[Meme] 100 Questions for the Artist + Music Downloads
2008 has not been the best year, so, screw the 2008 meme. Reading others' year end memes made me kind of depressed too. Have a generic art-related meme instead?
Nabbed from celadonite.
Note: Question 33 contains Chinese harp downloads. Here's a sample?
100 questions for the artist
1) General stuff
Q1: What's your HN(handle name)?
kasugai-gummie, kirui
Q2: Why do you call yourself that?
Favorite candy brand (and candy), the syllables sounded good together (??).
Q3: Do you use a Mac or a PC?
PC
Q4: What program do you use to do your pictures?
OpenCanvas 4.5plus, Photoshop7
Q5: Do you use a tablet or a mouse?
Tablet
Q6: What colours do you use a lot?
Depends on how I'm coloring. Warmer colors for school pen/watercolored pics. Duller/more pastel-y colors for polygon lasso'd pics.
Q7: What area of the pictures do you put most effort into?
Proportions, faces/expressions, whereever improvements are needed.
Q8: About how long does it take you do finish each picture?
A long time. Especially if backgrounds are involved.
Q9: Do you keep your rough drafts?
I have only one file for each picture I work on, but I keep the sketch draft as one of the layers?
Q10: What special effects do you often use?(photoshop)
Changing layer opacities??
Q11: What size do you colour your pictures in?
72dpi for doodles. 150dpi to 300dpi for larger stuff.
Q12: Do you do anything else when you're drawing pictures?
Listen to music, look up reference, complain/whine/bitch/crai, read fic.
Q13: About how many pictures do you draw in a month?
More than one. Sometimes none. Depends on the month.
Q14: What paper do you use to draw on?
Lecture handouts, computer paper, sketch book.
Q15: What material do you use when working on paper?
0.5mm mechanical pencil, 0.28mm Lotus black ink pens (for note taking).
Q16: How long does it take to ink something?
I don't really ink by hand anymore.
Q17: Do you do doujins?
Not yet. =_= nittle_grasper's trying to change that.
Q18: What did you like most about doujin?
The reinterpretation of the character designs, the gag stories and wit that sometimes comes with.
Q19: Ever submitted anything to a magazine?
No.
Q20: Did any of those submissions go through?
N/A
2) Things you like
Q21: Favorite artist?
Amano Akira (Reborn!), Ichihara Yukino (07Ghost), Kaori Yuki (Count Cain/Ludwig Kakumei)
Q22: Favorite anime/manga?
Manga-wise: Reborn! (still love the characters but the storyline not so much, not anymore), 07Ghost, Hetalia.
Anime-wise: Baccano!, Darker Than Black, Gintama, Ayakashi-Mononoke.
Q23: Any characters from those anime/manga that you really like?
Hibari, Mukuro, Dino (Reborn!), Frau (07Ghost), China, Russia (Hetalia: Ethnic and lulz bias, respectively)
Q24: An artist that you'd like to draw like?
I tend to pick up the aspects I like best from my favorite artists. My style's either a mishmash, or contains a massive mutative outgrowth.
Q25: Any magazines that you buy a lot?
I have a year-long subscription to Entertainment Weekly that I got for $2 and it should've ended by now but it's still going...?
Q26: Books that have been used as a good reference?
Do scanlations count? Else, just got KHR volumes 18 & 19--prime TYL!Hibari & TYL!Mukuro references!
Q27: Any video games you enjoy?
I've played a lot of Okami despite not owning a console... basically anything that has good graphics? I play vicariously through others.
Q28: A character from those games that you really like?
I don't get as attached to videogame characters.
Q29: Favorite writer?
Neil Gaiman, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen R. Lawhead.
Q30: Any books you really enjoy?
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, The Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling.
Q31: Do you write your own stories?
Once in a while.
Q32: Any music that you often listen to while drawing?
Depends on what I'm drawing and what phase I'm in.
Q33: Any songs/music that you'd recommend to others?
