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I upload it way more frequently anyways. So, thank you for all the faves, comments and watches; it literally took me an hour to go through all of them. Your support is very touching to me.

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]]> ~Xevv http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/22615223/ http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/22615223/ Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:45:50 PST
Fall semester was craaaazy. I worked harder than I ever worked before, I got to meet and exchange contact information with many of the top names in comics, I went to New York and saw James Jean's show and got to meet him, and I landed myself at least one internship (with Carla Speed McNeil, who is a darling darling darling woman and who will probably hoist you up and spin you around like a baton if you give her any shit). I also discovered new artists and came to appreciate styles very different from my own.

I also probably worked myself half to death, and I'm sure it took a toll on my health. The morning of my first exam I had to go to the emergency room! They still don't know what happened, but probably some sort of horrible virus that left me in agony. I seem ok now though.

In any case, I've been relaxing over the winter break. I made a point of playing videogames for the first time in years, now that I finally have the time. Beat Shadow of the Collossus, almost beat Portal, and am very much enjoying Okami.

Anyways. I finally got around to setting up an official website for myself, so I can be all official and professional out there in the real world, as soon as I get the courage to email the names on the business cards I received. ("Celine, they told you they want to see more of your work. Just show them what you have!" "Butbutbutbut....")

So you can check that out here: [link]

I'll be updating more regularly there, since I tend to update in waves on DA.

Also, if you'd like to support me or just check out some cool vintage clothes and hand made hats and pins, I have an etsy store open now!

[link]

I used to sell prints of my work and made some money; I'm thinking of doing that again now, with framing to boot. Are there any pieces in my gallery you'd like to own as a print or a poster? Your feedback is much appreciated.

And as always, if you'd like to commission me I've got a few slots left open. Just be patient as I'll be taking four studios and 18 credits next semester, so my schedule will be kind of insane.

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Last year I had Krall for my main studio class. I feel like he tore me apart and showed me my guts and made me put myself back together better, and if I couldn't do that then I wasn't worth his time. It was a blessing but also a huge blow to my confidence as an artist, and I know that ultimately he had expected more from me. I thought all my teachers would be such hardasses, but now I am working for a team of teachers who are much less jaded and who can freely show their enthusiasm for a student without worrying about how it might look.

I am being given much more free reign this semester. All my studios are illustration courses, and they're all extremely open. My teachers are excited to see what I produce and know when to push me and when to let me show them what I can do on my own.

Anyways. Things are made even easier now that my long-time boyfriend has finally moved into an apartment with me. At first I was dreading the workload; this is my first time taking 18 credits and I'll be doing so until graduation, but so far I'm really excited to be producing for professionals in my field.

That said, I am kinda poor right now since my schedule doesn't allow for much paid work-time. If anyone would like to commission me, I'd love to hear from you.

Ok, I'm done advertising now. Back to work!

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It gets me every time. Why can't I like Naruto or fuushigi yuugi or Inu fucking Yasha??!!

No. I like movies and series that everyone knows about but nobody has the balls to write. It's so infuriating.

So, my latest insterest. I was into Meier/Charlotte when I first watched VHDB years ago, but then Ghostfire had to do an overview of her artwork over the years and I got to thinking about it by way of her fanart. Too bad I didn't know her back when she was into that pairing as well. Then I had to go watch the movie on Veoh for freeee. Ugh, so now my interest is piqued yet again. Unfortunately, there are, count them, ONLY TWO fanfics worth reading, with a few one shots by the same authors. It makes me want to take a baseball bat to a maternity ward.

This happened with CATCF (well, there is tons of fanfic for that, but....no offense, but I'm just not interested in adults sleeping with children) and Edward Scissorhands. Each time I was like, "this is bollocks, I hate this, screw them, I'll just write my own stuff." And then later I said the same thing, only "and I'll get a following of hysterical fans of my own as well." added on.

Meier and Charlotte have GOT to be more obscure than Edward S.. At least I wouldn't have to write an OC. Strangely enough, D himself doesn't do much for me. I love his artistic representation, but from what I've seen he's just so one dimensional. He's....very, very, very pretty, so pretty in fact, that when Tin~Lizzy cosplayed him I considered paying her good money to give me some kind of lapdance. But sometimes he's just a liiiiiitle TOO pretty. It's the body suit that gets me. The giant AREA between his legs makes me feel like Dr. Franknfurter, and I resent anyone who makes me feel like Dr. Franknfurter without my express written consent.

