I haven't updated in like a year, go me! I've been busy trying to find a real job after graduating from AIP, with no success, so I haven't had the time to create much of anything good. I'm working on a comic that I might submit to Antarctic Press or Radio Comix, but it's in the early early stages of creation; I'm also working on a Gold Digger pinup-type-thing of Gina.

But that's not what I'm posting about. I've undertaken a new project - 3D models of weapons, mecha, and starships from the classic anime Gall Force. I can't believe with all the amateur 3D artists out there that nobody's undertaken this yet, I love those ships.

More on this later.

I stole this one from . Egads I'm bored.

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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own journal so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I guess 25's not that bad.

I stole this from , who stole it from someone else and so on down the line. Further information added where appropriate.

Info
[] I am shorter than 5'4. (6'1", fear my tall self)
[X] I think I'm ugly sometimes.
[X] I have many scars. (Nearly all on my hands due to a couple of bicycle accidents in my high school years)
[] I tan easily. (Unless freckles count...)
[X] I wish my hair was a different color. (Black, or maybe dark blue.)
[] I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color.
[] I have a tattoo. (I want some though... dragons wrapped around my arms, one on each arm from the shoulder to the back of my hand. Bonus points if you get the reference.)
[X] I am self-conscious about my appearance.
[] I have/I've had braces.
[X] I wear glasses
[] I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost
[X] I've been told I'm attractive by a complete stranger. (I've had a lot of girls randomly tell me I'm cute recently. I dun get it.)
[] I have more than 2 piercings. (Two exactly )
[] I have piercing in places besides my ears.
[X] I have freckles. (OVER NINE THOUSAAAAND!!!)

Family/Home Life
[] I've sworn at my parents.
[] I've run away from home.
[X] I've been kicked out of the house. (My mom's girlfriend was mad at me for doing laundry too late at night)
[] My biological parents are together. (Divorced when I was 12)
[] I have a sibling less than one year old.
[X] I want to have kids someday.
[] I've lost a child.

School/Work
[X] I'm in school (Almost done, two more quarters...)
[X] I have a job (Kennywood park in Pittsburgh)
[X] I've fallen asleep at work/school.
[X] I almost always do my homework.
[X] I've missed a week or more of school. (I missed two weeks for chicken pox in 9th grade)
[X] I've been on the Honor Roll within the last 2 years (President's list a few quarters ago, yay for that 4.0!)
[] I failed more than 1 class last year
[] I've stolen something from my job.
[X] I've been fired.

Embarrassment
[X] I've slipped out an "lol" in a spoken conversation. (I sometimes use it to mock people, and sometimes couple it with cats.)
[] Disney movies still make me cry.
[] I've peed from laughing.
[X] I've snorted while laughing.
[X] I've laughed so hard I've cried.
[] I've glued my hand to something.
[X] I've had my pants rip in public. (I was at work. It sucked majorly.)

Health
[] I was born with a disease/impairment.
[X] I've gotten stitches/staples. (Only a few stitches when I had my wisdom teeth out)
[X] I've broken a bone (Playing football, smashed my finger)
[] I've had my tonsils removed.
[X] I've sat in a doctor’s office/emergency room with a friend.
[X] I've had my wisdom teeth removed.
[] I had a serious surgery.
[X] I've had chicken pox.
[] I've had measles
[] I've had a serious illness/cancer

Traveling
[X] I've driven over 200 miles in one day. (Multiple times!)
[X] I've been on a plane.
[X] I've been to Canada.
[X] I've been to Mexico.
[] I've been to Niagara Falls.
[] I've been to Japan. (I wish v.v)
[] I've celebrated Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
[X] I've been to Europe. (Italy)
[] I've been to Africa.

Experiences
[X] I've gotten lost in my city. (Before I lived here, I did. Not since I've been here.)
[X] I've seen a shooting star.
[] I've wished on a shooting star.
[X] I've seen a meteor shower.
[] I've gone out in public in my pajamas.
[X] I've pushed all the buttons on an elevator.
[] I've kicked a guy where it hurts.
[X] I've been to a casino.
[] I've been skydiving.
[X] I've gone skinny dipping.
[] I've played spin the bottle.
[] I've drank a whole gallon of milk in one hour.
[] I've crashed a car.
[X] I've been Skiing.
[X] I've been in a play.
[] I've met someone in person from myspace.
[X] I've caught a snowflake on my tongue.
[] I've seen the Northern lights.
[] I've sat on a roof top at night.
[] I've played chicken.
[] I've played a prank on someone.
[X] I've ridden in a taxi.
[X] I've seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
[X] I've eaten sushi. (nom nom raw fish nom)
[] I've been snowboarding.

Relationships
[X] I'm single
[] I'm in a relationship
[] I'm engaged. (Was once)
[] I'm married
[X] I've gone on a blind date.
[] I've been the dumped more than the dumper. (1:1)
[X] I miss someone right now.
[X] I have a fear of abandonment.
[] I've gotten divorced
[X] I've had feelings for someone who didn't have them back.
[X] I've told someone I loved them when I didn't.
[X] I've told someone I didn't love them when I did.
[X] I've kept something from a past relationship.

