing them and looting thier corpse. I mean, what, items are spontaniously generated for pickpockets? And when they say, in the game, that you 'can't hold them off' and you have to have some dramatic running scene. And you are like, 'Um, actually, I can. I have a bottle neck here, since this place is designed so stupidly, and I have a turret with infinite ammo...' /laugh Or whatever. It seems ridiculous, sometimes. And othere things, like, 'Why am I doing it this way in the -first- place? It's idiotic!' Plot rules. I'd say they are nothing like life, but life seems to have plenty of idiotic rules of it's own.

I'm not the best communicator in the world, and this deployment is only making it worse. I was sending long e-mails at first, but as things settled down, I got to the point where I had nothing to say. And I don't even -want- to really here the news from home- it's depressing to hear about parties, and who is going to where with whom. So I just don't write. At all. Whis also isn't good. /laugh I'll try and work on that, too.

So you sleep light, or whatever;
And the night goes on forever... ]]> ~The-DCG http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/9242820/ http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/9242820/ Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:32:54 PDT
Mood: Huh? Wha...?
Listening to: Eels - Mr. E's Beautiful Blues
Reading: Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel's Scion
Watching: I wish I was home to see Superman...

I am not doing anything.
No, really. It's hard, standing still while the rest of the world moves, but someone has to do it. I have not been drawing, or writing, really, though I have had plenty of inspiration. I haven't even been brainstorming. Just existing. Using up oxygen. I kinda dislike myself when I'm like this, but not enough to do much of anything about it. /sigh What I need to learn, is the dicipline or whaterver it is one needs to be creative without having to have some inspiration first. I should be able to draw something decent without seeing it in my head for days. But it seems like I can't. It's somewhat sad. I'd like to be as good as so-and-so, I say. I'd like to make a living with my art, I say. But then I don't even exercise my creative muscles everyday, like I ought. It's a bit demeaning... (To myself from myself.)
I love art, and books, and games... and so, so many creative things. And I have a bit of the spark, I know I do. At least the 5% needed to start. It's the work, the -elbow grease- I seem to lack. Or lack the dicipline for. I can't even get through Drawing 1 and Design 1 in college, because they bore me, and then I don't -DO- the work. I wonder if I could buy a work ethic, somewhere...
I'm also having trouble reviewing. I feel like, if I review something, I should have something to say. Something more than 'Wow, kool!' with lots of emoticons. I should have a thought about what really struck me, perhaps some ideas on making it better. But I seem like I have nothing to say. Perhaps some sort of stress-related mental exhaustion. I don't know. I've been laboring under it for a bit, and I hope it passes soon. It's just dissapointing. Especially since I so require creativity and intellegence in my friends, then don't have it myself. Sorta 'My bad!'-ish. /laugh
ANYhow. One hopes that this purging into the ether of the net will remove the tiant from me. Clear my system, as it were. /grin

Two thoughts =
1) This damned thing needs a spell checker.
2) Almost 500 hits! Woot! Even if they are mostly all my loyal ~APCCP-Mattemo .

Only makes us more embittered and resentful. ]]> ~The-DCG http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/8998759/ http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/8998759/ Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:06:29 PDT
Mood: Resigned. Again.
Listening to: Ella Fitzgerald - Nothin' But the Blues
Reading: Roger Zelazny - Fire and Frost
Watching: Movie? Like, free time? I've heard of that...

I feel tired, and depressed, and uninspired. I thought that hardship and angst were supposed to inspire one to great creative lengths. Guess I'm not gothy enough for that. /laugh
I just read the essay in Zelazny's Fire and Frost (not the first time I've read it by a long shot- it contains one of my favorite stories by Zelazny, '24 Views of Mt. Fuji, By Hokusai',) about how he writes, sometimes. How he 'plagerizes himself.' It made me thing, and it kinda perculated in my brain with a residual notion to write a KotOR fanfiction. (Probably all ~aimo's fault. If she werent such a damned cool KotOR fanartist, it might not stay in my brain so long.) I was think about how, in addition to the gender problem- which in writing a fanfic you'd have to deal with- there is the identity problem. Even if I have resolved to write F!Revan, I'm sure I named her and made her look a bit diferent than everyone else. (Well, not everyone, as there were only, like, 6 faces, but the gist of the idea is there.) So, this being the case, I was thinking what would be a challenge- as an exercise in writing- to write a short story or sketch (the writing kind, not the drawing kind) from the first or second person, in which neither the protagonist's name or description is mentioned. I think it might be a bit easier from the first person- most people do not think of themselves in terms of thier names, nor think about how they look. And really, in conversation with people who know you- how often do these things come up?
Heh. I dunno. Maybe I'll try it- see how much harder (or easier) than I think it is that it might be.
I of course have an intrest in storytelling, writing, since my favorite type of art is the 'illustration' or 'visual storytelling' type. Comics, games, movies (although I prefer animation to live action, since I understand more of the pains, pleasures, and mechanics of the one than the other), I like them immensly. I love books, but I like books with illustrations too. Not because I don't picture the imagrey in my mind, but because I do, and I like seeing what the diference between my picture and thier picture are. This is especially true of comics, where you either have a writer/artist, or a variety of the two, each with thier own interpretations of character, setting, plot and imagery. /laugh
If only I werent a lazy git, maybe I'd write my own comic, and see how others interpret my ideas.

I keep my hair up... ]]> ~The-DCG http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/8877938/ http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/8877938/ Thu, 25 May 2006 20:25:55 PDT
Mood: Must...Get...Out!
Listening to: Viva Rock - Orange Range
Reading: Beginning C++ Game Programming
Watching: Much Ado About Nothing

I am having starts and spurts of intrest, intermixed randomly, it seems, with complete and utter boredom. I can diagnose my illness, though. I have a common, household name for it right here. I call it 'homesickness.' Yes, loyal readers, (I'm speaking, I believe, to my other personalities here), I'm homesick. And somewhat mean, with it. Feh.

I've had a lot of fun browsing for some few of my favorite chracters, and I have run into some sort of pandemic. I believe I know what the name of this creature is, too. Ageism. Y'see, some of my favorites of characters are the slightly older ones, in the games. Cid, of VII. Geddoe of Suikoden III. (I know lots of the Suiko-chars might actually count as old, but when they look 15, I don't count it.) Ziggy of Xenosaga. Canderous in KotOR. Auron in X. I could keep going, but I'd have to stop when I hit Strago, because on reflection (or even without it), he sucked. My point is some of these characters come from very popular works. One that, should you type them into yon search box, you get thousands of hits. (Not so much with Suikoden, but there is no accounting for taste. ) And only a very few of those hits will actually contain any of these characters. No matter that they are cool, with interesting pasts, and good character designs. I figure it to be a bias against thier ages, as not a one I could name would be below 30. I would say I like them only because I'm older myself... Except I liked them when I was younger. Hrm. Ageism.

They really need a spell-checker here. My penchant towards pedanticism and irrational spellings makes half of these little journals utterly untelligable. WHich might be for the best, all things being equal, or perhaps some few people would find themselves unjustly insulted. I don't mean it (much) I swear. I'm just ranting. /rant mode off

Tired of this town. ]]> ~The-DCG http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/8740889/ http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/8740889/ Thu, 11 May 2006 14:31:34 PDT
Mood: Dodging Depression
Listening to: "World I Know" - Collective Soul
Reading: 'Liege-Killer' - Christopher Hinz
Watching: Various TV seasons

So, when I'm looking for new work- and I don't have anything in common, any 'Hey, have I looked for...'; then I do searches. I type in a word, ussually a emtion or adjective. The I browse through the hits, looking for one that is, well, visually interesting. Not that most aren't, I mean to say, but the one that says 'huh.' In some form or fashion. I've searched for things like 'oddly,' and 'dissoloution' and 'frog.' It makes for an interesting cross-section- I'd reccomend it to anyone.

I came back from my mid-tour leave, recently. It was great, all except for that whole 'came -back-' part. That bit was not so great. Ive been courting, dancing around depression. Not that I've actually slipped back down that slope, but I have been tossing stones and coffee mugs down to guage it's depth. I haven't written or drawn since I got back either. Meh. Must not surrender!!

