Finally!  I got some actual art done!  It's been one hell of a semester I tell ya.

Worked on this picture for my new furaffinity account, which I should be moving to in the next couple of days.  xD

The angles and the facial anatomy are a little off, but I wanted to give off an exaggerated, silly yet somewhat creepy vibe to it.  

Just finished watching Fight Club.

Yay! I finally got my refsheet done!  Here's the updated Tanner for 2014!  Complete with vape. xP

Grand Theft Auto 5  

Very nice work, Pangea!  You do a great job with colored pencils.  I'm sure he'll definitely like this.  ^..^

Thank you!  The t-shirt was an intentional easter egg I've recently started using.  Instead of a plain white t-shirt, I decided to use it as a canvas to put my sona's thoughts on.  

Many topics about poor Judith have shown up on this site before.  I've even posted one myself, a long long time ago.  It's one of the reasons why I hold the first Land Before Time close to my heart while all of the sequels have faded from my memory.  The last of this wonderful girl's words, immortalized in two of Bluth's most famous movies.  The emotions that are invoked when hearing her voice in LBT and All Dogs Go To Heaven are even stronger, and at the same time more depressing when thinking that after both of these movies she would never star in another film again.  To think that no character would ever be graced with such a sweet and innocent voice again.

Judith Barsi, I will always remember you for who you were and who you could have become.  You were a bright star who shined in the minds of many of us in our childhoods.  As for Mr. Jozsef Barsi?  May your pathetic, intoxicated, inhuman waste of tissue and neurons shamefully stain the ground you were dumped in.

Since this regards other languages, not just Russian, I think I'll make a few comparisons regarding English and Japanese.

Japanese is often a very difficult language for English speakers, or Westerners in general to grasp.  Funny thing is most Japanese people would say the same about learning English.  The Japanese alphabets, in some respects, are much easier and are less arbitrary than the English alphabet.  For the most part, the characters in the phonetic alphabets Hiragana and Katakana are much more straight forward.  Almost every character sounds the same when forming a word or a sentence, and I stress almost.  Because there are three, maybe four exceptions.  One is the hiragana particle "は" which is often pronounced as "ha" but as a subject particle it is pronounced "wa."  The particle を or "wo" in romaji, which is a particle defining the use of an object is often pronounced as "o."  Regarding non-particle characters, there is "す" or "su."  When put at the end of a conjugation of a verb in polite form, or pronouncing the word "desu" at normal speed, the u is silent, so it would sound like "des".  し or "shi" is sometimes subject to a silent vowel.  When using a past tense conjugation with a verb such as "arimashita" the i is silent, so at normal speed it would sound like "arimashta".  Other then that, much of their phonetic alphabets are pretty straight-forward.

Kanji, or the 2000 or so Chinese characters most commonly used in Japanese are subject to many different forms of pronunciation. Often, the pronunciations change depending on whether the kanji is a stand-alone word, a compound word of multiple kanji, or if it's a transitive or intransitive verb.  Much of this differentiating is solid memorization so it can be head-explodingly difficult and often turns off most people learning Japanese by the time they reach intermediate level.

Another turn-off for most is 敬語, "Keigo" or honorific speech.  This is another part of the language with no secret work-around.  Pretty much the equivalent of repeatedly bashing your head against a brick wall.  You literally have to tear down everything you learned about the Japanese language to learn Keigo.  Basically, there is the honorific form when talking about a superior, and humble form when you are talking about yourself, in which you refer to yourself of a lower status.  It is confusing as hell, and if you want to get a job in Japan you better learn Keigo pretty darn quick.

How does Japanese compare to English?  Well, it's both really easy and really difficult in some regards.  English and Japanese have about the same amount of exceptions, though with English, the exceptions are more alphabetical.  While the exceptions in Japanese tend to be more grammatical.  Japanese has more straight-forward conjugations, but the amount of situation-specific particles that make up grammar and sentence structure can really make one's head spin.  

Another quick comparison to make is the basic sentence structure of both languages.  English: Subject-Verb-Object  Japanese: Subject-Object-Verb.

I would go in to how there are also gender specific words, but I don't have a lot of time.  I'm not gender as it is known in languages like German either.  I'm talking about literal gender specific words that only boys or girls can say.

Whew...  I could go on and on talking about the workings of the Japanese language and how it differs from most Western languages, but if I did that it would take about six months.  xD

Figured I'd start posting some of my art up here.  I've been working on a style that's less anime/manga-like in favor of a more stylized appearance.  I'm drawing mostly from Don Bluth, given how if it weren't for his movies I wouldn't be a furry in the first place. xD

Here is my most recent refsheet of my fursona.  I'm still trying to get a few things down, and I've improved on my new style a bit since I started.  I'm especially enjoying drawing humans in this new style of mine.  But for now, here is my fursona's refsheet.

Background photo taken in Kumamoto Japan by yours truly.  

They should probably do a film version of the Jurassic Park: Trespasser PC game. Then it would no doubt be a hit.

I'd totally go see that, because there's no doubt we have the technology to give people rubbery ten-foot-long right arms.