... I call this the iiWizrius Monthly because it's an update I only bring at the beginning of each month.. Last month was interesting, there were a lot of things that happened. As for the play I was doing before, it has drawn to a close. I know there's oh so many of you that remember the name, or even the days I was working. Well, actually, I'm still working up at the Amphitheatre helping my Aunt clean up the costumes and organize them to put them away for next year. What I can do is mostly the moving them around and cleaning up the storage cabinets for them.. They're taking care of the laundry. Not too much work, and I'm getting paid for it so . They let us in at like 8:00AM but my Aunt hasn't been getting us up there til around 10:00/11:00AM.. and they kick us out at 4:30PM lol. Anyway, with the play being over, I should be here for the most part Friday and Saturday nights.. P:. Tomorrow, Saturday, I will be in Fort Worth, Texas shopping with everyone as a present for my Cousin B.J. who assisted us in changing out the toilets which ended up being a lot of work. The floor in my aunt's bathroom around where the toilet was.. there was a leak from the pipe that runs the water into the back tank. It had been dripping for a long time. The floor back there was so rotted, there was no support on the toilet. It sank down all the way to the support board under the floor. He cut that out, replaced it, replaced the broken valve, and then the fun part, he found out the sewer line was busted too, as a result of the toilet sinking down. He had to fix that too. We only replaced the floor around the toilet area, although it's quite obvious the entire bathroom floor needs to be torn out and replaced. The project took about a week longer than we expected XD. SO we're taking him shopping as a thank you! Anyway.. That ought to do it for this update.. Stay tuned for November's Friend of the Month, which will be promptly followed by the interview!


OMG KICK ASS DRAWING |DDD




This month's feature goes to *1Rusty! Also known as ~cuddlefactor, Nicola, and Ricola.. . How we got this far as friends is rather interesting, at least to me. She's one of the first friends I made on dA when I first joined. It was actually kinda funny.. back when I was a n00b to dA and a +fav/comment whore, I was browsing through ~amiteaelfkin's favorites (Either that or I did a search for Avatar related art, but I doubt that) and I came across something of hers that I liked. So I followed it to her page and looked through her gallery and found she was an Avatar: The Last Air Bender fan, as am I, and I commented on her drawing of Toph. One thing lead to another and we exchanged messenger contact info and attempted to plan a day where we could chat. An obvious issue involved was the time difference being that she's in Austria. So we shared lines from time to time until finally I had the time to talk to her during my Spring Break that year. We talked quite a bit that week, and I saw what she was interested in, we exchanged interests and of course, she was an anime/manga fan. I shared a few shows with her that I liked, one of which I got her addicted to, Code Lyoko. At first, whenever we talked, we would play around some, do this and that and talk about some random show. Eventually, through unrelated series of events, I gained an interest in drawing to some extent, or rather decided to try my hand at drawing in the anime style. The first few things I drew were from the Manga "Midori Days" and "Marmalade Boy".. She took a hit at me and suggested I try drawing something not from an anime or manga.. At first I was reluctant to do so, but finally, that gave birth to my first OC, Mareno. I had help with her on that, as I had no grasp of clothing design, anatomy, nor did I have the ability to draw anything below the head . She helped correct the clothing, and I had no way to do that on my end so I redrew it based on eying the corrections she made. She's actually been one of the driving forces behind my desire to draw, as well as one of my few critiquing friends. We've been friends for about 2.5 years or so, and in that time, I've changed quite a bit.. she has too. For a while, there was a period where I would only submit drawings after I showed them to her. That was earlier this year actually.. One of the things that drew me to her was her interest in anime/manga and things I liked on Adult Swim.. I enjoyed talking to her a lot and she was quite helpful to me, giving me pointers to help me with improving. She has a good sense of humor, and in fact, I've introduced her to ~amiteaelfkin At some point when they were both on, which almost never occured.. I've enjoyed spending time around her, and some of her finest points rubbed off on me, such as her sarcasm (Although I was already pretty good at it, she unknowingly helped me hide/show it better through text ;O) It's been an interesting ride.. There was a change she made though, that made her considerably less talkative than she used to be, I can't remember the reason behind that.. She's been very supportive of me through the last year or so while I struggled to take steps towards independence and being an adult (a process which to this day has not been completed :C).. She's one of the best friends I could have hoped to get at my introduction to the site. She's the reason for two things I currently communicate on.. the first being the HOTMAIL the majority most of the people I've met on dAmn know me through (because I had another one that our communication on was ruined because her computer didn't get along with messenger, and we didn't discover the problem was the sharing folder for while.) and of course, Skype. She's also the first person I voice chatted with. although she's not too fond of them, which I've since accepted. She's done quite a bit for me. Some of the major changes to my style can be partially attributed to her ;O. She's one of the most awesome people I've gotten to know in the time on dA.. She's put up with my inappropriate jokes, albeit she does ignore them.. She likes to poke me a bit to motivate me to do things, something which I've managed to ignore on occasion. Along with her, I've worked on digital art, although at an embarrassingly slow pace, and I've yet to try to do anything.. Despite the time we've had together growing shorter, be it my fault cause I've lost the ability to create topics to talk on (or desire probably a better word), or her having fun with the life I've yet to get. Numerous times we've been unable to talk because of classes or lessons of sorts.. She's not been on as much as she used to be, and we don't talk as much as we used to when she is.. Man.. I suck at that.. As much as I'd like to talk to the people who I love talking to, Either something distracts me, or I just don't have anything to say.. I used to fix that, but lately I've not been doing that.. I apologize for that, ;;. She's pretty important to me.. I don't know what I'd do without her. She's the most influential person to my art so far, as she motivated and nurtured me (does that sound wrong to anyone else.. O: ?).. It was odd because I hadn't featured her until now. As much as I love her, she's usually one of the last people I show affection towards o: I have no idea why, I just do. But I do show it in some way.. I gotta remember to do something for her to reflect how much I love her.. I think I've said what I can at least think of for now.. I'll add on if I can think of more, in the interview area. Stick around, more to come!.

FOTM Feature Box! Artist: Ricola <3

AtlA: Toph (Who would I be to mention this and then not feature it xD)

Caught

ROCC - Naruto: Therapy Session

ROCC - Maturity

The Crew - Rick

These are just some of the many excellent pieces in her gallery C: I can't feature all the ones I like or I'd end up showing favoritism Anyway, this pretty much concludes my feature box! Until the Interview, bai! I love you lots, Nic . May we continue to have memorable times together ;O. I appreciate everything you've done for me so far. I only hope to continue. You're an awesome friend. I couldn't have asked for any better.

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