So, we have another Making Of JF. The computer lab that I'm working in is very close to empty. How nice. I can work on a very contraversial and erotic piece and not get any flak. ^_^ Okay, maybe it's not all that erotic, but it certainly is a woman type anime character. And anime is always rated 'NR-Mature', so it must be pr0n, right? Right. I drew this a long, long time ago. I think it was either one or two years ago. You see how the hair is not very good. This was drawn before I understood how to draw the back side of hair. Hehehe. A bit of history, I drew it on top of a mountain, Mount Si near Seattle, Washington, USA. It's a one day hike (8 hours there and back, I think) and it's very popular. The trails are maintained by a very committed group of hikers. A few guys in my dorm house decided to hike it. I brought along my pad and pencil and drew this. When we got to the very top, it was snowing, a bit windy, and it was a great view. Although it doesn't show it, there was a 360 panorama and it was pretty sweet. No city in the distance, no freeways that I remember. We cooked something or another and ate a feast. I ate a bunch of ramen, I remember that my friends ate a whole pound of cheese or something like that. Hilarious. "Good times" is the phrase my roommate used for nearly everything good or bad and it really characterized our trip and really our whole year of fun together. We played ultimate frisbee, Counter-Strike, Black and White, and Diablo 2. That was part of the reason that that year was the most fun year of my life. But also because I started AltSci3D Manga Director.

Making Of JF 196 2k2 08013

Making of JF # 195

I think I'm going to take back part of what I said yesterday. I was thinking about doing what I've never done on JF: changing what I wrote after I wrote it. But I won't. What I said about Ayn Rand's Fountainhead was true yet misleading at best. Her main character, Roark, is a free spirit. That is true. He is obsessed with buildings, yes. He is impersonal, also true. But an elitist and an immoral person? Not exactly. You can't characterize even a characterized character in this book. I assume that she built each character on values alone. So his actions are what she thinks of individualism and selfishness. She likes it. She thinks that it is a virtuous lifestyle. The fact that he is a martyr for the cause of modern architecture just bringing out the best and worst in him. What I said about the two allied/opposed factions of capitalists and socialists is true. It is the anarchist's job to fight these two with one thing that Ayn Rand champions above all: the human mind.