Entries Tagged as 'June2005'

Eye, eye, AIIIEEEE!!!

Marketing that Japanglish to girls!

Stabbed in the eye by my own shiny eye sparkle!!

Picture from the top part of the ad on the back of Shojo Beat #0. This is a real ad.

I thought Engrish was funny but Japanglish is also great. This character’s name is I guess suppose to be Aiko judging by the use of the use of the word “Love” and “Beauty” in this ad… sadly someone though the pun EYE-ko (since Ai is pronounced like “eye”) was amusing? Oh the pain, like a stab to my… um brain? Flails about.

Oh well, I don’t wear make-up anyway. So, no skin off my nose. Still how can I get my own pink ninja star eye sparkle? I also wonder how my name in Japanglish would be written? OKey-ana, maybe?

Sneaks away.

Rambly hacha!

I win! The ants are very unhappy. But if they really didn’t want to be caulked up they shouldn’t have moved into the wall trim. Snort, they are sneaky little things. Caulks the floor trim 10 times before I believe I’ve sealed in all the holes… they may still find another way out.

>_< Speaking of which… Sneaking in the window is not nice. Sprays glass.

My bag order from Clear bags came in and they fit my portfolios like a dream. Bags everything in new bags and counts stuff for the con. I'll need to print some things and I still need Saiko and Lavender Trades... Whistles.

I know I don't tell you all out there this very often but thanks everyone for all the kind things over the years. I love getting feedback or even hearing that you've read my comics or visit my website and stuff. I always feel bad that sometimes it takes awhile to write back. But thanks so much for poking at me and letting me know that you're out there. Gives you all an internet hug. Makes me happy to have a website and an LJ.

Amazon has Saiko and Lavender back in stock… also if you wanted to leave a review I’d be pretty happy. Pets my weird silly comic.

At odd times I miss my kitty. =[

Oh and I had a strange eye episode on Tues morning. Thought I should keep track in case it’s something more then just my need for sleep. I did sleep for 8 hours though so maybe I was just out of it. Watches eyes carefully.

Yum, naps sound good.

Ordered bags, Criptic ramble

There’s nothing like ordering 600 bags of the right size. Now I won’t have to cut down magazine bags for my portfolios. =] Hopefully, on the other hand that’s holding 600 bags, I won’t be buried neck deep in them. Frets a little. Maybe I should have ordered the size for the new tiny portfolios Daria has… shoot I didn’t think of that. Oh well.

Why is it that as soon as you want to take a break from something that people believe you should be doing but you don’t feel like doing much that you’re suddenly way more interested in doing it? Ah, well. A break is nice. Not worrying or thinking about it is the real joy. I’m a lot happier when I just listen to the way I feel and start trying to please myself.

Hopefully my good feelings will last awhile and I’ll feel refreshed after the con prep and the conventions.

Saiko and Lavender Cel

Aww, the cuteness. I be dead. There’s a few things that I’m not too happy with but thanks to Photoshop I’ve fixed most of them on this web preview. Whee!

Saiko and Lavender colored cel

Prints available

8.5X11 inch Prints: 10.00 US
[ U.S. shipping included ].
To ship outside the US please add postage.

13 x 19 inch Limited Prints available

13 x 19 inch Limited Prints (Limited to 12, printed on heavy weight watercolor paper): 45.00 US
[ U.S. shipping included ].
To ship outside the US please add postage.

[ Info about ordering. Please read! ]

I painted the two characters on a cel using cheap acrylic paints (Brands: Apple Barrel, Ceramcoat, Folk art.) Then while waiting for the paint to dry I made the background totally in Photoshop using of all things the Path tool (Path tool is the devil but so tastely useful… anything that can make curved selection is pretty awesome). Then I printed the background out on to Bristol paper and then put the transparent cel over the background and scanned everything back in. Messed with some colors here and there and Tada. =d

Original color version not for sell as it’s going with me to Anthro-con. But I do have the original inks for sell. Leave me a comment if interested in learning how to buy.

Spammers

Dear Spammers,

Hello, I see your comment bots are working and have found my site. Snicker, not that it will do you any good. Welcome to me having removed comment display. Oh yeah, you can leave a comment but no one but my little self will see it… and neither will Google. That means it doesn’t help you in anyway to send your bots to my website. Sadly no one will know of your shitty poker site or your casino site nor I’m I ever going to buy Xanax but you know keep on trying because I know you’re not human anyway. =]

Saiko and Lavender

The cuteness! The biting! This is a preview of one of the pictures I’m working on for Anthro-con. It’ll probably be a cel with the background done in Painter or Photoshop. Charcters are Saiko(bunny) and Lavender(cat) from my comic of the same name. Graphic novels are available.

Saiko and Lavender SD's!

Heh heh!

Art and conventions

My head is killing me… one of the few times I’ve had frustration headaches. I know it’s not real because when I get in a grove it goes away. It’s one of those things where I’m worrying about the upcoming cons too much. A-kon wasn’t bad because I wasn’t trying to make new stuff for it and everything was mostly done already. But Anthro Con art is kicking my ass. I mean I’ve got new stuff but not the new stuff I want to have and the stuff I want to have I still need like about 6 pictures and 7 respectively not to mention the art show stuff. And that doesn’t cover San Diego AT ALL because I wanted to make something completely different and comic like for that and I just don’t think I’ll have the time but maybe… maybe if I just stop writing fan fiction for Sexual Espionage. Damn you brain! Stop the sabotage!

Blorg…

Elin, I need to come down and pick up books for Anthro! Just a short visit to say hello and get comics, and maybe eat… maybe but I’m not sure. I was thinking Thursday since James said you’d be working on Wednesday. I’ll try to call or something. It should be mostly Saiko and Lavender Graphics, GM, and maybe some Dangerous. But I’ll need to look at my stock to be sure. I kind of want to get the restocking out of the way early so I can freak out about the other stuff… meep. o_o

Oh yeah, art in the next post.

Conventions!

I’ve thrown all of you guys over for the deadly allure of drawing and then coloring pictures in Painter, which apparently LOVES me. Whoa, when did that happen? It was all trying stab me and poison me just a couple of months ago… I haven’t even apologized for cheating on it with that whore Photoshop. I’ll never understand my programs.

I could swear it’s freaky how at first Painter hurts to even try opening because it does nothing right and then one day you’re all fucking around with it and making neat looking marker looking pictures. O_o? What happened? I’m scared that it’s just waiting until I get comfortable and settle down with it before it tries to explode my car with me in it for the insurance.

Must finish picture. I’m adding background to these damn thing because I’m getting tired of the boring pin-ups with the white backgrounds. Stabs head! I just always stumble when it comes to making up crap for the background. I will learn this trick and then I will try to hurt myself over and over!

Note!!! I’m hitting 2 conventions next month… one right after another. Thanks to Mom I’m flying to both. Yay! No buses this year! Although I think I’d like to try the bus for San Diego at some point since the bus station is so close to the convention center. Here are the conventions.

Anthrocon July 7-10, 2005

Both me and Daria will have art in the art show and have a table in the dealers room. Please stop by.

San Diego Comic Con July 14-17, 2005

I will have an art show panel and be wandering around the convention hall. As this con is one of the few that I won’t have to run a table please leave a comment if you’d like to try and meet up. Because I’ve got no idea where I’m planning to be and I’ll probably be hard as hell to locate. =D

Back to the salt mines!

Boobs

Do you know that most of the time I’ll write a post and just not post it? I’ve got like about 10-15 of these posts and I guess I’m kind of tired of it. So fuck it. I’m going to post some completely random shit. Completely random! Here’s one on my boobs…

Boobs can be shaped!

Which should be obvious, right? They are sacks of fat after all. But I’ve got like about a large A cup or a small B cup so most of the time I’m not paying that much mind to them other then to push my bra up so they don’t sag so much. I’m sure it’s a lot like a guy adjusting his balls in public except that it looks like I’m fondling myself. Which as fun as it might sound to someone else is really not that interesting to me. It’s mostly just frustration that the bras I own do nothing to prevent the force of gravity. As soon as we get anti-grav anything I want a bra made, damn it!

