professionals, now that's funny.  hyperenity is 
some 20-year-old trying to employ people who 
will praise her, and when they finally find out 
what an a-hole she is, she fires them (btw, i 
hear that misty is now employed for niisan? good 
people).  the only reason that people employ 
hyperenity the most is because she will paint 
just about anything.  

i won her fanart "contest" back in july, and the 
prize was a fan cel with a background, which i 
requested from her and she said that she'd 
paint, but i still haven't received it and it's 
already february of the next year?  so 
apparently she's *so* professional that she 
can't live up to the deals she makes with 
potential customers unless they're paying her 
for it.

forkysanime is amazing, they really are.  it 
seems to me like they spend their days (when not 
painting, of course) perusing the best dragon 
ball z galleries for potential fan cels.  either 
that, or they are looking on eBay to see what's 
selling at the moment, and just making similar 
cels.  i must admit, though, that their work is 
getting a lot better than it used to be.

i stopped painting fan cels a while back;  the 
ones that i was listing on eBay were being 
copied and sold by other fan cel artists.  i 
remember i sold one of ryoko and another of ed 
and ein, and then miraculously two days later 
hyperenity had cels of both of those characters 
for sale.

another thing was that people weren't requesting 
original fan cels.  it's not really any fun to 
copy a screencap or picture, even if it does 
make you an extra buck.  and if it wasn't fun 
any more and i didn't enjoy doing it, then 
naturally i stopped.  now while i can't say that 
i'm a "professional," i still enjoy painting fan 
cels when i do.

haruna