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Not the Second Summer of Love
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Eight Questions...... answered.

Sat Jul 4, 2009, 8:59 AM
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One character: $20.00 USD
Two/more Characters: $30.00

All commissions will be fully-colored, with backgrounds as requested. JPEG only, no physical copy. If you desire a print, i suggest that we let DeviantArt take care of that, since they're probably much better at it than i.


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Are there any other video game characters you like? Other characters besides Samus.

Why, yes, there are. Some of my favorite sprites over the many years include.... Toad from Mario 2, Trevor Belmont, anyone from Crystalis, the Bionic Commando, the crew from Magic of Scheherazade, Cortana, Blanka, Sephiroth, Yuffie, Edea, Kuja, and Shiva.

Of course, right now, the only game i play is Soul Calibur IV. I think i like my rogue's gallery of custom characters more than anything... especially my grey-skinned Earthworm Girl who fights using Voldo style, and my Bee Girl Yoshimitsu.

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I've had a question that I wanted to ask you: not to be rude but why did you do that Christie Unknown drawing for me?

Because i thought you'd like it?

Really, that's hard. I don't remember the actual moment, it was just one of my many ideas that i jot down and just... decided to do. I think you left me a comment, and i went and visited your gallery, and thought to myself "Oh yeah, this is the dude who likes Christie... and black symbiotes.... hey! A drawing of Christie with a black symbiote would be cool... but not Venom, i did that last time. Didn't this guy once request a drawing of the Unknown from Tekken, which i never did? What about Christie + Unknown? He'd like that. I'd like that. It's a cool idea. I might do that..."

That's pretty much it. No ulterior motives or anything.

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Okay... What do you think needs the most improving in regards to your art?

Ah, you know, the usual stuff. I'd like to draw a wider variety of subjects, portray them more excellently, with a greater sense of form, space, color, motion, and energy. I'd like to improve my perspective, lighting, hues, anatomy, vectoring, typography, and overall sense of visual presentation.

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Which do you like more, pirates or ninjas?

Ninjas, no question. Pirates, i think, are overrated. Sure, the Pirates of the Caribbean movies are kinda cool, but when you really think about it, there's not much actual piracy in them. Remember at the end of the first movie when Will decides to become a pirate? Nothing much came of that. It just wouldn't seem right to have Orlando Bloom boarding random merchant vessels, executing sailors, and seizing their cargoes of spices and rum to sell on the black market. Nah, as soon as he started his pirate career, he got caught up in the whole mystical quest involving Davy Jones, and ended up being promoted to "immortal wandering being" before he ever had to deal with any day-today pirate shite.

Really, pirates are only cool in movies or books. Real pirates were probably some very unappealing people, neither interesting nor sexy, but rather a motley bunch of uneducated, swag-bellied, quarrelsome, repulsive, foul-smelling dolts. They probably weren't much different than the modern day pirates of Somalia. Just some really nasty thugs who have crappy lives, and turned to crime out of desperation, no different than the random street hood who robs liquor stores. Just because you're on a boat doesn't make it cool.

Ninjas. Ninjas had discipline. They were elite assassins. Criminals? Most likely. But they developed something that becomes even cooler today. Those modern practitioners of ninjitsu are cool people, usually. They just practice the art without the killing, unlike modern pirates, who just do the killing with none of the art.

Ninjas.

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If you like chubby girls why don't you draw more?

Because i don't want to be known as a fetish artist. Theoretically, i'm supposed to be improving my portfolio in hopes of one day having a real artistic career. I could take a drawing like Zoel 2009 or Zoel at the Beach and actually, you know, show it to people. But i wouldn't really want to show Zoel Gets Fat to a prospective client.

Plus, people always say that i need more variety in my work. I already draw similar things over and over again, so becoming "that guy who always draws chubby girls" probably wouldn't be a good move.

But yes, you are right. In real life, i am really, really attracted to chubby girls. Chubby nerd girls are the sexiest people ever.

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How's your love life?

