Back to school...

[secondlina]

Well, university is officially back on. I'm kinda looking forward to it actually. I'm a bit worried of course because I have a job, another smaller job, homework to do, learning to drive, classes to attend to and an internship to prepare all at the same time. Not to mention cartooning and doujinshis to draw...Well, like Link says, I whine about my workload a lot, but chances are, i'll enjoy every second of it (except maybe every second of my job...)

I got bad news today though.

I've been having stomach burn and indigestion and stomach related problems these last few days. I was wondering about it, and sick or hearing people suggest that maybe I was pregnant (My fucking stomach hurts you morons. How does that make me pregnant...) so I went to the doctors.

Turns out, either i'm having stress related acid reflux or I have blood rocks down there that are slowly trying to block my stomach and eventually will need to be removed...with a scalpel...in a hospital...

Damn.

Considering that even when i'm calm and drawing, the pain is still there and very strong, i'm fearing that it might be the later.

Damn fuck. Fuck fuck dammit fuck.

The worse part, I most likely did this to myself by wanting to resist illness by my own free will instead of with meds.
Yes, i'm an idiot. Who are you? God? *sigh*

I guess i'll go for hospital tests soon enough.

On a more fun note, I finally got a professional haircut and dye for the first time in 4 years. My hair is now black, red and purple. ^^
I also scanned a page from the doujin to post here, to show a bit of progress ^^ It's from the serious story i'm putting in. I decided to choose a different feel for it. Rather then inking it, I'm going to work with pencil tones. It's fun and it gives a beautiful result (this scan does not do it the best justice).

I also though that the pencil work would take less time then the inking...Nope. It takes more.
It actually takes me about 5 hours per page rather then 4.
Again, i'm kindoff an idiot. Again, unless you're God, you can suck it up! *laughs*



The story is about Lina dying and meeting the piece of shabranickdo that is inside her. I read in some Slayers book (I can't recall which) that since one of shabranickdo's parts was sealed in a human, that human could be Lina. I though It was a cool storyline idea and kinda regret nobody seems to have exploited that. So I decided to. hehe.

As another ps. I changed my icon set again. I'm fickle. But change is good right --_ ^
Now I have corpse bride icons (Aside from my timeless "Wind is fashionnable").

I'll end this note here with a drawing forsavvyliterate because she had a shitty day.


Oh, yukiomoni and the bunneh...if you want me to send you prints, I need addresses! Thank you. ^^

Comments

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

Excuse me.

*goes attack computer with sledgehammer*

OK. All better! http://qpdiana-web.hp.infoseek.co.jp/report/Mazoku2005.html

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Hey, steal my question, will you? (That's okay, I had to get off to sleep again...)

Aside from the reference in the novels, I have seen people use the concept in their fanfics, but it's always to make Lina the "Knight of Shabranigdo", and it always just seems stupid how people pull it off. I prefer this much darker/creepier way to do it. (So yes, the creepy look is good!)

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Well, shabby is a dark lord. LON was a higher entity representing chaos, and chaos can be positive too, hence why it's understandable that she can do "good".

However shabby is pure stinking evil.

If Lina was to be taken over by shabby, it would not be angst and golem style inner turmoils. We are talking dark deep bloody evil!

Hence why, according to me, the creepy.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

If Rezo and Luke were any indication, Shabranigdo completely takes them over, he doesn't cooperate with them to have his wishes met. That's something that always bugged me about the whole 'Lina is the Knight of Shabranigdo but is still herself, etc'. We are talking completely evil entity here, not someone who can go either way depending on their mood (like the Lord of Nightmares).

I'm looking forward to seeing more of 'the creepy'. ^_-

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I think the whole "Lina is possessed but still herself" deal is just a cheap way for some fanfic artists to write up a dramatic story while permitting themselves to add romantic scenes of angst.

Shabby is the big bad. Big bad takes you over, you're dust to him. Shabby does not negociate!

I dunno. IT seems fanfic writters hesitate to kill Lina or turn her to evil. I don't really mind doing either, since doujins and fics are just for fun anyways. I kill her here, but she's still alive elsewhere. Fanfics and doujins are perfect to go that extra mile you can't really do with your own characters...

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

I admit, I'm an old sap and I like writing semi-happy endings. I've seen some fanfics where Lina dies, and I've always thought that she would do herself in somehow. Somehow, going gently into that good night doesn't seem very Lina-ish. She'd prefer going down in a blaze of glory doing what she loves (reminds me of how Steve Irwin died, actually.)

One of the fascinating things about Lina is that she's not completely "good" either - like Usagi, Kagome, Miaka, or even Amelia. Lina looks out for No. 1 first and foremost, which is why the end of Next proved to be such character growth for her. But, even though she did it to save Gourry's life, Lina was still being selfish and putting herself first because she decided "screw this world if Gourry's not here." Lina is greedy, selfish, manipulative, and isn't all hearts and sparkles. That's why she is such a fantastic character.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I like bad endings for some reason. I either love endings that are full of hope and that are so heart whelming you cry or bad endings. Cliffhangers drive me nuts (and the worse part about it is that i'm good at making cliffhangers)

I find the way you compared Lina to Irwin very interesting! Obviously, it's sad that the man died, but everybody knew he was gonna die on the job. I'm sure he's probably a bit embarassed about it, up there. Saying "Aw man, I let it get me!" *laughs* He was a very bold and devoted man. I admired him a lot. I think it's true that Lina would be like him. She would like to live till she's 100 (most likely Irwin did too) but if she has to go down in flames, she'll do it with pride and she aint going down alone...

I like the little bit of evil in Lina too. It makes her more human. I don't really like super good happyhappy characters because to me, they feel like dolls. Or at least, in Amelia and Kagome's case anyways, It feels like the character is still a kid. Still somewhat pure. Lina is young, but she lived a little, so she is flawed. But her flaws make her much more human.

Personnaly, I make my characters pretty flawed. If I look at the current story i,m writting, we find greed, fear, cowardice, egoist, jalousy, pride and all that fun stuff in everyone. But the characters balance out because for every smidgen of evil they have, something good sparks up.

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

I am very skilled at the nasty cliffhanger myself (ain't that right, Steffikins?)

I think that's partly why I'm liking the novels to Slayers so much. The anime is good in its own right, but the novels really expose the flaws in all of the characters - even the ones that come off as being super-squeaky good in the anime such as Amelia and Gourry. The fourth novel exposes the darkness in Amelia's past more and the Gourry short story reveals the darkness in his and overall both characters aren't as well...clean, I guess you can say. Zel has an even darker past than in the anime. So, everyone is really flawed and it's so nice.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

thank you, very informative ^^