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Comics, a sharp stick to my eye.
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| Sigh, I'm gearing up to update my website and it's going to be hell on Earth, I know it. I have a reasonable rough for the design of the site. Strangely I'm going to go back to a design similar to the one right before this one. Though with more color and art made for the design and a wordpress framework, so that I can update the thing easily.
I'm planing to pre-build a few different designs so that I won't be sitting on the same look for two or three years. The main page will have my journal on it but it'll only have image links or thumbnails. All of the images will be moved to a gallery system that I fear I'm going to break wordpress in half to make. Crosses fingers. On the other hand, I'm also going to add shopping cart buttons to all of the images that aren't sketches so that I can maybe start selling prints of all this stuff I've made. Also having all the art and comics in the Gallery/store area will, I pray, make the site look more professional. As the images will no longer accompany posts with battering on, much like this one. =/
I'm also going to be removing some of the features that I thought I wanted when I started using Wordpress. The main one I'm tossing out is the calender... and the sidebar and the category links (well not completely they just won't be formatted the same way) and maybe some of the ads. Considering just how many posts I have on this beast of a site, the joy of fixing everything, is not something I'm looking forward to. Also I'm probably going to turn on comments and display them which means I have to hide a bunch of the comments that I already have and or edit some of the ones with personal info, or the ones that ask me for porn... or curse me out in Spanish. =D
But here's some of the art that I'm working up for the site design.
"People think that cats dream of running hard and fast just to feel the ground move under their feet. But Snowy dreamed of waves and ripples and swimming in the sea with goldfish, gliding gracefully with the current. The fish made it all sound so amazing, he didn't know why his human kept throwing things at him when he tried to go swimming."
Or there's always the alternate write up for this image of: "Diana likes cats! White is easy to color! I R good arter!" O_o | comments: 10 hits or Hit me!   |
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The Little Narwhal
The original unicorn! Ah whales... how can you make them hot? I know, draw them as youthful dudes wearing sea weed. Though I'm freaked out to find out on google that narwhals DO NOT have a horn and in fact it is actually a long tooth. The way I've drawn it here it'd have to go through his brain. =D
-Diana | | comments: 14 hits or Hit me! |
| Pushing that other post off the top of the page. So last week I battled a losing battle against spam bots... In the end I banned a large set of ip addresses from Turkey... sorry Turkey. I figure some of you guys will be happy that the spam robot using some part of my site to send email is no longer able to send stuff. Or something. I don't know I'm still poking around my site trying to figure out how to really block the bot and find and close up however they are getting in... yet I still don't know what's really going on. =/
Also somehow someone had come in and inserted hidden spam in the header of my wordpress theme. Somehow. Which blows my mind. I have no idea how long it had been there either. Maybe half a year. I was using an older version of Wordpress for a long time. Thankfully no one coming to my site got spammed by it since it was invisible but poor Google sure saw it. (Edit and I think Google was punishing me for it as well... LOL my hits from Google were all but choked off for the last month or so and now that I've taken off the stupid spam they have resurged close to where they were before. So, thankfully that means I've probably only had the spam headers from maybe the beginning of April when I had the huge spike for April fools.)
I really want to change the design of my site. The hard part is that I have so many needs. I want a journal but I also want a more simple gallery structure but I also would like to put my comics up on here. So that's like 3 different things... oh and also I want a shop. Damn that's 4 things. The figuring out how to get all of that stuff to work together is killing this pretty good. I can figure out how to get two of them going maybe 3 if I use a paypal wordpress plugin but the comic bit, that's the tough part. I think I could do everything with Wordpress and comicpress and a paypal plugin but then I'd have to make a theme that could display it all nicely and find the time to probably repost all of my site so that the comic posts and the picture posts were separate from all of the journal posts. Nargh.
Maybe I should just start over... hmmm.
-Diana | | comments: 2 hits or Hit me! |
| Must not post! Must not post! Must not! Shit... okay, so that ill made and poorly thought out Open Source Boob Project? Right that thing, hmm here's a link that doesn't make me want to kill everyone: http://www.journalfen.net/community/unfunnybusiness/9338.html
So that thing showed up and the SFF part of my friends list have already carved it up good, and then burn the body, poisoned it, kicked it into a well, plugged the well, dropped a mountain on it... with dynamite, and burned the town next to it and three quarters of the villages nearby.
See though, I'd love to have the ability to put in clear words the feelings I get reading the *responses* to this ill made and poorly thought out project but OMG I run screaming. It's like the energy, the essence is just the purest wail of high emotions rung like a bell made from the torn rib cage of someone's back with no skin on it so every sound, voice, and word is a hammer... and I feel that ringing sound from the farthest away that I can get...
