skeletonfishpunk

I have a new blog on Dreamwidth.org. I actually post ART there! SHOOOCK horror! I know I've been absent on DA for the longest time, and honestly I don't know when I will be back to posting here... But for the moment, please feel free to add me, watch, follow, stalk, just look at the posts.... It'd actually be nice to have a few more people around to talk about art with, now that I'm doing it again. So! This is an open invitation.

naukhel.dreamwidth.org/772.htm… : My latest post

I also made a Tegaki community on Dreamwidth for any users who also like to hang out on Tegaki E (as I do!) You can find it here:

tegaki.dreamwidth.org : Tegakidw

Look forward to seeing people again <3

Right, let's try and make a concerted effort to use this thing, shall we? XD

Today I experienced my first earthquake! I think I've been very lucky since I moved to Japan, it's been more than three months now and I hadn't had even the tiniest twinge. Unfortunately, talking to one of my friends who has been here for nearly a year she said that Nagoya hasn't had a big earthquake in a very long time, and everyone had been advising her that it's due one! I'd rather not think on that too long, since the tiny one earlier had me a nervous wreck for a bit. XD

It wasn't very bad at all, only a 2/3 level earthquake (on the Japanese scale, which is from 1-7 with anything under 3 usually not noticable at all, and 7 being a "great" or disasterous earthquake, causing serious damage for a radius of hundreds of kilometres.) but the epicentre was in the north of my prefecture/the south of the neighbouring prefecture. So yeah... Scary!!

I mentioned games because at the time of the earthquake I'd been playing Harvest Moon 3 for about 8 hours solid, with one of my friends here playing at the same time on her DS . It was kind of amusing, since the only thing that got us to stop playing for even a short period was an earthquake XD

Speaking of drawing, though, I'm kind of working on something else at the moment but it's difficult so far and I'm not liking how it's turning out, so we'll see what happens. I really need to find something to motivate myself to keep producing on a very regular basis at the moment, so I'm trying to establish little trading things with some artist friends, but since everyone is so busy at the moment with their so-called real "lives" we'll see XD

And that's it from me for the moment! Let's hope there are no more earthquakes! It was like I'd just stumbled on the next colossus... Ok, let's leave the other gaming in-jokes for another entry... XD

Well, it's been a while.. But I'm here, settled in Japan and finally found myself a tablet so I can draw again. I was getting a bit crazy with not being able to draw for the first few months I was here, I was really just desperate to draw some stuff and experiment and such. But all's well now, and I have something with which to produce!

The only trouble now is finding time with which to do it. I have lots of work to do obviously at uni out here, though less than I probably should have to do. It also means I can't renew any of my subscriptions to things - I am such a poor student, and living in Japan makes it five hundred times worse, even though I am a scholarship student u_u; Oh woe! Instant ramen for me for every single meal! XD 100Yen furnishings for my apartment! Welcome to my life XD~

Other than that.. How is everyone?



EDIT: Also, sorry for deleting the submission I just made right away, but after some work I found out that the thumbnail server here's lagging and I want to submit it when people can actually LOOK at it, so I will reupload it later on.. Sorry for being shit! >_< Trust my luck, the one day I finally get something together to post with and noone can see it.

Well, I got tagged by MightyOtaking to write down "six weird things about myself". I'm not sure if people want to read this stuff, or if it's just an exercise in mass egocentricity! But I will enter into the spirit of things! As I said before though, these might not be so much six 'weird' things about me as six boring, generic things.

1) I am very, very big on games. And while I haven't played as wide a range as some people I know, I have a horrible relationship with going into the city centre bored and poor, and coming back with a game I bought on a whim, even poorer than I started off. My relationship with games is what got me into art, what got me into learning Japanese, and both of those for the extremely delusional reason that in 1997 I decided I wanted Tetsuya Nomura's job at the then-known-as Squaresoft, and for some reason thought that drawing bad fanart of Aeris and learning to speak Japanese would land me that job. About six months later I was sitting at the computer one day when I realised that the problem was not BEING Japanese, as well as not being able to speak the language or draw to any sufficient kind of level, and gave up on my dream.

Well.. Sort of. Somehow now I've ended up at university learning Japanese, off to live in Japan in three months time, and am still drawing with an aim to do some kind of conceptual/pinup art for games and for fun. Shattered dreams? Well, maybe. They'll only be shattered when I die and still haven't made it!!


2) I draw a lot more than I ever submit here or show to other people, but I am so self-critical that I stop for very long periods of time, and 90% of what I draw doesn't reach completion. I really really yearn to churn out more finished pieces, more BETTER pieces than I do at the moment but I can never seem to bring myself to swallow my self-depreciation and actually do it. Maybe I can right that in the future, or maybe other people can help me right that. We'll see! My main aim in art is not to make money from it; my mother is a professional artist and my parents own and run an art gallery. Ever since I was little I saw the art industry from inside, and I never wanted to be involved. It's only through complete accident that I started down this path (see number one!). The most I'm aiming at is to be able to publish an art book when I'm older - just for fun. I don't really want money out of art, or fame. Even when I "gave up" for a little bit, I have such a creative mind that I can't stop thinking of things I want to write or draw, and I feel like if I have that talent and drive that it'd be a crime not to put it to some use. I'd like people to like my art, but I don't want to be 'famous'. Hard to explain; I'd rather only 10 people knew my name who loved my art and looked forward to seeing it, rather than 100 people knowing who I was but not really caring one way or the other about my art.


3) Sometimes I feel like there's too much in my head for me to deal with! No, don't worry, I haven't been listening to Linkin Park and this isn't LiveJournal-worthy. Simply, I want to do so much with my life I'm worried I won't fit it all in. I love writing, and I want to write at least one book - I love drawing, and I want to write and illustrate books together. I want to translate games for all my love of games and my love of reading and translating Japanese. I want to work in design for games or other similar pursuits, I want to do pinup art. I want to illustrate the covers of the books of my favourite artists. I love singing and music, I want to learn Korean, I want to make jewellery and props for films. I want to get back into making sculpture, I love photography and want to take more photographs. I LOVE gaming and I wish equally that I had more time to play games, and that I would play games less so that I had more time to do some of the other things on my list. I simply don't know how to fit everything I want to do in my life into it. And perhaps that's a good way to be.


4) I want more friends! No, don't worry, this one isn't emo either. I have plenty of friends, but who couldn't ever do with more friends? A lot of my friends don't live anywhere near me and I don't get to see them often, and I have a bleak lack of friends where my parents with, since they constantly move house while I am at university in Liverpool and I haven't had a chance to meet anyone from the area, and have lost the friends that I knew from my childhood. I want more internet friends to chat with and send emails to, I want more friends to go to coffee shops with, I just want more input on my life from other people. There are so many people out there and I don't know half of them as well as I'd like! So hey, email me. XD


5) I am equally stupid as I am clever. I seem to have two entirely different minds - perhaps my brain is just so stuffed with things I find useful that sometimes it has to shut down and make me stupid for a while to compensate? I am not a stupid person by any stretch of the imagination - I went to very priviledged schools, I'm competent when it comes to literature and pick up languages easily, don't do half as much work as I should with my Japanese and still somehow manage to get by as top of my year (though I really should work harder, I know I can!) But sometimes I feel so phenominally STUPID. XD It sounds silly, but I could competently translate something for you from Japanese to English, but I didn't know how to make tea when my mother asked when I was a teenager. In point of fact, I put the teabag into the kettle because I thought that was what you were supposed to do. The other day I blew all the electrics in our house because my housemate told me to boil vinegar in the kettle to clean it and I believed her. I never had trouble getting high grades at school, I have a large vocabulary in English and can speak more eloquently than a lot of people I know, and yet I can't boil an egg. And I CAN cook. XD Man, sometimes I just feel so dumb. (And as a side-note - the last time I tried to boil an egg it EXPLODED. In cold water, before it had even boiled.)


6) Thinking of a sixth point was hard when I wrote so much for the other points! But this one isn't as interesting as it is trivia. I am an extremely peculiar and fussy eater, but I'm incredibly easy to please. I don't like anything in sauces or anything spicy, or any food that's "fussy". I like things plain and simple - most meals I am happy with plain boiled rice seasoned with pepper, or pasta with some tuna mixed in. But equally as my tastes are simple they're also expensive - I like smoked salmon and parma ham, not standard student-fare really! But stick a curry infront of me, or a lasagna, and you wouldn't get me to eat it for love nor money. I'll just have plain boiled rice ,thank you.


Well that turned into faar more of a chore than I thought it would!! But I hope you all learned something interesting, albeit completely useless, about me.I leave you all with some links I'd like to share, if you want to see more!

I got one of those spangly last.fm accounts, which you can see here (www.last.fm/user/naukhel/). Add me as a friend, or just pore over whatever rubbish I am listening to. Leave a comment in the shoutbox or something ^_^

And some older links, my LiveJournal is here (naukhel.livejournal.com), though it's friends-only I'm not scary and won't bite people who add me. My flickr is here (flickr.com/photos/naukhel/) where I take all those photos I talked about above. And.. I think that's about it for this update. I've written far too much! Congratulations if you got this far into this entry, I hope it was worth it!