Let's REALLY try for more entries!!
OKaaaay~ Let's see how long I can keep up doing journal enries. @_@ I'm really gonna try! Wish me luck! XD
Since there's been such a HUUUUUGE gap in time since the last time I posted, I'm not going to go back and recap on a ton of things @_@; just a few major ones off the top of my head and maybe mention others some other entry.
An old highschool friend of Casey's moved in with us in January because he had nowhere else to go. He can't pay for his car insurance so I've been driving him around a lot which has been soaking up a lot of time. He's a fun guy to be with because of his upbeat attitude, but I'm starting to feel like I'm spending too much time with him and yearn for a break. >.< I miss having the house to ourselves (CAsey and Me) and I'm really tired of spending so many hours of my day out driving him around and grocery shopping. He often wants to come with me when I shop for food. I normally want to get it done quickly so I can come home and do something more MEANINGFUL, but he keeps telling me to slow down and walk at his speed (slower than normal?? o_<) and he REAAAAAALLY likes to browse. What would normally be a quick trip to the grocery store ends up being an outing that takes almost the whole afternoon. >.< I'm really thinking of telling him that I want to grocery shop alone for now on. '_'
He's been looking for a job on and off since he got here and finally got hired recently. I'm really not looking forward to being his chauffeur, It makes me kinda angry too thinking that I have to waste my time driving him around. >_<
Soon after Casey's friend moved in, they decided to go on a diet so we've been making home-made meals a lot more often and my skin gradually became worse. It became similar but not as extreme as how my skin used to be like when it was really bad, a taste and reminder of how thankful I should be when my skin is better. It went on for months with Casey and me not knowing what triggered my condition until we decided to experiment with rice being the cause which is currently under suspition. My skin isn't completely better yet, but I've been staying away from Rice for the past week and I've noticed a considerable improvement on my skin condition. ._. If this is true, wow... ._. It reminds me of when I was in Taiwan a few years ago and was telling my dad that the tap water was affecting my skin condition and him retorted with something like "next you'll say you think rice is the cause and you'll stop eating rice!" ...o_< He really wouldn't be happy if he knew this. XD
I had a lot of trouble trying to concentrate on drawing so I haven't been drawing or doing much of anything (other than driving around and doing chores); I drew the above picture in frustration that I haven't been getting anything constructive done; I was feeling decent at the time, but didn't have the patience or concentration to do any more than that.
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BAAU Down 8
I ended pulling out on doing my BAAU Down 8 entry due to not feeling well. ._. I figured that if I wasn't going to be able to finish a comic for the book, then I can at least try for the cover. I kinda joked to Alfred (one of the people in charge of BD8) about not being ablet to enter the contest since I won in BD7, but he said I could so I tried. I think it turned out rather nice! =D
I apparently didn't win the cover though. >.< It was okay that I didn't win first place, but I can't help to be bothered at the fact that I got LAST place of all the entries... Not to be arrogant, but I felt it was one of the best works I've ever done and was better than at least one of the other entries, but why last place?... ._. I kept asking myself what I did wrong? Why didn't people like it? -Then I thought maybe it's because I had my entry on the last book cover, but then Alfred shouldn't have allowed me into the contest in the first place. o_< /sigh I guess I'll never know. @_@
The other entries are here if you want to see them. =o
http://www.baau.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1774&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
I did end up working on my comic for a couple of days so the next chapter is actually already worked on and planned out.~ I'm thinking maybe I'll finish it and work on another chapter for BD9.~ XD -if I can have an entry that long... o_< -or maybe I should just work on it as a non-BD comic. '_'
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Here's some newer stuff.
These three banners are textless versions of banners I made for our Ragnarok Online guild recruitment thread, each representing aspects of the game and guild: MVPing, Player vs Monster, and War of Emperium (pvp). These are only three out of the six planned banners. Casey planned the positions, setting, and most actions of the characters and I did the artwork.
Casey forbade me to randomly draw anymore guild members because we're having a guild competition and I offered to draw a picture for the first place winner. Drawing random guild member pictures would devalue the one of the first place prizes. >.< So! Here's a random female RO champ. @_@
I was working on the WoE guild recruitment thread picture for a couple of days and really wanted a break to draw something fun and quick. I've been seeing a few artsy pictures lately of black and white pictures with a single color and I just felt like following the trend. I experimented with this picture on drawing with only black and eraser (opposed to black and white). The blending is a bit harder than working with black and white, butit was a learning experience. o_<
I was feeling really down that morning and just needed to vent for an hour or so.
This is Casey's Assassin Cross Oujirou's Wizard. I've owed him a picture of his assassin for YEARS and FINALLY got around to doing and finishing it. I tried experimenting with colored glows in this one opposed to having bright light glows that I'm apparently addicted to doing in my other pictures. o_< I don't think the glows worked out as well as I hoped. '_'
-and for some non-RO related stuff... kinda... >.> I actually drew this between drawing the lines of and coloring of the above posted Assassin Cross picture. It was supposed to be the background to a picture I wanted to finish of my knight Piratess, but I actually drew this background without overlaying the Piratess picture for placement reference so it actually didn't fit in the end and my Piratess picture is still unfinished. The original picture was actually just the desert, mountains, sky, and rex, but my boyfriend suggested the silly additions which I think added a lot the picture. XD
The Fairy Tail guild forums has a "post your photo" thread. I've never posted my photo because I feel very non-photogenic, but felt on whim to post "my picture" so I doodled one last night. =D
Here are some doodles~
I actually did this outline months ago and always meant to go back and actually DRAW it, but I kinda got the feeling I won't... ._. This is a reference to one of the most memorable video game moments in my gaming life. I wonder how many people will catch the reference!XD
I was experimenting "painting" instead of drawing on a tablet. It really bugs me how the action in the picture seems completely absent, but I really don't think it's worth going back to fix it up.