I can't deal, my personal pet peeve is a silence of conversation. I can't take it. I feel like I'm drowning in an ocean of voices that has been carpet bombed by completely understandable highly personal pain and suffering that chokes out all voices. A piece of death and bile of something rotten in the still black water. Fuck and I've gone into hyperbole or however that's spelled. Note to self, find out how it's spelled before posting.
But yeah, Complete death. It makes me want to post and yet I know that it's courting everything I hate because I just don't have the right words when every word means something it's not. I can't say anything cause the sharks have come and any movement is an acceptance of some hurt, a finger that points, that this pain, this horrible pain is deserved even asked for even though that's never what I feel people in the later comment areas that I have muddled through want to say (I didn't touch the original post figuring it was dumb and probably more choked and deathly to my particular quirk).
I can't speak in that sea so I stay as quiet as I can but I want to express just this piece of me without any of those charged words. Here, in my area of the net. I want to point to this poison I want to say in my small voice that I don't like that the conversation dies. I've never liked it. I don't want to spread the fear or pain but... but... opens hands. I don't know.
Meh. Sorry about this. I just don't want to write post after post that I never actually post.
-Diana | | comments: 3 hits or Hit me! |
| Well, that was interesting... see first I got sick. Really sick, I spent all day sleeping on Wednesday and it's still making me cough today. But thankfully I've got it on the run and feel pretty good. Now being all sick and messed up my hours were even weirder then normal...
I ended up catching a robot using my old wordpress image uploader to send txt files to my tmp folder on ghostcircles. I noticed it because in the wordpress admin control the image uploader was pointing to a completely different folder then it usually does. So, I freaked out. Cause wow, not good. I reset the upload folder and my password and spent the rest of the day wondering what was going on... then I checked my email and "hello" bounced back spam originating from my webserver using my email address.
See this happened before like um... 6 months ago and I was all "OMG who got my email address and spamed the crap out of people??" And damn it it's all coming back to me. This is when I learned that yes indeed there are still people who think they should respond to spam as I got one email that just said "Bitch." in it. It amused me greatly even though I didn't send this um... crap. This time I think I cut off the upload in the middle by changing back the upload folder to the normal folder because I only got 260 bounce backs instead of 1200. Whee.
I was using the old version of the "iimage-browser-plugin" for wordpress from 2005 so if any of you are still running that you might try seeing if there's a new version that DOESN'T allow you to set you upload folder to the very top area of you website. Cause yeah security risk and such. Also the newer versions of wordpress have a pretty nice built in image uploader that is much more secure. You'll need a newer browser to use it like firefox but hey it's free and stuff.
So yeah, I upgrade to the newest version of wordpress which was incredibly easy. Smoothest 10 version upgrade I've ever done. I still need to update my poor site design though. I'd like to put in a shopping cart system to buy prints and comics and stuff and I'd like to put my comics up which I could do with Comicpress but I'd like to keep my journal as well... and that just seems to be one too many things to fit into one site. =/
I'm just going to have to find sometime to really think about how to cram all of that stuff in there and still make it easy to look at and buy things. I mean I have enough room I could set up a shop as a stand alone but it'd be nice to have it all be one site.
-Diana | | comments: Hit me! |
| So, I'm definitely going to A-kon this year. Which will be interesting. I plan to take many photos of people in strange outfits... I'm not even talking costumes I just like it when they dress up for the cons. Sometimes it's unintentionally hilarious. I take photos of lots of people in awkward fitting clothing, mostly pants cause the pants people are selling to chicks now-a-days are terrible to the feminine shape and make us mostly look weird and terrible. I need to draw some from all those photos I took at last year's A-kon, I really want to get down the horrible shape of the muffin-top because my brain refuses to let me draw it due to the fact that it doesn't think it looks right at all. So photos have to be taken cause the muffin-top can make even thin anorexic girls look lumpy and fat. It's not right. =/
I'll be in the Komik Market at A-kon on May 30th through June 1st. I'll be at the Bassanimation table though I think it'll be under a different name since we're sharing the table with... Steven the guy that ran the Komik Market for the last few years. So I'm not sure what name it'll be under. I figure I'll mostly be hanging out at the con and helping Shawnna sell buttons. Hopefully there'll be room behind the table but that'd be okay... that way I might roam the con a bit and see if I can find some of the people I want to see. It'd be nice to actually see people for once.
