do you think I charge....

too lil?

just right?

too much?

MY PRICES>>>

http://www.furaffinity.net/commissions/rudragon/

tell me what you think?

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PS commissions will be open soon , just getting some self project out of the way.

me and my friend  bitcoon are working on a 3D Ru

a test and some thing funny, hope to put out more work like this soon.

( NOTE: its a lil test so were still fixing things up)


https://youtu.be/c1v3avYq7Y8





and keep up the 4000 comment free commission going>>>

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5446926/

ok some of you probaly remeber that i try to brake FA with comments last time.
and made it to about 1500 comments i think, back then then it was just a place to wright what evers in reason.
not there is a lil modeavation, first pep to be the 4000 comment will get a free 65$ commission.
if you dont win dont were will have 2 mor2 wave

8000 comment.

and 100000 comment.

_____________________________________________________

>>>>>RULE.0 to help me out put what comment # you are, ESP: #349 then your comment. <<<<<<

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RULES

1. NO DRAMA OR THE FA DRAMA, sex, race, politics, or diss on pep, i want every one on here happy, if it dose go bad just drop it or lose the chance to win.

2. NO OUT LINK, exsept FA,DA, Weasyl, sofurry, and youtube.

3. ad least one sentence to enter to win and no big gaps and filling up room on the page.

4. if you like tell your friends to join. the more the merrier.

on this Journal you can ask you own questions. clean if you can.

ill star of with 2 questions.

how you became a FURRY?

and

what you like to see ru do, you have any pic idea for em?



HOW ILL FIND OUT THE WINNER>>>>

ONE more thing it will be a BIG help if you say the you are the winner of 4000, 8000 or 10000 so PLZ look at were its at when you post.
if there is more then one saying that they win ill look at the one who posted first.

if not ill look throw on my history and find out the hard way.


ill do my best to pic the winners,


WINNER

of

4000.

8000.

10000.

ok yah were back to doing commissions again, and got to do almost every thing in my kinda some what brake.
I was working on the RU kiss animation and only got 2 cuts don't out of like 12. hope next time I can finish it.

ok on to the commissions, ok ... so here is the rules and stuff.

RULE 0. you MUST HAVE PAYPAL to get a commission.

first of all PLZ~~~~~ know what you want me to do then just grabbing it and having no idea what you want, have the refs (clan ref would be nice if you can) ready descriptions of what there doing and type of commission like , sketch line work, color, paint so on. and the price your going for.

2. PLZ have the money ready to go, and ad least have for 31 days with it not going any were, I know things pop up just make sure you can pay I had some pep go for commission and not be abele to pay for it, I really don't want to mark any one a bad apple for commission. if you have to cancel PLZ say it fast. I work fast ( most of the time) and have the sketch and things ready to go. so PLZ notify me if this is the case to cancel.

3. ill not you first to start the commission it will not you the day or next day for your info.

4. I do not take prepay, unless I see the page who send is new or has no work on it. (just a precaution to not get ripped off)

5. I can not refund you if I finish your pic, (I can try to fix it but can to much after)

as for the price goes its the regular price for the peps and half to add any more (ESP: 50=25= 75)
and BG are $50 or $100 if you add it on.

the process goes. NOTE info, more notes if needed, sketch and preview of commission free to the commissioner. get the ok and finish it. send a small low rez preview. commissioner sends the funds and I post.


AND HERE IS MY PRICES>>>


http://www.furaffinity.net/commissions/rudragon/




I think that is every thing, may add more if I forgot.

and last im only taking 5 slots at a time so be ready to grab one.

1.  Akukun

2.  Vesryn

3.  RKSparkster

4.  Nekrozs

5.  Gawayne

happy birthday Ru !!!!!

RU is 3! (in net years)


done eat to much waffy Ru~


(picture will fallow in like 12 hrs)


NOTE: this is not my RL b-day, it is when I made Ru up.

https://youtu.be/nXUOCNYRIuQ



also what is happening in 4 day? the 17th ( I hope to be back then, im really trying to get things done before....
you know, see you then)

iv said in the past that I like to make a Ru plushie and do a kickstarter if things go well. I been hearing a lot of wanting a Ru plush but first I need to make a prototype, so im looking for any fursiut and plushie maker BUT I am vary picky on what the looks like I want it to be one of the best looking plushies out there I want it to look as close as what I draw, I did look at some manufactures and was not to impressed on what the have done being to simplified or looking really odd. if this dose work, the price of a plushie will be probably in the $50 to $100s to buy, so im also planning on making a mini on to. for ones who cant spend a lot. if it this goes well ill have made a Mako and Ru'z shark to add to the collation, the reaction on the Journal of help and wanting will help me decide if ill go throw with this.

so PLz leave a comment saying if you want it,.... or not :p


ill do my best I can to make this happen.


side note: ill start up commissions soon just need to finish some stuff up ILL PUT A "Journal" UP WHEN IM OPEN.

no more notes to me asking >x< sooooo much.

ok this is want im going to do for this year,
so ill be starting up commissions and be posting vary lil of my random work, ill be trying to get about 5 or 10 (maybe more) commissions a month. so my daily pic will stop for now.

well cant wait to start drawing for you pep^^


and one last thing, I now kinda know why some popular artist are mean to others beginners or other peps in general.

being POP SUCKZ.

ヽ(*・ω・)ﾉ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~2014............







IM OUT OF HERE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>2013>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

what is your new year resolution?

mine is to, move out and get faster at drawing.

maybe be finally get a comic going ( been like 4-5 years been wanting to do it!!!)

Ru <3 mako

I bet a lot of use watch my neighbor totoro, the hayao miyazaki film.

just recently I hard that there is a darker side to the family film. I was so mind blown when I found out.

If you like to read of it go here>>>>

http://my.opera.com/sukekomashi-gai.....nari-no-totoro





ok just read it here>>>


Tonari No Totoro

Thursday, January 1, 2009 1:20:21 AM

tonari no totoro, scary


Please be aware that this is only a translation and collection from various Japanese websites (most of which are linked to below), and not my personal theory. Feel free to offer any responses, but don't make it personal like some have!
Well, it's been a while since I wrote something, but now I feel like I can actually write a full article about something slightly interesting.

隣のトトロ tonari no totoro is a great movie that all really should see. It's a rare type of movie that can be seen and appreciated by children and adults alike.

The main characters are Satsuki and Mei. One day after moving to a new house, they begin to see strange things. Eventually they meet with a giant mystical creature which they name Totoro.

A very innocent and enjoyable yet heartmoving tale that most Japanese people have seen at least once. If you haven't seen it yet, I would very much recommend it.

But, if you have seen it, there alies in it yet a whole other interpretation to the story... I have to warn you: if you read on, your idea about this movie being a happy childrens movie will change dreadfully.

In fact, you may lose hope in all childrens movies for suspicion that they are all actually morbid stories of death and murder.


I watched the movie once, with my girlfriend and thought it wasn't bad. The ending left me a little unfufilled, but I'm used to that in Japanese movies by now.

I largely forgot my experience with Totoro until one night at work's mini 忘年会 bounenkai, end-of-year party, the subject came up.

One fellow employee (actually he works at a restaurant next door) told me some disturbing rumors about the 20 year old family movie. Let me begin.

The story is far from a happy one. According to him, and apparently a popular urban legend in itself, Totoro and his magical friends are in fact Shinigami, that is to say the gods of death, the grim reaper. Pretty cute for a grim reaper, huh?


It begins with the susuwatari (煤渡り) (a.k.a. makkurokurosuke), those little black balls that they find in the kitchen. The story goes that if you see the susuwatari or Totoro, death is close.


The old woman says that adults can't see the susuwatari or the other mystical beasts. Unexplained though, is why she saw them when she was young. Kanta, the old woman's grandson doesn't seem able to see them.

