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2008-03-01 01:16 pm
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Internet back \O_o/ +Rock Band +Gundam 00

Yay!! Now I can get distracted. haha..

I think I've been a bit more productive without the internet XD But I've been at work most of the time over the weekday till 8-9pm O_o. I usually leave at 7:30.

ROCK BAND
There has been a new evil near my cubicle for the last few weeks...called ROCKBAND!!! It is so noisy when I work T____T They bought a padding for the drum...but I could still hear it. Tap tap tap tap...ARGH!!!!

But...it's fun to watch people play. Esp [livejournal.com profile] jenzwee can SOOO SING!!!! Gah... it's amazing how well she can get down to every note and sound good singing. I wish I can sing haha... [livejournal.com profile] c2lan also does some awesome drumming. Everyone teases her while she plays insanely well. Haha. I feel behind if I try playing because everyone played for a while now.

DOUJINSHI PROGRESS
I've manage to ink more doujinshi pages. Still a whole mess left. Let see... 11/52 pages inked. O

ORZ|||||||

I'll try inking 3 more pages today. It takes about an hour to ink one page....o_+;;

GUNDAM 00
I've watched up to 12 episodes of Gundam 00. The series is actually getting interesting when they delve into the pilot's background...But there are still TOO MANY characters to keep track of...even I'm familiar with Baccano's multi chara more better haha. Tiera looks such a pansy with his pink/yellow shirt....but he seems much manlier than Allelujah XD By appearance Allelujah looks more muscular and manly than Tiera, but his voice is so more softer. Setsuna, the child/shorty even has more deeper voice than Allelujah! Somehow they feel like all their personality swapped body and voice miscasted. It just doesn't match for me!! Only Statos feel right on character in voice and appearance. He has a twin bothers? What's up with everyone's multi-personality/people.

The whole politic stuff really confuses me. (maybe because I'm not paying attention when working on doujinshi ahha...) I actually rewatch some parts because I get lost easily.

I'm still trying to figure out some others characters role like Saji and his girlfriend... Also, is it me, or all the girls too well developed. Huge boobs and slim waste with cleavage or belly showing. This is coming from a female character design as well! Ahh...Yun Kouga needs to diversify her females....

Watched some Oofuri as well. Mihashi is soooo darn adorable!!!! Kyahhh <3
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2008-02-28 08:06 pm
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Stupid Comcast...

I better have my internet when I get home!! Stupid service not working for the past few days.

Gahh...I've been overworked T^T My arm feels incredibly stressed, I had to like swing my arm around and i want to punch something DX Darn back views for orphans T__T

I want to work on doujinshi when I get back =/
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2008-02-23 02:27 pm
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Vampire Knight 37 + DGM 149 + Rakugaki Drill

Vampire Knight
Aidou/Yuuki: Slipper~~

I think I have a soft spot for this unlikely pairing :3 I'm not hoping anything. It's just so cuute! I like Kaname/Yuuki...but I doubt that's where the story will end up.

DGM
Also the recent DGM....LaviLena ♥ ...

But Hoshino-sensei's drawing is going crap again T___T;;;

Rakugaki Drill

I scanned some of the Rakugaki Drill from a co-worker's copy.
Download here: http://www.mediafire.com/?maimoy2z0ce

Now I have the beautiful artwork of yoko and kamina TwT

Life
I have to work on Research paper for NUFS class. Study for Photo and NUFS exams this coming week. Paint 3 trees and sketch 3 trees with bg (but it's bloody cloudy outside without good lighting). And finish my egg painting. I did a neat Egg painting with the GurrenLagann-dan logo XD I'll post it when its returned to me.
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2008-02-19 12:08 pm
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Flu?

WELCOME BACK [livejournal.com profile] kurot and [livejournal.com profile] milk_of_lime!! <3 <3 We miss you!

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Ahh....I feel sick ;O;
Took some medicine and now I feel really drowsy and lightheaded.

I hate getting sick! Esp with so much crap to work on T___T
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2008-02-08 11:32 pm
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新年快樂 ! 恭喜發財!

Kinda late...but had to say it :D Happy Chinese New Year! (somehow it feels wrong to include the "Chinese"...)
Chúc Mừng Năm Mới to the Viet folks~~


Look [livejournal.com profile] c2lan:

Don't eat meat in the morning breakfast, because many gods who are vegetarians arrive New Year Day festival in the morning. Chinese New Year site.

But I guess we passed morning during lunch....so ignore me haha... (Gah I wanted to eat some Thai chicken!!) But it's not a made up tradition from my family. (I just had to check....) So much rules and phrases to say in CNY @A@;; I think I should read up a little more on the CNY tradition to understand the things we do haha..

I still need to work on my art....*adding background stuff*
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2008-01-21 11:56 pm
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Ribon...Jump, Asuka...Ace...

