The Dragon Within

May is almost here! CRAP! Nanomango's a little over a month away...and this time last year, I actually had an idea. This year...not so much. I'm thinking of doing Senna's story for it, but then again, I just started writing the story again and I'm not too sure where I'm going with it yet. The next two chapters are still a little iffy before I start really delving into the plot... I just need to outline/get them done and over with.

And get some of my other stories rolling again...it's been close to 8 months since I've touched A Slice of Life, YACAS, YACASII, or really anything else that I'm supposed to be working on. :\ Let alone the fanfiction HOLY SHIT FANFICTION WHAT? that's been in my head for the past two months now... I really wish my muse would cooperate with me instead of fighting against me sometimes. I really, really do. -_- Hopefully this means that I'll actually get something creative done soon, because everything just sorta fell to the side after my tablet decided to stop fucking working.

At least this time I have a camera to take pretty pictures of what I draw instead of my shitty ass scanner that has been kinda temperamental lately... Me and technology have been fighting lately. A lot.

In World of Warcraft news: I HIT 77! AND GOT COLD WEATHER FLYING! Meaning I can fly in Northrend now and I'll be able to level even faster!! /n3rd

In work news: I'm at full time until further notice apparently, because Judi is still out with her fractured hand and even when she comes back, she most likely won't be able to take over shifts right away. So...blah. I've been trying to avoid a situation where I had to be full time again but it seems life isn't always that kind. :\ Ah well. Larger checks here I come! Plus overtime! Because I get to stay over and count truck twice a week if it's there on time. YAY OVERTIME!

That's about it...about to go for a nice morning walk to get the muse going. I hope the moon's still out...it was really pretty earlier so I might take a couple of pictures of it... What can I say? I love the sky. Maybe that's why my head's always in the clouds.

Peace,

kinda hyper, content, and inspired psycho

So, bad weekend is bad, but at least it's over. I think. I hope. I keep having this sinking feeling that Fridays are going to be my new bad day, but I refuse to think about that. REFUSE. Why? Because it's a long time away and I have better stuff to think about.

Like coloring. My current WIP is...well...err...not coming out as great as I hoped it would. I made it too dark again and white paper doesn't behave like black does. I like the black paper because it's easier to fix mistakes. A lot easier. -_- Oh well, I'm sure I'll figure out some way to fix it. Eventually.

Picked Kyo Kara Maou back up, mainly because I've watched everything except the last season. I tried to watch it when it was coming out, but I marathoned the entirety of the first, second, and then R seasons in like, a week (around 68 episodes or something like that...) so I was a little burned out. And bummed that the opening theme song had changed when it was the same for an ass ton of episodes. The new one's growing on me though. The only down side is that the site I was watching it had a really bad video to where the video was ahead by about 5 seconds of the audio, and I couldn't find any better one. So I'm currently downloading it...which according to Vuse's counter, is going to take me 9-12 days. Joy of joys.

Other than that, working on getting back into writing regularly again. I sort of missed it and have a lot of unfinished stories and I finally convinced my muse that we need to do something about that. Eventually. If she could stop getting distracted by anything and everything that moves. Or my screen saver. I have a lot of Prussia since I went through deviantart... all 16000 images under that tag.

So, off to try to write some more. Or read a manga, the latter being more of a possibility. Because I know me that well. :P

Peace,

kinda bored psycho

So...after spending a very VERY good portion of yesterday, last night, and a bit of this morning scouring deviantart for Prussia pictures...I had the urge to actually draw myself. Well, finish my current WIP project and actually start another one while I was at it. And let it be known that inking while tired = not a very good idea. Hopefully my coloring will cover up the mistakes eventually...enjoy them under the cut.

( PICTURES =0 )

Demon cat is my kitty Sonya, who it seems only I love. Oh well, I guess that's all that counts.

Peace,

toooooooooooooooooootally ready for bed psycho

So...just finished up my first game of D&D, and have my level 1 druid half-elf character Senkora sorta figured out. It's a fun game once you get into it, plus all the banter is fun! We almost didn't get into the quest because we were making fun of the person giving us the quest. yes I am being a geek...why do you ask?

Other than that...nothing's really been happening. Bought a digital camera, finally, and still trying to figure out how to take/save pictures so that I can spam my deviant art... hopefully soon because I love spamming. Bought the rest of the Joust series by Mercedes Lackey...because it's dragons and a book with dragons and I love dragons. Maybe that's what I do when I figure out that camera...make some of my dragons into icons. It's a possibility. I wonder how big they'll be when I put the images on my computer. Hm. I guess I'll find that out when I finally figure the damn thing out.

