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*catgirlkari:iconcatgirlkari:

(car-E) is such a Bleacher  

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After a while, it just gets to me...

Journal Entry: Sat May 3, 2008, 9:37 AM



So. The WEWY constest was announced. I think most of you have seen the results by now. Of course I didn't win. I would have been fine with not winning if the winners were absolutely amazing. Really, I would have. But out of all the winners, only about half of them impressed me. It seems like the ' popular ' artists won. It may sound harsh, but I didn't think that they had solid designs at all. And then there is that weird veriety in the winners. The rules said 'inspired by the game, but not derived from.' The grand prize winner set her character in the game world. Well, I guess all of the entried did that, but still. Those winning entried included extra info like battle style and personality and everything. This contest was supposed to be about design and nothing else. That is why I kept mine so plain, the design should speak for the character. All of the winners were top 200 when you looked at popularity ranking. Hell, I thought I had a good chance since one of my entried was in the top 200 popular ones. When they said over 7000 entries, I was expecting 10 winners that made me say 'wow.' I was sorely dissappointed. Simple as that.
I want to know if the development team was really involved with the judging. I'd think that since they know what makes a design great, that they would look past pretty colors and see the design for what it really is. I realize all of this ranting might sound pissy, but I'm kinda pissed off about it. I really got my hopes up, and I got smacked back down. It hurts when people you admire and even people you don't know say that you have to be top 10 and you don't get anything.
Most of this ranting probably isn't even coming from anger at the contest. It's probably anger at how life likes to screw you over. I want to apologize if any of the above rant seemed offensive or petty and I don't want to make excuses for my attitude, but I've had a lot of ups and downs lately. It seems like life has been giving me presents and then smacking me for enjoying them. I am not going to make excuses and try to get pitty from anyone. I'm just going to go dump all my frustration and sadness in to art. That is why most of my art is sad; I tend to get inspired when I am in the dumps and channel everything into that piece as a relief. I'm off to go do that.

/RANT RAWR RAGE

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Kari out ;3
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Devious Information

  • Current Age: How old do you think I am?
  • Current Residence: Forgotten City, just past the Sleeping Forest, third shell on the left
  • Interests: Art, anime, video games, colors...
  • Favourite movie: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
  • Favourite band or musician: Avril Lavigne, Do As Infinity
  • Favourite genre of music: Game OST's, J-Pop, J-Rock, country, random stuff
  • Favourite artist: Tite Kubo, Nomura Tetsuya, Takehito Harada, Lord Donovan
  • Favourite poet or writer: Tite Kubo, Nobuhiro Watsuki, Himoru Arakawa, Yukiru Sugisaki
  • Favourite style or digital art: Anime/Manga
  • MP3 player of choice: Winamp / iPod
  • Shell of choice: those blue spikey ones that fly
  • Wallpaper of choice: Whatever strikes my fancy
  • Skin of choice: Mizuho_Winamp_Skin (but I want to make my own)
  • Favourite game: Final Fantasy VII; Kingdom Hearts Series; Nippon Ichi games; Portal; Trauma Center
  • Favourite gaming platform: PS2
  • Favourite cartoon character: Can you name all the Bleach characters? But Ukitake, Urahara, Ulquiorra and Yoruichi deserve praise.
  • Personal Quote: AWESOME SAUCE IN CAPS... (awesome)
  • Tools of the Trade: Wacom Intuous 3 | Photoshop CS2

Devious Comments

~Arcadian-Death:iconArcadian-Death: 1 day 11 minutes ago
LOL Pretty much the same, except without the Depression or Illegal Imigrants *its hard ti get here illegally, considering we are surrounded by oceans*
Well, if you look on a map of New Zealand, you'll see a large bump sticking out of the side of the North Island. on that bump is New Plymouth, which is home to me ^^.
Ummm..... Its okay here, alot of beaches and water. The Mountain as well *so liek skiing in winter* There is alot of parks and stuff as well, so its well tied in with the envionment.

Right nwo the biggest issue in NZ would be our own elections, and some envionment stuff that no-one plays around with.
School is pretty much divided up into a few groups. Gangsters, so pretty much the trouble makers. Girly-girls, who are usually academic and really perfectionist. Gangster girly-girls, who are a gangster version of the prior. Nerds, who hang out in the Library. Emos, who... well.... They're emo =\ And those of us in between *me*. Almost everyone of them can get their hands durty in work, or in sport. Except maybe some of the Girly-girls, and their gangster counter-parts. So yeah, its a little different from America lol.
*catgirlkari:iconcatgirlkari: 1 day 7 hours ago
Hm.... well, I live in a pretty quite area, nothing like LA or New York. It's actually Northern California. Waaaaaay up there. Kids are the same everywhere in the world. We've got the prissy cheerleaders, nerds, jocks, geeks, loners, and the people who float in between. Right now in the economy everyone is worried about gas prices. It's like $4 a gallon. Way too much. We also have Presidential elections going on. It's all the news talks about. Right now America is looking like it's going into another depression, which is kinda scary, and we are having issues with illigal immigrants. But that's all the bad stuff. There are movie theaters and malls (even though you can't call ours a mall, it's lame beyond belief) and kids are kids. I'm not sure if that is what you were asking about, but I've never really though that hard on this stuff before. It's just kinda become day to day life. I'd be glad to answer any other specific questions. =3
So what is New Zeland like?

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Kitty kitty... meow. I make Bleach and other cosplay items.
~Arcadian-Death:iconArcadian-Death: 1 day 17 hours ago
LOL fair enough. Welll.... ummmm.... Whats America like nowadays? I can't say I've ever been there, so I'm kinda curious.
*catgirlkari:iconcatgirlkari: 1 day 18 hours ago
Cool. Cool.
So.... you have any questions? I'm kinda out. X3

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Kitty kitty... meow. I make Bleach and other cosplay items.
~Arcadian-Death:iconArcadian-Death: 1 day 19 hours ago
LOL yeah, Year 13. Although we can leave school at the end of Year 11.
And thanks. But football *soccor to you I guess* is more of a team sport anyway.
And Electronics, well, we do electrical stuff. Making electric circuits *and in the end projects*, doing theory work behind stuff, that sorta thing.
*catgirlkari:iconcatgirlkari: 1 day 19 hours ago
Year 13? America only goes to 12. *in year 12, graduating in a few weeks* For some of the sports at school we have a Freshman *year 9* team, Junior Varsity *10,11, and sometimes 9* and Varsity *12 and sometimes 11*.
Congrats on the win! Keep it up!
So, what do you do in Electronics? I've never heard of a class with that title.

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Kitty kitty... meow. I make Bleach and other cosplay items.
~Arcadian-Death:iconArcadian-Death: 2 days 1 hour ago
Okay, well in our school it is divided up into two sections. Junior School, which is Year 9s and 10s *i'm a year 10* and the Seniors are Years 11, 12 and 13. Now with sports, there are usually one team for each section, including soccor, which has two in the Junior School *A-team and B-team* I play for A-Team.
I just got back from the second game of the season, and our second win. 6-4 to us. It was good.
*catgirlkari:iconcatgirlkari: 2 days 1 hour ago
Is Junior A-Team like the top bottom bracket? Like at my school we have Junior Varsity.

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Kitty kitty... meow. I make Bleach and other cosplay items.
~Arcadian-Death:iconArcadian-Death: 2 days 20 hours ago
LOL Thanks, I might need it. I play for the Junior A-Team, but some of our best strikers and midfielders are away tomorrow, so we are kinda lacking the masterful attack we usually have. Although we still have a solid defense, including the best Goalee in the Junior School.

And as fo my favourite subject.... lol... well maybe English, because we are doign creative writing right now. Other than that, maybe French or Drama, or Electronics.... *oh... thats three... crap...*
*catgirlkari:iconcatgirlkari: 2 days 21 hours ago
Electronics sounds like fun.
I've only got three weeks left of high school, but I'm in govt/econ, ceramics, yearbook, english, math, and physics. I don't do sports... I just do art. X3 Good luck at your game!
Which is your fave subject?

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Kitty kitty... meow. I make Bleach and other cosplay items.
~Arcadian-Death:iconArcadian-Death: 2 days 21 hours ago
LOL I take the normal stuff like English, Maths, Social Studies, Science and P.E. But I also take Drama, French and Electronics XD. I play soccor as well, which is fun. *Game 2 tomorrow >.>*
Wbu?
*catgirlkari:iconcatgirlkari: 3 days 50 minutes ago
X3
So... uh... hm.... what... kind of classes are you taking? *iono*

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Kitty kitty... meow. I make Bleach and other cosplay items.
~Arcadian-Death:iconArcadian-Death: 3 days 19 hours ago
LOL trust you, Amy XD.

And aparently I just look more mature =\ I'm not sure if its just that pic or not.
*Warrior-of-Cosmo:iconWarrior-of-Cosmo: 3 days 23 hours ago
CAPTAIN AWESOME! 8D WHERE!?

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*catgirlkari:iconcatgirlkari: 4 days 1 hour ago
<.< >.> MAYBE. :3
Uh... yeah, that was me that thought you were 17... you look mature for your age in that picture? ^^;

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Kitty kitty... meow. I make Bleach and other cosplay items.
~Arcadian-Death:iconArcadian-Death: 4 days 21 hours ago
LOL this wouldn't happen to do with one "Captain Awesome" would it?
And I'm interested in seeing someones elses fanfics, it would be cool if you wrote one =D. And Manga, lol, I can't draw, but from Amy I have alot more appreciation for art and other stuff XD.
And was it you that thought I was 17?
*catgirlkari:iconcatgirlkari: 5 days 1 hour ago
I'm writing my own story~ It's going to be a manga. Actually, it ties in with another friend's manga, so we help each other. I do poetry from time to time. It usually comes from a random inspiration. Speaking of which, I have one I can post, I just want to do a little picture to go with it first.
I have comic ideas that I collab with my cousin, especially Bleach, but I've never tried to write a fanfic. Next time you see Amy, say awesome to her in a loud whisper. You'll probably get a few laughs out of her. >3

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Kitty kitty... meow. I make Bleach and other cosplay items.
~Arcadian-Death:iconArcadian-Death: 5 days 19 hours ago
Ummm... Well pretty much any sort of writing, even Poetry on occasion. As long as its none of that confusing stuff you sometimes see. Yeah, I write too, pretty much about anything. Right now focusing on Bleach, and a request for ~Warrior-of-Cosmo, which is also Blech >.> But yeah... yourself?
*catgirlkari:iconcatgirlkari: 6 days 1 hour ago
X3 Thank you so much!

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Kitty kitty... meow. I make Bleach and other cosplay items.
*catgirlkari:iconcatgirlkari: 6 days 1 hour ago
Hmmm... good OST you say? I may have to watch it then. X3
So what else are you into?

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Kitty kitty... meow. I make Bleach and other cosplay items.
~kunoichikat:iconkunoichikat: 6 days 8 hours ago
Your art.....is flippin' amazin'!! :wow: Your shading, your color choices, I absolutely love your gallery!! :heart:

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~Arcadian-Death:iconArcadian-Death: 6 days 20 hours ago
Its pretty good, and kinda like the Polar Opposite of Bleach. No violence, not much humor, and a really meaningful and deep storyline. I would leave it upto you, but it has a great OST and the drawings are friggen awesome! 8D