I had a dream in which I was in a comp. class, and the prof. asked if anyone could define the diference between a rational and an irrational engine as they applied to the short story, "____". The blank in this case was the French word fore wineglass, which in my dream, I knew. But I don't. And I don't think rational and irrational engines do either. At least not in English comp. I don't know what this says about my frame of mind.

How engines approach language. ]]> ~The-DCG http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/7666324/ http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/7666324/ Sat, 21 Jan 2006 11:51:42 PST
Mood: Tilting at Windmills
Listening to: "Too Long" - Daft Punk
Reading: "Mainline" - Deborah Christian
Watching: Full Metal Panic - Fumoffu

So I guess I was doing something a little odd. I was going through my deviations, one by one, looking to see what sort of stats they had. And lo-and-behold, someone had downloaded one of them! But I still didn't have a single comment on any of my pieces. I mean, they had views, some even full-views, and one had been deemed good enough to download. But no-one could stop and leave a critique. But after some though, I guess that figures. I mean, artsy-folk, are, to stereotype, more focused on thier own work. That, and it was maybe a big case of 'If you don't have anyhting nice to say...'

Anyhow. I've been spending a couple of hours on here, every shift, browsing, +fav-ing, and making comments, because of it. I mean, if I want to change how we look at and comment on others' work, I have to start at home. 'Do unto others' and all that, right? Unortunatly, the peices I like, most times, have so many comments, so many favorites, that I'm sure mine is just another drop in the bucket. But I still like to look and admire- try to se how they did _this_ or _that_, and how I would do it diferently. And how I can improve, which is a main focus, for me.

On that note, I'm making my priest scan in some of my peices at a Kinkos, then put them on a disc and send them to me here for coloration. And when I get my Wacom Intuos III next month (woohoo!), I'll work some more. I actually have been working some, here, as evodenced by my postings... But I just can NOT draw with a mouse. So that, and no scanned, limits me to pixel art (like the avatars) or coloring, like Fier. So getting scans of some of my ink jobs, like the 'Dissapearing Iruka' from more than a year ago, will allow me to do more coloring work. Which is something, anyhow. And I want to be much better at that, anyhow-- as good as some of these people. SO.

Also, I've decided that, since it is lacking, (I spent two hours, off and on, the other night, looking for one...), what this community REALLY needs is a cool fight scene between Morrigan and Demitri. Because those two are so much easier than BB Hood and Talbain. I'll get to work on that as soon as I get some reference material, I figure, and because it's a great excuse to get the DarkStalkers comic (by Udon, home of the new StreetFighter one also...) sent here to me. /laugh

"You gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleads daylight." ]]> ~The-DCG http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/7335730/ http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/7335730/ Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:29:38 PST
Mood: Resigned.
Listening to: 'Living Dead Girl' - Rob Zombie
Reading: 'The Joy Luck Club' - Amy Tan
Watching: Bad Machine 'Advent Children' Dub

Well, I guess Iraq is both not as bad, and worse than what I expected at the same time. But I think, given time in the same place, with a set schedule, I can get used to it without too much pain. But enough of that.
I've been writing some. Which is good. I may even finish one of the stories I started millenia ago. I haven't been drawing, though, which is not good. I'll work on it, really. :laugh: In good news, though, I got everyone :da: prints for my present-day from the sands. It was fun browsing through all the prints, looking for the perfect ones. I like browsing- I should leave more comments on the ones I linger on though. But I figure that one more 'wow' probably just bores some of these art geniuses, and in many cases I have no real criticism, not comments.
I've been browsing fan-art recently, and as always it's been humbling. I should take them as examples to strive for though, and not discouragement. Even if most of the artists are half my age.
Keep it up, me! Ganbatte!

'Smoking My Inspiration." ]]> ~The-DCG http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/6798115/ http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/6798115/ Tue, 18 Oct 2005 05:19:57 PDT
Mood: Done in.
Listening to: 'News From the Front'-Bad Religion
Reading: "Instrumentalities of the Night" - Glen Cook
Watching: Kung-Fu Hustle

Welp, this is it. Train up is nearly done, and I'm home on block leave before shiping. When we all get back they'll give us small-pox immunizations (like I need a 1/2" scar on my arm) and send us on our way. After, of course, about a ba-jillion more changes. FragO, FragO. :sigh: You get infinitly tired after change numbber 747.256.