Nonexistent, really. I was never much of a player. I've dated maybe three girls in my whole life. Right now, my life is divided between working and drawing, drawing and working. Ultimately, i only become obsessed with girls when i actually meet a new one and become all smitten. But when none are around, i don't really feel the need to go out and FIND them.

And that's my problem. Back when i was in college, or working at places like Dell or Verizon, i was part of some huge facility with hundreds of people and many possible dating opportunities. But the job i have now, which i love, involves me interacting with two people. Just two. So in the course of a normal day, i don't meet many new people. Plus, i work at night, which further takes me out of the daily loop. I'm awake when normal people are asleep, and asleep when normal people are awake and meeting other people. After work, i just hang out with my brother and our dogs.

I'm basically a hermit at this point. It's not so bad. The truth is, i've never been able to handle working, drawing, AND being in a relationship. It's too much. I can handle two of those at once, but not all three. The last girl i dated was named Stephanie, and even though we had fun.... i was kind of miserable because i had no time left to draw.

I'm deathly afraid of becoming too normal. Settling down, having kids, working overtime to pay for the bigger house, getting the job at the box factory because it offers better insurance, driving three states away to visit the in-laws for Thanksgiving... and then you wake up one day and realize you haven't drawn anything in years. It's a slippery slope. It just happens to people without their knowledge or consent.

The thing is that if it happened to me, i'd unquestionably commit suicide.

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What is your hot beverage of choice?

Folger's Instant Crystals in a cup of microwaved water, with a quarter-teaspoon of sugar and a lot of milk. I guess it's not what i would choose under ideal circumstances, but it's what i got used to as a kid.

Hmm, that wasn't a long answer.... so.... hey, this one time? This one time, my friends and i were sitting around the Council Chamber, getting baked. Anyway, i got up to take a dump, and when i returned to my place at the Council, there was this brown crap smeared across my lower leg. My one friend pointed at it in horror and exclaimed "Is that... is that... FECES?" I poked it with a finger and tentatively sniffed the smeared yat, and... it wasn't... it was a Raisinette that i had sat on, and it melted on my leg. Our other friend had eaten a bag of them earlier. But for that one epic moment, i was terrified that i had insulted the Council with errant fecal leavings.

It was pretty funny. A little off-topic, but i thought you might like it.

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What would be your most epic movie idea?

Shoot... i dunno. Something animated that would be all about Zoel, Murk, and the end of the world as we know it?

Realistically, i'd love to see a great sequel to The Dark Knight. Nobody knows if Christopher Nolan is even going to make one. But if he did, i'd love to sneak into his room and whisper story ideas to him in his sleep.

Gotham City is in a state of low-level anarchy. Copycats in joker makeup wreak havoc on the streets. Batman is a fugitive. The Joker goes on trial and is committed to Arkham. Bruce Wayne is hiding and depressed, and decides to try to return to a normal life when he meets Talia (or Selina), a beautiful and intelligent woman from across the seas. But the League of Shadows has returned, and Bruce learns that the little cell he encountered in Nepal was but a small splinter of its true, epic scope. Their members have infiltrated the highest levels of society. As they seek to gain control of the city through some insidious corporate-military alliance, the greatest danger lurks in the shadows... a mysterious superhacker and criminal genius, identified only by the "?" symbol, who seems determined to discover the true identity of the Batman in order to prove his worth to the League and gain access to their hierarchy in the new world order. This sinister fiend wrings the secret from a tortured Coleman Reese and begins to taunt Bruce directly. Bruce must make use of all of his detective skills, but will that be enough? In a moment of desperation, Batman descends into the depths of Arkham to seek insight from the twisted mind of the Joker, in hopes of gaining insight into the identity of the mystery villain....

....and either Talia or Selina would end up doing acrobatics in black leather.

Yeah.

That'd be sweet.




  • Mood: Neutral
  • Listening to: Moby -- Wait for Me.
  • Reading: Nothing too radical.
  • Watching: Lost.
  • Playing: Soul Calibur IV.
  • Eating: Fish sandwich.
  • Drinking: Evan Williams bourbon and cranberry juice.