Oh well. If ever I feel like being a slutty alien transexxxual (who am I kidding, when do I NOT feel like....nevermind) I might dip my toes into the D fanfics, as there are some pretty good ones up on the VHD archive.

However, I think I'll lay off actually writing anything until I've read all the novels. I have the first one, and...uh, it was crap, as far as I read (which wasn't very far, admittedly). I don't know if Hideyuki is just a bad writer or if the translators were downing bottles of Jack Daniels before sitting down to the word processor, but I tried reading the first chapter and I remember bursting out laughing "Oh, oh no, no no no no no, this really is too much, I need to stop." Hmmm.

That won't stop me from drawing as much fanart as I please....

Anyways. Yes. I realize I haven't updated this journal in a year now, and I felt it was high time to get that entry off the page. By now most of you should have it burned into your heads my terms for comissions, so it doesn't really matter.

How are you all doing?

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http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/12782968/ Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:01:15 PDT
I have a five hour crit tomorow, which will be spent entirely drawing in my private sketchbook, making stuff that will hopefully get people's attention.

That said, if anyone would like to comission me, I am now open!

Simply put:

9x12 pencil or ink sketch: $10

ex: [link]

9x12 ink: $15

ex: [link]
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9x12 ink painting: $20
ex: [link]

9x12 full color: $30-$50, depending.
ex: [link]
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For smaller sizes, please inquire, or for different formats.

If you're going to comission me, I accept paypal. Work begins once I have received payment; if you want the original, you pay shipping costs. Please be as specific as you can for what you want. Full color comissions will have work in progress shots posted.

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http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/12415249/ Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:24:13 PDT
This account is sort of on hold at the moment; my camera is temp. dead, and I am living/breathing art school right now.

I'm very excited about the summer, when I will finally have time to put to use all that I've learned so far. I promise I will be VERY active here then; I graduate in early may so it won't be that long.

Anyways, here is a poem I wrote a year ago, just to fill space and give newcomers something to look at.

Euphoria

There are days....
Coming out from between
the intricate, delicate, lacework folds
of the inner world
and I share a little piece of myself
A small, tiny, inconsequential piece
These are good days.

But there are days.
The rains come
the air is damp
warm against my skin
which is now bare, and exposed
in the private and intimate moments
the sky is iron
the river is gunmetal
the shadows are deep
the light is strange
and there is absolutely no one around
there are days
where the inner world
breaks through; surrounds me
without boundaries
There are days
I float in a world
made just for me.

It is on those days,
on those days
there are no words at all.

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~Xevv http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/9020230/ http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/9020230/ Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:46:51 PDT Listening to: Sisters Of Mercy--Dominion/Mother Russia
Watching: What Dreams May Come

Eh. this'll be a quick one. Chapter 7 of Lessons Relearned is up. Chapter 8 is on it's way, but progress on it is slow due to massive hemorraging (writers block is a cruel mistress).

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~Xevv http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/8565402/ http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/8565402/ Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:44:45 PDT Mood: Just-been-laid
Listening to: Sisters Of Mercy--Dominion/Mother Russia
Watching: What Dreams May Come

Just so you know, I'm not dead. I SWEAR. I really want to go back to my old days of just making silly art for me. Sadly, three college art courses in a week, five hours each, has left me art-retarded. Still, those classes got me into MICA, and just recently I got a scholarship for 20,000 dollars to go there, so, yeah, that helps. We're moving to Baltimore in May, so I don't have to live on campus ^_^ I'll be about five blocks from MICA, and I can go home and be a little art-monk in my studio and never leave. Except I'll probably get a job waitressing, and when I turn 18 I'll try to get a job modelling for the figure classes. Who has a problem with taking their clothes off for artistic purposes? Not I!

So, anyways.....ah...yeah....hmm

I am a tagosaur, here I go:

Rules: The 1st player of this "game" starts with the topic "6 weird habits/things about yourself" and people who get tagged need to write a journal about their 6 weird habits/things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "you are tagged" in their devpage comments and tell them to read yours..

1. I have a collection of vintage "erotica" on my computer; dating from between 1880 to 1929. It's usually pretty tame stuff, but it's beautiful and it's one more tie to the past, so in the future I'll be printing out some of the photos on fabric and sewing them into clothes and bags that I make.

2. I have an obsession with socks; my favourite place to go and oggle the pretty socks is sockdreams.com, mmmm. Socks, corsetry, louise-heeled antique shoes, and pantaloons, really. But Socks seem to take the priority these days.

3. I have a transvestism fetish; nothing turns me on more than genderbending. Yes, I wear slacks and vests, and I bind my chest occaisionally, but I am not transgendered; my ideal would be to be completely androgynous/hermaphroditic. This happened to me before the whole J-rocker thing got popular; when I was little I would pray to santa (because, really, who ever prayed to God when they were a kid?) to turn me into a boy. Now I'm much more comfortable in my feminity, but the maleness remains.

4. I can't stand alchohol. I don't touch it, as I have had bad experiences with it when I was little, and do not believe that anything good ever comes out of drinking.

5. I do not shave my legs, nor my arm pits. It's really not as bad as some people make it out to be; I naturally do not have a forest growing under my arms, and my hair is pretty light anyways. Plus I don't ever show my bare legs unless I'm having sex. Which I get on a fairly regular basis, as I am in a long term relationship with someone mature enough not to have this rediculous phobia of body hair that seems so proliferent in America today. By the way, despite what Questionable Content might say, being hairy doesn't necessarily mean being dirty. I shower regularly, and smell quite nice ^^.

6. I hate, hate, HATE roller coasters. That's why trips to the amusement parks are usually pretty boring.....the first, and last, time I was on a rollercoaster I nearly passed out from fright, I thought I was going to die. And that was on the "easy" rollercoaster. And I get really irritated when people try to convince me that I would like them if I went on them again. I'm the same way with waterslides....

And, just for the hell of it, a 7th fact: I have a phobia of putting my face under water. In the shower, in the pool. This is because when I was 8-12 I had sadistic friends who would tie me to benches/poles and sometimes blindfold me. Then they would take a high pressure hose/supersoaker and spray my face until I was screaming and crying and couldn't breathe. Because....that was the cool thing to do, back then, I guess. But yeah, now I can't stand having my head under water, couppled with the fact that I can't swim or turn over under water, means that pool parties are sooooo pointless to me.

I tag: <... ]]> ~Xevv http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/8182897/ http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/8182897/ Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:02:22 PST Listening to: Delerium-sorrow
Reading: The Fox Woman--Kij Johnson

1) What's your character's name? Xevv (full angelic name: Xevriel)
2) How old is he/she? Good question. I'm not sure....as an angel s/he lived to be our equivalent to early-mid thirties.....on earth, she is reincarnated in the body of an eight year old girl, but as time goes on is able to advance her apparrent age at will.
3) Is your OC a boy or girl? agh! these gender questions!!! Xevv was born the first time as an androgynous being, but showed signs of biological female traits. The second time around, Xevv was born a female.
4) What's his/her race? Cherubim

Appearance:
1) If this character were to suddenly become part of the 3D world, and ended up in a heavily-populated area, how many stares would he/she get? Before death? none; xevv would have been able to dim her aura quite a bit. After death? Not as much, besides the obvious homeless-insane aura of not knowing where the fuck she is. The purple hair is easily passable these days, though the weird red eyes might get second glances.
2) Is your character considered normal in his/her own world? Among the cherubim she was considered bizzarre and unlucky, but developed some charisma towards the end....which eventually landed her executed.
3) What would be his/her most recognizable feature(s)? Before death, I suppose any number of things. The dark colored wings, if she were wearing them at the time, her ice-blue eyes, or her mass of tangled black hair. Besides that, maybe her armor, during combat. post mortem, i guess her purple hair or her talaria (winged boots)
4) Would you consider your OC as attractive? Maybe. Depends. I always thought there was a sort of brutish unrefined look to Xevv, but I guess other people might find her attractive. Post mortem, however, she's rather skinny and prepubescent.....

