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Much to my surprise, I received some stickers in the mail from deviantART, along with a nice little sticky from $Heidi reminding me than deviantART loves me. One of the stickers has found a nice home within the cover of my new sketchbook. When ready, I intend on posting everything drawn within that book. (So far, I just have RAM designs).

Speaking of which, designing/drawing sci-fi electronics shouldn't be as hard as it seems. Serial Experiments Lain is a huge inspiration for this. ABe's work is masterful in that series, and his electronics very convincing (although the liquid in the 'sych' processor still doesn't make sense, but is visually appealing).

Art wise, I've been doing a lot of studies. I'm not very satisfied with my lack of variety in my art---hell, even the past two girls I've drawn are in extremely similar poses and white with pink hair.

Current Studies:
Domestic Cats
'it-Bulls' (used very loosely as an umbrella term for box-headed muscular dogs)
Electronic Circuitry (focus: RAM)

This too shall pass.

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Yesterday was Gwendolyn's first birthday. We had a nice party, and in the evening, our little family dressed as cats and visited her Grandma. Between the party and trick or treating, it seems that she's caught a cold.

Art wise, I haven't been doing too terribly much. I purchased a 6" x 6" sketchbook solely for sketching faces/expressions while on the bus. Its an excellent exercise, as long as the bus isn't too crowded, and then I don't have proper elbow room. I haven't done too terribly much digitally, I'm still adjusting to Windows 7.

With Windows 7, CS4 isn't working as it should. (Adobe, please release a patch. This is just laziness on your part). Painter XI is working as fine as usual, which wouldn't be a problem if I weren't on such a Photoshop kick.

I've also recently began reading Neil Gaiman's Sandman. I'm currently on issue 33, 'A Game of You 2'.

Tekken 6 also came out last week. ~Sci-FiWasabi and I have been playing a lot of that. Its always great when you have someone that you can play against in a fighting game for over and hour and not have to worry about someone getting butthurt that they aren't winning, or someone having to purposefully lose matches.

I haven't actively played Tekken since Tekken 3. I tried Tekken Tag Tournament only to be harshly disappointed and burned away from the series. Luckily, Tekken 6 is a gem. They got rid of a few of my favorite characters (Jun Kazama, Kunimitsu, Tiger), but at least I still have Anna. Zafina is also a riot to play as. I want to love Lili, but I despise the way she plays. Leo is also the prettiest girl in the game.



ADORATIONS


This too shall pass.

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Falling in love is certainly something of beauty!

My day was extremely well spent up at Fall Con, here in Minnesota!I've never been to a comic con before, so it was insanely exciting. Really nerve wracking, too. I'm not used to really big crowds, so for at least the first hour I just kind of wandered aimlessly around while STARING at everything.



A lot of the nervousness broke after this fantastic cosplayer of Hagrid entered the room. I caught him on his second passing and he was very well kind enough to let me have a picture with him, asking me to simply "stroke the spine there"!


While not having much cash on me when going up, I did manage to get some swag.

• Jesstures 2009 by Jessica Hickman [link]


• JUMBO Sketchbook, li'l book of BABES vol. 2 & 3 by Chad Spilker [link]


• BIG Book of Beautiful Babes vol. 6 by Bald Guy

I also got to stop by *NeedleToTheGroove's booth. She was kind enough to give me a free sketch and was a joy to talk to.

Bald Guy and Chad Spilker were amazing guys to talk to. I was still terrified of being around so many people at the time, so I was instantly sucked into looking at their stuff. FANTASTIC pinups. I had a really hard time deciding on what to buy. Mr. Spilker was even kind enough to throw in a couple of his mini sketchbooks when I bought his big one.

Amy Lee Hadley (Madam Xanadu) was there. She was great to talk to, and was hosting a 'how to draw faces' panel later that day. (I didn't get to stay around that long).

It was great.

All in all, I'm exhausted, but so inspired! I definitely want to attend the next Fall Con (although I hear rumors of one being in April... <3 ).

Time to work on some art, yeaaagghhh!!



ADORATIONS


This too shall pass.

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Time for caramel outfits, falling leaves, jack-o-lanterns, costumes, ghosts, bats, candy corn, and glory~!

Today has been overall a really good day. I got to spend it with my family and some really good friends. I've had a lot of well wishing, as well. When I was an idiot teenager, I always thought that nobody cared. Sometimes, I would love to time warp and olympic punch my teen-self in the face. Seriously.

I finally delivered the in-law's computer after a good week and a half of working on it. (Bad HDD, etc.) That should be going better, now!

Warehouse 13 is still amazing. I have one of those PSP things now, and the web browsing on that is clumsy at best. I'll probably see if I can get Opera or Chrome or something on that bad boy.

Acquired:
PSP (Piano Black)
Daxter UMD
Persona UMD
Parappa the Rapper UMD (YOU GOTTA BELIEVE!!)
untitled chapter by Dustin Krier




ADORATIONS


This too shall pass.

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It seems that I've just about forgotten this place!

A little over a week ago, I married ~Sci-FiWasabi. On the 16th, we finally made it official. Nothing but my name changed. I gave myself to him a long time ago.

For my first gift to him, I purchased a sketch of Mandy from Dean Yeagle. If you don't know of this man, google him. He has an amazing animator's style. A lot of his expressions seem to hark to Gil Elvgren on a regular basis, and his poses are so dynamic.

I've lately taken a strong love of Warehouse 13. I'm slowly but surely watching season one while drawing. I think I tore through 4 episodes alone while working on Promise.

Time is passing quickly, and I'm trying to find myself artistically.

Guilty Pleasures:

• Aion Collector's Edition (message for server/names).


• La Cosa Nostra Artbook by =eiko-chan


• Commission from =eiko-chan


• Warehouse 13

ADORATIONS


This too shall pass.