Even at my small size the damn things hurt and sag if I don’t wear a bra and nothing says attractive like the deflated wounded boob look that comes with bras that aren’t up to snuff.

So anyway in the fun of being girls and getting rid of clothing, my friend gave me some of her old wire bras, which I’ve been avoiding for year and years. I like sports bras. I don’t care that they give me the unaboob because frankly it keeps my stuff from sagging. Sadly though the sports bras one flaw is its elastic. Modern marvel that elastic is the boobs defeat it hands down. Give the boobs a few days and the bra is asking for mercy. They entrench the whole chest and push the elastic down to the border… sagging all the way. The sports bra type must be changed or reinforced regularly to prevent the boobs from taking over the whole stomach area. I’m sure people would find it fascinating to know that I’ve got two of the damn things on sometimes. So anyway my friend passed me some of her bras, the ones with the wires and the strangest things have been happening with the boob area.

Mostly that I’m starting to view them like play-do. The shape the go into when released from their wire prison is a bit different then the shape after the elastic prison… it causes me much humor in front of the mirror. There is indecent wiggling and grand standing. The wire boob shape has more of a pointy look where as the Sports bra gives a more rounded shape… the weak sports bra, of course, gives a kind of saggy shape. Alas I’m afraid I will take no pictures.

But now I’m wondering… how strange could things get if I had a square bra? Could I get my boobs to be that shape? Sadly though as silly as this all is I mostly just wish for better bras… who thought the idea that pushing all the boobs into the center was a good idea for the wire bras? Sure it makes my boobs bigger… from the front, but get a tight enough shirt and boy does it look hilarious. Makes me look like a boy smuggling tennis balls in my shirt. Really. I only wish I was kidding. The sports bras at least only gives me the unaboob, they don’t make me look deformed when I wear something tight. Snort.

Also the wire cuts in if I sleep on my chest… which really sucks. Hmm, this is probably way too much information for most of you. Wanders away to go back to working.

Next the A-kon report… or maybe some art… or a report on being burned out on comics. Won’t that be great fun? =D

Luci in the Graveyard

Whew. Well, I’m back from A-kon. Convention report to follow as soon as I feel up to it which could mean tommorrow or never. I have to say though the convention was a bit bitter sweet. But to really talk about that I’d have to get in to my personal feelings on making art, anime fandom, and comics and lets just be kind and say that it would take a bit to explain.

What was really cool to see was old friends that had turned their art around and seem to be doing really well. Which well, brings up the topic above again. Not that my feelings are anyone’s fault but my own stupid brain…

Man, this post seems a bit random. Anyway I know I didn’t promise art but I put up some pictures in the A-kon art show that I haven’t posted here yet. So here’s one of them.

Luci in the Graveyard

Prints available

8.5X11 inch Prints: 10.00 US
[ U.S. shipping included ].
To ship outside the US please add postage.

13 x 19 inch Limited Prints available

13 x 19 inch Limited Prints (Limited to 20, printed on heavy weight watercolor paper): 50.00 US
[ U.S. shipping included ].
To ship outside the US please add postage.

[ Info about ordering. Please read! ]

This was suppose to be the cover for one of my comics that is now on hold due to the story shifting on me. This one will probably get rewritten one or two more times. Maybe as a prose story since I seem to have to hardest time getting into the new charcters that are designed for it. There’s the main cast and then there’s the side cast. But the main cast aren’t that interesting without the side cast to work off of but the side cast isn’t as developed as the main cast. Frustration!

This is Luci. She is one of the main cast and I really, really, really like her. You may or may not remember her as an earlier picture called “The Shadow“. This is a more clear shot of her so you can see what she looks like. She’s in the same story as Charon, The Collector, the Kid, and Black, which are all part of the main cast again.

This picture had a quick skech and then was finished and inked in Painter 8. All of what little coloring there is was done in Photoshop 7. Luci looks out for the Kid in the story… she also likes to hurt people with her belts. =D

Ugh, I get back to cleaning up my room. The con prep destroyed it. I’m also planning to re-vamp my for sale page and fix up the site a bit.