AHA, where have -you- been??

I've been busy! Honest to god! I'm really sorry to anyone and everyone who was expecting more doodles.
D: About month or two ago a bunch of crazy people with their crack *cough*MONSTER HUNTER PORTABLE 2G*COUGH* gave me some of their crack and I got -ADDICTED-. So I was playing that since the two week vacation we had between semesters. D: I like my cat that only buffs AND DOESN'T MAKE THE DRAGON RUN IN THEIR DIRECTION. That makes for more chasing time and less Hammer-in-the-face time . What else, ... AH. YEAH, MY Laptop! It asploded, well, not really, a Windows file got corrupted and my laptop refused to start up. I thank my computer savvy friend for fixing it. 感動します～!! It doesn't connect to the home network though, but that's fine.

Aww yeah, what else??

I've been looking for a job after I graduate at the end of the year (HOPEFULLY. I don't trust my University's speed at resolving errors, wrong class allocation, etc). Maybe starting next year, I'll be saying hello from Seoul. ^^

I've also been approached by a man to work on a Trading Card Project. It sounds interesting, I've decided to participate in designing and drawing a whole bunch of stuff with a group of peeps. Half excited, half nervous~!! Some time in the future, you might be able to see my work, hahaha

Fascinating life story, but... your Brawl Round 2 drawings...D: D: D:

It'll be worked on! Albeit sporadically because I have slightly more important agendas to attend to, such as final semester at University, and career searching (...if only I could marry a rich man, then I can work on being a better artist without fear of starving to death). But it'll get done. Hopefully it doesn't end up like that time I did the Western Zodiac... and only did six -- then the remaining six -2 years later- D:! But yeah, I will keep it in mind - I do enjoy looking at their bright and blinding colours haha.

I'm no stalker, but is there some way to follow you?

There sure is! Well... not really. D: Theres Twitter, Quassihollic. I don't use it often, but the times I do, its life-related haha... and mostly complaints because I'm a whiner. hahaha. Oh, and Facebook which I'm on everyday. Yay for addiction and the occasional insomniac episodes. However, it is probably boring as hell -- its Quas the person, not Quas the rainbow puker. lol

Anyway, I'll try to get some more done >___<


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... did you guys hear about Final Fantasy XIV? Oh my god, I'm going to waste so much time on it. I want to play it so bad!! Also, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm? I'm not a super duper dedicated WoW fan and my characters are terrible, and I have yet to even get a flying mount... I WANT TO EXPLORE A CHANGED AZEROTH

... and Scribblenauts on the DS. Y'all should go out and buy it when it comes out. ;___; It is so.... awesome looking.

If it is one type of person I hate on dA, it is the person whose ego is bigger than their ass and as fragile as wet toilet paper and no real skills to back them up.

To all those people, who get snarky at other people who critique their work without sugar coating it -- get over yourselves. If you cannot separate blatant trolling/flaming and a blunt criticism, its -your- problem. Stop throwing a hissy fit like a spoilt brat and grow up. As my professor says "Take a spoonful of cement and harden the fuck up." Straight to the point with no bullshit.

Do I sound mean? I'm just a bit bothered by people i find that cover their ears and stick their heads in the sand because they don't like hearing anything negative about their work -- they'll only accept messages with a HEAP SPOON OF SUGAR dumped all over it. I'm sorry, but it does not matter how long or how hard you've worked on your piece, if it looks bad in the end -- IT LOOKS BAD IN THE END. You, the person with terrible art, who claims they worked hard on their work, are you implying that people whose work looks fundamentally sound DIDN'T work just as hard to get their piece to where it is? This is why I can't take most people on deviantART seriously. :< -- A lot of the time, it just feels like that, as a child, they weren't praised enough or hugged enough by their parents so they seek attention here. *SAD FACE*


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I FEEL THE NEED FOR THIS TO BE SPREAD AROUND.

Taken straight from [link]

Also, note, before you get all butthurt (...hehehe) over it, because the first line is "You need to stop drawing anime." Read it the whole way through -- because it doesn't say to stop drawing anime FOREVER, and it's not saying anime is dumb and a waste of time. Now breathe, stay calm... and read it with an open mind.

You need to stop drawing anime.

This isn't something you have a choice in. If you are truly serious about your artistic improvement, you need to stop drawing anime. You can go back to it later once you've learned the basics, but until you have a firm grasp of anatomy, value/light, perspective, color theory, composition, etc. you are not ready to stylize in any capacity. Being an artist is fucking hard, and you cannot cut corners just because you don't want to spend time learning the boring things. Very few people want to actually draw photorealism, but you have to know how. Simplifying forms, in a way, is much, much harder than drawing things as they are.

Realism is not a style, but a foundation upon which all other art forms are based. Every truly successful artist learned to draw from life before he stylized his artwork. Even abstraction is grounded in life (albeit further removed than some other forms); an abstract artist still needs to know how to use symbols to connote feelings and represent complex forms. He has to know what a real person looks like to be able to create a symbol which registers as "human" to the viewer. He has to know how colors and shapes and their arrangement subtly affect the human mind in order to invoke the desired emotion within the painting. All of these things apply to anime/manga artists as well.

