Commissions: http://lichan.livejournal.com/156528.html

My new quarter starts tomorrow! My break was too short. I already posted my school schedule, but here's my work schedule for reference:

( Not as wonky as I thought it'd be. )

This quarter I'm going to have no free time. Ever. e_e Except Thursdays and I'll probably be very "Holy crap homework" and stuff then.

In other news, I started a cute thing called Poupee Girl. You post photos of your clothes, make-up, and jewelry plus some other things and you get stuff to dress up your little doll. This is handy for me because I need to go through my closet anyway. e_e Link below if your interested. Of course, if you give me an e-mail and I can send you an invite and that way you'd get a cute friend gift~ Whatever works!

I've decided to take five commissions! I will not begin working on them until Friday (9-25-09), but if you're interested, you're more than welcome to go ahead and ask. The sketch would look a bit like this or this, though I can do it in a more anime style or whatever if preferred!

Shoulders and up: $5

Waist up: $7

Full body (Just standing or posed): $10

Background: Add $10 to your price

Clean-up and ink: Add $5 to your price

ETC:

Sketches will be done on paper. I will make a high resolution scan and e-mail it to the commissioner. If the commissioner wishes, I can also mail them the physical copy of the sketch as well if shipping is provided. I tend to sketch with 2-3 pencils, starting with non-photo blue. The commissioner can request the color of other two color pencils, one for roughing and one for clean-up. The character may have props, however if it is large and extremely complicated I may request additional pay. I'm willing to do tasteful nudes, but it the request is something really questionable I may refuse to do it.

I reserve the rights to display the sketch on my sites and accounts, however they will be lower resolution and I will not sell the work to another.

Openings:

1. batto_man (from LiveJournal)
Commissioned: Full body with clean-up and ink
Progress: Complete

2. batto_man (from LiveJournal)
Commissioned: Full body with clean-up and ink
Progress: Not started, waiting for details

3. marshall
Commissioned:
Progress: Not started, waiting for details and payment

4.
5.

I have a break coming up starting on the 25th and that ends on October 4 and I'm considering taking five or so sketch commissions. Some sketch examples are here and here. Note that nowadays I use two to three colored pencils (often including graphite) when I sketch and you'd be welcome to pick the colors if you wish (I always use nonphoto blue for the large blocking, one color to rough, then a final one to clean up and define the character). If I do this, and if anyone's interested, You'd receive a high resolution scan and, if shipping is provided, I can send the original to you. I'll keep the right to display the drawing on my own sites and journal, but I will not reproduce it with the intent to sell it.

Prices I'm thinking of charging:

Shoulders and up: $5

Waist up: $7

Full body (Just standing or posed): $10

Background: Add $10 to your price

Clean-up and ink: Add $5 to your price

Animefest was overall a success! I made over $100 on my two paintings and almost got out of start-up hole in costs. I'm planning on selling at Oni-con (reserved already) and Animematsuri before A-kon, and hopefully after those I'll make more true profit.

It was weird, though, not just wandering around. I was discontent at first, but once I had finally done a full round of the convention I was quite happy to sit down at the table all day. XD And the days went by fast~ Also, it turns out that one of the people at the table next to us is a rigger and was at Siggraph and we chatted a lot once I noticed his Siggraph 2009 shirt. XD

As for cosplay, I uploaded new photos to my coscom account. We found an AWESOME stairwell there. ♥ Plus a surprising number of people were excited to see Maggie's and my Skip Beat costumes. XD

( Dumping a couple of sketches here )

( Next quarter's school schedule )

And I'm supposed to wake up at 2:00 go get ready to leave for Animefest at 3:00. Damn.

I haven't been this worked up for a con in years. Probably because I've never tried to sell stuff at a con before, normally it's the same routine every convention. Anyway, if you're going to the convention, come check out my table and buy stuff and go check out my two paintings in the art show and bid on them. I'll be sad about letting my paintings go to some stranger, though. Well, if anyone wants to bid on them. If no one does, then I guess they'll be coming back home with me. e_e Keep your fingers crossed that I do well! G'night.

