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It sucks, because there's no way I can afford to buy a new scanner and I had a really cool new pic to upload. But, I guess this is the price I pay for having a good computer. I'll try to upload new stuff as soon as I can.

]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/26670602/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/26670602/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:09:10 PDT
My goal of getting all of the comic pre-stuff done was not accomplished. Over the past week I've only gotten a few hours to myself, and those were used for packing and sleeping. I'll still be working as vigorously as I can, and in the meantime feel free to poke Vox to get some more character sketches done

I'm keeping this entry short and sweet. There's still lots of work to be done!

See you in Carbondale!

]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/26323313/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/26323313/ Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:04:32 PDT
The way I'm prewriting this comic is to essentially write summaries of each of the chapters, hitting on important plot points and explaining a few things that I will need to explain in context in order to make sense. I haven't actually begun working on the scripts that will become pages...but I don't like to think about how far I still have to go because that's depressing XD

So far, I'm at the sixth chapter...and not even into the meat yet! I don't know how long this thing is going to be...but I can't wait to write the ending! Ooooh...it's gonna be gooood...(for me, at least).

Of course, no sooner do I begin work on this comic than a new comic idea pops into my head...that sort of thing always seems to happen! But, never fear, in a gesture of extreme self-control and self-sacrifice, I shall put this story on the backburner until I feel my life is balanced enough to handle it...

The other reason I'm writing this post is for something completely un-comic-related. I want to talk to all you kiddies out there about a little website called OpenOffice.org [link]

OpenOffice is a free program that is just like Microsoft Office. It has everything that Microsoft Office has (including it's own version of powerpoint), minus the annoying paperclip and $300 price tag. OpenOffice can even save and open documents in MS word format, so you don't have to worry about sending documents to people still married to Microsoft. Why am I taking the time to tell you about OpenOffice? Because it can save you a good $150 dollars when it comes time to buy a notebook for school--and you'll want to save all the money you can when you're already shelling out an extra $600 bucks for extra warranties and virus protection.

Besides that, it's a hellova lot better than MS Office. Try it! Even if you absolutely hate it (you won't), what have you lost?

Note: Be prepared for the computer salesperson to look at you like you're a crazy internet pirate when you say that you don't want MS Office because you can get it for free--at least, that's the look I got. It's completely legal, I promise!

]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/26219878/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/26219878/ Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:03:05 PDT ) has Zerda's character design up and, I must say, it completely blew me away! I'm very excited to see what he'll do with Aurora, and even more excited to see how this will look once pages are being drawn. I'm realizing that this really is happening, and that both of us are following through, and it's all so exciting! This project really is my baby, and I'm so thrilled to see it begin to take its first steps!

But, of course, there's still lots to be done. For one, the comic still has no name! That's kinda important, wouldn't you say?

]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/25402718/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/25402718/ Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:54:08 PDT
For some reason, my ability to draw evaporates in the summer. Maybe it's lack of mental stimulation, or just lack of inspiration (though the two are probably connected). Either way, I've been feeling very dissatisfied with the way I draw...and I have a very strong urge to do something about it. I've been playing with other styles with some pretty disastrous results in the hopes that I will somehow strike gold. Blah...we'll see.

I've started writing a comic that is going to illustrate, both to help him get better with drawing in comic format and me to get better with writing in comic format. I haven't written anything for fun in a very, very long time, and now I'm finding it difficult to formulate a story in a way that makes sense. It's been a long time since I've focused on a concept long enough to actually flesh it out, and I'm trying to resist the urge to forgo all prewriting and jump right into the fun bits. I think the fact that someone else is depending upon the quality if my writing will help me, though, since I won't have the option of throwing my hands up and scrapping the story if I get too frustrated. But it also makes me very nervous, since it increases the pressure for me to write it well. I won't be able to go back and make rewrites to fix inconsistencies, so I have to just eliminate inconsistencies before they happen. We'll see how this goes.

I can't change my mood. So screw it, apparently I'm adoring.

]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/24279455/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/24279455/ Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:29:34 PDT [link]
Click that link for the cutest damn thing you'll ever read.

I'm a bit behind on answering messages and looking at the deviations of the people I'm watching...I'm getting to it, I promise!

