Busy busy

Eternally apologetic for no updates and lack of art. But I'm busy enough that I'm closing commissions for the forseeable future (well the next like 3 months at least). Unless we've already personally spoken about commission work, I won't be taking anything new @_@. I'll make an announcement if I open them again.

Likewise it's also why i haven't posted any new icon yet, just no time to sit and make a new one /o\ SORRY. Icons are just currently discontinued with no replacement yet XD, so lucky you to everyone who have them right now XD

CLEARANCE: Medium Prints are 2 for $10!

I'm trying to get rid of my medium size print stock XD, so i've struck a deal for you guys, 2 for $10 with the code MED2FOR10. They are all printed on either hella nice photo paper or card stock, nice and thick! If you order more than two use the code MED5EA instead xOx.

If you saw buttons i posted earlier that you wanted just let me know too, i'm too busy/lazy to make a store entry for them.

Reworking my Diet

And in personal updates, tw:disordered eating/eating disorder, I've had to rework my diet because the last i dunno YEAR i've been eating too much. Not remarkably unhealthily, just too much because I have absolutely no restraint? LOL, as a result i've put on a few pounds (most people will not notice haha) that I don't need on my frame. It's not so much the weight as it is the fact that i've no regard for my portions and my general lack of exercise.  

Unfortunately it's very hard to separate a change in diet and exercise away from the "losing weight" mentality, i think many women can attest to this. We as a culture are SOOO stuck on losing weight as a measurement of our health, when it absolutely is not. So in my logical brain I know i should be doing this for my health, but my emotional brain I am struggling deeply with calorie counting and trying to not let this turn into disordered eating? Yesterday I only ate like 300 calories of actual food (mostly salad, broccoli and egg whites), and then blew about 700 calories on ice cream, twix, grapes and cheese sticks.

That's a problem. Because technically yes i fit in my caloric budget for the day, TECHNICALLY I'M LOSING WEIGHT but LOGICALLY I am NOT eating healthy. And although i can obviously SAY these things knowing the facts, changing how my brain wants to act and eat is another issue all together. So I dunno, I hope i can work my way out of it and try to eat more balanced. I'm not off to that great of a start, my breakfast was only 77 calories and I might spend the rest on sweets again @_@. WE'LL SEE LOL.

Sorry for the heavy crap, i'm just a egomaniac that likes to talk about myself (:. Don't worry, i won't die or anything, it just makes it easier for me to explain things even if it is to strangers. I hope i won't have to eat my own words XD

Anime Next

Okay i paid for my table at AnimeNext because they had a 3 day limit, like they'd give away my table if i didn't pay in 3 days.

But now i'm not sure if I wanna go cause

1. it's over 30 miles away from the nearest real air port (Newwark international), meaning it would cost like $55 in taxi fair each way. Why did they plan a con so far from an airport? Limiting growth?
2. I don't have a hotel to share with anyone yet or anyone i know in the area to crash with ):
3. I can't find any info about if it's worth it, it seems to be a locals only con which means there might not be enough attendance to break even?
4. I don't think any of my watchers or followers are in that area anyway so it's not like i'm going to meet any fans? XD

I wish i had more east coast friends to ask, I hope they do refunds if i decide against it >_< ACK!

Buttons

Anyway a preview of some buttons i'm stocking this con season (wooh sakuracon!)



I'll upload all of them on DA when i actually get to making them XD

Fanime Vs. Anime Boston

Lastly due to the extreme tardiness of Fanime AA sign ups i am now confirmed to be going to anime boston. Scouting hotel rooms if anyone has space :3

THANKS

Woah thank you to ^ValaSedai for i can only assuming randomly finding my icon and deciding to feature it @_@, so flattering! It's definitely one of my favorite pixel pieces i've made and i'm so happy other people like it and that maybe more people will see it TuT

Also a big thank you to deviants who took the time to look at my main page and are reading this right now, big ol' virtual hugs to you! Extra super thanks if you decide to watch me ToT! I hope you enjoy looking around my page! I'm pretty busy right now but if you go to anime conventions in the US maybe i'll see you at one i'm going to! My list is below this journal (:!  

