I would've expected solving two sudoku would tired my brain out...but I still can't fall asleep =A=

Drew this just so I won't continue to sulk or be a couch potato. Wannabe concept art not really, inspired by St. Stephen's Green and lots of David Lanz piano (♥!). Originally twas gonna be just a boy, but since it's Ireland inspired, he became a fairy. My scanner does something strange to the lines' color, so I camera-shot it.



Maybe will try digital paint over it or something, iono. I'm losing touch with digital work..... Feels like I'm even having a hard time drawing fanwork too cuz I keep overthinking anything and everything. B-but I really wanna draw fanwork or OTP stuff again. I'm seriously jealous of anyone and everyone who can draw their minds out.

That said, I'm continuing to seek housing options and alternative plan for classes and trying not to let new problems arise. The past school year had been all rigid planning that I hadn't anticipate room for screwing up. Well, now I got to learn how to improvise... I also got a call today from my boss that she's unable to hire me back because of the California budget cut, which means job seeking too.

Anyways, I was gonna post earlier but got sidetracked with...new member to our family! Gigi, my sister's Welsh corgi 8D Just today I took over 60 pics of her... Our first dog ever. Her name was inspired by Jiji of Kiki's Delivery Service, and she even responded couple times at the "Jiji!" from the TV.

The right one is taken by the DSi hehe. She's currently around 13 weeks old.

Pffft. Spent the whole day on this...

Sorry to report a little late. Been playing with DSi, visiting my sister, and sloth is usually the aftermath of a trip for me. Anyways, a month is a huge load to cover, so the highlights will be divided by weeks~ I'm not gonna go too much in details. Below the cut for Paris pics!

Teaser:

Warning: over 80 pics below the cut!

( Le voyage! )

So that concludes the massive report. Thanks for those who have read it. There were some... personal issues that came up, but maybe I'll write them if I feel like it. Also, I've uploaded some sketches to my blogspot.

Even though it's been a week now, I'm still trying to adjust back on life. I felt like time had stopped for us when we were in Paris when it is evident time didn't stop for the States at all. And now I'm just trying to catch up...

While I definitely agree that the trip was a great learning experience, I'm now jobless (my boss found another student assistant, hopefully just for the summer) and even homeless for the Fall semester... both of which I could've solved in June. So yeah, reality hurts sometimes.

I'm back from Paris! but I'm too tired to do any reporting or photo editing... been up for over 24 hours. Report to come soon! So much stuff happened..*typing from dsi*

So today I traveled alone and ended up 3 hours by train away from Paris. By accident. That is, my stop was supposed to be just 45 minutes away, but I overestimated how long 50 minutes were. I intended to go to Vernon to go visit the Monet Gardens... but ended up at Dieppe (near Normandy). I heard seagulls too. And then the train to Paris was 2 hours later.

All I was chanting to myself, "No international incident. No international incident."

SIGH. *still traumatized*

Bonjour~ I'm at the computer lab of the dorm right now just recovering from a fever.

Have to say that I seem to be jynxed to get sick in Paris X_X;; Last year I had to see a local doctor because of strep throat, and this year also my throat but including runny nose and fever... The weather has been fluctuating from hot sun to cold rain, but I was perfectly healthy before Sunday... until that night I drank white wine that night. In the beginning, I thought I was just coming down with a flu or cold or something, but all the runny nosing and sorethroat literally started that night within an hour after a substantial glass of wine. I thought they formed too rapidly to be a normal cold. So I have come to the deduction that I might be allergic to white wine or some specific ingredient(s) in it...Not that I want to test it out right now; maybe after the trip. So I went to the pharmacies yesterday, and the medicines are working like magic, though I'm still weirded out that the throat medicine application was rectal route. ORZ

Yesterday, in addition to the fever, I lost one of my grey COPICs midway, and it's the second time I lost that color. I also locked myself out when it was pouring yesterday. Sickness makes one delusional! I even saw a totoro in a droplet on the wall during shower. BUT! Aside from all my misfortunates, all the EXCITING adventures that we had so far can be found at http://sjsuparis2009.blogspot.com! Despite me complaining here, many self-conscious moments, and the great amount of walking (my jeans are already getting loose), it's been a very enlightening trip so far. I'm really enjoying it, and I can't believe it's been a week already. I enjoyed Museé d'Orsay so much more than the Louvre ♥ Will show pics when I get back. Or for now you can look at last year's photos, which I uploaded but never reported ^^;;;

Anyways, so I'm taking a day off to recover... I found out that my housemate bailed out from dorming with me next semester in an apartment.... so now that's another thing I have to worry bout when I get back. Great.

ANYWAYS! Onto the good off-topic stuff, MIYAZAKI IS COMING TO BERKELEY on July 25 *____________* And and and NEW WII ZELDA CONCEPT WORK ZOMG.

So it's for the Wii... and they made Link right-handed in the artwork too... BUT WOW. If this Link is a new Link, he looks like the child of Ocarina Link and Twilight Princess Link (●´Д｀●)♥ He looks more grown-up than before. And the silver character a living incarnation of the Master Sword? AHHH can't wait for Spirit Tracks and THIS.

..tissue.

I lied. One more post before taking off...

I'm...almost done packing and have randomly recited random French survival phrases while horribly mispronouncing them. I've also spent all the money earned from Artist Alley onpreparing for the trip.

So I really should be anticipating the trip, but all I can be thinking about is staying home and playing games and drawing fanworks and go visit friends and omg relaxing. =A= Cuz no matter how you look at it, it's still class, and a 'creative thinking' (not drawing) class nonetheless.

So bad... Anyhow...

ADIEU! Until a month later!

Wahhh I'm so sorry for the belated report... keep switching between moving out dorms and packing/preparing for Paris............ I wanna deflate Q_Q BUT photo galore! :D Shout-outs of the awesome people at the con: kyraensui, hellmaster05, shahni, seki_yumizu, robbie691, mingmingcheong, sharpie, chiretto, hakuku, aoi_tenshi, gem2niki, kurot, korilin, ryuhayabusadoa2, taichi_chan, and more!

Let's see, second year of artist alley at Fanime with hellmaster05! Wahh I think this year was even more of hell than last year but nonetheless worthwhile XD;

Teasers:



( PASTA! )


Alright! Now time to prepare for study abroad Paris stuff Q_Q; Oh God... is it really in 3 days? Last minute research and cramming French (in which I know none of!)! Then packing! And also for Ireland! AHHHHHHHHH~ And I just found out I'm rooming with Kira of all people OMG! I mean, that's a good thing... but it's funny cuz our professor intended to have us room with people we don't really know all that well, but if anything, I know Kira most of the bunch. He said after he paired everyone else up, only us two were left LOL. She is extremely talented, and of all things I need is to suffer from inferior complex throughout the trip! So... uhm..

HIATUS until June 30th

You can catch up with what's going on through http://sjsuparis2009.blogspot.com/ where we'll spontaneously post entries during the trip.

And...... WHYYYYY MORIMORI!!!!
WHY IS TEIOU COMING TO ANIME EXPO 2009 WHEN I WILL BE BROKE?!

Hahaha... just slept for 15 hours.

Thanks everyone for an awesome Fanime2009 weekend!!!

Report to follow!

Have to write Paris essay due tomorrow X_X Switching gears like this is...blah.

Very, very last minute little stuff for Fanime. Last year some requested more chars... so... here's Marth, Sheik, and Sonic (lol Sonic is so out of place there XD;;). I wanted Marth to have more of an evil glare, because Marth in my mind is...ahaha.... alas...XD It's hard to make them the same feel as the previous set. Can't believe that's a year ago already.

やっぱりスマブラを描く時嬉しくて楽しい (●´Д｀●)♥ Haha~~~ ACK CLOCK'S TICKING!

Rooming with kyraensui, hellmaster05, shahni, and seki_yumizu!

NOT SORETHROAT AGAIN.

Below are my final projects for Maya class and illustration class. x_x;; not say I'm really satisfied with the results, but..... ah well. Sometimes one just have to move on. For more images, please visit my blog.

Around 39k poly count.

Acrylic. 10x21. Will not pick this perspective again had I a choice.


Not even gonna F-lock the post cuz I need to let it all out.

( classes, Paris, housing, Fanime )

So good-news? Well... after the Paris class is over, Kira and I and two guys will be going to Ireland. Oh the Irish music glory! That's gonna be my official vacation. Although I'm still asking myself, "Why am I traveling with such talented people!?"

A-and Fanime2009! Oh God. Panic attack right now doing last minute prep work from last year. Don't even know my table number yet..... but please stop by to visit me and hellmaster05! ♥ A later post on images and stuff.

OH! And my mom gave me a DSi for birthday present! Eeeeehh! So I'm happily playing a Kirby game and Phantom Hourglass right now. Oh God, Toon Link is so adorkable!

Just...fuck it all.

Thanks for everyone who voted on the last post! ^^

Now for something totally unrelated............ Oh God. So, my friend sent me a thread from Komica.org (Taiwanese equivalent of 4chan) about UK blue ducks going extinct as the last two males hook up with each other instead of mating with the last female. But the funniest part is the responses on the thread.




( Full Thread C/P in Chinese. (heavy content) )

Highlight responses (rough translations...though they might not sound as funny translated):

• 正常的年輕男子不會想要跟老太婆做愛吧
  "A normal young man won't want to make love to an old lady."
• 人類史上第一種因為BL而絕種的生物(笑
  "They are the first species in human history to be extincted because of BL (laugh)"
• 即使背付未來的命運，我只想愛上你！
  管他什麼絕種不絕種！
  突然變到好甜llll
  "No matter what's the fate of the future, I only love you! Who cares for extinction!
  Suddenly this became so sweet |||"
• 某外星人:你們人類快絕種了 現在剩一個雌性半老徐娘跟一個雄性受樣,只能拜託你們好好繁衍後代吧
  歐巴桑:來吧，兩個少年ㄟ，我雖然老可是還是承受得住的！來吧！
  "Alien: You 'humans' are going extinction. Only a middle-aged female and young males remain. I count on you to make descendants.
  Obaa-san: Come, both young lads! Even if I'm old, I can take it! COME TO ME!"
• 歐巴桑和美少年
  請選擇
  "Obaa-san and bishounen. Please choose."

XD SOMEONE TAPE MY MOUTH. I can't stop laughing..................

Here's the English article on the subject. Apparently it was love at first sight. Were it not for the crack responses above, it is a bit of a sad topic that they're going to extinction... but the couple is happy at least. And I believe extinction only applies to UK. I'm happy for them too! LOL did I mention their names are Ben and Jerry?

They say not to panic... but it's hard not to. I'm more concerned about everywhere else; it's not hard to get local news, but not so much about other states, and the news only reveals so much... Friends of Mexico, California, New York, Texas, Canada, Scotland, Spain, Britain, and anywhere else, please take care of yourselves!! ><;

Go with or against fate........if you can please vote which palette you like better, I'd appreciate it TAT; Thank you! m(_ _)m



Poll #1390126 Which comp?
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: All

Please choose which palette you like more:

Digital > Acrylic. I shouldn't be thinking like this.

Sorry for not replying. Lots of pent-up anger that needs channeling at the moment. And the wind is nuts outside.

Happy Birthday to my sis m00_chan♥!!

She's 91 XD! 19.

Happy Easter everyone!

I've created (finally) an artblog for mainly my school work and such: http://art-asaphira.blogspot.com/. Everything I intended to show here but lacked the chance to (Pokemon!), I've archived it all there. My portfolio from last semester is also uploaded there if anyone's interested. :) Also lurking fellow classmates there too... haha...I didn't know Blogspot allowed LJ accounts to comment to.

Back to modeling my skull...... Curse you Maya.

Also, finally watched last week's SPN episode. "I am the prophet Chuck!" Hahaha, BEST LINE.

Banner made by nekoi_echizen, in memory of the victims of the Abruzzo, Italy earthquake that happened on April 6.


May the souls rest in peace, and may their family and friends find comfort in this time of struggle.

Hahaha... resorting to the short cut. *admires those who can speed paint/CG* Seriously though, it wasn't exactly how I wanted to execute it, but time was clickiing.

You know, of my 9-10 years of using Photoshop, I just realized the folder icon for the Layer windows to organize the layers. Failure.


FanimeCon contest by =Asaphira on deviantART

Thanks everyone. Sorry for not replying again T__T Need to go memorize Paris landmarks now.

2 hours........ >____________< sob.