Um, yeah: here's a James Potter/Harry Potter. I was experimenting with contrasts - instead of focusing the light and dark, I only concentrated on the shadows; and made the light parts just blank pieces of extreme white. I thought it had a nice sort of different touch to it, and I might use the style later on.For noneedofcrepe- as a thank you for rec-ing my art.In other doodle news: the drawings I did, I ended up liking; so I'm going to watercolour them, if I have time later on.Expect them up fairly soon, bokkies.Oh, ages ago someone said something about putting my art on communities on LJ (might have been Cath?) - anyway, I was thinking I might, but I'm not sure, because some of the stuff it's mad - (mad = fantastic) - and it's a really daunting prospect...What do you guys think? Should I wait a while? Hopefully my stuff is improving, so maybe I'll get a bit better...

For those of you who had a peek atmiss_xdivine 's journal (aka. Kerry Kelly....That was a joke, bokkie...:D) - will know of the challenge and the sign that she did. I also explained and gloated about it last time, so I'll refrain from doing it again. ANYway, I did a quickie doodle for her in appreciation - and this is what I came up with.Look at the lame-ass poles! *snorts* I just scribbled them on in a fit of inspiration/stupidness.... Now you know why I never do bgrounds...Yes, I know it stinks. I did it in HB pencil thinking I was going to colour it - but ended up not having time to, so it had to stay like it was - a pencil drawing, but without 6B pencil (a usual, dark, soft drawing pencil. And HB is the normal, hard kind; that you used in junior school before pens.)On another note, I have recently become aware of the fact that apparently "diss" my art because I'm fishing for complements.Trust me, this is not the case. I truly dispise my art most of the time; not because I want you to complement me, or lie, or whatever: it's because I just do.Occassionaly, when I LIKE something I've done, I will say so. Remember that pencilled emo!Sirius? That'sthe closest to liking somethingof mine I've ever come - Ialmost did.And then I screwed it up. So, please, please don't think that I say Ihate it, so you'll feel compelled to say you like it: I say I hate it because I do.I do a drawing exam tomorrow. Wish me luck!Ps. Any way to find out who's added ME as a buddy on AIM, so I can add them? Sorry, I know I'm annoying you lot...Ha. XDPPs. Did you know I actually posted this without the picture? That's how tired I am...I had to go back and add it in...*facepalm*

'ello everyone!! *huggles you all*I recently got AIM (like 5 seconds ago, to be exact), and because I'm stranded out here in uncivalised Africa (no jokes) - I have no idea how it works, apart from the fact that it's an IM thing. So yeah. *blushes* If you have it, add me as a buddy? (knghtingayle1) If you like me, that is...I have no idea WHAT'S potting (going on), so I would appreciate some help and some friendly faces in that vein...In other news...SomeHOW, my art was on Mondays edition of HP Art Daily, here on livejournal!!! LIKE, OMG!!!I know!Mucho thanks to Hannah and Cath for the tip offs... I had to literally pick my jaw up off the floor in amazement. ^-^Already AIM is driving up my well ridden wall. FUCK FRICK, WHY WON'T YOU LET ME LOG IN???*coughs* Aha. I see...Hm. Ignore that.I wrote two exams this week - and it went fine! Yay!And now for the stranded shout outs: Laura (WeirdnotBoring) and Daisy (daisy_paradise) - Are you two still alive? I think Laura is writing exams, but...I dunno. You guys....*makes echo call* Hellllooooo?Working on a FULL MARAUDER PIC. And two birfday gifts. :PEDIT: Forgot to ask; how do I just add a header image to my journal, as it is already - without going and getting a whole new layout?

Hey you guys - This really has to be my last post in a long time, because Im going to fail my exams at this rate*moans*
Anyway, not sure that many of you guys know, but Im the soon to be illustrator (RAH RAH!) of a fic on LJ that weirdnotboring, fanoflost, andtimetraveled are starting; based on the marauder era of course. Anyway, this is going to be part of the header for the community were starting, and because Im a whore, the first bit of Geronimo art Ive done is Sirius.

Another boring blerrie* Sunday. The sun is up and shining (in the middle of winter), and I'm making use of this beautiful rare occurance (because here, in Africa, the sun never shines..) by spending my afternoon in front of Bob, my computer, attempting to type out art theory notes.Blah.(* - South African word, meaning 'bloody'. )In other news, I have art for you.
Character(s): James Potter.Medium: watercolourNotes: I made use of MY BRAIN. No references were used, whatsoever, just my revoltingly limited knowledge of the human body. Done whilst listening to To Eagles of Death Metal, a band that is seriously pimping.Iwould say it was a doodle, but its in watercolour, so I cant: but I will say I painted it straight on without doing anything in pencil outlines first. Its not finished, as I got bored with the desk, and just swished my brush around, drew a line, and went: There. (HA, now I cropped it so you can't see!)Character(s): Sirius BlackMedium: PencilNotes: Not finished, but it's never going to be, so I'm posting it. Scene is actually from canon, where Sirius goes to Godrics Hollow to find Lily and James dead, with their house in ruins. As I said, it's unfinished.*[* read: I fucked him up]And, as usual, all art is tagged under: fanart.