Speaking of seeing people at A-kon two years ago I got to see the lovely Shirotsuki and we traded sketches. This was the image I drew for her of her tree guy, Cure. She's suppose to be at A-kon again this year and hopefully unlike last year where I didn't see her at all maybe I can get out and bother her. =]
Other Conventions I'm going to be at this year:
A-kon in Dallas... May 30th - June 1st
Anthro-con in Pittsburgh... June 26-29
Comic Con in San Diego... July 24-27
That's all of them that I can think of.
-Diana | | comments: 12 hits or Hit me! |
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Part of the prize things I did for the winners of my Saiko and Lavender Contest. The winner of the art part of the contest asked me to draw Satan from Saiko and Lavender. I gave him a tie. =D | | comments: Hit me! |
| Taxes are finished... though I still have to sign the forms and mail them off. Whew!
I know, I always say this but this year I'm going to keep better track of my crap so tax time won't be hell on earth. =X Sadly, I just know I'll end up slacking and be pondering what the hell I made at San Diego Comic Con again next year cause I forgot to write that one super important number down... or something. Honestly, I just need to be better organized. On the other hand I actually cleaned my room and now I've found most of the things I was looking for so I could move forward on projects. Yay!
Also an image of the kid that I made to reply to a comment in the last LJ post... and also because I found my inking pens and I wanted to see how much work I'd need to do to get back into the swing of things. It looks like inking won't be too hard to get back into I just need to draw the characters a little bit to figure what the hell I was doing with them. Sigh.
-Diana | | comments: Hit me! |
| "Never put off to Tomorrow what you can put off for months and months... and months and months and months... ect. " It's not artist block, honestly it's more like stupidity. =/ Smacks self in the boob. But here's a small update on where I am.
But yay! I found my inking pens while searching my room for tax info. Now I can get started again on the inking and maybe the comicing and the tearing of hair and the wailing and flailing... Ah, well at least there's the job and the money and the... shit, I still want to get back to the comics. =/
Half of this page is still at base inking levels. Which is where I lay down the lines without any weights. It looks a bit odd this way and I always think it'll look like crap when I do this but then I put down the final lines and it looks fine. Sighhhhh.
But first taxes, then estimated tax payments, and then the paying job of money to pay for the taxes and then maybe the limping comic bear trap. =[
-Diana | | comments: 7 hits or Hit me! |
| Sometimes I really wish I knew what I was doing on Wordpress instead of just fucking around with the code and reverse engineering the shit that I need. On the other hand I'm a really accomplished hack and I have good design sense. =/ Still, I wish I know what I was doing. Does anyone have any tips to actually learning CSS or PHP? Cause right now the net and my webdesign books are my main friends and it seems a little silly. Maybe I should go take some classes so I don't feel quit so shaky on the basics. =/
On the other other hand it is an awesome intellectual challenge. Smirks.
-Diana | | comments: 8 hits or Hit me! |
| Whhhhhyyyyy? =E
I swear, why can't I make regular fanart any more. It just gets all messed up. I just drew a image with Naruto and Sasuke... dressed as transvestites with frilly underwear. And they don't look like girls at all. I should just never listen to Shawnna when she dares me to draw stuff. She's evil, evil I tell you. =/ Though she only mentioned Sasuke in a dress (hooker Sasuke). I have no idea how Naruto ended up in it... oh yeah, I was trying to draw the same image she had to show her what I'd adjust. That really didn't work out so well for me.
Now, I probably should just commit to my insanity and color it. =/
-Diana | | comments: 4 hits or Hit me! |
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O_o My fetish!!!
I was a tomboy for a very long time and I still have no idea how to apply makeup. I have a bunch of it but I hardly wear it enough to figure out how to put it on. I'm a very lazy person and would rather spend the time sleeping or surfing the internet or drawing or thinking about drawing and not doing it. =/
Speaking of laziness... there is more to this image. I just haven't finished drawing it.
-Diana | | comments: 4 hits or Hit me! |
| Austin drivers are trying to kill me. There's only two types of drivers here, the slower then slow ones "OMG caution" and the "Oh my god my ass is on fire! Rah Rah Rah!! I'm invincible!" drivers. Oh and the "I take a corner so slow that I hope you'll rear end my car and I can collect insurance and make you just as miserable as I am" people but they don't count cause they are already dead inside. Nothing like getting boxed in behind Mister McSlowerSaferDriver and then when you try to pass them being prevented and almost killed by "OMG I'm so fast" McDriver in your blind spot on the left. Good thing I got my brakes fixed for 840.00 dollars last month (not my fault I had a leak in the line) and I constantly watch out for those guys on every side. They are out to get me I know it.
