This is my 400th post. YEAH!

[secondlina]

My muse is weird. I like to think she's some disorganized, blond, mute, glowy greek bundle of cuteness. As a result, most of the ideas she gives me are vague at best. Almost every project I ever started I had to re-start (reboot?) about 8 to 15 pages in, because I didn't like where it was going and though of a better way to go. Really - i've done this for most of my class projects (including my final graduating exhibit.), I did it for ROSE and now I just did it for Jabberwocky. Eight pages in, I scrapped what I did and started over and like the new pages SO MUCH BETTER. I think my muse is too eager and makes me start things before they really mature, hence the starting over thing. But then again, considering I do this every, EVERY time, maybe it's just part of my creative process - getting some ideas out, figuring out better ones once the first ones are on paper and going with it.

In other news - ROSE was in the newspaper today. Actually, all the books coming out for Collection TRIP are, along with some interviews of artists. The news guy tried to interview me too, but I missed the deadline. He sent me an email on the day we were moving our offices at work. Talk about the wrong day to have no internet! Oh well. The images are there, and that's the most important part!

In other, other news, i'm amazed by how rude people are. Yesterday, the bus was full. I mean FULL of people. And it was all young teens sitting in the front (I was also sitting in the front.) I saw an old lady and a obviously pregnant woman get on the bus. NONE of the people sitting got up for them. I got up, thinking "Too bad I only have one seat to offer." As soon as my butt was off the chair, one of the teens that was standing swooped in and took my seat. I turned around and told her I was going to offer the seat to one of the ladies clearly in need of sitting. The teen said (and I quote) "That's not MY problem."

...Kiddo, it's about to be.

I told her to get up or I would make her get up. Now, I don't think i'm a very impressive lady with my 120 pounds and my 5'3 but I was apparently pretty scary because she got up pretty quickly. The old lady managed to sit down in my seat. Nobody else got up for the pregnant lady.

MEH.

People.

Oh well.

Here is some cuteness to balance out the negative: Another drawing following my anthropomorphic attemps at drawing Super Mario Bros items and monsters. The Bob-omb girl (my favorite!) and a Shy guy. Because you know it's true love.



Over and Out.
(400th POST WOO!)

-Isa

Comments

[mangaka-chan.livejournal.com]

My Muse is a slave driver. It won't let me rest until I get my idea down or finish a project, and sometimes I realize I've been siting in my chair for 6 hours without so much as moving my bottom off the seat. But thankfully when she gets like that at least I usually like what I draw, so it's all good in the end. XD;;

First of all, thank you for making the teenager move her butt; she deserved to be told off like that. Sadly I think the younger generation is just less respectful. In China (where my family hails from) it's a little bit better because I think culturally, respect for the elderly is more ingrained. Even if no one gets up on a bus the ticketing agent will usually call for someone to make a seat for the elderly and when that happens someone always gives up their seat. But if no one says anything people try to pretend they don't see the old people on the bus. -_-

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Your very welcome! I despise insolence in situation where it's just some cheap teenage rebellion tool. Asian culture seems to have more respect for the elderly. I always kinda found that North-America had more of a "cult of youth". Basically, be young, the older you are the most efforts you should do to be young. Old doesn't seem to be seen as wise. It seems to be seen as a burden.

Hahahaha, so you're muse is more like this: http://secondlina.livejournal.com/40985.html

XD

[mangaka-chan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the second picture is pretty much what my Muse is like...except she'd be a PMSing dominatrix because my art tends to be either angsty or happy-fluffy. XD;;

In Asia the concept of filial piety and respect for your parents is very ingrained, but I think it's also a large part of other Western culture too. But in places where there is a large urban youth population (I've noticed this tends to be more of a problem in cities than in smaller communities) people tend to be less concerned about traditional value and more about following the latest trend which is all about promoting the "self". I think this divergence in value and focus, putting "myself" at the very front, versus "my family" and "the community" attributes to the lack of respect. It might also have to do with the fact that people in the cities have to watch out for themselves more than people in other settings, and that also leads to some of the attitude difference.