Tempered Steel

Stupid fucktards are stupid.

2008-07-03T04:33:55Z

I ran into an old horseback riding friend while I was at the ranch today; we hadn't seen each other in six months, so we sat down and chatted for about an hour.

The conversation eventually moved to politics; I knew her parents were pretty conservative (devout Christians), but I remembered that she was a little more liberal than her parents. I think she even voted Kerry in the last election.

She told me that she didn't like McCain, but that she would probably vote for him because she HATED Obama. I was like, "HateObamaWut?" I mean, it's cool, not everyone likes him. But I went ahead and asked her what about him that she didn't like.

She gave me some vague answers, like he wasn't experienced enough, wasn't leadership material, etc. And then she dropped the bomb:

"I also don't like him because he's Muslim. I don't think a Muslim should be leading this country, considering the war and everything."

MUSLIMWUT?!? Okay, I admit, I actually have no idea WHAT religion Obama is, but I don't think he's Muslim. Even if he WAS Muslim (which maybe he is? I don't know), what difference does THAT make?

"Well, most of this country is Christian, so I think our leader should be Christian."

I couldn't believe my ears. I knew that a lot of America was still very backwater in their thinking, but I still couldn't believe that I was witnessing it myself, much less in SAN DIEGO. Even our Republicans aren't THAT retarded.

I asked her what was wrong with being Muslim? Not every Muslim is a suicide bomber, you know. She said that she didn't want his religion to influence how he ran the country. Well, at least that's one thing we agreed on--I don't want ANY president's religion to influence how he runs the country. We separated the church and state over 200 years ago. Too bad George W. didn't get the memo; he claimed he had a conversation with God, and together they decided going to war was best for this country. I don't have a problem with ANYONE'S religious beliefs, but I for one have gotten sick and tired of having Bush cram his devout Christianity down my throat the last 8 years.

I had to resist getting up and walking away from my friend. Even she admitted that it was a stupid reason to dislike Obama, but she couldn't help but feel that way. It's people like her that prevent change from occuring in this country. People just like her claim they want change to happen in this country, but they keep voting for the same damn candidate every time. I've always believed that America is a model for racial, gender and religious tolerance, and I think that ought to be reflected in our leader. So what if Obama is Muslim? More power to him for earning the respect of this country despite his religious beliefs!

People resist change because they fear it. But eventually, a black man will be elected president, and eventually a woman will be elected president, and eventually a gay person will be elected president, and eventually a hindu will be elected president, and so forth. It may take a very long time, but it will happen. And I think, once it happens, and things go pretty smoothly, people will look at each other and say, "What were we so scared of?" It's like skydiving--the whole flight up to the top, you're terrified. You keep asking yourself, "What if my parachute fails? What if I die?" And then you jump, and you're scared, but exhilarated, and you land safely, and then you tell yourself, "Wow, that wasn't so bad! And I survived!" Trust me, I know, I've been skydiving before.

People resist things they just don't understand. My friend is resisting Obama because his religion doesn't bode well with her. But for the sake of discussion, what if Obama got elected? And what if he pulled our economy out of the shithole? And what if he minimized our engagement in Iraq? What if he did things that George W. was never able to do? Will she think differently of Obama? Will she set aside her bias against him and come to a grudging respect? Will she be able to admit, after his term is over, that he did a pretty good job and that his religion didn't factor into the choices he made as president?

Obviously, we'll never know if Obama doesn't get elected. I'm not a fanatical Obama supporter, but he presents far more change than McCain--who, when you look back at the last 50 years worth of presidents, is not much different than the other republicans who have been elected--does. Hearing my friend speak the way she did, which probably echos how millions of Americans feel, makes me very embarrassed for my country.

OMG YAY

2008-07-03T03:46:04Z

Aaron Allston is writing more Star Wars:

http://www.amazon.com/SW-Fate-Jedi-Star-Wars/dp/0345509064/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215020141&sr=8-1

Thanks to blood_sorbet for the heads-up!

Jag Fel sketch

2008-07-02T05:30:29Z

I need more practice drawing men, and I need more practice drawing in a realistic style. My pipe dream is to draw a comic about Jaina and Jag (LOLOL I KNOW I'M PATHETIC), and that would require both. I can differentiate women pretty well, but my men all seem to look kind of the same, so I'm practicing by studying different faces. I always thought Brandon Routh would make a sexy Jag, so I used him for reference (and aged him a bit cause Jag will be OMGOLD in Millennium Falcon ~~although Del Rey might very well spite me and omit him and Jaina from the book~~).