Angela Aki's Moral no Soushiki is the one song that's stood the test of time (and my abusive replaying habits). Else, Chinese harp music (箜篌， 古琴， 古筝). I'll try to remember to upload a few later. Here's my collection of 箜篌 music to start off with. Track 5, 湘妃竹/xiang fei zhu, is my favorite.
Q34: Any websites that you totally admire?
Many.
Q35: Any sites that you go to every day?
Gmail, LJ, DevArt, OneManga.
Q36: What kind of webpage do you wish you had?
One that wasn't forever under construction.
Q37: Do you like your own art?
It needs improvement. And lots of it. B|
Q38: What do you enjoy watching on TV?
Aside from Supernatural, don't watch much TV anymore.
Q39: Favorite celebrity?
Jensen Ackles.
Q40: Favorite colour?
Burgundy red.
3) Your opinions
Q41: Favorite food?
Candy. Totally. Counts. Right? White peaches, maccha ice cream, korean red pepper paste.
Q42: Favorite drink?
Tea, peach drinks, Arizona Green Tea.
Q43: Any stores you visit often?
Grocery stores.
Q44: Do you like to cook?
Yes.
Q45: What mailing service do you use?
Gmail.
Q46: What kind of computer do you use?
A dying Toshiba.
Q47: Would you like to be a professional artist?
Once upon a time, yes.
Q48: Any other jobs you're interested in, besides an illustrator?
No idea.
Q49: Any other hobbies besides drawing?
Writing, computers, Tai Qi, website coding, sleeping.
Q50: Do you like movies?
If I have time for them.
Q51: What's your favorite movie?
ATM, Red Cliff. There are others though.
Q52: What do you use to colour your pictures when it's on paper?
I don't.
Q53: When did you start drawing seriously?
Maybe high school. ::doesn't know how to interpret this questions, honestly::
Q54: Have you ever entered art contests?
When I was wee little.
Q55: Anything that you often use as a reference?
Google images, scanlations, mirrors.
Q56: Do you have many online friends?
The ratio of online to RL friends is embarrassingly large.
Q57: Do you have many online friends who like to draw?
I can name a few.
Q58: What time of the day are you usually online?
Evenings.
Q59: Do you go to chatrooms a lot?
No.
Q60: Do you have your own computer?
Yes.
4) Thoughts
Q61: What would you say to the person you admire?
No idea.
Q62: At what kind of situations are you glad you were able to draw?
When what I draw make others people happy. God, that's cheesy orz
Q63: Situations where you aren't glad that you liked to draw?
Such a loaded question--being born an immigrant asian I guess.
Q64: Do you have many offline friends who like to draw?
My roommate (but she's also around online lolol).
Q65: Where do you like to hang out when you're with friends?
All my friends and I are premeds/prevets. We're usually grafted to textbooks.
Q66: Do you have any artists that you don't like too much?
Of course.
Q67: Situations in which you really don't like being online?
When there's stupidity afloat that I don't have the good luck to miss.
Q68: Situations in which you like being online?
Downloading stuff, getting/sharing lulz. And catching up with friends.
Q69: Something that makes you really glad that the internet exists?
The sharing of and spread of information.
Q70: What about things that make you NOT glad that the internet exists?
Fucktards are made global.
Q72: What's the first picture you've ever shown to the public online?
Oh god. I think this was back when I had a pitas.com blog and also started coding HTML. Something original, I bet.
Q72: Do you still have that picture?
Probably not. If I have it, it's on a diskette that's most likely corrupted.
Q73: Has your drawing style changed a lot?
I certainly hope so.
Q74: How does it usually change?
Influence by various artists--trying to incorporate what I like best about their art into my own. And doodling when attention/time permits.
Q75: Have you experienced artists block before?
Yup. Especially when it's something I owe someone else.
Q76: How did you escape from it?
Don't draw for a while.
Q77: What happens when you have artists block?
Frustration. Flinging myself onto butterflycages' hobo mattress and whinebitchcrai.
Q78: Any artists that have influenced you a lot?
CLAMP, Minekura, Kaori Yuki, Amano. In that order.
Q79: What made you like drawing?
