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Snapshot by me, outfit put together by me. Other products is other peoples'.Not from concentrate. ^.^
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Vivid-Funk [2013-05-30 11:26:33 +0000 UTC]
I like your original style of hair texture in every pic you do.
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TreeHairedGingerAle In reply to Vivid-Funk [2013-06-01 17:45:54 +0000 UTC]
Thanks! I'm glad you like it!
I admit, I kind of find straight hair boring...but then, I figure it's because almost everyone does straight hair.
Natural hairstyles and afros are thankfully making more appearances, but that just means that I need to step it up and play with afro shapes more. I try to never miss the opportunity to do something different with hair when I can manage it, straight textured or not.
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Vivid-Funk In reply to TreeHairedGingerAle [2013-06-02 10:28:19 +0000 UTC]
I feel the same way. Being in the military I ended up cutting mine last week, but I am growing it back now. Where are you from anyway?
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TreeHairedGingerAle In reply to Vivid-Funk [2013-06-02 13:36:17 +0000 UTC]
Oh, I grew up in a New York suburb....we were the first black family in the school district, even for then (this was 1980s). School was hell, but hey. I save bundles on skipping class reunions. xP Military, huh. I've got family in there now. What branch are you?
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Vivid-Funk In reply to TreeHairedGingerAle [2013-06-02 13:39:46 +0000 UTC]
Im in the air force. It is pretty cool so far. Pays for my school so I press. My art work slows up due to the demands of both but I love to draw and create things. I make time some kind of way. So how old are you?
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TreeHairedGingerAle In reply to Vivid-Funk [2013-06-02 14:23:52 +0000 UTC]
Oh gracious, nearly 40.
Folks say I don't look it, but I'm just self-conscious enough to refrain from *dressing* as if I'm younger at least!
((...Although come to think of it, there are Goths now that are long in the tooth, and *they* still strut it...maybe I should experiment more with that kind of look...lol, I always did like black lipstick.))
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Vivid-Funk In reply to TreeHairedGingerAle [2013-06-02 17:56:47 +0000 UTC]
I dont see any pictures of you on your page but you definitely have a spirit of one that isn't quite 40. Im 29. So what inspires you art wise these days? What drives you to do the brilliant things that you do?
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TreeHairedGingerAle In reply to Vivid-Funk [2013-06-02 22:25:12 +0000 UTC]
Well now you've done it. It's a loaded question and that means I'm going to have to talk. A lot. But if I had to pick one thing it would be:
Death.
To elaborate, I suppose that I'm having something of a second adolescence. I've been forced to look at everything that my life has been, and I realize that I've put off being myself for a long, long, *long* time. Somewhat because of my father's cruelty. Somewhat because of my mother's hopes and expectations. Somewhat because of the racism that I experienced in school. Somewhat because of how people looked at my height/weight.
But I understand now that trying to placate everyone else all of the time was a waste. ...of course, there isn't much I can do to *change* the impact it's had on me now. I don't have the kind of income to go exploring the world, like one does in movies. To change a few of my...relationships...would shatter a couple of the people that I care about and want to protect, even if it means that I'm, once again, putting myself in the backseat.
So *this* is all I have to work with. The art interest, the poetry website I'm working on, the new wardrobe choices I'm experimenting with at a painfully slow pace, the expansion of my political and social viewpoints (eventually, hopefully, with a new circle of friends to match)...this is how I can explore and express all of the bits of self that I've bottled up 'till now. This is how I practice being me. And that's my goal: to find out what it is like to be *all* of myself, not just the palatable pieces. To write/create some things that may help, speak to, or at least entertain others who are in the same stew.
Before that self turns to dust.
And you? What's got your steering wheel?
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Vivid-Funk In reply to TreeHairedGingerAle [2013-06-03 02:18:21 +0000 UTC]
I like the way you put things. I can really see your view point on putting how you feel over how you "deal". The average human being will go their entire lives and never just ask,"what about me?" I relate to that a lot. I chose the military because it was something to do that wasn't working dead in jobs due to my parents not being able to afford my collage. 10 years later here I am. I am mostly a self expressive comic artist. Everything I ever think or want to say is considered politically incorrect compared to what the rest of the world wants to hear. This includes the one sided military, this country that was obviously built on hushing us up, and anybody with a close minded soul.
Comics were my escape from reality. Sometimes I feel smarter than what I see...a lot of times I am right. So I turn to minds like yours to feel better. Responsibility is the only thing that keeps me in the military for now. My art will eventually be sold in either poetry, book, or comic form. I like the way you do what you do. I never dabbled much into that form of artwork but I find your technique very soulful.
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TreeHairedGingerAle In reply to Vivid-Funk [2013-06-07 16:57:53 +0000 UTC]
Well then, hey. Let's keep in touch--send me a note anytime you like.
I've known for a couple months now that, *since* there are a couple of people that depend on me being where I am (like you say...responsibilities), the logical alternative is, not to move, but to branch *outwards* and seek more artistic/socially-progressive types that can help me grow. We can nourish each other.
Or, you know...tip us each further into madness. xP Trial and error is the name of the game, I am slowly learning.
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Vivid-Funk In reply to TreeHairedGingerAle [2013-06-08 09:18:30 +0000 UTC]
I know a lot about trial and error. I cant wait to send you a note. And thank you for the Watch as well!
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Magdahr In reply to TreeHairedGingerAle [2013-06-01 23:19:39 +0000 UTC]
Lol that has got to be the most cryptic and fascinating reply I've ever got xDDD
haha you're welcome!
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niauropsaka [2013-03-18 21:50:41 +0000 UTC]
Is she eating Pocky?
At least that's what it looks like. If I hadn't tried putting pocky in a 3d scene once I might think it was a cigarette holder. [link]
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TreeHairedGingerAle In reply to niauropsaka [2013-03-29 22:55:21 +0000 UTC]
Yes, she certainly is eating Pocky! D I freakin' LOVE the stuff, so I was glad when they added that as an option! **\o0n\**
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AymsterSilver [2013-02-22 21:25:13 +0000 UTC]
Ah! I love the hair. It's so wild. And the glasses definitely add to her persona. She looks like one of those intelligent, "I-don't-care-what-others-think" type of characters.
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offbeat-art-dog [2010-12-18 21:58:48 +0000 UTC]
I love her face...and, there is something sexy about glasses...
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TreeHairedGingerAle In reply to offbeat-art-dog [2010-12-19 01:32:17 +0000 UTC]
Thank you! I agree, she is very enchanting . . . . although somehow, also very scary. xD
I get the feeling that this woman has a level of intelligence that no human should have, and yet is being very, very quiet about it. . . . I adore her.
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offbeat-art-dog In reply to TreeHairedGingerAle [2010-12-19 01:48:32 +0000 UTC]
you're right...you are like me..your creations, like mine, take on a life of their own...they almost create themselves with me.
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TreeHairedGingerAle In reply to offbeat-art-dog [2010-12-19 02:16:55 +0000 UTC]
Haha, yeah man! That's one of the funnest parts of the process!
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