Seriously! They do! What if I want a pair of Spider-man shoes, huh?! Or a pair of the shoes that light up in the heels. Those are great. I had a pair of light up LA Gears (haha, remember those?!) back in 8th grade. *viper13 used to walk behind me in the hall and kick my right heel because it didn't blink as much as the other one did. One has to wonder though. Was he kicking my shoe because it didn't blink or was he just trying to see how many kicks it took before I fell on my face and sent the contents of my backpack sliding across the hallway?

I got a pair of brand new super green Nikes for mother's day. They're as close to cool little kid shoes as I'm going to get. The green is downright obnoxious... so much so that I swear the shoes actually opened up and sang to me as I walked past them at the store.

I practically live in my sandals though so actually wearing these shoes is going to be an interesting experience. And I get the feeling that, just in case I'm not already embarrassing enough as it is, my kiddo thinks I'm rather foolish for having green shoes. He keeps looking at them with one five-year-old eyebrow raised.

Yep, I wrote a whole journal about shoes.



Alright, enough silliness. Back to work with me! Have a happy Thursday!

Be deviant. Be good!

Y'know, I think I've changed my avatar three times in the past two days. I'm a mischievous creature of confusion-inducing tendencies, what can I say. Three notes awaited me this morning, each pleas for me to stop changing my avatar because no one recognized me anymore. Never mind the fact that my username is displayed right next to it.

Anyhoo, my current avatar is an amazing picture of Kidd by =alexds1. I'll be sticking with this one for a while so hopefully I won't be further confusing deviants... at least with my avatar anyway.

My little housecat has been trying really hard to skirt past me to get outside through the back door lately. I think there's a desperate need for her to be jungle cat once in a while and I'm fairly certain she's plotting my death for denying her that experience. When I woke up this morning and let the dog out a bright blue parakeet was sitting in the center of my backyard. He let me get pretty close, closer than any of the other birds around here do, before taking off. Squeak, my cat, got out again not too long ago only to be dive-bombed by the parakeet. It was awesome. If she wasn't plotting my untimely demise already, I'm sure she is now. I laughed at her hard enough.



Alrighty, back to work with me. You guys have a happy Tuesday!

Be deviant. Be good!

I'm so restless today. There's so much on my mind; drawing, writing, sending my kiddo to visit his grandmas, work... there's always something. My poor noodle hasn't had any time to wind down and just shut off for a bit lately. It's keeping me busy and my mind off of more distracting things so I can't complain too much.

One of those distracting things is currently spreading like wildfire all throughout my crowd right now. It's always a battle to stay blissfully unaware of spoilers when you're part of a community like dA. It's even harder to not be spoiled when you work here. Part of my job is to take care of copyright violations and when something huge like this is released a large part of those violations are screencaps, scans of magazines and the like. So, naturally while I'm trying to do my job, I'm inadvertently exposed to the spoilers.

Thankfully, in this case, it's only succeeded in making me more anxious for the series finale of Avatar. The spoilers have been, for the most part, things I already knew. What has shocked me about the whole thing is the reaction by a large portion of the fanbase... dare I say, the largest portion. I don't want to get into a huge debate over how wrong or right the whole thing is... but really, what happened to just enjoying it for what it is? Y'know, rather than what you want it to be. It's truly an amazing thing that this little cartoon has grown into something that moves people the way it has. But plans for revolting against the creators at conventions, writing into the studio in protests, burning all of your Avatar DVDs in the backyard, boycotting the cartoon and Nickelodeon because your chosen "ship" or "pairing" isn't going to happen in the end? Doesn't that seem a little silly and... well, dramatic? In the end, this happened because the creators wanted to tell their story... and wanted to share it with the rest of us. This is THEIR story.

Think of it this way, what if it were your story? Would you second guess everything because some fans might want it to go in another direction or would you write it the way you want to tell it? I would hope that, as artists, Mike and Bryan did this for themselves. The fact that they wanted to and were given the opportunity to share it with us is a bonus.

That said, I'm both excited and sad that the end is so near. I can only morbidly hope that my own story will raise the same kind of fuss Avatar has one day.

I love expression sheets. And just because I'm not afraid to pull faces at myself in the mirror and act a damn fool to get one expression right...


Alrighty, hope you guys are havin a good Monday! Thanks so much to everyone who commented and called to wish me a happy mother's day yesterday!

Be deviant. Be good!

Edit: My hubby was so kind to point out that "ejected" was a more appropriate term.

To all my fellow mommies out there, have a happy day! That goes for you bunch who think of your pets as children too.

I was given a super awesome Iron Man toy (he talks, his palms light up and he makes "WHOOSH!" sounds, so awesome), new sandals and my ma sent me a lovely flower bouquet and yummy chocolates. I'm off to buy some patio furniture now.

This still cracks me up.

Be deviant. Be good!

Just a little update with a few things that really need to be read:
Online Predators by $realitysquared
Chat Network Policy Changes by $Tachy-on
The Orphan Works Act of 2008 (this is an update) by $realitysquared
Weekly Help Desk Update - May 8, 2008

I've been kinda emotionally and mentally pooped lately. A good friend reminded me that I've done what I can in these situations and instead of letting it eat away at me I need to focus on all the artistic goodness I'm a part of right now. He's very right. After all, I am an artist above all else.

The big project I'm on right now is clean up and letters for The Fix (button is at the bottom, if you're curious!). When *viper13 finishes inking a page, I scan it, clean it up, add digital borders and letters. I've never done lettering before so this has been an awesome learning experience. Letterers are definitely unsung greats because this is anything but easy!

When I'm waiting on pages, I'm either doing thumbnails for the 8 page horror comic script I wrote (with the help of *jaster0001 and *skulljammer) or concept art for a graphic novel that's based on comics *jaster0001 wrote a few years back. It's planned for release after The Fix and the guys' next book "The Mechanic" are done. The thumbnails and the concept art have both been SO much fun! I didn't think I'd enjoy comic page thumbnailing because my brain, for the longest time, has refused to think in panels. But I'm getting it.

And, of course, when I'm not doing all that I'm constantly picking away at the years of dirt and dust caked on top of my story. Right now, I'm busy researching civil war history and folklore. It's amazing what I've learned about my own fantasyesque story by reading actual history. It's exciting.

So yar, I do indeedy have lots of good artsy things to focus on.



Alrighty, back to work with me! You guys have a happy Thursday!

Be deviant. Be good!