^{I have been sleepy.}_{Pretty much so.} My bed was cuddly and oh so deliciously warm. The pile of the to learn for exam things waited on the window sill next to my head - do you think close enough I might have studied in my dreams?

Are fill out questionnaires good for a brain's reconditioning? Let's try out:

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1] What is your pen name?
Hikari

2] Where does your nickname came from?
Japanese for "light"...

3] Do you use PC or Mac?
I am a Sony fan(girl)

4] What software you use most often?
Internet browser, MS Word, Photoshop, Adobe Reader, VLC media player...

5] Do you use mouse, or tablet?
Wacom, Vaio's touchpad. I do not play cats and mice anymore.

6] The color you use most often is?
Red. Various reds I am addicted to. Also black, purple, dark blues and greens. White. In general it is more about contrasts and similarity, most importantly - a playful gut feeling that lead my colour choices.

7] What area of the pictures do you put most effort into?
Faces, especially when them hate me. In general I like the picture to be "complete" in the sense I will care for both persons and background with equal passion.

8] How long does it take you do draw a picture?
Few hours to... years. Drawing is an interest of mine that is most mood depending. I also tend to either work on a picture till exhaustion or/then never touch it for the longest time, then continue in yet another day and night session. Sadly I am just an incredibly slow worker who delights in her "flows".

9] Do you keep your rough drafts?
Yes... At least I like to take some step-for-step photos of my more serious traditional art projects. Just to remind me that I progress. At all.

10] What kind of font do you use most often?
Times New Roman as usual. Elegant Script. Vivaldi or Papyrus are also quite to my liking.

11] What's the dpi when you scan?
150-300. I do not colour digitally. [I tried]

12] Do you do anything else when you're drawing pictures?
Music. Going through all the random albums I have not listened to for a longest while. And never liked much. So it remains fresh, new surprising and even inspiring?!^^

13] How many pictures do you draw in a month?
Maybe some doodles, mayhap a picture. In general I would rather add yet another to-do project to my to-draw list at least once a month...

14] What kind of paper do you draw your pictures on?
My favourite: watercolour paper. Also thick white sketch one, especially for pastels.

15] What kind of paper do you use for sketches and drafts?
185g/m², already mentioned. I hardly ever just sketch if working traditionally... (I hardly ever go anywhere other than a sketch if using my dear wacom).

16] How long does it take to ink something?
Black Copics of various thickness and shape make "inking" swift and easy.

17] Do you do doujinshi or original manga?
I shall try a doujinshi someday.

18] Do you like doujinshi? Is it fun making it?
No, not enough colours, such little frames. My own trial will be done in watercolours...

19] Ever submitted anything to a magazine?
My art is too special for such

20] Did it get published?
... My shall be written books shall be.

21] Who are your favorite artists?
Pre-Raphaelites, Dali, Friedrich, Klimt, Rubens, maestros of Renaissance... , icon = I love you all, and feel free to check out my favourites

22] What's your favourite Anime/Manga?
made @ Kaori Yuki, Naruto, Vampire Knight, Code Geass...

23] Favourite Character?
Nii-sama.

24] Any artists that you'd like to draw like?
Rubens, the way he painted skin is stunning. In general I am more of "I just fool around and let's see" person. Art is an expression of one's own soul, as long as my is different I cannot see myself to draw "like" someone else.

25] Do you buy books a lot?
And book shelves. And the floor places reserved for the books from library for by virtue of my limited budget nowadays I am damned to part with my darlings again, every so often

26] Did you ever buy a book to inspire you to draw?
Yes, art catalogues from Louvre, about selected artists. Currently I look for an exciting anatomy go through.

27] Any video games you enjoy?
Once every 3-6 months I spend 1-3 straight days with things like Sims 2, Prince of Persia or another adventure/RPG that caught my eyes. Afterwards the phase is over, I muse about aching head, lack of sleep, loss of time and say adieu for the next few months.

28] Any favourite characters from video games?
Aerith of FF7, the customised Sim to reflect my general interest in this world. (Like Severus, Mana, Itachi...)

29] Do you have a favourite writer?
Recently I became Hermann Hesse's little darling. I adore German Romanticism, Nietzsche makes me laugh, Heine smile, Wilde smile amused. My own writing style is said to remind of Jane Austen. Tolkien's language is beautiful. So is Anne Rice's. Added the general bunch of "classical writers" (Pushkin, Lermontow, Goethe, Schiller, Shakespear, Boccaccio, ... ).

30] Any books you really enjoy?
Any books by my favourite writers. Added a preference for biographies of the writers and other interesting "big" humans in general. Added some esoteric lectures and encyclopaedias. Added white paper, decent grammar and letters and I am enamoured already. Evil, evil book fetish.

31] Do you write fanfics?
Indeed. My aspiration is to become a professional writer of my pretty original, that is stolen from all about me world, thoughts.

32] Any music that you often listen to while drawing?
The albums I have forgotten about...

33] Any recommended songs?
Alessandro Safina like this [link] Xanadu of Moi dix Mois [link] Shinkai of "Elfen Lied" [link] and "Dante's Prayer" by Loreena McKennit [link] and eventually NIN's "Sin" [link] would build the five stars of my everlasting addiction

34] Any websites that you totally admire?
Wikipedia. Amazon. Onemanga.com Wadoku [link]

35] Do you have any sites you want to go everyday?
DArt, ff.net, ff.de, mailer.

36] What is your dream site like?
Does not hurt eyes. Clean and clear. Fast loading.

37] Do you like your own art?
More than I admit. Less than I would like to.

38] What do you enjoy watching on TV?
TV is not allowed at mine. Time consuming, brain cells eating, advertisements, loud, annoying, extravert... DVDs are quite the better alternative.