Also, just a tip. In Texas, if everyone is stopped and your lane is still moving... guess what? Your lane is going to end soon! YAY! And the reason that everyone else is going so god damn slow is because of people that stay in that dead lane and then try to merge by cutting in front of whoever they can poorly at the last minute. It makes everyone have to throw on their brakes. I'm not sure what they could do to fix this problem, honestly. But it makes me tailgate like an asshole when I see it happening. By the way tailgating is retarded. They do this in turn lanes out here as well. Everyone will be stopped on the highway so "smart" douchebags get in the exit only turn lane and then hold up the people getting off the highway just so they can get 10 cars ahead of where they were. If they're lucky.
So, I tend to drive somewhat aggressively, you'd have to if you don't want to be behind mister McSlownuggets. It's sort of sad cause I do like chilling out behind the wheel of my car.
On an unrelated note... I found a dime that was dipped in copper. So it looks just like a penny. Wonder how that worked out for the person that did it?
I am really loving these animated Zero Punctuation game reviews by that guy at the Escapist called, Yahtzee Croshaw.
My favorite is the one on Silent Hill: Origins but they are all kind of fun.
-Diana | | comments: 11 hits or Hit me! |
| Man, it's been so long since I've inked anything that I have no idea where I put my inking pens. =/ I need to search my room but it's full of crap. It's every where, EVERYWHERE. O_O I barely have room for me. Stupid books and comics. What really sucks is that I can't find my brush pen. Grrr. I guess I should start on a new pen anyway the last one I was using was actually starting to split I had used it for so long. =/
Took the kitties to the vet yesterday and got pills for them that hopefully will help with the bacteria or micro orgenism that's giving them doom pile poops. Poor things. Max was deemed very healthy and soft to the touch. He hissed like crazy at the vets when they took his temperature. I don't blame him even though it was funny. Cam didn't hiss at all when they took hers last time I took her in. But she's harder to get in the carrier and meows more then Max.
Along with sending out the last of the contest prizes I also shipped a print order or two. I included this little sketch in one of the packages. I really need to get a real order page up so I can make some money from these pictures I have laying around. Or something.
Also I updated my ghostcircles site design for the day. D= | | comments: 2 hits or Hit me! |
| All of the remaining prizes were put in the mail today and the last subscription that fell through the cracks was bought. Sorry Daystorm I can't believe I missed you. So yay, the Saiko and Lavender contest is now completed. I also sent out a random prize to the one person that sent me their entries instead of posting or emailing it. Sorry I wasn't at home in February to receive it so I could have included it in the contest proper. But thanks for the amusing pictures of Saiko and Lavender, do you mind if I scan and post the one that followed the rules and wasn't pr0n? LOL. That crack me up when I got it.
Links if you missed the contest: [Full contest entry list!] [The contest winners!]
-Diana | | comments: 2 hits or Hit me! |
| Current kitty count is two.
My first kitty use to be a tiny kitten that I found outside my back door. Now he is a massive cat and fluffy too. Use to bite like a bitch and made me realize that I don't like kittens. It's no wonder Max's full name is "Maximum Bitey." Feral kittens make Diana sad, so cute and soo bitey. Thankfully I took him on a plane 3 times to visit Mike's seven cats who beat him up and taught him cat things like "I hate you I will hiss" "let's play no I hate you... no not really" and "hey unlike those humans I don't spray the air can near you when you bite me lets run around like fools" and other fun things that made me think he was all bored on his own.
So, I got him a friend at the shelter. Her name is Cambrian but I tend to call her Cam Cam. She has much shorter hair then Max and makes tiny trill noises and runs around like crazy. They play a lot and bite each other and make remixing noises of growling and joy before running off. There is also licking mixed into the biting fun. She's much smaller then Max.
Max likes to sleep on his back with his tiny kitten paws in the air. Max is 10 months old and Cam is 7 months old. I think this amount of cats is pretty good for me. Though I do wish they'd sleep less in the day and more when I'm sleeping. Pets Max's tummy of fluff. Happiness. =D
-Diana | | comments: 8 hits or Hit me! |
| Oh god, what happened? Oh yeah, I fell in the rabbit hole and things ate my tiny bits. Shit happened... lots of it. None of it really that interesting and I'm not sure what to cover right at this moment. Seeing as I'm super tired but yet I'm still typing here in this space. What? I'm I purposely picking the worst times for me to try and update? I tried to do it last Thursday right before escaping my home for an cozy Texas anime con and failed to post by having to run out the door with my ass on fire. The weekend before I think I had Staples and also failed to post before that con so let me take the opportunity to say I should be at A-kon. Though I'll probably not have a table cause they sold out in a week or some thing and I sort of thought I wasn't going to go. Hell I still might not. Though I sort of want to cause now there are artists I want to see and if I don't have to run a table I could... I don't know... see them. Might be nice.
