Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Thanks for the request!
I didn't really realize to myself that I could draw Misuzu until you asked me to draw her (the hair is sooo difficult, but I pulled through).

I now realize it's time to go make up a lab I missed. I might have more to post later!

-Krustyknuckles
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Buttons & Wallpapers

This is a pretty late post for me, so I'll keep it short. This week is gonna be the death of me, or of my chronic procrastination in my classes hopefully. I intend to write more of "Ninja Kai" either tomorrow or the next day. I submitted a wallpaper finally. It's Naruto on my current wallpaper, so please take a look when it gets on, I plan to use it myself.

I really have to thank everyone who has given me a request for work, it really gets me to challenge myself to do something that I love. I'm absolutely ecstatic about drawing something or using photoshop to make something for someone else. Its really the best way for me to work. I can't do something creative for myself, I just don't get motivated enough. Keep the requests coming!

-Krustyknuckles
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Monday, April 23, 2007

This weekend...

I'm so ready for A-kon (even though it's after May is over)!! I cut the sleeves off of my ninja costume and ended up spending around five hours fixing up the shirt and making a new short sheath. I don't want to think about how long it will take to make a Naota hoodie, or convert one [shudders]. Sewing is fun if the machine doesn't constantly make the stiches fuzzy, and thats exactly whats gonna happen next time I use it... I got so tired of it messing up on such short stitches that I just hand-turned the machine to get it right.

Other Stuff

Well, I made a wallpaper... its really simple, but I drew the original art for it and I spent maybe an hour on photoshop fixing it up:

I also made this button:

I hope you like it Kirbysdouble! :D

Questions:

1) Do you game? If so, what kind?
2) Do you like to ask personal questions?
3) Who's your favorite SuperSmashBros. Melee character?

Until I figure out how to type my atory again (hopefully tomorrow)
-Krustyknuckles
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Friday, April 20, 2007

I Give In...
Yeah, I'm a great artist and everything, blah blah blah. Here's my self portrait, I just think its a little too off of what I wanted... I cant post a photo of myself for you to see the difference. I assure you that while it does look like me, I feel dreadful every time I look at it and see the dissimilarities. Then I flip over to page three where I drew Kasumi from Dead or Alive as a secretary:




And, I guess I'll put up the button I made out of bored-ness:


I can make simple buttons if anyone wants one (pm me if you do want one). No guarantees that you'll like it, though. If I do one just because, it wont bother me if you don't use it. Just tell me you wont use it or if you don't like it, I'll understand (and maybe try again).

I've got work to do

Well, there's some projects that need workin' on, and I aims to do it. Sorry for the 73X4N-sp33k, just feel like it sometimes.

-Krustyknuckles
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Thursday, April 19, 2007

A Sketchy Future
This is a great title. Maybe I'll use it for a short story if I can ever figure out what to write about for it... My post is named this, because thats exactly what I'm looking forward to. My own sketchy future, just me and my new sketchbook... Oh, yeah, I probably should have mentioned the sketchbook I got yesterday. I'll be drawing in that in the future, so thats why my future is so sketchy. Now, I just don't put my name in a sketchbook. No, sir! I put my name and a sketch of myself on the first page. I'll just use it as a reference to see how much I've improved every time I open it. I'd share the drawing if I thought it really looked more like me (don't get me misunderstood - I'm well past the stick figure stage - although I can draw some really cool stick figures).

School - Graduation - Homework - Labs - Work

How much does school suck? You can learn just as much by being taught as you can learn from books, yet you have to do hours of meaningless tasks to prove that you know the material. I can't sit at home and do math, or physics, or anything I don't really enjoy. I can't just sit and "learn" with my hands something so simple looking that it looks like child's play. I sure miss Phys 1; dropping stuff - throwing stuff - rolling stuff; it was way better than studying something that moves so fast and has so little mass that it can only bounce off of something with no noticeable effect until it goes into your eye. Light is dangerous, and so is electricity, but neither of them are necessarily metals that glow in the dark and run submarines underwater for months at a time as well as causing massive meltdowns that create havoc and deformity among nearby lifeforms. Too bad there aren't any nuclear physics labs in my class... Then again, its a good thing...