Also, me and Kristin didn't get any love on c.com today. T.T http://www.cosplay.com/photo/1591224/

In limbo

2008-06-29T21:47:14Z

I have a question for my artists friends:

Do you ever feel like the way you draw or color something no longer satisfies you, but you're not sure which direction to take your art in? If so, how do you break out of this limbo?

Right now, I'm REALLY struggling with coloring my Star Wars stuff. Cell shading doesn't look as good on Star Wars stuff the way it does on Anime/Manga/Chibi stuff, but I'm not quite sure how I want to color it. For some reason, a more realistic rendering of color doesn't seem to mesh well with my line art, even though it looks awesome with other people's line art. I'm thinking maybe I need to change up my line art a little bit, but I've just now gotten to a point where I LIKE my line art; I don't want to change it now! T.T At what point do you allow your style to dictate how you color, vs. forcibly changing your style to fit a certain type of coloring?

Augh, sorry if that was confusing. Right now I just can't seem to color in a way that I like. I color how I usually color, and it doesn't look good. I try something else, and it looks yucky too. I don't know what to do! My Tenel Ka piece was really a fluke, because I like how I colored that one but I haven't been able to recreate that coloring since. D:

Art

2008-06-28T12:36:26Z

I imagine crushgaunts to look retardedly awesome.

EDIT: Also, I know she looks awfully young, but I couldn't bring myself to give her 30-year-old wrinkles just yet. I'll try and make her look older when/if I color it.

What color armor do you think Jaina would wear? I'm kind of imagining her with red armor, but I'd be interested in hearing what other people think.

LOL

2008-06-28T03:56:04Z

My dog snatched the last rack of ribs off the counter while I was away. He's paying for it badly right now with an upset stomach. XD What a waste of a good rack of ribs! Chance has never stolen anything off the table before... I guess an old dog can learn new tricks!

I'll have to make a photo-post when Yuriy gives me the photos of the bath we gave to Chance the other day. OMFGCUTE. Definitely making one of those into a print before I leave. :3

Updates

2008-06-27T20:29:01Z

Me and Yuriy are back from San Jose, and we've succeeded in finding an apartment (thanks to the awesome help of kuronosho)! We'll be living at the Archstone Fremont Center! It's funny that we ended up here; it didn't meet a couple of the criteria that me and Yuriy wanted, and it's a little on the pricey side, but both of us just knew this was the place for us when we walked in. I guess the best way to describe it would be "posh"--it kind of feels like a New York high-rise! I'm way excited to move in, which will be on July 14th.

Me and Yuriy discussed a lot of things on our way up to San Jose, and we came to the unfortunate conclusion that it would be best if we skipped Dragon*Con this year. It breaks my heart to have to put D*C aside, but the logical part of me is going over the numbers in my head and thinking what a ridiculous amount of money it would cost us to attend this year, and the timing is really bad considering Yuriy's start date for his work (only a little more than a month before D*C). It's not that we can't afford it, because Yuriy has a signing bonus coming with the first check, but there's a million other things we need more than a 4-day trip to Atlanta (furniture, for one). I'm trying to justify not going by telling myself that I won't miss what I've never experienced, and that D*C will always be there next year. It really does suck to have to be a responsible adult sometimes. D:

If our non-attendance screws anyone over in terms of hotel and stuff, let us know and we'll do what we can to set things right. I'm really sorry to everyone who was looking forward to us making it out (and to our con buddies scruffyrebel and jinyo, sorry guys), but I wish everyone a great time!

What else is new... I picked up "Making Comics" by Scott McCloud; I think I meant to pick up "Understanding Comics", but "Making Comics" was extremely useful as well. I was surprised at how much he talked about was stuff that I already implemented in my own comics, but he did say writing and drawing comics was very much an intuitive process, so I'm glad to know I'm on the right track. One thing in particular that stood out was how many artists hate drawing backgrounds (myself and Scott included), and that rather than looking at it as something to fill up the space behind your characters, you should think of it as an environment for your characters to interact with. As much as I loath drawing backgrounds, Scott's suggestion actually got me more interested in devoting more effort into my backgrounds. If someone can convince ME to work on my backgrounds, he could probably convince Hitler of his wrongdoings. XD I'm definitely going to read "Understanding Comics" the next chance I get.