Do people actually throw away their thick monthly manga magazine away? We have like tons of old Ribon, Gangan, and Asuka magazines just being stored underneath the bed and in the closet XD;;

I dunno why it's so hard to throw them away XD;;; (maybe cuz we spent a lot of money on subscribing to them...) Good thing we stopped D:
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2008-01-16 07:33 pm
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Using Credit Card in Japan...

From experience, what Credit Card company doesn't charge fee or too much fee if you use it in Japan or any overseas country D:?

I think it's about time I get a credit card haha.... (uses debit)
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2008-01-13 11:22 pm
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Scanner! Figure Drawing! Doujinshi!

Scanner
I finally bought a new scanner!! We went to Fry's to buy a SATA data cable to install a new hard drive and ended up buying more crap. Woo! Also my first hard drive installation XD Yay. I'm not much of a techie...but I manage somehow haha...

Figure Drawing
Friday I went to my first Figure Drawing session since spring TwT;;; I seemed to have fallen back really bad. I'll post some in my Blogspot later... We drew for 6 hours!! Argh...I didn't know my arm could be that sore from just drawing...I need to start coming to those extra figure drawing session after school.....and I need to go to the gym at school as well!! I'm gaining weight T___T;;;

Sister's B-day
[livejournal.com profile] ebilsushi 24th birthday!! She's OLD!!! Haha..we had hot pot and ate more ice cream cake TwT;;

Doujinshi!!
[livejournal.com profile] kurot...how do you manage to doodle oekaki while working on your doujinshi?? XD;; I haven't cged/drawn anything but doujinshi lately. Ahh....too many pages..and I'm still at rough stage!! I want to get this finished as soon as possible because I know I won't have much time at school. But 50 page is insane + me going to work. I read in How to Pen & Ink, it takes Oh!Great about 15 days to ink without assistant *A*;; And his artwork being so detail and all...gah...me want skills. (btw, I recommend getting that book for starting-up manga artist)

Animanga stuff
[livejournal.com profile] c2lan and CP got me some stuff from Japan/Comiket! There wasn't anything Ouran unforunately T__T Oh well, they got me Code Geass doujinshi (I haven't even watched the series!), Baccano! Folder, and a cute novel artbook of Magica Rental with art done by Pako (I had to watch the anime to get a gist of what is rental magica haha..)!!! Thank you!! Got my Gurren Lagann Basic Drill Artbook. The paper quality sucks tho T_T;; But it's really thick!! I still want like a chara model book. Bought some manga paper...I also got [livejournal.com profile] maiki's doujinshi! Cute!!! I like the water droplets floating around haha.


Now I'm waiting for a bunch of stuff I ordered to come soon @W@ I also bought this data transfer cable for my cellphone (which is pretty old...) and put in Ouran's Sakura Kiss as my ringtone and Baccano (my current icon) as my wallpaper! I tried to make a Baccano ringtone...but I have absolutely no idea how to DX Someone go make a midi!!

I wasted the whole day sleeping, installing hard drive, replying to da comments but no drawing @A@;;; *goes to work on doujinshi as usual*
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2007-12-28 04:05 pm
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Bored~~ +oofuri

*looks at the initial rough sketches for doujinshi*

That looks an awful lot to draw/ink/tone @A@;;; I know I did it before...but somehow it looks really overwhelming T__T

Gah....must start now or else I won't have time during spring semester.

A lot of people from work haven't returned from vacation. So quiet and empty and not much to do XD;;

*works on doujinshi*

EDIT: Oh yea...OOFURI is ♥ ♥ ~~~~~ Hanai is my favorite right now even tho he's bald...maybe it's the eybrow...or the glasses...or the headband!! Or, yea, his personality. haha... Wee~~ New fandom to join.
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2007-12-24 04:35 pm
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Happy Holidays!

Thanks for the cards you guys!!
I received [livejournal.com profile] asaphira_sachi, [livejournal.com profile] fightfair, [livejournal.com profile] kixies, [livejournal.com profile] vejiicakes (it arrived in one piece :3 kyoukao!), and [livejournal.com profile] shiansu.

Since it doesn't look like I'll do a Holidays card this year...I'll do a post-Holiday card later haha.. X3;;

I don't think my family will have a nice X-mas with the whole family...considering my mom decided to help out with one of my uncle's restaurant duing X-mas day T____T;;; (It's xmas darnit!!)

Must finish Secret Santa...I notice I really need to return back to studying the art fundamentals T__T;;; I didn't know I was that behind ;O; *headdesk*

Anyways, have a wonderful holidays you guys!
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2007-12-17 10:57 am
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Winterbreak begin :DDD

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.
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2007-12-08 06:09 pm
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BLAAH Finals

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...)
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2007-12-04 12:34 am
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Note to Self...2

Tuesday:
Japanese Oral Test in the morning.
Study for RTVF during break. (hang out with [livejournal.com profile] asaphira_sachi and [livejournal.com profile] vejiicakes?)
Art History.
Work. Have dad pick me up.
Study for RTVF.
Sleep EARLY!!

