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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by ChibiHorsewoman [/i] [B][color=violet]Leilani-Calm as the heavens[/color] [/B][/QUOTE] [SIZE=1]That's Hawaiian, isn't it? I knew a girl named Leilani for a few years; it is a pretty name.[/SIZE]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted byTN [/i] [B]Someone has a Y fetish....[/B][/QUOTE] [SIZE=1]*laughs* I had to quote that, sorry. Carr, it's funny that you should say [i]November[/i] for a girls' name. I remember wanting to name people after months...[b]September, November[/b], and [b]December[/b] were all likely candidates. I like the name [b]Jael[/b] for a girl. It's a pretty (and yet, not [i]too[/i] pretty name, and there's a chika in the Old Testament named Jael who killed someone with a tent peg. You have to admit that's kind of cool. [b]Dunia[/b] is also a pretty name. I remember knowing at one point what it meant. [i]Universe[/i] in Swahili, or something. The imagery is so awesome. *grins* If I do have children (unlike Miss Tori, I have no plans to :p ) I will not be making up impossible-to-spell names for them. Extra [i]y[/i]'s and odd letter combinations are not options. Just...[i]no.[/i] I have enough problems with people spelling my name incorrectly, and it's an accepted variation. I would probably attempt to name my children after literature and/or historical figures. [b]Desdemona, Othello, Juliet, Coolidge, Euclid, Zebulon, Wolfgang, Philomel, Atticus, (Johann) Sebastian, Ford, Amalthea, Morgaine, Melusine, Bronte, Dante, Zhivago, Crusoe, Machiavelli, Salinger....[/b] ...Yes, I would actually name my son Machiavelli. It wouldn't be my frist choice, but I would do it. I should not be allowed to have children. *laughs* If I do, hopefully the father (at least) will be sane.[/SIZE]

[size=1]Somehow, I don't think she's going to get any more solid input than has what already been offered. Dreams have meanings, they don't have meanings, they're about someone you like, they're suppressed thoughts, they're what you've been thinking about all day... Well, I suppose if you offer every possible solution, [i]someone[/i] has to be right. Good luck guessing which, Kitty. [/size]

[size=1]I really like the middle one, with the red. That's just a good picture, and the lines seem to compliment it the best. The yellow one is also very eye-pleasing, although the lines seem a little overdone. I don't like the top one so much. The red eyes with the blue just don't look right. (Although the white backround at OB doesn't much help. It is a lot more tolerable on black.)[/size]

[size=1]Heh, it matches your avatar. Collar around the neck, droopy cat ears...[i]interesting.[/i] Teasing...I think. :toothy: It's a good picture, heh. The coloring (some parts of the hair) looks a little chunky, but it fits, somehow. Something about the face bothers me--the eye seems a little high, I think. The red design on the cheek was a nice touch. *contemplates drawing something*[/size]

[size=1]Like I said at practice--"You drew that chika! You know, from the thing--that girl...picture...you drew it..." Okay, so I was slightly less than coherent, heh. It looks good, but it's hard to see. There should be a way (either in your scanning program, or you can use photoshop) to make the lines darker. I love her eyes. The hair looks good (No one should fault you for not shading hair, it's a pain), but the arms look flat. Shade around the edges a little to round them out.[/size]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by maladjusted [/i] [B][size=1] Studio Ghibli has put out many great movies, mainly ones made my Hayao Miyazaki. I dunno...[b]Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Princess Monoke[/b]... and there are probably more that I've forgotten. I believe that Miyazaki took part in the making of [b]Grave of the Fireflies[/b], which is an excellent anime by itself. Probably one of the most moving anime movies that are around today. [/size] [/B][/QUOTE] [SIZE=1][i]Castle in the Sky[/i] is a good one. ^_^ When I saw the thread title, I was ready to come in here and yell at everyone for not mentioning Ghibli/Miyazaki, but apparently my distress was unfounded. Heh. And I don't need to be an anime god(dess). I'm quite happy to be merely a member of the Totoro cult. [/SIZE]

