._. My avatar is my favorite too. For some reason I love love love bits like that.

I'm sure it's not too hard to figure out that I've had no professional background in the field. I use no guide lines, everything's grossly incomplete and most of my stuff looks pretty much the same. I also have a wicked no backgrounds complex and my poses and angles are very limited, which I have been working at for some time, and am kind of failing at. It's why I've dug around for references here and there every now and again.

On Dai (crazy-high zombie-man) the hands probably stick out to me because usually when I draw chibis they have big heads and then, as is typical of the generic style, everything else is little. I definitely doodled it just for the look on his face. n_n;

Also, thank you, and now, since my avatar had been brought up, I'll finally post the full version, which... isn't much more than what's already there. ._.

This is actually a work in progress that I got stuck with about a year ago. This one is Iaeruki; it was another peek much later into his ridiculously long and horrible life because I'm a sadistic b**** and can never ever give him true happiness without quickly wrenching it away from his grasp. 8D Er... *keff* More on that in a moment.

While this one might not ever actually get any further than this, I'd like to eventually finish it some day. My main problem right now is how to put in his shoulders, which have turned themselves into a rather vicious roadblock. Until I figure that out, it's pretty much locked in place. I am proud of what little is there, and I only used the reference I had for it a little.

There is a quote, from which it derives its name:
"He's... strange. He spends all of his time in his room, and leaves only for food. No one dares approach him; he never speaks, and many of the other patrons describe his gaze as something feral, yet abysmally hollow. No one knows what happened to him--how he lost his eye--but only when his mind dances a short waltz with lucidity do we know his voice, and then... only by his screams." --Aetsadia

It's called 'Lucid Screams'. The same quote also suits the picture of him I posted before the dragon.

Yay, scanner! 8D The beheading looks good; my only real issue is that the eyebrows look like they've been detached and slid out of place on his face. The lower teeth on The Mask honestly suit to the edginess that I remember of his character, so had you not pointed that out, I would never have known. And the face the little anime guy is making makes me giggle. :3

I sees a person in the doorway further back on the crosshatched picture. Said crosshatching is nigh dizzying. Also, Wingsies. : D

Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F - 1. Allegro

I can vouch for that. *raises her hand* ._. I'm a wicked grammar nazi, and that kind of thing drives me absolutely INASNE (balls) after awhile.

Dude, I has a question. Is it me, or has the loading times on the board choked up a bit all of a sudden? I got worried at first because I thought my router was crapping out. Then I switched over to another tab--oooh, I have an update!--and it loaded a minute later. Probably just a hiccup somewhere, yeah?

*pat pats* I'll be totally honest, I learned how to draw my first dragons by watching a whole lot of DragonBall. ._.; It's kind of embarrassing, but apparently it's yielded some results. That was a looong time ago, though; I've done a lot of fiddling with them since.

All of my art is self-taught. I actually started getting better when I was younger by first doing a lot of copy-work. From there I began swiping aspects from other styles, until eventually my own started evolving all on its own into what it's becoming now. I would probably rule in the amount of evolving it is indeed doing towards the depth of my current slump; when aspects of my art change, it gets harder for me to put out.

Also, it probably is the right shoulder. ._. It's just weird in general, ainnit? Hilariously I don't have much trouble with textured paper because half the time I'm using printer paper rather than blank journals or sketchbooks, but I think I only have two sketchbooks total, out of about five or six, that actually have particularly textured paper.

In concern with the reference, I'll have to find it, so don't be alarmed if you don't see anything about it for a few days. That repository gets bigger and bigger every day, and oh man, sometimes stuff disappears because people are stupid and let drama get in the way of art.

In the meantime, here's a silly little doodle I'd started in high school, but only finished last summer.

This looks like Iae, but it isn't. It actually goes to a role-play I did on a forum years ago, and I had loads of fun writing the part that this picture illustrates. Basically, this is a conjured copy of the man, recently undead, who had eaten this horrible fuzzy... thing, that in normal circumstances would make a person spontaneously explode. Apparently when an undead individual eats one of them they get ridiculously high.

Also, apparently when my chibis have actual hands, they're huge. ._.;

...I'm going to sit here and giggle for a moment now since my emo-haired post is a boy. n_n

Thanks, by the way, to everyone. And I have other little silly doodles like my third post. Perhaps I can pull out another one sometime.

Moving on, I have a bunch of actual sketchbooks, which is partly why my use of the notebook is somewhat inexcusable, even though everything seems to come out better on lined paper. ._. Speaking of pen sketches, I uploaded the newest one I have; I'll throw that one up here in a minute. First, though, I must ask, are you certain you'd want the reference photo? It was a nude I found in the deviantART stock repository (full profile, no 'detail', so to speak).

Now then, on to the latest pen doodle. This bugger here probably took me a good two or three hours one night while I was at my sister's house. I'll apologize for it being so large, but his face needs it, I swears. D:

The first thing I always have to say about it is that the angle of its head was a new one for me, which would explain why its jaw seems kind of awkward. I also could not figure out what the deuce to do with its horn, hence, broken. One of its shoulders is screwed up, can never figure out which one, and oh my god I hated its hips for giving me so much crap. D8

Let's see if I fail to not used (dammit) the backspace key. I make a lot of silly mistakes throughout the day, just because my fingers and my mind are out of synch. ._. Though, and forgive me for seeming a little presumptuous, but why would you whore out your stuff in a thiread like this (s***, I almost hit it. ._.;; )? ...Oh my god, I have horrible repetition issues, and redundancy ones, when I'm not able to fix my crap.

In Soviet Russia, meats butcher you.

I had the first of a three-session root canal today. I got up to nine or ten Novocaine shots in the lower right quadrant of my mouth, and spent the next two and a half hours lying partially upside down with my jaw strained open. I didn't feel a thing during the procedure, and was only a little dizzy for about five or ten minutes when I got out of the chair, but now, about two hours after I left the specialist's office, my face is still puffy over there, and there's a terrifying blood spot on the inside of my cheek that kind of hurts. He gave me a prescription for Percocet that I actually still need to go and pick up, but I imagine I'll do that later.

On a silly note, I look funny when I grin. =D And I had an extensive conversation with his assistant, while waiting for the Novocaine to work, on anime and books.

Oh, I know. His back does look funny. I've looked back on that multiple times, but when I compare it to the reference photo, it's right. It probably doesn't help that his wing is eating up the majority of the front of his profile. The blood that you see running down said wing is from the base of the membrane attached to his back. It's a little hard to see where the base ends and the span begins without color, especially when there's crap on top of it.

What's probably going to happen is that the pinky equivalent in the wing there, which I started to draw, but stopped, will probably be re-angled to be more parallel with whatever surface Iaeruki (the character there) is kneeled on. I feel like it ought to be a bit slumped, like he's in too much pain to lift it, since I'm sure those feathered wings tearing out of his back sure do hurt a butt-ton. ._.;

Also, thanks. n_n Talking about these things helps a lot. The same goes for when I get stuck in writing.

Here's a more recent sketch I did--funny enough it's of the same man, and I am impossibly angry at myself for having done it in a notebook. I've outlined it, but the lineart looks like arse by comparison to this one, even after the notebook lines and erase marks were cleaned up.

I did this one, I think, in December. I've been meaning to turn it into an avatar ever since, but my outlining skills went to crap during this recent, very long slump, so that's become a much bigger project than I first anticipated. I can only imagine what coloring is going to be like; I haven't done that in a good two and a half to three years.

I'll be the first to admit that despite the fact I definitely called this one a man, Iaeruki is probably ridiculously pretty enough that he looks kinda womanly. ...I blame his eyes. Maybe his hair. But mostly his eyes. He's even older in this picture than I usually draw him, and he still has a hard time pulling off manly. It's okay. He gets it from his grandmum.

Two major things wrong with it: his teeth are at the wrong incline to the angle of his jaw (I'll likely fix that in the next outlining attempts), and his ear is probably a little too forward (I'm not quite sure how I'll pull it back just yet).

One minor thing: his left eyebrow needs to be upturned too. > : |

(Kow Otani) Shadow of the Colossus - Resurrection

Ahhah, I am jumping waaaaay back several posts for this, because I can. <.<

._. Now I'm going to have to post a pen doodle because your quickie is very well done. I keep having to scroll back down while typing this post to get another look at the detail. The five minute you put up afterwards feels awkward only in one aspect really, and that is in the extended arm; it seems like the hand should be just a little bigger to convey that it's closer to the viewer, but for all I know this could be the ridiculous amount of local anesthetic in my head talking. Oh man.

