Grammar is a beautiful thing...

[secondlina]

Which reminds me, I was having this big discussion with my studio roomie Tanya... We talked about people who randomly added chan/san/kun/ and other cute japanese words over and over in a conversation. I notice there's people who also say at loud "LOL" I do it myself once in a while in a humor manner. And I admit, I had this phase where I also introduced japanese everywhere. But when it's not a phase anymore, when you've been doing it for years, maybe it's just strange?

Although i'll admit some characters just deserve a japanese suffix. Like Ozma. I can't help called her Ozmahime. It sounds cute and it's much shorter then princess Ozma. 

Speaking of Ozmahime, soon, more Oz pages, and the princess will be in them! Woo! I also have to point out how awesome Tanya and Anneka are for giving my a book called "All things Oz" containing Oz illustrations from the 1900 and never published original texts.

My pool is also filled. We now have this huuuuge backyard of very green grass. I mean, it's a big backyard. Wow.

My art stuff and homework is doing okay. I'm still waiting for the critique to happen next week so the teacher and students can give their two cents and I can figure out if the way i'm transmetting my message is working (because if people see something completly different in it, it's most likely not working) I'm doing right now detailled hair drawings. I did this one last year:



Which was a social message. The giant hairdoe contains several different historical hairdoes. Now i'm just doing characters tangled in their hair. Inspired from the Rapunzel fairy tales. Although the technique is similar, the atmosphere of the work is very different. I'm glad I decided to play again with this type of paper and pen. I'm using a special photopaper and some thin pens to draw this. I love the paper. It works so well for this type of work. I'm also glad i'm re-doing this theme since i'm not satisfied at all with this work. I like the sketch better. Some of you might recall it...It was posted online a while ago.

-Secondlina 

Comments

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

I remember you showing us the picture before, but I didn't realize that there was several historical hairdos in there. I'm interested to see the one you're doing now as well. I think it's interesting that you have the character wrapped in their hair, because hair is seen as not only a status symbol, but that of sexuality.

I agree with the loss of proper spelling and grammar. *weep* Stef, Diane, and I all tend to spell out everything with our text messages on our cell phones. I love that! I did weep though when I got a message from one copy editing intern at work through the pagination system that was all in netspeak!! I wanted to go slap her with a dictionary and go, "You're working in a newsroom and you're sending interoffice messages with that???"

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Netspeak is a horrible, awful thing. I'd encounter a lot of people using it on Warcraft, and I was left either scratching my head, or I'd have my character scream things like, "Ow, my eyes!" to get the point across. (The joy in that was the confusion people would have after my outbursts.) It's sad how lazy people are these days...

I do remember the hair drawing, too. I'd hate having that much hair to deal with, but the concept really is a neat one.

[the-flowergirl.livejournal.com]

I saw that picture and I thought my computer was spazzing out and giving me old entries. I would hate having that much hair.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I like the hairdoo drawing, but I still prefer the old sketch more, Althought I respect this one more for the infinitely larger amount of time needed to finish it.

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[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

I only use netspeak in a joking manner. The majority of the time, I use proper English...

And I remember seeing another hair drawing from before, only not as elaborate. I'm impressed with the amount of detail and the time it must've taken to complete it.

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

I must admit, I do use Japanese suffixes, but it's normally among my fellow anime friends who understand the reference and I have also written it for fanfics because I find it just flows better, especially for series when the setting is in Japan.

That hair drawing is very cool, it must have taken awhile to draw all of that detail. I do remember the other one you drew before, which I also liked. ^_~

[brendala.livejournal.com]

Great pictures! The first one is so true. Internet "grammar" is annoying as hell!

My younger sisters actually make fun of me for using proper grammar, spelling, capitalization, etc. in text messages because it takes forever to do it that way. But writing, "C u soon, k?" instead of "See you soon, OK?" in a text message just feels wrong (even if the only person who will see it is my sister).