Nightmares

Since I wanted to say thank you i thought i might as well do a regular journal update for other watchers. I'll be uploading button designs soon me thinks, and possibly art from the game company i'm working with? Definitely before the end of the month because of SakuraCon.

The only think about sakuracon is that i'm starting to have like reoccuring stress nightmares about it. It's gotten to the point where i'm not sure if i've had like 3 or 4 in one night or 3 or 4 spread out and my brain is only just remembering them now, etc. Mostly it's like, i dream i'll forget something integral to my table like my prints or my display, or i'll totally miss one day some how like i forget to show up saturday and just don't make any money. JUST WEIRD SHIT that would never happen irl but yea LOL. It seems like every time i have a con i start having stress nightmares about it.

Why cant' i have regular scary movie nightmares? I read so much horror manga but they just never come XD

By Feb 28th
• Journey Print(s?)
• Ghost Book Entry  
• Get prints to be made

By March 20th
• BUTTONS, MILLIONS OF THEM    
• Make new con display
• Make button board  
• Figure out how taxes work (HA HA HA HA HA)

Kiriban get!

Congrats to ~KeinZantezuken for getting the 123,456 kiriban! The next one will be set for 141592. Bonus points if you know why that number : D Hopefully i will use it again when i get above 300K too WINKK

Recent Going Ons

I just signed up for the animeNext artist alley in new jersey, it's on the east coast so i thought it would be worth a shot. I've also started playing Style Savvy: Trendsetters which is a shop owning sim + fashion dress up game. And I know what everyone is thinking, oh it's a ~girly game~ which mean it's bad and stupid or shovelware, which is an unfortunate preconception. It's hella sad that when we see a game that's aimed towards a feminine audience we assume it's bad, because most of those games ARE bad, because companies don't take women and girls seriously. They think we're stupid and we'll buy any game they make even if it's utter shit. It's not that feminine subject matter is by it self bad game material, it's that companies choose to make feminine games poorly.

SO WHAT I'M SAYING, is this game is just really well made and addictive (: anyone who enjoys the dress up aspect of things, whether it be gaia online or customizing your armor in rpgs, you'll probably like this game. If you like min-maxing numbers / metagaiming and number grinding you'll probably really like this game too. IF YOU LOVE BOTH YOU'LL PROBABLY LOVE THIS GAME HAHA.

Anyway, that's all for now if you have this game we should trade info
Byeee~

To Do List

mostly for myself, but now you guys can hold me accountable It's a lot harder to get stuff done on top of work now TuT

By Feb 28th
• Journey Print(s?) :Star:
• Ghost Book Entry  :Star:
• Get prints to be made

By March 20th
• BUTTONS, MILLIONS OF THEM    
• Make new con display
• Make button board  
• Figure out how taxes work (HA HA HA HA HA)

Thank you!

I still have time to respond to all my comments (wow), but not enough time to personally thank new watchers lately. I'm so sorry, i hate deleting my notifications like this but if any of you see this, I just wanted to let you know i'm really thankful and i hope you'll like my future art

Kiriban @ 123,456

Just reminding everyone there will be a kiriban soon. The procedure now is the first person to send me a note with a link to a screen cap the first ~5 mins (as counted from the first note) with the exact number get its. If the first 5 mins doesn't see an exact sender it will default to first person with a screen cap with a higher number than the kiriban.

