It looks like I'm doing 50 questions at a quarter after 1:00am D: Oh noes!

1. Are you ready for 50 questions?
Questions? Oh yes questions; nodding off back there.

2. Which state/country do you live in?
Wisconsin dontcha know? Excuse me while I eat my cheese...

3. What is your favourite thing you got for Christmas?
Christmas? Oooh hard one (can't remember! XD) I'd have to go with.. a trip to Disney World. Yes, thats right, I'm just a big kid inside :3

4. What was the last thing you did in 2007?
If I recall, playing Euchre and winning ^_^

5. How tall are you?
5'11", I think. Never 6 foot but I can't tell if I lost an inch. Tallest on in the family and one of the shorter people on campus D:

6. Are you new on dA? How long have you been a member?
Think this profile is summer 2005, but I lost (quite litterally, *lost* couldn't find it) that was made a few years ealier.

7. Are you male or female?
Male.

8. Which program do you use to chat?
MSN Messenger and Xfire.. some times

9. What was the first thing you did this morning?
THIS morning I was covering from some nasty thunder storms, yesteday (when I woke up) I had a painting critique; after all the typical battle against sleep *bleh*

10. Do you own a website or forum?
Nope.

11. Is the computer you're using your own computer?
Yes'ums

12. What is your favourite type of food?
Uh... lets go cheese. If its got cheese, its good. Not Velveta or Kraft, real cheese! I'm such a cheese elitist heheh

13. How many brothers and sisters do you have?
2 younger sisters and one older brother (Im a middle child! woo for odd & different!)

14. Do you have an account on myspace?
I won't even put the link in my address bar D: (so thats a no)

15. What is your favorite video game or anime character?
Oooh thats a toughy. After a lot of careful deliberatoin.. I'm going to say Mario. Yes, I'm on a bandwagon here, but I can always go old school Duke Nukem or a little more modern Gordon Freeman as well ^_^

16. What is your favorite color?
Green.

17. Everyone loves candy, right?
Everyone except my teeth & dentist! I once as a kid had a diet of Sweet Tarts.. no one was ever heard from again.

18. Have you ever gotten a gift art from a friend or someone?
All the time! Its fun since a got a few international friends to bring some flavor into the Midwest.

19. Do you have the Wii?
Yes... and all I play on it is Contra 3! Fear not, I'll have Brawl and Kart in a few weeks. Oh yea Metal Slug is awesome too.

21. If you could have one wish, what would it be?
Not to have a wish? I'll end up 'wishing' I had wished for some thing else
TOO MUCH PRESSURE!

22. How long do you sleep?
Average: 8
Breaks: 10 to 12
School: 5 to 6
Week of Critique / Gallery Opening: 4-5
Its all downhill! nooo!

23. What is your favorite part of day?
Just after lunch (11:30 to noon, ish). Seems to be the only time I'm sane any more. Uh... Although I can arguably say I love the number 3 and find I like 3:00 as a good time of the day.

24. What kind of creature/person is your character?
Ooh my character? Well good sir if you please a dragon :3 RAWR good fun! Although, 'Rogwell' is actually my archer off of Asheron's Call that I lovingly cared for 2 years in AC's prime. So, like, when I'm not feeling up to par with dragons I have a magic casting archer.. of DOOM!

25. What is the first letter of your name?
Z. Did I mention I was an odd middle child?

26. Do you cuss/swear/curse?
[Sentence too vulgar to show]
Ah really I very rarely cuss in public, more so in front of friends, and a lot in private >_< During video game sessons. Online.

27. Are you happy, excited, angry, or sad at the moment?
Happy. I'm always happy when I'm listening to Workbench.

28. What is your favorite video game?
MEAN I swear I have too many Ok, Time Splitters 2. There, I picked one ;_;

29. Do you think Nintendo is an amazing company?
Considering the joy they have brought people I would say "yes". I mean, I still play my NES & SNES all the time. They still work!

30. What is your favorite video game company?
Free Radical; known for Times Splitters and best known for being the original RARE team behind Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and Donkey Kong Country. Silly UK devs making epic games!

31. Do you like doing quizzes?
A, I mean C, no... what was the question again? No, I dislike quizzes very much

32. Do you have a lot of good friends?
Friends? Lots of 'em. Good friends? Only a handfull, which is good enough for me.

33. What color eyes do you have?
Blue.

34. What is your favorite Pokémon?
Pokeman? Pokemon with the Poke and the man and the thing with the guy comes out of the thing and he.. uh the last time I paid any attention to Pokemon (like, a decade ago?) I believe Charizard was my fav.

35. Have you ever seen a house on fire?
I've seen a house or two burn up yes I did! A very sad spectator event it is

36. What is your favorite book?
Ooh, easy since I don't read a whole lot. "Judas Unchained" by Peter F. Hamilton.

37. Have you ever read a 100 paged book?
100 page? Or 1000 page? Either a typo or a question on if I read short books

38. Are you a Christian?
Roman Catholic I am; but not exactly a very faithful one I just don't go to church or pray any more.. not since middle school.

