Today's Wish: To get stuffs done x_X
Current Music on the Head:

Food in thought: Chicken and Corn Eggdrop soup :D
What did you do?: Work? its 3am in the morning on a saturday, let me have my way.

Okies long time no update but I’ve been busy, so I thought of a nifty way to not forget what to write here. I started typing topics down whenever I think its worth sharing with you all ^^

Rytmik

I downloaded this DSiWare for my 3DS over December or was that early Jan, I don’t remember. But this small app lets you make music, which I find cool! I’m no master but I do enjoy creating things! It takes a while to get used to but you also have to have a good ear for music too because some of the tracks I combined together sure are horrible x_x I just need to get better at it when I tinker with them again!

Artist Alley

I was about to write of thinking to joining Fanime Artist Alley, but the opportunity presented itself in the form of drifjunky13 suggesting we share a table. What fun! I struggled with AA registration last January and took a while in the waitlist, as well as taking time to run over to BoE to get myself a temporary seller’s permit. Now I’m registered for fanime, and I just the go ahead that I just got the table, preparation time ahoy! Someone teach me about comissions, I’m not super familiar with it. Aside from that I’m preparing a sketchbook to sell at my table ^_^ and perhaps other things too.

Wanting More Markers

With the recent events, I got more motivated to experiment more with what I have, and by luck I even got a wonderful guide in the form of a book called Shojo Wonder Manga Art School from Michael’s. Although copics still are a little ways expensive, my hand Deleter Neopiko-2 does not fail to do their job. Sadly with the past few years that I have mishandled some of them, there are some that are not in good condition, things like I forgot to close the cap, I pressed too hard now the brush tip’s threatening to fall off whenever I want to use them (thank god for double sided tips), broken tips because I was being in a hurry to recap them, and destroyed them in the process. I was able to do some nice works which was nice :D although quite time consuming, since I usually think what colors I want to use which takes minutes to hours haha xD So yeah I do want more. I’ve recently purchased some from Etoyhobbies.com and they were quick to send, I got it in 3 days business time ^^ maybe I should buy more.

Ragnarok Online : Mora

The latest update has descended upon the Rune Midgard kingdom and a pathway that supplies the Splendide Fairy Army with armaments and necessities have been cut off. It is up to us Adventurers to brave the dangerous Hazy Forest to bring word of news and transport supplies to and from the Trade City of Mora in Jotunheim, a hub filled with other merchants such as Talking dogs, elephants and plants.

It took me a while to finish the required quests to be able to get to Mora, and there were nice Adventurers that helped me get through the scary Hazy Forest Maze, which if you don’t have a huge printed map with you could spell you to be doomed to wander there for all of eternity..or simply die from the creatures that inhabit the place. They are the latest monsters in the game, and they sure pack quite some damage, so gear up, don’t forget your potions and yggdrasil leaves and get going! Great rewards await you at the end, like the most talked about White Wing Set, which enhances Ranger’s Arrow Storm skill damage by 50% with the complete set, and more bonuses with each refine level of the armor, not to mention the special enchantments that can bestow several effects to deal more damage or help, if you’re patient enough to reset them with Mora Coins to get what bonuses you want. That part, I don’t like x_x but oh well, I gotta go thru with it.

Needing More Sleep

Haha, I’ve nott been sleeping properly…I just have this feeling I need to finish a lot of things, they keep me up most of the time. That or just video games. My sleep clock’s way off nowadays :(

Vacation Time

I didn’t do much, but I took my vacation on February, and I was able to vegetate, ingest a ton of anime, and played a lot of RO. I created an alchemist for Ragnarok Online because they had a promo about the update on the Homunculus ‘S’ class, but oh well, I’ll keep my filir the way she is. She’s soo cute!

Tri-City Meets

I’ve recently been actively participating in the local Tri-City sketch jams when I’m free on weekends, which just enables me to hang, draw, chat about things, and gossip about fun stories about other BAAU members :D haha plain late night chatting and drawing sessions galore.

Life Drawing in Mountain View

The week before my Feb Vacation, I checked out the Life Drawing Classes in Mountain View. I have been wanting to do it for 2 years now, but since I just passed my driving exam last year, and now I’ve been a little more adventurous into venturing out a little farther from where I live. Ahaha I’m not so prepared to draw a nude dude but oh wells I got some doodles down ^^ it was quite ..an experience. Maybe I’ll do it another time.

Chihayafuru

I started watching this new anime called Chihayafuru, I think since December, and I do love watching it. It just finished its first season a few weeks ago, I’m a little disappointed at the ending. There should be another season. Too bad karuta’s kinda hard to know how to play especially if you have to memories 100 poems and recognize which other half of the poem/card in the reader reading before the opponent gets it.

I rate this anime : out of 5 ^^

Also they made a parody comic about it in Anime News Nina! Check it out!

Knight in the Area

I’ve started watching a few of its episode, but I fell back and never watched it again after 4 episodes into this anime. I’m not too into Soccer, but it looks badass on how they present it. Overshadowed younger brother afraid of his own power from injuring a playmate during an elementary match. His elder brother dies saving him from a rogue construction truck when the siblings were talking to each other on the way to school. The younger brother wakes up from the accident a month later, not knowing that it was his brother’s heart that was transplanted into his due to a huge puncture in his chest during the accident. Months later after rehabilitation he returns to school, and exhibited some of his brothers traits without him knowing so, to the fear of people who recognized it tho.

I rate this anime : out of 5 ^^

Natsume Yuujinchou

I’ve recently started catching up to Natsume’s Book of friends anime, and I definitely love it! However as the third season comes to a close, the anime becomes darker and darker, as Natsume gets more involved with a renowned excorcist clan, which powerful Head of House doesn’t care about youkai, but rather places them in the category of useful, or just trash to be exorcised. Things are heating up and I want to know what happens on season four, Natsume Yuujinchou Shi

I rate this anime : out of 5 ^^

Black Death

It’s a really dark movie o_o scary and bloody. It tests your faith to the limit. A very bitter twist in the end.

Kid Icarus: Uprising

I LOVE THIS GAME! I got it a few weeks ago and I really really really like it! Er…well except for Reapers and Ornes, but everything else’s okay, especially the Weapon Fusion feature and Together Mode: Light Vs Dark. Have a 3Ds? Get the game already, nuff said!

The Legend of Zelda Symphony of the Goddesses SF

01 The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Medley by Zelda Philharmonic

04 Gerudo Valley by Zelda Philharmonic

06 Twlight Princess Symphonic Movement by Zelda Philharmonic

Man I loved it! I went with my dad on the 28th of March 2012 at the Davies Symphony Hall. I loved how it wasn’t too loud. I got a ton of streetpasses. I had fun chatting with friends and I was able to take some err very few pictures. I wish they’d play again T^T I got a T-Shirt and Poster for 35$
It was very memorable <3 Can’t help but cry at beautiful parts, gawk at the fights, entranced by melodies and clap a lot, as in a LOT. They gave us one more extra arrangement, and that was the Majora’s Mask Arrangement. Encore indeed. I’m gonna miss it T^T MOAR MOAR MOAR CHOUDAI CHOUDAI

Fairy Tail Episode 124, the 7 Year Gap

I can’t help but feel sad about Lucy’s Dad passing away, and the sorry state that the Fairy Tail Guild is in. I hope it looks up better in the next few chapters!

Superman/Shazam!: the Return of Black Adam

I just finished watching this last night and it was cool! Although it was a little disheartening to know it was a short animation only :( Nontheless the DVD’s packed with a lot of Special Features :D

The return of the Crimson Army

Ah Sad Star Soldiers have returned. This small collaborative project was fun to do years back, creating our own characters, superpowers, storylines that revolve around the planet Astralis. We’ve been redesigning our own characters as of late, adjusting timelines, having fun at sharing ideas and motivating each other to complete the timelines of our characters on our facebook page.
For more info, check out our new wikia page!

Do you have what it takes to handle the Formless Darkness?
Can you answer the call of the Unseen?
Who can you trust?
We are Sad Star Soldiers, the Crimson Army. Children chosen by circumstance.

Well That’s it for now. Keep on going!

