*bypasses angst and gets to the point* I feel very uncomfortable with any/all marks I make on a paper currently, so I'm posting stuff for advice. I'm sure there's a lot of anatomy problems on this, but please don't point them out because I can't fix them at this point. TT___TT I need cropping advice or color advice or ... something............

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oAo Random fun drawing. I may finish it. Zuko would make a great Sith ... in fact, clearly the fire nation are a bunch of Siths. Zuko reminds me of Cade from Legacy [one of those Dark Horse SW series] who is very emo and on sci - fi drugs which actually look like glow sticks but are called Death Sticks. AWESOME.

Crit the anatomy please. I'm sick of finishing things and thinking I like them until the posting them online and then someone says something [likely something very accurate] about my piddly anatomy and then I yoink it offline and horde it somewhere where no one can see.

OH ALSO - the original is horizontally flipped the other way, as in Zuko's scar is on the correct eye. I just flipped it this way once scanned for my own editing purposes.

I need crit help. This is for something other than me doodling around, so I'd feel better if others had a look and pointed things out if there's something wrong.

Not related to art at all.

Does anyone know any good remedies for a horrible cockroach infestation?

Now granted, i live in Savannah and so naturally there's very little to be done besides to wave in a neighborly fashion and say hello, but ... the infestation in my apartment has reached a point where i'm having difficulty being neighborly. We've tried Raid, which works briefly but I refuse to use it in my room because I dont want to breath it. I've tried roach candy [the poison stuff in little boxes they crawl in to get.] A week ago we had a qualified exterminator come in and spray our whole house. This I thought would do the trick, but the roaches magically multiplied and got BIGGER. I'm finding them in my room [i never used to because there's nothing to eat in here] and the only solution i've found that kills roaches instantly is the Almighty Shoe.

What does everyone else do?

These bugs are getting larger and it's only May. T_T They're currently threatening to rival my pinky finger in length and these are NOT palmetto bugs, these are average American Cockroaches.

Why would god create these awful things? If I were satan, I wouldn't have defaced the snake, I would have gone with the roach.

That said, a roach couldnt have tempted Eve to do anything but stomp, so maybe he made the right choice.

Anyway, my next step is to hire an exorcist. If the inventive nature of man cannot defeat these things, then the power of god may work.

I'm spamming this blog, I know .... but I'm posting this to scoot those awful lxthor drawings down. XD Umbreon! <3 i'll do one more pokemon, there's a poll on my devart journal, vote if you wanna. It's currently tied between Charizard, Ninetales, Mew, and anything but Mudkip.

I'm dedicating this sketch to the LxLight yaoi fangirl group. You are everywhere I go, burning my eyes. -__-

DON'T YOU KNOW THERE ARE SO MANY MEN WHO CAN LOVE L BETTER!?!



Despite what you might think, I'm sparing you the worst of this pairing. Friends came over, conversation went willy nilly. The end result of that talk is that L doesnt have large enough protruding parts, and so Thor would have to lift his little skirts and hop very high ... and L would just have to stand as strait as he can and brace himself. And take a deep breath. There may not be fresh air for a while.

Hey, if I moved this sketchblog to my website and used wordpress, would you still read it? Or is the convenience of it being LJ and you're here anyway make you more willing to care? XD

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Now please forgive me for using this LJ for what blogs were originally designed for: emo rants.

For a brief moment today i'm pretty certain i was the shittiest person in the world. The moment passed quickly as I'm sure a second or two later some man in [insert country] slapped is wife [or some other mean thing] but for a moment, it was ALL ME, I was singularly the worst person on earth. .... I DO feel rather accomplished, but not in a proud way.

If YOU [you know who you are] are reading this, forgive me for what i said to you, but I can't go on being nice and trying to be alright with this. I know you love me, and I still love you and always will, and I'm going to regret saying those things for a very long time [and you know how powerful regret is] but I won't take them back and we can't be even friends. I'll accept my hopefully brief reign of "shittiest person on earth" if it will end this relationship.

For a shining moment, I thought I'd penciled Audley's piccy well, I liked it, I was ready to finish it. ............. Then the moment passed and I redrew the thing because the previous version was trash. -___-

*bounces back from rsom sleep deprivation* O_O WRA.

So ... i finished and mailed my rising stars of manga thing today. ....................... really not sure how to feel about it, now that its done. Maybe i shouldnt post this, its kind of a spoiler panel, but its one of my favorites from the whole thing. XD


i realized in the middle of drawing an 18 page action comic that i've never really drawn action before. O_O;;;;;;;;;; I read about 20 - 30 volumes of fullmetal alchemist and bleach while I drew this comic and in the end, the only real good it did me was show me how bad I suck at manga style action. XDDDD For a 20 page comic, I suppose it's more reasonable to do it the american way, that way it can fit plot as well .... but there isn't as much build up or awesome or small panels of feet going here and there with action lines. So instead, and true to american comics, the action sequence is broken down into "POSE!" "ANNOUNCE YOU SHALL PUNCH!" "actually punch" "POSE!" [additional panels of Iron Man smashing into a wall may be necessary]

in summary: I feel sad. I want to get better. I look at this rsom entry and while I did enjoy drawing it very very much, and liked it very very much, I put all the pages together and wish it was better. I see things in my head that I can't get on paper yet. Beneath the manga influenced lineart, I draw a better Superman than I do an Ichigo. -_________-

meh. *mails the sucker anyway* As I felt last year, I don't think I have a chance in the world. Can't help but try, though, when the dream is right there in front of my face, laying around on comic racks and book shelves everywhere I walk.