piasharn | Question Meme

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1. What color is your hair? Is that your natural hair color?

Dark brown, although it gets vaguely abuburnish highlights when I spend enough time in the sun. Yes, this is my natural colour. I keep meaning to dye it, but I can't decide on what particular shade. Besides, I can't do anything too shocking or I'll get fired.

2. What artists or illustrators most greatly influenced your drawing style? If there isn't any specific person, which style or styles most influenced your style? To me your figures are very distinctive amongst the sea of fanart, and I'm wondering where their... their... Pianess came from.

Frida Kahlo, definately. Leonardo da Vinci. I've been fiendishly studying Yoshitaka Amano lately, hoping to pick up some of his techniques. I snatch ideas whenever I see something I like, so it would be impossible to list every single artist who has had an influence on me.

Fanart is a bit different, though. See, I don't really take it very seriously. It's something that I do to relieve stress or boredom, or as a way to practice a medium and try out some new ideas. My style for fanart is a bit different than for my other art. Half the time, my hands just run away with the piece and it just happens, completely unintentionally.

3. If you were to make a webcomic, what would it be about? Who or what is the main character or concept or plot hole device, and, in one sentence, what's the initial storyline?

Oh, bugger. If I knew what it would be about, I would have started working on one already. ^^;;;; I'd love to do a webcomic; I just can't think of a damn story to go with the pictures!

I don't know if it counts, but I do have a few doujinshi ideas that I'm trying to work on. (I'd post them online, so they'd be sort-of webcomics.) There's a lengthy BSSM project I've been tinkering with that focuses on (who else?) Kunzite and Zoisite and the origins of the Dark Kingdom. It started out just focusing on Zoisite, but I began working out Kunzite's history as I was trying to figure out his motives, and the whole damn thing has since spiraled out of control. Not to mention the work I need to do with creating the culture during the Silver Millenium (architecture, fashion, politics, etcetera) before I can actually start working on the sucker.

4. What's your favorite fast food flavor? Have you ever been to White Castle?

Does Chinese take-out count? ^^ (Great, now I have a craving for lo mein.) I occasionally grab some fries when I'm on the road and can't stop to eat, but that's about the only time when I eat fast food. I'm just not overtly fond of the stuff, truth be told. I've never been to White Castle, but I've heard of it.

5. The United States blows up. Or vanishes. Or deports all its citizens to make way for the Bushyan Race. Or the environmentalists successfully lobby that humanity is damaging the environment and so human habitation on American soil is illegal. Something. Anyway. You now are moving to another country, and it's going to be as permanent as anything ever really gets in life. Which country do you choose, where in that country, and why?

Hmmm... The problem is that I wouldn't want to move to a country without having visited it at least once before. This narrows my options down to Canada and Mexico, and I'm not sure if I can honestly count the latter since I only took a day trip to Tijuana.

I do like Canada, especially Vancouver and the surrounding area. I don't like the colder weather, however. I've been trying to get away from snow for the past several years, and that puts a damper on the idea of moving north.

Mexico, or a Central American country, might be better in terms of climate. I know Spanish, which would certainly be helpful. (It's quite rusty at the moment, but I figure that I'll pick it up quickly enough if I'm surrounded by it.) I don't know exactly what city/town I'd end up in. It's likely that I would do a bit of wandering until I found someplace that felt right. I have the feeling that I'd find some little village in the Middle of Nowhere and settle down quite nicely.

6. Was your first trip to the emergency room for you or were you along for the ride on someone else's run? What about your last trip? Urgent care clinics count if the choice was made in the interest of being seen before whatever it was heals on its own.

Oh, it was most certainly for me. I was a very sickly infant and toddler who spent quite a bit of time in hospitals. I must have had at least half a dozen febrile seizures that resulted from frequent high fevers. (108° F / 42° C was my record.) I also had many, many cases of Croup Attacks, although only the really bad ones landed me in the ER after a while. I believe that, at one point, my parents brought a priest in to give me my last rites as even the doctors didn't know if I was going to make it through the night.

My parents are much, much better people than I am. There's no way I could have handled dealing with a kid who got ill so often and so severely.