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Finished it.

I need to say that I will not have Atoli for Animefest. It's really sad. ;_; As I've mentioned before, I'm going to run a table and try to get some art to sell at the auction and, well, these things are of more importance since there is money involved. I plan on having Atoli done for Oni-con, where I will not be doing the art show and, while I plan on running a table, I will already have a large number of goods made. So the only new costume I shall have is Moko from Skip Beat and Maggie did pretty much all of the work on that. e_e Yay for hot pink cover alls!

Today I finished the basic painting of Gwendolyn and you can check out a cell phone photo of it. I'm doing the background tomorrow and adding the opaque highlights and softening some of the blue light on her face; it's a bit too strong. Also, once the background's in I may darken and tweak parts. I want to fiddle with my airbrush so I can airbrush some highlights in, but I have no idea if I'll get around to this. I also need to finish another painting, which is nearly half done and hopefully crank out a couple of quick marker or tiny acrylic pieces to put up. Markers are beautiful and fast. ♥ I have some cute tiny tiny canvas boards that I wanna do some Studio Ghibli stuff on, though. We'll see.

Ah~ I haven't looked forward to a convention this much in ages. I really hope my stuff sells. :D

Lab coats are really warm. I should start wearing this spattered old thing more.

Sorry for making two posts, but I just wanted to keep this and my Siggraph post separate. e_e

( Drawings of questionably dressed women )

Siggraph 2009 was wild fun!

( OMFG PHOTOS )

Siggraph is coming up fast! I'm excited. :D

Now for something unrelated!

( A Q&A Meme! )

I didn't feel like actually sewing today so I fiddled around with making the patterns for the arm bits of my Atoli costume instead. Maggie also came over and we wore our dresses. The dress pattern was made to her because I'm a bit smaller and it's easier to take things in than out... but I'm also taller, so the bottom of the back of the dress was too high on me. e_e. So, next Sewing Saturday I don't feel like sewing I shall probably work on the hard prototype for the hat. I'm looking forward to carving upholstery foam for the real things. XD Maggie is going to finish turning the small lace black and I'll probably go ahead and work on the dress next week and finish my boot covers minus the gold at the tips.

Last night I started rereading Catch-22 and, um, I'd forgotten how AWESOME Yossarian is. Seriously. It sucked when I had to put it down and go to bed. XD So far I have three of five ideas for the book cover for Modeling III.

School just started up! This quarter is going to be awesome~♥

On Tuesday I have Texture and Lighting. This class won't be my favorite, but I'm learning how to UV Unwrap and now it's getting simpler. Before I was just fumbling around without really knowing what I was doing. Our first assignment is our midterm... and I still need to find reference for it. We have to model an environment of some sort. I haven't found anything awesome yet and I'm going to resume my search once I'm done with this post.

Modeling III is on Wednesday. Norm spent an hour making fun of the school's new crap they're doing (it's retarded, by the way. Very retarded), then we discussed the midterm assignment. He's making us combine design and 3D with this project. We had to pick a book to do a cover design for and I picked Catch-22. I need to have 5 ideas by next week and I have 2 so far I have thumbnails for. I need to skim the book; even though I loved it I don't remember a good deal of it. Anyway, I need to do 3 more thumbnails then do roughs. The roughs are what're do next week. Ah, and to add to it, the class is going to be the "client" and if we deviate from what the "client" wants we get points taken off. This sounds fun, or I'm just weird.