Personality:
1) Temper: Xevv is very good at showing a very full range of anger, going from annoyed to psychotic bastard, depending on the situation. She's also very good at masking that under a poker face, from her military days.
2) Does your character ever get depressed? The only time I can think of Xevv being depressed as a cherubim would be in her exile. Post mortem, Xevv is usually depressed when she feels as if there's nothing productive to do.
3) Leader or Follower? leader, but after that ended badly, I'd say Xevv is a reluctant leader when there's no one else to do the job, at best.
4)What is the main aspect of his/her personality? Quiet, intensely introverted, observant, persistent, a strong fight or flight instinct.

History:
1) Does your OC have a family of any sort? ahahahahah. Angels are.....funny....in their geneaology. As in, what ever siblings they might have had, they usually are eaten inside the egg they all came from originally. More on this at some later date, I'm sure. After her death, the only family she can claim would be the few friends she has, and one pet that looks suspiciously like a sack of flour. Oh, and she did have a foster son, until he died due to her negligence.
2) Is your character out on his/her own? In heaven, Xevv belonged to a very xenophobic society. Post mortem, Xevv finds herself completely alone in a society alien to her way of life. Eventually, she comes to rely on a few close friends for support.
3) Has he/she encountered any traumatizing events? Well, from birth she was treated like some sort of anomaly, she experienced strange gender shifts in her body, and lived in a highly paranoid society until her eventual execution. She dies all of....two times, I beleive, and is born twice.
4) What was probably the best time in his/her life so far? Being a successful military leader and soldier for the Host.
Romance:
1) Single? Most definetly.
2) Has your OC developed any romantic relationships? No. I doubt there will be any, either.
3) Virgin? yes.
4) Does your character like flirting? NO.

Symbolism:
1) What animal would you associate your OC with? hmm.....besides an Alien (the whole born inside of someone else thing....) I'd say a stick bug, beleive it or not. Good at camouflage, low key, skinny, predatory...
2) Musical Instrument? Didgeridoo, actually. half of what inspires me to write about Xevv is australian aboriginal mythology, for some reason. I think it could be the demons.
3) Element? fire, maybe.....
4) Planet? saturn

Showing the Love:
1) Do you draw your character? Yes
2) Do you write about him/her? Yes
3) Do you use him/her in any rpgs? so far, no
4) What other ways have you appreciated your OC? Dreams, thats about it.

RANDOMIZE!
1) Is your character wanted for anything? Oh yes. She's public enemy number one after the host realize... ]]> ~Xevv http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/7707260/ http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/7707260/ Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:26:27 PST Listening to: Cassanova Soundtrack
Reading: The Fox Woman--Kij Johnson

So, I'm sure I had other things to write when I got home today, but when I got the package in the mail this evening other things were incinerated in the span of 1.5 seconds:

I GOT INTO MICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.......This is the biggest marker of my life. Everything I've done since the age of 12 has been to get into MICA.....I'll admit, there was a point at which I doubted my place there, but I've worked so hard to get here that it's so much more than just an acceptance packet. It's really a validation of years of work, psychotic episodes, nervous breakdowns, sleepless nights, countless sessions of self doubt......I really put everything into getting into this school.

And now that I've gotten accepted, I feel there really can't be anything nearly as important, right now, for me to say.

Which is a good thing, because I'm sure most of you who have known me since I was 12 are tired of hearing me angst over the very real fact that I'm no where near talented enough to get into MICA. Atleast I can say that my parents didn't bribe the school, that I got to this point through my own insane determination, hard work, and proximity to a really good community college. And my parent's love, unconditional support, and money.

Oh, oh yeah. We're also moving to Bolton Hill, three blocks away from MICA, so that I wont have to live in the dorms. Now I'm working on getting scholarships.

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http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/7295808/ Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:20:57 PST Listening to: Corvus Corax
Reading: Notes From Underground

This is me doing the I GOT THE SCHOLARSHIP AND A 9.5 OUT OF 10 ON MY PORTFOLIO!!!!!!!! dance.

z'omg z'omg, scholarship, scholarship, eeeeee!



When my dad got home, he had bought me a dozen pink roses---that's the first time I've gotten a bouquet from anyone! Thanks dad ^^

Tomorow, three things I have to do:
Turn in my english paper to Kane's mailbox
Go to the final class of Portfolio development, and turn in my artist statement
Take Student Success exam. joy.