It's proving to be very hard, this computer hiatus. *debates whether to log off* Nah, I'll quickly write something. Yesterday, at school, I arrived late. Now, this is something I do frequently, which is why I usually spend my Friday afternoons in DT - but yesterday, coming late made me rather upset. Yesterday, I was supposed to go and see a PICASSO EXIBITION. AND I MISSED THE BUS. You see, all of you people living in Britain will inevitably go to London sometimes, and will end up going to the Tate Modern, National Gallery or [enter name of Museum Of Art here]. Except here, in South Africa, we don't have these luxeries. So when PICASSO ART is flown down for an exibition, and I miss the school outing, and have to go write a bio test instead, I get depressed. *moans* On another (funnier) note; we watched a (rather impressive) British video on Human Reproduction, that was done rather well, but made me cross my legs and wince along with the rest of the class everytime someone gave birth. (Suprisingly, this happened alot during the course). Anyway, the only dodgy part of the thing (aside birth, nudity, and saggy boobs) was the presenter: this disgusting hairy man, with huge glasses and a handlebar moustache. I couldn't help laughing at the beginning when the camera zoomed in on him, whilst he was looking in a microscope at something. He looks up, and goes "This is my sperm." EWWWWWW. Also, we got showed what a "real erection looks like". I'm sorry, but what 16 year old doesn't know?

I shall now write the same thing I've written all over the place:I have decided to commit suicide.
In other words, I have begun revision for my upcoming exams, and am not allowing myself to get distracted.
(This sounds much cooler than saying my parents are forbading me to go anywhere near the PC.)
Just wanted to let you know that due to exams, crazy fathers, and the fact that everyone has suddenly realised I've been slacking this entire school year; I'm on an indefnite computer hiatus, and you might not see me in a while. (Try 2 June, end of exams.)I'll probably sneek my way back on sometime during this period of slavery, but nothing can be confirmed of yet, and this is just to let you know that I haven't died yet - just studying. Which is basically the same thing, but anyway.
If you do recieve a mail/ lj comment/ ffnet pm / other communication device from me; but then do not recieve a reply to your reply, it's not because I hate you, it's because my teachers hate me.In other news:- My friend, and the round robin's beta,Michelle, has just gotten an LJ. I send you all to stalk and friend! She beta's! And writes. *oohs* polka_dots1331- I still haven't replied to the build up of emails and comments in my inbox - if you haven't recieved a reply from me, I'm really, really really sorry - i just haven't had the time .I will try and work through them the mintute I get a free second (and the parental unit look away)- To the Geronimo crowd: this hiatus (am I spelling this right?) Does not mean I will not draw for you: but I need to references to start off with. If you can find any potential pics, just send me a mail. I'm planning to check it at least once a week, just to see whats happening.
All the best to all of you for the coming weeks, and I hope that this awful life I'm living ends soon. [/end emo moment]

OMG. Like how cool is this?www.pandora.comIt's called the "Music Genome Project". Basically, you type in a music artist or song you like, and then using some fancy-smancy technology, this thing finds MORE music you should like, according to the vocal tendancies or beats or something (I dunno), in the song.*Manic grin*Oh, yeah, and they play the songs that you should like FOR you, so you don't have to go and download it and then realise it sucks. And you can make an account and rate the songs they play and blah blah blah.Aaaand...I need your help. I'm busy doing a Sirius picture (yes, I hear you sigh, another one), but I'm trying desperatly to get the man to look right. Do you lot imagine his hair like:1. Celestial Soda Pop draws it? (side parting, sleek and smooth)2. Marta / Seviet draws it? (middle parting, messier, falling into eyes)3. Mlle. Artiste draws it?(middle parting, more styled, falling into eyes)[left to right]Remember folks, we are looking at just the style of their hair.Help would be appreciated!

Well, back to school tomorrow. ::cue groan::And I'm sitting here with my friend Kim trying to catch up with a whole lot of art research we haven't done, and moaning about the fact that we're gonna have to get up at half six tomorrow morning. *sighs*Anyway, this post was just to tell all of you that I'm really, really, REALLY sorry about not replying to comments and things over the last week: although it's been holidays I've been really busy (I hate holiday projects), and I haven't left you all, and my heart is still filled with love (K, Laura-kie? *puppy eyes*).I will get round to replying to all the comments & postssoon, and if you get a really delayed, random reply from me, this is why. ;D All my love to all of you, and the best for the coming week, whether it'svacation or non-vacation for you.But the Easter weekend is coming up, right, so YES: CHOCOLATE and NO: SCHOOL!

I'm a mommy! My friend Emma found a two week old kitten outside her holiday house, took it home, but then wasn't allowed to keep it, as they have just got two kittens. So poor Emma can't take the lil tyke....But I can!!!!!It's SO teeny tiny, and it fits right into the palm of my hand, and it's brown and black and white - sort of tortoise shell-y. We don't know yet whether it's a boy or girl, though...My mom and dad are going on this fancy-smancy luxury train thing for the weekend, so I can only get it next week, but still!AW!AND my mom says it's officially MY cat - not my horrid brother's, so I can choose the name! AND I'M ALLOWED TO NAME IT AFTER SOMETHING IN THE POTTERVERSE!!! COME ON PEOPLE! NAMES!! (please.)Busy finishing fanart. Will post it later. : DOh, and does anyone know a site, sorta like Photobucket or ImageShack that can host music too? Or other files, like videos?? Cause I found the WEIRDEST SONG concerning the Shoebox project. *nods* It's very strange.

YES! We FINALLY updated the Round Robin!WHOO!http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2638244/5/

Well.Today about 5 zillion Harry Potter references jumped at me, claws launched...First of all, I walked into English late, as usual, so I satin a different desk to what I usually do (next to Emma - at the back, in front of window), and there, scrawled in white out across the wooden crevices, was the word "Papooses".More disconcertingly, was the fact that someone had written next to it, "Hello."This I found very, very weird, as i wasn't aware that there was another Harry Potter fanfiction reader in my COUNTRY, let alone school...And I know it isn't a made up word, but still. "Papoose"? That's pretty random. Even for my school.Second very strange Harry Potter reference was that I picked up a old "Bliss" magazine that I found on top of the lockers, and started paging through it...First strange thing was that it was British, and second strange thing was that it was 3-4 years old. The last strange thing was that I was flicking through it, and it opened at a section called "Bliss Boys"...something about "fresh faces" and modelhotties that have just been discovered...Names such as "Michael Bordern" (hot), Joseph Lieu (HOT), and...Robert Thomas Pattison?????!!WHAT??? HOT!!!My gum almost fell out of my mouth, I was so suprised. There Robert Pattison was, in all his TOPLESS GLORY, bad hairness (brunette?? SPIKEY??), and in A BLISS MAGAZINE??Weird day, that's all I have to say.

My second post in one day, I know, but I just had this thought: on the moon, what happens to boobs? To they rise higher than normal? And in that case, what happens to, um, manly parcels? Do they, er, float? MAN HUNT IS ON! (Read post below if you're confuzzled) I'm feeling better, by the way. Draco/Ginny fic is helping. (Yes, I KNOW I'm supposed to be finishing SBP..I just started this one and I had to finish...It's bril, btw, http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/jade_and_sarea_okelani/IYOK01.html)EDIT: I fixed the link. :D Sorry about that.

Busy eating yummy minty chocolate...mmmm... Come to the conclusion that life is all one very random occurrence. For some strange reason, I know the maintainer/founder/webmaster of the biggest Snoop Dogg fansite on the net. I figured this out when I was emailing my contacts about my new gmail address (Yay! Thanks backdrop!), and remembered who this guy actually was. I know him by name, and he emails me fairly often. "How?" You might ask. "How did I meet this young fellow?" My answer is simply: "No idea." All I know is that I really DISLIKE Snoop Dogg, and he hasn't read Harry Potter. Our fandoms don't cross. I have no idea how we met. Anyway, I attempted to paint with watercolours again today. It turned into one big, gloopy mess. My muse has died! Woe! Woe is me!I'm getting braces tomorow, or "train tracks", as calls them.Cue unenthusiastic whoo.This is the last time my teeth will be smooth and metal-free for two years.That isquite a frightening thought.....Does it inhibit, um, tongue movements? - For anyone that has braces...Just wondering...

I was quite suprised to realise that not many people who comment on myLJ know me by name, (my fault, probably) or know who I am, really. So...Hi!I'm Allie. I'm 16. I'm from South Africa. I write and draw a lot of HP related things, and I'm obbessive. How're you doing?I said I'd draw Sirius Black, so here the brother is. *laughs* Um, yeah. Not much to say about this one apart from the fact that it's in pencil, and more of a doodle-ly piccie than anything else. I know he looks rather unlike Sirius "should" look, except I've always imagined him this way: smoking, 80's armband and dog collar, low slung jeans and well defined arms...mmmm...But yeah. Sorry if you don't like the smoking bit - it's just he's always stuck that way in my mind - a grunge rock rebel. All of 20 years old. Anyway, here's the man himself as asked by mariafiona orginally, and then timetraveled. You guys probably don't even remember asking for it. Harhar!

Oh, to clear up a lil confusion - that pic on comments a while ago of Sirius on his bike ...It wasn't done by me, but by Celestial SodaPop, a FANTASTIC fanartist, who I can onlydream to be like...*dreams*...Yeah.Next up:- MPP (minus the Wormtail) playing in the snow (Requested)- James. On his broom. (Requested)- Luna. Or Tonks. (Artists idea. Rah rah! Maybe a scene from HBP. *smirks*)I've forgotten, but who recommended the Shoebox project to me?I LOVE YOU!I was the only girl in detention today. Which was fine...fine by me...*cackles the cackle of a pervert*HP drawings are always tagged under fanart.

Oh good lord...My bloody email program is driving up my already well-driven wall. First the server NEVER seems to work. Then, justwhen I have this good working system for me,where I flag all the messages I haven't replied to,so I can remember to write back, that fails too.So usually I sort the mail in my inbox so that all the flagged stuff is at the top, with that lil button - that way I get all the replying out of the way first.Well, it turns out I only THOUGHT it was like that.It actually wasn't.So today, when by chance I scrolled down too far in Outlook, I saw about a zillion mails I hadn't replied too! Including, I'm afraid, about a 100 LJ posts and comments. If, by any chance, you get a really random, long overdue reply from me now, I apologise, but it's not my fault, it's fcuking Microsoft's. *takes deep breath* Rant isover now. Oh, good news for any insane person who likes my art: I've FINALLY handed in my school art prac which I kept procrastinating, so now I can get down to drawing my next request (Sirius) without feeling perpetually guilty about not doing my real art. Kept making random Harry Potter comparisons to real life today. Freaked a lot of people out, because I have my HP obsession really under wraps usually - no one really knows until they diss Harry Potter and I attack them get huffy..This includes my history teacher, when he happened to mention that he almost fell asleep during the 4th movie. I think he really regretted saying that. Well, Mr. Robinson, you WERE cool.WERE being past tense. Humph. He actually is very cool though. He never yells for me being late for class, which is like everyday, and he always laughs at my jokes. Which is a sure way to win me over. And he's really young too, like just 25 or something. If he got married there would be a Mrs. Robinson...*burst into peals of laughter* I've reached the highest of high of the lame quotient. Got my passport yesterday. Well, I applied for it, at any rate, at home affairs...Why the hell are the colour schemes at those places so terrible?? Green, vomit yellow and maroon....Ewwww....I had a nice conversation with the fingerprint man, who grabbed my fingers and plonked them on this ink tray. I told him it must be horrible having to do this the whole day. He laughed and agreed. He was like the only nice person there. Everyone else just looked morbid.

Raharahra - it's the weekend bay-bie!!! Tonight I'm going "to stay at my friend Juliette's house to paint and watch movies". That's the parental unit version anyway. I'm going to go to a weird ass punk/ska gig thing, and meeting up with Lance and his friend Darryn...yay! Only problem is I always get caught,so if I don't make another post for a while, it's because my parents have foiled my plans and have killed me. Wish me luck. I also spent last night doodling when I should have been working on my school art prac. So today I have THREE new Harry Poo-tter drawings for you papooses- although, beware: my pencil skills suck even MORE arse than my watercolour skills do, so proceed with caution. First up, we have the gift art. The lurvely Remus Lupin/Moony, (he has two identities, just like me) with scars and all. If you can't read what I wrote next to it: lucky you. I was feeling poetic and decided to scribble bad writing next to a bad drawing. My Muh-oony is for the lovely "Weird Not Boring" aka Laura-kins. :D Bout time, too.

Then we have a doodle of one of my favourite girly girls in the HP world (not that there are that many); Ms. Fleur Delacour, who doesn't look that gorgeous here, I know, but thats how I imagine her, weirdly enough. Notice the oh-so-perfect beauty spot under her eye. And yes, both those girls are her. I was going to merge three sketches together but then I got bored and only did two.

And last, but not least, is the bitch of the Poo-tter world, the murderess, the one, *the* only, Bellatrix Black. She's crying. I dunno why. It's only a doodle.