The real story comes from the history of the Sayama incident (狭山事件 sayama jiken). There seem to be too many coincidences between the Sayama incident and this movie to ignore.

The Sayama incident occured in May 1963. It's quite an important case for discrimination in Japan. The case goes that one day, in Sayama (in Saitama prefecture), a young girl was kidnapped for ransom, raped and then murdered. Her older sister apparently found her body, but was so traumatized by it, when asked what she had seen, she merely said "I met a large Tanuki (looks like a racoon)" and "I saw a cat monster." Sound familiar? Anyway, the older sister later commited suicide.

So let's see. Okay I'll start with the things that are most similar. For one, the house that the family moved to is also in Saitama. It isn't told exactly where, but take a look at this:


Written on the box at the back is 狭山茶 sayamacha or Sayama tea. Doesn't get much more direct than that.


Also, the hospital, 七国病院 shichikoku byouin has (or had?) a real-life counterpart in Sayama, called the 八国病院 hachikoku byouin, located in the same area as in the movie.

The real murder took place in May. Also the youngest child is named Mei (pronounced 'May'). This could be a coincidence, but the older sister is named Satsuki, which is also another way to say May.


The Nekobus (the cat bus) is the cariage that takes one to the next world (heaven, hell, whatever). This is given a little reinforcement by the above picture, showing the destination as 墓道, the first character means grave, the second meaning road.

So in the story, the idea is that Mei is murdered after she goes missing. Satsuki, feeling greif decides to join her.


She enters into the realm of the Shinigami (death god) - Totoro. Notice the presence again of the Susuwatari. And the monochromatic lighting. She asks Totoro to take her to her sister and BAM. Suddenly she can see Totoro. She hops into the Nekobus; the vehicle to the next world, and they go to see their mother together, but they don't actually meet her.

There is a strong belief that after Mei goes missing, she has no shadow, apparently adding to the notion that she is dead. Miyazaki commented that this was in fact due to the costs involved in adding shadows.

One thing I did notice, though, was that Satsuki and Mei seem to be colored differently (like... more softly?) once they are both on the Nekobus.

You may ask yourself about the ending credits, which show a happy Mei and Satsuki along with the mother and friends. The favoured explanation is that these are memories from when they were still living.

Another yet stranger rumor is that the movie is segmented; some parts are the present, some are the past or future, some are the work of the father's imagination. This seems a little off until you remember the scene with the huge tree. The children sit atop this huge tree (which umbrellas the small house) playing flutes with the Totoros.


The father looks out to see this, smiles happily and continues his writing. The suggestion is that he is writing about his deceased daughters doing exactly what they are shown doing.

If you want to read a bit more into it, there's a Japanese page about it here which is full of stuff.

Just creeps me out.

Update 07/10/10

Due to the relative popularity of this post, I've decided to do a little more hunting around some Japanese sites for some more interesting information on Totoro. Here's what I got:

When first visiting their mother, the calender at the hospital shows the 9th month (September), but nearing the end of the movie, it shows the 8th month (August) (source). According to here and here, this fit in perfectly with the leap year of 1952, which, as we will see, is the year before the mother in the Sayama incident is reported to have died.




Apparently this gives proof to the interpretation that the Totoro story doesn't flow chronologically. Either that, or the mother is hospitalized for almost a year.

On that same site, it is suggested that one reason the mother couldn't see Mei and Satsuki on the tree is because they were with the Nekobus, who can't be seen by adults.



Another point was brought up about Mei's clothing in the movie poster (the first image in this post), which appeared on the back of the VHS cover. Mei is wearing Satsuki's clothes.