Story

No story today, it will have to wait for next week, so I can add some new characters. Maybe just one... maybe more... You'll find out.

Questions:

1) Why am I asking you questions?
2) Why did I add another when I clearly couldn't think of another?
3) What's with all the questions?

Seriously, I don't need the answers... I'm just terribly bored.

until tomorrow (unless something unexpected and unusual happens, and it very well could.)
-Krustyknuckles
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Yesterday's Wash

Yup, laundry.
Yesterday was a wash indeed. I have no idea why I only posted comments and nothing else, but the day is long and I was quite preoccupied with making a site button for myself. It doesn't work, and theres no matter in how I rearrange the javascript (which I coincidentally don't know how to understand), I just couldn't get it to work. I would have had a post yesterday, but I suppose I need to own a server to put my button's html format on my page. It also figures that if it did work just as it's supposed to, it would take 25 lines of code and nearly 150 characters to put it in my profile. I'll just make something simple instead, maybe a gif image. Argh! I can't decide!

Art?

Last night-er-this morning, I decided to try a bit of abstract. I had seen someone else doing one in pen at Ikkicon, and while it looked interesting, I knew it was possibly the easiest thing in the art world. I took my blue sheet of paper (I have about six reams of the stuff) and started drawing curving lines. I then drew some more curving lines parallel to the curving lines I had drawn. I tried making them look like leaves, I tried making them look like stars, and I tried making them look like something (without putting a single angle in any line). I began starting new curving lines perpendicular to the others and I filled the page with organized nonsense. The only thing I really accomplished is finding a way to give myself 'O.C.D.'. I wasted an hour on this 'thing' that some would pay nearly ten dollars for and I was nearly half-asleep when I started. I'll just take this opportunity to tell anyone reading this, that if you happen to find this sort of ink-drawing at an art auction - - DON'T BUY IT! Sure its entertaining to look at, but it doesn't show you anything new. I'm sure that even the worst artists could make something like it if they tried a little. Heck, if I could use my wasted time (note: it wasn't me that was wasted) to make a decent ten bucks, I would sell that thing immediately; but since I know how easy it is and I can share it with somebody, I'll share it in the most honest way I know: If they aren't starving, deaf, or blind (that would be something), don't buy this kind of simple art unless it's well colored and shaded.

Chapter 3: Part 1

Kai woke up the next morning, his hand was still numb and his head was spinning. The fight with Konsetsuo left him tired and confused. His fingers popped as he clenched his fist to circulate his blood. His hand gradually got its feeling back, but still tingled as if the nerves had been disrupted.

The day before was both exciting and frightening. Kai had learned much more than he had anticipated and almost got himself killed by a young ninja swordsman. The one thing that saved him was his unskilled use of this 'power'. Another minute running would have given Konsetsuo the upper-hand. In the corner of his room, he had laid the sword down. He knew that it would never be the same, even if it were reforged. The blade was a perfect serrated edge and the hilt was so intricately designed you could look at it for hours.

"Kai, you're late for class!" Kai turned and saw Booshi in his doorway.

"I don't want to go today," Kai answered.

"I suppose that means you don't want to be trained how to use the power I showed you yesterday? Perhaps you already know how to control it?"

"Well, uh..."

"So you do? Well, then, by all means show me What you can do."

Kai ignored Booshi's mocking tone and went to the corner to pick up the remains of the broken sword.

"I don't think just anyone could do that," Kai said as he handed the pieces to Booshi and started to walk out the door.

"You must return this to his family. I assume he's not dead?"

"He's fine, he ran off after the sword broke off in my hands. He called me a baki molo or something."

"What he said was probably 'bakemono'. It means 'monster', but this village reserves the term for demons and people consumed by them. Go to class and be wary of the other students, there's no guarantee that the boy kept his mouth shut."

Kai left Booshi in the tree-house holding the broken sword.

"What kind of power will this boy have?"

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Questions:

1) Would you rather have love or wisdom?
2) Hooray for Naruto Shippuuden!

Have a nice day!
-Krustyknuckles
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Monday, April 16, 2007

Well, the joke's all drawn...
Well, its my fault if you don't get it, because the joke is computer related. It all started with me saying that Windows is a B17ch, and then it led to my thoughts of the lesser operating systems... They must be whores!