]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/23844974/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/23844974/ Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:56:47 PDT has FINALLY uploaded all his pretty pictures into his gallery! He draws wonderfully strange things. Go praise him now!

In other news...I don't know how many people actually read this, but I'm in the mood to do some art trades or requests. Anybody interested? *watches the tumbleweeds roll by*

]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/23715857/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/23715857/ Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:35:53 PDT
Don't worry about the CGI penis. Just do it.

]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/23633811/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/23633811/ Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:54:38 PDT
I know it's not a popularity contest. I draw because I like to draw, not because I want people to praise me for it. But when your most viewed picture is one that you did in a style you are purposely attempting to separate yourself from...well, you can't help but feel a little defeated.

The real issue isn't the pageviews. I know why I don't have a lot of pageviews--I'm a busy girl, and I don't have the time to spend hours on dA commenting people and posting in the forums to get noticed. I can't post a new quality image every day, and I hardly ever update my page.

But a bitter part of me wants to place the blame on everyone else's standards of art. I want to blame people who place more value on a photoshopped picture done in four hours than a painting done in four months. I want to shake my fist at the people who look at my page only when I draw something unoriginal but ignore the pictures I am most proud of. The tiny, raging, spikey-haired little artistic rebel inside of me is screaming for someone to blame.

But there isn't anybody, because the truth is that I just don't put myself out there. True to my wallflower nature, I stand in the corner and am rewarded by being properly ignored.

~~~~~

This was a rant I just needed to get out of my system. Please don't take anything I say personally, as it was not my intention to attack anyone other than myself.

]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/23223540/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/23223540/ Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:02:46 PST and, well, I really haven't updated this old journal in a while, so here goes:

Rules: Everything you write must be a lie.

1. Are you male or female?
I are a manly man with manly man muscles!

2. What is your birthday and how old are you?
My birthday is on the same day as my death day and I am forty-three years old.

3. Where do you live?
In a giant peach.

4. Do you have living relatives like parents, siblings, spouse or children?
I am an orphan with no parents or siblings, but I have a wife and four children, all hermaphroditic.

5. Do you believe in any kind of god or take part in any organized religion?
I am a practicing Scientologist.

6. Do you take part in politics? If so what party/candidate do you support/vote for?
I am a Communist.

23. How would you describe your personality?
My personality borders on schizophrenic. Sometimes I am a dark, brooding vampiric preteen who drinks V8 in vampiric rituals with my equally dark and brooding friends. Other times I am an athletic male cheerleader who attempts to asphyxiate young women with the copious amounts of Hollister cologne I spray on my rippling pecks.

7. Where do you work or study at?
I am currently an unemployed janitor studying under Master Splinter to learn the ways of smelly sewer-rat kung foo.

8. What kind of clothes you wear?
None. I am a nudist.

9. What are your favorite foods and drinks?
V8, because of its closeness to blood, which I cannot actually drink because my vampiric transformation was incomplete and I was conveniently left without fangs, meaning that while I can't actually prove that I am a vampire, I can conveniently explain why I can't do so.

10. How many friends do you have?
I have a million friends. Unfortunately, they are all Myspace friends who were merely lured by my half-naked photos and spamming for friends.

18. Do you do "IT" often?
I am a nympho.

11. Why did you join DA?
To showcase my woodcarvings and Twilight fanfictions.

12. What kind of art you like?
I only like dark, brooding poetry about heartbreak and the hunger of the night.

13. What kind of art do you make?
Twilight fanfictions and wood carvings of an abstract and often suspiciously phallic nature.

14. Are you famous here on DA?
Yes. I have millions of pageviews and comments, to which I never reply or show the slightest gratitude, because that would ruin my stoic image.

15. Do you comment/answer comments?
No. I prefer to lurk in the shadows so that I may remain a brooding mystery.

16. Do you fav often?
No, because no one can sufficiently capture the same spirit that only I can portray through my abstract carvings and fanfictions.

17. Do you do lots of trades, take part in competitions or get gift art?
Yes, constantly.

19. Do you like quizzes?
Of course not. I do not like anything.

20. Do you use DA often?
Never. I like to keep my throngs of fans waiting for the release of my next masterpiece.

21. Where did question 18 go?
It left me, like everyone eventually does...

22. What kind of gift art you would want?
Only the kind that displays the kind of brooding depth that me and my vampire brethren can relate to.

24. Did you enjoy doing this quiz?
I loathed every moment of it, just as I loathe the harsh sting of life...

25. Where did question 23 disappear?
It went the way of question 18.

THE END

]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/19613868/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/19613868/ Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:06:50 PDT
The first is "Fox Chibi". You'll have to dig in my gallery to find the original...but the new version is up and looking much, much prettier than the first one.

]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/16044399/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/16044399/ Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:14:39 PST
"Jacob stared down at the black oil stains in the snow. They reminded him of the holes left by burning cigarrets. He didn't like the looks of them. They looked like cancer."