[size=1]It sure doesn't. IE 5, Mac version.[/size]

[size=1]My first day of kindergarten, I got on the wrong bus. I'm a nervous, excited five year old--my stomache's turning somersaults because it's my first day of school. My bus stop is a block away from my house, and my mom walks down there with me. (I love her.) I have on a cute "first day of school" outfit, and my backpack is full of art supplies--gluesticks, markers, crayons. I have purple gluesticks; they are supposed to turn clear when they dry. I haven't tried them yet. (Will they let me use purple gluesticks in school?) I run down the sidewalk ahead of my mom--I've got so much energy, this is so cool, oh [i]wow[/i], I'm going to school! I'm scared to death about it. Words run through my mind--Mom and Dad drilled them into me last night. I know my address, I know my last name, and my parent's first names, I know the name of the school I'm going to, and I know my bus. This is the important bit. [i]I know my bus.[/i] The Blue Duck. Blue duck, blue duck, blue duck. I've been repeating it to myself all the way down the block. [i]Blue Duck. It will have a sign in the window with a blue duck. That's my bus. Blue, blue, blue, blue...[/i] I get to the corner--there's a chubby boy and his mom standing on the corner across the street. I am suddenly alarmed. I know my bus (the Blue Duck!) will stop at this intersection, but it had never occured to me that there were [i]four[/i] corners at the intersection. I don't look at the boy standing there--I run back and tag up with my mom. A few seconds later we're both at the corner. I concentrate on not looking at the boy across the street. [i]Blue Duck...Blue...Green--no, [b]blue![/b][/i]! A bus turns onto the street, a block away. It thunders to a stop at the corner where Mom and I are standing. The door swings open. "Is this the Blue Duck?" my mom asks the bus driver. She has to yell; the kids and the bus are making so much noise. The busdriver grunts an affirmative. Terrified, I climb the steps of the bus. It starts moving before I've found an empty seat, and I fall into the nearest unoccupied place. There are no seatbelts. Every time the bus slows down, I crane my neck, checking to see if I need to get off yet. I've been to my school once before--Mom and Dad took me, to make sure I knew what I was doing. Eventually, the bus comes to a school, and stops. Everyone else gets off. I do not. I know what my school looks like--and [i]this isn't it.[/i] The busdriver says to get off the bus. I say it isn't my school. He says to get off, anyway. I do. All around me, kids are going places. Not standing still, not wandering around--[i]going[/i] somewhere. I don't know where--I'm not even supposed to be here. I go up to a grown-up. "This isn't my school," I say. She glances at a notepad and asks me for my name. I tell her. She asks who my teacher is. I don't remember. She's not even here, anyway! "This [i]isn't my school,[/i] I say again. She blinks, and looks at me. "You don't go here?" "No!" I'm getting frustrated, now. Didn't I just tell her that, [i]twice[/i]? The woman took me somewhere and deposited me with another grown-up, who questioned me further. I told them where I was supposed to be--Jefferson, not Prairie. Phone calls were made--I might have talked with my parents--and eventually I was told people were coming to pick me up. Mom and Dad showed up, as did a lady from my (real!) school. Her name was Peggy Redfern, and she had reddish hair. I thought that was clever. She drove me to the right place. When I finally got to the correct building and room, my class was already seated on the floor, learning about letters. I had to duck into class in the middle of a story about Mr. C, which seemed to involve a cotton-candy cloud. It didn't make sense coming in halfway through, and I never did learn the whole story. So that was how I was late to my first day of school. (Anyone else remember the [url=http://www.geocities.com/letterfolks/lp_stickers.jpg]letter people[/url]?)[/size]

