i did a lot of arting things last night- i dug my new tria black marker out of my purse and messed around with it. even on cardstock it bleeds a little, but it's not too bad; i'll stick to my cheap pentel rsvp pens for most inking, i suppose. but i was using the really fine tip and muttering over the fact that it had only a really tiny fine line and a big clunky thick line (double ended markers really do kick ass, you know) when i stuck the fine tip cap on and pulled it off- and there was a medium line tip there! it's got three different tips! *laughs like a madwoman and falls over* i spent the next ten minutes pulling off the cap and putting it back on and pulling it off to stare at the different line widths. oh, i am easily amused.

mom wishes to get me art classes now so i can "draw the rest of the bodies for all those little heads". thusfar all my instruction has come from online tutorials and the how to draw manga books that kev gave me when i got back from bryn. and my art 1 class freshman year, but that just taught me tolerance and to fear teachers who climb on desks and how to make tempera paint act like watercolors. oh, and how to tell the difference between dali and magritte. i'm a die hard magritte fan, myself. (what am i talking about? i'm not a die hard -anything-) excuse me as i act like a pretentious elitist. ...okay, i'm done for the time being.

i really wish i had the software for the scanner- i drew a poster type thing for boffo, with all the major characters and their respective psychotic family members. i drew the best picture of Dei that i've ever drawn. and i drew him without a shirt and with his ponytail, too. i have trouble with ponytails on guys normally. and with having guys look at all masculine, which normally isn't a problem, but it can be annoying at times. (having an anatomy book not three feet away from you while doing these things is indescribably helpful- lets hear it for the discount racks at barnes and nobel!) also drew fanart- of an actual anime! -gasp- i couldn't help it; i've been on such a yuyu hakusho kick lately, and the picture turned out surprisingly well. i have a hard time with characters that aren't my own. it's a picture of hiei and kurama, naturally. kurama's face came out looking retarded, but hiei looks great- and he's giving kurama one of those deep, meaningful stares. -giggle- i couldn't help it. i used my new marker to color hiei's hair- it looks all shiny and black and very hiei like. (he's just so easy to draw- hair, headband, eyes, scarf. boom. done. give it a sulky expression, and no one will mistake it for anyone else. kurama, on the other hand, is a bitch. to draw, i mean. -coughgrin-)

this weekend while i'm at the shore i think i'll work on some strip concepts for i.q. because roy suddenly got herself a boyfriend (maybe he's just a boy friend, but with her, it's really hard to tell) by the name of jack. and roy's best friend still goes by the name of jack. and both of them are now crazier than she is, and they occasionally live in roy's basement. (the shenannigans that go on in my head never cease to amaze me.)

...i am contemplating joining the soulbonding board, since it is there, and it might be fun. alas, i am still shy. and retarded. -drools- and my last experience on a message board was not a happy one (years ago though it was).

-fumbles around for the right word- -deliberates!-
...no, that's not it. -hems- -haws- -hems some more, until pants are shorter than they ought to be- d'oh.
yes, i'm still boycotting the shift key for use of capitals and anything other than parenthesis and ! points. bwar.
(in otherwords, i'm quite relaxed and at one with the world. even if i do keep confusing this keyboard with the norwegian one and am hitting the wrong numbers for the parenthesis. hn.)
-stretches- -flies-