Christmas #1

Dad came up this morning to bring Trunks and I our Christmas presents; he stopped and picked Trunks up and brought him over here, along with Sarah (Trunks' girlfriend) and Cody (Sarah's little brother). I wasn't in the mood to deal with Cody, but he wasn't all that bad... he just played with my stuffed animals quietly.

Anyway, Dad got me a new DVD player for Christmas, since mine was pretty much kaput. He also got me the Ewoks movies (live action!) on DVD. And since my birthday is so close to Christmas, he gave me my birthday gift, too; a new stereo, since my stereo is also pretty much kaput.

Lois got me a blanket with a kitten and a puppy on it, and a HUGE pillow with kittens on it, too. It's the most comfortable pillow I've ever had. I love it.

And because Trunks wanted Dad to see what he got me, he made me open my gift from him, too--a 2005 The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King themed agenda. It's very cool, and I really like it... but at the same time, I don't even have a job, so I really don't need an agenda.

I didn't tell him that, though.

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Oh, and Sarah and Cody got me a necklace. It's a moon and a star, and they're mood-themed, so they change color depending on my body heat.

Ironically, they seem to be stuck on "despairing" right now. =_=;;

It was nice to see them, though. It really does make me feel better to have someone around here to talk to.

Distracting Myself

So. In an attempt to distract myself, I've been going through a bunch of my old binders/sketchbooks/etc... and found some rather amusing things. God, how my art was terrible...

Anyway, way back in 2002, I did a whole bunch of mini gag-type comics about my friends and I. We all had little anime-cartoon forms and whatnot, and I just scribbled out comics in my spare time. Today I found a bunch of them and figured I'd share them, and some of my old and craptacular art.

They're a bit small, but hopefully you can read the words anyway...

Art #1: I set about designing "cartoon" forms for all my friends, and since LoTR (FoTR) had just come out, we were pretty much all Elves. But C.A. wanted to be different, so she became a fairy instead.

( The first Cartoon C.A. sketch. )

Art #2: Later on, C.A.'s design became more refined and detailed, and I added a lot of color as well. She's my favorite of all the designs I did for my friends. This is the latest one of her I did. I just want to include it because I love it so much.

( Final version C.A. Cartoon Form. )

Art #3: This is the first pic I did when I was designing Cartoon forms for me and my friends. There's a LOT wrong with it, but there's still quite a bit I like about it, too. Suisei-chan (Melissa) is the one in dark-colored fur, Holly (Jen) is the one wearing a skirt and legging-things, and I'm the one that's waving.

( Suisei, Jenevra & Sena. )

Art #4: My brother wanted a Cartoon Form too, of course, but he didn't want to just be an elf like {almost} everyone else. So I made him into a demon-elf--the only difference being that he had wings. Whatever.

( Get offa me! )

Art #5: On a whim, I decided I wanted to draw mermaids. So I did this, and I still love it. You probably can't tell from the scan, but I actually drew in every little scale on both the tails...

( Painstakingly scaley... )

Comic #1, "Sibling Rivalry": I think this is my favorite of any of the ones I did back then. It made Mom laugh for about three days.

( Sibling Rivalry. )

Comic #2, "Elvish Attributes": This one I did right after I saw LoTR: FoTR for the first time with C.A., and fell onto the Legolas-Love Bandwagon. I started a second one, but never finished it.

( Elvish Attributes. )

Comic #3, "Melissa and Tiffany's Adventures at Tim Hortons (#1)": Yes, I did a comic about working at Tim Horton's. =_=;; That was back when I worked for a Tim's the first time, and it wasn't nearly such a HELL HOLE as the one I just quit from.

Melissa = Suisei-chan

( Melissa and Tiffany's Adventures at Tim Horton's. )

Comic #5, "The Quest for the Perfect Present": That year, I was broke and couldn't afford to get a gift for Trunks on his birthday. So I set out to draw him a comic instead, basically as an I.O.U. for an actual present... and never even finished it. Oh well. It was fun while I was doing it.

( The Quest for the Perfect Present. )

Yeah. That's about it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIERSETH!!

Your fic will be done in the next day or so, I promise!

I'm aiming for tomorrow.

Have a very happy birthday!