Chinese watercolors. And I remember drawing a lot of 哪吒 fanart with my paternal grandfather when I was three. (On a side note after reading the wiki article, WTF. Nataku's supposed to be 哪吒?? But where are his fire-wheels? I could've sworn 哪吒 was missing a Saiyuki representation.)
Q80: What made you want to get a website?
nittle_grasper. She wanted a joint art site domain and now she's too lazy to finish uploading her half. :\
5) Finally...
Q81: Why did you name your site what it's called?
CAPSAICIN (active component in chili peppers). Because kanae's is H2O and it goes with our red-blue, fire-water, opposites thing.
Q82: What do you think about net manners?
Younger generations rarely seem to have them. God, I sound old.
Q83: Have you ever been spammed?
Yup.
Q84: Ever thought about closing down your webpage?
Not when it hasn't even gotten up yet.
Q85: If so, why?
N/A
Q86: About how much KB is each picture?
Less than 300kb.
Q87: When creating your site, do you use a program or pure html?
HTML.
Q88: Do you have good eyesight?
Corrective contact lenses. Am pretty much 20/20 now.
Q89: If you can get any person's autograph, who's would you get?
Some celebrity's. For ebay.
Q90: Have you ever been asked for your autograph?
No.
Q91: Do you have any fans of yourself?
Well, being something of an egotist guarantees that, doesn't it? XD;
Q92: Do you like to oekaki?(paint-bbs)
I had a phase.
Q93: Are you good at art(as in the school subject)?
I was.
Q94: Have you ever taken any art lessons, aside from school?
One 国画 class at my chinese school. The instructor abruptly upped and left to Canada at the end of the term taking my yard long painting of a dragon with. I'm still bitter.
Q95: Have you ever drawn comics/manga?
4koma count, right?
Q96: Any quotes that you like?
The only difference between you and a bucket of shit is the bucket.
Q98: Your goal?
To not fuck up the rest of my life. :Db
Q99: A message to yourself.
You're fucking up the rest of your life. Get to work!
Q100: A message to the people who have read this.
Happy New Year! ♥
And why, yes, I'm desperately trying to get my CNY card done and not having much luck. Damn lion heads. :|
Nabbed from celadonite.
Note: Question 33 contains Chinese harp downloads. Here's a sample?
100 questions for the artist
1) General stuff
Q1: What's your HN(handle name)?
kasugai-gummie, kirui
Q2: Why do you call yourself that?
Favorite candy brand (and candy), the syllables sounded good together (??).
Q3: Do you use a Mac or a PC?
PC
Q4: What program do you use to do your pictures?
OpenCanvas 4.5plus, Photoshop7
Q5: Do you use a tablet or a mouse?
Tablet
Q6: What colours do you use a lot?
Depends on how I'm coloring. Warmer colors for school pen/watercolored pics. Duller/more pastel-y colors for polygon lasso'd pics.
Q7: What area of the pictures do you put most effort into?
Proportions, faces/expressions, whereever improvements are needed.
Q8: About how long does it take you do finish each picture?
A long time. Especially if backgrounds are involved.
Q9: Do you keep your rough drafts?
I have only one file for each picture I work on, but I keep the sketch draft as one of the layers?
Q10: What special effects do you often use?(photoshop)
Changing layer opacities??
Q11: What size do you colour your pictures in?
72dpi for doodles. 150dpi to 300dpi for larger stuff.
Q12: Do you do anything else when you're drawing pictures?
Listen to music, look up reference, complain/whine/bitch/crai, read fic.
Q13: About how many pictures do you draw in a month?
More than one. Sometimes none. Depends on the month.
Q14: What paper do you use to draw on?
Lecture handouts, computer paper, sketch book.
Q15: What material do you use when working on paper?
0.5mm mechanical pencil, 0.28mm Lotus black ink pens (for note taking).
Q16: How long does it take to ink something?
I don't really ink by hand anymore.
Q17: Do you do doujins?
Not yet. =_= nittle_grasper's trying to change that.
Q18: What did you like most about doujin?
The reinterpretation of the character designs, the gag stories and wit that sometimes comes with.
