Lumen Dei

About the Artist:

Real Name: Carissa Pedrosa
Nickname: Mouse(y), Kiizi(i)
Birthday: October 11, 1988
Blood Type: A
Occupation: Art Student
Heritage: FilAm XD
General likes: Anime/Manga, romance, tragedies, romantic tragedies (haha!), drawing, video games, cheese, cooking, cartoons, comments. <3<3<3
General dislikes: Spiders, horror films, sports, swimming, high school (good thing I'm in college. XP)
Favorite colors: Yellow, Orange
Favorite animes: X/1999 TV, Fruits Basket, Kare Kano, SailorMoon
Favorite manga: Hot Gimmick, Crossroad
Favorite webcomics: Oh boy... Joyride, Red String, The Way to Your Heart, Misfile, Tsunami Channel, Aoi House, and more, plus all my favorites here on SJ. XD
Favorite video games: FF7, Tales of Symphonia, Grandia 2
Favorite music: JPop, Classical, Techno, Video game/Anime BGM ... and on that note,
Favorite composers: Claude Debussy, Nobuo Uematsu, Yuki Kajiura

Other stuff: Uh, I have a bad habit of biting my nails, I love having really long hair, I'm a frumpy dresser (though I know how to dress well. =P Frumpy is just more comfy. ;D), I never stay upset long (unless it's something I can't forgive easily XD), I'm really forgetful, I'm addicted to smileys/emotes (like XD, =3, D:), I'm really quiet in person around strangers but REALLY talkative around my friends, I'm in the choir at my church because I do indeed go to church XD, and I learn foreign languages fast but forget them fast too unless I use them all the time... which I don't. D:

Making of LD: Ahh... This might be interesting to some of you. XD Lumen Dei originally started out COMPLETELY different. :D Arin was sort've like Robin Hood but mean and she was called "X" because of a branded X on the back of her hand that marked her as a wanted criminal. =P Hunter, on the other hand, was a bounty hunter (and that was his nickname at the time, because he was the best bounty hunter ever or something like that, ooooh. I never made up a real name for him back then. XD) and they were bitter rivals. Hunter also used to be WAAAAY more sickly. :D So much so that he looked very scary, and my sister called him a zombie. D: Oh, and finally, it used to be called... Hunters! XDD Isn't that TERRIBLE? D: Anyway, I can't remember for the life of me how and why Lumen Dei changed to be what it is today, but I'm glad it did. :D Now for the actual process... Well I've been working on this for years, going over things in my head, developing characters, yada yada. This year (2007) I finally put together my pseudo-script and started up pages. :D In truth, I do Lumen Dei pages completely digitally, which is very different from my usual method of doing things. :X So what do I use... Let's see... I do thumbs/sketches in Photoshop 6 (I do these at school when I don't have class), use Sai for lines/inking, and go back to Photoshop for coloring.

Oh chyeah, if you wanna contact me, there's like, every means of doing so possible in my SJ profile. :D 'Cept like, my address and phone cause there are some weird people out there. D:



About the Artist: Real Name: Carissa Pedrosa Nickname: Mouse(y), Kiizi(i) Birthday: October 11, 1988 Blood Type: A Occupation: Art Student Heritage: FilAm XD General likes: Anime/Manga, romance, tragedies, romantic tragedies (haha!), drawing, video games, cheese, cooking, cartoons, comments. <3<3<3 General dislikes: Spiders, horror films, sports, swimming, high school (good thing I'm in college. XP) Favorite colors: Yellow, Orange Favorite animes: X/1999 TV, Fruits Basket, Kare Kano, SailorMoon Favorite manga: Hot Gimmick, Crossroad Favorite webcomics: Oh boy... Joyride, Red String, The Way to Your Heart, Misfile, Tsunami Channel, Aoi House, and more, plus all my favorites here on SJ. XD Favorite video games: FF7, Tales of Symphonia, Grandia 2 Favorite music: JPop, Classical, Techno, Video game/Anime BGM ... and on that note, Favorite composers: Claude Debussy, Nobuo Uematsu, Yuki Kajiura Other stuff: Uh, I have a bad habit of biting my nails, I love having really long hair, I'm a frumpy dresser (though I know how to dress well. =P Frumpy is just more comfy. ;D), I never stay upset long (unless it's something I can't forgive easily XD), I'm really forgetful, I'm addicted to smileys/emotes (like XD, =3, D:), I'm really quiet in person around strangers but REALLY talkative around my friends, I'm in the choir at my church because I do indeed go to church XD, and I learn foreign languages fast but forget them fast too unless I use them all the time... which I don't. D: Making of LD: Ahh... This might be interesting to some of you. XD Lumen Dei originally started out COMPLETELY different. :D Arin was sort've like Robin Hood but mean and she was called "X" because of a branded X on the back of her hand that marked her as a wanted criminal. =P Hunter, on the other hand, was a bounty hunter (and that was his nickname at the time, because he was the best bounty hunter ever or something like that, ooooh. I never made up a real name for him back then. XD) and they were bitter rivals. Hunter also used to be WAAAAY more sickly. :D So much so that he looked very scary, and my sister called him a zombie. D: Oh, and finally, it used to be called... Hunters! XDD Isn't that TERRIBLE? D: Anyway, I can't remember for the life of me how and why Lumen Dei changed to be what it is today, but I'm glad it did. :D Now for the actual process... Well I've been working on this for years, going over things in my head, developing characters, yada yada. This year (2007) I finally put together my pseudo-script and started up pages. :D In truth, I do Lumen Dei pages completely digitally, which is very different from my usual method of doing things. :X So what do I use... Let's see... I do thumbs/sketches in Photoshop 6 (I do these at school when I don't have class), use Sai for lines/inking, and go back to Photoshop for coloring. Oh chyeah, if you wanna contact me, there's like, every means of doing so possible in my SJ profile. :D 'Cept like, my address and phone cause there are some weird people out there. D: