Snuggled! Though that hasn't happened in so long I don't really remember what it's like... only the vague knowledge that I've never slept better in my life. Usually I sleep on my stomach with my head buried in my nest of pillows, cuddling my bunneh. <3
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Would you rather get up early or sleep late?
By choice I'd be a night owl going to bed about 4AM and not getting up until after midday. I hate mornings. And early nights. :/
What's your favorite season, and would you live all year in that season if you could?
Probably Autumn (to Amurrkanz that's "Fall"), when it's cold enough at night to snuggle, but warm enough in the day to not have to wear a jacket/gloves/scarf/beanie everywhere like a douchebag. =3 And yes, i could totally live forever in an perma-autumn. <3
What type of messaging and chat systems do you use routinely? In addition, what contact information do you give out on a regular basis (not just openly)? (For example, I use GTalk, general XMPP, IRC, and SMS the most)
MSN and AIM are really all I use most. I have MSN, AIM, YIM, Gtalk, Raptr, Steam Chat, ICQ, Skype, Twitter (does that count?), BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) when I have my Torch not this dodgy Nokia 'thing'.... most of them you can find me by searching either Mea'eshana, Meaeshana, MeaTehKitty, or MeaKitty. I'm pretty open about all of it really. If you can find me you can chat to me.
Friday, May 27, 2011
Who's your favorite relative and why are they your favorite?
I can't answer this question, it posts to my facebook. XD
Saturday, May 21, 2011
For the furries: What do you think furs with sonas of unusual fictional "species"? These would include the Tokusatsu baddies (Orphnochs of "Kamen Rider 555", Fangire of "Kamen Rider Kiva") and even Zoids (not kidding).
I have no idea what any of those are so I can't hold an opinion on it. However, I do believe that people with "sonas" based on video game characters/creatures are seriously warped. More so then people who mash several r/l species together.
YOU JUST WOKE UP NAKED IN BED NEXT TO ME. Using only 3 words, what would you say to me? ...Note: If you comment, you must copy and paste this as your status. So I may comment on yours as well. Be a good sport. Play along. -sent2all- xD
"what. the. fuck." Probably followed by pushing you onto the floor and stealing all the covers.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
What superstitions do you have?
Superstitions are things you do because you believe bad will come of it. Breaking mirrors, letting black cats crossing your path, walking under ladders.
I don't believe the universe can do anything worse to me then I already do to myself, so I'm not superstitious at all. Just OCD. XD
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Art does NOT go on the fridge
Remember the good old days when you were little and you used your crayons to draw the -best- stick figure family you could. Remember how you'd run to Mum (or your equivalent kind of guardian) and you'd hold it out to them proudly? "Look what I did, Mummy. Do you like it? Is it pretty?"
Remember the response you'd always get.... "That's good darling. Let's put this one on the fridge". Oh how that just made your day. Pride of place on the fridge where everyone can see it. Every time she opened the fridge (and Mummy's do that a -lot-) it would make her smile.
Until it got buried under bills, and letters, and notes, and reminders. And then eventually something else needed a magnet and your picture was low on that list of priorities, so it went in a drawer and the grown up thing went on the fridge. Bet you really never thought about that part, did ya?
Now I'm the adult, and I don't have a kid, and my fridge is covered in the "do not defrost severed head inside" kinds of magnets. No artwork. My house itself actually have very few pictures at all. Except for one mounted poster and shiney picture of a dragon (both gifts), and a picture of my Brother, Sister and Niece. I'm proud of them. Prouder than I am of myself OR my art.
No, my fridge door is now the internet. Every piece of art I'm proud to show to someone else I put up on Facebook or FA. Occasionally DeviantArt, but very rarely. And even less so I put it up on my websites. I mean, every website I make comes from an artists perspective, so to me it IS art.
And it's out there for the world to see.
Anyone can log on or log in, google, browse, or otherwise just stumble upon it randomly. And I bet a lot of people do, and I just don't notice. No, all I see is the comments people leave. And these confuse me...
Or at least, leave me very divided.
See, rationally the fact that someone's taken the time and picked my works out of the billions out there to actually comment on... usually eludes me. I should be thankful, I should be proud. Yes, a comment. Someone has something to say on my heartfelt piece of work.
"That's nice :3"
Nice? NICE?! What?
"It's good. I like it."
Good? You like...?
What's nice? What's good? What do you like? I pour my heart and soul; blood, sweat, and tears into it. And that's all you have to say?
