About Me
Hello everyone! Online I go by Chuu; so if you wish, please do call me that but my name is Devon. I have been messing around on Gaia since 2006 but on and off and recently returned. (My original account ` Chuu~ had been banned for unfair reasons) but I digress. I'm a Canadian currently living in Ontario and I finally graduated high school this year. I'm an aspiring Graphic Designer / Online Entrepreneur who has a soft spot for Japanese Culture. I had just turned 18, June 11th of this year and I am happy to say I am finally legal yo! However, I am taken by a wonderful, amazing boy who sadly does not own a Gaia account, so sorry you do not have the honor of meeting him. Anyway, I love art and I hope to learn both the traditional and digital sides of the subject which is why I plan on taking an Illustration course for college in the near future. I love making friends and meeting new people, especially those with the same interests as mine so feel free to send me a private message or contact me on my other links listed! Jaa Ne~
Anime/Manga & Video Games
I have loved reading Mangas since 4th grade when I picked up an InuYasha graphic novel at Chapters (Canada's largest bookstore, which I am now a current employee for.) for the first time. Ever since I have been addicting to reading and
buying manga. (That's right, I do not read online for free like most of you!) I currently own over 350 mangas which I brag about constantly. I like a mix of mangas, I like Shonen and Shojo. However, I do not like reading poorly drawn artwork of the two. I do not read Shonen with fight scenes that are hard to follow (I made an acception for D. Gray Man because of awesome characters) or are just dumb looking (Example: One Piece, Zatch Bell, etc.) and I do not like Shojos with guys who look like girls and Yaoi (not my thing, I like Yuri though.)
Fun Fact: Arina Tanemura is my favorite Shojo artist. I also have been venturing into anime and comic conventions for 4 years (on and off) plus I like to cosplay.
I loooveee video games! I was a nintendo 64 junkie ever since it came out and haven't strayed from a controller since. I adore the Harvest Moon series, I'm absolutely addicted.
Fun Fact: Right now my favorite HM game is Magical Melody for Game Cube or Wii but it changes often. I love how many festivals and fun characters there is! My favorite kind of video games are fantasy (anime-based) RPGs, Eternal Sonata being my all time favorite as of now. I have every relevant video game system out right now and my favorite would be DS, I like portable-ness, PS3 is 2nd. My favorite series other than Harvest Moon are Zelda, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Ace Attorney and Pokemon.
Graphic/Web Design
For the longest time I have had no clue of what I wanted to do with my life until I discovered the magic of Photoshop and the rest of the Adobe Design Suite in the 10th grade and I'm obsessed. I have the CS3 series and I love making banners, digital art and all that jazz. I recently took a Web Design course and have learned to love that too and am currently experimenting with Dreamweaver. I would like to create my own Gaia Profile Layout soon and maybe open a shop if I get any good at it. I'll update!
Art Work & Commissions
I plan on opening an art shop for Gaia soon, first I'd like to put more stuff up on my empty Deviant Art account before I get started so I have some references. I like drawing Anime/Manga styles as well as Western Comic style and Realism. I like using my tablet but I also like traditional art tools and hope to get creative with water color paints soon! When I'm older I would like to sell real commissions for actual money over the internet but for now gaia-gold will have to do.
Writing & Roleplaying
I've always enjoyed creating stories in my head, I have a huge imagination and have finally learned to put it on paper. My boyfriend is an aspiring writer and he is my inspiration whenever I write. I have roleplayed for a long time and enjoy it very much so feel free to message me if you are interested, I like original and series-based roleplays. I have some original stories in the works as of now but I do not like sharing them with other people, not right now until I am happy with them. However, for funsies I have written fanfictions which I will be releasing to the public soon.
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Also, I don't know if you can use invisible scrollbars in V2 profiles, so they end up being very long, from what I can see. I think I tried adding invisible scrollbars to my current profile and it didn't go so well. D:
So three columns? Would you want all of them to be the same size, centre one bigger...? And, 3-column profiles don't work on all screen resolutions; is that okay? c:
The colour scheme sounds fine. Do you have any images you'd like me to use, or should I just go to Google? XD
I guess I'll need you to send me... a link to any images you want me to use, and maybe a basic layout of how you want the thing set up (either link me to something you like on tektek, or doodle up a layout in Photoshop or whatever).
This is my profile testing whore; you'll be able to check to see how the profile looks there. He's currently got my work-in-progress profile going, but there's a lot of things I need to fix about it -- namely the background, comments window, and stupid random Details box floating over in the corner there. The idea is that it won't have any scrollbars once I'm done, but I still have a ways to go. XD The comments window, About Me window, and wishlist all have invisible scrollbars, and the wishlist does cool crap when you hover over the items. c:
I prefer to use old-school coding rather than V2 nowadays, so you won't be able to drag the boxes around or anything like that, but I find that you can get much nicer results with an old-school profile anyway. D: I can try for a V2 profile (which is what I have on this account right now) if you want, but I'm not all that happy with how it turned out anymore...
AND YES I DID. I'M JUST WAITING ON OCARINA OF TIME 3D AT THIS POINT. ; U;
In my defence, I just happened to mention offhand in an RP's OOC thread that I would kill for a lit-adv Gundam RP, and then one of the other members was basically like "MAKE ONE DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT", so I did. XD
But yeah, for that reason, guilds are good and bad... more easily organized, easier to navigate through, but way tougher to make s**t look good, and tougher to keep alive. :U
Gah, DA. I haven't posted anything there in years. I figure if I do an art shop, I'll post the stuff there rather than on my Photobucket account to save bandwidth, but until I get to that point, my gallery's pretty barren. XD
LOL, That's fantastic. I miss that series all of a sudden. But, I'm pretty bad too -- I've got a copy of everything pertaining to Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny, or I know where I can get my hands on anything that I don't have a physical copy of... And I'm probably gonna do a Gundam SEED abridged once I get some time... and my RP is Gundam SEED-based.
/throws self down stairs forever
But yeah, I finally started RPing in the main forums. Before, I always used to stick to Guilds. Dunno why. XD I'm in this really kickass Pokémon RP right now, and I'm in the process of starting my own... So much work. ; A;
Other than that... I'm really just doing a lot of RPing here on Gaia, and I'm contemplating setting up an art shop once school is out. XD
So how've you been? O: