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We artist be giant teases, amiright?

Pity I don't have a female model I can command around like this.

I don't draw from life often. As a matter of fact, I always kinda sucked at it and hated it. Too used to draw things from my head. But once in a while, there's this one, extra-complicated pose that annoys me. So I tell my boyfriend to strip down to his underpants and torture him. For art.

Also...



A few of the French artists I follow online did these amazing re-tellings of Popeye for the "24 hour comic jam" at the Angoulème festival this year. Many of these are GEMS. If you can read French, give it a go... [link]

I just wanted to add my own Popeye and Olive to the mix.

Trying out some new coloring tricks with this piece. Oh, the background texture is a print by the Japanese artist Hokusai.

I'm not a huge fan of Valentines day, not so much because of the commercial aspect, but more because of the guilt aspect. You have people who take their significant others on a date because "that's what they should be doing". And people who feel awful for being single. There's a certain lack of spontainity and honesty to the whole day. AT LEAST, for some people.

Other people really get into the subject of the day rather then the so-called obligations. I'm all for that. I like the idea of celebrating love and giving out cheesy little drawings.

So, I guess you could say i'm going to take a day to think about how much I love people. But i'm going to avoid the big special date with the rose bouquet. Cause that's just strange.

Happy heart day to all of you who have a small, or a large place in my heart. My heart is an apartment building. Some stay for a while, others not for long, but the rent is always low! I adore all of you!

Special mention goes to Link, who is my knight in shining cheesiness. You make me laughs, you give great hugs and you can stand the crazy I dispense in large quantities. You deserve all the kisses in the universe.

Once in a while, someone mentions something amazing.

One secret was about a sad love story, and mentioned this video about a girl and a boy separated by an unbreakable glass, who draw to communicate.

It's kinda amazing. It reminds me of how awesome drawing and the theme of drawing can be.

Watch it here. 

A little (fake?) history lesson?

St Valentine was persecuted as a Christian and interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius II in person. He is portrayed in modern times as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single. The Emperor supposedly did this to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers. The priest Valentine, however, secretly performed marriage ceremonies for young men. When Claudius found out about this, he had Valentine arrested and thrown in jail. In an embellishment to The Golden Legend provided by American Greetings, Inc. to History.com and widely repeated, on the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he wrote the first "valentine" himself, addressed to a young girl variously identified as his beloved and as the jailer's blind daughter whom he had befriended and healed, or both. It was a note that read "From your Valentine."[17]

And the pope's mom ships it.

Thank god modern fangirls have the internet.

So, be you single or in the coupledom, please see today as a good day to ship, be happy and love everybody, not just your beloved. Also, lemme know what your favorite lame ass pickup line is. I love lame pick up lines.



In unrelated and unhappy news, I may have lost a sketchbook on the subway (unless I left it at work). Hopefully someone will return it. My address is in it...

-Isa

The gender switch contest on ameliazellove seemed like a good excuse. Basically, you draw Zel and Amelia, two of the main characters of Slayers as they would be if they were of the opposite gender, either born that way or transformed suddently. I chose the *born that way* scenario, because then Zel would have been a kick-ass female from the start, and we always need more kick ass females. I wanted them to keep their personas despite the gender change, but obviously the personas would be similar, but different due to the fact that they got raised differently. Thru several drawings I wanted to explore these subtle differencences. So here we go:

The character sheet...



( MOAR GENDERSWITCH )

In a non-fanart note, I just worked another 12 hour day. I am dead. TGIF.

-Isa

So I finally caved and decided to re-open my deviant art account. Yes, I know, those of you who know me well remember my deviant art rants. But give or take, deviant art is one of the best places for an artist to advertize on the internet. So I swallowed my pride and re-opened one.

Too bad I can't remember how this thing works at all. Damn it.

For now, there's nothing in it. I don't really know what i'll put in. Probably some comics, maybe some fanart, for sure some Waldo x Carmen. I still need to show you guys some of that. Maybe some avatar, obviously some Slayers...  I'd like to be able to be noticed on Deviant art. I'm an attention whore, I know.

For those of you who would like to add me to your friends on deviant art, i'm secondlina on there too.

Don't have a drawing right now. So check out this one. It's been drawn by Link. And colored too. I think he's much better at photoshop than me... It's inspired by the artist Klimt (one of my favorites) and a dancing video on youtube. Originally done as a present for me.