Wednesday:
Paint in the morning
ART113A lecture and critique
Go home.
Study for RTVF.
RTVF night class.
Paint??

Thursday:
Paint in the morning/Go to school later.
Art History.
Work.
Paint.

Friday:
No class.
Paint in the morning and head to work.
Paint more after work.

Weekend
Work on Art History Final Essays
Work on painting
Study perspective test.
Study for Japanese Written Final.

PAINT PAINT PAINT PAINT...FINAL FINAL FINAL @A@;;;
Somehow I can't draw anything ugh....lack of everything.
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2007-12-01 04:21 pm
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OVERSLEPT O_O

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 [livejournal.com profile] kurot with your projects as well!! Don't over do it.
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2007-10-30 09:55 pm
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EARTHQUAKE!

Wow...everyone immediately posted after the Earthquake? XD;;;

Yea...5.6 earthquake near Alum Rock...gave me a scare @A@;; I was at work and immediately hid under the table. My worry was the water on my desk might spill since I was painting... good thing it didn't. Phone lines didn't go through until an hour later. Family safe..phew..

Now I have to go home and see what fell down.

*goes back to painting*
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2007-10-29 12:00 am
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ohh pretty layout

I'm going to prettify my lj with [livejournal.com profile] passing_girl layout X3;; (saw [livejournal.com profile] neneno using that)...gawd i'm a lazy designer >_>;; I still need to color all those Hikaharu sketches...I want to use it as a banner huhu.

Reminder to self for this week:

Monday:
Japanese Oral Test
Read Into to Film book during break
Perspective lesson (ask Cameron about Xerox)
Work
Watch Heroes and Journeyman
Work on Fanime artwork

Tuesday:
Go to Post office and Bank in the morning
Read Intro to Film book + take notes for Midterm
Boring Art History Class
Work
Make Xerox copy for Color comp

Wednesday
Work on Color grid in the morning till afternoon class
Intro to Film Midterm
Check out Halloween Event either at home or at work...

Thursday
Art History
Work
Color Grid and Color Comp
Work on Cover and Update Notebook Kiss

Friday
Work
Color Grid and Color Comp

Weekend!!
Color Grid and Color Comp
Color Grid and Color Comp
Color Grid and Color Comp
Color Grid and Color Comp
Study Japanese Written Test

Sad how my life has become so predictable...
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2007-10-25 11:56 pm
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T___T Kyoto expenses

$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@;;
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2007-10-08 12:15 am
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Note to Self...

  • FINISH B&W RENDERING by this week. Work before class. Work after work everyday TAT!!!
  • Need to practice speaking in Japanese @A@;;
  • Buy Japanese PS3
  • Buy Hitman Reborn! Character book (That way I will finally have good reference to draw something XD) and D.Gray-man 12 (Make sure they have it in stock) @ Kinokuniya
  • Sleep early
  • Update KyouKao doujinshi
  • Start script for Growing Up Doujinshi 2
  • Fanime sketch of Damien <3
  • HikaHaru art challenge





Okay gtg sleep TAT;;
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2007-09-19 10:53 pm
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HikaHaru Doujinshi #2 Plans +RL rant

I manage to plan out all the "name" for the second doujinshi (yes I am making one)...looks like there will be 48 pages this time of just manga content @A@;; That doesn't include the extra I want to include. Surely I will die from that...I hope I can make it by Fanime by starting early.

I'm going to try get some artists to contribute some pages as well bwahaha...so it can really be a fanbook X3 (if you want to volunteer let me know...I'm going to be extremely picky on the quality of the style. i want the dj to look more professional....)


Life Update!
For the last few days I've been so sleep deprived. There's too much stuff I have to do!!!! I recently had an artblock where I can barely even draw a head right. That was a nightmare T_T! Definitely show that if you don't draw everyday, you'll fall behind really fast. The lack of figure drawing is killing me. I can't wait for work to provide us figure drawing session >__<

I bought Shining Force EXA and Odin's Sphere last Friday. I don't like Toma voice in SFEXA...DX Sounds annoying...but the graphic is pretty with the anime feel to it~~ Odin's Sphere does have an interesting style.... I wonder if the environment is linear?? (can't move around in the background and foreground) I only test run the game...now to find time to actually play them...I want to get Persona 3 and Brave Story as well.

2 things to look forward this weekend: Avatar: Season 3 and Ouran Ch. 55 XD
Oh yea. SLEEP!!!!!!!!
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2007-09-09 10:42 pm
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Wart + Tezuka exhibit photos

HEAVY PHOTOS behind cuts!!

I've been meaning to post pictures of my wart so here it is! Not for the weak at heart.

BEHOLD THE GRUESOME WART PROCESS!! )

And if you don't want to see that, here are some lovely flowers I took from my front yard XD

Flowers! )

And lastly, Gaia Creative Team field trip to Tezuka Exhibit
Field trip!!  )