One of the commenters at that site also gave a little more interesting information about the Sayama incident:



狭山事件（Ｓ３８年）だが、被害者のＹ子（当時１６歳、３男４女の三女）の家族構成を調べると・・。Ｙ子の母は精神病院で、脳腫瘍（精神病でない）により、S28年に死亡。さらにさかのぼると、Ｙ子の姉がＳ１８年に３歳で死亡。
ということは、母が病院でいた時、Ｙ子が５～６歳、姉が１３歳（生きていれば）ということになる。

彼女には2人の兄と父（３人の男）がいた。事件当時11歳の弟は、犯人からの脅迫状を持ってきたとされる。
さらに、この事件にかかわる人間の自殺や変死があまりにも多すぎる。６人兄弟で４人が死んでいるし、関係人も・・・。
この家族になにが起こったのか。3人のトトロ（男）の世界と、やさしかった母と母が語る亡き姉の世界。
「おとぎばなし」の鉄則は、「怖い話」マイナス「怖さ」。どうやら、狭山事件がモチーフになっているようだ。
昭和３０年代に
「となりのトトロ」＝所沢のとなり＝狭山

The Sayama Jiken took place in Shouwa 38 (i.e. 1963), but when looking into the family of the victim, dubbed 'Y' (at that time she was 16, she was the third daughter of a family of 3 males and 4 females), it appears that Y's mother was in a mental hospital (though, for a brain tumor, not mental illness). The mother died in Shouwa 28 (1953). Delving further reveals that in Shouwa 18 (1943), Y's older sister died at age 3. Which means, at the time when their mother was in hospital, Y would have been 5-6, and her older sister (if she has still been alive) would have been 13.

The girl had two brothers, and of course there was her father (three males). On the day of the incident, the 11-year old brother received the ransom letter. There were a lot of suicides surrounding the murder. Of the six siblings, four died, not to mention others outside the family. What happened to this family? There is the world of the Totoro (the three males) and the mother and the deceased sister. The fairy tale is this scary tale minus the scary parts. It seems that the Sayama Incident follows this motif. In the 30th year of Showa (1955), Tonari No Totoro meant "Next to Tokorozawa," or in other words, Sayama.




In the scene where Mei is lost and crying, she is sitting next to 6 地蔵 jizou Jizou statues (English Ksitigarbha, a buddhist deity that looks after the souls of deceased children and aborted fetuses in Japanese culture. Apparently these 6 Jizou statues represent 6 people who died in the course of the incident (see above).

Apparently one of the phrases in the lyrics of the song of the Nekobus is "乗ったお客は陽気なおばけ" notta okyaku wa youki na obake, "those guests who ride are cheerful ghosts."

UPDATE: 11/02/12

It should also be noted that, of course, Studio Ghibli has denied these connection. Some arguments saying that even if it were true, it would be terrible PR to have the studio's mascot be tainted by such an image.

It is worth mentioning that there exists a sequel to Tonari no Totoro that follows the story of Mei and the Kitten-bus. The short is 13 minutes and is regularly shown in the Ghibli museum, and has once been shown in America.



A few updates from discussions in the comments: From the Wikipedia entry concerning this unconfirmed dark understory: The real life hospital which became the inspiration for the hospital in the movie was one specializing in serious illnesses like tuberculosis in the 1950s, which again fits into the calendar theory.

It is said that this is why the mother was able to briefly sense her (already dead) daughters nearing the end; she too is near death. Tuberculosis, while better than the previous decade, killed a lot of people in the 50s. This gives more credit to the interpretation of the ending credits being rather imagination, a memory, or a version of heaven made by the girls.

Be sure to check out the page on Miyazaki Hayao's Spirited Away as well!

UPDATE 01/04/12 Not April fool, but I have translated the video below for anyone interested. Unfortunately I can't embed it properly, so click the picture. The original was posted in the comments by HoneyBee. A lot of it is repeating what is on this page, some of it may be new to you! Turn on annotations to see the subtitles.


UPDATE 18 July '12: Just a quick update to show that the sandals which are found are indeed not Mei's; She did not die by drowning in any version of the story.

ill be doing commissions and adoptable auction soon, so be ready.

the activity is a lil slow hope It come up again. ( do to the down time with FA)

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you should know what to do with this. ^


only the pep who get to figer-out will see it.

well I have been thinking about this with all the down time FA been having.