Don't dwaddle~

To Do List

mostly for myself, but now you guys can hold me accountable It's a lot harder to get stuff done on top of work now TuT

By Feb 28th
• Journey Print(s?) :Star:
• Ghost Book Entry  :Star:
• Get prints to be made

By March 20th
• BUTTONS, MILLIONS OF THEM    
• Make new con display
• Make button board  
• Figure out how taxes work (HA HA HA HA HA)

Valentine's

V-day cards have been mailed out today (: if you missed the announcement uhhh too bad i guess lol, i made two so you really have no excuse (;. Hope everyone who gets one likes it, i think this years are much cuter than last years . I will be uploading a digital version of them on the 14th for everyone else~

Job Get~

So I think i promised i'd talk about why I wasn't posting as much if people cared. I was basically picked up as a contract artist for a leetle game called steam bandits outpost, which you can learn more about at their kickstarter. To sum it up it's a town building game MINUS all the mandatory social/friend/energy/paying money bull shit. Basically my kinda casual game @o@. I love little addictive games, but i HATE when they're like oh you can't do this unless you invite 20 friends, or you have to wait 6 hours unless you pay $2 etc. etc. Being able to help out with a game that rejects all that is awesomeeeee (it will NOT be on facebook LOL). And if the game is successful the idea is to make different games in the same world of a different genre that will connect to that game, so an adventure game where you interact with the town game to get special items crafted using your adventure spoils, this way you can play with friends who might prefer a different genre of game, OR if you're like me you'll probably play all the games yourself and trade with yourself >_>.

ANYWAY I hope people check it out and i will definitely be posting updates about when people can get it since it's free anyway~ I've only been helping out for like two weeks but i'm just really chuffed cause i love working with a group of people who play games as much as i do and love the same things i do. It has been a huge personal challenge for me because of my major and how i felt i didn't fit in too well in that regard and just YEA in general i'm really happy even if i have less time to do personal art ^u^

REGARDLESS THOUGH, i still will be producing personal art because i have a huge con list this year, and I will be posting something on feb 9th or 10th to celebrate chinese/lunar new year (: Look forward to that, it's um pretty.. scaley ho ho ho~

When we got the Journey OST a while back we didn't know there was an art book, and we didn't know the art book came with the OST either, so now we just have a free OST code thing for PS3? You can only redeem it on playstation store, and then i think you can move it off there i dunno how it works.

If you love journey and want a legit copy of the OST but aren't planning to buy the art book leave a message and I'll send you the code.

If no one wants i'll put it on tumblr later Given away~

Updates

Hope everyone is doing ok, I got some work that's going to take up a lot of my time that I'll talk more about later xOx. The other thing is Ni No Kuni @_@, the Level 5 + Studio Chibli (and Joe Hisaishi) game for the ps3. So when pretty much when i'm not working, i'm playing that, and trying to get more prints done for this con season rawr.

Well anyway, here's the game trailer, has anyone picked it up too? It's so brutal, maybe i'm just getting old lol

Gifties

I got some gift arts from people for my birthday and i thought i'd just show it off cause i love them and i'm so flattered to receive gift art in any capacity TuT


And one non art gift awmygawd from a friend who went to japan. I have a suspicion he thinks he still owes me for making a scalemate for him hahahaha


If you've never heard of poppin cookin i seriously suggest you watch this video, it's a cheap food making toy from japan where you can make mini versions of food you can actually EAT. So those balls in the fake sushi, they're actually bursting fruit balls that you make yourself from the kit. LEGIT AWESOME. Also hokkaido beer caramel..mm.. chewy beer.. XD

January almost overrr

I feel so unproductive XD even though i'm applying for work and doing things, waiting for contracts to get signed and researching how taxes work. All this boring stuff. Having nightmares about cons, dreaming i've missed cons or went to cons unprepared or made no money at cons. Eep! Hopefully sakura-con will go smoothly xOx

Thank youuuuuuuu

Omg so many birthday wishes xOx! Thanks so much, it means so much to me because I'm not living in my home town anymore, which means I don't get to see my friends and that means less people to celebrate with (not that i don't love my boyfriend ha haha), but to see so many wishes from people online really makes me feel better! Thank you to everyone who took the time to stop by and wish me a happy birth day ^_^, i am a crusty wrinkly 24 now LOL

2013 Con list

I will probably update my profile ID so this will always be in the front page when i update some other layout things, but for now I will have it here (:

bold italics mean sign ups have not happened so i am not guaranteed but i would for sure like to go if i could  
italics means that that i am not sure if i want to go at all
Bold text means I've already either bought plane tickets or hotel or paid for my table so i am sure

Sakura-Con - Seattle, March 29-31
ACEN - Chicago, May 17-29
Fanime OR Anime Boston - May 24-27/28
AKON - Dallas, May 31- June 2
Anime Next - Somerset, NJ, June 7-9
Anime Expo - LA July 4-7
Otakon - Baltimore, Aug 9-11
AM2 OR Japan Expo USA - Aug 23-25
Anime USA - DC, Sept 13-15
AWA - Atlanta, Sept 27-29
Nekocon - Virginia - Nov 1 - 3

Hope to see some of you guys at the cons! It's a lot more than what i did in 2012 (2.5.. ish.. ? lol)

Kickstart Veracity

I haven't actually told anyone about this but i've done some work for a lovely author who was funded once through kickstarter :3 She's doing it again with the rest of the series and it would be super awesome if you guys could check it out and maybe consider backing it!

I did the sketches of the characters and some scene sketches for the first book, and the cover of the second (you can see it in the video preview still OMGGGGGGG I have not posted this art any where else mwahahaha. I've also actually read the books and I'm actually pretty proud to say i've helped the series in some way.

If you know me, you'll know i'm pretty concerned about media representation about many things and the impact it can have on people, and every project i work on has the potential to both do good and bad. Sometimes you work with things that might be potentially problematic, sometimes that decision goes above you.

BUT I think this book series sits firmly on the good side of this. It has so many things that other books I've read haven't even touched before, and handled all nicely and in an original fantasy world. I would be honored to finish the work i started with the series, and the kickstarter goals are actually pretty small @o@, The first $500 goal is already reached but $1000 and $1500 would cover the last two books as well!

If you like reading for fun I definitively recommend the first book she's already published, it's only 99¢ on amazon right now i think, and if you back the project for $5 you get the rest of the books too @_@, so $6 basically for a good read and for support your indie authors and artists.

Basically it would mean oodles to me if you would check out her kickstarter and considered backing it to help someone's modest dreams come true <3

_{p.s. my birthday is in 3 days and this would make me really happppy wink wink wink}

Too much art

In other news, I wonder if i'm spamming you guys with too much simple art? Should i just be keeping these in scraps or my tumblr? And would anyone be interested in discounted commissions for that style? (faster and no WIPs, must have reference pics) Prolly be around $20-50 for waist up to full body. You can compare to regular prices in the commission info box there VVVVVVVVVVVVV

WOAAAAAAAH I got this in the mail when i came back to maryalnd (good bye west coast!). It was made by ~mereille-chan as a surprise gift omggggggg

I AM NOT WORTHY



I didn't assemble it all the way but the bottom stand can be used as a business card holder for cons TE HEEE right now it's just chillaxing next to my computer monitor cause it's like woah-mazing, seriously. It's about 7-8" tall and STANDS. Cause i've seen pearler bead type art before but NEVER ONE THAT STANDS BY IT SELF LIKE THIS.

AND

IT'S MY ICON!! HOW COOL IS THAT??

I can't get over it seriously LOL. I just wanted to show you guys cause it's the art of a fellow deviant and she totally deserves the spot light for making something so cool ANDDDDD BEING A COOL PERSON ON TOP OF THAT OK o_o

THANK  YOU !

ACEN

I'm accepted as an artist for ACEN but I'm not sure it's worth it to go because I don't think i know any artists in the area and hotel is crazy expensive. If i can't share hotel/stay with someone it is gonna cost way too much @_@

I also happen to have two tables, so if you wanted to sell but couldn't get in i'd be happy to let you buy one if you let me hotel with you (obvy i'd pay my share) or stay with you (and of course i'd chip in for gas etc :3).

If nothing comes up I'm just not going to acen lolll

Acen is confirmed now thank you to *AngelicRoyalty for setting me up with room @u@

New Years

I'm going to put up a poll about new years resolutions so i'd love to chat with you guys about that over there soonish, and i have a crap ton of sketches on my tumblr that i should prolly batch upload, just not sure how to upload the gifs.

