Tuesday, February 5, 2008

What or who are Iazzy and Orza?

Alright, so you're on the blog, and you're thinking hey, who owns this blog? You look at the publisher and all you see is "Iazzy and Orza."
"What?" you say. "Who the heck are they?"
Glad you asked. Here's the answer to that question.
It all started with the previously mentioned trip to the zoo (see post 2) and all. But of course, my little brother and I LOVE to make our own characters as soon as we think of them. So Iazzy was created by said little brother, Aidan. I didn't really think anything of him until he made a new and interesting appearance in my daily life.
Sometimes when I'm hanging out in Aidan's room, I'll just pick up a piece of paper and doodle. I have several notebooks full of these doodles. One day I was doodling on a scrap of paper, and I decided to draw a bowl of ice cream. It turned out very well. It was very detailed and precise, and I liked it.
The next day I was up there, and I looked at my ice cream picture again. In the bottom left corner was a little scribbled animal, and underneath were the words, "Drawing by Iazzy".
Aidan laughed when he saw the expression on my face, as I figured out the scribbled animal was Iazzy, and he was referring to MY ice cream drawing as his! I couldn't help laughing after a minute, and after that Iazzy appeared on more then just one of my pictures.
About a month ago, though, Orza came into the mix. We were feeling sorry for the poor Golden Lion Tamarins, and then I realized that I didn't have a Golden Lion Tamarin character. So we created Orza, and she' s my character, named at first Aura, meaning gold, but it soon changed to Orza, as it sounded better, and it was like the rice-shaped pasta, so it was a double advantage.
So there you go. Iazzy and Orza, the little golden lion tamarins of America.