I do like this site a lot, my main site I use is DA and FA and the rest I up date every 5 months or so.

this is a big place were I do commissions and other peps to so....

If it ever did go what site will you go next?

and if you did not know im on here to>>>


MORE SITE IM ON>>>>>

PIXIV: http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=3745146

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DA: http://phation.deviantart.com/

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Sofurry: http://rudragon.sofurry.com/ (dont really use it)

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Weasyl: https://www.weasyl.com/profile/rudragon

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YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/user/RUdragon21

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mangamagazine:http://www.mangamagazine.net/authors-and-artists/RUdragon/detail-page/20316

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and some time streaming at>>> http://www.livestream.com/phation?t=955813

ASK RU>>>>>>

TUMBLER: http://rudragon.tumblr.com/

TUMBLER2: http://rudragon-stuff.tumblr.com/

TUMBLER3: http://ruzscraps.tumblr.com/

im making this Journal to kinda give you a feel of what my life is and my socializing.

as you all know I like to draw alot, and like to bright up peps days with it and try to post every day for you.

and that kinda how it is all most every day( unless some thing pops up and I can do any that day or some how

my motivation is down) and recently ive been trying to get out more then siting at a desk for 18+ hrs a day.

and try to have a lil fun with "friends" ( not really my friend per say like either my bro or sis friends, considering

I don't have any Real Life friends) but when im back at my desk I try to also talk on Skype with friends or fan

(how ever you like to labial your self as) Im mostly (all the time off line) and some peps think that im never on

and that not really true im almost all the time on just working my BUTT off to get the next pic out, so if you

have not talk to me for a long time don't think I don't care for you. I do try to talk to every one as much as I

can, I try to find time if you have not talk to me for a grate deal of time or remove your self from my Skype

and have to look for you on either DA or FA to say sorry that I did not talk much to them, im a bizzy person but

I do try to talk to all of you I don't really have a favorite pep to talk to un less there close ( but even a that I

feels like we don't talk much really) pretty much im saying here is I do care for any one, and like to be friends

or just fan gush to me ( on my FAN Skype, FA or DA)

I just wish there was more time I can talk to you all and sorry if you fell like I don't care, I do care.

also for thows who are intimidated by me as a person to my art, don't

im just a regular person like you and for some reason a lot of pep like what I do, other then that im nothing

with you and thank you for being there.

..........

sorry for rambling on and for my sucky spelling and grammar, I hope you can under stand my thoughts for this

Journal. and I hope you have an awesome DAY^v^

well for thow who don't know I got my self a wacom cintiq companion.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12171544/

for some one who like to draw this here was what I was waiting for a full Windows 8 Wacom tablet.

I only had it for 3 days and its working grate. I just got to sit down and mess with it and made this>>>


http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12171521/

its no different from what iv made on the other tablet I have. and still working at the same rez of like

11x14 300 DPI

and not much of and slow down.

all I have to say is its a lil hard to press some buttons and the curser is not were its sapost to be ( may have to

recalibrate it) still need to get use to, all now is to buy a new SAi license, of how ever much it is now. ( I just

had one paid for, drat, o well.


for any one how like to watch me draw on it here a vid of me with it>>>

https://youtu.be/nhzuHwAcauo

EHjoy^^

ill try to update more on what I think on the new wacom cintiq companion.

enJOY

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?.....31930040308672

or not :P

well I bought my wacom cintiq companion, ill be seeing it less then a week.
and spent some to help some peps out, well I may have to speed things up again
to get my projects and fan, and art trades done.

so some time I may start up doing commission, to get things for my family for Christmas.

sorry for not posting much, trying to take a brake that you all say I need to take.
also trying to talk more on my fan Skype. I wish I can do more but there still things to do.

thank you for waiting ^^

1. the activity on FA seem to go up and down, I feel like im missing some thing, what is it?

and 2.

been thinking of the old friend I had on FA and left, I miss them.

also wish I had more time to sit down with my fan and have a good talk.




