| Anime North 2009 Report! |
[2009年5月26日|02:32 pm] |
This was the first AN since 2003 where I didn't participate in the artist alley, and I have to say it was really refreshing! :)
Instead of getting a table and sitting behind it for the entire convention, I opted to go with the art show Gallery Momiji and showcase and sell several of my works on canvas. Up until the night before the convention, I was frantically working away on them, wishing I hadn't wasted so much time weeks before... O_o;;
But, in any case!
( Anime North 2009 Report! ) |
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| The semester's over! |
[2009年4月10日|12:51 am] |
I should've said this a week ago, but I'm done this semester! \(^o^)/ No exams to worry about either, which is always a big plus (fine arts courses are awesome that way ^^). The picture above is one of the paintings I did this term. I diverged away from landscapes and concentrated my efforts on this sort of "abstract, but not abstract" mode of painting using certain surrealistic techniques.
It was really interesting reading up on the various techniques the surrealists employed to generate new imagery. One was taking a brush loaded with ink and blowing onto a piece of paper and discern what the "image" is. The one that I used was related to ink blotting, but instead of ink I used acrylic paint. With one blot, I extracted five or so paintings from it, heheh. :) There was probably more, but time constraints but a stopper on that. There's always the rest of spring and summer to paint them though. ;)
I'll make a post with all the paintings I did and photos of the studio sometime soon. |
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| Anime North Comic Market |
[2009年3月17日|01:05 pm] |
Didn't get around to posting this 'til now, but...
I.. I.. GOT MY TABLE! \(^o^)/
I was one of the VERY lucky ones who was put on the waiting list for the lottery, then two hours later miraculously ended up with one of the lottery tables! So all in all, I'm quite pleased. :D
Looks like I'll need to finish off a comic or two in time for AN though... DX |
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| It's the end of February already... DX |
[2009年2月27日|10:33 pm] |
Got through one tough week. Had a midterm critique of my paintings, and two presentations to tackle. I'm terrible with presenting stuff, so I'm so happy they're finally over with! Things look a lot brighter now, heheh. ^__^
I think I'm gonna start doing quick sketches everyday and putting them up here. This first one's of Takasu Ryuji from the anime Toradora! It's such a fun show! I still have to catch up with it, even though I've got up to the latest on my laptop. I'll get to it sooner or later. :)
Oh yeah! I was at Con-G as an artist last weekend. For a first-time anime convention, it was pretty nice. The best thing about it was the artist alley being in the same room as the events, so there wasn't any dull moments! I would definitely go back next year, but I don't think I'd go as an artist. |
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| Some random goings on |
[2008年8月27日|02:19 am] |
[big brother 10] Anyone else watch this? I don't think I've been more involved with the show than this summer. The After Dark show, when I first watched it, made it a lot more real than what you usually see in the regular episodes (not to mention a million times more interesting). It's best when Dan, Keesha, Renny, and Memphis are seen chattin' away and playing games and whatnot; but it's crap when you see Ollie, Michelle, and Jerry complaining about how "unfair" they have it, swearing left and right, and so on.
I was a little pissed tonight when all they did was concentrate on the sore loser trio, and give the people I care about barely any time to breathe. I find it much more enjoyable listening to, say, Keesha talking about her Japanese aunt, than Michelle blubbering over how there's no wine to drink. >_>;; So that's why I'm back at my computer typing this up.
Dan, Keesha, Memphis, and Renny for the win! \(^o^)/~
[fan expo] Didn't make it out to Fan Expo this year (no surprise there). Not like it makes much of a difference. The only thing I would've gone for would've been Kikiwai's Japanese manga deal of $3 per book, and maybe perusing the artist alley. But other than that, the rest of the con'd be one big BLAH.
But to make up for it, I went out today and bought more than I planned to! *haha* The one thing that I really wanted to get, the first issue of Yen Plus, I finally got at Chapters. They had a whole bunch of copies at one end of the magazine stands. So I snagged a nice lookin' copy and scurried off to the graphic novels, heh. XD My mom saw the second issue somewhere else and bought that for herself (I got her hooked ^^).
The manga I picked up: Tsubasa 17 & 18, Negima 17 & 18, Fruits Basket 20, and Vampire Knight 2. Now I can finally catch up with Tsubasa and see what ×××Holic referred to in volume 11. All that manga should keep me somewhat busy 'til school hits two weeks from now. ^__^ At HMV, although I wasn't really looking for it, I got Utada Hikaru's latest album "Heart Station", and the first box set of Busou Renkin (love that show!).
You may think I'm crazy, but I'm really looking forward to school! Hah! XD |
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| Doujinka Festival |
[2008年8月17日|04:52 pm] |
Yesterday was the Doujinka Festival. Although it was a pretty small gathering, it still was fun talking with everyone about art and whatnot. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) softlily came along to help me out, and also to keep me company, heheh! Thanks Kristina! ^__^ The really nice thing about the festival being small, is was a lot less noisy! I could actually talk with people and hear what they said. And I actually had time to draw without any distractions, the sketch above being one of the better ones.
Although it wasn't the main intention, I did manage to break even and make a bit more than expected, so that's always great. The seven doujins I sold were more than enough to cover the registration cost alone!
Really hope that there's a Doujinka Fest next year. By the time it would roll around, I'd have a lot more books to sell. :D
Oh! And thanks to everyone who bought something from me! ^__^ |
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| The comic's coming along! |
[2008年7月26日|03:19 am] |
The storyboarding's been going really nicely these past few days! I've got 40 pages laid out now, so there's not too much left. I'm definitely going over my previous estimate from before though. Let's see if 48 will do it.
( Rough draft of page 19 ) |
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| One-Shot Comic in the Works |
[2008年7月24日|12:20 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | comics, supercell | ] |
| [ | 音楽 |
| | Cardcaptor Sakura - Nishi Kaze no Kaerimichi | ] |
Not sure if I've mentioned this before, but I'm in the middle of writing my first full-blown original one-shot comic. I'm slowly working away at the storyboarding at the moment. It can be really fun to work on, but still pretty frustrating at the same time. It'll be a big relief when it's over with though, heheh.
The estimated page count I've come up with thus far puts it around 45. I hope it doesn't go up any more than that. I don't think I'd make my deadline if it did... -_-;;
Just letting people know what I've been up to lately. (It's really just an excuse to update this thing.) ^^
Now back to work... >_>; |
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| D.Gray-man Doujinshi Preview |
[2008年6月20日|12:20 pm] |
The first day of summer... it's also happens to fall on my birthday this year. So, happy birthday to me, I guess. :P
Also, I wish softlily a very happy birthday as well. Happy birthday, Kristina! ^^
Making steady progress with my new D.Gray-man doujinshi. If I don't waste any more time doing other things, I should have it finished by the end of the month or some time in early July. I still think it's a little early to be giving previews, but giving a preview I still will do. ;)
( D.Gray-man Doujin Preview )
Oh! I should add that I made a huge art post of my BBCP portraits over at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) kurosaki_clinic, so go on and check 'em out! |
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| Anime North '08 Report |
[2008年5月27日|07:40 pm] |
I'll make this short since I wrote something more elaborate at DeviantART.
Bottom line with Artist's Alley: I broke even and made about $200+ on top of that. So that's always good. I sold 12 copies of my doujinshi, which made me very happy! ^__^ I'm also really happy that I got rid of more than half of my really old prints; selling them at a buck a pop helped with that immensely. ^.^
Overall, the alley wasn't too bad this year, though I was pretty lonely almost the entire time. I saw a few familiar faces and made some new friends though, so that eased the loneliness a bit. Never got to go and see everyone else's work properly though, which really sucked, but there's also Fan Expo for that.
Now with AN over, I've got a new mission! Complete a D.Gray-man doujinshi from start to finish in one month. There's a new convention that the co-ordinator of AN's artist's alley is starting up called Doujinka Festival. It will be centered more on doujinshi and original comics, much like Comic Market in Japan. It takes place on August 16 in Toronto. More info for it should be up in the next two weeks or so on the AN website. I'm gonna make sure I get a table there! ^__^
There is the ever so slightest chance that I might be going to Anime Expo in LA, but that all depends on a certain someone getting in touch with me to see if it's possible. ;) It would be absolutely awesome if it does happen, but right now I'm not counting on it. We'll just have to see... ^__^ That slightest chance went poof~ Mwhahahahaa~~ XDDD |
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| M×0 fanart! |
[2008年5月7日|05:15 pm] |
Steadily working away at bookmark designs... I finally managed to draw a half decent one for M×0. w00!
( Kuzumi Holds On For Dear Life! )
And incidentally, it seems that M×0's ending pretty soon.
I think I'll go cry in a corner... TToTT;; |
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| BBCP: Hisagi Shuuhei |
[2008年4月7日|10:20 am] |
Getting back into the BBCP spirit, somewhat. :) Working away at the August birthdays now. A little hard to believe I've made it to August! After this, only four months left to go! ^__^
Here's a li'l sneak preview of Hisagi's before it goes up on DeviantART...
( BBCP: Hisagi Shuuhei ) |
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| Trials and Tribulations of Stretcher Frames |
[2008年3月28日|07:09 pm] |
| [ | 音楽 |
| | Gackt - Todokanai Ai to Shitteru no ni, Osaekirezu ni Aishitsuzuketa | ] |
Heading over to Wyndham's tomorrow morning. I'm going to cheat and buy a canvas since there's pretty much no time left in the semester. But I did try and construct my own!
Not sure what it was, the miter saw or the corner clamps, but either way, my wood was not meeting up properly. When I used the corner clamp, probably only 1 or 2% of the wood was actually touching at the corners. And that's not good at all... >_<;;
It'd be awesome if I could buy a fully constructed frame and stretch the canvas myself, but Wyndham's doesn't sell them that way. Oh well...
Hopefully I can salvage the wood I cut and use a belt clamp to fuse 'em together instead. It might not be as exact as a corner clamp, but at least it'll form a stronger joint. We'll have to see~ ^.^ |
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| Happy New Year '08 |
[2008年1月1日|10:40 pm] |
| [ | ムード |
| |  apathetic | ] |
| [ | 音楽 |
| | B'z - OCEAN | ] |
It's hard to believe yet another year has just passed by.
But looking back, I did manage to accomplish a few big things, like my doujinshi (which took a year to complete) and a lot of work from University that I would have never done if I didn't go back. So I'm happy in that respect.
Here's a li'l picture to start off the new year...
 "Happy New Year '08 ...Cheer up!"
Here's hopin' that 2008 will be a good year for me. I'll be sure to make the best of it! (a.k.a. Get tons of work done! That'll make me feel better by a lot.) |
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| NEW PROJECT: HP:HBP Doujinshi |
[2007年9月16日|11:08 pm] |
Finally decided to continue my work on a script for a Harry Potter: Half-Blood Prince doujinshi that I shelved over a year ago. At the time, it was becoming quite monumental with all I was putting into it, and I didn't want to burden myself with such a challenging project as my first doujin. So I put it aside until I had completed something quite a bit smaller.
I had at first estimated the length to be roughly sixty pages or so, but now that I am fleshing out more and more of the script, I highly doubt it'll stay that length, which is rather frightening... O_o;
But as I read this script once again, it makes me utterly giddy! It makes me think how amazingly awesome this doujinshi will be once all it said and done! But getting there will definitely be challenging, to say the least.
And to think I want this thing done by mid-November!
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No time better than the present, eh!? ^^;; |
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