Labels: anime, convention, DS, iro, ragnarok online, shopping, sketching, time

Today's Wish: Good Night’s Sleep
Current Music on the Head:
Food in thought: Mushroom Skillet
What did you do?: Work, Ragnarok Online, watched CSI S10 Disc 3

Well Hello! Hello! I haven’t posted in a while, and a lot of things have quite piled up that I have the urge to share, because they are such wonderful memories.

As Fall arrived, everyone suddenly seems to have become busy, I have also become busy-er…lazy these past weeks. Been Just playing a lot of Video Games, more so with Ragnarok Online.

Aside from that, an incident that happened to me at my workplace got me feeling all sour, touchy and grumpy (who wouldn’t if someone stole your DS and embarrassed you in front of your other co-workers…that’s just not right. Just wanted to rant that statement out, its purely my opinion.)

So I decided that I should move my concentration somewhere else, because my other start-up hobbies went ‘flop’ (making handcrafted sleeves like vocaloid and selling them to conventions, getting japanese classes unfortunately work was very tight as of then :( so I couldn’t go through with it.) I came across an affordable pegbar for animation from Lightfoot Animation Supplies for $4.95 and that the pegbar holes would fit exactly from a 3 hole punch. How fun! So I went ahead and purchased it, it totaled at 13$ something together with shipping. I was so excited when I got it in the mail the next week. I was able to experiment. I bought myself a ream of paper and just started working on it when I’m not playing video games when I got  home.

Here are my tests:

I feel motivated enough working on these that I started borrowing tons of books about animation from the library, and I’ve gotten some more knowledge and insight in the correct ways of animation.

So now, when I’m free, little by little I’m going to work on this little project of mine, I won’t spoil anyone because it will be a very very short animation.

Fremont Holiday Faire

I was able to check it out this year, and its still as fun and enjoyable as ever coming from a mini-convention. I got myself a CLAMP Kiseki box colored red, and I got Hikaru, black mokona and another clamp character I don’t recognize as figurine chess pieces.

Birthday Lunch

Spent time with friends and family eating out <3 I had a lot of gifts, thank you everyone!

Drawing

I haven’t been drawing much lately :(

Under the Moonlight

The guild I belong to, Under the Moonlight finally hits its lowpoint, as wednesday War of Emperium activity has been cancelled until further notice, and from there I usually don’t play Saturday WoE because there’s no point in taking over a castle with the lack of attendance we’ve been getting just to be kicked if not targeted specifically just to prove that our guild is no longer as strong as it used to, not to mention it seems half of the guilld has already migrated into WoW. Its just sad, after all these years…I’m still going to stay, I love this guild.

OSU!

I came across a fun, free online rhythm game! Its exactly like Osu Tatakae Ouendan, except you can choose from a large variety of tracks to download and play from.

Jack and Jill

I watched Adam Sandler’s movie with dad, and I loved it! It has soo many silly scenes, inside jokes and fun! I Rate it:

Brother’s Home for the Holidays

:) Need I say more? Only thing I didn’t like was driving him around, but oh well, he got us yummy cakes for xmas <3

Collaboration Proposal

A collaboration was proposed between me, ratcabob and mysticeden to be submitted for this year’s BAAU down comic. We’re still in the process of brainstorming a story.

A Convention?

Me and my friends are brewing a convention, we’re still in the conversation and talks so far, It slowed down when December had hit but I hope it picks back up after all these holidays.

A Beta Test Invite

Around after Christmas, I was checking my e-mail when I got an invite to beta test Ragnarok Online 2 Legend of the Second, and I would have screamed and squealed so high if it wasn’t at my workplace. Soon as I got home, I confirmed if it was legit by checking it out from the forums, and it sure was! The download took an entire night and woke up around 5am just so that I can install it. Turns out that KRO was having problems letting foreigners into their game. Two days later, it was finally fixed and I was able to make an Archer and play with in in a little bit. I wasn’t able to fully play with it because I decided to skip a day to rest fully. Unfortunately the day after that was when they closed the beta testing. I’m sad, but at least I got to try it. I loved the music, they environment’s beautiful. The interface’s just hard to play, especially if its all in Korean x_X.

