Jpeg compression is shitty! Blarg.
- Mood:
working - Music:Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels
So I was walking behind some guy wearing pink spandex pants with butterflies on them and pink fairy wings (no shirt of course), when it hit me how much the pride parade is like an anime convention.
Similarities:
People wearing silly costumes
People walking around in their underwear
Men in drag
Inappropriate behavior
Differences:
The people wearing underwear were adult men instead of teenage girls
Anime cons probably have more inappropriate behavior
No anime at the parade
Finally, I'd like to apologize if I offended anybody. Nobody wants to be compared to anime fans. =P
On a completely unrelated note, I got a new mattress and pillows. I can't wait to sleep!
- Mood:
cold - Music:The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
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So yeah, Eve and I heard about Michael Jackson on the street, and we thought it was bullshit. I got home a few minutes later and it was the top news item. I was on CNN the next morning, and out of the top 10 stories, five were about Michael Jackson, two were about Farrah Fawcett, one was about Mark Sanford, and one was on Iran (I don't remember the last). This is also the first time I've ever typed "lolwut" and I'm kinda ashamed. D= (It won't happen again, I promise?)
In other exciting internet news, I got a Twitter account. I don't know why, I was compelled somehow. I haven't used it, but somebody decided to watch me anyway. I'll probably start posting comic updates there or something. I also got a Blogger account, mostly because a lot of my friends have them, and I wanted to follow them. I'm wondering if I should use it for something, but it's not like I talk much about anything other than comics. Maybe post my strips there? Sketches? I made a cute header image for the page.
- Mood:
discontent - Music:The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
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- Mood:
pleased - Music:The Seatbelts - Future Blues
I also finally put up my Wasted Minds site redesign, which I had been sitting on for a while. It's hot pink and obnoxious. I'm having some issues getting it to look right in Firefox, but I put it up anyway. I'm sure it's a major web design faux pau, but I got frustrated and said fuck it. I will fix is ASAP.
These colors do not look good next to each other. :/
Edit: I fixed the comic archive pages so they're centered, which was my biggest problem. So yeah.
- Mood: accomplished
- Music:New York Dolls - One Day it Will Please Us to Remember Even This
I posted the pages to my Deviant Art account, and I'm too lazy to post them again, so you can check them out there. =P
I also saw Stingray Sam yesterday, and it was pretty awesome. It's by the people who made The American Astronaut, so if you liked that, you're sure to enjoy this too. I'm pretty terrible with reviews, so I'll just show the trailer.
Also, the soundtrack is awesome. They had a Q&A after the film, and it sounds like they're going to be putting the episodes online fairly soon.
- Mood: accomplished
- Music:Placebo - Black Market Music
In less exciting news, I haven't solved my scanner issue, but I will hopefully work something out ASAP.
In more exciting news, I bought coasters. They're super-cute and they double as magnets! WOOOO!!
- Mood:
indescribable - Music:Asian Kung-Fu Generation - Surf Bungaku Kamakura
So that's why I haven't updated art in a while. And the usual work. :/
In other news, I'll be at MoCCA next weekend, sharing a table with Eve Grandt and Robin Ha. I don't know where our table is yet, but when I do, I will post it. =D
- Mood:
bitchy - Music:The Weakerthans - Fallow
My sketchbook pages are a mess. XD Also, I've noticed when I try to draw less "anime" looking stuff, I make the eyes bigger. WTF.
- Mood: working
- Music:Yoko Kanno - Arjuna: Into the Another World
I think I actually have free time now, so maybe I'll actually get back to that whole comic thing that I do sometimes.
- Mood:
worried - Music:Talking Heads - Sand in the Vaseline
I'll post some art soon, I swear!
- Mood:
slightly buzzed - Music:Bonnie Pink - Let Go
I put my drawing desk and computer desk at opposite corners of my living room so I wouldn't get distracted by the internet. My roommate's bunnies are across from my desk, so I wind up staring at them instead of drawing.
I did manage to finish another page, though:
- Mood: cold
- Music:Blondie - The Hunter
I spent the past couple weeks doing nothing but retouching. Fun times. For some reason, I use a death grip when I hold my tablet pen, and working for a day and a half with a few short breaks wasn't so good for my hand. My thumb was hurting for most of the day, but my whole hand didn't start to hurt till maybe half an hour before I finished. So I guess it could've been worse.
Maybe now I can get back to making comics. Ha ha ha ha.
- Mood: hopeful
- Music:Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child
This is pretty much everything I've ever wanted in a drawing desk. Now I just need to get a bunch of pictures framed so I can put them up.
And to prove I haven't been slacking off completely, here's a painting:
I drew this as a Christmas gift for my parents. It's not increadibly festive, but they live in Florida, so it's not like it snows there or anything anyway.
