So I lost a friend recently because I shocked her with my truthiness (its word, check with stephen colbert). Basically I explained that I'm very very very ruthlessly competitive. It's what's made me who I am, it's driven me to improve over the years, and it's been probably the foremost thought I've had my whole life... as long as I've had like, cognitive thoughts past eating and shitting as a child.

Here's a view into my petty mind. I don't apologize for who I am. I love me, and I am an awesome friend. If you think I'm nuts, guess what.... YOU'RE FUCKING RIGHT. It's not fun having normal friends =p. Anyone who's reading this, btw, you auto-qualify as being 'not normal'. Congrats!

If you're an artist and you are:

Higher in skill to me: Goddamnit, I could do that if I really applied myself! If I didn't like cake so much... and like watching House, and well.. chatting on AIM and doing nothing! If I DID things, ya know.. like when I was younger, you'd not be so high on that goddamn high horse, now would you!? Oh yeah, I've never spoken to you, or barely have, but still... You're a threat because you're better than me already. I live to dropkick you off your pedestal and take your shit! You are my biggest hurdle, and I only look forward to getting to your level of skill. Yes, I'm a little jealous, but really... it's all just a matter of time. Just prepare yourself for my army of awesome, I'm coming for you. You force me to rethink my artwork, critically analyze myself more and more, and strive to complete more projects, more artwork in a shorter period of time. You color, I color. You ink, I ink. I spent my life looking at the works of great artists, and spent too many years being told I was a shitty artist and a fraud/thief/copier to sit back and let you enjoy the limelight. I've surpassed a lot of my idols from my early days, and you're no different. I enjoy your artwork and admire it, but you're just another hurdle for me. Enjoy the spotlight, because I'm about to take the stage.

Equal in skill to me: I see you as a threat, an enemy, a rival, and a hurdle to surpass. I spend my time looking at your artwork and admiring its skill, and analyzing its flaws. I spend a majority of my time contemplating how to make my art better than yours, and so I work on different styles, different skill sets, and work with different media.

Slightly lesser in skill to me: You are threat, a possible rival in the future, and someone I need to watch and look out for. You are waiting for me to become weak and lazy (which comes with age), so that you may pounce and dethrone me. I strive to stay a few paces ahead of you at all times, but fear you will improve faster than I will. You drive me to keep drawing, practicing and struggling, always looking over my shoulder. Damn you.

Lesser in skill to me: You're not a threat right now, but you will be if you keep practicing. Stop it. I look at your artwork and see my humble beginnings, yet you are much better than I was. With more practice I may have to start watching you, and then I have more people to worry about =p. Stay away from my throne goddamnit! =p


Enjoy the mental piece of cake. BTW, the cake is a lie.

So someone bought me Freakazoid Season 2 on dvd about 2 months ago, off my amazon.com wishlist .... PROBLEM IS - I never got it!

Amazon.com wishlists don't let you see WHO bought your item, in order to contact them. Also you are not able to see if they purchased it new or used, or who they purchased it from. I just know WHEN.

So - whoever you are, o' gift giver, please contact the person you bought it from! Don't get ripped off on my account!

I hope you're reading this... who ever you are!!!!

So everyone who knows me (wow I start a lot of sentences off this way these days LOL), knows I'm a total lurker on these interwebs. They also know that I do what the 'cool kids', do (atleast online), so that I stay ever popular (lol, haha, yeah right!).

This does NOT include: reading/watching TWILIGHT. So no, not cool. Also, as for 'cool kids', i mean the over 20 crowd.... the 80's kids (like me) or older, who aren't AS retarded as kids under 20 (or under 18, who are so uncool they can't even legally buy my stuff HAAHHAAH).

ANYWAY... The topic for this journal is my MIRSONA.

See, furry people have fursonas. Non furry people have personas. I'm neither a furry, nor a person. LOL. So I need a MIRSONA.

What would it be? I love giraffe's, but giraffe's are also god's joke on the animal kingdom. Also, if I was drawn as a giraffe, I'd essentially be furry. I'm not an animal, I'm a MIR.

A MIRSONA can include various animal like body parts and/or appendages. A Mirsona is female, but envious of all phallic objects. So no, Mirsona's can't be herms, but go wild with strange ideas... Mir's are appreciative of funky tails, or cool tentacles, or like.. i dunno... cool shit!

