ARTISTS 100 QUESTIONS

1] What is your pen name?
Nori/Katze/Shu-chan... too many.

2] How did you get the name?
Nori was given to me by a friend, with whom I roleplayed Gravitation. I played Ukai Noriko, so it stuck. Katze is a shortened version of one of my other nicknames, Kätzchen (which I have in about 5 different languages and several variations of. It means kitten, or little cat in German.), Shu-chan.. I don't even remember.

3] Do you use PC or Mac?
PC unless forced to use otherwise.

4] What software you use most often?
Adobe Photoshop, OpenCanvas 3, AIM...

5] Do you use mouse, or tablet?
Both.

6] The color you use most often is?
I tend to use darker colours. Blues, dark reds, blacks..

7] What area of the pictures do you put most effort into?
Eyes and proportions..

8] How long does it take you do draw a picture?
Depends on what I'm doing. 15 minutes to weeks for pencil drawings, anywhere from 3-4 hours to months for a cg.

9] Do you keep your rough drafts?
Yep.

10] What kind of font do you use most often?
Verdana 8pt and Tahoma 8pt.

11] What's the dpi when you scan?
300 for art to be cged, 100 for scans to show people what I'm working on, 150-180 for other types.

12] Do you do anything else when you're drawing pictures?
Listen to music, mostly. Talk to people and such.

13] How many pictures do you draw in a month?
Depends on my mood, really.

14] What kind of paper do you draw your pictures on?
Whatever's available. B5 sketchbook, printer paper, notebook paper, napkins, reciepts...

15] What kind of paper do you use for sketches and drafts?
Same as above.

16] How long does it take to ink something?
Not as long as it used to?

17] Do you do doujinshi or original manga?
On occasion.

18] Do you like doujinshi? Is it fun making it?
I'm a whore for doujinshi. And quite yes.

19] Ever submitted anything to a magazine?
Nope.

20] Did it get published?
Nope.

21] Who are your favorite artists?
Konomi Takeshi, Higuchi Daisuke, Kodaka Kazuma, Maki Murakami, Higuri You.

22] What's your favourite Anime/Manga?
Tennis no Oujisama, Weiss: An Assassin and White Shaman/Weiss Kreuz, Gravitation, Matantei Loki Ragnarok, Apocripha/0, Whistle!

23] Favourite Character?
Kamio Akira :x

24] Any artists that you'd like to draw like?
Higuri You

25] Do you buy books a lot?
Mostly depends. If I have the money I tend to go on doujinshi buying sprees, or head down to Barnes & Nobles for the newest manga releases.

26] Did you ever buy a book to inspire you to draw?
I've bought a couple because I liked the art.. but that's about it.

27] Any video games you enjoy?
Final Fantasy 5-8

28] Any favourite characters from video games?
Sephiroth from FF7, Zell & Seifer from FF8, Kuja in FF9...

29] Do you have a favourite writer?
J.R.R Tolkien, Anna Sewell, Margaret Henry, Walter Farley, C.W. Anderson

30] Any books you really enjoy?
Hobbit + LotR trilogy, Black Beauty, Misty of Chincoteague, the Black Stallion series, anything by C.W Anderson..

31] Do you write fanfics?
Yes, but not so much anymore.

32] Any music that you often listen to while drawing?
Whatever's in my cd player/on my winamp. Usually some form of jrock/ska/rock/something like that. Tends to be Prince of Tennis music though. x3

33] Any recommended songs?
Purutabu to Kan - Wonderful Days, Nine Inch Nails - Closer, Tool - Schism

34] Any websites that you totally admire?
Ummm... I adore Wings of Enchant. High Energy does gorgeous Shinji/Ryoma/Shinji art, plus Jyousei and the Kisarazu twins (instant love) and IbuKam/KamIbu.

35] Do you have any sites you want to go everyday?
Uhh... my email.. LJ.. blog.. Fet Forums..

36] What is your dream site like?
Uh... Interesting to me. :D

37] Do you like your own art?
Depends. I can never draw the same thing twice ^^ I tend to draw Kamio and/or Shinji a lot.. some of them look good to me, others are blah.

38] What do you enjoy watching on TV?
TV, oh how I miss you ;o; *woes* Uhh.. Animal Planet, Saturday morning cartoons.. movie channel.

39] Favourite celebrity?
Um. Matsumoto Jun! Yamashita Tomohisa, Lee Dong Hae, Suzuki Chihiro, Moriyama Eiji, Ishida Akira.

40] Favourite color?
blue, black, orange, yellow.

41] Favourite food?
Mango.

42] Favourite drink?
Prefer juice over anything else. Or mocha frappuccinos <- addicted.

43] Any places you like to shop at?
I hate shopping ^^; But bookstores & thrift shops.

44] Can you cook?
Depends on what it is. I'm good with cooking meat and baking. Anything else.. xD;

45] Any programs you use often for email? Any electronic pets?
Just webmail. Electronic pets? Always hated the things.

46] Are you a computer expert?
Not as good as a lot of people but I can work my way around and fix a lot of things. HTML, CSS I'm good at.. can only do a little php and javascript x3

47] Want to become a professional artist?
Could be something to look into. My sister-in-law is.