This
Fucking
Frustrates
Me.
This is me being 4 all over again. It's Mum being condescending all over again. It's like artwork on the fridge again.
Don't get me wrong, Mum probably was really proud of my effort, she probably looked at that picture a hundred times while it was on the fridge, but she was fobbing me off in that particular moment when she said it was nice. I probably didn't realize I was interrupting something important when I gave it to her, and at that moment in time I didn't care. I got my praise and went back to draw another one quite happy with that response, and Mum got rid of me and got back on with what she was doing.
But guess what, Internet; I'm not four, you're not my Mum, I'm not bringing my artwork to you, and you're NOT in the middle of something important. Quite frankly if you have time to browse around looking at random art you more then likely have more then a single moment to write a comment.
You can do better than "Its nice."
Artists aren't perfect. And we ARE people. We crave to draw our thoughts, to express what's inside our souls, and more than anything to CONNECT with someone else. To have another being look at something we've put all this effort into, and actually find it within themselves as well, to see a common thread that binds US to YOU.
And the only way we know we've achieved that is if someone TELLS us. "It's nice" does NOT convey this. It just fucking confuses us. Why is it nice? Why isn't it wonderful? Why isn't it awesome? Spectacular? OMGWTFBBQ?!
You don't even have the right to fob us off with "its nice". Where not drawing it to give you a single moment of pleasure. We're not even drawing it so you can favorite it. We KNOW that goes in your faves gallery and is only on display to all your friends until you fave another ten images and it's pushed into your archives. Into the "drawer" so the "magnet" can be used for something else.
And it's hardly ever something "more important". It's usually just another kid's picture that you like briefly in that one moment you see it.
No, artists want the comments; good or bad. What you do or don't like about it, so that the next time we draw it's something YOU will like better than the last image, and therefore will be better able to CONNECT with. And if one person can connect with it better, then so can 10 other people. Or a hundred other people. Or a thousand other people. It's not the number of faves. It's the connections we make. That's what makes us keep posting our art. That's what makes us want to keep drawing.
And that's something I've been sorely lack recently. That's the reason I quit art for nearly, and why I'm on the verge of doing again. Because no one seems to be connecting with what I'm drawing. And I don't know how to change that.
I look back on my art for as little as a year ago, and I see how much I have improved. I look back 10 years ago and wonder what the hell I was thinking. I look at it now... And all I can wonder is where I went so wrong. What the hell did I do? Or not do, as the case may be. Where have all my connections gone? Why am I only getting "it's nice" all over again?
And this is why "critique" is important, people. Because I don't know. I see what I did, how I got the final image. And -most- of the time I'm -actually- proud of what I've achieved. Until someone tells me "that's nice" and then I start to wonder why some random stranger is fobbing me off like Mum used to do. :/
If you're going to take the time to comment on our stuff, then let us know that connection is there; this is really what critique is all about. It's not just pointing out all our flaws, it's acknowledging that we did something right as well. Even if that something right is making a connection with someone who can see all the places we went wrong. It doesn't matter, connection is there, common thread is art, or subject matter, or meaning... What I put into a picture may not be what you get out of it, but if you DO get something out of it I still really want to know.
This is what I crave. This is what I want. This is what I need. It's what every artists needs. Doesn't matter if they're good or bad, young or old, experienced and had a ton of lessons, or still new to the whole thing and just experimenting. We need to know that someone out there sees what we're trying to do whether we succeeded or failed, or somewhere in between.
Next time you wanna fave a really cool piece of art, take a minute to really comment. Engage the artist discussion over the art. No art experience necessary, just an honest response; what you -really- feel and -why- you want to fave it.
You'll find that one piece of sincerity means more then all the faves the artist gets in the end.
Sent from my BlackBerry® from Optus
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Who's the best teacher you ever had? What made them your favorite?
Oh, that would easily be Mr. Sobel. My 7/8th grade art teacher. What made him the best? =D he never -once- scribbled on my art. If he wanted to "correct" me or show me a new technique for drawing, he'd -always- draw on another piece of paper and allow me to correct my own picture after. Never had an art teacher before or since who's done it that way. I learned so much better, and so much full stop, from him.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Do you like My Little Pony Friendship is Magic?
MPL SUXXORZ. D:<
Someone had to say it, and I'm proud to be that person.
What's the story behind your Formspring username?
It's my nickname of my fursona, and the name I use for everything else. The story behind my fursona name has already be asked previously.
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