http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:metara&section=today deviantART RSS for by:metara en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:56:40 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/1979945/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/1979945/ Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:25:17 PST
Why can't I write AND draw? Why is it that when I start writing, the gift of drawing deserts me, and vice versa?

Anyway, I haven't posted any pics for so long because, basically, I haven't drawn any. My artistic ability simply walked out the door one day and didn't even leave a forwarding address.

Fixed my website address; if anyone wants to come pay me a visit it's tangwistel dot com. Our forum's broken though ]]> ~metara http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/1183589/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/1183589/ Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:10:06 PDT
Well, after several years out of the fandom I'm writing a Legend of Zelda fanfiction. Frankly I'm amazed at how things have changed since I was a Zelda fan. And I don't mean they've changed in a good way. Are most modern fanfiction authors simply illiterate? FanFiction.Net used to be a great resource... now it just gives me stabbity urges.

I'm sure nobody ever reads this thing anyway, so I'll talk to myself for a while about my Zelda fanfiction. I think it's good, but I'd imagine the peons on FFN will disagree if I ever get to the stage of uploading it. It's a bit too original for mainstream fandom... kinda like Redux. Now there's a fic that got the cold shoulder. *sighs* Oh well. If I wanted popularity I should probably be writing stories about Link and Ganondorf having sex. I mean, that's a common pairing on FFN. This, after all, is a site with Snape/Sorting Hat porn.

I wish to God I was making that up.

]]> ~metara http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/1130751/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/1130751/ Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:43:12 PDT
That's better.

]]> ~metara http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/1111367/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/1111367/ Fri, 29 Aug 2003 23:37:20 PDT
It's been a long while since I made any entry in this thing - the main news is that I have a Side7. There's nothing there that isn't here yet so I won't bother linking to it. My username is metara if anyone from here does fancy dropping in there

I'm drawing a comic. It's an adaptation of my fanfic, Redux. It's drawn and painted entirely in Adobe Photoshop with a Wacom tablet, and the three pages I've got so far look rather nice. I'm still learning how to use the Wacom. I haven't had much time to do art this summer, what with the job and all, so that's why I don't have much to show.

Also: I have a new computer. I've called it Metara, because vanity is good. ]]> ~metara http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/1005163/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/1005163/ Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:39:19 PDT ~metara http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/990130/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/990130/ Fri, 25 Jul 2003 23:44:55 PDT ...Oh, shut up, I've been wondering how to do that for months. I've been in these two clubs for ages and I hadn't put their icons up, and I think the club owners were starting to get irritated...

Shout-out to all the lovely people who've commented on my gallery since I arrived on deviantART. I don't deserve the attention! I know I don't comment enough, and I'm going to work on that in future.

The biggest news art-wise is, my scanner's broken. So, rather than quit drawing, or build up a huge stack of stuff to be scanned at some indefinite future date, I'm teaching myself to paint digitally. So far the results (Scorpion vs. Quan Chi and Rain on South Island) have been very encouraging. Heh, I always was better with a computer than a pencil. I'd love to be able to use traditional media, but I guess I love my Undo button too much...

Finally the obligatory plug: visit my website. [link] ]]> ~metara http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/909149/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/909149/ Fri, 04 Jul 2003 15:13:19 PDT
Seriously - Metara v2.0 has become Metara v2.1, and it looks totally different (no purple!). The new look is based on, of all things, the menus of Phantasy Star Online - say what you like about PSO, it's got style. Anyway, I'm far too proud of my mediocre web design abilities, but they're definitely better than my drawing abilities.

Site address is [link] and there are quite a few pics up there that aren't in my deviantART gallery for one reason or another. You can also read some of the strangest Sonic fan fiction online:

Redux, the story of an artificial intelligence created a hundred years in the future of the Sonicverse,

The Diary of Dr. Eggman, in which Ivo Robotnik finds true love (well, nearly)

and Chrome, which, frankly, defies description. ]]> ~metara http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/677133/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/677133/ Thu, 01 May 2003 02:17:25 PDT

My favourite Spanish food is whole fried baby squid. You get a plateful of these little things and a big bit of lemon. The tentacles are crispy-crunchy.

I've discovered Phantasy Star Online (offline) and am currently having a love affair with one of my characters, a FoMAR I've arbitrarily named Donovan MacKinley 'cause he looks kinda Irish (imo). Pic below. The other game I'm playing is Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance, which is TECHNICALLY my brother's because I bought it for his birthday. No I do not play it "just because Raiden takes his shirt off". Well, okay, maybe just a little.

Can anyone explain Dragonball GT to me? Specifically, why has Goku regressed into infancy, where did Buu/Oob come from, and what the hell is Bebi? C'mon, I know DB obsessed people are out there. Spill! ]]> ~metara http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/580837/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/580837/ Mon, 31 Mar 2003 01:24:01 PST
Elfwood is down. Again. Not that I'm trying to update my Elfwood acc - I lost the password, then I forgot my username, and now I can't even remember what gallery I was in, so... meh. But I like using the Random feature, and now I can't. How often are they down, eh?