[SIZE=1]The yin-yang creatures are mine, yeah. Silé's about two years old, while Espe was "born" during Chem class last spring. You'd be surprised how much that class can foster creativity, heh. (Incidently, [i]Espe[/i] is her name. She's a nother--[i]Nother[/i] being a noun in this case. I have a ton of little "a-creatures." They're fun.) I didn't really come up with the yinyang bit (obvious as it may seem now) until a month or so ago; I was sketching the pair of them, and they came out looking like that. I like the way the flowers in the background look in the Sakura one. That was the first thing my mom commented on; she always teases me because I don't [i]finish[/i] pictures--I just draw a character and forget about any attempt at background. I love the fluffy socks Biyo and Winter Chika are wearing. They're fun to draw/color, and I like the way they look. A little impractical, perhaps....but so are superfluous feathers and wearing shorts in January. So it's okay. Heh. So many kind comments! *grins foolishly* This is...well, a watercolor. *laughs* It was something I did for painting class, and I just felt like painting fish. (It was never meant to be a finished picture...I just wanted to get the hang of how watercolors worked.) But it turned out nice, heh. The scan made it look kind of flat and dark, which is too bad. Anyhoo, there's that symbol again. It was originally based off the "Crest" concept in the first season of Digimon (I had about thirty different little designs I made, each representing a different element/emotion/quality.) This was the "Crest of Dreams," and I started using it as a signature somewhere along the line. I sign my paintings with it, and sometimes drawings, too. I'm not very consistent, heh.[/SIZE] [IMG]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?postid=542991[/IMG]

[size=1]What classifies something as a date? Intent to continue a relationship and/or...ah...physical activity, or...? In any case, I don't consider anything I've done to have been a date. My sophomore year, my friend Shayne and I hung out at a bookstore for a couple hours. I had a lot of fun--Heh, I love bookstores, and could spend days in the children's section alone. Afterwards, he asked me, "Was that a date, or am I still just dreaming?" *shrugs* I told him it wasn't. Honestly, I've always been too shy to go out with anyone. A handful of people have asked me out over the last...ten years or so (why would a second grader ask someone out? This, I do not know.)... and my response usually involves turning several sucessesive shades of pink, mumbling something, and avoiding said person for the next week. *rolls eyes* You stick with what works, I guess.[/size]

[size=1]The "Fading away" one is the best I've seen from you. I'm just going to say again--Border! The color of her eye, or the text outline you used. If you hold down the shift key while using a drawing tool, you should get a straight line. (Or is that only for Macs? Someone clear this up for me...)[/size]

[size=1]Do not bring back old threads. Please, thank you, and smorgasbord...[/size]

[size=1]Heh, I like it. It's so bright--the pink just makes me grin, heh. The ears and kinda weird, and the jacket would benefit from some shading. On the whole, though, a fun picture. I like the eyelashes for some reason.[/size]

[size=1]In general, they look good. Some little stuff that could make them better... Your text is all kinda hard to read (although the "Princess" bit is very pretty.) The orange-red on orange-red and blue on blue are just...straining. In the last one, "fades" and "but" are both not-easy to read, on account of the yellow border and the light background behind them. You have some nice pictures to work with, though. Maybe just some tinkering (repositioning and/or changing color) with the text. And the first ones would really benefit fro some sort of border, just to bring them together. [/size]

[size=1]I saw this a few months ago with my friends, although seeing pictures for it (or something) is a vague childhood memory. I was really impressed by it, I think. It was so [i]bizarre[/i]--there's really no other way for me to describe it, heh. The first thing I noticed was the color, and that was sort of a constant thing in the back of my mind as I watched the movie. The whole film left me with the feeling I needed to strangle something, just because in so many ways, it was just surreal. I was also really struck by how expressive Edward/Depp was, like Tony said, without even speaking. It was really kind of captivating. Heh, I think the only way I could manage to describe it to Tony was that "It was so perfect, and so [i]wrong[/i]," or something to that effect. At least at the beginning, because, well... An Avon lady finds a scarred, pale man dressed in black leather with giant supersharp blades for hands...and she takes him home for dinner. And for some unfathomable reason, it's okay. *laughs* To be honest, it really creeped me out. It was just so bizarre. I need to see it again. Incidently, [url=http://www.gothmafia.com/legos/edward_lego.php]click here.[/url][/size]