A flitting thought, a tiny pinprick of inspiration. You try to grab it and it's gone, lost in translation between your head and the paper.

"'And then our uncle would turn and stare out the window and speak to us with a sadness we could not then understand...'"

Maybe you took a wrong turn somewhere. The story just doesn't flow in this direction. So you go back and try to find what you've done wrong. Days, weeks, maybe even months of work gone in a single click. And then you sit, and still the words refuse to come.

"'Your karma will catch up to you eventually,' she said. 'It's like trying to pet a cat the wrong way. You might get away with it the first time or the second time or maybe even the third time, but sooner or later that cat'll decide he's fed up with you. And then you'll never want to touch that cat again.'"

You think back to the week before. You thought the words would never stop. Maybe if you'd have slowed down you wouldn't be where you are now. Maybe if you'd just sped up and hadn't wasted all that precious time you'd be done by now, and then it wouldn't matter.

"In his eyes were a thousand tiny goldfish, swimming and writhing in an endless spiral around the dark pools that were his pupils."

You sit and stare at a blank screen. There's nothing left in your head now but tumbleweeds. You turn off the light, and go to bed.

"And, hand in hand, they walked into oblivion."

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]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/13834285/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/13834285/ Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:36:09 PDT I guess this is my punnishment for slacking off all year...But it sort of pisses me off because I FINALLY got the hang of drawing hands (which was the single hardest thing for me to draw...and if you look at my old pictures you can tell that I did just about everything to try to avoid them), but now I can't draw bodies right! Grrr....
*Sigh* Guess I'll have to do what I did with chibi and keep playing with it until I get a method that works...but I want mad skills noooow!!!

]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/11587528/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/11587528/ Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:12:04 PST I need a program that won't freeze up on me and close every two minutes...

]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/11277659/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/11277659/ Mon, 01 Jan 2007 16:19:31 PST
]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/10435971/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/10435971/ Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:52:00 PDT So between September and now my computer crashed, deleting everything and meaning that I have no files to back up the pictures I've put on the internet. This isn't a bad thing except that if I want to improve any of my pictures I'd have to scan them and start editing again from scratch, and to do that I'd have to dig out the program I used to use, and I have no idea where that is at the moment. Technology hates me.
But it doesn't matter, because my precious sketchbook is currently spending the night with my art teacher and I won't get it back until tomorrow. Expect new junk then...maybe.

]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/10016655/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/10016655/ Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:15:37 PDT So, basically, I'm going to be going through my gallery and cleaning up some of my pencil drawings. Some of them really, really need it.
And I'm a lot more awesome at drawing chibis than originally thought... ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9840524/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9840524/ Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:58:40 PDT ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9794300/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9794300/ Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:16:38 PDT But it costs a pooload of money...like 800 dollars.
So unfair!!
You know what else I want desperately that probably costs more money than I'll ever have in my entire life?
Flash.
All I want is to make pretty pictures and stupid flash animations without requiring more money than God! Is that so much to ask?
Hmph...commencing the crushing of my dreams. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9786286/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9786286/ Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:07:53 PDT ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9762415/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9762415/ Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:23:44 PDT That's pretty much it. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9545272/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9545272/ Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:40:18 PDT And being snuggly in an empty park at night is pretty much the best thing ever.
Except when the tree starts dripping tree juice on you and ruins the moment...
And maybe I suck at DBZ games, but I'll kick all your asses at Super Smash Bros!
And I now officially despise teeter-totters. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9419168/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9419168/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:13:34 PDT It's come to my attention that my mom knows nothing about me. It's not like she has the wrong idea, or that she's trying to make me be something I'm not, because she's always been supportive whenever I felt my life needed a renovation. There's just so much she doesn't know. It's not like I go out of my way to keep things from her...it just never gets mentioned.
For example: I find it oddly adorable and slightly irritating that she and my grandma think I have not yet developed an interest in boys. I'm not going to go into that, suffice to say they're wrong. It's just not something I'm all that verbal about.
My grandma's moving, and she let me take as many paintings as I wanted (the others would go to my aunt, who would give them to relatives). I took three of them...and I feel sorta bad about taking so many because I really don't have any room for them and they could probably be put to better use elsewhere. I guess I was thinking about when I was a little kid sitting on the stool in my grandpa's garage and watching him paint. I'm a little too over sentimental that way.