Then there's the creepy drunk guy. We used to have this guy we called Mason (because he looked like him) that was a total asshole and hit on all the girls. Now, we have this guy who's worse. He passes out in the lobby and stumbles around at 2 in the morning and tries to get us to let him inside. Really, if you have a need to be that wasted, stay at home. Or find somewhere else. Don't go to McDonald's and expect me to jeopardize myself and my crew so you can sit in the lobby and do God knows what. I just hope that he's moved on already. I don't want to deal with that bastard this weekend. If I do, I think I might start carrying my knife again.

So, that's about it, I'm going to read my book and go to bed. Work tomorrow night is going to be...interesting. I heard we got new grill tops for our grills, so I wonder what that's like. Hopefully not that different from the old ones. :\

Peace,

rambling psycho

Well, at least it's not like, a month after my last post. XD This one's more happy than depressing though, I hope. We'll see how it goes...

So I've been drawing again, sorta. Mostly just doodles but it's a start. I have started to color with my pencils again, which has made my muse very happy. I'm so thankful that I was able to take Drawing II last semester! I now know how to shade with some sort of accuracy and the project I'm working on at the moment is turning out pretty good. Although the paper I'm doing it one is kinda big for the scanner, so I can't scan it in. :\

Speaking of getting some of my larger pieces online...I was thinking of getting a camera to be able to get them on my deviantart account. My question is, does anyone have any suggestions? I like to get opinions on technology because if I buy something myself, I always end up finding out that there was something better that I could have went for that was either cheaper or even slightly more expensive but well worth the price. I haven't really looked at any yet, but just looking for suggestions.

-_- I should just hook my scanner up and finally get some of the pieces I've been meaning to scan in...scanned it. *pats deviantart* Poor neglected thing...

Peace,

off to find arts and usb cord psycho

I can't believe that I haven't posted this here yet! This is my big art project of June, where I try to draw 30 pages of a story in one month. Here are pages 1-14 since I really don't feel like doing the whole 'seperate post' thing like I've been doing on nanomango as well as my deviantart. A quick warning: pages 17-wherever that arc stops has crossdressing. But really, you can't telll my boys from girls anyway.

( Here lay the sketches! )

There we go. Ahead on pages and a Death Knight! This is the most awesome week so far!

Instead, a work rant! It should be mini, because I'm kinda tired and really need to work on my panels/figure out where the hell I'm going. I just need to make a chart of the month (something I should have done in May) and put what I want to do on it. But like everything else, it'll most likely be messed up in some way, shape, or form. Ug. Who knew drawing a manga would be so hard? I mean, I knew it would be a challenge, but this is way more than I thought. Mostly since my panels don't flow the way I want them to. :|

Work! Back on task here. :D Sorta. *eyes sketchbook*

Anyway, I don't know why, but I have a dramatic increase of prank calls. I mean, I took 6 calls last night. Only one of which was an actual complaint/inquirey, who was actually pretty cool. The first one was a jackass, asking how much 14 medium fries were and then asking for crap like tenderloin steak and cereal. Which I replied that Ponderosa has pretty good steak, but they close and 10 and Meijers has ceral, as does K-mart, both of which are 24 hours and located near my Mchell. The next one was too dunk for me to understand. And they had a child screaming in the background. That was fun. The next one wanted me to add up all these meals. Like 14 double cheese meals and a long list of crap. Which I did because really, my crew looks out for my health more than I do and commanded me that I rest my ankle like I'm supposed to. So, I told them some insane total, around $250 if I remember right, and they said it was too expensive and that they were going to go to Buger King. Good. Give them some business. Then again, it was after midnight so they were closed and Buger King is way more expensive than Mchell. The next one was another drunk asshole, rather intent on makeing me waste my time by aruging what time breakfast starts. IT STARTS AT THREE!! And no, not going to change it for you. Sorry. Oh wait, no I'm not.

So, that was my eventful evening of taking calls. And breakfast has become busy lately. I mean, we usually make around 350 on breakfast anyway, but today was pushing 550. I mean, it's insane on how many people have had huge breakfast orders! Then again, I'm amazed at how many regulars we have that order the same artery clogging bullshit every day. With some diebeties in a cup (sweet tea.) to drink. It just amazes me.

Peace,

really should either get drawing or get to bed psycho

It's been awhile. ^_^ I've been working my butt off, ended up hurting my ankle again, but really, who didn't see that one coming? Me? A workaholic? Not me. Either way, I'm supposed to not be walking on it continuously, but then again, that's my job description. It's so much "fun" to limp around work, trying to get everything done. The only good part is that as a manager, I do have about an hour of downtime because of system shut down and all that flippin' paperwork/computer work I get to do. The only downside to that is that it hurts so flippin' bad when I sit down. Oh well.