I'm sidetracked though. You know how Elegant Gothic Lolita (EGL) dresses look kindof easy to make? How you would really want to learn how to make them, because they're hella expensive when bought from the store? Well, I've been looking at Baby the Stars Shine Bright, and I'm like, "240 dollars for a freakin dress? That I could make myself?!" Not only that, but I bet I could improve on the design. So, yes, I've got sewing project ideas out the ass right now. I still have to do that purple satin skirt with mom--that will be good practice. I might use this DIY tutorial as a guide in some cases, but I'm sure I can make things easier on myself in some places. The materials will take money, though. Lots of lace, and a lot of cotton fabric. I also need to start buying some petticoats to add some volume to my skirts. These jumper skirts are, unfortunately, a little hard to figure out sometimes just by looking at them, but trial and error should teach me enough to make the thing work.

Anyways. before I make any dresses, I need to finish Katie's headress.

And before that, I need to write two more paragraphs, and a works cited page for my paper. Yay.

8 billion hours later:
Thank you god, it is DONE. A nine page paper that took me over a month to write, you are complete and happen to be the last academic paper I will need to write for several years, if not forever. Thank you thank you thank youuuuuuu. T_T

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~Xevv http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/6609977/ http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/6609977/ Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:10:46 PDT Listening to: Corvus Corax
Reading: Notes From Underground

"I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.

I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.

I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.

We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.

I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.

I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.

I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.

I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.

We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.

I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.

I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.

I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.

I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.

I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.

I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didn’t have to always deal with society hating me.

I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.

I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love."


~~Repost this if you believe homophobia is wrong.~~
Taken from

If you hate homos, remember that I am a bisexual androgyne. You hate me too. But that's ok, because I'd probably offended if you liked me.

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http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/6501188/ Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:21:01 PDT Reading: Celtic Myths

And now, for the purposes of my extreme aristo vanity, I give you....well, me!
Yes, I finally got hairspray at the store (I had none before now) and was able to recreate that hairstyle that's been bouncing in my head for so long. What do you think? I like it.....









(I'm even sexier in real life!)

Edit:

So I found a hat in my closet that I'd NEVER TRIED ON *gasp!*. I think it was a gift from someone, and at the time it was too big or it was ugly (it is a pretty fugly hat, but ever since I turned like....sixteen a year ago I have had this urge to wear ugly mismatching things) So of course I had to put the hat on.
Sometimes I will do things that will trigger this sudden flux of RETARD hormones, and I just can't *help* but film myself acting like a moron. I can't help it, do you hear me?!!


Go here for my stupidity in full swing: [link]

yes, secretly, I really am only three years old.

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http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/6045206/ Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:03:31 PDT Reading: Celtic Myths

I'm updating from my aunt's house in Switzerland right now; I'll have acsess to the computer for the next week or so.

This month was an experience; I participated in the MICA pre-college program. Recent events there have really made me reconsider I thought valuable in my art. I guess I'm looking for a new direction. I guess I'm getting more and more fed up with soulless, commercial art, of which a lot of anime consists a large part of. I have been discouraged from creating; it feels as if the harder I try, the less people care--that's a drawback with DA. I'm not even trying for the daily deviation anymore---all that is is publicity, when I see what gets featured these days.

MICA is a very modern school, but the problem with them is they do not respect at all the classicism or romanticism that traditional art used to emulate. People like Rosetti and Taldema are pushed back and squeezed into a small part of the art history books and then forgotten for modern art, so that anyone can be a great artist these days simply by creating a product that can fool the public into buying it.

Also, I find, no one has a sense of great illustration anymore. When MICA, and most of the USA's professional world, thinks of illustration, they think of simplistic drooly nickelodeon crap that I can't stand. It goes against my goal of raising the bar for the quality of illustration, especially for children. They donàt get a break with art simply because they're kids---it is important that they learn to understand beauty from an early age, else you produce a generation of boring, unimaginative adults. I suppose in a consumer country that is an advantage...

These days I'm seriously considering the worth of an art-college education---will it so twist my art that once i am out I will be only a shell of what I was before, as Matt Groening once warned? I thought he only said that because he probably attended an academic university in the seventies/eighties, but maybe I'm right to distrust institutionalized art.

I'm still getting a college education, no doubt---I don't want to make it any harder for myself in an already competitive feild. Hopefully I'll just be able to take the experience for what it's worth, get my degree, and leave. That's discouraging....
Maybe I'm just afraid of my art changing too much? Maybe I'm scared that my way of doing things will be so disreputed and ignored that I'll lose respect for myself as an artist entirely and just give up.