Sexuality
[X] I've had a crush on someone of the same sex.
[] I've had a crush on a teacher.
[X] I am a cuddler.
[X] I've been kissed in the rain.
[X] I've hugged a stranger.
[X] I have kissed a stranger

Honesty/Crime
[] I've done something I promised someone else I wouldn't.
[X] I've done something I promised myself I wouldn't.
[] I've snuck out of my house.
[] I have lied to my parents about where I am.
[X] I am keeping a secret from the world. (Over NINE THOUSAAAAND)
[X] I've cheated while playing a game.
[X] I've cheated on a test. (Does writing the answers in code on my hand count?)
[X] I've run a red light. (They'd just put the light in and I wasn't used to it being there)
[] I've been suspended from school.
[X] I've witnessed a crime. (Someone got drunk and tried to kill someone else. Also saw a cop stealing a car once)
[] I've been in a fist fight.
[] I've been arrested.

Drugs/Alcohol
[X] I've consumed alcohol.
[] I regularly drink. (Just a couple times a year)
[] I've passed out from drinking.
[] I have passed out drunk at least once in the past 6 months.
[] I've smoked weed
[]I've taken painkillers when I didn't need them.
[] I've eaten shrooms.
[] I've popped E.
[] I've inhaled Nitrous.
[] I've done hard drugs.
[] I have cough drops when I'm not sick.
[X] I can't swallow pills (I have trouble but sometimes I can manage)
[] I can swallow about 5 pills at a time no problem
[] I have been diagnosed with clinical depression. (diagnosed, no. have it? probably.)
[] I have been diagnosed with one or more anxiety disorder. (ditto.)
[X] I shut others out when I'm depressed.
[] I take anti-depressants.
[] I'm anorexic or bulimic.
[] I've slept an entire day when I didn't need it.
[X] I've hurt myself on purpose. (Once I was really depressed and tried to carve my ex's name into my wrist.)
[] I've woken up crying
[X] I'm afraid of dying. (Isn't everyone?)
[] I hate funerals.
[] I've seen someone dying.
[] Someone close to me has attempted suicide.
[] Someone close to me has committed suicide.
[X] I've planned my own suicide. (Luckily I didn't get the chance.)
[] I've attempted suicide.
[] I've written a eulogy for myself.

Materialism
[] I own over 5 rap CDs.
[X] I own an iPod or MP3 player.
[] I have an unhealthy obsession with anime/manga. (I wouldn't say 'unhealthy'
[] I own multiple designer purses, costing over $100 a piece (lol wut guys with purses?)
[X] I own something from Hot Topic.
[X] I own something from Pac Sun. (An old pair of shorts from high school)
[X] I collect comic books.
[] I own something from The Gap
[X] I own something I got on e-bay. (I buy on ebay a lot )
[] I own something from Abercrombie

Random
[X] I can sing well.
[] I've stolen a tray from a fast food restaurant.
[X] I open up to others easily.
[] I watch the news.
[X] I don't kill bugs. (Except wasps, which are evil. So are WASPs, but that's beside the point )
[] I hate hearing songs that sacrifice meaning for the sake of being able to rhyme.
[] I curse regularly.
[X] I sing in the shower.
[] I am a morning person.
[] I paid for my cell phone ring tone.
[X] I'm a snob about grammar.
[] I am a sports fanatic.
[] I twirl my hair.
[] I have "x"s in my screen name.
[X] I love being neat. (But I lack the time)
[] I love Spam
[X] I've copied more than 30 CD's in a day (I ripped about a hundred music CDs to my computer one day)
[X] I bake well.
[] My favorite color is either white, yellow, pink, red or blue (Black like my soul)
[] I've worn pajamas to school.
[] I like Martha Stewart.
[X] I know how to shoot a gun.
[] I am in love with love.
[] I am guilty of tYpInG lIkE tHiS.
[X] I laugh at my own jokes.
[X] I eat fast food weekly. (No time for cooking on work days)
[] I believe in ghosts.
[X] I am online 24/7, even as an away message.
[] I've not turned anything in and still got an A in a certain class.
[] I can't sleep if there is a spider in the room.
[X]I am really ticklish
[X] I love white chocolate (om nom nom)
[] I bite my nails. (No, but I do bite my cuticles)
[X] I play video game(s). (one would hope so considering what I'm in school for!)
[] I'm good at remembering faces.
[] I'm good at remembering names.
[] I'm good at remembering dates.
[] I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life


Somehow I get the idea this survey was meant for girl-people. My bad.

First off, Jshei got the 3000-views thing. Her drawing is done, it's the Rese one in my gallery.

Second... for those of you who know SamBakZa's 'There She Is' flash animation - the cat and the rabbit - step three has just been released. It's a little different than the first two, but still very awesome.

[link]

So I'm getting up to 3000 page views. In grand old dA tradition, whoever takes a screenshot of 3000 (or closest to it) and emails it to me gets a drawing of whatever they want.

Er, within limits. I'd rather not do porn or whatever.

edit: I suppose it'd help if I give my email address. divals [at] gmail [dot] com. TAKE THAT SPAMMERS!