personal stats

name: rose
alias: bara-chan ("bara" = japanese for "rose;" "-chan" = friendly/cute suffix)
gender: female
birthday: 03.21
age: 26
sign: aries
ethnicity: korean/german
eye color: dark brown
hair color: dark brown (with highlights)
location: atlanta, georgia, USA
occupation: freelance illustrator
hobbies: sleeping, cooking, video games, sleeping, sleeping
favorite colors: royal purple, sky blue, burgundy, brown
favorite foods: pizza, pasta, cheeses
favorite desserts: raspberry tuxedo cheesecake, red velvet cake
favorite drinks: coca-cola, apple juice, mocha frappuccinos
favorite movies: shaolin soccer, legend of drunken master, zoolander, big trouble in little china, gladiator, what dreams may come
favorite actors: ben stiller, kevin spacey, morgan freeman, jackie chan
favorite TV shows: friends, seinfeld, just shoot me, cheers
favorite bands: the prodigy, radiohead, 65daysofstatic, green day, asian kung-fu generation, the killers
favorite games: JSRF, bust a groove, chrono cross, persona 2: EP, ragnarok online, puzzle fighter
favorite anime: legend of black heaven, read or die, photon, FLCL, sailor moon
favorite manga: tokyo university story, neon genesis evangelion
favorite artists: CLASSICS - michelangelo buonarroti, alphonse mucha; COMICS - adam hughes, arthur adams; MANGA - yoshiyuki sadamoto, oh!great, hideaki fujimoto, choco; ANIME - makoto uno, atsuko ishida
likes: sleeping, eating, elephants
dislikes: obsession, cold weather, centipedes
flaws: lazy, soda addict
dreams: becoming a successful artist, traveling europe, sleeping


background stats

began drawing: very early age; began drawing in an anime style in 1996; began using CG programs in 1997
education: self-taught
past work: web-connect, vision entertainment, lo-fi magazine, PSM italy, slugfest games


tools

paper: strathmore 400 series sketchbooks, vellum and smooth bristol, deleter comic paper
pencils: 0.5mm bic mechanicals (2H and HB leads)
erasers: sanford magic rubs
ink: copic multiliners
colors: sanford prismacolor colored pencils, prismacolor markers
computer specs: 2.66 p4, 1G ram, geforce 5900, win2k
CG input: 6x8" wacom intuos3 tablet
CG programs: corel painter 9.5, adobe photoshop 7