Its pretty hard to turn real pictures into sketches and make it look good, so sorry if any part of this bothers you. I know what parts bother me, and most of it is my drawing of Unix. "She" is a tranny. Agh! You should be able to click it to see the full image.

It's getting to be that time again!

Yes, that time of year when large amounts of work have piled up due to somebody's constant laziness and procrastination... I have a lot of work to start doing (probably this week), and I may (or may not) have time to write one chapter per week of "Ninja Kai". I'll be putting it up on fictionpress.com and I'll be sure to keep that up to date along with my blog. I guess today is a good day to put off what may be done tomorrow, so I'll procrastinate until then... Well, really I intend to write another chapter tonight (Monday night is my only really free night... aside from Saturday...and Thursday...). Yeah, I have a problem. Its a small mix of apathy and school and work. I'll get it done, given the time frame, but the problem is putting it all in there and keeping some time to goof off. Ah, well. I can blame all sorts of things for it, but it is my fault.

Questions:

1) Have you ever passed a class without trying? Do you think its possible?
2) How many manga volumes have you collected?
3) Did you understand the comic? (picture up top)

Time to get to, uh, something!
-Krustyknuckles
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Friday, April 13, 2007

FIREFOX!!

Hooray for Firefox!

I cant believe I hadn't downloaded it before, Its like a dream come true compared to the old decrepit internet explorer I used before. Its even got a spell-checker! Telling me when to add hyphens where words aren't compounded and when to check a dictionary when I think a word exists and doesn't! This is the best thing thats happened in my office since I got paid (its too long a wait between checks)!

"Ninja Kai"?

I'm sorry, but this week has been too hectic for me to write another chapter of "Ninja Kai", so it will have to wait for Monday. I'm planning on starting a new story as soon as classes are out too, a science fiction seems appropriate with all the books I've read lately. A short story or two, that may or may not be posted, will set up the universe as I see it, and then I'll get down to business. I'll have to make sure I get plenty of sleep too, because I have shown my inability to write on five hours sleep (yesterdays post). Today, my excuse is noteworthy in how it will surely make you think less of me: "I don't want to" :p. Sorry, but as I said yesterday, the details of the story get hazy here. I'm not sure where its going until I find my idea sheet again
*Sam rummages through his car's backseat*
I've also gotta clean my car... Its getting unruly, and I'm lucky I don't keep important documents underneath the ever-growing pile (well, its supposed to seat four - now its a cozy two, at least). I'll have to wait for this weather to clear up too before I take the vacuum outside to destroy my wonderful mess.

A Short Story of Gloating

I've been getting better at GO, the strategy game of ancient China. I even surprised myself when I not only pwned, but trounced my friend Drew in two separate games. I even managed to survive what I thought might have been a kamikaze attack on his largest territory. I told him I wouldn't post it in my blog, but so far as I know, he doesn't read my blog. If he complains, either someone told him about my blog, or he read it himself and surprised me indeed.

Losing... ability... to draw... slightly...

I've GOT to do some drawing this weekend or I just might lose my visual creativity mojo... There's a joke I came up with and I'm figuring out in my head a way to draw it, If I tell you now, it'll ruin the joke, so I will show it - not tell it - to you if I have it on Monday.

Thanks for reading!
Krusty K
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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Wow, Thursday?
It seems half of everyone is on MyO hiatus. No prob, I'll just keep writing on and on. I set up a facebook account that is merely to contain my story. I put the current extent of the story on it and I welcome you to read it. Maybe I'll put up a picture of myself... And no, I don't believe cameras steal the soul, so if I dont put up a picture, I probably didn't get permission to use my sister's computer. Here I am at my computer feeling utterly devoid of creative thoughts. I want to start chapter three, but the story hasn't prgressed to this point in my mind... ARGH! I probably should have gotten more than five hours of sleep last night, It really messes with my writing ability...

Hungry... Need food... Hmm, lots of paper... Ooh, a radio... No, I'm off to the vending machine... No, I'm going to the restaurant I used to work at, yeah. I'm gonna get some chicken on a bun... A chicken fried chicken sandwich... Mmmmmmm.

