gem2niki's thoughts

Although I love distracting myself...I wonder if this is some sort of disorder. I can't focus too long on a particular work so I do something to distract myself...

Let see...Shits to do.

-JPN 25A Essay on Makoto Shinkai and Hayao Miyazaki in Japanese: shouldn't be hard, but I have a hard time opening the book and researching haha.... Due Monday!!!

-ART 28 Perspective Studies I need to go somewhere and draw some perspective stuff....somehow I dunno where to go to draw these things...lol (which can be found everywhere) Due Tuesday

-KIN MIDTERM Study for Wednesday. Shouldn't be that bad. Its just reading on Fitness...

-Portfolio The thing I loved to delay since last year...my god. Its just putting old stuff together, but I can't motivate myself enough to make one. I have to make it in book format... I think I have all my stuff scanned. Just need to come up with a nice layout design and put it together, print, and bind... Due Nov 6

-ARTH Essay I want to drop that class so bad. I got back my first essay and I don't even bother reading the notes because its hard to read and I don't care about my grade for that class... I can't even understand whats my grade. Due Nov 5


No motivation lala... I just wanna draw.

Pricing might be $12. It's being printed by my supervisor's inkjet = higher quality than laser and waste a lot of ink = expensive.

I'm reprinting the Cloud/Aerith and Ouran (I fixed Tama's ugly face...a little better).

I dunno if I have time to make new ones by AX...but there were a couple I wanted to do T^T Namely, Zetsubou Sensei, Baccano, and D.Gray-man. We'll see....

I must love doing standing poses haha.....*need better composition skills* No leg shots? XD;;

Fanime Tomorrow! I need to make business cards now....

YOSHIYUKI SADAMOTO as Guest of Honor for Fanime!!! ZOMG!!! Another chara designer I worship. Can we get autographs...I'm going to check out all the Gainax panel :3 (and in exchange, ditch the artist table haha...)

School Semester Over!!
Japan trip here I come!!! Next week OMG!!! I need to buy gifts for my host family (which I don't know about yet...)

I got an A- on my Red Panda painting *A* Better grade than I thought I would get considering I didn't put a lot of effort into it.... I'll post it in my blogspot when I get the guts to scan or take picture of it. It needs some retouching tho....

LOL. Orcs are ugly....(well Lineage II orcs look pretty handsome compared to WoW).

Damn I suck at drawing out of my range of bishies and bishoujos. Ugly things don't attract me at all. Which is why I'm narrow-minded when it comes to manga with good story but ugly style.

Looking at the character design the Anim/Illust BFA program did....gawd damn. I'm far behind in drawing skills T__T (Oh I'm far behind my painting as well DX;;;) I should like die....

Schedules are out! I need to figure out what classes I want to take next semester :O

Doujinshi progress
Script edited! Time to add text for doujin and figure out extra stuff at the end. AND cover. I'm looking to get it printed by the end of this week! *crosses finger*

I am simultaneously starting all the prints sans baccano atm. I hope I can make it!!!

*rolls on exercise ball in cubicle*

To apply or not to apply....that is the question.

*head desk*

I'm still thinking about it because the freakin form is due tomorrow. I went to an after class thing where the BFA students looked over the portfolio and gave advice what to put and what not to put. I think I have a good amount of stuff maybe for 16 pages...but I believe I can do a lot better......................

...so I'll consider applying next semester....yes yes. No changing decision. I need to set my priority straight. I have Forest painting, Doujinshi, Prints, and work to concentrate. While I'm in Kyoto, I'll push myself through the summer to do paintings, sketches, and such to make a more impressive portfolio!

...I hope.


To self: NO CHANGING DECISION!!!!!!!!!

YAHOOOO!! School is over hahaa....YAY!!!!!

Now I have to wait for my sister to finish her final and go to work....T___T;; But who cares, I'm earning money and at full-time earning at that!!!

*dances around*

Now to plan out what to do over this nice vacation~~bwhaha...

crappy japanese..leave me alone.

4 days...left of school omg!!!

Final Schedule

Monday
12:30pm Perspective final: I need to study that this Sunday.

Wednesday
9:45am Art History final: I need to type up the two essays...Sunday? XD;;
5:15pm RTVF final: I need to study all the past midterm...

Friday
2:45pm-5:00 ART 113A: Painting due!!!

Monday
7:15am Japanese Written Exam: ARGH, I should study this over the weekend before...

Sad thing is that I'm already lazy and unmotivated to work on finishing my finals projects TAT;;; I need to stop looking at the internet endlessly in the middle of night....

Barnes and Nobles
My older sis, sushi, has employee appreciation month at Barnes&Nobles! So a huge discount on books *A*;; And we ended up buying A LOT of books..like seriously...I got tons of drawing books and manga. Sushi bought a lot games too. haha. We don't even have a PS3 yet! But Assasin Creed looks pretty~~ No more shelf space ahhh!! Ikea time~~! I shall share some photos after Finals :D

「時をかける少女」
My desk is a mess and there's no space either haha. I got my TekkonKinkreet DVD yay! Now I want to get the artbooks. So expensive tho... I recently watched Toki o Kakeru Shoujo (A Girl who Leapt Through Time). I love it!!! I want the artbook for that too haha. Chiaki x Makoto ♥ ♥ Chiaki seems like a mix of Shin Sawada and Hikaru personality haha...and yea Makoto looks like----Okay I'll stop that..I like the animation :3 It reminds me of the Digimon movies esp when she goes through time. (that's cuz some of the key animators did both!) I must practice that style!!

Once finals is over...I'll ramble more about stuff haha. Now back to painting TAT;; (Which I haven't touched in a while since Wednesday...)

AHHHHHHHHH

Slept at 3:40am and woke up at 3:10pm T_T;;;; No one woke me up!! (I'm thinking my mom did to go to the gym but i sorta slept past that..)

It's probably all those lack of sleep accumulated over the week that makes me oversleep...

Must work on painting!! Not enough time left!!!!!!!! Only two weeks left of school and there are tons of final I need to study/write TOT;; GAAAAAAAAAAAH @A@;;;!!!


Good luck to you kurot with your projects as well!! Don't over do it.

Has anyone (schoolmate) decided what classes they are taking for spring semester?? D:

Right now I'm trying to figure it out T__T;; I don't want a heavy workload before con season... since i need to work on prints and doujinshi. 113B might be too much to handle. Man I'm tired of Art History....I need one more to complete my ArtHist requirement...not sure if I'm up for it TAT;;

Night class are out of the question since I need to work..

All I know is I'm going to take JPN 102 10:30-11:45. haha...

Woo its 3:32am because I can't sleep XD (I think I slept too much yesterday..)

Anyways, share you tentative schedule please :3

$4500 for that one month Kyoto trip T_T
うあ！高いです！

My teacher said it covers a lot of the expenses including hotel, food, train etc...So not bad I guess. I think I can earn enough by next summer >_>;;;

*looks at time* 12:00am

I still can't sleep early!! Even if my head is in the brink of drowsiness @A@;;

Lower your volume! The cricket noise might be earsplitting.

This was my first 3D short animation and modeling for my Maya class at SJSU. The sound and text was a pain to edit in one those earlier Adobe Premiere versions. Maya is such a pain as well...I fear using the program after what it did to me during my final project..

I'm not sure what those little models are called that I modeled afterward. They're cute tho! I'll upload some screenshots of this and my other 3d model in my blogspot one day..