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My buttons came in the mail today!



Although the Mega Man ones turned out slightly darker than I would've liked, they're all still pretty nice looking!

Hope they go over well at AN! ^__^

It's been a long time coming, but it was more or less inevitable.

Today as I was in the middle of colouring a button design, my tablet began acting up. It at first messed up the relationship between drawing area and computer screen, acting more like a mouse, so there'd be no way of drawing accurately. So unplug and replug the tablet I did.

Things went back to normal... for a time. Next thing was that the tablet simply stopping responding to the drawing pen. Although I tried unplugging and plugging it back in, this time it stayed unresponsive.

So it's safe to assume it's dead now. TT_TT;

We have a few more tablets around the house, but it's just a matter of actually finding them... XD So I should be back to drawing and colouring sooner rather than later, thankfully. :D

It's hard to believe I've had this tablet for nine years...!

Something I've been working on for the past few days!

( Sample Page! )

Remember the grayscale version I posted last year? Well, I finally coloured it yesterday.

Doing colouring this way, by glazing over a grayscale image, was somewhat unexplored territory for me, but I really like how the results turned out. I just gotta make sure that when I go to get it printed for AN, that it doesn't get printed too dark; it's dark enough as it is!

A larger version can be found at my deviantART account. It'd be nice to get a DD for this. :D

I don't know how it happens every year, but I yet again lucked out with the lottery and got myself a Comic Market table! \(^o^)/

So I got my lottery number at 5 in the morning for the Comic Market (though I went to sleep long before that). I'm not too surprised. I've been in the lottery plenty of times before and had managed somehow to get a table those times, so I'll keep the faith that things will come my way this time too. :D

I'd just like to let you all know that I've posted some of my comics to my deviantART gallery. I've posted Supercell and the first part of my D.Gray-man doujin Cardsharp.

This is a bit of an experiment to see whether doing this will help generate more online sales for my doujin. I'm not particularly concerned about selling my Supercell books (I think I've sold enough of those to pay off the printing costs) so I posted the entire comic up. I'm more concerned with Cardsharp since I've got a whole lot more copies lying around not doing very much.

So please feel free to read them! And perhaps give your thoughts as well.

Supercell
Cardsharp Part 1

By accident, I found something on Youtube that I was pleasantly surprised to see there. One of my songs that I composed close to 11 years ago! I think it's really cool that someone liked it so much to actually post it up there like that. And the comment the poster gives in the description was really awesome to read too. :D

Take a listen!



This has actually prompted me to think of perhaps releasing all of the decent sounding works I did onto Youtube myself, along with a few unreleased ones from my "tracker days" back then. XD They're out on the web for free anyway, so why not give people better access to them?

I've been having some good luck lately with selling things through Kijiji.

I started out with selling off my English edition manga and light novels last October, and since then I'm happy to report that I've managed to sell 71 out of 108 volumes so far. Quite happy with that, to be sure.

And just this past Friday, I had the brilliant idea to sell my iClicker, which I've had lying around for a couple of years. I didn't want to have to throw it out in the trash since it was still in perfect working order. So I posted up an ad for it.

And less than 24 hours later, I get no less than three responses for it! I was not expecting that at all, so it left me in a joyful shock, heheh. I think pricing it at $15 made it a bit more appealing, especially when compared to what the university bookstore wants for them ($40 + tax).

And despite me writing in the ad afterwards that it was on hold for someone (because I didn't want to delete the ad before I sold the unit), a couple other people expressed their interest in my iClicker as well. XD I don't know, some people just can't be bothered to read the whole ad I guess.

So now after quite a few successes using Kijiji, I've put up a few more ads for things I no longer care for or need. Since it's the beginning of the winter semester for universities, I decided to post ads for my Kanji and Chinese textbooks just to see what would happen. Haven't gotten any responses yet, but I'll still hold out hope. Even if they don't sell this semester, there's always the next one! The great thing about language textbooks is that they don't become obsolete after two years. ;)

So let's see how I did over this year! I almost can't believe the year has already come and gone so quickly. O_o;

( How did I do? )

So all in all, I can say this year wasn't all for naught (despite sometimes feeling that way from time to time). Still got things to work on with myself, but some progress was made here and there, so I'm more or less generally happy. :)

2012 looks like it'll be quite a monumental year, with the US Presidental election and the question of what will happen on the winter solstice being two major highlights. It'll be interesting at the very least!