39] Favourite celebrity?
Mana. Listed out of convenience. My first love was Louis XIV of France, and Nietzsche/Hesse make me laugh (and feel homey). And how cannot you not desire men who bestow you with a smile?

The true answer goes even deeper into ages and mythology though.

40] Favourite color?
Red, Black, Violet. Dark, deep, strong, cruel, sensual.

41] Favourite food?
Apples, fish, grapes. Anything spicy, sour, bittersweet. The smell of coffee. The taste of cherries.

42] Favourite drink?
Tea, water, cherry juice.

43] Any places you like to shop at?
Bookshop. Perfect place to lose the track of time in. CD/DVD/Electronics one. And toy and candy shops^^

44] Can you cook?
Sure. With regularly overflowing pots. They say it is tasty though. And I agree.

45] Any programs you use often for email? Any electronic pets?
What for?

46] Are you a computer expert?
My skills suffice to my needs, and are actualised as far as my needs come or grow. It is not an area I need to be perfect though.

47] Want to become a professional artist?
A professional writer.

48] Any other jobs you're interested in, besides an illustrator?
Psychological research. And other myriads of possibilities.

49] Any other specialities besides drawing?
Play-acting. On the daily basis. Irony and relativism. Childishness.

50] Do you like to watch movies?
When I feel like letting overflow myself.

51] What's your favourite movie?
"In the mood for love", "The dreamers", BBC "Pride and Prejudice".

52] Have you ever entered art contests?
With my skills in procrastination?

53] When did you start drawing seriously?
A year ago when I discovered anatomy whilst petting my "Romeo and Juliet" [link]

54] Anything that you often use as a reference when you draw?
Anatomy books. Photos. More books. Google search. A better question is what I do not use as a reference when I draw?

55] Have you met any of your fans online?
I am happy to have just some acquaintances and a fewer amount of friends.

56] You have a lot of pen pals?
Some + a forum thread I spend time in.

57] You have a lot of friends that draw?
I am fortunate to have either friends that draw or write or... neither.

58] What time do you usually go online?
Way too often and way too late.

59] Do you like to go to chat rooms?
And participate in those superficial conversations with those strangers?!

60] Do you have your own computer?
And I live alone.

61] What would you say to the person you admire?
So I suppose you may bear with me, what about you?

62] Do you think of things when you draw?
Absorbed state, enough stress as it is.

63] Have you drawn bad because you think too much?
I always think too much, so habituation takes place.

64] Do you have any friends who are professionals?
Perhaps.

65] Where do you often hang out?
My room. Couch, bed, floor. Taking walks at a riverside outside.

66] Do you have any artists that you don't like too much?
I am not too prone regarding "anime style". And more.

67] Situations in which you really don't like being online?
Online does not equal "available" or? Because human interaction is strenuous per se, I need a corresponding better condition to dare to.

68] Situations in which you hate when it comes to having websites?
My anti-social phases, and especially the days after I perfectionise into direction of catching on everywhere.

69] Something that makes you really glad that the internet exists?
Information, inspiration, online shops, less limitations, more opportunity to meet more interesting humans.

70] What about things that make you NOT glad that the internet exists?
The internet addiction, especially at times I have to work on the darling real-life circumstance.

71]What's the first picture you've ever shown to the public online?
Not certain, but the first picture my wacom has touched is this one: "Toskana" [link]

72] Do you still have that?
Yes. 798 kb of my hard disc.

73] Has your drawing style changed a lot?
Umm. An. Has my personality changed a lot over the years?

74] How does it usually change?
It does not. It merely accumulates.

75] Have you experienced artists block before?
Often and ever.

76] How did you escape from it?
Time.

77] What happens when you have artists block?
Depression, alias lack of concentration and self-confidence.

78] Any artists that have influenced you a lot?
No, just by forming my art taste in general.

79] What made you start drawing?
The love for colours and creation.

80] What made you want to get a website?
The anger I felt for the maturity filter of DA, a friend frequenting here.

81] Where did your site name come from?
"Hikari" was taken... "Higure" equals "sunset".

82] What do you think about net manners?
Proper writing has not killed anyone yet. I suppose.

83] Have you ever been spammed?
...

84] Ever thought about quitting your webpage?
DA? This is nothing serious. Really.

85] If so, why?
Because birds have beauteous voices.

86] About how much KB is each picture?
Unsteady.

87] When creating your site, do you use a program or pure html?
html-editor phase 5.

88] Do you have good eyesite?
With glasses. Distances get blurry without.

89] If you can get any person's autograph, who's would you get?
Nii-san's "I am alive, I care about you".

90] What would you say to that artist when he/she autographs for you?
You are real!

91] Do you have fans of your art?
Who knows.

92] Do you like to draw on oekaki bbs?
No experience.

93] Are you good at art in school?
I received best notes for the few paintings I delivered, and zeros for the many I did not.

94] Did you take art lesson other than from school?
Every once in a while, but I cannot keep taking them for a longer time. This is my personal disaster, damnit. No need to praise me.

95] Have you drawn a manga?
No. I shall not.

96] What's your favourite phrase/quote?
Smile. Just smile. (Everything deep loves the mask. Love and Peace, Knowledge and Freedom.)

97] Do you think your personality is different externally and internally?
No, excluding the big show.

98] What's your goal now?
Restore myself as a "good" student. Write that book. Dance.

99] What do you have to say to yourself?
Two hours later, and you still have not learnt. Argh. No sleep till you finish the first book notes... And be the gods named Vivaldi and Coffee.

100] Lastly, what do you have to say to everyone?
Good night.