Q19: Ever submitted anything to a magazine?
No.
Q20: Did any of those submissions go through?
N/A
2) Things you like
Q21: Favorite artist?
Amano Akira (Reborn!), Ichihara Yukino (07Ghost), Kaori Yuki (Count Cain/Ludwig Kakumei)
Q22: Favorite anime/manga?
Manga-wise: Reborn! (still love the characters but the storyline not so much, not anymore), 07Ghost, Hetalia.
Anime-wise: Baccano!, Darker Than Black, Gintama, Ayakashi-Mononoke.
Q23: Any characters from those anime/manga that you really like?
Hibari, Mukuro, Dino (Reborn!), Frau (07Ghost), China, Russia (Hetalia: Ethnic and lulz bias, respectively)
Q24: An artist that you'd like to draw like?
I tend to pick up the aspects I like best from my favorite artists. My style's either a mishmash, or contains a massive mutative outgrowth.
Q25: Any magazines that you buy a lot?
I have a year-long subscription to Entertainment Weekly that I got for $2 and it should've ended by now but it's still going...?
Q26: Books that have been used as a good reference?
Do scanlations count? Else, just got KHR volumes 18 & 19--prime TYL!Hibari & TYL!Mukuro references!
Q27: Any video games you enjoy?
I've played a lot of Okami despite not owning a console... basically anything that has good graphics? I play vicariously through others.
Q28: A character from those games that you really like?
I don't get as attached to videogame characters.
Q29: Favorite writer?
Neil Gaiman, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen R. Lawhead.
Q30: Any books you really enjoy?
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, The Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling.
Q31: Do you write your own stories?
Once in a while.
Q32: Any music that you often listen to while drawing?
Depends on what I'm drawing and what phase I'm in.
Q33: Any songs/music that you'd recommend to others?
Angela Aki's Moral no Soushiki is the one song that's stood the test of time (and my abusive replaying habits). Else, Chinese harp music (箜篌， 古琴， 古筝). I'll try to remember to upload a few later. Here's my collection of 箜篌 music to start off with. Track 5, 湘妃竹/xiang fei zhu, is my favorite.
Q34: Any websites that you totally admire?
Many.
Q35: Any sites that you go to every day?
Gmail, LJ, DevArt, OneManga.
Q36: What kind of webpage do you wish you had?
One that wasn't forever under construction.
Q37: Do you like your own art?
It needs improvement. And lots of it. B|
Q38: What do you enjoy watching on TV?
Aside from Supernatural, don't watch much TV anymore.
Q39: Favorite celebrity?
Jensen Ackles.
Q40: Favorite colour?
Burgundy red.
3) Your opinions
Q41: Favorite food?
Candy. Totally. Counts. Right? White peaches, maccha ice cream, korean red pepper paste.
Q42: Favorite drink?
Tea, peach drinks, Arizona Green Tea.
Q43: Any stores you visit often?
Grocery stores.
Q44: Do you like to cook?
Yes.
Q45: What mailing service do you use?
Gmail.
Q46: What kind of computer do you use?
A dying Toshiba.
Q47: Would you like to be a professional artist?
Once upon a time, yes.
Q48: Any other jobs you're interested in, besides an illustrator?
No idea.
Q49: Any other hobbies besides drawing?
Writing, computers, Tai Qi, website coding, sleeping.
Q50: Do you like movies?
If I have time for them.
Q51: What's your favorite movie?
ATM, Red Cliff. There are others though.
Q52: What do you use to colour your pictures when it's on paper?
I don't.
Q53: When did you start drawing seriously?
Maybe high school. ::doesn't know how to interpret this questions, honestly::
Q54: Have you ever entered art contests?
When I was wee little.
Q55: Anything that you often use as a reference?
Google images, scanlations, mirrors.
Q56: Do you have many online friends?
The ratio of online to RL friends is embarrassingly large.
Q57: Do you have many online friends who like to draw?
I can name a few.
Q58: What time of the day are you usually online?
Evenings.
Q59: Do you go to chatrooms a lot?
No.