God sorry i'm just not drawing as much. It should ramp up as sakuracon approaches cause i'll need at least a few new prints for that XD~

Anyone have exciting New years plans?

The Hunt Ends!

Sorry for the short delay, but the scavenger hunt results are finally ready! I drew them from top to bottom but I am announcing them from the lowest prize to the top, you know, for suspense reasons :U.

Before we go on though, consider leaving a comment for what you like about this event and what you didn't like!

Did you want to enter but could not? What changes would have made you want to enter? Did you prefer last years event more? Do you prefer a pure raffle instead of an effort based event?

Would you have preferred different / more prizes?

What would you have rather seen, or did you like the event as is?

Results

Now for the first prize, who won a free icon for donating to the donation pool? Every point donated was an entry into the pool, and the winner is...

Donation Pool Icon
~C-Jackline-M
_{Winner please contact me as to what icon you'd like!}

Next, the raffle for 100 pts, everyone who commented and fav'd the hunt journal got one entry, and those who wrote journals to promote it got an extra two points!

Publicity Raffle
~Sir-Drago

For Strong efforts! Everyone who found 50 links or more was entered here xOx, two winners drawn from the pool will win 1 month of premium sub!

Strong Effort
=Yobtaf
*Jenndragon

Runner Ups! I stated before that those who made it to the 80th percentile or higher would be entered here. Turns out the 80th percentile comes out to a very competitive..151! ...Two winners will take home 3 months of sub OR halfbody sketch w/ simple shading

Runner Ups
*dalekexterminate
~budgiesarecool
_{Winners must note me which prize they want!}

Second place is the person who found the second most amount of links, they will win 6 months of premium sub and 200 extra points OR  Fullbody sketch w/ simple shading or textures etc. The winner found no less than 158 links!

Second Place
=AW08
_{Winner must note me which prize they want!}

Grand Prize

The moment we've been waiting for... ~*~* THE GRAND PRIZE *~*~ winner goes to the person who found absolutely the most links, clocking in at a very impressive 163 links out of 166! WOW! They can take 1 year of premium sub OR a fully rendered bust up! xOx WOOH

Grand Prize
~radioactiveshake
_{Winner must note me which prize they want!}

Statistics & Closing

Well i hope that was fun for those who entered! I'll close with some interesting statistics :3

On points:
Average: 130.4
Median: 140
Standard Deviation: 28.0238

On Odds:
The odds of winning a prize in the hunt  if these were totally raffled would have been one hair less than 1:6, if you didn't enter you were missing out on some pretty good odds ; )

The odds of winning a prize if you made it into the 80th percentile were 1:2! Dizzang~


So my watchers, we close another year with over 6,000 points given away xOx. I hope i see you guys and more next year! Do you have a suggestion for what you'd like to do next year? I would love to hear any and all suggestions! Happy holidays and I hope ya'll have a great new year!

UPDATE

The Hunt has officially ended our glorious huntees will be removing icons (or have been since midnight), hunters still have till tonight 11:59pm EST to get their items in order and send their entries in though! If you have not started you can still try, but there is no guarantee all icons will still be there is all : O

I also want to announce that there will be alternative prizes if for some reason you prefer art over subscription @o@, the prizes affected:

• Grand Prize: 1 YEAR subscription to dA + 250 pts
  • OR a fully rendered bust up xOx


• Second Place: 6 Month subscription to dA + 200 pts
  • OR a Fullbody sketch w/ simple shading or textures etc.


• Runner Ups: 3 Month subscription to dA (2)
  • OR a Halfbody sketch w/ simple shading or textures etc.

Obviously you can pick between them so if you were aiming for subs this doesn't affect you, but if you were for some reason hoping for art here ya go XD

I will be flying out to San Francisco tomorrow, so i will be packing/cleaning today and tomorrow. I aim to announce winners before or on christmas, so please stay tuned for the announcing journal @o@.