Also I could take more photos of people in outfits that either "look fucking cool" or "oh my god why are you wearing that crap?" So yeah A-kon. Maybe I'll be there and now I've warned you, you fine people, all 3 of you that still read this. Not that I blame you fine wonderful people. What has it been a month or two since I posted? Looks at the screen and blinks... fuck if I know. Anyway yeah, shit has happened but nothing too cool so it's just like normal and crap. Don't worry maybe I'll post when I'm not tired and you'll learn of my kitties, anime cons, hanging out with real people, writing a short comic for a friend, and maybe sucking into a huge hole in the ground while smiling and doing a happy jig... thanks brain. Also the depreciation of Japanese stuff. Fun stuff eh? No?
Yeah I sort of thought that too. So here. I have a new hobby: 10 second sketches with Sharpies... LEAVE a comment between now and when i get up in the morning, vaguely 10 hours, and I'll make and post one of them for every comment. One per person and stuff. It will be random and crappily drawn, and stuff. But yeah. Feed me a comment and get a digital piece of weirdness direct from my head. Go to town.
Edit, 8 hours later: LOL, well I posted them in random order so don't worry there is no special meaning to any of them. Heh and I still have a ton of little sketches laying around so feel free to leave a comment and see what you'll get. Or just wander around and look at what was posted.
Edit 3/31/08: And comments are closed for new sketches. Please take a look at what was posted. =D I hope to do this again soon.
-Diana | | comments: 30 hits or Hit me! |
| ( Too hot dude... maybe not safe for your work... )
Cough! So, after a long period of not posting, I present more Mangay. Don't worry I'm planning to post some girls at some point. I think... well I have plans.
Anyway, here's some Flaming demon Mangay that's like if Cloud and Sephiroth had a baby. Like a bender human design full of gay.
I think I'm just going to make these guys a vague exploration of character design. Cause I can't really call it fan art if it doesn't really have anything to do with the original. I mean it's still sort of fanart but it's more vague. Waves hands around. Enjoy my character slurry.
Anyway, Pretty? I've been coloring a lot of art recently like for the last two and half years for um... *Cough* a site, yep. Anyway, so I've learned a lot about coloring and stuff I've just never had a chance to update here with any of it. =]
-Diana | | comments: 7 hits or Hit me! |
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| All of the Entries are here: http://amegoddess.livejournal.com/125558.html
Edit: Whee, now that I'm not incredibly tired, some comments from me on the wining entries. =D
Yay, so the contest is over. Thanks so much for everyone who made art and wrote reviews. I feel this happy sense of love just like I use to back in the day when me and Mike were making Saiko and Lavender. When every now and then people would send us little letters letting us know that the weird crack baby comic we made was indeed making it's ways into people's hands. Once I started posting the comic to the internet it allowed a lot of the people who had stumbled on to our comic long ago to find us again and finish reading the comic or re-reading it. I'm glad that so many people have had that chance and I hope everyone has enjoyed all the art and more that were made for the contest. Thanks so much to everyone.
So without wibbling anymore here are the winners:
Art Contest Grande Prize winner: Vineris! 
I really like how cute and adorable this idea for a Saiko and Lavender face off was done. I also liked how they made the hair on the characters look, it's still the style I draw but much more three dimensional. The pastel colors give this picture a soft feel and the little faces Saiko makes are really funny. Saiko is so devious and sly. Hug hug hug.
3 Runner-up winners: Green_sweater!  I find this image really amusing. I thought it was very neat that they made Lavender an actual cat and Saiko's expression here is perfect.
Daystorm!  I like the action and anger of this image. This really captures the feel of Lavender taking her frustration out on someone. I just know that either the person she's attacking will be in trouble or her spell will go horribly wrong in some funny way.
Psychochris20!  I like that in this picture Saiko is catching the pop tart in her mouth. They definitely caught the personalities of the characters.
For the Review contest the grande prize winner is: Srednivashtar I like that this review was done in the style of a wacky advertisement much like the one I wish I could have come up with back in the day.
And the runner-up is: The-Chibi I like that they took the time to translate the review into another language, that was pretty cool.
I will be contacting the winners to figure out where to send their prizes. Thanks so much to everyone who's been watching. =]
Again, I thank everyone who took the time to enter. Every entry made me happy when I received them. It was hard to pick the winners so I went with the ones I felt most captured the characters and the ones that made me smile the most.
