Uchiha is back!
July 11, 2009
okay...um, well, im going to try updating as much as possible again...and good news is that when i go back to work ill be able to actually buy my url and hopefully make my site better.
im still a noob, but a noob who is trying.
also, i have taken all the unused types of poke'mon and made my own eevee evolutions out of them, ive been drawing some comics of them so im making a mini comic series called "evolution adventures"
:D
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or should i call it battle arena? im not sure T^T
(comment and tell me what you think it should be called :D)
im working on drawing all the evolutions ive made up so i can put them on the site....ill have that done.....eventually.
but yeah....unfirtuantly i do not have my photoshop program anymore...it was crappy anyway but it was useful, so unfirtuantly all my comics text will be written by hand; i will try my best to write neat -3-
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yeah not much else.
well, we'll see what the future holds! >_<
Been awhile...
June 12, 2009
well actually i have had secret computer access but not enough and not in the right place for me to actually uplaod comics.
plus because of said issue my...um, many...most....all of my previous comics have been...."accidentally" destroyed.....by a certain...beast...of a mother.....SHES A BITCH--anyway i do not know when i will be free enough to continue to run my site weekly so...um....yeah. kinda sucks.
i hope though once i am able to run this site again without anything holding me back i will have more people enjoying comic-y goodness -^_^-
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that i drew o3o
Happy Zombie Day!
April 12, 2009
happy easter everyone! easter is also jesus zombie day since thats when jesus rose from the ground and preyed on his followers brains -^_^-
oh, i should be careful, dont want to offend any religious people.
if anyone hasnt realized it yet, im not religious. religion can fuck itself.
not that i find anything wrong with people who do practice it....good for them...
anyway, i was going to update last night because i thought i wouldnt have any time today...but i forgot last night ^_^;
i love this comic. its probably one of the few comics that has a more interesting layout (kinda) and i actually put background to it ^_^; ...again...kinda. and i guess ill upload the naked bunny lavi picture i drew too. only his upper body. i cant really draw penises.
so....yeah...enjoy? ^_^ comment pwease!!!
X.X [Dead]
April 5, 2009
omg the d. gray man english dub killed me. literally, i refer to myself as yu kanda. my three favorite cosplays, rin kagamine, itachi uchiha and yu kanda, i actually refer to myself as being them.
i am the true kanda!!! and allen is moiyashi, not short stack!!!!!!!!!!!!! >_<
seriously, everything about kanda is destroyed! everything but his girlish looks! his voice is awful! they pronounce mugen wrong! he doesnt call allen moiyashi or even beansprout! his attacks sound lame! "mighty me-u-gan!"
DA FUCK?!?!?!!?
mighty mugen?! did gai-sensei come out of nowhere and like butt rape kanda right before he attacked allen?
it was awful...and travese failed at kanda's voice. he sounds WAY to heroic and manish. his voice is deep and booming. not calm, cold and somehow soothing.
his english voice was like blasts of intense heat, but when i heard his japanese voice it was like a cool wave washed away all those horrible sounds...
the english dub does not exisit e_o
i was suppose to watch the dub with a few friends today at yoshi's house, but because of work and my bitchy mother that didnt happen. at least they tell me lavi's voice could have been worse. its not like kanda bad at least. but they say la-vi instead of le-vi. which pisses me off. and komui is pronounced ko-moo-ay.....
da fuck? (again)
anywho enough about that. i updated with a random comic i drew during finals. enjoy. comment please.
AHHHHHHHH!!!!!! >_<
March 29, 2009
OMG!!!!!!!!!! THE ENGLISH D. GRAY MAN DVD COMES OUT IN--*counts on fingers*--TWO DAYS!!!!!!!!!!! O_O
omigosh sai and i are so freaking scared. we've only heard allen and helveska's voices. allen has a lisp!! ahaha--er i mean, thats horrible...*cough* honestly i think it fits...but thats just my twisted mind where allen, lavi and kanda are all gay and have lots of threesomes. sai isnt to fond of allens voice and we're both fearing for lavi. im scared about travis....william? roy mustangs english voice, he's playing kanda. i cant imagine him playing a good kanda...he'll make kanda sound to...manly...and apparently the voice of german alphonse is playing lavi. its a hit or miss for pretty much all of them. we pray to the lords of anime that it will turn out okay.