Q60: Do you have your own computer?
Yes.
4) Thoughts
Q61: What would you say to the person you admire?
No idea.
Q62: At what kind of situations are you glad you were able to draw?
When what I draw make others people happy. God, that's cheesy orz
Q63: Situations where you aren't glad that you liked to draw?
Such a loaded question--being born an immigrant asian I guess.
Q64: Do you have many offline friends who like to draw?
My roommate (but she's also around online lolol).
Q65: Where do you like to hang out when you're with friends?
All my friends and I are premeds/prevets. We're usually grafted to textbooks.
Q66: Do you have any artists that you don't like too much?
Of course.
Q67: Situations in which you really don't like being online?
When there's stupidity afloat that I don't have the good luck to miss.
Q68: Situations in which you like being online?
Downloading stuff, getting/sharing lulz. And catching up with friends.
Q69: Something that makes you really glad that the internet exists?
The sharing of and spread of information.
Q70: What about things that make you NOT glad that the internet exists?
Fucktards are made global.
Q72: What's the first picture you've ever shown to the public online?
Oh god. I think this was back when I had a pitas.com blog and also started coding HTML. Something original, I bet.
Q72: Do you still have that picture?
Probably not. If I have it, it's on a diskette that's most likely corrupted.
Q73: Has your drawing style changed a lot?
I certainly hope so.
Q74: How does it usually change?
Influence by various artists--trying to incorporate what I like best about their art into my own. And doodling when attention/time permits.
Q75: Have you experienced artists block before?
Yup. Especially when it's something I owe someone else.
Q76: How did you escape from it?
Don't draw for a while.
Q77: What happens when you have artists block?
Frustration. Flinging myself onto butterflycages' hobo mattress and whinebitchcrai.
Q78: Any artists that have influenced you a lot?
CLAMP, Minekura, Kaori Yuki, Amano. In that order.
Q79: What made you like drawing?
Chinese watercolors. And I remember drawing a lot of 哪吒 fanart with my paternal grandfather when I was three. (On a side note after reading the wiki article, WTF. Nataku's supposed to be 哪吒?? But where are his fire-wheels? I could've sworn 哪吒 was missing a Saiyuki representation.)
Q80: What made you want to get a website?
nittle_grasper. She wanted a joint art site domain and now she's too lazy to finish uploading her half. :\
5) Finally...
Q81: Why did you name your site what it's called?
CAPSAICIN (active component in chili peppers). Because kanae's is H2O and it goes with our red-blue, fire-water, opposites thing.
Q82: What do you think about net manners?
Younger generations rarely seem to have them. God, I sound old.
Q83: Have you ever been spammed?
Yup.
Q84: Ever thought about closing down your webpage?
Not when it hasn't even gotten up yet.
Q85: If so, why?
N/A
Q86: About how much KB is each picture?
Less than 300kb.
Q87: When creating your site, do you use a program or pure html?
HTML.
Q88: Do you have good eyesight?
Corrective contact lenses. Am pretty much 20/20 now.
Q89: If you can get any person's autograph, who's would you get?
Some celebrity's. For ebay.
Q90: Have you ever been asked for your autograph?
No.
Q91: Do you have any fans of yourself?
Well, being something of an egotist guarantees that, doesn't it? XD;
Q92: Do you like to oekaki?(paint-bbs)
I had a phase.
Q93: Are you good at art(as in the school subject)?
I was.
Q94: Have you ever taken any art lessons, aside from school?
One 国画 class at my chinese school. The instructor abruptly upped and left to Canada at the end of the term taking my yard long painting of a dragon with. I'm still bitter.
Q95: Have you ever drawn comics/manga?
4koma count, right?
Q96: Any quotes that you like?
The only difference between you and a bucket of shit is the bucket.
Q98: Your goal?
To not fuck up the rest of my life. :Db
Q99: A message to yourself.
You're fucking up the rest of your life. Get to work!
Q100: A message to the people who have read this.
Happy New Year! ♥
And why, yes, I'm desperately trying to get my CNY card done and not having much luck. Damn lion heads. :|