HAHA! Maybe it’s REALLY all about….and only about….hair envy. I think that if I were a rabbit, I think Vash might be showing me up. Better to get him out of sight.

LOL Too funny!!!

that’s hilarious!!! i’m not into anime, but he does look crush-worthy!

Ahh…so THAT’S the chara on your wristband in the video! I thought at first it was Edward Elric….*sigh*
Yes, it’s odd, I got a small bunny plushie for Pip when she first arrived to assist her with bonding to Mimzy. We still call it “stunt bunny”. But since bonding with Mimzy…or at least quasi-bonding…Pip will not do to have that plushie in her enclosure and has actually ripped a hole in it’s face.

I think she definitely prefers the real deal. ^_^

Mimzy, of all the plushies in my collection that can currently fit in my room, has chosen a nondescript grey puppy dog to sidle up to most of the time when he’s out of his pen. Either that or Mokona Modoki. But I am fortunate that he hasn’t destroyed anything thus far.

But on the same line of this thread…my cat cannot stand to see the pictures that my daughter used to keep on her nightstand, and would attempt to spray them right in front of her. xD I would guess he’d be an effective chaperon if she were to begin dating. ^_^

Oh, and sorry, can’t reveal the identity of the subject in the pictures…she’d kill me, then raise me from the dead, then strangle me, then raise me back up, then….oh you get the idea. 0_o;

My first real girlfriend in college was a clone of Milly Thompson – from looks to size to personality.

Wow. Now I feel totally old and out-of-the-loop! Sigh…

The Pokemon references I got. I like Pokemon. Pikachu sneezes electricity, and I’m a theatrical lighting girl, so how could I not like him?

But I don’t know what all you’re talking about now!

(I remember being in grade school and having a strange 9-year-old crush on Bumblebee in the Transformers cartoon. The cartoon, not the movie. Which did Bumblebee all, wrong, btw.)

((Also, I’m losing a geek-contest with my boyfriend…quick! What was the name of the spider in Harry Potter?! I can’t remember and he’s borrowed all my books! Ack!!!))

Oh! Oh! Oh! I know this one….ummmmmm……..

Wait, I’ll ask my daughter….

ARAGOG! (lolz…had to Google it)

And that’s okay…anime is a world all it’s own. I wasn’t particularly interested in it beyond things like Kimba and Speed Racer and Marine Boy when I was little…but now I can’t get enough of it. My daughter wants to be a manga artist and she could probably do it too.

BTW, just an aside-for those who know POkemon well enough…I was thinking of this today:

If your bun was a Pokemon, which one would it be? (No fair picking Buneary/Lopunny)

I’d have to say, Mimzy would have to be like Pikachu, personality-wise. (Especially when Ash and he first met…I am sure he’d like to hit me with thundershock when I try to pick him up.) And Pip, well, she’s…Piplup, of course! (Totally hard to handle and full of bubbles!)

One other aside…Sarah, have you ever been to an artist’s site called suta-raito? She does excellent anime work and Vash is one of her fave subjects.

lol totally adorable…

OMG that’s amazing! 0_0 How on earth did you tweak those cards like that? And is all the art behind it yours also?
Hogeeze, an art student. I should’ve known! I’d make a DA account, but my work would be terminally embarrassing next to something like this…and oh, about 99.9% of all the other artists there as well.

LMAO…”it switches sides and goes into your deck”…. OMG, I’m laughing so hard I’m crying!

lolz…Maybe by showing this to my daughter you can encourage her in a roundabout way to go for her own scholarship…she has a DA account too if you’d like to look up the few things she’s deemed are worthy to log on up there. Here username is Lunamon. She’s only been seriously drawing anime for the last few years and used to complain that she couldn’t sketch as nicely as Mommy could. Now she knocks my pens in the dirt. I want her to put up her better work, but she’s scared someone will steal it. Sticky paws, you know.
She’s won the Copic contests in Beckett and Shonen Jump a few times now. Scary as it was her first tries at it.

I like Eevee1’s Subeta work. It’s what got me into playing the game in the first place. But yes, she does A LOT of Disney-fied stuff and I have lots of bones to pick with Disney myself…especially the bones of a white lion named Kimba.

*sigh* I wish I had your talent. Seriously.

EDIT: No way…your birthday is NOT just three days after my daughter’s! Not the same year but…

Okay, I’m certrainly freaked out now…lol! xD

boy, you’re not kidding. I”m 55, have been a commercial artist all my life and it was pretty tough breaking into a field dominated by men at the time.

Every teacher and counselor I had in high school told me not to waste my time because I ‘would only get married and have kids and never use the skills’…lol. I tried time after time to win scholarships and the principle finally told me to stop applying because they were NOT going to give it to a girl for the same reasons, that it would be a waste, at the same time acknowleging that my work was better.

Taking commercial art and advertising in college I learned to sign everything K. Walker. By my portfolio, I was chosen to interview for several good jobs, only to walk in and watch the guy do a double take and say, Hey, we thought you were Keith, not Kathy. Back then they just flat out told you that they wouldn’t hire a woman, especially one with a small child.

I finally did get that first job, and over the years worked as art director to several large companies, but it wasn’t nver easy, but I’ve loved every minute of it. You gotta develop a thick skin and be competitive.

I hate that cliche about the playing field, but it is true these days that women have just a good a chance as the guys to make it in any field. Tell your daughter to go for it!

I don’t know what’s wrong with so many art teachers, but it’s not just anime and not just your generation. I’m 50, never did end up making art/illustration my career – just occasional work – and had a WONDERFUL art teacher in high school. However, there was also a frustrated artist who lost the job of department head to my great teacher, never had interest in his shows, and took his wrath out on his talented students. A real creep.
Then, in my senior year at college, I had a painting professor who raked me over the coals for a still life I did of a carnation in a vase – very realistic. Well, it was a gift for my mother’s 50th birthday (I was 20) and the subject matter was very significant to us. Also, his thing was totally abstract post-modern art, so if it was representational, it sucked. No kidding. He probably would have given anime straight A’s. Fortunately, the whole class came to my defense and yelled at him! That was nice.

So my conclusion is that many art teachers have done much harm by limiting their vision to certain aspects of art, whatever is in vogue at their time of teaching. I am a great big believer in teaching all artists the fundamental basics of traditional art. The modern artists were all extremely skilled at their craft – then they intentionally rebelled and created a variety of genres. It’s very different from starting out doing large abstract work because the truth is you can’t draw at all. I think it’s wise to be trying as many types of medium and styles as you can as a student because only then will you connect with your own special medium and visual voice. I have a volunteer at the museum who tried stained glass in her 60s, and now she can’t do enough of it. Just took off with that medium.

BTW, I would LOVE to have some digital/software programs available to me locally in workshop form. I am very computer literate, but mostly self-taught and can’t work in graphic design or illustration now because I can’t afford the programs to teach myself and no one around here is giving classes without signing up for the whole masters degree program. (No $ to do that. Sigh.) So I know I have the talent and skills that develop fast, but can’t compete in this market.

I am now trying to curate exhibits, and the two we have up this summer are:
a 27 year old who has done ocean diving all his life, photographed and videoed huge fish (sailfish, stingrays, groupers, etc.) then does original compositions of paintings from his own photography. Then he makes giclee copies to sell.
And – a 60 year old artist who’s only painted warships, cruise ships, and sailing vessels at sea from all periods of history. He has the Titanic up to the QE2. He also sells giclees, and has sold one to President Bush, as well as some famous actor/collectors. Never paints anything else. But they’re both masters at what they do.

Binkles – you stick to your guns and do anime if that’s your passion.

Too bad you’re not in Texas, rabbitpam. I’ve worked in photoshop since 1989 and besides my current job do a lot of freelance work for the Texas Farm Bureau’s large traveling exhibit Planet Agriculture. The largest items I’ve done are the ‘wraps’ that go around an 18-wheeler truck and 8’x10′ wall panels and everything down to a matchbook.

I love to tutor people at work in programs especially photoshop. I like to watch their eyes light up when they realize they can do stuff that looks really cool.

Oh, kralspace, that’s so nice of you. Actually, Photoshop is one of the few programs I have been working with steadily – and I just learned a bit of Quark Express 7, so I was able to do 3 brochures for these artists and a postcard for the shows. I love Photoshop, but I can’t get my grubby little paws on InDesign, need some Illustrator lessons, and can’t seem to figure out Dreamweaver and Flash even though a friend gave me her programs. They just sit there like little taunting icons. I know I’d pick up InDesign in an afternoon.

I LOVE that you’ve done truck wraps!!! So, so cool. I can do wall text labels up to 11 x 14 (then I need someone with a bigger printer), and the brochures are duo-folds. The postcard came out really well since I use the artists’ photos in Photoshop as the basic image and just play with the design and type around them. For where I am working I’m helpfully skilled – and then they hired a “graphic designer” for $30/hr. to do the hard stuff. Argh.

Want to come to Florida????

lolz…Okay, you ladies are going WAY beyond my area of expertise…which is next to nothing…lolz.

I got a tablet a few years ago from my dad, who also supplied me with a few computers ocver the years. I simply couldn’t get the hang of drawing something with one hand and looking at the screen with my eyes averted. Of course now we have tablet laptops (daughter has one) and I am very jealous of her. ^_^
I have to admit, she does some trace overs…usually when she takes a screenshot from a show and then colors it to look like one of her characters. This does not mean that she can’t draw from scratch. She can. But it’s taken her awhile to learn proper shading and dimension, which I never have. All my stuff looks like what you posted up there, Sarah.

Also, my eyes aren’t what they were, so drawing now (or reading or anything using eye-hand coordination) is a chore. Just no fun anymore.
But it’s not just art that gets it’s head bitten off by stuffy profs, but music too. I’ve had some WONDERFUL vocal coaches and some HORRID ones who only want to make you their little diva that they can show off, provided you’re desperate enough to bend to their will and sing the way they tell you. Had one guy try to tell me everything I’d learned up till I met him was WRONG and only he knew the right way to sing and he would show me how, since it wasn’t something ‘nartural’ for the voice…and I was going to hurt my chords doing it my way…. Uhhh-huh……

That’s why I got best vocalist in high school, bub. Doing it the wrong way.

My daughter’s problem is not desire to pioneer, it’s just fear of rejection in any form. I’m afraid if she gets enough criticism, she’ll just fold up and blow away. My fault, made things too easy on her just trying to encourage her to DO SOMETHING, TRY ANYTHING!

Still, our University actually has programs that deal in nothing but anime. And you get degrees in it. Things have definitely changed since I went to school. *nods*

Binkles,
Are your double negatives not saying what I think you’re not saying? LOL

(I’m so confused.)

The minute you realize you are always learning and it never really stops, you graduate.

*giggles* Sorry Sarah, we’ve gotten WAY OT with this thread, but….
That’s why I’m afraid to teach music, although I’ve had the opportunity. How do I know that I won’t impose too much of my own style on someone else and ruin what could be a budding prodigy who has so much to bring of his/her own to the world? I don’t take art or singing classes anymore because of instructors who do just that, crush the (YO)U in music and put their own frustrated dreams there to be lived out by proxy.

At the same time, it’s kind of like putting every book on religion in front of a child and saying, ‘read them all, then pick whichever one looks good to you and practice it.’ Erm…talk about drowning in indecision and inexperience. lolz…..

Anyway, to come back to the topic…so when a bunny licks anything BUT you, should you take that as an insult? 0_o And how often do you suppose that the bunny butt is a serious negative or just because bunny wants to see how many hoops it can make YOU jump through?

I had Mimz out on my bed last night, first time in a long time I haven’t been too tired to snuggle in the evening, and as usual he did his best to scale the wall o’ plush and find ways onto my pillows or under my blanket. But mostly we just sat and I petted him and he would slowly start to puddle and his eyes would close, then he’d shake himself and straighten up and I’d start petting him again and he’d melt back down and almost fall over. BUt the most comfortable I think that he gets is to wash his face in front of me. Otherwise he’s a tightly wrapped little bun.

I’m hoping someday he’ll wash my hand, like I saw Binkles doing in your video, Sarah. Maybe then I’ll feel I’ve accomplished making him feel completely at home.

Aim high Mizmim, I’d be happy if Pringles just didn’t bite me!

LOLOLOLOL!!!!

I think I’ll drop you an email later for a translation.

I do want to mention that it is the direct result of the most amazing teacher, Mr. “V.” (who taught me for 3 years in high school) that I am on a lifelong road of art related work. One really great teacher and you’re hooked for life. I taught 2 workshops in figure (clothed) and portrait drawing to campers this month for the first time (teaching, that is) and swore to be like him. I also swore I would never be a teacher – the preparation is way too hard!

She did.  On more than one occasion. >.<  But I have to say, it was nice having a girlfriend that I didn't have to look down to see.