I just got a bunch of sketching pencils so I'm starting to use those (leads 9B, 6B, 3B, HB, and 5H) . For colors, I use GIMP program. (free stuff is the best, after all)

I just turned 16, and I've always loved drawing. I've used the name Journie on pretty much everything ever since i joined this website some years back called VMK (virtual magic kingdom). it was like club penguin except free and actually fun. but unfotunately, disney closed it down a while back :(. I've kept the name ever since. I don't really have a favorite color :S :)My favorite manga artists are Kim Hyung-Tae (i so wish i could get one of the oxide art books) and Tatsuyuki Tanaka :D The kind of style I'm trying to use is, not quite manga, but a Korean style manhwa (its the kind Kim Hyung-Tae uses) it "disregards anatomical accuracy to give a feel to a character" meaning the pose the character is doing doesn't necessarily have to be possible, but it looks awesome when it's done right. I'm also writing a book, and I've started it on figment.com under the name Journie just in case somebody is curious :) I'm currently learning Japanese from the Latin teacher at my school (who incidentally knows Japanese as well) 今日は。haha

Mistborn(my fav book ever!- also by Sanderson- i wish they would make it into a movie)Elantris by Brandon Sanderson Green Rider series by Kristen Britain Obsidian Ridge, Uglies series, Harry Potter, Twilight's okay, David Eddings books (Belgarath, Polgara, Sparhawk, if anyone knows what I'm talking about. there are too many to name)City of Ember, Percy Jackson, Sabriel, Lirael, Book of Dead Days, Eragon (i read the first 2 but i couldnt get the 3rd one bc it was in hardback and when it came out in paperback, id already forgotten the story) Incarceron (which i heard is going to be a movie with Taylor Lautner in it). the Lost Hero, Laputa (a manga of the movie Castle in the Sky), Deathnote, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (yes, I really did read it, all of it!) Nurarihyon no Mago (love Rikuo <3)

Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, 17 Again, !!Source Code!!, I am Legend, Misery, Mulan, Hercules :), Napoleon Dynamite, road to el dorado, surrogates, prince of persia, i am number four, the matrix (thought the sequel was crappy), memento, the shawshank redemption, Inception (yes i finally saw it) the village, signs (most M. Night Shyamalan films) gladiator (YEAH!) Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, She's the Man, Fight Club, TRIGUN!!!! (Love Vash so much, he's the most hilarious hero ever!!)

No Doubt, Mike Posner, Evanescence, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Paramore, Amy Grant, 30 Seconds to Mars, Linkin Park, Utada Hikaru, the Eagles, Drist, Heart, Snow Patrol, the White Stripes, Peter Gabriel, Rusted Root, Social Code, Foo Fighters, Scorpions, Avenged Sevenfold, Kent, Coldplay, Live, "white flag" by Dido, Nikacha, Sung-Woon Jang, Requiem for a Dream (by Clint Mansell) is like the most kick-@#$ song ever (as someone on youtube commented, it can make eating a sandwich epic) :D poets of the fall, trapt, alison krauss, the video game pianist (yeah, yeah, i know), Takeharu Ishimoto

drawing, writing, reading, internet, playing video games :) (Magna Carta: Crimson Stigmata was AMAZING! Reith is awesome! wish i could play the first one in the series, phantom of avalanche, but it's ONLY in korean! and i heard the next one on Xbox 360 wasnt so great, Bully, NOT final fantasy X honestly the story was totally BORING except at the very beginning and at the very end. i ve taken a sudden liking to FF 7 though, even if im never going to be able to play it bc i dont have a PS1 but i just finished crisis core and its pretty awesome, trying to learn how to play piano and guitar (im wishing myself good luck on that hehe) i suck at basketball but i do it anyway :P thank god the season is over