I also picked up Hana-Kimi on solaria's recommendation; it's been so long since any long-running manga has piqued my interest enough to collect the entire series, but the first volume was really cute, so I might continue buying it. On the one hand, I could read the whole thing on OneManga.com, which would save me an obscene amount of money and I wouldn't have to wait until I run out and buy the next volume to see what happens next, but on the other hand, I really love reading manga in book-format, and I love having a complete collection of manga on my shelf (I've got all of Kenshin, almost all of Kare Kano, and a few volumes shy of the complete Death Note collection).

I'm also plugging through Republic Commando; I haven't had much time to finish the first volume, but I love that I can go a whole week without reading it and get right back into it when I do finally pick it back up. I want to read it right now, but I've still got a lot of work to do on AX costumes, so it'll have to stay sidelined for now.

Speaking of costumes, here's a photo Consplayers took of me at Fanime: http://www.cosplay.com/photo/1587045/

Okay, back to work for me. My phone is still totally dead; I'm going to try and get a new phone tomorrow, so if you need to get a hold of me the best way is still through e-mail.

P.S. "Once" is a GREAT movie!!!! OMG SOUNDTRACK WANT.

Last post for awhile.

2008-06-23T11:38:50Z

Epic weekend was epic!! Thanks to everyone for making it so much fun! Although, I must say that I think I had the most fun doing a girls-day-out on Saturday morning with solaria and scruffyrebel... We ought to have more days like that ~~if I didn't spend so much time hiding under a rock~~!

It's 4:30 am right now and me and Yuriy are heading up to San Jose to look for apartments for the next few days. We won't be back until Thursday night, and I'll have very limited internet access while I'm there, so I'll be a little hard to get a hold of. To make matters worse, my phone is on the fritz big-time, so I don't know if I'll be accessible by phone either. I've got over ten messages I need to listen to that I'm trying to figure out how to retrieve with a dead screen, so sorry if you've left me any messages and I haven't gotten back to you! ;_;

That's all for now! I'll be back in a few days. :)

OMGWTFBBQ

2008-06-23T04:33:04Z

HOLY CRAP INUYASHA ACTUALLY ENDED?!?! Did hell freeze over or something?!

I don't know how I feel about the ending... I guess I'm pleased, but it left like EVERYTHING unexplained. And honestly, if your manga goes on for 290842093849238409832 chapters, I don't think you can do ANYTHING that will be epic enough for the final chapter. Also, it's kind of funny to mention this in light of some of the critiques the editors gave me for my RSoM piece, but sometimes OBVIOUS is the way to go. Rumiko Takahashi needs some serious lessons in telling a good love story. D:

Work in progress

2008-06-21T10:46:42Z

Me and scruffyrebel were having a ~~gripefest~~ discussion about Invincible this evening at my house, and one thing we both agreed on was that Jaina deserved a far more glorious cover than what she got. Not that Invincible's cover wasn't epic, but how dare her brother hork in on her limelight! >:O I had had it in my head a long time before Invincible's cover was released how I wanted to see Jaina portrayed in all her glory...

Well, maybe not my rendition of it, but something along these lines. I never wanted Jaina to abandon the Jedi and become full-blown Mando, but I thought it would have been awfully cool for her to embrace the culture enought to where she donned the Mando Beskar'gam at some point. Also, I just wanted an excuse to draw Mando armor some more--I'm getting a kick out of it! Although, I admit, I stole much of Mirta's design for this set of armor.

Dawwwww...

2008-06-21T08:24:25Z

jinyo and scruffyrebel had to go and make me cry with their awesome going-away gifts:

Seriously, I almost wish they hadn't gotten me these things because it makes me think about how much I'm going to miss my SoCal homies!!! ;___________;

Repost is repost

2008-06-21T07:09:42Z

D'oh! I was late! But I wanted to wish a very happy birthday to one of the sweetest people out there, bobbarker!!! He's been such a good bud to me, and I miss him a lot! I don't have very many pictures of us together, so I'm going to be a failfriend and repost the b-day picture I posted last year:

Maybe I'll make this a running gag every year. XD

Seriously. World. Sick sense of humor.

2008-06-20T21:20:02Z

Just when I'm having a down-and-out period BAWWWING over how much I suck at art and blah blah blah, look what arrives on my doorstep!

I can't believe I'm holding this in my hands. It's unreal that I'm able to show this to people, to say "my story is in here!" My dad, he was so proud. I told him he could die now and I wouldn't have any regrets, LOL. I know that sounds morbid, but I've always been my dad's pride and joy, and I wanted him to be around to see my dream of being in a published worked fulfilled. When he had his stroke a few years ago, I was worried that he might not live to see it happen, but here it is, and here he is, and all is well.

