Art survey and such (filched from neogeen)

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Maly's drawing-tastic art survey
What is your favorite subject to draw?	Mammals generally, especially horses and (big) cats.
What is your most common choice in 2-d media?	pencil and ink
Anything you refuse to draw?	Sex
Real anatomy or cartoon physics?	Mostly real anatomy.
Which is more important - solid inking skills or solid color theory?	Ach, tough one. Probably inking skills due to my line-geek nature.
Photoshop or PSP? Illustrator or Painter?	Photoshop and Painter. Between those two, definately Painter.
Markers - Prismacolor or Tria?	I like my trias (all five of them . . . must get more)
Paints - oils, acrylics, or watercolors?	Gouache! Or watercolor.
Have you ever done a stippling project outside of art class?	Yes. It took me about 10 hours.
Ever imitate a popular style of art? (anime, disney, comic book...)	Yeah, mostly just when trying to draw a character that's already in said style.
How would you define your "style?"	My style is me. It's just how I view the world. It's not Animé, traditional Western, comic book, or any of those, it's just me.
What is one area of drawing that you need to improve in?	Perspective/foreshortening.
When did you start drawing as a hobby? (we all drew when we were little)	It really started in 9th grade. That's five years ago now.
What kind of sketchbook do you have? Brand? Size? How old is it?	I go through so many sketchbooks so fast I don't think it really matters. Usually I have a 8X10 or similar size plus a 6X9 (or similar) going at the same time. My favorite current sketchbook is an 8X8 Finesse Sketch magnetic sketchbook (keeps the page edges nice) started January. I'm also currently using a 9X12 Strathmore (Dec 03), a random 3X4 (Dec 02), a 4X6 (Apr), a 5X8 reserved for long trips (Jun 03), and a 11X14 Academe (Apr 01). That's not including the two that I got in Dec. '95 that I'm holding out on finishing until Dec '05.
How many sketchbooks have you had previous to this?	*Blink.* Erm . . . Thirty-something?
How many sketchbooks do you go through in a year?	It depends. At least two, sometimes more.
#2 yellow pencil or a clicky pencil?	Mec. pencil. I don't trust the yellow ones, lead inconsitancies.
What kind of eraser do you use?	One of those white clicky ones (usually)
Who are your artistic influences?	Too many to name? I'd actually like to get more into the style of traditional Chinese art. I love Al Hershfield's charactercures, Leslie Harrison has phenomenal equine and other animal art, and I am rather fond of several less famous people's work (read: many of those I stalk on online galleries).
What books would you reccomend to aspiring artists?	"Painting Animals That Touch the Heart" by Leslie Harrison I'd also reccomend "The Encyclopedia of Mammals" by David MacDonald (many, many gorgeous references)
Do you have any favorite online tutorial sites?	No, not really
What is the most money you've ever made on one drawing / illustration / painting?	$95.00, that was for the Garth drawing/illustration.
What do you hope to accomplish with your art? Do you want to go anywhere with it in life?	I'd like to show people things that they might miss otherwise. I'd like to express myself. As far as going somewhere with it, I plan on doing freelance illustration in the future.
Finally, why do you draw?	A little out of habit, a little out of the challenge, and to attempt to depict emotions that words don't quite describe.
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My bruise has started to take on that sickening yellowed green color on the outside. The center of it is still a rather odd mesh of blue and purple. It's still sore and I still forget that it's there until, say, one of the horses decides to use my right hip as a scratching post.

Vet went well. Nikki and Glori don't like getting shots. There was a mini donkey who brayed just before I loaded Kash in the trailer. Kash started dancing around and got really excited and acted a little studdish and pretended to be unmanagable. I swear, if I'd've let him he would have bolted right into the trailer. Needless to say he jumped right in when I had him sufficiently calm to load.

Sleep!