...... man why can the days be longer so I can do that?.......


that is all.

ok well some of what im saying is old new and a review of my plans and projects be here we go.

so were do I start, im finally taking some what of a brake, ( not really still working ) but you will be happy at the end

when things come out. so first off im wanting to do a butt load of fan art and art trades to do ( sorry im full, so PLZ don't

ask to get one) I think I have a good 10 to do. fallowing that ill be working on the Ru comic it will start with about 6 or 8

pages, it will be a small cute lil skit and see how well it goes to see how much peps want it. falling the the end of chapter

one ill have random peps sponsor the next page (kinda like commissioning me to make a new page) the first chapter will

be about 20 to 40+ pages and after that 20 per chapter or so. but that for some time down the road.



so been seeing a lot of pep wanting me to finish or add more to the RU vs mako animation, and just today I added about

30 new frames if you don't know what it is here is link to the 43 sec clip of it>>>

https://youtu.be/XG0DFO2OtJs

I also like to color it in to like this>>>

http://gyazo.com/29e22b8c3bc8b20f360b9ac26c52df23

I may redo this so it look better for the finish music vid. but doing that will be a vary long trip to do

so make the ruff animation in (Flash) then to (pant tool sai) foe clean lines and color and last a (video edit program).

the music video will be about 4+ min so will see if things play well if not ill just make the ruff animation to watch so you

kinda will see my idea.

but before making that ill make a smaller vid project to test some thing out so I have a better feel when getting to the

bigger one.

that video will be the ( Do You Like Waffles? ♫ ) song and hope to make better then the link I have below and one of the

cutes thing out there. with RU and his friends in a 30 sec vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDU0CTDMk2g



that is my plans for the rest of the year.

HO and one last thing im planning on getting the (wacom cintiq companion) a $2500 drawing thing. >>>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kpZ1WcKfC0


if there any thing bad you heard about this PLZ tell me or a better thing then this I like to know^^

well thank you all and hope you keep Enjoying my work.




don't mind this just some notes there>>>

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/akivaws/
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/silverfox5213/
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/seth-iova/
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/falvie/
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/superserperior/

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http://www.furaffinity.net/user/tsampikos
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/miupix
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/onta
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/shin0r0z

V

Im wanting to start making my comics some time, and there are some that will be done digital and some traditionally. but I have been thinking on cost, time, and how well the finish look will be. and I have been thinking to make all my comic in digitally. I have been told that Naruto and Bleach have gone digi to ( not sure what chapter they did it, if you know I like to know) so I like to get your option on what you think is digi better or trad better, do you lose something by using a siren medium.

traditional work>>>

http://phation.deviantart.com/art/D.....page-300572194


http://phation.deviantart.com/art/D.....troy-203106489


http://phation.deviantart.com/art/T.....f-Ru-397871246

digital work>>>

(v this pic is kind old the look will look better then this)

http://phation.deviantart.com/art/A.....-FIN-258002897

http://phation.deviantart.com/art/R.....IP-2-375683733



and in the air but I hope to get a paid web to read my comic ( first chapter free) for Dra-Una, Ru comic, and other small oneshot comics. will any one willing to pay and what would be a good price for a page or 2 a week. and buy a the book when 10 chapter are done. as a printed book.



I hope to get this started soon ( for a good 3 year been trying to start it up but thing pop up)

and last here is a link to the comic I made in 2010 if you like to buy it>>>>

http://www.lulu.com/shop/ben-diez/50-demo/paperback/product-12793425.html;jsessionid=66E0C0EEDF95BB66473352A165742F67

just to make this fast .

ill be getting the free art out soon!

RU comic ( I hope to get this done) and animation.

and "AT"

and fan art for peps.

so soo ill try to get the dales out to but there will be some days the will talk some time getting art out.

(LIFE) thank you and time to work some more!!!