T-shirt Design

A design I made from a motivational poster.
(http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/political-pictures-mahmoud-ahmedinejad-balls-steel.jpg?w=450&h=536)

New Drawings

A new picture of Sintas, a new style, and a variation of her altogether.


My demon hunter, Sorrowdusk, before adding armor and cleaning up edges.


Sorrowdusk after adding armor and a background.

The Most Useless WSG of All Time

I shit you not. Can you say clusterfuck? This was awesome. When we first ran out, we stayed in tree form, so when the horde saw us coming, they just stood around on their mounts staring at us for a minute. Then they figured out they couldn't kill us.

Recent pics of me

I cut my hair, by the way.

While watching Blizzcon!

This is my list of notes on the awesomeness being unveiled.
By the way, about the screenshots: sorry about them, but I have to keep the quality at medium to be able to load it properly. Even still, it sits around buffering often.

-7 new zones
-Lush southern Barrens
-Orgrimmar gets wrecked
-Barrens ripped in half
-Flyers in Azeroth
-Yes, Worgen and Goblins
-Heroic Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep
-Twilight Highlands
-Hillsbrad belongs to Horde now
-Deathwing Returns
-Phasing zones
-New PVP stuff, Garrosh controls Horde forces
-Still not caring much about PVP stuff
-New level flow
-Desolace isn't quite so desolate anymore. A crack from the Cataclysm in the land there allows water to flow in. Yay, irrigation!

Some probably won't believe me on some of this. Really, Heroic Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep?

Believe me. I shit you not.


An example of the new level flow. What they're basically doing is changing the level ranges for the zones. This relates to Horde claiming Hillsbrad, too, since that makes the whole upper half of the Eastern Kingdoms better for the leveling flow from Tirisfal.

As of right now, I haven't heard anything about Malfurion returning D: sadface.

So, mum and dad's reaction to my nerdgasm?
*eyeroll*
Yep. Mum and dad -and- sis are pretty annoyed with all my WoW interest, it seems like.
I'll say the teenager cliche, though, and say that they don't get it.
To explain simply, I want to work for this company that makes these awesome games. That's what I want to work towards in college, not to -just- be a fan my whole life. So I guess if they don't get it after I've explained it to them, screw 'em. I'll go into computer animation, I'll work hard at it, and I'll work at Blizzard. Whether they roll their damn eyes or not.

Second day:

-Whoever this comedian is, I -really- hate him.
-Mistress of Pain cosplay: AWESOME.
-Girl who did the tidbit of Lament of the Highborne: AWESOME
-Guy in kilt doing Talon King Ikiss... wow. Very well done, for something that retarded and annoying to hear in-game! (sort of a compliment)
-Jared doing the Draenei male dance: AWESOME, got the crowd going, hope he gets something!
-LoL @ TAFKAL80ETC lawl
-Can these Directv airheads talk any longer? And how many recaps must they give us?
-imho: you can't be -that- hardcore of a player when you're presentable for tv. lawl.
-Finally the Directv airheads shut up so Ozzy can play. =D "Bark At the Moon" first, of course. Go worgen!

Amidst the Confusion

SO. About those goblins and worgen! Obviously they're the only interest anyone has in the new expansion, other than Onyxia and Ragnaros' returns. But let's get down to business.
Fellow lore whores are having the most trouble with this whole situation. So I'll explain it as it's been explained on other sites, starting with goblins, since they take the least amount of time to explain.

If you know anything about Deathwing (formerly Neltharion), then you know he employed goblins in the past to do his work for him. Well, in Cataclysm, the story is that he's calling on the goblins to serve him again. And since they can't exactly say no, they obey.
Except for a small group. (think eredar/draenei style) They resist, and become shipwrecked on an island off the coast of the Barrens. Somehow they stop an Alliance ship, and somehow that ship has an orc held captive. That orc turns out to be Thrall, and so the goblins tell him of their plight. He's grateful for their aid, of course, and offers them a place in the Horde. They accept. Yay, goblins! I'm still not sure what this means for the Steamwheedle Cartel, but we'll find out soon enough.