39. Who do you like better: Mario or Sonic the hedgehog?
Mario, hands down for me.

40. Do you like to do smilies?
Text smilies are cool and the neat-o image smilies are OK if not abused

41. Do you like to be funny?
I'm no class clown but I can generate some good laughs.

42. What time is it right now in your time zone?
2:10 AM.

43. Do you like to draw with a pencil or computer mouse/tablet?
Pencil for sure. Don't get me wrong, I've abused my Wacom in every way imaginable since I bought it but it can't replace the feeling and satisfaction of a great graphite drawing.

44. What kind of desktop do you use?
Desktop eh? Custom built with Windows XP.

45. Have you ever beaten a video game?
Ah yes, a many video game have perished by my hands. Now asked which games have beaten me! R-Type 3 continues to abuse my sensitive feelings

46. Do you have an action replay for some system/game?
From the original Game Genie to the Play Station Game Shark. I'm such a dirty cheater

47. What is your favourite holiday?
I don't like holidays. Why? Capitolism ruined all the fun! Uh although to pick I'd say Christmas -> not because of gifts but because it is one of the few breaks I get to see and do things with my entire family.

48. What is your favourite letter?
Z

49. What is your favourite number?
3

50. Now tag 3 of your friends!
Oh I'm going to pull a Karn and say the First Three People as I have no idea how many people read my journals D:

The journal looks a little dusty.. ahem.

So.. summer vacation is only 3 weeks away and the average temperature around here is creeping up to the 60s and 70s again. This means my willingness to do work is quickly sinking like a lead balloon. Good news? That just means I have more time for art :3 Well, half my classes are art so thats OK I guess.

Lets see... I have a duck, a cookie stealing wolf, WIPs of a new Azure and a brand new Eastern on the way, a couple art exchanges due in about 9 days. I want to draw a turtle, well own one too (I used to raise snappers as a kid, go fingers!) and tiny PB demands a formal name and a new image. LOL I got a tiny back log :3 Thats all digital, just wait until I can get my oil paints at home & at the ready

While I'm just kinda rambling off here I finally squeezed in on this Dragon Cave site, thing ([link]). I managed to get these two guys:

Click them! All I know is that they need views in order to hatch and live, I think... I just don't want them to die

I really mean 'it is done'! Yea I finally finished up working on my latest and greatest creation: Peanut Butter! No I didn't reinvent the bread spread but a tiny dragon that measures approx. 5 inches in length!

Also I want I want to give a shoutout to every body who have been looking at my gallery and adding favs/comments which is appreciated beyond belief This goes double for every body that enjoys the Books and a Dragon as that was even featured in The Dragons of Deviantart! Oooh that was such an enjoyable suprise I uploaded it as a side thought thinking "some thing traditional would be nice" and BAM it was insta-loved I'll try to get more of my traditional workings up in the future.

So, what first started out as a plight about contrast turned into the realization that my monitor has been boost-saturating my colors for the past 3 years (or how ever long I've had it). So here I've been making these digitals paintings thinking "ooh pretty colors!" when if I turn off this nifty enhancment they all actually grey out fairly bad. Although, comparing (some what) to the other monitors in the house the color is fairly saturated but also much more grey (meaning, the other monitors fall in between). So now I'm right back to reteaching my self about the wonders of monitors and how no matter what I do it will look different and probably look bad on every thing else! Cheers! So now I'm making an image that is very similar to Azure Jaden here but then even Azure turns out a lot less saturated than intended. I've come to the conlusion, then, that because I'm using most of the light and saturated swatches Photoshop has to offer that it probably doesn't matter if I change my screen or not. As long as I don't send any thing out to print I should be fine. Oh boy I would hate to go and try to get some thing to print the way it looks on screen

Ok, now that I've rained on my own parade for a while I'm going to go and try to finish what I started a month ago. I have my sanity back, which clearly was not there thirty days ago (seriously) and hopefully I will have 3 completed pieces in the next week or so. School starts back up for me on the 14th so I'm placing a self ETA of the following Friday. Of course barring any of my brilliant "Lets make a major change 2/3 of the way through!" which I've done a couple times already.

URGH ok its 2am and I have to do any thing beside stare at some color swatches

BY THE WAY OOOH yeah I HAVE to post this as this music is awesome. If your into Chill then DEFINATELY check out Organice Chill Wave by Jack Mayol -> Plays on the Di.Fm chill channel and is free to share, link provided courtesty of Jack Mayol:
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Info/DI post:
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If you download it, love it, PLEASE head over to Di and give Jack a shout out as he deserves it

A solid month off and about 1 collective week of sanity!