En tous cas, right now I'm taking a hiatus on posting anything. I need to be sure of the direction I'm going in, and not post anything I think unworthy of the public. France and Switzerland is a nice place to relax artistically----it is so beautiful here, there is absolutely nothing to compare it to in America. Those idiots back in the New World don't know how stupid they look to me when they try to discredit France---compared, the USA is a gibbering, confused, psychotic pile of crap that is on its way to extinction. I can simply sit back with my family and watch from here in the Swiss mountains (Estavaier Le Lac) as the American social structure goes to hell, with Bush riding the wave of political pollution at it's crest.

Anyways, maybe I'll update later.

Congradulations to Pussinboots for completing the first issue of Rapscallion! ]]> ~Xevv http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/5380406/ http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/5380406/ Tue, 17 May 2005 06:57:18 PDT
Listening to: VNV Nation---Frangments (splinter)
Reading: Odilion Redon

So I'm in class, and I really hate this class, and now I've been done with my work for about three days now, and I'm not sure how much drawing paper i have in my bag, so I'm updating here first.

I am still going out with the same guy that I was going out with in November, and I'm very very happy with him. Prom is this friday, which will be the one school tradition I partake in.
But enough of that.
Beleive me, you would have seen a lot more posting if it hadn't been for the art assignment that's been eating my life. We have to do four concentration peices, and mine deals with Genesis (in the biblical sense) only from a pagan's perspective. It's HUGE, and I've put a lot of effort into it. I've been feeling very inspired lately, but I feel guilty every time I'm not working on the genesis peice. I want to do other stuff. I've even got inspiration enough for fan-art, which is something I normally don't do. I have soooo many ideas. it practically hurts.
And now that my Art History class is over, I have to give up the text book that I've treated like my first-born child all year. I loved that textbook, and it really inspired me. That whole course has really changed the way I think about art. I'm so glad I took it.
But this isn't the end of awesome classes. next year I go to the community college FULL TIME!!! (Gerardi tried to get me to stay for half of the time, but nooo, I am LEAVING this hell-hole highschool) and am taking about two-to-three art classes dealing with drawing, painting, and portfolio prep, plus a very challenging english class (honors) and level I Japanese.
Helping me get there is my new baby, that we just got last friday. It's a used Buick Century, 2000. We got it for very cheap, and it's a beautiful car to drive.
This summer I'm going to the MICA pre-college program, and I'll be staying in their dorms with Katie, long-time art friend. I don't know how I'm going to keep her off me, I'm just that sexy, and we'll be living so close together *sighs*. However, I'm actually more worried about her being crazy and out of control, but I'm sure I can deal with it. If I can deal with a month of being shuffled into the environmental design (gag) class that I didn't want, I'm sure I can deal with, and dish out, Katie's weirdness.
Then, immediately after pre-college, I'll be taking a two and a half week vacation to France and Switzerland to see our relatives (I miss them soo much!), and promise to take a lot of pictures.
This means I don't get to go to Otakon (whoop-de-do, frankly) and I don't get to see the boyfriend for about two months out of my summer vacation. Then, after I get back from France, I start work with Bruce at the RenFaire, painting faces for money and milking drunks for tips. Then, the fall semester begins, and the Boyfriend goes off to Towson U, so I won't get to see him much at all, though we'll try and make it work. Towson isn't that far from where I live, so it's not like I won't see him every month or so.
So, I guess that's really all there is to say about my life thus far. Will really try to put some new art up soon. I've no idea how I'm going to get genesis up here, I'm using poster-board for every peice, and the finished peice will see them all put together on a black background. what sort of scanner can take that massive size?

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Why don't I ever listen to myself? ]]> ~Xevv http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/4269516/ http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/4269516/ Sat, 08 Jan 2005 12:29:29 PST I'm getting over the art block. I have to scan one peice in that I started a few days ago, and then i'll keep working. In the meantime, i've been tearing apart the house to find an adequate place to put my complete set of prisma markers, in a format where I can see then all at once and arrange them by color. I'm thinking maybe one of those plastic door covers where people put their shoes? I'm not sure. ]]> ~Xevv http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/3896147/ http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/3896147/ Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:12:02 PST Xevv XI: like, you can casually mention your underwear in the most non-descript way and they're like "TMI!!!"
Xevv XI: and I'm like, "dude..it's just underwear, I'm sure everyone in the room is wearing it now, or atleast have in some point in their lives, and you are too, so what's the big deal?"
Xevv XI: man I feel spaced...this must be what being high is like
Xevv XI: and oh man, don't get me started on the different TYPES of underwear. I told those algebra girls that I didn't wear thongs, and they were like "omg, what else is there? do you wear boxers or something?" and I'm like, "uh, no, just regular undies..." and they've no idea what I'm talking about
Xevv XI: apparently it's much more taboo for a girl in japan to wear boxers than here...it's like if you wear them you have a transvestite fetish, or are some kindof butch dyke...
Xevv XI: which is why when I go to Japan I'm going to buy boxers in a japanese store, and then wear them so that it's plain to see
Xevv XI: and then I'll snort wasabi and vomit on the street, but that's ok, because vomiting on the street is somehow socially acceptable, but blowing your nose outdoors in plain view or eating a sandwhich on the side walk is like "woah! overstepping societie's bounds here!"
Xevv XI: in Japan, that is
Xevv XI: yeah
Xevv XI: yup
Xevv XI: uh hunh
Xevv XI: and oh, another thing about Japan? omg, like, they want to be Europe! No, not america, but europe....I don't know what's up with that..
Xevv XI: and what the fuck is up with making cell phone holders for your legs, and making cell phones able to contain lip gloss?
Xevv XI: what the fuck! no, the cellphone is fine the way it is!
Xevv XI: that's like the tooth brush...it was fine at the stick/bristles stage, but then it was like, no, blue bristles, then green, and then the bendy heads, and then electroh my god what the fuck no!
Xevv XI: of course, I can't say anything, becuase I own an electric tooth brush, and damn but I love it. Keeps my teeth really clean
Xevv XI: and they evolved floss too!
Xevv XI: now it comes in little picks that you can reuse!
Xevv XI: of course, again here, I use these too
Xevv XI: I need to find tweezers, now that my dads home...my eyebrows need some maintenance
Xevv XI: there was a cricket in my shower
Xevv XI: this mornign
Xevv XI: I slapped it to death with a sink sponge
Xevv XI: it was very dead, but in little peices which I couldn't catch well becaus ethe water was running and they would float out from under the sponge and I was like " I just wanna take a shower dammit!"
Xevv XI: whoo.
Xevv XI: ok, I'm done ]]> ~Xevv http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/3815738/ http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/3815738/ Fri, 12 Nov 2004 07:19:29 PST Anyways, I have a disposble camera, a sketchbook, and good music, and I'm in Tucson, so hopefully some magic will happen and I shall have an update or two ready for you when I get back. *Sigh* Not only do I have to work on portfolio stuff, but I plan to be at Katsu co-running an art table with blackmane and Kit and a few others...so have to get some art ready for that .*shudders at the prospect of having to actually draw what attracts fangirls the most....aGAIN with the butt-sex...argh!* ]]> ~Xevv http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/2917679/ http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/2917679/ Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:14:58 PDT ~Xevv http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/2339837/ http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/2339837/ Sat, 01 May 2004 19:38:07 PDT
What benefits are those? Well, the bill's pretty clear about that. ETA: Reading through it again, it's not actually out on the table in plain English. But this particular language probably means the following, according to the lawyers looking at the bill:

Powers of attorney. Custody arrangements. Health insurance coverage for same-sex domestic partners. Joint ownership of property. And--most sickeningly--wills leaving property to a same-sex partner.

It means that starting July 1, when this bill goes into effect, anyone who dies with a will that leaves their property to their same-sex partner can be treated as if they died without a will. Their property goes to their blood relatives. Don't have any? Sorry, your property's forfeit to the state of Virginia.

ETA: Not that the last is necessarily likely--it would probably be legal under this law, but the state's lawyers may not be quite that ready to start a legal battle. Wills being invalidated in favor of blood relatives is very, very likely.

The last time we had laws about who you could leave property to in a will, those laws were to forbid people from leaving property to slaves. That's not a part of our history I'd particularly like to revisit.