Lets see, what else. nanomango has finally started, I'm right on time with three pages for day three, going to try to get a little ahead because work always either kills my inspiration or whipes me the hell out so I'm lucky to read some manga before I go to bed. I'll admit, I have a manga problem. Am I willing to fix it? HELLZ NO. It's too much fun and gives me something to spend all that hard earned money on. :D

Anyway, posting the "manga" to nanomango and my deviantart eventually. The scans will actually be decent when I finally get my paper to fit on my scanner. The paper I bought is way too big for it so I've been playing around with a sheet of paper I know that fits and positioning it on the paper that I have and outlining it. Page four should actually come out better than the first three, mostly since I didn't align it in the center of the page. Hopefully it fixes at least some of the problems. :D

So...that's about the update on my life. 4 LEVELS AWAY FROM GETTING MY DEATH KNIGHT!!!! I just need to push through it and then I get the most overpowered class in WoW. YES!

Peace,

off to sketch some more psycho

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GAH! Pairings! The horrible question of DOOM! It really, really depends on the series I'm into at the moment, as I like to change series nowadays like some people go through socks. However, I usually just go to whatever two characters I like best and seem to be thrown together.

As Kingdom Hearts: Re Chain of Memories is what I've been watching (since Chris is playing it and the rest of us are watching him...), wouldn't mind if there was one little push towards Sora and Riku nor if suddenly Roxas appeared out of nowhere and did his love-hate thing with Axel. or somehow both happen at once. that'd be cool and strange and PLOT HOLE AHAHAHAAHA ...don't mind the crazy. :D

Dear goodness I hope no one reads this answer! XD

As for the art update...Christmas presents are sorta coming along. I have one sketch ready for clean up/maybe inking and trying to pull another one out of the air, but not having much luck at it. I think I'll just go for shading this year, since I colored my deviantart ID tonight and proved that if I want to get back where I was/improve, I have a long ways to go. Mostly because I haven't colored anything decent in like, a year, so that's understandable.

Also still working on getting a decent picture of Vladamir done. Ha. Like that'll ever happen. And trying to get any of my boys to stop looking at girls. Hopefully. Maybe. Most likely not. I've been trying to draw them 'the right way' as in how all those 'how to draw manga' books keep trying to tell me. With the circles and the lines and all that, but that truly just confuses me. I'm used to the way I sketch my dragons and gryphons and the like, where I start off with the eye and design the entirety of the picture on that alone. No blocks or anything like that. Maybe that's why it doesn't seem like I'm improving? Because I'm stubborn? I hope not.

Mostly because, in defense of one of my dreams that most likely won't come into being, I really want to try nanomango in June and feel like I really have to step up my game if I'm going to really sit down and do it. Because if I want to take anything I want to do or become seriously, I need to start now or that's the feeling I'm getting. It feels like I've been sitting around too long, contemplating what I want to do, what I want to aim for, and yet too afraid to move from my comfort zone. I really need to stop doing that if I'm going to grow as an artist/writer/couch potato and just go for it. If that means I take steps to try to see if I can do 30 pages of a story in 30 days, that's what it takes, and that means I have to improve either way about it. With my storytelling, the way my characters express themselves, and how everything just adds together.

Which means I to create a storyline. Hm. Maybe I'll use one of my failed attempts. Yah. That'll work.

Speaking of failing, I'm still chugging along on my nano, although at a much slower pace than November, which is expected. I joined NaNoFiMo to try to get another 30k added on, but most likely won't see 30k, but I want at least 15k more than I had in November, since I should be at least halfway through the story by that point. Should being operative word. I never know where these stories are gonna go!

So, that's my emo update. I think it's time for me to watch some mindless anime!

Peace,

comfy on the floor psycho

For some reason, I can't sleep right now, or I'd totally be doing that. And dreaming of how pissed Helen most likely is since well, I'm not going to today's manager training. Why? Simply because the fact that it's from 1-2 and I should be sleeping by then. Hell, I should be sleeping by now, but whatever. I'm enjoying playing around in my sketchbook.

For those that don't know, Vladamir is my Fallen Angel character that originated from the first Angel of Oblivion. He's my inner asshole and I can't draw him. No, really, I can't. I don't draw people very well in the first place, but I really have trouble with boy's/men. It's mostly the faces...and bodies...and well, everything. clothing is an automatic thing too. Can't draw robes for the life of me. So, since practice makes perfect, I decided to play around.

What was supposed to be a serious sketch turned into ( this )

So, that was my productive thing for the day. :D

Peace,

off to try to go to sleep, or create more adventures...not sure yet psycho

p.s. btw, IT'S FINALLY MY VACATION!!!!!!! MUWHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAAAAA~