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I found the 1988 Russian Treasure Island cartoon on YouTube! I adore that thing! It and Captain Vrungel are the two best Russian cartoons, ever. (They might've been animated by the same folks, because they have the same type of style, especially when the character walks with the view below and in front of him, the feet stepping forward becoming very large.)

Gets me to thinkin' that's actually something I could sub quite well, since the English version's pretty different. (Besides. You can't have their Jim, Blind Pew, or Doctor Livsey be voiced by someone else, now can you? Nor Billy Bones! Or Long John Silver, for that matter.) More importantly, different music . . . and the music is just about the best part. I believe I whistled one of the themes consistently for about two years straight . . .

All the pets (Billy Bones' cat, Long John Silver's parrot, etcetera) wear eye patches and smoke pipes. And, upon occasion, drink rum. Hee.

Ahman, now I want to draw pirates. Shucks.

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I could should have tried working on shiny metal with this one, but I didn't have much time and just went ahead and threw it together.

Edit: I added a background, and now I need more highlights around the edges, but, eh, I'm too darn lazy to do all that . . .

Why do my lines and coloring always look so darn ugly . . . and how do other's make it so their's don't, eh?

I'm such a sucker for Arabian/Persian/whatever stuff . . . viva la ancient Middle East.

Wacom tablets look so much better than mine . . . darn shame they cost ridiculous amounts of money.

. . . Got to clear the driveway . . .

My LiveJournal is apparently the sixth link that pops up when you Google "selkath." The first two are actually Star Wars-related, one is random (selkath.com) and one is a link to Google Images.

Hah.

Wonder if it'll be any good . . . the latest few haven't been as good as the old ones, but hey. It's still something to watch, right? Shame "Huddy"'s not getting much of a chance.

And so we wait.

Get to wake up late on Wednesday . . . good stuff.

I really would like to take an art class over at CU, or somewhere in Boulder, but I don't know how to start looking
. . . I'm awful at finding things using the internet, and I have no idea why. But I really need to learn more about colors, contrast, proportions, drawing of the inanimate . . . in general, the basics would be good to cover.

Learning how to use Photoshop would probably help, too, though I'm starting to learn a little more about it. (Not enough, however.)

Whoo, dirty paper . . .

I've been watching Seinfeld and looking at George's girlfriend Karen and thinking . . .

She looks (and sounds!) like Cuddy. Could it really be Edelstein?

So I checked.

And "Karen" IS Lisa Edelstein! HA!

I know things.

This isn't unlike K realizing that one of the dogs in the second 101 Dalmations is voiced by Jason Alexander (George Costanza). Hee. Discoveries.

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I don't want to ink this . . .

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Ew, pixelated lines. Anyway, this was done off a resource . . . it's a clip never used in the show that's from the Japanese version of the Sonic X opening (which is, of course, a dozen times better. Ahem.)

BOOOOOM, Photoshop effects! The blue turned out better than the red. I like the contrast, through!

I'm happy with this. (Won't last. But nonetheless.) I may go back and highlight the flames and re-post . . . right (our left) foot needs to be fixed, too . . .

Mеня нe уважают! Rawr!

Unrelated: My computer's on 1/100 brightness, and it's still too bright. Egh.

Dang, this picture looks so much better printed out. No pixelation . . .

Waking up from a nightmare and realizing it's not real is one of the best feelings out there, I'll swear.

On another note, coffee is deli-i-i-icious.

Sonic Unleashed is REALLY different between Xbox360 and Wii versions in a lot of ways.

And everyone agrees that the 360 version is best, hands-down! (Hahahah.) The graphics are muchmuchmuch better, and the levels are more intricate . . . for example, the Chinese level is completely different between versions. (The better, 360 version, runs through an amazing-looking level that's partly staged on what looks like the Great Wall. The Wii version is through a boring-looking temple, and doesn't feel very fast at all . . . they also don't get world exploration!)

Anyway, though, I thought that was weird, because usually multi-console games don't actually have content changes . . . well, whatever, since I got the good version, right?

I've never had eggnog before, but the milk company gave us two little bottles of free pumpkin eggnog. It's really delicious! We should buy some for Christmas.

Nothing special, but I thought it looked pretty.


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Taub is such an opportunist, too. Taking Kutner's idea in the past, and now . . . taking credit for punching House in the face. Ha! (And heh, too, at Chase doing it just so folks would leave him alone.)

House is such a liar as far as Lucas is concerned!

His life has really been going south since getting off Vicodin, though. More and more letdowns now that he's trying. He should get back to his good ol' pills.

Tritter's such a bastard!

And House gets scary when he doesn't have enough pills, he really does.

And his face after he punches Chase in "Finding Judas", ha. He basically looks like, "Did I just slug Chase?"

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Shadow was fun to color. This took a long time, though, so I got really lazy on the backgrounds at the end.

And LOOK, I remembered to put a border! HAH!

I rather like panels one, two, and three.

I also like my stack of paper. Ha.

AND YAY ME, I DIDN'T SCREW UP HIS EARS IN THE FIRST PANEL. VIVA.

I haveth an idea for this year's Christmas card. It'll be bloody hard to do, though, because it's big and has a bunch of characters . . . meh, I'll get to it.

I still can't draw.

I am such a sentimental, strange loon.

I watched "Maria's Request, Everyone's Request" (in its original format!) again. And, of course, cried. Again. It's so, so emotional, darn it!


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Addendum: Also, bloody heck, I've gotten through maybe 1/2 to 2/3 of my journal, and I've had EIGHTY-FOUR uses of the tag "Warcraft." WOW.

Second addendum: I just found the funniest thing I've seen in months. /facepalm. I forgot all about this weirdo song. Furiel, perhaps you'll recall this song as being the one with the female Tauren teaching a Troll about the uses of the internet . . . and him insisting on teaching her in return. I found the song by complete accident.

I can't bloody help it, it's too bloody funny!! Stupid Avenue Q, heh.

I really, really, really wish socks would cease falling out of their rack. Rawr! The closet floor ends up strewn with them.