I'm also working on Wasted Minds again, and I even finished a page (but I'm lazy and I'm not posting it here). I'll start updating again once I get a few pages done (so I won't take a hiatus, post a new page or two, then go on hiatus for another year...
I was going to write a bitchy/whiny post, but I'm better than that,
- Mood: cynical
- Music:Mott the Hoople - Brain Capers
I'm back from San Francisco! And I gave up on daily art posts before I even started! WOOOO!!!! (To be fair, I've been posting stuff to sell on ebay, and I need to pack, so I don't know that I'll be able to squeeze a lot of drawing in this month. Ugh.) But I did draw this comic!
So yeah, the TSA stopped me and asked if I had any liquids in my bag. I said no, and they went through my bag, to find my box of business cards. The guy opens the box, then takes it over to another security guard, because I guess it's hard to tell if those small identical cards with my contact info could be a threat. What are they going to do next year when they lift the liquid ban?
When we got to our hotel we got welcomed by a flasher! But I couldn't really see anything from where I was standing, but I guess Becky did. Ha ha ha.
APE was a bit slow this year. It was also raining the first day, and security made us walk to the back of the building with all our books to get our badges, and then we had to walk back because the only way into the building was through the front. And the ceiling was leaking on us. But it was nice the second day.
On Monday we went to the Aquarium, which was small, but awesome. There were some awesome manta rays that would jump out of the water to see what everybody was doing. I took some pictures that I'll probably post when I'm less lazy. We also got to see a caravan of Proposition 8 supporters, which was a pretty ballsy thing to do in San Francisco. >_< Then we went to the Japan Center and bough books at Kinokunia, 'cause it's not like we can do that in New York or anything.
On Tuesday we went to the Museum of Cartoon Art, which had a really awesome My Neighbor Totoro exhibit. Then we went to the Museum of Modern Art, which was free the first Tuesday of every month (score!). They had an exhibit of photographs from back when they were experimenting with X-rays and early outer space photography. Then we went back to our hotel room to watch election coverage until Becky and Hwan went out to a business dinner. I wandered around the streets and got to see people cheering and honking their horns when they announced Obama the winner.
On the way back, the strap on one of my bags (which was a birthday gift) broke. TTT___TTT Maybe I can get it fixed. I love that bag.
- Music:Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
I meant to post about this earlier, but I'm lazy. Ape is this weekend, and I'll be there, sharing a table with Becky, Eve, Hwan and Robin. I'll have a new mini comic (if it kills me), and hopefully the books I mailed out today will get to my hotel in time and I'll have my graphic novels. Anyway, here's the cover:
Other than that, I haven't been up to too much. I got a computer virus tha'ts mostly fixed, but I think there's still something lurking around. =__= I was thinking of trying to update once a day when I get back from APE in an effort for force myself to draw more. Unfortuanately, I'm planning on moving in December, which means I'll have to look for a new apartment and pack on top of drawing regularly. Ha ha ha.
- Mood: aggravated
- Music:Beck - Odelay
Convention report in three panels:
This seriously happens all the time at conventions. The best part about this time was that the girl asked me what my newest comic was, so I pointed it out, and she didn't seem to notice that my art looks nothing like Becky's.
Not much eventful happened at the con. I barely walked around, and spent most of my time outside of the con in the hotel room working on Prince of Tennis and watching trashy MTV shows and Food Network. They have some really intense shows on Food Network these days. I also got an orange chocolate martini at the hotel restaurant that I thought was awesome, but all my friends thought sucked. :/
(Livejournal seems to have fixed the image positioning problem, but now I can't unbold/italic/underline text without fixing it in raw HTML. What the hell?)
- Mood:
sick - Music:The Beatles - Let It Be
In other news, I started working on Wasted Minds again. I drew backgrounds in perspective for the first time in months. I'm so out of practice. I've been slacking off too much lately. Hopefully I'll be able to concentrate more once the election's over. (I'm so excited for the VP debates.) Anyway, here's a panel:
Is it just me, or is livejournal automatically inserting images at the top of an entry no matter where you want to place it?
- Mood: sick
- Music:Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
I'm trying to blind the world with my obnoxious coloring. HA HA HA HA!
I finally saw The Dark Knight last week. I think I'm the 3rd to last person to see it (because Becky and Vasilis missed it, ha). It was awesome. I heard a major spoiler beforehand, which kinda blew (and I tried so hard to avoid that sort of thing).
- Mood: working
- Music:Brian May - Furia
Anyway, I'm trying something new with coloring for a short story. I'm not totally sure how I feel about it yet, but I kinda like it. I guess it depends on if this takes longer than regular coloring.
I got a favorite on my Wasted Minds 2 cover on Deviant Art recently. I went to the guy's page, and all of his favorites were bondage pictures. Eek. O_O
Also, Happy Birthday Eve! =D
- Mood: sick
- Music:Ringo Shiina - Muzai Moratorium
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