I think that’s it so far. Not been smiling as of late, Ill try :)

Labels: anime, blog, DS, life, ragnarok online, sketching, time

Today's Wish: Enjoy the weekend further
Current Music on the Head: Ricken’s - Be Free
Food in thought: Pork and chicken buns!
What did you do?:  Played a lot of RO, and went to the library to doodle and listen to music.

Woohoo! Its been a while! A Lot of things has come and gone. I attended the yearly Fanime 2011, and my first Anime Expo 2011. Can’t say I have been busy, but I have to say honestly, I have been lazy. Been playing too much video games, but once in a while I hang out with good friends that share the same if not similar views notably known as BAAU.

BAAU Up Project

So, within the group we’ve thought for quite a long time ago to create a colored art book to sell to conventions just like we sell the BAAU Down. After finally deciding and voting for a theme, the project is underway….slowly. To be truthful I haven’t even finished my one and only colored entry. I need motivation to finish it ^^;; ahaha~

Anime Expo

Even tho I didn’t fully attend the event, I checked out friday and saturday. I enjoyed immensely the ParaPara Workshop. Got to watch a Lupin III movie, though I was already dozing in and out. Saw awesome cars, industry booths, and shook hands with most of the DA artists I follow. And its really as packed as it seems on convention photos. It has its very own aura way different from Fanime.

I also got to meet Heimdllr and Oda from Warpportal/Ragnarok Online. And I also met two of my guildies from Under the Moonlight Guild.

WonderCon

I forgot to mention that I checked out WonderCon in San Francisco on April. It was fun, packed and the Moscone Center sure is humongous. Not to mention the crowd’s vibes are way different from Anime conventions, but it still has serious cosplayers nonetheless.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica -anime

OMG when I got introduced to this anime during Fanime, I was hooked. It’s a wonderful story, really one of the animes worth watching. My Rating for it is:

Highschool of the Dead - anime

I love this anime! Zombies! Action! Romance! Fanservice! Gore! That’s why I volunteered to be a zombie for Fanime this year. Getting ghoulish make-up from Kicket Costumes, and minty flavored blood all over my face 8D. It was organized by Ratgirl Productions, who also introduced to me the Puella Magi Madoka Magica series from her Anime Marathon Sundays.

Tiger and Bunny - anime

Ahhh, this anime just recently finished, and I love it! you can catch it on Hulu if its still up there. Wonderful anime. Friendship! Silliness! Super Powers! Sponsors! Teamwork! Trust! A very fun anime.

Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt - anime

Really really wacky anime. Very..perverse in terms of puns, images and effects. While Vulgar, its also quite comical and silly. It has a good mix of stupidity, oddness and insanity, to last probably until someone makes another wacky experimental anime.

Ragnarok Online – MMORPG

These past month or two RO has implemented the ‘Grampa Turnin Quest’. This quest basically sets a character into hunting 400 of 2-4 monsters in a single map, with quests ranging in mid levels to high levels. Every other week, they change the level tier to accommodate for those that couldn’t take the quest from the previous week. It has a cooldown of one day, and for VIP members of the game, they are give the opportunity to be immediately warped to the hunting grounds, and choose where to have their experience points from the quest to be on their job exp, base exp or both. I had fun playing with my other characters on it and I got my Knight into a transcendant Lord Knight in a couple of days, of course with the help of good friends online. (Thanks Sketch`)

The even it still on-going, and it is unknown when it will end. There was also a patch update which was Dewata. It has 2 dungeons and 2 fields and one city map. Gotta love the first dungeon, it drops a lot of coal, rough oridecons and eluniums.

Legendary Starfy, Kirby Mass Attack – Nintendo DS games

I finished playing Legendary Starfy, it was fun. Fun, innovative and silly platform games are always cool on my book. Speaking of which, the Kirby Mass Attack game I bought two weeks ago is the same genre, and its soooooo cute! It has mini games inside, and I’m already on the 3rd world. Almost there!

Sailor Moon Vol 1, Codename: Sailor V vol 1 – manga

OMG couldn’t believe they are reprinting Sailor Moon again! Will definitely watch out for it, and hopefully collect them all!

Nintendo 3DS Ambassador Program

Sooo, Nintendo lowered the price for the 3DS so fast I heard there might be backlash for those who purchased their 3DS on its launch date. So I got the Ambassador Program, where I’m promised 20 free games. First 10 free games released last September 15, and the rest late this year. I’ve downloaded them all, and frankly, I don’t like some of them, but free games are free games. I did love Balloon Fight, that game has a lot of playability to it.

Steve Jobs Passing

I may not have personally known him, but if he’s the one who brought iPod to the world, then he’s worth mentioning. May you rest in peace.

Today’s Doodles

So, I want to my local library today out of boredome of just staying at home all day. I didn’t want to drive far, so I decided to stay local. And I checked out some manga, read a magazine and doodled a bit about anatomy, so here they are:

That’s all I recall for now. See you all later and keep smiling! ^_^

Labels: anime, convention, DS, life, manga, ragnarok online, sketching

Today's Wish: Good Sleep, Good Day at work
Current Music on the Head: Basement Jaxx - Good Luck (feat. Lisa Kekaula) from Appleseed Movie

Labels: anime, convention, DS, iro, life, sketching, time

Labels: anime, convention, DS, iro, life, movie, ragnarok online, shopping, sketching

What did you do?: Played RO, watched some sort of Jackie Chan movie on local television, Did some grocery, cooked some sweet rice cake <3

Well well well, its been a while since I posted. Once again, A Belated Happy New Year to all. I have been pretty busy with work at the office during the holiday season, and I can finally breath a sigh of relief that it is over and done with and no longer in need of ranting about.

I've been doing a lot of stuffs lately, and I've almost forgotten that Fanime 2009 is almost here. I really really can't wait. I will have to do a lot of arrangements because of it. That means the BAUU Down 08 is almost on its due and deadline date for participating members. I'm afraid, this time I will not be submitting anything, so I would most likely be just helping out selling out comic books.

On to more news, I'm a year older and wiser now, and hopefully I've learned a lot of things form the year 2008. It was a very very memorable year. As for Christmas Gifts, I got one off my wishlist, I got a lightbox to work on! Now I can practice not only animation, but also make my linearts far more clean then they were before.

Ragnarok Online

As usually, my addiction to this amazing PC game never ends, as I finally Transcended my Hunter and turner her into a Sniper last Thursday. I am very happy with it, but It would have been more awesome if the color dye for Sniper remained the color Green. Oh well, you can't have everything ne?

Here's 2008 Screenshot Gallery


Dragon Ball: Origins

I've purchased a DS game from GameStop called Dragon Ball: Origins, and frankly for $19.99 its much more worth then it was priced at. The gameplay and story-menu-mode is set so you can always play the chapters you've passed thru again and again to acquire money, figures or special orbs that permit you to advance Son Goku's skills. The only thing I find annoying is that Bulma always gets ahead of you and often into trouble. You'll have to be up to your toes to keep up with her. The Graphics is well-rounded, and the comedy will crack you up so hard.
If you have a DS and you are a Dragon Ball series Fan, this is a must-buy for you.

My Rating:

Elite Beat Agents

I was browsing around GameStop when I found a used game of Elite Beat Agents. I knew it was a must-buy, so I bought it at around $16.99 and tried it out. True to what people rated it with, it is a fun, crazy and challenging game. It was very very different from other rhythm and music games like the Ontamarama I had. So yeah, believe what others say, that it's a rare game, I was lucky to have found it.

My Rating:

DeviantART News

I gave Karu and Pie Arashi a month's worth of DA subscription for them doing a request for me, which is a pretty cute illustration.


PIE VS KARU 2009 by =karuishikawa on deviantART

Enjoy your subscription you two :3

Style School 3

Aiya! I finally got my hands of the continuation of the Style School Series. This one had a very very gorgeous cover. And as usual it had good tips and tricks for any aspiring manga/anime illustrator out there like me, from photoshop, to copics, to toning and inking, and it includes a lot of different illustrations from all over japan, which might be considered to be a good reference material, if ever you're searchin for a particular style to acquire influence from.
A must buy if you can afford 16$+TAX

So there you go, I really had a busy month. Until we meet again, keep smiling ^__^

Labels: anime, blog, convention, DS, iro, life, ragnarok online, sketching, time