I could probably write a whole entry about my grandpa...about how he was the first person to turn me onto drawing, and was probably one of the people most responsible for making me who I am today, even though he died a long time ago, but I won't. I've had enough reminiscing for one day. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9336768/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9336768/ Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:32:25 PDT I wanted to take them all home in my pocket.

Birdseed looks more manageable.
But I'll have to ask the vet.

Mom will never remember.
But neither will I.

Getting my eyebrows fixed won't hurt that much...
Will it?

I don't wanna grow up.
I want to be four again.

You haven't been yourself lately.
I hope you are okay.

I love you muchly.
Please, please, please don't ever forget that. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9279462/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9279462/ Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:07:56 PDT But what I really hate are drunk teenage boys with firecrackers.
And why would you bring a six month old baby to see fireworks, much less bring it around said drunk teenage boys?
Hooray for America! ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9191528/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9191528/ Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:30:44 PDT not chocolate. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9080577/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9080577/ Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:20:42 PDT
A little bit like mold. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9011660/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9011660/ Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:16:56 PDT ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9002175/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/9002175/ Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:33:30 PDT None of the animals are touching it.
Why is it that I didn't hear about my sister going to the hospital until days afterwards???? ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8940223/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8940223/ Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:29:05 PDT
Have a happy summer, bzitches! ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8930995/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8930995/ Wed, 31 May 2006 13:54:41 PDT Until you told me
That my eyes are the wrong color
And it's time to change them. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8890370/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8890370/ Sat, 27 May 2006 06:57:37 PDT But now it's all better.
Yay! ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8854804/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8854804/ Tue, 23 May 2006 13:57:26 PDT It makes me wonder
Just where the clouds went.

Oh look. Pizza rolls. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8811098/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8811098/ Thu, 18 May 2006 19:11:37 PDT ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8691221/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8691221/ Sat, 06 May 2006 12:43:58 PDT If I wasn't so sick and lazy I might actually take the time to enjoy it. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8643359/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8643359/ Mon, 01 May 2006 16:08:43 PDT ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8592198/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8592198/ Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:37:41 PDT Not really in stories or poetry or anything in particular...
Just in general. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8561715/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8561715/ Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:07:16 PDT
a) Your mom wakes you up at eleven at night demanding that you go out to eat with her.

b) Your family goes through the drive through wearing sombreros and raspberry barrets.

c) Your mother orders and extra side of smiles and demands a better toy for her happy meal.

d) Your father nearly hits a deer and a possum, thus uprooting the food you are trying to balance in your lap.

e) Your mother nearly pisses herself laughing at a dancing squirrel from McDonalds.

f) All of the above.

My family scares the living hell out of me sometimes. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8533568/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8533568/ Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:21:20 PDT
In other news, I chopped off my hair and it looks so very pretty! And also, Mr. Duley loves me. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8481445/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8481445/ Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:53:14 PDT I went outside where it's all summery and took lots of pictures of Independence (because she's just soooo cute!) and I pretty much killed my battery taking pictures of flowers and trees and bushes. The zoom button is my bestest friend!
I saw Thank You for Smoking and it was really good. I wanna go see it again!
Tomorrow's Easter and I get to eat candy again! Weeeee! ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8452887/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8452887/ Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:04:53 PDT
Happy Springtime. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8406827/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8406827/ Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:25:11 PDT
Wow my dreams are boring. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8372870/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8372870/ Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:01:03 PDT
It was perfect. Absolutely perfect. The sky is blue and the weather is nice. I went grocery shopping with my dad and grandma at around nine in the morning and had Subway for lunch. Then I came home and took Olive outside and watched him nibble at the new green seedlings growing in our yard. It was green and warm and beautiful and perfect.

I know tomorrow's going to be stressful, because at this point I really can't afford to miss a day of school, but I'll live. I really needed this, and I have a feeling that if I didn't get it I might have had to climb the clocktower and start offing pedestrians.

