You've reached the offical website of SuketchiLT, who you probably found on SheezyArt, DeviantArt, YouTube, or on rare occassion FaceBook. You will find contact information, along with ridiculously detailed pages on commissions, and a few 'under construction' sorts of pages on my characters and stories which probably won't make any sense to you. If you have the urge to use something you find on one of my sites, please ask for my permission and supply a 'I got this from SuketchiLT, whose website is http://SuketchiLT.Webs.Com' note at the bottom. Heck, you can even copy-paste that directly. I'll probably give you permission to use the image if it's completely my property (not a commission of someone else's character) and if I approve of the way you want to use it. By the way, there is no SuketchiLT.Com and there probably never will be. I don't want to spend money on it, and if I'm ever famous I really don't care to pay millions of dollars to get the name back from someone who will probably have taken the address.
Privacy Statement: ALL CONTENT IS COPYRIGHTED TO SUKETCHILT UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED. Please respect my privacy and keep my real name a secret. I do not plan to disclose my last name or photos of myself. If I’ve posted a link that has failed to work or you find a typo or any other error, please let me know. If you feel something I have posted is inappropriate for viewers under the age of 18, please notify me and I will decide whether I should remove it or not. My sites are not for children but they are not meant to be rated R. Also, sometimes when I type stuff up I’m in a bad mood and that’s what brought it to mind in the first place, so I’m sorry if some things seem a little angry. I reread my stuff sometimes and try to fix things.
Contact: (Upon sending me a message, please tell me how/where you found out about me and why you are contacting me.) [PLEASE do NOT use my real name online. It's kind of okay on FaceBook, but anywhere else: please use my username, especially if it is all I display on that site.]
Occupation: Elementary Education K-6 Major.
Employer: University of Florida.
Freewebs: http://SuketchiLT.Webs.Com.
Email: SuketchiLT@Yahoo.Com.
AIM: SuketchiLT.
YIM: SuketchiLT.
MSN: SuketchiLT@Yahoo.Com
FaceBook: SuketchiLT.
MySpace: SuketchiLT.
Blog: SuketchiLT (http://SuketchiLT2.BlogSpot.Com).
Oekaki: SuketchiLT (http://www.OekakiCentral.Com/).
Gallery: http://SuketchiLT.SheezyArt.Com or http://SuketchiLT.DeviantArt.Com.
Gaia: SuketchiLT.
Furcadia: SuketchiLT.
Art Grounds: SuketchiLT
YouTube: SuketchiLT
Basically, if there’s a site you think I might be on, do a search for SuketchiLT. The accounts here are guaranteed to be me, so feel free to ask one of these accounts if the one you've found is really me.
By the way, please don’t use the screen name SuketchiLT on any sites. I made it up and it’s basically my second name, so using it would definitely portray you as some sort of copycat thief.
Languages:
English: Native language. I can send written messages and speak it.
Español: Tres años en mi esquela secundaria. Lo puedo escribir pero no puedo hablar muy bien.
[Russkij: Syezon Osyen’ 2009]
[Deutsch: Herbst-Saison 2009]
[[Latin: Fall Season 2009]]
[[Japanese: Summer Season 2010?]]
[Français: Saison d’été 2010 ou 2011?]
[[Chinese: Summer Season 2011 or 2012?]]
When it comes to foreign languages I usually don’t know anyone who will speak them with me on a level where I feel comfortable while at the same time I learn. Thus, it’s usually easier for me to write things, because I am used to doing written homework, memorizing visual lists, I can see what I’m doing instead of trying to picture it in my head, and I can take my time with a dictionary for words I don’t know. I am only fluent in English. I have taken classes in Spanish. I haven’t had classes in the languages in brackets, but I’ve listed (with the help of an online translator) when I plan to start if my parents will let me take that many summer courses. Unfortunately, the UF Proteach program doesn’t leave much room for foreign languages. I’m going to owe my dad a LOT of money once college ends. Why, yes! I do tend to try to take the full credit limit! Social life? Noooo.
