I finally got the first two chapters up of "Visiting Homeland" (I'm sorry, I just can't ever decide whether to put my titles in quotations or italics), and the response has been... a bit underwhelming. I know I'm not exactly the most popular writer in the FMA archives (the amount of followers for some of the other authors is crazy, but most of the time they really deserve it; I look up to some of them and wish I could write as well as they do), but I know I had a few people that said they wanted the sequel. When I get on tomorrow, I'm hoping there's a few more reviews.
I'm not a review hog (and I can't really be one anyways since I'm not that popular) but I just want to know people actually are reading my stuff, you know? At least I'm not like this one author whose story I read last week who after every chapter made a big deal about wanting reviews, which I guess worked since they actually had over 300. Even though I actually did want to compliment them on originality, I didn't because the ANs ticked me off. I think people deserve reviews, especially when they're new to the site, but stuff like requiring reviews for the next chapter or just flat-out pleading for reviews is not cool and annoying.
I'd wanted to draw the sequel's cover pic on the same paper and same style and stuff as the first so it linked the two together more, but I ran into a problem. I'd already told my mom I wanted to keep my sketchbook. But, I guess she ran out of space or forgot or misunderstood... Point is, when I asked her if she knew where it was, she was like "Oh... Uh.... We might need to get you a new one." Yup. If we're on the same page, she threw out my sketchbook back at Mary's house. *deep sigh* At least I've already posted the pics of the good drawings in there on here. Otherwise, I'm a little sad I don't have that self-portrait I had to do in 8th grade in the sketchbook, cuz I thought it was cute and creative. It wasn't the most professional, but still cute. (I'd been having trouble drawing my eyebrows even, I believe, so I decided to just raise one higher than the other on purpose, and then to make sure my teacher knew it was on purpose, I drew my mouth into fish lips. Wait, maybe it was the lips then the eyebrows... Whatever. Basically, my portrait was of me making a silly face.)
Since I didn't have that, and I was pretty sure the only paper I'd find on short notice was lined paper... I used a sticky-note.
If that wasn't bad enough, I actually had to redo it a few times, unlike for "Family History". I used the first sticky-note to just rough sketch the boys and make sure I would scale them correctly so I wouldn't use too much space on the note, then the second for the actual picture. I managed to get them down decent enough, but then my pen freaked out when I tried to draw Rillie, a new character. The first two Rillies were just plain creepy... *shiver* I managed to get the third Rillie adequate enough. I then cut her sticky-note and the one with the boys and put them together before quickly drawing Lily on the bottom (and I didn't realize until later I could've made look better, or at least her arm) and used my mom's phone to email the picture to myself. *ugh* This was more frustrating this time around, let me tell you.
At least on the computer I could edit it so it had the same color as the FH pic (though I resaved more times than I would've liked) and eventually got it to the point where I was willing to put it online and put up the first chapter.
This is why I generally don't brag about my art skills. Most of the time, they're nonexistent.
Ze original photograph is above, the final version is below.
What I wanted to show in the picture was... Imagine that line to be the Gate, so the bottom is Earth and the top is the parallel world. Therefore, Lily is like "Come back, guys!" even though they're on the other side and can't hear her, obviously. But to screw around with Rillie, I made it look like she heard Lily and is like "Who said that?" In the actual story she can't, though, since telepathy doesn't work, no matter how much Ed wishes it did.
Speaking of Amestris, which is like Germany, earlier today my dad was trying to convince me to go to college in Germany. I highly doubt I actually will, even if I did two years of German classes in high school, but the fact that the school there is free is pretty cool. Rillie is actually a German name, because I looked up German names for new characters in VH. Her brother is Milo, but he's really difficult to draw right for some reason. After the second or third attempt I officially gave up. I forgot until a few days ago that there's a country by Amestris called Milos, so... Oops. Oh well, the name fits too well for me, so I'm not changing it.
This morning, upon waking up, I managed to write a whole song in... about 45 minutes. I was gonna put it here, but then realized it was actually a little lame, haha.
Last thing- we all ended up with the flu, though it's not as bad for me as for my parents, especially my poor dad who didn't go to work for most of the week.
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