Before I start oozing away,
goodbye for today!
Krusty K

*drags self to car, and drives away*
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Was Sunday Really Easter?

Well, Sunday was kind of a drag, and I'm not going to blame the unusually cold Easter weather. I woke up in the morning to go to church - alone, whereas I normally go at night (No night services on Easter). I show up, and I can’t find anybody I know. I can't stand attending services if I can’t sit next to anybody I know, so instead I just helped out the ushers. It was pretty uneventful, except I might have escaped a parking ticket by not parking at the business next to the church. I normally have ushering duties at night, so they said that I'd expect to see my paycheck double - of course zero times two is still zero. I went to a barbeque later on, because my college group can't just meet in a closed and locked church building. We watched The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Independence Day. Near the end of Independence Day, we started speculating about the feasibility of a sequel, perhaps not even being in the same time period where the humans - finally having the aliens' technology, go out to destroy the aliens themselves. Independence Day 2: Ratify THIS, I think it should be called.
Ah well, Sunday was fun, but it didn't feel like Easter.

What 100 visits?

Well, this past weekend gave me my 100th visit. As I started this blog it remained at 100. After this blog is finished it may even be at 101 and dare I say perhaps 102. Sometimes I amaze myself at the amount of attention I can get. To some 100 may be a small-insignificant number, but when you think about it, it’s a hundred times better than one. I'm happy enough with 100; I don’t require a lot of attention. It seems that the season is ripe for people to be offline and too busy to post comments, so I shall not complain where I've had an accomplishment.

Chapter 2: part 6

Kai walked back toward town.
"Why, when I'm ready, won't he teach me? This is too frustrating... I guess I have to wait."
"You're awfully noisy for someone who shouldn't even need to whisper to talk to himself."
Kai spun around just in time to meet Konsetsuo face to face.
"Jumpy too... You really aren't cut out for this, are you?" Konsetsuo mocked.
"Why don’t you go off to your own tree?"
Konsetsuo merely stood there smirking. Kai only then noticed the sword Konsetsuo carried on his back.
Kai nodded toward the sword, "you didn't have that back at the academy."
"That would be objectionable. My family entrusted me with this sword, and it is my greatest skill. Another thing is that my family would never let me live such meager housing as a tree. You've been nothing but a thorn in my side since you came to my village. I think I should cut you off..."
"What would it prove? That you can’t handle change? I'm not proficient with a sword, and you using one against an unarmed opponent would only prove that you were scared of fighting me hand to hand.
"Now you are just saying that I have no honor."
With that said, Konsetsuo let his anger take him into a barbaric rage. Kai easily sidestepped the lunge, and jumped back for the expected swing.
Kai started focusing on his breathing, trying to feel how the oxygen affected him. As Kai continued to dodge away from Konsetsuo further into the forest, he started to feel the current of the flow of energy in his body. The slight shifts were altogether unnoticeable before he knew about them. He had to use this power if he had any chance to beat anyone adept with a sword, and he was starting to run out of strength and fall to the blade. The energy flowed slowly up his spine, made the circuit around his arms and finally started to fall toward his navel. The only way he could think of to focus this energy was to hold his hand over his stomach as he breathed.
His hand started to tingle, which was proof enough to Kai that it was working. Kai stopped running.
"You finally give up? Your life is mine!" Konsetsuo cried as he rushed through the trees.
Kai continued to focus on his hand until he felt somewhat faint. This time when Konsetsuo swung at Kai, he did not dodge. Kai put his hands together just as Booshi had done before, when he showed his fire technique. A thin strip of metal was between his hands.
He looked up to see an astonished Konsetsuo, gripping the hilt of his sword. The blade rested in Kai's hands, broken off of the relic.
"You're a monster! Bakemono!"
Konsetsuo dropped the useless sword and ran off.

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Sometimes when I write, I'm in suspense. I know that sounds either strange or conceited, but my heart was pounding while I wrote that scene. Maybe I'm just hungry...

I guess I'll supply some Questions:

1) Will you be going to an Anime convention this summer? Which one?

2) Do you follow any traditions that you think are 'silly' and do them anyway?

Thanks for reading,
Krusty K
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