About Me: I am a former art major, and I specialize in painting and drawing. I like anime for its expressiveness, and realism for its accuracy. Some people think I’m weird, have OCD, or both, but they usually agree that I am nice. (I don’t know how they get that impression.) I try to keep my sites relatively clean, in the sense that I don’t put porn or many violent images. I curse sometimes, and I tend to have homosexual characters, so if you are worried about those sorts of things, don't read the descriptions under the images. 'Course, I don't put anything inappropriate, so you really don't have anything to worry about. I tend to type more than I need to unless I'm really tired. ...I think this is the shortest "About Me" I've ever typed.
Pet: A bearded dragon named Behbie. My family owns a dog named Daisy, a bird named Pepper, and four cats named Candy, Oreo, Boots, and Bingley.
Usual Art Supplies:
Colored Pencils: Prismacolors
Crayons: Crayola
Mechanical Pencils: Zebra
Watercolors: Grumbacher Select Opaque
Acrylics: Liquitex
Yarn: Lily the Original Sugar ‘n Cream
Inking Pens: Micron
Pens: Precise
Sketchbook: Mead Academie Sketchbook Heavyweight Paper 11x8.5 inches
Computer: Open Canvas 4, Open Canvas 1, Microsoft Paint, Photoshop CS2
Artist Statement: [If you want to view my artwork there are a few locations: Facebook has organized albums, but a limited amount of artwork. SheezyArt has almost everything I’ve ever posted online, but it has no form of organization other than chronological. DeviantArt has most of what Sheezy has, but not all of it and is more disorganized.]
I am more technical than conceptual. I would rather look at a Roman marble sculpture than a splattered painting by Pollock. This is probably due to my tendency to be very literal, and to have trouble making sense of abstract things.
I like working in 2D. It is easy to provide for and to store. Also, in high school I didn’t like the sculpture teacher, and spent most of my time in the drawing and painting rooms. I prefer to work in crayons, pencils, watercolors, and acrylics. I don’t really like printmaking because I find it boring and repetitive.
My work is very literal. I like realism- portraits, still lives, etc. However, I’ll add or get rid of things depending on what I was thinking at the time. I once made a painting of some boats after the Katrina hurricane and I painted a shark fin under the bridge because I was talking with the girl painting next to me and I wanted to remember the conversation- my art is my diary. Another example is the painting of my lizard in which there are real newspapers glued to the bottom. The article is about pampered racehorses. My lizard is the most spoiled reptilian you could ever meet, thus I found it fitting.
I like shapes, colors, and I see drawing and painting as a form of mental sculpture. I once made a finger-painting of a guy who calls himself Mr. Pie, and as I made it I thought of myself as sculpting the portrait out of clay, using the darker colors to illustrate where I pushed farther into the clay, etc. I like looking at acrobats because you can see more shapes due to their lower body fat percentages. Also, many of them are foreign and can strike odd poses. How many Chinese contortionists do you know? My favorite person to draw and paint is a ladder acrobat from Cirque du Soleil named Uzeyer. I like the shapes in his face, so I find him fun to draw. [One of my Facebook albums is only works of him.]
Color plays a huge role in my paintings. I like to use opposites. If I am painting skin tones, I’ll use blues and maybe some greens for some of the shadows. I try not to mix black into my colors unless I absolutely must. You can see my use of opposites in my watercolors, in which I hate using black. I usually use blue as my ‘gray’ when I’m making a brighter picture. Have you ever looked at a sidewalk on a sunny day? The sidewalk is yellow, and the shadow is blue. Sometimes my work can become quite colorful, and this is due to a Lisa Frank inspired piece that I have not posted online, in which I used whatever color crayon I grabbed without looking. I have a new piece in that style in my Sheezy. __ Anyway, when I do use black, I make it myself rather than buying it in a tube. When I watercolor I don’t make my own colors, but with acrylics I only use red, blue, yellow, white, and brown. I usually pre-mix my colors.
My anime is my way of expressing myself. A portrait takes too long, and thinking of lots of symbolism is hard for someone who really doesn’t understand those sorts of things unless they put a lot of effort into it. Anime is very expressive and can be very realistic or very contorted. It’s probably the closest to abstract I can get without hating a piece.
I don’t always see myself as an artist. My literal tendencies make it hard for me to think artistically. I can’t make a splatter painting and comfortably discuss how the green represents nature and the orange and red are the fire of industrialization destroying our organic world. I’d rather make a painting of a forest with a factory and billowing smoke in the background. Actually, I’d much prefer to avoid making a statement all together. I tend to lack strong opinions, and I don’t like overly-opinionated things. They tend to leave the viewer with a feeling of sick satisfaction or disgust. Therefore, I avoid political works, both my own and those made by others.
I was a visual arts major in middle school and high school, but I’ve quit. I can still make art, I’m just not paying a college to teach me stuff I already know and give me assignments I don’t like. Besides, I don’t want to be a full-time artist; I want a solid job. I wouldn’t mind illustrating children’s books, though.
Likes: My lizard, foreign languages, drawing, painting, working with clay, crocheting, crayons, collecting and hoarding things (especially if they're colorful), marbles, yarn, pens, beads, earrings, working with pixels, making Furcadia portraits, lining up light switches, dinosaurs, reptiles, animals in general, forming piles instead of cleaning my room, learning, listening to music, shades of green, French horns, anime, animated things, Pokémon, LocoRoco, Patapon, Kingdom Heats 1 and 2, Folklore, faces...
Dislikes: Gum, reading, art galleries, when people move/touch my things, damaging books/magazines, when my room gets too messy, writing papers, math homework, sharing, politics, people who rant too much, loud things, ordering in restaurants/food places, citrus scented/flavored things, artists, pets that beg too much, giving out food at gallery openings, self-induced depressed people/drama queens...
Favorite Quotes: “Would you look at that with your eyes?” “Since the house is burning, let us warm ourselves.” “Thank you, Love Bucket! Can I call you Bucket?” “Alas! Or a laddie, if you prefer.” “We can do it soft-core.” “When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness.” “It’s almost as epic as yodeling.” “Cuantos anos tienes?” With no tilde. “Tickled my fancy.” “Squirrels, Nature’s little speed bumps.” “For T-Rex the peace sign is nearly effortless!” “And that is: can they remember when they first became aware of the difference between the sexes? The birds and the bees?’ ‘There’s a difference?’” “I like the rain. It washes memories off the sidewalk of life.” “Strawb’ry.” “’I feel a void at the center of my being.’ ‘What kind of void?’ ‘Well, an empty void.’” “Boris is trying to commit suicide! Last week he contemplated killing himself by inhaling next to an Armenian.” “I can do anything I like, with anyone I like. With their consent.” “Following are excerpts from the hitherto secret private journal of Woody Allen, which will be published posthumously or after his death, which ever comes first.” “Love is like peeing your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel its warmth.” “No, I try not to give him [therapist] any accurate information about myself.” "Listen! Can you smell that?" “I was a nervous child. When I was younger. I was a bed wetter. I used to sleep with an electric blanket, and was constantly electrocuting myself.”
Things You Should Never Do: Ask me about politics. Ask me to draw you. (Unless you are commissioning me, then it's okay.) Make any physical contact with me other than shaking my hand when I first meet you. Make jokes about musicians and actors, I don’t know any and therefore I don’t find them funny. Ask me if someone looks like someone else. Touch my stuff. Insult/threaten my lizard; even if it’s a joke. Tell me you want my signature just so you can sell the thing I gave you. Disrespect a present I give you. (I take gifts very seriously.) Invite me to things that are done in groups, like parties or large reunions. Expect me to wear something you think would be interesting because I don’t wear that style. (If I don’t wear it already, I don’t want something like it.) Forget to respond to messages I send or forget to call me back. Simply respond to my messages rather than adding new topics of your own to keep the conversation going.