im going with sai to buy it on tuesday, when it comes out, then we're going to yoshi's house to watch it. -shudders- we'll see what happens...
anyway, i updated, yay, and this is the first comic im putting on here that has absolutly nothing to do with my characters. its just lavi and kanda. its cute, sai and i think so at least. i forgot where she and hannah got the idea but something about lavi popping up out of no where "yu-chan! be my friend!" and of course kanda will be like "no!" so we started making up skit ideas and such and i just had to draw a cute comic of them. so yeah, enjoy.
oh yeah i got in trouble again so my mom took my keyboard and mouse out of my room so i cant use my computer...which means i cant use photoshop...which means i wasnt able to edit this picture at all. so hopefully its okay. maybe when im allowed to use my computer again ill remake this comic a little bit better.
oh yeah, i finally got a comment from someone i dont really know; i know the layout i have is rather comfusing but its all i have. im not really good with techy things and i still havent gotten a new computer so theres not much i can do. but eventually i will be able to make a better site. until then bare with me.
Damn...so much for that
March 22, 2009
i am sorry to say that i will not be updating this week. but i have a good reason, and i am not joking or over exhagerating this, I WAS FREAKING BUSY THIS ENTIRE WEEKEND!!!
i thought i would have some time to draw, do homework and talk to kakashi, but i was wrong! one can tell im seriously busy when i dont talk to my boyfriend and i ignore JD's messages. i had to work this weekend plus like all those stupid, long, exhausting family events i had to go to. i was either sleeping, working, or getting ready for whatever i had to do that day.
saturday i went to a wedding...not even an hour after i got off work. i was tired, i smelled like subway, and my mom forced me to dress up within 45 min and go to a 7 hour long wedding thing!!
okay, im done complaining. really im happy for my uncle and pretty new aunt. they looked so happy together and shes pregnent so now they are a happy husband and wife expecting a beautiful baby girl. congrats Joon and Michele.
um...yeah, back to important stuff. not updating, how about i update with two comics next week, will that even me out? hope so, ill actually try to get it done early this time.
anyway, comment people. go to the comments tab and click the title "march comments" and the comment thingy will pop up at the bottom of the screen.
Dude...where's my cosplay?
March 15, 2009
Hey, did you guys know that yesterday was white day? its celebrated in japan, its like valentines day except guys give girls gifts. my awesome friend JD got me a couple yaoi manga and a kakashi figure for white day. hes so nice! kakashi and yaoi, what could be better?!
anywho im not updating with a comic this week, but im still updating so it counts!! it'll be in the 'other artwork' tab, a picture of rin kagamine, a vocaloid and a future cosplay of mine, in a maid outfit. i had this idea of drawing all the vocaloid girls (and len) in maid outfits but i havent gotten around to that yet. hopefully ill do that soon.
so yeah, enjoy, comment, and i love my kakashi boyfriend.
So we meet again...o.O
March 8, 2009
i have an important announcement...
i have passed my last updating record XDDD
haha! i updated like im suppose to for three weeks now!!...ha, yeah i know, nothing to get prideful about ^_^; really no one, except friends, really look at my site. -sigh- thats okay, one day my dreams will come true ;3
actually, one of my dreams did come true -^.^- not drawing related, sadly, but me, neko, is dating kakashi!!! kyaaa!
oh details, details. no im not gonna get into it, but being a obsessive kakashi fangirl of course i would dream about being with kakashi. i gave up on that because kakashi is a fictional character, or so i thought.
hehe hes so great and i love him so much! -^.^- ♥♥♥ and he loves me too ♥ -starts to daydream and blush-
anywho, the comic i originally was going to update with i never got around to drawing. this weekend has been kinda busy for me. though i didnt work on friday i ended up spending that day walking around my town with kitsune, and saturday i got called in and then i had to go to familys house and other shit like that--i was busy that day! and ive been doing my lit class project last minute ^_^;; im so bad.
-cough- bottom line i had to look through some of my other drawings to find something i could post, i found a old comic i drew sometime last year or maybe the year before, its pretty old compared to how i draw comics nowadays. but nevertheless this is based off a true story. i actually did this, cosplay and all, except i didnt scream and cuss at the lady...and she was utterly confused by me. it was great. poor nezumi thought we would get kicked out of the mall because we were dressed so "weird".
so, enjoy, comment, love me and we'll all be happy that way -^_^-
*gets hit with rock*
jk. but seriously, comment. please.