-Diana | | comments: 4 hits or Hit me! |
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Contest closed! Whee, thanks everyone for entering. I really enjoyed looking at all the wonderful entries. Also if I missed your entry please let me know so I can add you to the list. Winners will be announced on Friday the 1st. =]
Yay, I live! The holidays almost killed me but I have survived! Every time it seemed like I needed to buy something, eat food, or check something, everything was closed.
So contest...
The Saiko and Lavender Webcomic is now complete and posted to the internet. YAY! So for this momentous occasion I will run a tiny contest with real prizes. Hopefully someone will enter so I don't have to cry at night and give myself the prizes. =]
Here's the info, there will be two different contests one for artists and one for all the other people that either aren't artist or who hate drawing for other people. There will be prizes for both.
For the art contest, go to the Saiko and Lavender comic... it starts here or look at the comics if you own them (it could happen =D), draw a picture of whatever Saiko and Lavender character(s) you love, hate, enjoy torturing. Have them doing whatever you want... eating breakfast, destroying the world, attacking giant monsters, curling their handle bar mustaches, posing. The sky's the limit, well, within reason. If you make terrible porn I will of course be <strike>amused...</strike> um and I will have to disqualify you for the prizes since I can't display the winning entry. If you have an old piece of Saiko and Lavender art you did back at the dawn of time... cough, er... when the comic was first printed feel free to dust it off and send it in. You can enter as many times as you want but you can only win one of the prizes.
Prizes for most amusing Saiko and Lavender picture:
--Signed copy of Saiko and Lavender graphic novel
--Signed copy of the Spooktacular comic
--One-year subscription to DeviantArt or Livejournal
--Free 20"x30" poster of any piece of my art or any piece of your art (from Kodakgallery if you pick to get your own art though you'll have to pay for shipping but if you want my art I'll pay the shipping)
--A free signed sketch from me
Prizes for 3 runner-ups:
--Signed copy of Saiko and Lavender graphic novel
--Signed copy of the Spooktacular comic
--Free 3 month subscription to DeviantArt or 2 month subscription to Livejournal
Art contest entries:
     
Now for the non-art contest, this is a review contest. Go to the Saiko and Lavender comic and read however much you want. Link to the comic on your LJ, blog, journal and then review it however you wish, critique it, be nice, be mean, be weird, write it as a dear John letter, write it like the voices in Saiko's head, make it a play, make it odd, but most of all make it interesting. You may include pages from the comic, or hell, make your own images, or shop the comic stuff to make funny stuff. Have fun.
Prize for most amusing Saiko and Lavender review:
--Signed copy of Saiko and Lavender graphic novel
--Signed copy of the Spooktacular comic
--One-year subscription to DeviantArt or Livejournal
--Free 20"x30" poster of any piece of my art or any piece of your art (from Kodakgallery if you pick to get your own art though you'll have to pay for shipping but if you want my art I'll pay the shipping)
--A free signed sketch from me
Prizes for 1 runner up:
--Signed copy of the Saiko and Lavender graphic novel
--Signed copy of the Spooktacular comic
--Free 3 month subscription to DeviantArt or 2 month subscription to Livejournal
Review contest entries:
http://the-chibi.deviantart.com/journal/16415737/
http://iceclimbers87.deviantart.com/journal/16471327/
http://sred-kitty.livejournal.com/624.html
Extra info for contest. The subscription prizes can be replaced with a gift card of the same value should you not belong to either website. Please post your picture to DeviantArt or Livejournal or your website then include a link to the Saiko and Lavender webcomic: http://www.webcomicsnation.com/gc/saiko/series.php and a link to this journal then comment on this LJ post letting me know, your name and the url where your entry is posted. I will then add you to list of entries.
This contest will run for 2 weeks from tomorrow so all entries must be in by midnight (roughly) of January, Sunday the 27th. Final decision and judgment will be up to me. You must be okay with me posting your image to LiveJournal, the webcomicsnation site and my own website, so that I can show off the winners. You will be fully credited and a link to your website/DA/LJ will be included. All prizes will be sent to you within 2 weeks of when the winners are announced, some prizes may be sent by email.
Good luck! Feel free to ask any questions you might have and or ask me to clarify anything. YAY! Hopefully someone will enter. =]
-Diana | | comments: 13 hits or Hit me! |
| This is a fix for a stupid issue that I was having with Photoshop CS's eyedropper tool. The eyedropper tool is used to select colors on your image, normally it puts these selected colors in a box called the "foreground color" then you can use this color to paint and airbrush and fill whatever you want. Well, recently this tool has helpfully been selecting to the "background color" which does nothing unless you're using the eraser tool (the background color is really useful in other ways but not in this case.)
