Due to excessive use of my fan art, the Tomb gets the majority of its questions in this category^^*.
DID YOU DRAW ALL OF THESE LITTLE
KNOWNS?
Yes. I wouldn't put "don't steal my art" pop-ups everywhere if it
wasn't my art. It's a lot of fun to draw everything in the Tomb,
gives it s personalized touch; it holds my intrest and gives me motivation
to continue to maintain the site. I'm among the few little web mistresss
who's actually drawing my own stuff; makes me feel special^.^.
WHY FAN ART?
Why not? There are not many- if any at all-
full body color pictures of any of these little knowns. Most pics you do
find are just black & white or color stained manga pics that never
show the full view, and, nothing personal, but I DON'T WANT TO BE LIKE
EVERYONE ELSE! Where's the fun in that? If I have the means and talent
to create full body color images, I'll take it! I also like the personal
touch it adds to my Tomb while giving me an excuse to do what I have the
most fun doing- art.
Overall, I've gotten a great deal of positive reviews on using my art instead
of manga pics. Only one person has ever emailed me to complain about my
use of fan art, but that person sounded, well, a teensy bit jealous in
her complaint, so I can't say I took it it too seriously. It's my site.
The art stays. Period:P.
CAN I USE YOUR FAN ART ON MY SITE?
PLEASE EMAIL ME AND ASK PERMISSION
BEFORE YOU TAKE!!!! This has got to be the most frequently asked question
of them all!
My limit for the "can I have" is 3, peoples. Uno, dous, tres! Ichi, ni,
san! I'm not going to send you every single picture here; I don't want
little Tomb clones running about the net. Let's keep things original if
we can; I'm sure you're capable of coming up with your own graphics and
ideas, ne?
If you just want the art to print it out and admire it::stares at the nice
people for a while:: I'm ok with that ^^*. But if you use it on a webpage
please give me credit.
I work hard on each little senshi graphic picture you see around here,
and I don't do this to have them stolen! Graphics take a while, people,
especially when they're graphics you've drawn, and its heart wrenching
when you find some lazy kid who just could think of an original thought
/graphic decided to take your art instead:*( !
I'm not stingy . I realize that its hard, or in some cases, impossible
to find full color pics of any of these characters, because their creator
Takeuchi never made one. I find it flattering that people think my art
is worthy of display on their pages, and as long as people put my art to
good use and give me credit for it, I don't mind at all, but do ask first,
and tell me what you're planning if you can. Some people have done some
really flattering things with my work, like Butterfly
Wings with a Papillon, Michiru.net
with a Siren, Crescent
Eclipse with a Mermaid Siren, and even Tsuki
Eiei with my newest Papillon. I don't mind this at all- I'm honored
to see people find my work good enough for their sites, but all of them
did ask and warn me first, and all gave proper credit.
I've found pages where people took my art without politely giving me credit,
sometimes even claiming it was their own. One person even took my page
content, word for word, along with my pics!!!!! Needless to say, I've made
most of their online lives a living hell till they either gave me credit
or found other pics to use.
Just be nice and ask before
you take, k? Thank you!
CAN YOU DRAW SOMETHING FOR ME?
Usually I enjoy doing stuff like this, but lately it's been getting out
of hand. Occassionaly I draw fan fic senshi, like I did for Sailor Utopia
once, but I liked his story and did that by inspiraion, not by request.
If you're going to request a fan ficcy something of me you'd better be
a damn good writer, because I "see" characters in what's written;
this is how I draw. It also helps if you already have fan work I can base
things off of, but you can't just throw a name at me and say "draw this"because
I WILL NOT CREATE A SENSHI FOR YOU. Get an imagination and get cracking,
because I'll only help, not start. Also, on you RPG senshi, I require
#1 a good story and #2 that you've already been accepted to this RPG.
For now, I'll have to sayNO. I'll be going back to school from Aug 30-Dec23, far, far away from my beloved computer and scanner, so even if I could draw you something I couldn't get it to you. Either way, I won't have the time to waste on such things. Besides, I'm slowing getting sick of drawing all this stuff and not drawing much for myself. Lethe needs some time out to be selfish- bear with me:-P.
CAN YOU TEACH ME HOW TO DRAW?
All fan artist get this question, and I'm no exception.
No, I can't teach you how to draw. There's no quick miracle technique to
it, its just a talent that takes patience,practice, practice, practice
and a love for what you're doing. Not even teachers can teach you how;
they're just guides, and only you can find the way you draw best.
How did I learn? I've always love to draw and make art work, since I was
very little. I actually come from a long line of artisans on my mother's
side of the family, but I'm not too sure such a talent can actually be
inherited. Anyways, I've never had any of those expensive private art teachers,
just public school art teachers, and what I teach myself through constant
practice, patience, and observation of my surroundings. That's all I can
say, really. If you want to draw, love to draw, and have the determination
and patience to practice it, you will learn to draw. No teacher
required.
WHAT DO YOU USE?
Nothing fancy, unless you'd count Prismacolor as fancy. Just color pencils, crayola markers, and the program I use for most all of the graphics in here is Paint Shop Pro 5.
WHERE DO YOU GET THE POSES?
I don't "get" poses from things much anymore. One, maybe two of the poses in this entire Tomb were taken from magazine poses I thought were neat and appropiate, otherwise the rest of the posing is sheer imagination. That's just my buildup of experienece and practice at play. I sometimes sit down, and sketch a horde of vivacious little stick figures, and then I pick poses out of the buch; it helps me think.
WHAT COLOR IS THE CAULDRON GUARDIAN?
Wow, some of you are paying really close attention around here.
There are no color pictures of the Guardian what so ever. She only appeared
in B/W, and what you can derive from her pictures is that she's a being
of pure light; even her speech bubbles are surrounded in sparkle^^. When
I draw and color her as faintly blue, I'm only making an artistic guess.
She could be yellow, pure white, iridescent, anything; only Takeuchi knows
for sure.