I was cleaning out my computer desk today to get ready for the party, and I found all the work I did for this story. There's at least a hundred pages of sketches and inks... going through it made me remember how much work I put into this project. It made me remember how passionate I am about telling stories through manga, no matter how much work it is. This story has it's flaws (and they're pointed out in the book by the editors), and that's good, because I know how I would do it differently next time. I'm still immensely proud of it (although the pages came out really dark in the final print, sorry!). One editor even mentioned in the book that my line art and toning looked like a professional did it! ROFLMFAO!!!! That's hilarious. XD

Seriously, the world has a funny way of poking you out of your stupor. Just when I was getting down on myself, this lands in my lap and picks me right back up again. I swear, I'm going to make it in this industry one day!

/philosophicalintrospective

On a roll!

2008-06-20T09:13:22Z

Wow, I really need to go to bed, but I had so much fun drawing Jim's Mando that I felt the need to draw another Mando:

Mirta is such a kick-ass character. I tried to capture her disgruntled attitude. XD

More art

2008-06-20T06:49:01Z

I used another gal's art for inspiration, so any and all credit ought to go to her piece:

http://michelle84.deviantart.com/art/Iridae-Nouveau-89109351

The thing that inspired me most about that other gal's piece was how utterly gorgeous her lineart was. I spent a good hour browsing through her website and BAWWWWING over how gorgeous her color pieces were, but good line art really lays the foundation for a good piece IMO. You can fix bad line art with a nice coloring job, but good line art is a work of art on it's own, and hers was really impeccable.

So I decided I wanted to do a line art piece that really flexed those particular muscles. The hair, in particular, was really beautiful and I wanted to recreate that to the best of my abilities. Now that I'm done with the piece, I can see where I can improve the next time around, but I'm pretty happy with what I did here. As much as I love love LOVE hair that is uber-detailed, I don't know if I would incorporate that into my regular style for my sequencial art. It's extremely time-consuming, and, well, I don't know if something that detailed would work with the rest of my not-that-detailed art. What do you think?

Out of my whiny stupor...

2008-06-19T22:52:32Z

Okay, I'm not going to become a better artist if I sit around and whine about how much I suck. Maybe I'm not the best out there, but I like to think my art makes a few people smile:

This one is for jamesgilmer:

Jim, this is for the calm you brought me when I was panicking over my Comic Con badge. The fact that you went so far out of your way to help a stranger you don't even know speaks volumes about the kind of person you are. I don't know you well enough to send you a care package, and I think your wife might think it odd for you to receieve a gift from a ~~hot sexy~~ ~~mildly attractive~~ ~~okay, I'm not that hot~~ blond chick from California, so I did what I knew best: I drew you a picture! :D

I did the best I could with the tiny reference picture I had, but armored characters are NOT my specialty. D: Seriously, all you Mando folk on my LJ, don't laugh at my horrendous rendering of Mando armor/weapons. You can learn more about the character of Mij Gilamar here:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mij_Gilamar

EDIT: D'oh! I left off the scope. D: Just ignore that.

EDIT #2: Somehow, the chibi-style doesn't come across as well when the character is wearing a helmet that covers the CUTESY WOOTSEY eyes.

Totally lost my art boner.

2008-06-19T21:13:31Z

Every once in a while you run across an artist that is so good, you want to throw yourself off a bridge.

http://www.raingate.net/

I found her through a piece she did on DeviantArt; the piece was actually really inspiring, and made me want to sit down and do a similar piece. But then I started browsing her website, and I found myself saying "OMG WHY IS SHE SO GOOD???" over and over again. I mean, her art style probably isn't up everyone's alley, but it's definitely up MY alley, and she's just so freaking GOOD at it. DDD:

I don't know if this makes me want to run out and spend 2934802309482348 hours practicing or just toss my tablet in the trash cause WHAT'S THE POINT!?

OMG YAY

2008-06-19T06:14:22Z

I have been looking for this video FOREVER!!!!! I don't have a reason to post it right this second, but many, MANY times in the past this is how I've felt when I've talked to people:

http://la.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=31141561

>:\

2008-06-18T20:12:22Z

BLOODY SNOT? REALLY?? AWESOME. ~~NOT.~~

Back on antibiotics for a sinus infection; both my parents, on SEPARATE occasions, have made a comment to me along the lines of "You might want to pick up some condoms, because being on antibiotics will render your birth control pills ineffective." Emphasis on the word CONDOMS because they both used that word. I'm torn between being grossed out listening to my parents tell me to go buy condoms ~~which Yuriy already did; apparently it was a hilarious adventure~~, and being touched that my parents love me enough to remind me of something like that. Welcome to my liberal hippie family. XD

BITCHBITCHBITCH

2008-06-18T09:29:43Z

I am so, SO uncomfortable right now. Like, I don't remember the last time I've been in so much pain. And it's not even because of my wisdom teeth! No, it's a lot better than that--the world has a really sick sense of humor and decided to give me a fucking cold right now.

Today was the first day I really felt my mouth getting better. Still sore all over, but didn't take any pain meds and I went out and ate real food today. BUT, I noticed something weird last night, and that was that my ears felt really clogged up. I woke up this morning to find that I had a GOD-AWFUL sore throat, and I had crazy pressure on my sinuses. Right now, between my sore mouth and my sinuses, my face feels like it's in a fucking vice.

I'm so fucking pissed about being in so much pain. Like, I'm fucking LIVID about this. I've gotten sick a record number of times this year--a LEAST twice as much as I get sick in a whole year, and it's not even July. I just got over being sick a few weeks ago, this should NOT be happening, especially not with my fucking wisdom teeth killing me the way they are (I just got through with a series of antibiotics, for christ's sake!). What's worse is that I haven't had sinus pain like this EVER in my life, which makes me think it might be some kind of sinus infection.

I just want to cry. I've barely been able to get out of bed for a week. I have shit to do, costumes to work on, people to see before I move. I want to be healthy again, I want to be able to get up and move around and not be in agony. I want to be able to go to the gym, because I've been sucking on potato chips all week and I'm terrified I won't fit into Fran for AX. SADj;alkjdaskljdakjsd. Fuck me.

Watched P.S. I Love You tonight with my best friend. CRIED MY FUCKING EYES OUT. (Surprise, surprise.) Augh, between the pain I'm in and Gerard Butler's TRAGIC YET AWESOME character, I wish Yuriy was here to hold me. ;______;

The truth.

2008-06-17T00:21:22Z

I really, really wanted to believe the power of the mind could overcome the weaknesses of the body. I thought that by thinking positively, and pretending I felt good, I would actually feel good.

Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. a_lonewolf, I SO feel for you.

My first couple of days after getting my teeth pulled, I felt... as could be expected. Not great, but not bad, considering they had to drill through bone to get to my bottom impacted teeth. I took my medicine like a good girl, so I thought I was on the mend.

Day 3, my stomach decided to reject any medication, pain or antibiotic. My mouth was hurting so bad I couldn't eat anything (except suck on a Hershey bar, thus my weight has not changed), but I couldn't keep medicine down if I didn't have anything on my stomach. This morning was the worst; I tossed and turned all night long, and all morning I hung my head in the toilet. I feel better now after falling asleep for a couple of hours, but I keep hoping that I'll start to feel "better" as opposed to "better than I felt this morning".

And now, I'll leave you with the ugliest part of this whole ordeal:

I swear, Yuriy didn't beat me up ~~even though that's what I tell people XD~~.

Art dump

2008-06-16T11:19:36Z

Still developing this style, but it's getting more and more polished. Changed a few things around to make it more my style. I'm inspired to do these by the little laminated cards you can buy at Artist Allies at conventions. Also, I'm clearly inspired by my friends costumes. XD If there's any one in particular you'd like to see, I'd be happy for the practice. :)

I BLIND PEOPLE WITH MY AWESOMENESS.

2008-06-15T09:43:24Z

Skadoosh. Around 9 pm tonight, after a long day of ~~working hard on AX costumes~~ wisdom tooth agony, me and Yuriy decided to go see a movie. So we went and saw Kung Fu Panda. SPOILERS!

I was blinded by it's awesomeness. Seriously, it was great--the best animated film I've seen in a long time. I really, REALLY liked the Samurai Jack-style animation in the beginning, and part of me wanted the whole movie to be animated that way, but the 3-D was hella sweet. The storyline was a little thin on plot (I think the baddy was in the movie for a total of 10 minutes), and there were a couple of things that I wanted to see explained (how did Poe learn that finger-bending trick at the end?), but those things were so completely overshadowed by how great the rest of the movie was. The action scenes were hella freaking awesome. Really, REALLY loved it, highly recommend it.

Before we left the theater, we thought to ourselves, "Well, while we're here, maybe we should see another movie!" So we watched The Incredible Hulk. SPOILERS!

Hrm. Me and Yuriy spent a lot of time talking about this one on the way home. It was enjoyable, but definitely not up to par with the other movies I've seen this year. Personally, I thought Indy was an even better movie than Hulk, and I'm fully aware of Indy's weaknesses. I thought Edward Norton was awesome, and I thought he was cast well, but honestly, he didn't really embody the character of Bruce. It might have something to do with the fact that he was only on screen half the time, while the other half he was unrecognizable as the Hulk. But you know how RDJ totally owned the character of Tony Stark? Yeah, well, I didn't really get that vibe with Edward Norton. Nothing he did wrong, he played the character great, I just didn't really feel like this movie gave him the opportunity to own it the way RDJ owned Stark.

I thought one of the really strong points to the movie was Liv Tyler as Betty. For some reason, I've never really been satisfied with the leading females in these Marvel movies. I thought Gweneth Paltrow was the weakest aspect of Iron Man; not because she was bad, but just because all of the Marvel women in the movies come off as... unrealistic. I dunno. Kirstin Dunst didn't really do it for me, and neither did Gweneth, but I thought Liv Tyler was great. She was real. My only gripe was how every time Bruce turned into Hulk, she did her little "It's okay" routine, running over to the big bad giant. :\

I think something Hulk suffers from is that, in this movie at least, Hulk isn't a superhero. He's an accident, and just so happens to be the only one who can save the day at the end of the movie. He's not a superhero in the sense of the word that Iron Man, Batman, Superman, Spiderman and others are. So it's like they're making this movie about a superhero, except there's no superhero. Just a guy who happens to have super powers. Um... I think another thing that this movie suffers from is that Hulk is such a figure in pop culture, and so there's a lot of stigma surrounding him. Like, with Iron Man (I can't help but compare the two), I knew that there was an Iron Man, and I recognized the suit, but beyond that I was pretty clueless, so Hollywood was able to update the story and breeze through the first part of it without having to address a whole lot, because not that many people really knew the ins and outs of Iron Man's origins. But with Hulk, it's kind of well-known how he became who he was, so for them to kind of glance over that whole thing... well, it felt like something was missing. I guess it helped if you saw the first movie. Also, I felt like through most of the movie, I was just waiting for the final battle to happen. Like, "Okay, you're running, you're a fugitive, you're running, you're still running, you're still running, okay now you're fighting the final battle." And then the last battle was this excuse for one big Hollywood special effect. With Iron Man, I knew there was going to be a final battle, but getting there was half the fun. All the stuff that happened between the beginning of the movie and the final battle, like him making the suit, and going to the ball, was just as much fun to watch as the final battle itself.

All in all, I didn't dislike it. It left a lot to be desired, and I feel bad that I compared it so much to Iron Man, but it was certainly enjoyable. I liked the cast, Edward Norton is a sexpot, and the very last scene of the movie made us all pee our pants a little with excitement. It just didn't have that spark, that magic, that Iron Man had, and really, there's no real explanation why Iron Man had that spark and other movies didn't. It just is one of those freak things that happens every once in a while at the movies--a movie hits just the right chord with everyone, the characters are cast impeccably, and the story is just right. If every movie was like that, we'd all be a little desensitized to them.

Sketch dump

2008-06-15T02:59:43Z

I wish my lineart had more motion. I think my sketches have motion, but there's something about the way I ink that loses that action. I need more practice.

Trying all kinds of new things.

2008-06-14T06:16:53Z

I decided that if I was going to take a break from cutting craft foam, I needed to spend my break working on art. It doesn't have to be anything crazy-detailed; in fact, I decided I needed to spend more time doing studies and sketches, and practice imitating things that I like. I've been browsing DevArt a lot just looking at things that I would like to learn how to do and try and imitate them (like my chibi drawing yesterday), so that's what I'm going to spend the next few days in between working on costumes doing--quick sketches that imitate some style that I like. Gotta expand on my skilzors. (Sorry for all the posts!)

P.S. Sorry for not answering my phone today, for whoever tried to call. My oral surgeon said 48 hours after surgery was the most painful, and he was right. My cheeks are even more swollen and I have bruising on my face (I really hope it's gone by AX!), and I just did not feel like answering my phone at all. The pain meds are making me really sick. D: