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[Nichi]

I hope it's not a sign of anything serious :[

Also, on snow, even a chance of snow in my area is enough to shut everything down >_>;

[Chocofreak13]

srsly.
we need to bring them here.
and watch them flip out. xD

[Nichi]

Indeed >:3

Fun times abound

[SleepyD]

If it snowed in metropolitan LA, I would stay home, look out the window, and watch the carnage.

SoCal drivers can hardly drive in a drizzle. Let alone rain (what most people call rain, not SoCal's definition). If it snowed, it would be the end of the world for them.

And if it wasn't for my travels outside of the state and even country, I would be one of those ignorant drivers, so I have my parents to thank for that.

[Chocofreak13]

thankfully you know better. it frustrates the hell out of me to hear about drivers who freak out in certain weather. it's like how, on occasion, people seem to forget to drive around here in the slightest of things. if you're from a desert region and you're nervous about driving in mountain country, that's one thing. but shutting whole towns and cities down at even the MENTION of snow?! come on, america. >>;

[LeaflameSD]

Since the previous How To Draw Manga didn't help me, I browsed Amazon UK for another better book and this caught my eye.

So whaddya think? Would you buy it?

[Chocofreak13]

whaaaat, the katy coope one didn't help you? did you follow the instructions? ;^;

i've never seen that other one before. i think i spy Onizuka-sensei on the cover, which is interesting. but as for quality, i can't say.

this was another one i got when i was younger. it's not as early as my first (the katy coope one), but it's old, that's for sure. it covers a lot of basic stuff, though you won't have most of the materials they list in there (such as the pen nibs and such); most of it is hard to find outside of japan.

[SleepyD]

Oh man, katy coope. That is ancient stuff there. hahah

I'll comment more on learning to draw later, but I should sleep, and I am a rambly sort of person.

Speaking of rambling, my convention staff friends and brony friends are talking about how the Las Pegasus con last weekend was probably a scam.
Here's a link to the story of an artist that the ALA boss shared with us: http://www.roundstable.com/2013/03/01/fear-and-loathing-in-las-pegasus/

I figure I'd share here too, even though I'm not an MLP fan. If it happened to a con I loved, I'd be damn pissed off.

[LeaflameSD]

@Kari: I read it all, I tell ya. It is good, unlike most reviews of it, but it doesn't really go into depth. It kinda just showed me characters that all look similar to each other and bases. It didn't really teach me a whole lot (I may come off as kinda retarded online, but don't worry, I am smart.), or maybe I just didn't understand it.

@Sleepy: Scamming in conventions is something new to me.

[Nichi]

@Sleepy: Wow, that would have been a terrible convention to go to. Let's hope my first con is a lot better than that, whenever I actually get a chance to go :\

[Bella]

Sorry for being so reclusive lately I've been pretty depressed feeling and sad about winter and my job being (almost) over and not had anything to say. And I've been suffering writers + artists block and UGH EVERYTHING SUCKS.


And imma keep bothering you all to keep apprised of /More IBMs and /Theory Revival because I may be introduction a new class of characters soon (LANGUAGE-TANS. NOW I FEEL LIKE AN ASS FOR SAYING I'D NEVER MAKE ANY.), so help and input would be super appreciated...

[Nichi]

I hope everything gets better soon :[
*hug*

[NejinOniwa]

Flu week has me trapped. GGKTHX. -_-

[Chocofreak13]

@nej: weather through, master. and drink lots of fluids, being sick always dehydrates. if your throat is sore, buy a bottle of honey and start downing it like an ad exec downs coffee.

@bella: not that i'm criticizing you, but even when i've been uber derp-pressed i've made an effort to come online and let people know i'm alive. (and you don't want to know the depths of depression i've been to.) the writers' block, however, i can't say much on that. take a break for awhile and do something else. Nuzlocke is a good thing in this case, since it's quite time-consuming and worlds away from everything else you're doing, so your mind will be completely occupied once you get into it. :3

language as in French-tan/Japanese-tan/Mandarin-tan, or language as in Ruby-tan/Java-tan/etc?
or could this be a fabled Grammar-tan!? :0

@sleepy: as long as that took me to read, it was damn scary. makes me think twice about attending any small/new cons. .__.;

@leaf: the katy coope method is for getting things started. it's SUPPOSED to be generic, since if you start looking into books like the one i posted, you won't know where to start. you want something general at first. but if you didn't find hers helpful, you might try this one instead; i've had it just about as long as my katy coope one and it proved to be rather useful from the start. it's thicker, too. :3
don't overwhelm yourself at first. if you want my advice, stay as basic as possible. and work on your proportions and basic (BASIC) anatomy. when i first started out, girls looked like lego bricks i stuck half-gumballs onto for boobs :p

[Bella]

Thanks Pent, and yeah, I feel shitty about not being online, but I hardly have the energy to roll out of bed in the morning much less carry on any sort of meaningful conversation. I have been posting on tumblr intermittently, so checking over there is a good way to make sure that I'm still alive / have an internet connection.

And yeah Kari, I mean programming language-tans. I made a longer post about my ideas on PL-tans as a class - they mesh pretty well with what Nej suggested.

@Nej: You sick too? Or just surrounded by sick people?

@Sleepy: I'm gonna read that article, I'm curious to find out how it nearly imploded. o__O