I'm bored and can't sleep and I thought it was strange I had no online 'me', other than my words and my art. =p

What's my mirsona? I have no web presence without a mirsona!!!!!!!!!!!!!


If you skipped all the stupid shit above:

I need to create an avatar/character for myself. No not a fursona, or a persona, but a mirsona. Spout out ideas damnit... because I don't have any.

I LIKE PURPLE - GO!!!!

Ads are back bitches.

Power to the MIR.

Mir out. *beep*

Okay so, most of you know I live off my art, but did you know that a majority of people who see my ads on FA click them, and then proceed to give me small amounts of money in which I live off of?

So this goes pretty smoothly, as on 'bad weeks' in which regulars don't buy anything, new people buy stuff and I can afford to eat. Yay food.

The ads on FA have mysteriously vanished - and fuck the other ads, I'm concerned with MINE.

After their magical disappearance yesterday I have made.. a grand total of: 0$.

So for the week I've made about 25 bucks. I'm super fucked! Woot!

GREAT JOB FA! WHOEVER FUCKED IT UP IS DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apparently the ad server went down a few days ago, but they fixed it. Yeah, well if you fixed it, where are the fucking ads?! BLAR!!!!!!!!!!!!! I EAT YOUR FACE!

If you are concerned, investigate the missing ads like a sleuth. Yes. I said sleuth.

Mir is in panic mode. Mir is in panic mode. Mir now shutting down. >_< *beep*

So I'm working on SIS #1, part 2. It's coming along very nicely. =D

Hopefully finishing it for friday/saturday night. It's 9 pages, with some tentacle luvin, egg depositing, and some girl x girl. =D Still brain storming part 3, which will probably conclude issue 1.

I'm currently inking and shading pages. Stay tuned =D.

Six in Space Issue 1 Part 1 - SPACE PRONS.

Yay it's done, it's up... and its so cute <3

I did a pretty good job shading it too. =)

Go buy it if you want me to eat this week LOL.

http://www.smokingpen.com/shop.html

So I'm working on my Six In Space pron comic series (SIS for short), here's the synopsis for issue one, part one:

Our away team is sent to an F class planet to investigate an emergency response signal. Rei (the fox) and Alice (the bunny), are to search the caves with their transponder, tracking the signal's source. While inside, Alice is kidnapped in the darkness and Rei is left alone to fend for herself. Soon she too is captured by a mysterious being in the dark caverns.

I'll be releasing part one this week on my shop. Hoping for about 6 or 7 pages, similar to my Minotaur's Curse, with minor shading.

Keep in mind, it's sci fi adventure pron. It's fast paced because you don't watch a porno for the storyline, its just a cherry on top. So the comic sort of rushes through the non pron elements (which i am a little sad about, but whatever, its pron!), and takes its time with the boobies n fun stuff like that.

Originally issue 1 was going to be a remake of the original: Fox In Space, which is also on my shop... it's just a sketchy pron comic of Rei (who wasn't named yet), meeting up with alien bugs that fuck everything that walks. I decided I didn't want to repeat the exact same scenario, so it's a new comic with the same old twist - bad guys want to fuck you OH NOES!

So anyway. This is my update =p

So I made a few mini tutorials and put them on the tutorial section of my forum. Enjoy the first 4.

1) Proportions of hands and feet.
2) Boobies, breasts, and boobs.
3) Cawks (also know as dicks, cocks, and teh pennors)
4) Vags (also known as woohoos, vajayjays, vj's, and teh vaginas)

my forums are located at my website: http://www.smokingpen.com

Teh adult stuff, and all freebies are only viewable if you're a member. It requires you make a username and have an email. You also agree not to steal my artwork or be a douche. =p Hard rules to live by.

You need to be a forum member to view free stuffs. Joining is easy.

(This is an updated edit =p)

ALSO:

Looking for suggestions in the tutorial section, so feel free to tell me what kinda tutorials you'd like to see!

So on my list of things to do, before I take over teh world (a la Pinky & the Brain), I apparently need help frum...

VIEWERS LIKE YOU (haha, PBS).


My tutorial section of my forum currently includes: NOTHING

Go post there and tell me what you want me to make tutorials for, so I can start working on content for my how to draw book(s).

No idea is too crazy. Well... no tutorials on how to draw steaming piles of shit.

Adult content IS allowed (woo! a tutorial on cawks and vags would be AWESOME)

On another note, Who's going to Anime Boston this month? I'm going, with a backpack of cheap goodies. Once the shits gone, it's gone! No table for me this year, as I'd like to like.. eat and shop!

Holy shit, Miranda's going to be a published fucking author? Fuck her. lol.

Anyway. I've been playing with a how to draw book concept for way too long, considering I own every book at the bookstores, plus some!

It should be published late this summer through amazon.com and other awesome retailers (like Borders and Barnes & Noble).

I'm working on it in my 'free time', haha.

If you'd like to be included in my book, for instruction purposes, please head over to my forum. I have a tutorials section set up, so if you have questions or need help, feel free to post!

http://mirandaleigh.mangaweb.net/forum/index.php

Miranda can't type lol,

Anyway!

http://www.ustream.tv/mir_smokingpen
password: cowcow

Starting now, I'm doing warm ups before doodling with Soty in a dual ustream event lol. Both in OC.

Enjoy.

EDIT: The ustreaming has ended, but with the password you can view the whole session! enjoy!

So I'm currently rising at 5pm, and going to bed at 8am.

So I'm 5pm - 8am EST.

Yeah.... I don't see the sun anymore.


*SHRIEK!* I must be a VAMPIRE! lol.

Yeah.. let me go get my clamato juice and be angsty.

Who's ready for some poetry?

So it's 8am, bed time for me bitches!

NITE - MORNING!!!! =D *sleep deprived lol*

So I will take the raccoon off my 'cute animal' list.

I stepped outside tonight, around 9pm, to get a bite to eat.

Immediately upon stepping out the door onto my front steps I am face to face with the fattest and biggest raccoon I've ever fucking seen in my life. I'm talking like, the size of a medium sized dog. Like... fucking, HUGE. It was sharpening it's claws on the tree beside my car in the front yard.

We stare at one another, being only about 5 feet away, for a good 2 seconds. My stupid Mir brain's first thought: "Wow! I wish I had my camera right now!!!!" and then my second Mir thought: "Oh fuck, wild animal only a few feet away!"

He/she/it had thoughts too. I saw it in those fucking black eyes of DEATH. Raccoon thoughts: "She's not running away? FUCK HER! I'LL EAT HER GODDAMN FACE!!!!"

The raccoon hissed at me all puffed up (extra fucking huge), and then started to run at me with its cute little hippity hop run. I freaked out, grabbing the door handle. (which locked behind me! Oh FUCK!)

I just managed to shove my key in the lock and jump inside just as the little fucker got to where I'd been at on the stairs.

Once inside I threw my shit down, and with a renewed sense of stupidity, swung open the screen door and yelled at the little fucker! "Fuck you raccoon!!!!" It promptly swore at me, clearly in raccoonese, and told me it would get me another day. It then hippity hopped away, running across the street in the cutest most horrifyingly frightening way.

My heart was racing. Then I saw another little fucker run under my car! IT'S A GODDAMN INVASION!!!!!!! So I pressed my car fob, locking the car with a loud 'HONK!'. The little mini monster ran away, cute as all hell with it's little hippity hopping run, across the neighbor's yard.

So, moral of the story is: Raccoon's are out to get me, and they're surrounding my house as I type this. I may be dead soon. Also, I suck at morals and this isn't Aesop's fables!

New art request contest, #3 Monster Girls Madness!!!

Go tell me what to draw, make up a monster girl and I'll draw something funny or sexy or completely prontastic! Help keep my art flowing, because I'm in an awful art funk!!!

I also graduated today, YAY. =3

Here's the link to my forum, contest is open to members only (cuz of nudity and pron). Go to Freebies section, Art request #3 and read my very basic rules!

http://mirandaleigh.mangaweb.net/forum/index.php

I'm home now!

I graduate on Sunday!

If anyone wants to get me a graduation gift my wishlist is on my website http://www.smokingpen.com *WINK WINK*

So yeah, I like gifts! Even silly cheap ones!

=p Love is good too tho lol. =D!