Now, the worgen of course are annoying the shit out of some people for being on the Alliance side. "Oh, but they look like animals! They're not an alliance-ey race!" Yeah, well draenei look like demons. Get over it. XP
So. Worgen are from another dimension originally, but are able to infect others with Lycantrope, which is the same as becoming a werewolf. Arugal, of course, found a way to summon worgen without the Scythe of Elune, but eventually couldn't control them himself. They ended up infecting the town of Pyrewood near Shadowfang Keep, making the residents humans by day and worgen by night. This infection spread to Gilneas, just south of Silverpine, despite the Gilneans' efforts to shut themselves off from the world. Unlike Pyrewood, though, the Gilneans have developed some manner of cure for this; they're able to keep their human minds intact, but are still nonetheless worgen. The Cataclysm, whatever the terrible disaster that befalls Azeroth is, ends up shattering their wall. Now that they have to contend with the rest of the world again, they seek allies, and are accepted into the Alliance.

But if anyone still can't get over this shit, just think. Flying mounts... In Azeroth...

Exploring Hyjal...

Malfurion returns...

Mmmmmmmm, Malfurion...
<3

Blizzard's Fan Situation

The masks in question. Above are the goblin masks, which kind of look like Shrek knockoffs, and the worgen masks, which look good enough to be from expensive Japanese CGI porn.

On wow.com, it's been stated that it's 99.99999% positive that worgen and goblins will be the new races for the next expansion pack, named Cataclysm. Now, some probably think that Blizz would be pretty pissed about this kind of leak, especially after trying to claim that it was too early to tell (or whatever the hell they said), but you must remember this is a business. No matter what you yourself make of this game, this wonderful fantasy world that you visit regularly, it -is- a business, it -is- a product.
So let's take our awesome business analyst skills and look at this. People weren't too sure about Wrath of the Lich King, even though it was hyped up. They didn't know what all to expect, and therefore many stopped playing before resubscribing to join in the Northrend playground. Particularly, there was much ado about whether or not you'd be allowed to fly. Five thousand gold to fly on a super-fast mount that you may not get to use in the next expansion? Well, I don't think I'm too sure if I want to bother subscribing if it's going to be like that...
But with leaks of information coming out, people will be (especially on rp servers) thinking about what all they'll want for their new goblin or worgen character! They'll be farming cash, gathering some rp gear perhaps, and making placeholder characters with the names they'll want. To Blizzard's business gurus, that means they'll resubscribe. The players will be busy with making sure they have what they want for the next round of payments. So really, this seems to me like an intentional leak. I guess this relates to my vision of Blizzard's facilities being akin to Fort Knox, but that's just me.
I realize of course that many people have already talked about this, but hey. This is my two cents. Plus, I'm really looking forward to seeing worgen being playable. (if you have any idea what i rp as, you know why) And if not? Well, after all this hype, Blizz would be ridiculously braindead to not include them.

Drawgasm

This is the result of a drawgasm from last night, finished at 1:30 am. This is pretty damned hopeful for me, since I was freaking out about the fact that I couldn't just start drawing stuff whenever I wanted to. (stupid me, I never could anyways) I was worried, though, since I would have an idea, get my stuff together, try to draw, and my hand just wouldn't work. I'm guessing it has something to do with muscle groups in my hands being unused and only committed to typing, or maybe just the fact that I couldn't focus on an idea.

About the drawing, though. My grand idea was for life and death to be represented by two characters, Sintas and Thalamanos (aka Nightscourge). Sin is a druid and Thal is, of course, a death knight. Sin's in-character concern at the moment is that the natural world isn't about to accept death knights as part of the world. And if you think "well, machines aren't, either," then consider the fact that machines don't ask for respect or breathe. They also haven't recently quit serving an evil lord that decimated most of a continent. But anyways, the idea was that life and death were arguing. Life said she was better off without death, but death had the point that nothing lives forever and that everything dies eventually. I guess it was easier to explain when I was hatching the idea and drawing it, but still. That's the basis of it.

