Sunday, September 25, 2005

   Lazy...
Admittedly, I am a lazy bum when it comes to uploading stuff and updating journals. I added a few new pieces today...I think I have one or two more to add as well. Not sure, but I really have nothing interesting to say.

I watched the anime Beck lately...and now the songs are stuck in my head. Damn cool anime though.

Uhm...yeah...well, watching Samurai Champloo is better than updating a journal, soo.... *watches*
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Sunday, August 28, 2005

Lazy
I've been lazy about scanning and posting lately...especially posting. I guess I don't have much of interest to say. I've started exploring things that could not be considered anime, art-wise and got back into designing desktop wallpapers (it's just so fun!) so there have been a lot of things I can't really post here.

I posted a Shikamaru picture today though, and yesterday I posted another one that I'm actually quite proud of. I think I'm starting to get better at this whole 'art' thing. Though hands are still troublesome, they've started to get easier to draw. It used to be that it took me 50% of the time I drew to get the hands looking somewhat right, but now it's just another part of the picture. That must mean I'm improving, at least I hope so!

Well, there really isn't much to say though, sooo...i'm off!
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Wednesday, August 3, 2005

   squee!!!
Hi guys! Not much has changed, but I'm really excited right now because I just found out that my piece "My Unicorn" took third place in an art contest at twistedshift.com. *beams* I'm really happy, so I had to announce it to the general public! Okay, so third prize is actually just a pair of magnets, but I don't really care about that as much as getting third place to begin with. That piece took a lot of hard work, so I'm glad that people liked it is all, I guess. Today is a really good day now! I rejoice!
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Thursday, July 28, 2005

   busy!
I've been so busy! A lot of stuff has been going on while nothing has really been happening at all. Next week I'm going to take over the management of an online rpg, so I've been busy with learning all the more technical details of that.

I finally got good markers. Not copics, but prismacolors, which are a bit cheaper, but still professional level. I like them. They don't streak much and are really easy to get the hang of, plus I can work with them more quickly than I can work digitally.

And I've started hashing out a comic idea. I think I'm finally ready to try my first comic, so "Spaced Out" is in the planning stages, though it will probably be another month or two before I sit down to start the actual scripting and drawing the pages. I want to have all the characters settled and the locations first. I'm a bit worried about drawing backgrounds, since they aren't my specialty, but I'll just have to use a lot of reference material and struggle through it until it becomes second nature.

I'm basing all the major characters on people I know, and as I think about them, I realize some people might get mad at me by saying I'm drawing stereotypical, stock characters, that their personalities are unoriginal...but these are my friends I'm basing these characters off of! I hope they don't seem boring, but I think that I know some pretty great, funny people who will create good chemistry in the context of a comic. But I guess I'll have to wait and see what people think once I've got it set.

The website for my writer's guild got deleted...again...maybe I'll start a blog instead of an actual site. Less coding for me is always good. I'm so lazy when it comes to html...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005

"My Art"
Defend your art with your life.

I wish I could take credit for that line, but it's something I read somewhere, and it wasn't about art, it was about poetry. Same thing though, really.

Today I drew something that's ugly and beautiful. The marker lines are blatant, not all the white spots are filled in, and I made no attempt to blend anything, but I did that because, at the moment, that was what 'my art' was.

You see, I've always adored the beauty of mangas such as Angel Sanctuary, Imadoki, the simple looking lines of Hot Gimmick and Forbidden Dance--it's graceful and flowing. I used to think, 'I want to draw like that'. And then I walk through the Pallisades Mall and I see these just completely amazing and lifelike portraits, and then I start thinking, 'I'd like to be able to draw like that.' But to be honest, my fingers aren't long and I have carpal tunnel. My life, like my art, lacks grace and finesse. I work in short to medium length lines. That sort of grace that I admire has never been 'my' art.

I look at all these fan artists who make these beautiful, perfect renditions of characters from anime and manga I watch, and I think, 'my god! so good!' But that's not my art either. To be honest, I've never really had any desire to draw anyone's characters but my own. When I attempt a fan art of one of my favorite anime, it's usually just a way of testing myself.

I've long been a fan of both manga and american comics. Sometimes I look at my drawings and think, 'maybe this isn't really anime-style', but I don't know, I guess that doesn't matter.

Without regrets, I'll continute to pursue 'my art'...a style that belongs only to me and that evolves as I evolve. That's what I've decided. As a personality, I'm pretty graceless, to be honest. I don't have any subtlety and I have the emotional make-up of a slug at times. Maybe that means my art is going to end up being pretty tactless, or maybe it already is. Hah!

But whatever happens, I'm definitely going to defend my art, and work hard to create something with its own kind of beauty, not Yu Watase's beauty, or Luis Royo's beauty, just mine. I'd like to continue to believe that someday, I'll create something that's just going to bloom. And I'll proudly call that something 'my art', even if no one understands it but me.
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Friday, July 15, 2005

   bam!
Life is chaos. Posts sporadic. Draw more stuff. :p

Ah, what a wonderful world.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2005

Fun with Oils
Well, I haven't uploaded anything but a doodle in a while. I've been busy a lot with writing, and working on my first oil painting.

Oils are soo fun! But I got overexcited and uploaded this one before it was fully dry, so it has these weird white spots where the light hit the wet paint. haha.

Oh well. No biggie. Still for a first shot I'm happy. I want to make a few more tweaks actually, but I need to wait for the paint to dry before I can do them. Hm.. well, nothing else of interest going on.

I want to think of another cool oil painting pic, because I really want to try canvas next. Cardboard works well, but having a brown background sort of limited my options on this one. I feel so artsy...heh.
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Sunday, June 19, 2005

   back online!
I've had no internet for like three days, or cable...now, i hardly ever turn on the tv, but without the net i was like "oh, wait, what do i do now?" isn't that sad? haha. anyway, it got me to finish a painting i was working on forever so i guess all's well that ends well...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005

   this thing, you know...that I hate...
So today...pain. My foot is really swollen! But the thing that I hate is that I have no idea why. Oh, don't get me wrong, I can make a few educated guesses, but I can't say with any amount of certainty how i ended up with a lump of my instep just past the heel swollen up to the size of a half-dollar... Well, the swelling has gone down, even though I've been limping around since yesterday evening, and let me tell you limping around the pallisades mall (which, last time i checked is i believe the second largest mall in the eastern US, and the ONLY place around here to get a damn thing), no fun. Well, I guess it doesn't help that I totally detest shopping too...heh. My idea of a good day shopping is knowing exactly what you need, knowing exactly where to get it, going there, getting it for half the price you'd find it anywhere else, grabbing it and leaving the store in less than thirty minutes. Well, this doesn't necessarily apply to bookstores... whatever the case, yeah, so that sucked. So in order to reward myself for my suffering, I went to the japanese bookstore and got japanese takeout (not at the bookstore, obviously), since it just so happens that being a huge mall, the bookstore was right there and so was the best japanese food in the area. *can't resist gyoza and yakisoba...at all...plus their teriyaki chicken is awesome...it's such a dilemma deciding what to eat! especially now since they added rice bowls to their menu...argh!)* So I guess all was okay.

But then today at work my stupid boss did the thing he does where he only needs me to actually do something at like five to five...he's such a damn procrastinator, which pisses me off since it's starting to wear off on me! *grr*. Well, that's all!
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Thursday, June 9, 2005

killing time...again
Well my bosses are gone and I figured, I'll kill time by bantering on about nothing in particular.

I was happy last night to have my airconditioner in. I slept really well for the first time in weeks, so well that I got out of bed half an hour late...heh. That's okay though, I give myself plenty of time in the morning so I can paint or watch anime or something before work if I want...or go back to sleep for an hour! hah.

I'm working on a story for a contest, but I may not be able to use it...because it's gonna end up being really long! Well, i think it is, anyway. Hm...

Actually, not much is going on. I'm kinda being lazy and I wrote like ten pages today already so I'm giving myself a bit of a break.

My boss asked me to pull a message out of his trash folder...the same message he's asked me to get like ten times already! Agh! And he couldn't understand how to open a file on his computer today...not do anything with it, just open it...and hit print...and he couldn't fathom it.

Well due to lack of rp, I'm considering modding again. Maybe pick up some of the old characers...but no more adminning, i don't want to listen to people bitch at me.
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