LASTLY, Please do stay safe today. The world is NOT going to end but some people may do things because "the world is going to end so might as well anyway", that is the only danger so please please be careful if you're heading out or something @o@!

OLD: The Hunt is now OVER

Welcome to the second annual sub give away, and the first scavenger hunt! Your goal this week will be to locate as many hidden holiday icons as possible and send them straight to me! This contest has been specially sponsored by myself (obviously lol) and these wonderful people who've donated a substantial amount to this endeavor:
Please give them a great thank you! They have helped fund our wonderful PRIZES!

PRIZES

• Grand Prize: 1 YEAR subscription to dA + 250 pts


• Second Place: 6 Month subscription to dA + 200 pts


• Runner Ups: 3 Month subscription to dA (2)


• Strong Efforts: 1 Month subscription to dA (2)


• Publicity Raffle: 100 pts

The grand prize is awarded to the person who found the most links! In the case of a TIE, the winner will be randomly drawn amongst those who tied.

The second place is the person who found the second most, or else the second person drawn from the previous tie.

TWO runner ups are drawn from people who have found made it to the 80th percentile amongst all entrants!

TWO strong efforts will be drawn from people who have found at least 50 links!

•ONLY WATCHERS QUALIFY for the above prizes!•

If you are not a watcher (or if you are), you can win 100pts by FAVING THIS JOURNAL or leaving a comment, each giving you one ticket towards the raffle, OR making a journal promoting this contest which earns you 3 tickets! Winner of the 100pts will be awarded along with everyone else when the hunt ends (:

Instructions

Now for exactly what you are doing, please read carefully!

You will be looking for these exact icons hidden in the deviations or deviation descriptions of certain deviant galleries:

They may appear in the description of deviations or the deviation images themselves, or even both. But only each LINK you find counts towards your total!

The galleries you must hunt through belong to these deviants:

*Shattered-Earth
~6OClock
~OtakuSquirrel
~OyasumiYumiko
~chowpan
~starlightgenie
~JillLenaD

Icons found in other deviant galleries do NOT count!

The event officially ends Dec 20th, 11:59pm EST, but you may send entries by Dec 21st 11:59pm EST, however icons will be starting to be removed on the 20th so there is no gaurantee if you wait till the 21st to look for icons.

You must send ME ONE (1) note with the follwing:

• The total number of links you found, ex: 56


• Every link you found listed, preferably the fav.me link!

If you do not have either of these you will not be counted as an entrant! DO NOT send notes as you find links, collect them and send them all at once when you think you've found them all/want to stop.

With that, I wish you GOOD LUCK! If you have any questions, please check the faq before you leave a comment :3

FAQ

Hover for answers!












AGAIN if you have any questions not answered here please leave a comment (or note) to ask!

Sponser List

Lastly please give a super thanks to all the people who helped give more prizes to this hunt <3
=nikkidoodlesx3 *TenLongFingers ~ciequs ~XxVampirexChildxX *TanukiSensei ~purplebaer ~JillLenaD *noquietinhere ~foe82377 ~C-Jackline-M

RIP

27 dead, shooter IDed. Apparently mother of the shooter worked at the school (not sure story changing)?  

update: The mother of the suspected shooter was found dead in her son's residence in Newtown, a law enforcement source with detailed knowledge of the investigation told CNN. CNN had previously identified the mother as Nancy Lanza, a teacher at the Sandy Hook Elementary, according to law enforcement sources.

Old: NBC News is confirming that one shooter, gained access into Sandy Hook Elementary because his mother was the kindergarten teacher there. He opened fire in the school's office, before entering his mother's classroom, where he killed her, and then opened fire on her young students.

It honestly is hard to feel much, sadness from the fact that 18 of the victims were children under 6 years old, cynicism that the shooter's stats are not surprising at all (....), and of course looking forward to the ensuing gun control debate in the USA that never gets solved.

Nothing ever changes I guess...

Holiday Scavenger Hunt!

The hunt for holiday icons startsDecember 16th and will run to December 20th boys an girls! This is an event of appreciation for all my watchers, there is a 1-year sub up for grabs and more! Hurray!
Please thank these special sponsers so far for donating over 100pts to this event:

This is an event where you are looking for these icons in specific deviant art galleries (will be listed on the 16th) and sending me the URLs to the deviations you find them in! Easy enough?



I wanted to get some questions out of the way so there is less confusion when the time comes (:, I found a nifty way to do a FAQ without taking too much space YEE HAAWWW! Check it out :3~~~

Scavenger Hunt F.A.Q

Hover the questions to receive answers! If you have anymore leave a comment!

Some questions for YOU guys! Do you think you'll enter ? Are the prizes good enough? Does it make sense?

_{This event was inspired by =firstfear's halloween scavenger hunt last year! :3}

Congratulations, 30 Character peeps~

Wow that was like the longest freaking november wasn't it? I'll be uploading a giant sketch dump of all of mine later tonight even though they were terribad...

I don't know why but I wasn't so good this year XD, but enough of myself, here are the final week of participants in the 30 Character Challenge!

And lets us never speak of this again TuT

Scavenger Hunt

So if you were ignored my poll asking for donations I'm now telling you here to look out for a scavenger hunt later this month. There will be at minimum a 1-year subscription to DA as a prize, plus a few more goodies (maybe a few 3 or 1 months). This is also a followers only event, as a reward cause ya'll are speshul to me <3

What's a scavenger hunt though?

Basically I will be hiding little christmas/holiday themed icons in people's galleries for you to collect, and whomever sends the most URLS with those icons in them to me will win (:, there will be runner up prizes for those who put the most effort and maybe even a small raffle for those who help spread the word. Here is an example of one!. Excited? I am! Well not too excited with all the logistical planning.. BUT STILL EXCITED IN A WEIRD WAY OK

Are you looking forward to participating? Does it sound confusing? Is the prize FABULOOUUUSS enough for you?

Lastlyyyyy... if you are rich in points, consider donating some on my main page to provide more prizes for everyone? All donations are entered into a raffle for a free icon from me!

Features Week 3

Heyy yooo we only got one participant this week so may they bask in the glory of being the single feature!

Next week is the last week for the 30 character challenge, anyone can join in at anytime so if you can send me 5 drawings next friday you get a feature too : D Deets here!

Boob socks

I made a post on tumblr making fun of one of my pet peeves LOL. It's basically about how some artists draw breasts as if their clothes had seperate "socks" for each breast (which never happens). Click through to see the offending images!



This is why you don't draw breasts as totally separate things if the girl is wearing a shirt ok, when was the last time you saw a shirt with boob flaps for each breast? NEVER, so DON'T DO IT. It looks ridonk ok LOL.

Misc game stuff / links

Return of the misc items section, here are some interesting links for your perusal:

•Why media portrayal of race matters
•The importance of drawing what you really SEE and not what you THINK you see
•The importance of pricing correctly
•Lastly, the cutest fucking photoset of snow leopards on earth *ever*

And lastly, i beat the E4 in pokemon black 2, I got the indie game Anna on steam yesterday (got 2 endings out of 3), I also got the ADVENTURE TIME game on 3ds this week. It's quite short but packed with great graphics and writing/references to the tv show. I got a cool sword-stylus with it though : D~ Last sunday I also saw Skyfall and it was my first James Bond movie LOOOL. People told me i was spoiled now because it's one of the best JB movies so uhh.. woops >_>

30 Character Challenge

Participants don't forget to Note me your arts tonight (or early tomorrow morning lol) if you want a feature. Gosh i know i'm not that popular so a feature isn't a big deal but i would like to see your pretty arts and have everyone drawing, even though turkey day!

Speaking of which.. How was your Turkey Day? Did you eat a lot? Did you see your loved/hated family? Did you have awkward conversations with strangers? Are you going to / have you done at black friday shopping?

More importantly, do you have left overs ~

_{P.S. I bought a button machine so if you want some buttons made of shit let me know bby}