Nihao, Pals!

Before I begin to ramble incoherently, here's a brief description 
of the doll:

(Although I don't think that it needs much explanation...)
It's Sailor Jupiter from Sailor Moon. I won't tell her story here, 
because you can read it on hundreds of web pages. She is the 
physically strongest of the Sailor Scouts and very effective in 
close combat as well as with her thunder attacks. The doll features 
the typical Scout fuku of her friends. Additionally I drew clothes 
I got from screenshots and from the internet. She doesn't 
have the hairstyles of the other scouts, but I drew her some hairdos 
that I liked on her. The Fkiss effects are pretty much obvious. 
She blinks, her jewelry shimmers and her pen and tiara will crackle 
with thunder if you click on them. Her spare clothes appear if you 
click on the covers on the right and left, and the pictures reappear 
if you click on her name.
That's it.

Now for the unimportant ramblings. (You can skip them, but I love to 
write them!)

Finally I'm back at drawing KiSS dolls!
Of course I should have done other work this weekend, snif, but I 
couldn't help myself. By the way, did anyone notice that I never finish 
one of the dolls from the "sneak previews" on my page? Perhaps I should 
remove that section? Oh well, I think I could put up some demos there, 
although I hate to give unfinished work away. I will put up there some
mini-expansion sets for my other dolls when time permits.

I would have started doing KiSS dolls again in december, but a "friend" 
of my fiancee called me (and all of you and my other friends) some 
paedophilic perverts (simply because I wasn't interested in his critique 
about my homepage). After disposing of that dilettante (can't think of 
another name for his own "work") I went on programming computer games, 
then to painting miniatures again. So much work to do! And then came 
the day I got a nervous breakdown at work, or at least I felt like that. 
Since octobre there are 50 - 60 Pokmon fanatics a day who trample on 
my nerves. (Not to speak of their parents who call you anything from 
exploiter to downright asshole. It's not me who invented that hype!) 
I really like Pokmon, but I can't stand it anymore. 

So I bought a new roleplaying game out of frustration, and it was 
Sailor Moon. Well, what shall I say? I got totally hooked up again! 
I read that book, I took a look into the other anime games we sell, 
and BOING - it hit me on the head to do a new KiSS doll! After months 
of useless staring on unfinished dolls which only lead me to hours of 
doing nothing. I just couldn't get myself to work on them. My biggest 
character flaw is jealousy, I know that very well. Since I couldn't get 
my dolls to look so good as Moonshades' or Red Feathers' I got 
frustrated. (Hey, I stopped painting miniatures for nearly a year after 
a friend showed me his. Perhaps I should live in a total vacuum.) Well, 
at least my KiSS pals know my name. That's the most frustrating result 
of using your boyfriends' e-mail acount: Every mail I get about
my homepage, my minis, my fanart or anything else I put my heart into 
begins with "Hi Patrick", even if I know the person who wrote the 
message personally. 

The only exception are you KiSS fans. Although I didn't do anything 
new for a very long time I still recieve very kind e-mails. People ask 
for expansions, for specific dolls or just say thanks for the fun they 
had with my dolls. Sometimes I miss e-mails between all that mailing list 
stuff, and I'm very sorry for that, but I always try to answer every one 
of them even if it takes weeks. Sure, I can't answer every question
and I can't help with every problem, but I'll try to expand the KiSS 
section on my page over the next few months to give you the things you 
asked me for: templates, German "How to" guides and demos. And
new dolls, of course. I wanna say "Thank you" to all of you who
share this fantastic hobby.

Now that I got a laptop I can update my homepage during work 
and can do funny things in the evening, so prepare for a lot of new 
dolls from me! Yesterday I read all Magic Knight Rayearth comics, 
and nearly all characters will get added to my wishlist, also Pokmon. 
My next doll will probably be another Sailor Scout (most e-mails I 
recieve ask for those), perhaps Sailor Mercury but it could also be 
Black Lady or Alan and Ann. I would also like to do Serenity and 
Endymion holding hands, and I think one of my next projects will be a 
very detailed Belldandy with many gowns, wings and stuff like that. 
It will be difficult and complicated to draw, so I always avoided that 
doll, but now I believe I'm ready. I always wanted to draw her.

Enough talking. I still have some shoes to draw!

Until we meet again.


Eph

Feel free to visit my webpage at www.pika-pika.de and / or to send me 
your critique, suggestions and ideas for new dolls. I'm sure there are 
some important dolls missing on my wishlist.