I have been drawing a bit though, and writing too, so obviously utter boredom _can_ spur your creative instincts. Now, if only I drew every day, then I'm sure that I would improve like I'd like to :slams head into deck: Instead I look around here to ooh and ahh. I wish I were better motovated.

I thought I'd spend a little time browsing, just seeing if I could find some of my favorite characters. Always a great pasttime- there are so many wonderful artists on DA. I should find myself ashamed to stand amoung them, except I paid too. :hehe:

'Always look on the bright siiide of life!' ]]> ~The-DCG http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/6055807/ http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/6055807/ Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:11:19 PDT
Mood: Wondering...
Listening to: 'News From the Front'-Bad Religion
Reading: 'Half-Blood Prince' - Rowlings
Watching: Constantine

The closer you get to the even horizon of a worrisome event, the more time seems to speed up, inexorably moving you towards your fate. I'm mobilizing soon, heading to Iraq, to be alongside over one hundred thousand of my fellow soldiers. Whilst this is what I signed up for, back in 1997, :sigh: I was hoping to serve for a better cause that GW's ego...
Of course there is the normal stress of going into a firezone, leaving behind your hobbies and loved ones and life; but I am hoping- in a silver lining sense- that the mobilization will spark my lazy creativity.
Here's hoping.

-"Hina Irratated." ]]> ~The-DCG http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/5366026/ http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/5366026/ Sun, 15 May 2005 16:01:56 PDT
Mood: Braaaaiiiinsss.....
Listening to: 'Basketcase' - Green Day
Reading: "We Few" - Weber & Ringo
Watching: Episode III

:grin: I feel like I haven't drawn anything in forever. Probably because I haven't. Not on my PC, not in 3DSMax, not on paper. Not even a scribble in my notebooks. How lazy. :meh: I should look around, here on the site. Look at what other people are doing- perhaps it will encourage me to do something artistic. Before I mobilize.
(Or at least, find the scanner.)

]]> ~The-DCG http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/3868905/ http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/3868905/ Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:08:14 PST
Mood: Artsy.
Listening to: 'I Need Some Sleep'- Eels
Reading: 'Girl Genius'- Studio Foglio
Watching: Disney's Alice in Wonderland

So--yesterday, in Later World Lit, I'm sketchidoodling in one of my little notebooks, and, because he has been on my mind, I decide to draw Iruka-sensei. Well, it comes out absolutly horrible. Proportion wrong, uncomfortable body position, mutant feet... But the face is fairly nice. Well, this challenges me-- I know I can do better than that! So I get home, pull out my 12x18 marker pad and my non-photo blue pencil, and get to work. Six hours later, I'm finishing up the inking on a _very_ good picture of Iruka-sensei. (For me, anyhow.) And, as I'm finishing up the inking, I decide that the scroll he's activating is a 'invisibility' scroll, and fade out his feet.
To make a long story short, (too late), I thought it looked like he was pulling a 'Cheshire Cat', and soon, all that would be left was his smile. This led to imagining Iruka-sensei sitting around, singing the Jabberwokky song. Y'know- 'Twas brilling, and the slithy toes, did gyre and gimbal in the wabe...' (shudders) My two working braincells are odd, even for a Tipton, sometimes.
I'll upload the pic later, when I get around to scanning it. (It and some others that I need to scan...) Just remember, kids, say 'No' to slamming your head into the wall. Slam your room-mate's into the wall instead!

]]> ~The-DCG http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/3859298/ http://The-DCG.deviantart.com/journal/3859298/ Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:10:14 PST
Mood: Resigned
Listening to: 'Hydroelectric' - MDFMK
Reading: 'Lord of Snow and Shadows' Sarah Ash
Watching: Wolf's Rain DVD 2

Been told, again and agian, that if I want motovation to improve my work, I need to put it out there for the world to diss. (sigh) SO I've given in to ineviability, and gotten a account. Guess I'll see how this works out. Meh.

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