48] Any other jobs you're interested in, besides an illustrator?
I wouldn't be opposed to being a voice actress. But pretty much.. something I enjoy doing and wouldn't have to deal with a lot of people in ^^;

49] Any other specialities besides drawing?
Um. I procrastinate to no end.. But I sing... I guess horseback riding could be put here. I used to compete a lot and have won tons of awards and titles for it so *shrug*

50] Do you like to watch movies?
Depends on the movie. My roommates tend to watch the same things over and over again so they kinda lose their luster after a while.

51] What's your favourite movie?
Several. A Clockwork Orange, Donny Darko, Ringu, Ringu 0 - Birthday, American History X, Romper Stomper, SLC Punk!

52] Have you ever entered art contests?
Won second in my high school art show freshman year. Chose to take computer design classes the rest of high school.

53] When did you start drawing seriously?
Always have drawn, ever since I was a little kid. My portfolio (if I could ever find it) is full of stacks of drawings and stuff.

54] Anything that you often use as a reference when you draw?
Official art, other fanart, friends, whatever's around.

55] Have you met any of your fans online?
It's sad, because I do have fangirls/boys. But those are mostly for my work in the scanlation circles, not my art x3

56] You have a lot of pen pals?
Used to.

57] You have a lot of friends that draws?
Quite a few.

58] What time do you usually go online?
Whenever I'm awake and not working. x3

59] Do you like to go to chat rooms?
Depends. I rarely make my own unless it's for an RP, but I usually get dragged into cracktastic randomness on AIM.

60] Do you have your own computer?
Yep.

61] What would you say to the person you admire?
How much I appreciate them, I guess.

62] Do you think of things when you draw?
Not really.

63] Have you drawn bad because you think too much?
A few times.

64] Do you have any friends who are professionals?
Not that I can think of.. but a lot of them do gorgeous artwork.

65] Where do you often hang out?
Your best chance is finding me on the floor in the corner of my apartment's living room, on my computer.

66] Do you have any artists that you don't like too much?
Yep, so I stay away.

67] Situations in which you really don't like being online?
When there's bitchy people abound.

68] Situations in which you hate when it comes to having websites?
Depends.. I have a lot of fun with them, really. Although in managing a very popular scanlation group I can get quite frustrated with guests demanding things of us -.-;

69] Something that makes you really glad that the internet exists?
It means I don't have to talk to people in real life :D

70] What about things that make you NOT glad that the internet exists?
Uhh.. viruses. Stupid people.

71]What's the first picture you've ever shown to the public online?
Uhm.. lord knows if I can remember. Probably a Gundam Wing fanart.

72] Do you still have that?
I should thinks so.

73] Has your drawing style changed a lot?
Come to think of it.. not really. With fan art my style has always tried to stay close to the original works.

74] How does it usually change?
By doing lots of one particular style.. then it just kinda sticks.

75] Have you experienced artists block before?
Constantly.

76] How did you escape from it?
Leave it alone for a while and it eventually goes away.

77] What happens when you have artists block?
Don't have the motivation or inspiration to do anything.

78] Any artists that have influenced you a lot?
Konomi Takeshi.. heh.

79] What made you start drawing?
I have no clue, really. I've always drawn. Guess maybe it's coz my mum liked to draw a lot.

80] What made you want to get a website?
I think originally I just wanted my own space to do things and learn something new. Started at geocities, got hosted by a real life friend, moved around different sites to different places.. ended up with 6 domains (four of my own, two that I manage for others) and things hosted all over everywhere x3

81] Where did your site name come from?
Hmm... I wanted to include the word "dreams"... and Snowfire is the name of one of my best friend's pony. x3 Could've used my own pony/horse's names.. but none of em clicked. So I stuck with Snowfire Dreams. Tis pretty. ETA: Changed the name to Rhythmic High... got tired of the old name, and RH has plenty of meaning x3

82] What do you think about net manners?
Same as in the living world. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

83] Have you ever been spammed?
*eyes inbox* yes. Although, sometimes spam is good, when it's LJ comment spam that makes no sense and is fun.

84] Ever thought about quitting your webpage?
Been there, done that.

85] If so, why?
Lost interest or a host died.

86] About how much KB is each picture?
Really depends on the size, if it's colored or not, the format... anywhere from 6-400kb

87] When creating your site, do you use a program or pure html?
Notepad. Although if I'm feeling lazy I use Dreamweaver to set frames or div layers.

88] Do you have good eyesite?
My eyesight sucks ^^

89] If you can get any person's autograph, who's would you get?
Suzuki Chihiro :x

90] What would you say to that artist when he/she autographs for you?
"Thank you very much."

91] Do you have fans of your art?
Apparently so.

92] Do you like to draw on oekaki bbs?
Yes~!

93] Are you good at art in school?
Was when I was still in school.

94] Did you take art lesson other than from school?
Nope. Just Video Tech/Art in 8th grade, Art in 9th.

95] Have you drawn a manga?
Nope.

96] What's your favourite phrase/quote?
"Ore-sama no bigi ni yoi na." - Atobe Keigo. x3 Such a narcisstic egotistical diva x3

97] Do you think your personality is different externally and internally?
Yep. It constantly changes too. I can be hyperhappybouncy on the outside and totally depressed or angry on the inside.. happens a lot.

98] What's your goal now?
No clue :D

99] What do you have to say to yourself?
Get off your ass and do something productive!

100] Lastly, what do you have to say to everyone?
Rizumu ni noruze!