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Devious Info

  • Current Residence: USA
  • Interests: Drawing, anime, music.... not much else.
  • Favourite movie: Project A-Ko, Velvet Goldmine, American Beauty, Eternal Sunshine, Watchmen, Dark Knight... PAPRIKA!
  • Favourite band or musician: BT, REM, Radiohead, Single Cell Orchestra, Bjork, the Chemical Brothers, Moby......
  • Favourite genre of music: Trance, New Age, Pop, Ambient, House.......
  • Favourite artist: Vashperado and Lastscionz.... are gods.
  • Favourite poet or writer: The Council of Gandalf.
  • Favourite photographer: The eye that espies through the Oculope...
  • Favourite style of art: Futuristic anime sci-fi shiny-shiny with starscapes.
  • Operating System: Evan Williams and cranberry juice.
  • MP3 player of choice: I dislike Pods. I have a real stereo.
  • Shell of choice: There's a ghost in it.
  • Wallpaper of choice: Iria, slayer of Zeiram.
  • Skin of choice: Pale.
  • Favourite game: Soul Calibur IV
  • Favourite gaming platform: The X-Box 360, by default. My brother has one and so we play it?
  • Favourite cartoon character: B-Ko Daitokuji.
  • Personal Quote: "Through the time, I see the minds, hear the voices of the world..."
  • Tools of the Trade: Pencils, paper, pirated copy of Photoshop Cs2.

Comments


i figured out a great movie for the nostalgia critic to review!

Freddy as F.R.O.7

its a insanly weird movie that had to be re-edited for americans TV due to all the extremly out of place shit that really was....well go to youtube and watch the whole movie, youl see why XD

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what has happend in the past is history......tommarow, is a mystery. But Today is a gift and that is why we call it the present.
Hmmm.

Can't right now... watching LOST!

I love Lost.
lol i ment when ever

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what has happend in the past is history......tommarow, is a mystery. But Today is a gift and that is why we call it the present.
Thanks for the fave. :D

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I'm just a writer: thank God I'm not a banker right now.
No prob, thanks for the story.
You're very welcome. It was fun to write.

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I'm just a writer: thank God I'm not a banker right now.
Dude, I love your artowrk and characters, espically Zoel! oes she have a biography or something similar that I missed?

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I wish that I drinked. I know it won't solve my problems, but at least I'll have something to blame my problems on.
Hmm, i'm not much of a writer, but i did put this down recently...


"She's green because she's the human avatar of the spirit of the Earth itself, a tree-like nature goddess who seeks to renew the earth by obliterating technology and instigating mass mutation.

At least, that's what she believes. But she was really created in a lab through genetic engineering by a dying scientist. She has a lot of plant and reptile DNA strands crammed into her makeup. Hence the green.

Even after finding that out, her faith in her divinity is unshaken, and simply believes that the scientists who made her were put in motion by her beloved Goddess. The Goddess that she calls "mother" and talks to in her head constantly.

Her state-sponsored psychologist is trying to help her work through it, and accept her very scientific origins and learn her proper place in an atheistic/agnostic universe.

Her fanatical followers would like to believe otherwise.

Other characters that inhabit her story have to work through a sort of Chapel Perilous when it comes to who and what she is. Can you really prove that the Earth Goddess doesn't exist? Wouldn't your depressing modern life be more interesting if it did? Who cares, i like her and that's enough for me?

Other facts about Zoel:

She always wears gloves that are bound to her wrists by spiked bracelets because she channels her magical feel-good lifey-power through them. If she touches things with her bare hands, they tend to grow, mutate, or sprout leaves. If she sits next to a plant, it will grow visibly in her presence. She also has problems with mold and mildew spreading at an accelerated rate in her apartment.

Her breath can get you high.

Most importantly, she's an exaggerated fantasy version of every tough, cool, bisexual, vegan radical-leftist hippie Pagan girl that i ever knew in school and couldn't get anywhere with because i was a nerd."
Cool info!

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I wish that I drinked. I know it won't solve my problems, but at least I'll have something to blame my problems on.

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