A realistic painter, an abstract artist and a mangaka (I feel gay saying this but I don't want to repeat "___ artist" again) all draw the same thing: the human form. Each artist does so in a different manner, but fundamentally, they are representing the same exact thing. Each of these artists learn, or at least should learn, how to draw the human form in the same way -- they start with what they see, and only after that has been mastered do they move onto exaggerating and altering the anatomy and form in favor of something more aethestically pleasing or appropriate for the piece's mood and context. You cannot start drawing things stylized to begin with, or your learnings are fundamentally flawed from the beginning; instead of consciously stylizing things in a way to make them more appealing, you end up languishing in ignorance, further and further distorting the form until it's so far gone it's not even recognizably human -- you're stylizing something that is already a stylization. It just doesn't work. You have to have that foundation, something you can return to in order to understand what makes something human and what makes something not look human, or you will be completely blind to your errors.

Tracing the footsteps of an artist you admire is always more productive than blindly copying his final works. And I will reiterate, yet again, what exactly every single successful artist in history has done: he learned from life. He drew what he saw, he studied anatomy, he carefully watched how light behaved, and he supplemented his observations with textbook knowledge that was not drawn by 13 year old girls on DevianTART. Yes, even anime/manga artists. Amuria and Ramy are not people you should aspire to.

Picture related [link] . It's by Pablo Picasso, one of the most famous abstract artists of all time. Even he knew how to make a realistic painting; it was his solid foundation in the basics of art that made his subsequent foray into the abstract arts so successful.

IF YOU WANT TO BE TAKEN AS A SERIOUS ARTIST* AND/OR YOU WANT TO IMPROVE HOW YOU DRAW, YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO THIS -- Or at least consider it.

*I'm not a serious artist. This is my hobby, but if I were -- I'd be drawing from life all. the. freaking. time.

( If you truly aspire to being the best artist you can be, be humble and open to the idea of criticism and seeing your own flaws and don't start getting on the defensive. I'm not saying call bullshit on anyone who tries to compliment you on your work, just take it as a thanks and continue getting better -- DONT STOP. )

６月２４日: On vacation, must lose 8kgs before friend comes visit in August. Must. Be. A. Skinny. Bitch, hahahah... So goal is to lose weight, and perhaps draw another few bookmark Super Smash Brawl Round 2 pictures, amongst other things!

6월11일에: WHY. So this morning I was trying to open up my Photoshop CS3 so that I could print something for my Korean Exam, LO AND BEHOLD... while loading, it freezes when 'Loading Preferences...'. Blaaaargh a thousand emo tears What should I do?? I mean, thankfully Photoshop 7 still works, GOOD OL' TRUSTED PS7 <3 ... but a lot of brushes that I use aren't compatible with PS7

Maybe time for a reinstall, EPIC SAD FACE. I'll do next Friday after my final exam for 'Dilemmas of International Relations'. Speaking of which, I got my research paper back for that subject. I got a Credit which is a 'C' i guess? Our marking system goes HD (High Distinction) D (Distinction) C (Credit) P (Pass) F (FISH! I mean, FAIL) then E (Hey, you didnt even hand it in!). When doing my paper, i just pictured an Asian man talking, for purposefully incorrect grammar and awkward phrasing. Its worked and the professor marked more leniently. Yep, abusing the "Oh I'm asian, me dont understand what you're saying" power, even though Im so white-washed

Anyway, yeah, thats my rant. DAMN YOU PHOTOSHOP CS, why do you have to be the way you currently are - FROZEN.

I also want to get a fringe and lose about 7~8 kgs, but thats another whole new can of worms. :<


リスト：
Bowser
Captain Falcon
Diddy Kong
Donkey Kong
Falco
Fox
Ganondorf
Ice Climbers
Ike
Jigglypuff
King Dedede
Kirby
Link
Lucario
Lucas
Luigi
Mario
Marth
Meta Knight
Mr. Game & Watch
Ness
Olimar
Peach
Pikachu
Pit
Pokémon Trainer (Squirtle, Ivysaur, Charizard)
R.O.B.
Samus
Snake
Sonic
Toon Link
Wario
Wolf
Yoshi
Zelda
Sheik
Zero Suit Samus

大学生活： Probably fail this semester because I'm absent from many classes. I do well when I'm actually in class, if I ever decide to turn up that day. >__> Stupid attendance obligations =_____=;;

日本の秋田で恋人できた。笑。　（私もう帰った　＊ＳＡＤＦＡＣＥ＊）

I'll make this short XD

I'm at the university library here in Akita, Japan~ I've been too lazy to go buy a LAN Cable for my laptop so i can have internet in my room, so yeah, I'm hardly on the internet at all. I'll come back as soon as i settle down here in Japan.

LOL, my room is so small, and i share it with someone.

Anyways, goodbyes for now~