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*expires from teh cute*

And in other news, made it back from the early family Christmas in Houston, surviving the exceptionally boring five-hour drive. Took lots of photos with Mom's camera, which means I won't get them until next week when I go to her house for our actual Christmas. :D I do plan on posting one of the photos of my redheaded college-age cousin and ask you all to let me know exactly which Weasley relative he is, since it struck me that he wouldn't be out of place at the Burrow.

The thought was probably prompted by listening to an audio version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on the way to and from Houston, ripped from a friend's CD set onto my iPod,* which files have the strange error of every so often stopping and jumping to the next chapter, so that you have to go back to the previous chapter and forward it past the point where it jumped to listen to the rest of the chapter.



* No, I don't wear earphones while driving. I've got one of those dooleyboppers that allows the iPod to broadcast to the radio.

Friends icon meme

Ganked from riofriotexas - you go plug in your LJ name and it produces a mosaic/quilt/whatchacallit of your friends' primary LJ icons. And because there are WAY TOO DAMN MANY of you FREAKS OF NATURE, this is...

( ...cut for MASSIVE ICONAGE - over 200! )

Memeage...

Another meme, courtesy of riofriotex:

Google your name with the phrase "looks like." Be sure to put it in quotation marks like "Joe Bob looks like."

( ... O.o )

Yo, kittikattie!

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26486545/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26488142/
http://www.deviantart.com/view/26513176/

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing...part I

Back in one of my shoujo art posts a week or so ago, prettyism volunteered her art for comparison purposes of amateur vs. pro work. This isn't a post about layout, however, it's about art. prettyism asked about her work in her LJ, and I answered a few things there, and then started thinking about poses and flow and anatomy, and that kinda exploded into this.

This is actually a very long version of the sort of crit I occasionally do over on Deviantart. And prettyism knows I'm doing it. :D I also want to point out that this chick has drawn several hundred pages of her stories, which shows far more stick-to-itiveness than 99% of the wannabe artists out there, and we should all give her a round of applause for that, as well as having the guts to let me do this in public. XD *golf claps*

I am using Kazuya Minekura's work in comparison, because she has excellent examples of the sort of thing I'm talking about. Minekura's work is drawn from traditional figure-drawing techniques, and although her anatomy is exaggerated, it's exaggerated in such a way that it makes it easier to see the muscles and bones beneath the skin, and she has movement and flow in her images, even when the figures are standing still.

( On to the art! Lotsa images below the cut )

This got way long - I'm going to publish it to LJ now and do the anatomy in a separate entry.