illeander

I am a college student from Ohio. I am majoring in English and minoring in Art.

I am also in charge of the art magazine Snow Palette, which is supposed to be a bi-monthly magazine, open to submissions from anyone, anywhere. So if you want to show off your art, or have tips for fellow artists, feel free to send your stuff ( snowpalette@gmail.com )

If you would like more info about the magazine checkout the profile at snowpalette.deviantart.com

or the blog snowpalette.blogspot.com

You can find the magazine at snowpalette.wordpress.com

Kajiura Yuki is my favorite composer. She makes beautiful, haunting melodies for anime like .hack//sign , NOIR, and tsubasa chronicles

I also like trance, emo boy bands and old rock.

My current faves are: Twilight (I hate to be cliche, but I love it),

Howl's moving castle (yes, the book),

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (and all of Douglas Adams' books)

the Looking Glass Wars (its Alyss in wonderland),

the sci-fi series that begins with the Uglies.

I love manga! I like books that question our mortality. I also like books of art or about art

ALL TIME FAVORITE

Lady Hawk (a man and woman who are cursed to always be apart: the lady is a hawk by day, mortal by night and the man is mortal by day, wolf by night)

OTHER FAVES:

Ghibli Films Corpse Bride Ultraviolet Aeon Flux Mirror Mask Tsubasa Chronicles

I love handmade things

I like making sculpy characters and necklace charms.

Mostly I do digital art.

crafts I would like to swap: matchboxes, polymer clay charms, pocket pets, sketches and drawings, ATC's, Poetry (always cool, especially if original)

THEMES

TIME(as a theme) clocks or clockparts, hourglasses

CUTE things or DARK Things

WINGS: anything wing related

TECHNOLOGY robots (anything Techno or Retro) think "Decay of Technology"

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

KAWAII STYLE Anything Japan(I am obsesessed)

JOURNALS I love to write in artsy, kawaii, and antique style journals. I don't really like flower motifs though.

BIRDS crows and ravens, chickadees (the cutest), cranes

ANIMALS all animals, whales, elephants and giraffes ,lizards, white rabbits, pandas,mice, pharoah hound, saluki and ibizen (awesome dogs)

STUFFED ANIMALS (I love stuffed animals that have personality)

MYTHOLOGY I like Greek and Egyption mythology. Isis is my favorite godess, and the Flight of Icarus is my favorite story.

FOOD raspberry blackberry candy (its an actual candy shaped like a gumdrop coated in candy balls), limes, starfruit, oranges, apples, cucumber, radish, soup, sushi, red licorice, cappucino, white rabbit candy, tea (I collect oriental tea sets)

well...

I'm not fond of the color pink, though I do like it in some things, don't let that dissuade you from using it.

I don't like blood, spider, or chocolate