So in the real world, we just got new ceiling fans installed. My room and my mom's room didn't have one to begin with, so those are new. The living room had one, but it didn't work, so the fan blades were taken off anyways. So we get new ceiling fans, and our youngest cat, Gracie, is afraid of them. Mum throws a fit about this, since she's worried that Gracie will be scarred for life because of the ceiling fans. True enough, Gracie was freaked out by them and would meowl about them, glancing up at them constantly. But now she's in the living room with the fan on, playing with a milk ring. (you know, the ones from right under the lid when you open a new jug of milk) So I'd say the cat crisis is over. Remarkably, our other cat, Charlie, was very unphased by them.

IT'S ALIIIIIIIIIVE

HEYYYYYYY I haven't posted on this thing in forever. I'm even too lazy to check when that last post was. Some changes have taken place in my life since then. I'll try to get you all up to speed.
1.) I got married to a high school buddy of mine.
2.) I moved to Virginia with my new husband
3.) My husband decided to not go to work so we ended up broke in a matter of about three months.
4.) My husband got picked up by the cops for not going to work (he's a marine). I got picked up by my parents and taken home.
5.) My grandma is now in a nursing home and doing hella better than she was when at her house. (she misses being home though of course)
6.) I got a short job at the Bass Mansion, aka Brookside, working on paint analysis for the restoration of it.
7.) I've applied to the University of Saint Francis and have an admissions essay I'm working on.
8.) I still play WoW, of course. Yes, I'm an addict.

I haven't drawn much lately, but I'll post what I've gotten done so far in the next post I do. I also don't have a scanner still :( too bad so sad, I guess. For now, I'm going to go through my posts and figure out which pictures have bad links and won't open anymore.

<3

ArtBistro

The lack of activity on my blog can be explained easily! I've been posting a lot of art and comics and stuff (most of the comics are old though, sorry) on Artbistro.com. My name on there is JaneLeonard :D check it out sometime

Two New Pics!

Pretty little Sinty picture! If I had a scanner, it'd be so much better... Did this one with colored pencil.


This would have to be the creepiest, coolest picture I've ever drawn of Alli. Freakin sweet. <3

So, for a while now, I've been hanging around my grandma's house all day all week. When I say all day, I mean from about 9 am to 6 pm. I've been there to keep an eye on grandma to make sure she doesn't fall and gets something to eat/finishes what she's eating. The thing is, she sleeps almost all day. Plus, dad's over there often. Goddamn, he is so fucking depressing and such a guilt tripper... All I've been eating is fast food. I don't wanna freakin gain weight. I think I already have gained some. This whole situation hasn't helped my problem with being back and forth between mum and dad, either.

I asked mum if it would be out of line for me to ask dad to pay me a little bit hourly. She said maybe about $5 per hour would work. I only want to get paid because what I'm really doing is covering dad's ass all day. As soon as I suggested it to him on my ride home that night, though... He was trying to give me reasons for why I wouldn't need to be out there after this week. I gave him plenty of reasons why I would be out there (such as "hey dad, don't you have to work or something?") and after he still wouldn't budge, once we got back to the apartment and I was getting out, I put it plainly for him. If he doesn't pay me, I won't be out there. In other words, he won't see me anymore. Simple as that. That shut him up pretty fast.

So you don't have to look them up

Ok... This is stupid. Er.

Saw this first on the Colbert Report. It's from John McCain's site... omg...

Oh boy, it's random time!

YouTube videos on a random subject.

HOWARD DEAN!!

Howard Dean & Slipknot
Howard Dean scream and people getting OWNED.
The Howard Dean Story: more BYAAA than you can handle.

Howard Dean is a politician, if anyone didn't know. As is...

DICK CHENEY

Go Fuck Yourself, Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney would like to say... Go fuck yourself.
Never before seen footage of the hunting accident!... Well, it's from YouTube so it's been seen before but... yeah.

No, I -don't- want a comic about sex.

Bitching time.