I had no idea how I made the switch to the wrong color area and I had no idea how to fix it. I tried to search hoping to find a solution but most of what I found didn't really help or wasn't clear enough to make me realize that they could help (this is because there are two ways to fix the problem, one for newer versions of Photoshop and one for the old versions, but they are basically the same solution so my eye glazed over the helpful articles.)
I tried to reset my preferences in Photoshop which messed everything up and it fixed the issue for a bit. But when I started having this trouble again I was determined to figure out what the hell was causing it without screwing up my preferences. Here's what I found presented here as an incredibly long image. I hope this helps people.
![Photoshop eyedropper tool trouble.Selecting the color to the background color rather than choosing the foreground color. This is an image. =]](http://www.ghostcircles.com/dxs/pic/07-Eyedopper-fix-cs.jpg)
-Diana
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| I'm all late like usual. So here's my really late card for this year. It's of my kitten Max... oh noes he's stealing Christmas! Hope you all had a good time with friends and family. =]
-Diana | | comments: 5 hits or Hit me! |
| Subject: | Stuff and "The Hills Have Eyes 2" review | | Time: | 05:23 pm |
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| Man, I burned my wrist over Thanksgiving... and now I look like I'm diseased. It sucks. This month feels like it's zooming by me super fast and I can't seem to catch up at all. I was ahead at the beginning of the month and now I'm really far behind. I keep staring at the page and thinking horrible things, then I go play with my kitty.
I'm so out of it I haven't even left my house to deposit my pay checks.
I updated Saiko and Lavender up to where the whole thing ends, which it turns out is some time in January. I'm thinking I might run some sort of contest with prizes to send it out with a bang.
Last week I watched "The Hills Have Eyes 2" and I decided that I wasn't just watching inbreed hillbilly killers but that I was watching Ninja inbreed hillbillies in which their calling in life was to kill whoever they could.
No really NINJA hillbillies. They blended into the background and dressed up to hide themselves and jumped out from secret tunnels and were super duper hillbillies. I think I said "What?" at least 8 or 10 times while watching it just due to the ninja-ness of the hillbillies
There were also points in the movie where I wondered what the film making meetings were like.
Oh, speaking of horror films does anyone know if that new movie "The Mist" was any good? | | comments: 5 hits or Hit me! |
| Feel free to let me know if these are boring. I'm afraid that I have less talent at jotting down things that had happened to me in an interesting way and more talent in the scribbling art department. It doesn't help that I sort of feel like there are still people eying my journal in the hopes that bad things will happen me or something. Paranoid delusions aside those people can suck it. I would think they would have hopefully moved on with thier lives.
Is it just me or does it seem a little like the comic/art crowd has filtered away from the LiveJournal flavor on the internet to some other site more interesting? Not that I'm any better with LJ. I don't honestly read through my friends list. I just pick journals of people to vist that make me happy and I don't even look at the rest. Right now I think it's down to 4 journals at the most, Which are, in no order: ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ursulav (artist of cute and odd things, her journals are always interesting no matter what they are about and she makes me feel happy and lighter. She's getting a chidrens book published next year and draws the webcomic Digger), twigcollins (a writer, at the moment working on an original story for NaNoWmo... or however that thing is spelled... but she also writes fanfiction. She amuses me and makes me smile,), mistful (another writer, started off writing fanfiction that I really enjoyed and will have a three book young adults novel series published soon. All of her post are way more interesting and witty than mine. Makes me laugh when she does her movie reviews... er rundowns), and ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) officialgaiman (also a writer but one in his prime. Started in comics as the writer on Sandman for DC comics and currently all over the map. I like his posts because he always seems rather busy and does a lots of different things in both his writing and his life.)
I sometimes read more journals then just those four but it depends on how often the journal gets updated and whether I can keep up or not. There are some people I want to read more posts from that don't post enough and some that I want to read that just post a little too much. Which is neither here nor there as I think those people are awesome even if they are/n't posting. =] But yeah it seems weird that I get this odd feeling that people have moved on. It's sort of sad I actually still really like Livejournal way more then most of the sites I post to... heh, including my own site. =D Anyone have any journals they would suggest? People that make them happy to read their posts? I'm sort of interested about who's still out there in the wide world of Livejournal. Gimme names, plz!
And here's some sketches of one of the guys from my very old Hooligans folio. Trying to get a handle on how I'd draw him now that my guy bodies are a little more structured. Dragons sadly, are still really hard to draw. Maybe I need to practice them more too. =<
-Diana | | comments: 4 hits or Hit me! |
| Subject: | Weekend roundup | | Time: | 09:00 am |
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| I spent most of Saturday sleeping off my cold and then after I lazed about and played with Max, my kitten, I ended up at Shawwna's place playing a Zombie board game and watching movies. Nothing too amazing on the movie front, Daredevil, Return of the Living Dead, Hellboy and Constantine. Man, wow, that's almost all superhero films. I don't think it was planned just somehow what was on the channels, though I suggested Constantine. Mostly they were on as background noise while we played games and I tried not to get frustrated with art.
Daredevil was playing when I got there and I don't think we made it all the way through the thing. We killed it to watch "Return of the Living Dead" which is sort of interesting. It has running zombies in it and was made in the 80's judging by the outfits. Also the zombies think and can talk and honestly can't be killed. Sort of takes the fun out of the surviving part of survival horror stuff. I kind of wonder though why, if we've had running zombie films, do people talk about running zombies as being new? I remember people talking about running zombies that way when "28 days later" was released. It seems rather odd. Ah well, maybe it's the same people who just couldn't understand that the monsters in the "Silent Hill" weren't zombies.
On Friday night I got Max one of those cat jungle gyms. Was 21.00 bucks at Target. In fact it was this exact model: Multi Cat Jungle Gym - Large It's roughly 4 feet tall and is made up of blue large kid tinker toys with I swear what has to be parachute material for a two level house and netting for little platforms. It also has strange stuffed round shaped attack toys that hang down. In some way they remind me of some unused organ in the human body. I could say which organ and that just makes it worse.
So far, I think the damn thing would be way more fun for Max if it had another cat that came with it. But still I can poke the top of the cat tower and Max will jump up from the bottom hidey hole to attack the top. Instant kitty entertainment. Also the damn thing can break down to a tiny box that's only about 18" long and maybe 6" wide. Set up is pretty easy and it's actually kind of sturdy since Max hasn't manged to mangle it yet. He plays pretty rough with everything. I'll have to see if it keeps his interest. He get bored with toys. =/
Oh, speaking of kitties. I post the cute.
Awww. There will be a kitty chase and then beatings.
-Diana | | comments: Hit me! |
| LJ says my last update was 14 weeks ago and I believe it. I've been busy but nothing that should have kept me from posting. Well, other then my bittey kitty. Who's currently trying to get me to go to bed by jumping on my keyboard and terrorizing my plastic bags, then nipping at me when I try to move him. I hiss at him.
I still like him lots... though when I first found him I gladly would have given him up. I found out that I don't really like kittens or understand them and instead prefer a regular adult cat. Though having a tiny kitten show up on your doorstep takes some of the choosing away from you. Kitty is now sighing... loudly. A habit I fear I taught him. I may take off here and finish my update in the morning.
I was going to see how long it took for the cold medicine to kick in. I've got a runny nose and congestion that I'm trying to kill with drugs and sleep. It's going okay but I could probably use even more sleep. I now know when the night time medicine is working cause it's right when I feel light headed and slightly dizzy. Getting to bed is weird when you feel the room moving all the time. Kitty is back to biting my plastic... I guess that's better then licking it, maybe.
I give you all art for right now.
A woman from a comic that I was drawing... I wonder if I'll ever get it finished at this point. I really hate making 8 pages and then not even finishing them.
This is from a set of Index Card pictures that I drew last year or so. This is number 6 I believe. This is the Kid holding an apple that doesn't look that tasty.
I have more art to post but that'll have to wait. I think I need some sleep right now.
-Diana | | comments: 2 hits or Hit me! |
| I'm going to be at San Diego Comic con this weekend... and this year I will be at a real booth and hopefully easy to find. Sorry though for the super late heads up post. I've been rushing around getting ready for the con and have been up to my eyeballs in work helping the Club Stripes people prep. I'll be manning their table and helping sell the brand new full color 96 page Pron book they just had printed. Awesome picture of book... NSFW just in case: http://data.furaffinity.net/art/clubstripes/1184819817.clubstripes_csbook.jpg
Here's a tiny map where you can find the Club Stripes table: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/664259/ We're smack dab between Heavy Metal and First Second. I'm really looking forward to the whole thing. I hope to see some of you guys out there if your going.
-Diana | | comments: 4 hits or Hit me! |
| LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. I guess the new artist did get to make a "new" cover after all.
I’m hoping they traced the inside pages we did as well. =]
Well, at least that's an answer to whether or not they plan to actually use the cover we made. Still, they shouldn't have used the older cover to sell the book if that's not the cover they are going use on the actual book. Ah, bait and switch.
-Diana | | comments: 35 hits or Hit me! |
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Comics, a sharp stick to my eye.
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