Anyone living in Virginia with a child they've adopted in a second-parent adoption? Sorry, you're a legal stranger to your kid in Virginia. If your partner dies, your kid goes to your partner's relatives or becomes a ward of the state. Have a custody order from another state? Thrown out. Have an order to pay child support to your ex's biological child? Probably thrown out too.

Anyone have a power of attorney for your elderly or disabled partner? Sorry, those decisions have to be made by a "real" relative. Or a court-appointed guardian, if you don't have one. Get in a wreck on the Virginia side of the state line, with a health-care power of attorney from another state authorizing your partner to make medical decisions for you? It's probably a worthless piece of paper, and, personally, that scares me to death. We live in Maryland. All our relatives live south of here. It's not like we can avoid driving through Virginia. We could fly, but the airport's in Virginia.

ETA: Whether to honor wills, custody orders, or powers of attorney is going to be up to individual judges. Some of them, in more liberal areas, are likely to say that these don't constitute "benefits of marriage." Many of them, in the majority of Virginia, are likely to say that they do, and throw them out. It's a big, scary question mark. And it leaves people who've made these legal documents to protect their families with no better answer to "Are they still valid?" than "There's a chance that they will be, if you get a good judge." ]]> ~Xevv http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/1982731/ http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/1982731/ Tue, 09 Mar 2004 18:12:38 PST *Spliff*
Been listening to kittie, oddly enough, and tool, and a bit of NIN. Not really the typical music I like to listen to, but I guess I take pride in my vast array of tastes. This is probably as mainstream as I'll ever get. However, I DID download the soundtrack to American McGee's alice, and it ROCKS MY SOCKS. Really, it does. Go get it. you will not regret.
*Splif*
As far as de art goes, I've been doing a lot of lineart sketches, and I've been seeing some new stuff as far as style goes, which is nice, since for a while I was stuck. I think I've finally gotten the hang of Mister retard prince, for those of you who've read the stuff on my fictionpress page. We'll see what I can pull out for those of you who've asked me for "heavy sex scenes" (blushes furiously). you people need to learn some patience, they barely know each other and are very unstable characters.
*spliff*
Huge geometry test, which is apparently going to kick the ass of the honors kids, but I feel prepared......*gulp*
*spliff*
Hmm, maybe I should restart the room cleaning process......i really want to decorate my room with some new ideas of mine, and maybe even start taking over the loft by the start of summer. I'd like to create a scrying mirror to hang up, and I do love decorating frames.....the challenge is going to be getting some type of fabric over the canopy of my bed (it's a bare skeleton now)
I've also been thinking about doing some minor redecorating in the bathroom....but we'll see if I have time for that. Good god I want summer to come here.
Well, I think that's all for now.
~Xevv ]]> ~Xevv http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/1598076/ http://Xevv.deviantart.com/journal/1598076/ Mon, 29 Dec 2003 07:42:50 PST
Well, I hold three nationalities: Swiss, French, and American. I was born in a brittish hospital but I grew up in France and later moved to the Americas. I speak and read French more or less fluently (I've forgotten a lot and had to re-learn).

I started drawing at an early age, when my father taught me at about three years old to hold a pencil correctly. I've been drawing nearly every day since then. Around the age of twelve I took an interest to american new comics, my first being JtHM and then the rest of Jhonen's works, onto Sandman and the vast universe of literature that belongs to my idol, Neil Gaiman, Then onto Foo Swee Chin's various comics, and Volume upon volume of manga, and my latest loves, Kabuki, Danse Macabre (guy davis) and Transmetropolitan. They have all influenced my style, and I am very greatful to them.

Anyways, I have developed a love for new media such as prismacolor markers and watercolor pencils. Stories and music inspire me the most (the answer to "where do you get all the ideas?" and i work to (hopefully) attend an art college and become an illustrator/conceptual artist/character designer. I'm checking out MICA (in my city of Baltimore) and Florida's Ringling School of Art. Meanwhile, I take portfolio prep. classes at Mica and work at the Renfest during the summer with my friends as face painters, and during the school year I am working up to taking AP Art in my senior year.

I have two websites, one is my livejournal (under which I'll be posting day to day stuff, I probably won't bother much with this journal after this entry)
[link]

And my Fictionpress Account, where I post my poetry and stories:
[link] ]]> ~Xevv