If you go to Top Webcomics, you'll see a hundred cool webcomics that people vote for. My problem is... the descriptions. No, in fact, I don't want a comic about sex. Or sex with furries. Or gay sex. Or lesbian sex. Or any other "interesting sexual roads." What the hell happened to good fantasy/adventure comics? Granted, there are a lot of those on there, but goddamn, guys, way too many of them are about fucking in interesting ways.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that there's more to life than that. And more to storylines than that. I don't care if I sound like some uptight bitch by saying this, but seriously... People are running out of ideas. I've noticed it myself. I've been writing lately, and I can't help but think "Hey, this sounds kinda like ." It's so great to feel as though you've made something original, something fresh, something people haven't seen before. But it's getting harder and harder to figure out stories... At least Allidar's rp is kind of interesting and new-ish. I'm guessing someone somewhere has already thought of that, but y'know, it's kind of like that idea where if you put enough monkeys on enough typewriters for long enough, you'll eventually, from the sheer number of possibilities, get the works of Shakespeare.

Now that I think of it... that'd be interesting. See if you can get a random word generator. Say, a version of Microsoft Word that puts random words in a document. See how many tries it takes for it to make sense.

Free art via mail for whoever figures that out and can prove it.

New pictures

Ain't it a bitch to have no scanner? Sorry about the blurriness. I ended up taking pictures of these with a regular camera. The big project turned out alright, but the others are kinda questionable. (especially the one of Sinty) But it's something, at least, right? Comment please :O

Time for some webcomic listings!

Alright, so I've found a few neat webcomics. Some of these you may already know, but some of them might be new. Anyways, here they are. <3
Xylia: A Faerie Tale. A nicely-drawn comic, I'd say. Sort of the same quality as Phoenix Requiem. (that one takes forever to get to a storyline though) If you can stand the sappy little scenes of the guy with the faerie girl, then you'll be good. Plenty of people know of VG Cats, but now there's a bit of a spinoff: Super Effective. Ya remember, in Pokemon, when you would get a good hit against an enemy that was weak to the type of attack you used... "It's SUPER EFFECTIVE!" Makes me lawl. Lawl. LFG Comic, as I already have linked to the side, is a neat comic, mostly due to Richard. A few fun animations are on it too, check out "Slaughter Your World." FOR PONY!! (read it and find out what that is) Penny Arcade, that stupid POS that I keep coming back to, is still one of my favorites. It's mostly entertaining to see how goddamn psycho these guys can get. By the way, don't look at a picture of them in real life. It's taboo. <3 Ctrl+Alt+Del is a strange one. <3 Gotta love it, though. Fun little storylines, mostly about gaming. Gaming and, of course, the girlfriend's responses to the main guy's antics keep it going pretty well.

Anyways, as you can see, I really REALLY suck at critiquing webcomics. On Top Web Comics.com, though... seriously, more people need to check out the intelligent comics and vote for those. Screw Twisted Kaiju Theater. Really stupid. But its high rank is a good indicator of just how many morons are on the internet.

Oh, and look for a comic called Gone With The Blastwave. I tried to find it, but it's hard to figure out where the hell it is with all the people talking about blast waves from various bombs in real life. It's pretty good though ^^ I haven't had the chance to check it out for a while, though. =O Mostly because I can't find it! If you find it, link it please. <3

Baibai <3

Merry Jane

Smells like children...

Again, from photography class, we went to the elementary school playground to take some pictures of kids at play. My other three were pretty good (but they're saved as photoshop files so the site won't load them) but this is one that Mr. Baierwalter, my teacher, wouldn't let me use. He cracked up when he saw it, but he said it would be too embarrassing for the girl in the picture. Oh well, I still like it <3 And you all get to see it. <3

Can you believe this?

The George W. Bush Store

Honestly. Can you believe this shit? A George W. Bush store? With items that say "thank you?" The site says it's popular, but I suspect its shoppers are more like my friend Caylyn, here. She wants one of the buttons just to be sarcastic. What would be funnier than wearing a shirt that says "Thank You" with a giant W on it? Some of the items are pretty ridiculous... Cufflinks? Honestly. Yard signs? Really, now...

Discuss! Disgust! Whichever!

A pretty ring and a nicely-composed picture

A couple of pictures from photography class. Well... one, anyways. The first one is one of my many attempts to take a picture of my ring that I wear <3 The second one, I edited in photoshop, but since the teacher demands for the files to be saved with .psd, it won't load onto blogger. So I do have a better version of it, but I just can't get it x.x