I'm getting very intolerant in my old age (nearly 21, yeah, I know that's like, ancient, for all you Sonic fans out there). Someone emailed me recently - and I flamed her out. She called me Meta-chan, made "chaa" noises, put in anime-kitty-smileys on more than one occasion, and - horror of horrors - used the word "kawaii". I HATE THAT. HATEHATEHATEHATEHATE. Arg. Grr. Gah. Fangirls. I don't hate Japanese people, and I don't hate anime fans, and I don't even hate people who occasionally call each other -chan. What I hate is people who type like anime characters talk only of course even anime characters don't actually talk like that so what they're actually doing is typing like they think anime characters talk... and I hate it.

University term ends on Saturday. About bloody time. It's my birthday in mid-April, and I'm going to Catalonia with my mother to celebrate. I'm not even sure where that is. Somewhere in Spain, or not-quite-Spain, or something. ]]> ~metara http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/551176/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/551176/ Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:46:48 PST
I haven't been posting so much stuff on here lately but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm not drawing. I've been caught up in the awesome forum RPG/fanfic going on at Sonic V, and I've produced two fanart pics to date for that. I'm working on a third. I haven't posted any of that here yet and I'm not sure whether I will or no. At any rate it's all on my site.

Sonic V itself has been updated with a sparkly new layout produced by yours truly, so do check it out if you haven't already. We're an up-and-coming Sonic fan comic with a growing forum community.

I'd like to end by saying if anyone reading this plays Neopets, donate Sand Sculptures to silmandil; she's (I'm) collecting 'em What? Hey, it was worth a try.
Sonic V - [link] ]]> ~metara http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/542967/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/542967/ Fri, 14 Mar 2003 03:53:17 PST
Don't expect any soppy Orlando Bloom pics from me though. I despise LOTR movie fans. I read the Silmarillion when I was five so I'm a horrible horrible Tolkien snob Hira cuilë!

In other news Metara's new catch phrase is "teh h0rr0r". As in, Sonic/Shadow porn - teh h0rr0r. Whereas my new Aquarelle watercolour pencils are teh w00t, and my Apple iBook is teh l33t. What? I happen to like iBooks.
Sonic V - [link] ]]> ~metara http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/521228/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/521228/ Sun, 02 Mar 2003 02:20:21 PST Thank you Opera... Now all I gotta do is figure out how to add someone to Deviantwatch. Feh!

In other news, I have managed to persuade TcmSonic to do the storyboarding for my story "Sonic The Hedgehog", so it looks like it may be turning into a comic pretty soon. Just don't expect new pages all that regularly. I put so much effort into drawing just one Sonic V cover that I don't know how I'll approach doing a whole comic on my own!

Sonic V - [link] ]]> ~metara http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/510986/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/510986/ Mon, 24 Feb 2003 01:27:30 PST Plus, nothing of interest has happened to me in the last week, because I spent it slaving over my laptop as I churned out a cyberpunk Sonic fan fiction called "Redux". Yeah, I guess I've been in a writy mood of late.

For some reason I cannot add things to my Favourites. I do not know why this is but it bugs me, because I've seen great pics in all the galleries I've commented. If I come to yours and go into wild raptures over something or other, take it as a given that I would've added it if I could.

In other news, Issue 10 of TC's Sonic V is now out on the website. And I'm busting myself to get my assignment done for Issue 15, which is going to be a pretty special one. Sonic V - [link] ]]> ~metara http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/490338/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/490338/ Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:01:25 PST
It's all for art. Seriously. Old travel guides which would be useless to anyone else can contain some really good photos, and even if you have one of those wooden mannequins, they're not that flexible. An action figure can be pulled into all sorts of strange or distorted positions. If you don't have a willing real live model (and let's face it, how many people do?), then it's definitely worth considering kidnapping your little brother's Action Man. Just make sure the limbs are jointed, as a lot of newer toys seem to come with their arms and legs moulded and inflexible.

Sonic V - [link] ]]> ~metara http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/489058/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/489058/ Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:27:36 PST
Well, I found out today that I never installed the drivers on this computer. As far as my poor computer knew, my tablet was just a mouse, and my computer was utterly perplexed by the streams of invective issuing regularly from my mouth.

I always thought I was a pretty tech-savvy person, particularly considering that I'm doing an English degree and most English students wouldn't know a SCSI card if it bit them in the unmentionables. (Most English lecturers can't work the overhead projector). Sadly, this revelation has destroyed my faith in my personal geekdom and computer competence.

I am indeed just another stupid arts student.Sonic V - [link] ]]> ~metara http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/485110/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/485110/ Sun, 09 Feb 2003 06:39:39 PST

Today is my third day as a deviantART member. Wow. I'm a total convert. After experiencing this place, Elfwood can go hang! Thanks to everybody who commented on my art so far, because it really means a lot to me that there are people out there who've seen it!

I need to figure out how to submit wallpapers, and whether it's allowed to submit a wallpaper with Sonic on it...
Sonic V - [link] ]]> ~metara http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/483918/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/483918/ Sat, 08 Feb 2003 13:45:12 PST [link] ]]> ~metara http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/482163/ http://metara.deviantart.com/journal/482163/ Fri, 07 Feb 2003 05:50:13 PST I'm new here if you didn't guess - please check out my Sonic fan art. I haven't been drawing very long so there's probably a lot of room for improvement!

Well, I have been on Elfwood and MediaMiner, and now I'm on here too. I think I like deviantART already. Sonic V - [link] ]]> ~metara