Have any of you ever watched the TV series, "Prison Break"? If not, shame on you.That Michael Scofield....*drools*...I'd break into that Prison just to hang a sheet and get busy to have a nice chat. I even made an avvie so I can perve over him whenever I'm on LJ too, not just on Tuesday nights.Please shower Cath with love, it sounds like shes feeling blue.Oh, and about the other art that you lovely people requested: I couldn't remember what you wanted or how you wanted it done, and I'm too lazy to go and sift through the comments...Don't you wanna just tell me what you'd like again? *puppy eyes* I think I was supposed to draw Sirius next, but I can't remember these things. I'm 16 and I'm already going senile.Curse you, you awkless scum!(That's a misquote from Finding Nemo. I dunno what "awkless" means. I think I just heard wrong. So now I'm deaf too. Great.)

AMANDLA!! Very proud of my beautiful country and the amazingly talented people it produces - a South African film, Tstosi, won Best Foreign Language Film on the Oscars last night - I got all teary eyed when the director person went up. So very, very proud and patriotic right now! This makes two Oscars for SA in the last two years...Charlize Theron last year (yes, she's South African) and Tstosi this year...It's amazing it is. 12 years into democracy, and we're winning Oscars. I'm proud. VIVA! It was 42'c here today. I almost died of overheating, and all sport at school was canceled, which is a feat in itself.I also took a whole lot of photographs of my cousin, Ruby, and they all turned out quite well, I think. One I made into a avatar. It's that black and white one in the corner - looky.

The last past week has been rather tiring for poor old me. The slacker of school work that's buried deep inside my chest has burst out again, in full form, and I've now got a mountain of school work to catch up, all of which I won't, and instead I'll sit stressing about it all. My art prac is also due in a week, and I'm frightened. *shivers*Don't you hate it when friends stay longer at your house than you'd like them too? It's not like I'm being rude, or anything, but there gets a point where you sorta want to nudge them out the door and then sigh with relief. After a weekend of my friends being everywhere , I'm rather glad to be solitary right now. Oooh, I actually had a very lovely moment just now: my dad used to be a music reviewer, so we used to get free CDs, but there were so many, we shoved them in boxes in the garage. Anyway, I managed to fish a few boxes out, and found a couple of 100 really awesome albums, mostly of the 90s, but some others.I'm getting really into the Rolling Stones.Is this a bad thing?Anyway, it was cool. We've got the entire Pink Floyd collection too. That was a nice find.Update on crush: almost over it.Update on crush + friend: almost getting it together.Update on art: it'll be up by Tuesday. I swear.

I decided to put up a Top 5Rec list of all my favourite Potterphila - if you're ever looking for good HP art / fanfiction, these are highly recommended!Before I say anything, let me just tell you this: I read anything. If it's under HP classification, I'll read it. I have my preferences, like everyone does, but I'm not one to saythat I won't even give it a chance. Most of the fics I tested I'veenjoyed rather than having exited out in revulsion.Operative word being most.This is not to say that I'll enjoy, say, PWP (Porn Without Plot), but I try everything once. And usually I end up falling across something I really love. So, that being said:FANFICTION AUTHORS:In no particular order.Procrastinator_startin2moro - [Fanfiction.Net] For pure hilarity. But don't we all know it. http://www.fanfiction.net/u/692484/Weird Not Boring - [Fanfiction.Net] Laughter. . Sweetness. Nuff said.http://www.fanfiction.net/u/715329/Sarea Okelani - [Too many archives to mention. Most are at Fire and Ice though: dracoandginny.com] For writing my OTP, Draco and Ginny. Her stories are gorgeous -some are NC-17, though, and when they say 'adult' they mean 'adult'. But a yummier writer you're pushed to find. A sort of superstar. Try "Kissing Booth" and "Balm". And "Winter Retreat." And - ok, try them all. http://www.dracoandginny.com/viewuser.php?uid=24Daisy Pennifold - [Fanfiction.Net] One of the only American fanfiction writers I've ever found that can do Briticisms they way they're meant to be done. Aaaand she's in our Round Robin. *waves flag* A James/ Lily princess. Check her out. She's fun-ee too.Try the Pendragon Wager. http://www.fanfiction.net/u/605757/Cassandra Claire - [Fiction Alley and Snoogle.]Writesthe bestestchaptered stories based on Draco, ever. Has written a triology.If you likeDraco/Hermione,or just Draco...Goes a bit AU, but it's almost as good as reality. Better, probably. I haven't finished reading it all yet, but the two chaptered ones I have read are brilliant. And long, like Cath's. http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/cassandra_claire/