Aye, Tis be March
March 1, 2009
i would like to start this post off with a rant -^_^-
*ahem*
PLEASE COMMENT!!!!! T^T
pretty please? seriously it could just be a random "haha" or something totally irrelevant and ill be happy. fuck, if someone commented "anime sucks" i wouldnt mind because its a comment and it shows people besides my friends look at my amusing comics T^T
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though like a week later ill suddenly realize "hey that bastard is a anime hater!" tch, to late neko.
anywho i did post a new comic, i had a weird military fetish for awhile. i have another military-ish comic to post, that will probably be next weeks update.
well! im back at two weeks! lets see if i can make it three weeks this time! XD ill try my best. school is starting again so i dont know where my mind will be.
um....yeah. again, comment. please. pretty please. with a cherry on top. im freaking begging like a worthless pup, pity me okay?
Belated Valentines Day!
Feb 22, 2009
Well, first off, happy belated single awareness day--er i mean Valentines day! -^_^-
haha, nah im not bitter when it comes to valentines day. i may not have a boyfriend (at this moment ^.~) but i use heart day as an excuse to be extra lovable towards my friends. then again why do i need an excuse to spread otaku love? -^.^-
kyaaa, though i feel bad. ive been meaning to draw my wonderful kakashi-sensei a valentines picture but im only half done with it and its like a week past V-day! T^T im a bad student. actually i plan on working on it tonight, ive been pretty busy with school and crap but finally we have a vacation!
...eh heh okay ill stop babbling about random crap ^_^; but i did put up a new comic! i forgot to last week, two weeks seems to be my record ^_^;; heh. anyway enjoy!
by the way....comments plz!!!!! T^T
Update! w007!
Feb 8, 2009
i am proud to say i actually updated on the day i said i was going to! yay progress! now lets see if i can do that two weeks in a row. XD
sadly its not a new comic.
and even more sadly i still havent started drawing the characters for the character page. -sigh- so much for progress?
anyway...um....oh yeah, im going to try putting "new" on the comics tab and such when theres a new comic. originally i was just gonna leave it like that for a couple days after the new post but i forgot about it ^_^; i gotta work on that.
and...not much else. i think.
~yawn~ im tired, just got back from a laser tag party and it was awesome XD
Been awhile, hasn't it?
Feb 1, 2009
yeah, i havent posted anything in a while. im going to try to make sunday my update day, i will try harder! ...i think ive been saying that ^_^; i feel kind of bad.
ive been slacking big time recently. during winter break i didnt draw anything, so unusual for me. and i havent started the characters page yet! >_< ill do that tomorrow!!!
um....yeah thats it?
Guess what? New comic! =D
Jan 11, 2009
hey i actually made a new comic before the week is out! w007 now kyle and kami cant hit me with any rubber bands XD
watch they probably will anyway...
but, yeah, new comic. its based off this song kitsune showed me that i got stuck in my head (and of course my obsession with kakashi) so yeah....not much else for me to say. the song is called "i like a boy in uniform" i dont remember who the artist is and im to lazy to look it up. but heres a cool AMV of that song and this anime i recently became obsessed with called princess princess. great anime by the way.
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wait i already mentioned princess princess in my last post. oh well.
anyway...not much else going on. a little update on my life right now, ive been focusing on my final 20 our draw project in my draw/sketch class and of course finals are like....two weeks from now so ive been a wee bit preoccupied. also I SITLL HAVENT GOTTEN MY %*&$@&% LAPTOP!!!
uhg. i know i know, ive been complaining a lot, but can you blame me? its like promising a child candy and then never giving it to them. 1: its evil and 2: it'll drive the kid mad!
anyway a little random talk, in my drawing class we drew some realistic faces. ive never drawn realistically before and frankly i use to not like it because i thought it was ugly, but i actually am kinda good and realistic eyes are fun. my kakashi friend from youma con is going to send me a picture so i can draw him. hehe thats going to be fun ♥
also PLEASE COMMENT PEOPLE!!!!
it shouldnt be that hard to figure out, right?
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i dont know why that second link is there. that was just me beeping out my own cussing. anyway just ignore it, it doesnt lead anywhere.
also on a random note that i totally forgot about, check out this youma con AMV! its called "this is youmacon" by lemon demon.
its of youma con '08 WHICH I WENT TO!!!!!!!!!!! XDD
well....obviously....since i never seem to shut up about youma con. im already excited for youma con '09 and its still 10 months away -sad face-
hey! heres a good way to see if people are actually looking at my site and listening to me! i wasnt able to find the lyrics to "this is youmacon" but i really want to know what they're saying (since i only seem to understand half of the stuff and i dont have the time to watch this video five times a day!) if someone knew the lyrics or where to ge the lyrics i would be so grateful if they posted it in the form of a comment. please. pretty please.
or if you people seriously can not figure out the comment system just send it to my email =_=
May your year be filled with Anime!
Jan 1, 2009
happy new year, people! hope you all have a year full of anime goodness.
my new years resolutions are
1:get get better grades in school (im usually a A or B student but ive been slacking)
2: stop pacrastinating! and to work on improving my drawings
and 3: lose some weight so i can be a cute but sexy rin kagamine during youma con '09!
....im not fat...but i want a flatter stomach. im a girl! im suppose to be self conscious of these things! >///<
anyway i had a fun new year, hope you guys did too. i welcomed the new year with my BFFFFFFFFF (ect) kitsune and the anime "Princess Princess" its a really funny series, but i think its more for girls. it has a lot of crossdressing pretty boys in it. haha. i love it! XD
i have quite a few comics to scan but ive been holding off because i FREAKING WANT MY LAPTOP!!!! omg im so anxious! i still dont have it buti should have it very soon....maybe. i hope.
anyway i think ill scan them anyway tonight and work on them, im not sure if im going to completly color them though....probably wont. we'll see.
theres actually a bunch of things i want to do tonight (since im throwing a party tomorrow and vacation is almost over T_T) but my friend is spending the night. i love her dearly but shes distracting. hopefully ill be able to finish manager-sans birthday comic tonight and do my homework that should have been done loooong ago.
i gotta learn to prioritize better ^_^;
oh well.
COMMENT PEOPLE! k thx bye
A ninja-y christmas
Dec 26, 2008
i hope everyone had a great christmas! i got more stuff than i thought i would, and im really glad my family takes more of a intrest in me and my passions (drawing and cosplay ♥) i got a lot more money than i expected too! i love them, maybe i wont go itachi on my family after all ^_^
(naruto reference, anybody who knows itachi uchiha and what he did to his family would know what im talking about)
anyway...i still didnt get my laptop-^_^ -twitch- i will soon...very soon....about two weeks maybe...? im so freaking excited, i want my laptop!!!...okay now i sound like a spoiled brat. but its a brand freaking new laptop with all the programs ill need for animation and stuff, wouldnt you be anxious?!
i drew a holiday kakashi picture tonight and colored it with color pencils. it was a different experience for me >.> i dont normally use color pencils. i wasnt able to scan it tonight but i will tomorrow for sure. and i have like three other comics to scan.
not much else other than that....
a kakashi cosplayer who i met and stalked--i mean befriended at youma con put a picture in his album and wrote under it "you can add your own captions to this, come on, do it!" so i did. its a amusing picture even if what i typed wasnt all that funny....its funny to me though o3o...
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just for fun, heres a picture of santa-kakashi i drew for my kakashi friend from youma con (the one in the picture with sasuke)
i dont feel like putting it in the "other artwork" tab so you can find it here instead.
"Merry Christmas to all and to all shut the hell up"
Dec 21, 2008
yeah a little early, oh well. ^_^
anyway, yeah i hope everyone does have a good christmas or whatever they celebrate! spend time with friends and live it up XD
uh...wow i suddenly forgot what i was going to type...oh well.
my wonderful friends got me this cute plushie and dressed him up like lavi, my favorite d gray man character. we named him Kavi-kun, hes the same kind of plushie as my other one, Miki-chan (they just have different patterns) so we say Kavi is Miki's boyfriend now X3 they're so cute together ♥
heres a picture of them!
yes, i name my plushies and apprently give them boy/girlfriends....is that so weird? o.O
New comic :D
Dec 17, 2008
hey i actually drew a comic and scanned it in one day, new record! :D
anyway, yeah, new comic. still cant make it look all pretty 'cause my computer still isnt working but at least its something?