I can see what you mean about the index finger on the suicide sketch; that was the first thing that stuck out to me and it's because it looks almost like it's a little too bendy and is sitting too close to the middle finger. I'm not sure how to explain what the blood looks like it's doing, but what comes to mind is the consistency of gloppy glue. o.o It looks fine, otherwise. n_n I can hardly draw hands worth a poop.

Since this thread has started turning into injury story-time, I have a few.

First, most recent, and speaking of burns, I was making up some bacon in the oven a few days ago, went to flip it (with my bare hands because I'm like that), and touched the metacarpal of my thumb to a 400-degree Farenheight coil. It blistered in about ten seconds, and now it's this big nasty wound running up to the base knuckle.

My second is related to finger-slicing. I was cutting up half-frozen hot dogs the night that I joined this forum with a serrated steak knife (Cutco, too, dammit those things are sharp), and because I'm such a genius, I was too lazy to use a plate as a cutting board and was actually cutting them in my hands. Now, I was being careful about it, otherwise I wouldn't have done it in the first place (still really stupid, I know), but like an idiot I cut the very last one differently by flipping it halfway through. Well, the knife went flying through after the halfway point on the other side and sliced cleanly into the end of my index finger. It's already healed over, but the scarring where the wound cleanly split is pretty obvious.

Third, and this one's a couple months under a year old, pertains to toe-injury. While out at the family summer home at Rocky Nook in August, I think, or maybe the end of July, I went out walking into the mud flats during the low tide. I had been warned to be careful out there, because there were all kinds of shellfish under the muddy silt, so I did, or at least I thought I did. I walked with my toes splayed and stepped lightly; as I reached about calve depth, I hit something that really hurt, paused, but kept going until I saw a horseshoe crab half-buried in the mud.

...If not for that crab, I might have more than a funny deformity in my pinky-toe from scarring. ._. The pain I felt was a razor clam slicing through the pad of my toe. I'd pulled the crab out and brought it back to the house (we're right on the water) to show a friend that was sitting on the porch, and noticed blood in the grass. Funny enough, my first instinct was to check and see if I'd hurt the horseshoe crab, but I was soon enough putting it down, swearing, limp-running around to clean the silty mud off my feet, and freaking out because the pad of my toe was barely still attached. I ended up spending five hours in the emergency room that day to have it glued shut, and then the following two to three weeks trying to keep weight off of it.

You really don't realize how much you use those toes while walking until you really screw one up.

EDIT: Blasted typo. =_=

(Motoi Sakuraba) Golden Sun - Kolima Forest

I usually do have more to add, but I just can't get myself to do it because I'm a lazy jerkface. ._.; And thank you. n_n I appreciate the same, though for some reason not very many people feel inclined to comment. ._. I attribute it to a funny curse, but enough about that.

Here's another slightly older work of mine, also incomplete, but closer to being done than most of the other stuff I will end up posting in here.

It's... almost a year old by now, and one of the few I used a reference for. I spent months getting it to this point, and unfortunately the way the membranous wings lie are where I'm stuck. T_T; Only when I figure out what the one in the front is doing will the rest of him finally move on from basic frame and hair wisps.

...On another note, I hate his thumb. ._.

(Masuda Toshio) Mushi-Shi - Suzuri ni Sumu Shiro

There are a few works I could probably put forward, but some of the first things that came to mind were these:

John Taverner's Kyrie Leroy, as sung by the Ars Nova Copenhagen ensemble
George Fenton (and the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra) - Deep Blue
(Clint Mansell) The Fountain - The Last Man

(Kow Otani) Shadow of the Colossus - The Farthest Land

Leeet's see, I wear glasses, have ADHD, am underweight (and walk like an elephant, all the weight must be in the bones), spend most of my time on the computer when my power supply isn't spitting hot plastic stink at me, and watch anime. Though I don't play tabletop RPGs, I do participate in fully-blown, free-form written RPs, which some might argue is nerdier, and have been learning D&D basics through Neverwinter Nights. Another thing I do, which wasn't listed but plenty of people consider horribly nerdy, is I read graphic novels.

I also got ridiculously excited over finding a black leather, gold-lettered, gold-leafed, complete works edition of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which I now own and cherish like it's a bleedin' bible.

EDIT: I forgot that I'm ridiculously pale. People also like to tell me I'm quite smart, though I failed miserably in school, I imagine primarily because I was a lazy turdmunch and never did any of the homework. *keff*

There are a few places I think I'd like to go, some of which follow my roots. I'd love to go to the Celtic isles the most, I think. I'd also like to see England, and perhaps Lithuania.