[size=1]I don't remember any of their movies, although I know I watched a couple with my grade school best friend. She was a fan, I think. Her name was (well, is) Ashley, and she has short blond hair and plays the harp.... Our eighth grade year, she dressed up as Harpo for a halloween party, and didn't talk the entire evening. (At least, not while she was around me...) That's my anecdote for the night.[/size]

[size=1]The Lenne (such a pretty name) one is my favorite. The others each have pixelly text, which takes away from them. The Kare Kano (?) one looks great, too. If the text were a little smoother, I'd say it was perfect.[/size]

[size=1]Every time someone loads the banner in his signature, it counts as a download. :toothy: The thread itself only has twenty-some views. The sig tag is okay. I'd add a border (a red or black line around it?) and find a slightly more interesting font to use. Other than that, I like it. The pencil image over the gradient is kinda a cool effect, heh.[/size]

[size=1]I always [i]mean[/i] to draw my characters before starting a story, but it ever quite happens... Nice drawing. The coloring is kinda rough, but it's okay. (The background really irks me, though...maybe a different color would have been better than brown.) Who's the chika with the purple hair? She's my favorite.[/size]

[SIZE=1]*pleased* Like I said, Dagger, I liked the bold outline you used, and I decided to do something similar. (Biyo was going to have soft coloring, but I ended up just continuing with the clunky style I used for the outline. I can get carried away sometimes.) Everyone seems to like the angel, heh. ^_^ That's cool, because I really wasn't sure about her. I've never really tried markers for coloring before. (Well, not since some time in third grade.) I really liked her, but I didn't know if anyone else would. As for the yinyang picture, I like Espe more, too. She's just the more appealing creature, I think. Silé looks exactly (well, maybe not [i]exactly[/i]...) like she's supposed to, though--sort of muted. (Incidently, the first thing my mom said when I showed her this picture was, "Koi-dogs?" I've been having fun with drawing/painting/carving fish lately. I had to convince her that these characters pre-dated the "Koi" era. *rolls eyes*) I have heard of Haibane Renmei, though I don't really know much about it. I have seen some pictures, and they're really beautiful. My friend Laura lent me her Cardcaptor Sakura manga, and I have to admit that I just about died of cuteness. I had to stop reading every page just to bask in the adorafulness (yes, adorafulness) of the pictures. ...So I tried my hand at drawing Sakura. This was markers again, and (horror of horrors!) you can actually see her fingers. (They looked better in pencil :p ) Anyhoo. [img]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?postid=541056[/img] ...It reminds me of Willow's pictures, for some reason. ^_^[/SIZE]

[size=1]I like trucks. I just do. I also have an odd fondness for the "Smart Car." [url=http://www.thesmart.co.uk/index.html]Click.[/url] I nearly fell over laughing the first time I saw one. They're so [i]small.[/i] And they come in nifty colors. I want one, heh. [/size]

[size=1]Heh, cute picture. The do/reindeer/joey is a nice touch. ...Not much else to say. Looks pretty good, and it made me laugh.[/size]

[size=1]Is there something on the other side of that paper? It looks like he's covered in faint tattoos or something. The feathers look great. The red seems a bit out-of-place, thought I do like the yellow eyes. Keep drawing. (The nose and mouth do look good, heh.)[/size]

[size=1]His body looks strangely twisted, somehow. I think the tail should be going the other direction. The pants (?) crack me up. Pretty spiffy. Nice job with the boots, too. The ears remind me of one of those foxes...I used to love them, what were they called...? Fennecs! That was it.[/size]