Time is going slowly today, and that's good. I don't want this day to waste away and vanish into nothingness. It was one of the best pantsless video game days I've had in a long time.

So there it is, that's my day. No stressful love-hate relationships, no catfights, no horrid indoor soccer games, and no nervous breakdowns. Sometimes life can be good.

In other news, Kaitlyn's a slave to her evil ipod, I really don't like children, and tag is still fun even if I am fifteen. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8366542/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8366542/ Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:48:49 PDT ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8335882/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8335882/ Sat, 01 Apr 2006 16:23:21 PST
Four hours is a really, really, really long time to spend drawing something. Don't get me wrong, I think it's probably one of the best things I've done in a long while, but I don't look forward to doing that again.

This is why I need photoshop *hint, hint* ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8314808/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8314808/ Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:49:18 PST It makes me wonder if I'll look at my new drawings, which as of now I'm very proud of, in the same way a year from now. It's kinda depressing to think that the things I'm so proud of now will seem crappy in the future, but it's also good to think that I'll keep getting better. I guess I'll just have to wait and see. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8297636/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8297636/ Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:58:28 PST There's no circulation in my foot anymore... ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8255028/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8255028/ Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:50:56 PST You can see an example of this in my scraps. I put up the character design for one of the main characters in my comic strip. I left all of the guidelines visible in one of the sketches for future reference. It's a lot less complicated than it looks. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8235791/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8235791/ Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:11:54 PST ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8196100/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8196100/ Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:11:58 PST It gives you the dillusion of being together
When you couldn't be more far apart. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8140554/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8140554/ Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:38:20 PST ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8072779/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8072779/ Sun, 05 Mar 2006 09:29:51 PST
It was spring yesturday. I took Olive outside and watched the sun set and thought just how lovely it will be once I can do this without a coat on. And now it's snowing. Thanks a bunch, Mother Nature, you douchebag.

The older I get, the more I want to escape winter. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's the coldness that forces you to be trapped inside and together when all you want to do is be alone. Or maybe it's the utter isolation of it, the thought of being stranded in one place while the world takes its sweet time thawing. Or maybe it's something simpler than all that. I don't know.

But I guess it's a good out to the weekend. It's like winter's final goodbyes or something. Or maybe the sky is opening the door to the dark places and can't get it closed again until everything inside is gone.

It's nice to think that I and the sky have something in common.

Or maybe I'm being fanciful again. Must stop that.

Dad's playing his Neil Diamond cd again. He's played it so much that I could probably recite the words by now. He's making blues clues macaroni and cheese for me because I don't eat meat.

Besides the snow, it really is a lovely day.

Until next time,

Skippy ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8063733/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8063733/ Sat, 04 Mar 2006 09:41:29 PST
look at the pretty lights. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8049925/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/8049925/ Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:32:53 PST ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/7998422/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/7998422/ Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:06:53 PST ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/7909278/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/7909278/ Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:51:28 PST
Neither of you are going to win this argument, you know that right? You burned the bridges, now let it go.

Or don't. Whatever suits you best.

Who-who-who...who-who...That's right, Jim. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/7840061/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/7840061/ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:28:03 PST
I didn't think anything too deep about that bird. It just reminded me that I wouldn't be stuck in this endless grey winter forever, that spring will come and my chapped lips and dry hands will get better. I will see the sun again, and I'll get to wear sleeveless shirts and flip-flops again. I'll get to shed my jackets and sweatshirts again, or at least exchange them for lighter ones.

I guess I was just reminded that winter isn't going to last forever and that spring will come back. The world will be green again instead of brown. The annoying little kids will run around outside again. I'll take Olive and Independence outside to soak up the sun and eat grass and weeds again.

Stupid bird. I think I'll call him Jim. ]]> ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/7669860/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/7669860/ Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:03:06 PST ~devilishpenguin http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/7593964/ http://devilishpenguin.deviantart.com/journal/7593964/ Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:34:49 PST
Send pear jelly bellies now! ]]> ~devilishpenguin