Oh well, back to work I guess. Tonight I need to finish some pages on Rose (i'm finally up to the inking process for some of them. I miss inking.) and I might draw something else. But you guys, the Avatar Box sets are VERY counter productive. *laughs* Oh, I need to buy food too. Isa need food.

-Isa

 

Love the twins. And by twins I means those two dorks (Link and his brother) living in Montréal. Gotta love'em.

Giant BAAAAAAAAAAAH phase right now. I pretty much just finished my contracts (top chrono - 5 minutes ago!) and now I have no more left to do. I'm only left with my personal projects (aka the comic book Rose, Slayers Steampunk and whatever else I decide to pick up.) and yet I barely feel like picking up a pencil. Without deadlines, I seem to be a real wuss. Baaaaah. Maybe I should just take a few days of break.

I did sketch out a few things slayers related though. 
Mainly this hero thing based on this post and a tiny inside joke. 





Haha.

Blargh...stomach flue X_X

-Isa

Occationnaly I get really bored and unmotivated. I think you need to go thru those days to be able to have such work driven ones.

Unfortunatly, I am often hyper when those days come. A few people can confirm that I pretty much act like that on those times yep.
ichiban_victory  even has it on video.

Poor Link never gets to read anything. He usually reads when i'm asleep because I attack him whenever I see him sitting and reading. It's like watching a pet sleep; you just gotta bug them that. Very. Second. Also, shirtless reading is hot.

I discovered lately I really love toys and repetitive sounds (not THOSE toys and repetitive sounds, you perverts). I like bright children's toys and cute japanese toys, and I love objects who make annoying sounds. I also like making annoying sounds myself. Considering I also love crows, I think my ideal object would be this, to everyone's deep dismay...



Somewhere, somehow, Link is staring at a computer screen begging god the Crow-toy doesn't exist.

I'm such a kid sometimes and I love it.

-Isa

Okay, so i'm not that nervous. Maybe slightly agitated.
I'm finally leaving for Toronto tomorrow. I know, took me long enough huh? I originally supposed to leave earlier, but I had a few things to edit out about school so I stayed behind a bit. It pissed me off slightly since if I knew I could have worked a bit more, I would have told my boss to schedule me rather then tell her I was gone. I met her at the store too yesterday, while I was out buying batteries. It was very akward. I suppose I could have called work to tell them to schedule me. But the people I was supposed to meet in order to solve the remainer of my school issues kept changing the date of the meeting, thus, Isa didn't work and pretty much wasted her time.

I'm really eager to start my intership, although it seems like it might be a bit different then what I expected at first. Still, it's going to be two months away from home, good for me to learn about art business management, do some comics, visit museums and galeries and of course, spend time with Link. I think i'll miss my family and my friends a lot. Although, I think it's odd they speak of my departure like i'm dying.

"Oh, Isa is going! The tragedy, the loneliness!"
"Er, i'll be back in a month and a half, two months tops..."

I believe my mom is afraid of being alone with my brothers.

I,ve kinda wasted my time since the exams finished. I spent a lot of time thinking about what I was doing right now and what I wanted to do with my life. It is my last year next year. I went to see the graduate's show of this year and started wondering about what I wanted to do for art...I also though about my general personnality too, as the precedent post indicated. I was pretty caught up in thinking, planning and visiting. I lost track of time. Barely drew anything, didn't even update the journal.

I told Link to keep an eye on me, make sure I draw a certain amount of pages a day.

That's good XD

Soon i'm gonna start a new story segment (I was waiting to get to Toronto) so the secondlina's characters will torture us both.



You know, considering the rat tail, maybe Link truly is... a jedi?

Tomorrow my friend tama drives me to the bus station ^_^ Much thanks to the tama!

-Secondlina

...Slightly in advance, since it's only on the second of march, but I don't think i'll have time to post that day ^^





The theory of the "boyfriend food squale" is copywritted to Stephan, who was nice enough to repeat it to me so I could draw this and that really called Link a dessert.

Happy Birthday Criquet! Much Hugs will be put your way when you'll show up to visit your family tomorrow ^^
Happy birthday to Link's twin sister and brother as well!

-Secondlina

p.s. Everybody, don't forget to vote for a new web site banner please!!!! Right here: http://secondlina.livejournal.com/41563.html

THANKS!! ^^