New Pic!

should have been working on writing... but this happened. and i hate that i have to put all that watermark crap on, but i've had stuff stolen

Faces of the Days

yesterdays, it was too hot to go upstairs and upload it in time

today's picture; and this character is mine!

Face of the Day

this character is DEFINITELY OWNED BY ME!!!

Face of the Day

this was yesterdays... forgot to post it. and now for today's...

Face of the Day

Kiss

just for fun. image and characters belong to me

Pics

done in pastels for class.

a self portrait done in charcoal for class

Contest Entry

for a contest on DeviantART http://drachearannak.deviantart.com/journal/31000059/

Dorothy

okay, well i didn't actually intend to do any fan art, but it was a good piece to practice coloring with. Big O is one of my fav animes and Dorothy is a great character! anyway, just some quick fun and practice. oh and the shadow was me being lazy and seeing if it would work

the charcter is owned by Keiichi Sato. the pic is owned by me.

Cause and Effect Final

Bad Hair

            My hair is bad. Recently I have had to shave my long mane down to my skin, in a desperate act to save face. Before I clipped it, my hair hung past my shoulders like a limp unwound rope. The tresses were dry, torn, and, had an odd assortment of colors within the layers. And if you burnt a stand of my hair, it would melt like plastic, rather than sizzle, as it should. Now my hair has the ugly, mullet shape, typical of its newness. My bad hair is my own fault, though; having treated it cruelly, throughout the years. It is thanks to my own abuses of; bleaching, coloring, and unhealthy living habits, which made my hair, became a strange grass that I had to plow away.

            When I was young, I decided that I wanted to have hair in the rainbow colors of my favorite cartoon characters. But, since I have hair that is naturally only a step above black in color, I quickly learned that I would have to bleach my hair to a lighter shade, if I wanted any other color to be noticeable.  The process took usually around forty five minutes to complete, depending on how long my locks were at the time. Mixing a creamy, hydrogen peroxide developer, used to open the hair follicles, so that the color can be pulled out from within the hair shaft; with a powdered potassium persulfate lightener, which did the actual pulling out of the color. The concoction had to cover every stand of hair, and stay for a half an hour; all the while, I waited in a well ventilated space to prevent suffocation. The scalp would tingle and burn, leaving me later with a numb feeling and a headache. Then, as I washed off the chemicals, small clumps of my hair would fall out, sacrificed for the cause. In the end, I would be left with a head of blond that still darker in some places, and white in others, depending on how many times previously it had been tampered with.

             As if the bleaching process wasn’t bad enough, I would right away go on to put in a new color. In the past, I have been every color of the rainbow for some amount of time; reds, blondes, greens, blues, purples, pinks, and even lighter brunets. Again I would mix the hydrogen peroxide, to again open the hair follicle; with a new chemical color, to put into the hair shaft. And again, the concoction would stay in my hair for a half an hour, as I would sit in a ventilated space to avoid the toxins. The only reprieve was that no more hair would fall away as I washed out the chemicals. All of the work leaving me with brightly colored, but at the same time, lifeless hair.

            Lastly, smoking, my unhealthy diet, and sleeping habits are not helping to improve my hair either. To grow speedily and strong, hair needs beta carotene, and other such vitamins. The body also needs energy charged by sleep, so that it can convert the proteins into hair. However, fighting against the body’s natural functions is the poisons from cigarettes. The smoke stunts the progression of hair growth, making the new hair as limp and lifeless as the hair that has been damaged by the bleaching and coloring chemicals.

            So, learn from my past. Be kind to your hair, and don’t abuse it with chemicals both inside and out. Hopefully, I will have learned my lesson, though I can’t positively say that I will. Because despite how bleach, color, and other habits make one’s hair into straw, they are all very addictive habits. So I guess that I will have bad hair.

For Good - inking WIP

kill me now.... either i'm WAY out of practice... or there's some trick i don't know..... actually it's both... but it's coming, see? any suggestions as i go?

the characters are mine. so no using them for any purpose without my agreement.

Gorgon

i should be inking my last pic, but i got distracted and drew this. she's a character of mine, but in a completely different fashion and style than i've ever drawn her in before. i'm really happy with it. so i think i'll ink it after "For Good". though i could use input, should she keep the circle chain belt too? or should i drop it? i can't decide.

the character belongs to me, and no one has right to her, but me.

Classification Essay *Rough Draft

Semi-Public Acts

Porn, it is that dirty little secret that everyone has. According to Brigham Young University’s ‘National Pornography Statistics’, American’s have made the porn industry a twelve billion dollar business. To put this into perspective, porn makes more than ABC, NBC, and, CBS’s combined revenues. So, considering these statistics, it seems safe to assume that everyone over the age of eighteen, has at least once, been into a porn shop. However, because a porn shop isn’t usually an everyday stop for people, everyone reacts and behaves differently upon entering. Some are quiet and secretive, while others are loud and proud. And it is the entertaining factor of these reactions and behaviors that make working at a porn shop so enjoyable.

The first type of patron, I like to call a “Newbie”. Usually under the age of twenty-one, the Newbies tend to travel in small groups of six or less. With them, there is always a slightly more experienced youth, who tries to show off experience and knowledge that they don’t have. The Newbie however, might as well come alone, since they almost always ignore their guide in favor of being shocked over the sheer amount of products in the store. With eyes wide, and chin on the ground, Newbie’s always whisper with awe, “How much stuff does there need to be”, not able to comprehend the sheer amount of choices that they now have. When approached, Newbies always look as if they want to shrink and disappear; but making a Newbie laugh about what they’re looking at, will always un-guard them.

“Bulldozers” are definitely people who do no need to be unguarded, though they are the most guarded. Named for their loud and gregarious behavior, Bulldozers have no problem announcing their intentions, but rarely ask honest questions. Male, and female Bulldozers, do have a slight difference of routines in the store. Often female Bulldozers will spend some time when they first walk in, looking around and laughing at products. Then they will go and collect what they came to purchase, and then loudly ask “why their favorite vibrator is no longer available”. Male Bulldozers will enter the store and immediately approach the employee with a verbal list of what they want. Both sexes of Bulldozers need to have an eye kept on, because theft and destruction of displays is fairly common.

“Couples”, do not need much attention. Both literally and figuratively wrapped up in one another, Couples will quietly search the store, seeing what tickles their fancy. Rarely does an employee approach a Couple, except to greet them to the store, or sometimes to remind them that the store is a public place and that others are watching. Often, however, Couples will ask employee’s opinions on products, which can greatly be taken advantage of, since they tend to be the big spenders.

“Morning Porn-ers”, far and away, spend the most money over time. More negatively called “Addicts”, these gentlemen are so called for showing up first thing when the store opens. Seen nearly everyday, they develop a relationship with the employees based on so often asking, “If anything new came in”. Quietly, they can spend up to seven hours looking through the DVD selection. An employee’s best friend; Morning Porn-ers will laugh with you after a particularly odd customer leaves, help pass the time discussing an array of different topics, or even sometimes acting as security when someone is behaving threateningly. They do have their negatives though; often being quite odd themselves, sometimes filling the store with bad smells or bodily fluids, and sometimes developing stalker like tendencies.

Of course, each of these types of customers; the Newbie, the Bulldozer, Couples, or Morning Porn-ers; can share traits with the others, making more extreme types. There are all kinds of people in the world, and all of them have some curiosity about how far sex can go. And while it may seem odd, a porn shop is just about the safest place a person can be, because no one is there to judge any person’s preferences and desires. But that doesn’t mean that an employee won’t later laugh about your behavior.

For Good

I haven't really had a "thought" today, in terms of what I want this blog to be about. However I do think this does convey my artistic mood today.

And yes, I do own these characters.

To "Begin the Beguine"

Why does anyone start a blog? Does that person actually have something to say? Or do they simply want attention? It's been quite a few years since I have had a blog, or what was then just called an "online journal" (I'm sure that gives you some idea of the span of time). I'm not even sure if I could even find my old journal, let alone actually access it anymore. I was young and still highly impressionable by my friends, and by what they were doing. We all had our own little journals, which no one but ourselves paid any attention to. We posted quiz results that mocked our intelligence, and wrote bitching comments about the "other people". That journal was silly.
Hopefully, this blog won't just be silly. Welcome to "Today's Thought Is..."