So our little road trip to the Jersey Shore is ending, and we've packed our crap to return home tonight.

We had big dreams of driving south for another 45 minutes to get to a Sonic restaurant, because goddamnit there are NO Sonics in New England. There's only one in NJ, the 2nd is being built.

We won't be going though because we're tired and lazy.


I got up at 4am this morning after crashing to sleep at 9pm. LOL.

It's Tuesday already? Gosh, my sleep schedule is so retarded the days pass like minutes.

I took some great pics on the beach and the boardwalk here, and I look forward to sharing. Lovely sunsets as well. Everyone we've met in NJ is lovely, really nice and helpful and just awesome.

I wish people in RI weren't such douchebags.

The weather is great here in NJ, its a nice 80 something, breezy by the ocean and just cloudless. Cute neighborhoods over here.

We're returning to the Brick House, a crazy awesome tavern for lunch again today.

We wanted to go swimming but we just won't have time.

Fun trip.

So we FINALLY make it to the hotel at 330am today, Monday. B is falling asleep behind the wheel and I'm keeping her propped up with her lighting equipment.

On the ride there from our shitty state, we played "what's that smell!??!" in NJ on the turnpike.

"Smells like baby diapers"

"No way, oh god.. wtf is that?! Rotten ... candy apples?!"

"Broccoli????"


"Did we just pass a giant popcorn factory cuz I smell popcorn"


"Hot shit in salt water!"

"Waffles!!!"

Yeah, we're two exhausted chicks. I'd go to sleep but she needs to be up in an hour to get ready for work. So I keep watch, like an angel of DEATH. =p

I'll wake her up at 5 and then crash.


OH, I have internet access. Paying for it through the nose. Anyone ever heard of free? Cuz they charge here... alot.

So me and the B, my best friend irl, are hitting the road and going to NJ tomorrow! I know, sudden huh? She's got some photography gig she's gotta work, and she wants my company because I enrich people's lives. =3 I'm so enriching!

LOL

Going to be on the Jersey shore, wandering around with my camera.

I will bring my computer while we're gone, and be returning Tuesday night!


I'll be doing paypal account updates for my shop every time I come across a wireless internet signal!

KEEP IN MIND THERE WILL BE STORE DELAYS!!!! I'M IN A CAR DRIVING FOR 7 HRS!!!!

So, now you know! Will yu miss me????? =3

It's open bitches. =3 Yay, a werewolf RP!

Don't even bother joining if you are:
1) Under 18
2) Unable to form intelligent thoughts.
3) tpe lke thsi.
4) Want to cyber/yiff/smex
5) R dum.

Otherwise, join up and have fun! =D

Rules and Format, description and storyline are up. So just submit a post on the thread with your characters description and have fun!

http://mirandaleigh.mangaweb.net/forum/index.php/topic,91.0.html

So I'm putting together a werewolf RP for my forums, based on my comic universe.

Yays. Gives me an excuse to work more on my comics too lol. =3

So I picked up some frozen chocolate covered bananas at the market today while grocery shopping.


They're very fucking inappropriate and when I ate one I felt like a dirty whore.

Then I wanted a sandwich.


=3 My bf said I'm naughty LOL.

They taste ok, but I'm not a big fan of nanners. I should have just looked for fudsicles. <3 MY FAV.

So that's my journal update LOL. =3 Hope it brought a smile to your face!!!!

I'm not sad anymore. Weird funk.

My inks are looking better these days huh? =3

So I was super happy and bouncing around yesterday, and today I'm miserable. It's like someone deflated my balloon. =*******(

I can't even be amused or entertained by comedy or video games or toys. =*(

I be sad. Can't draw when I'm sad.



SAD.


Someone entertain me damnit.

=*(

So I made custom shoes and ordered a pair for myself. =3 Fish skeletons are awesome. =3 I'll be making more shoes soon!

I also took over a thousand pictures at an amazing zoo today, and then compiled a mixed animal calendar!

I focused mostly on taking photos of the tigers and lions at the zoo, so I'll probably make some products featuring their photos. They're gorgeous animals.

Here's the calendar. http://www.zazzle.com/a_wild_world_.....26167625858544

here's my shoes! http://www.zazzle.com/dead_fish_sho.....57508405052436