so follow this link here or just go to the comics tab.
this new comic is about the "contract" my manager-san and kami-kun thought of for me. the terms are i make a new comic every week or they snap me in the face and/or head with a rubber band...dont ask kami is the one who thought of it. but rubber bands hurt! o.O
(please ignore all the eraser marks and stuff on it, for some reason the scanner seems to make all that stand out even more o.O)
also my friend whom i occasionally call mittens (only when hes dressed as a kitty) made a site for a fanfiction/story thing he's writing. hes really good and a awesome person so anyone who's interested should check it out using this link.
again, comments comments comments! ;3
thanks!
Well this kinda sucks
Dec 14, 2008
well, for good news i got more page veiws today than i have been getting. so yay for that.
some bad news i totally lost at my librarys' drawing contest. though im not surprised, many other people much more talented than me entered beautiful peices, plus the peice i entered wasnt even new. i kept forgetting to draw something for the contest (even though i had a month)
anywho congrats to the winners and everyone who entered!
now, getting back on topic my computer decided that its going to stop working for me. well not literally, just photoshop still isnt working and sometimes wont even open. so i really am screwed until i get my new laptop. the memory is pratically full on my computer so theres really not much i can do. oh well, christmas is right around the corner!
im really sorry about not being able to take care of my site like i should be. parcastination + bad computer = epic failure!
just hang tight for a bit longer people ;3
Problems can leave now, k. thx. bye?
Dec 8,2008
yeah dont ask about the title its just a way my friends and i talk sometimes--ANYWHO not the point.
as my loving friend whom im not going to name -cough zetsu cough cough- (nickname by the way) pointed out, i havent updated....at all....in quite some time. i know this and i know if i were more popular this would effect me greatly. but be it people know me or not, i am having problems with my computer and i probably wont be able to put up anything new for...awhile. like probably after new years is when ill be...'effecient' again.
its simply because my computer sucks and photoshop isnt working. and the scanner hates me too. i actually can put things up but the quality will be so low its embarassing! (though my spelling and overall grammer in these things are not?)
so i hope people will understand and not just immediently brush me aside as nothing. its not exactly my fault im not filthy rich and cant afford the newest programs, computers or whatever. (though i really wish i could T^T)
on the bright side though i did draw this one picture oh hinata hyuuga from naruto in a really REALLY skimpy maid outfit (okay so people may have seen worse) originally it was just for a friend who loves hinata but it came out better than i thought so ill try posting that tomorrow. and....yeah i still havent done the character page. ill get to that....eventually. -3-
so sorry to anyone who actually does like my site, ill try to have this resovled as soon as possible.
Well.....
Dec 3, 2008
im kinda sad right now for a few reasons.
1: ive been kinda sick with this really bad cough. IT SUCKS!
2:i havent been getting many page veiws for the past week, like under ten. i had over 30 at one point! i was like "-gasp- is it really already getting noticed?!" but i guess i jinxed myself. T^T
3:that really awesome comic ive been wanting to put on here WONT UPLOAD! okay, ill admit it right now, im not a professional (actually it should be obvious) but it says i have to purchase some thing....about the site...or something like that to upload files bigger than 5mb. im not sure if i can do that and it might be a waste since im not getting many page veiws and absolutly no comments. (come on people! T^T) ill still try to get my awesomly awesome comic on here, ill just try a different method....but i will upload a new comic or two. it wont be colored and my damn photoshop wouldnt let me type in the text so i hope you guys can read my handwriting. (eh heh, sorry ^^;) also it may look kinda bad since its all in pencil and smudges etc etc...ill get better soon. when i get a new computer.
Sorry people -_-;
Nov 29, 2008
sorry people, i still havent uploaded that awesome comic yet. i finally scanned it today (sorry ive been lazy and spending a lot of time with someone >.>) but my photoshop is being a bitch!!! it wont let me type in the text so i have to rewrite in the word bubble and rescan it.
i hate my computer. but im getting a new one (a very nice new one) for christmas! -does happy dance- anyway hopefully ill have that up soon.
in the mean time i uploaded another older drawing, but still one i like a lot. kitsune suddenly became obssesed with alice in wonder land and role played as alice a lot. i tend to get obssesed with whatever she's into a lot too so i started role playing the cheshire cat. he is awesome.
Om Nom Turkey!
Nov 26, 2008
i hope everyone has a great thanksgiving! eat a lot of food, spend time with family, vomit a little. you know. the usual. im gonna fill myself with lotsa tradtional food from my culture! (om nom nom!)
also i apologize for not having the new comic up yet, still havent even scanned it yet. been kinda distracted, heh you know how it is, young girl gets to go out with a awesome guy and-- -cough cough- we wont go into detail about that. maybe not tomorrow but ill have the house all to myself on friday for some time so hopefully then.
happy turkey day everyone!!
New Comic....soon...
Nov 24, 2008
i just got done drawing a awesome comic tonight (its two pages though, i might have a hard time with my photoshop and getting it onto one page -_-) but i had some studying to do tonight so i wasnt able to scan it. but! i have a break starting wednesday so ill have plenty of time to scan, edit and maybe even draw some more comics and other random pictures! woo! ^_^
also, im gonna start dating these....update...things...on the homepage. just to keep everything more...organized? i have a feeling some people may get confused, it goes from newest to oldest....whatev, ill make it simple.
also i can not stress enough how much i want comments. please! it doesnt have to be much, just a quick thought about what you see on my website. if it just makes you giggle or amuses you, great! thats basically my main goal anyway ^^ if people are confused about how to leave comments (which would be pretty...odd.) you'll have to click on the comment tab on the side of the page then click where it says 1 comment (since thats all i have at the moment -.-"). its not the best comment system but its all ive got.
okay, besides that ill try updating once every week (we'll say saturday) ill try harder on making new comics every week! >:3.....no gurantees thought >.>
yay! i feel special!
thank you to anyone who has viewed my website, i got 13 page views, thats more than i expected so it makes me happy ^^(yeah i know, thats not much but its enough for me ;3)
i still havent made the character page, yeah ive been kind of preoccupied with some personal things and, of course, school. -_-" ill try doing that this week.
i put up a new comic. its a older comic though, the scanner isnt being nice to me so i havent been able to upload any of my much more recent stuff (which by the way i stopped inking things, i leave it in sketch form now). but its something.
okay, people will probably think the athiest penguine comic is really weird (...okay, it is.) ill be blunt. im not christian, im not catholic, im not jewish, im not any religion. i have no intrest in it at all. but my family is really christian and sometimes they make me mad, that comic is based off a christian magnet on our fridge, everytime i see it it just makes me wonder, if you had a giant fish on your head wouldnt you be freaking out instead of waiting for god to do something? anyway i dont mean to offend anyone...my comics are just to make people laugh...maybe not all people... >.>
please leave a comment for me! i would really like to know what total strangers think XDD
Still trying...
Okay im still trying to figure this whole "site thing" out. I actually got some page views! Yayz! (as long as me viewing it doesnt count) so im gonna try again on making a comment thingy.
apparently there are some things I cant do unless I actually purchase my site, im not sure if I can do that or if I'm even ready for that. It would be really nice if people could give me a kind word or something, let me know I'm getting better, progressing towards my goal.
Or if you think I'm a total failure, oh well, thats cool too. I want other peoples opinions.
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i got a comment thing going. not exactly what i wanted but it works, check it out and leave me your thoughts ^^
Not off to a good start...
okay, im trying to finally put some comics on this site after two weeks of pacrastination, but thats just not working out for me very well. i have to go through this annoying process because the scanner isnt hooked up to my personal computer, and it doesnt help when my already cruddy photoshop isnt working like i want it to. -.-" so since that didnt go as planned im just going to post some of my older comics and some random artwork.
by the way, havent figured out how to do a comment thing. so....if i get some veiws of the site ill think of something for people to maybe encourage me or even bash me. though bashing is not nice, its rude!
sometimes...
okay, now my loyal fans, go look at meh comics and other random drawings that dont make much sense to anyone but me!! X3
Party on the dark side...
So, here it is. My website. I'm a noob but oh well.
Anyway, im Neko and yes i happen to like drawing comics. So check out some of my work, ill add more as i make it and figure out this site thing. I'll even try to make a spot for comments so all my loving fans can tell me how great I am!
-cough cough-
Yeah, maybe not so much.
Special thanks to my awesome friend Kami-kun who got me started!