Today I had Sequential Design, aka Comic Class. This was my first Richert class in ages. He showed us several different comic artists' works, then talked to us a bit about layout and using the comic layout paper. I already have an idea for a comic that I came up with a while ago, but didn't have time to work on due to school... now I get to do it for school. Brilliant. He wants a page a week, excluding one for this week, so it'll be about a 10 page comic. He said that if it's really good, he'll take fewer pages and we're welcome to do more if we want. 10 pages seems like a good introduction issue for the idea I have.. and if it turns out well I may try to sell copies at Oni-con, the first con I'm going to after this quarter. XD

In addition to Sequential Design, today was the Club and Organization Fair. Normally this is the second week of school and, um, there was a great deal of rushing. I never got a hold of Henderson, our faculty sponsor, and because I'm awesome I got other teachers to get me stuff. Estes, the program chair for Media Arts and Animation, got me moved from the crappiest place dead in the sun to what happened to be the best place under the breezeway and I got Richert to check out a TV for me (students can't check out TVs) so I could hook up the Lunchbox and show pencil test reels. The crappy part of Henderson not showing up is that he keeps all the storyboards and he hasn't made everyone the copies of the character sheets yet, so I couldn't display any of the material we did last quarter. Ah well, we did well, but Culinary's club won the most signatures contest. They always win. Bastards.

( Cut for sketches. )

Well, since it's been so long since I made a post, I thought I would, like, post.

I'm currently on my third week of my summer break! Classes start up again next Tuesday. I miss having two month breaks, but three weeks're better than nothing. Siggraph is coming fast, an after that Animefest. I was hoping to get a whole lot done with Atoli, but I've hardly worked on that costume. I shall regret this later, I'm sure.

So far I have the shoes for Atoli, the basic boot cover, and the shorts mostly done I just need to, like, install that zipper. Tomorrow Maggie and I are going to get together to figure out the pattern for our dresses. This weekend I also need to get to work making the reference mâché for the hat. Why am I doing this? To make sure we get the dimensions right on the hat and so I have something hard to make the side thing on since the bottom will be curved. We're going to cast the hard part the tassles are hanging from with resin with wires stuck in so we can stab them into the hat when we glue the things on. The part where we stab will be fun.

The 4th of July was great. my mom, dad, and I went to Galveston and ate at Joe's Crab Shack. This is the perfect place to be for fireworks because they launch them from the jetty just across the street so you're right under them, more so this year because the wind was blowing hard off the water. I almost got hit by a burning piece of cardboard. It was awesome until it was time to leave because traffic was horrible. It took two hours to get home and I was driving. ¬.¬

Before this all happened, Maggie and I had gone to the beach twice, once the Friday before the 4th and earlier the week before. The beach was awesome and I got TAN LINES!!! I haven't gotten so tan in YEARS. It's amazing. You can barely see them, though. They're still awesome. ♥

Today was the best day I've had at work in a while. Mind that I overall like my job (I've worked there for over four years now...). Today started badly because my boss called me and told me "By the way, you need to be at the 9:00 meeting so I don't get in trouble! See you there~" so I got up and dressed earlier than expected. Once I was dressed (Well, excluding pants since I forgot them), I sat at Fenrir and saw that Maggie had tweeted that the meeting was canceled. I confirmed this with Bonnie and slept for another 30 mintues. There was, however, Shipley's doughnuts and stuff and that was good. Also, I GOT TO PULL AUDIOBOOK CASSETTES. I hate the things and they hate me. They cut me, little bastards. They should all be tossed. Really most of this hate is directed towards the ones in Fiction, which are mostly in those brittle, sharp white cases, but they are in Children's, too, and so my hatred applies there, too. Sadly, they weren't all tossed; I was given a list of the audiobook cassettes that hadn't been checked out for a year or longer. Nonetheless, this felt good and made the entire day awesome, if somewhat sleep deprived.

Oh, and Maggie Exalted on game night on Monday. She has the best exaltation in the history of the game; she gained godly powers while trying to kick a midget in the nuts. More details here in the third from the last bullet.

Ah, and I did well in all my classes: a B, B+, A-, and an A. One of each of the four highest grades. XD

Well, there are no aps for LJ for the BlackBerry so I'm trying an e-mail post. FYI as of yesterday I own a BlackBerry! Hurrah! I'll post later about what I've been up to now that it's summer break. TEST!

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Best AIM discussion ever.

The quarter is beginning to draw to a close! This is both a wonderful thing and a horrible thing... summer break is so close but I have to finish final projects to get there. e_e I managed to get by last week, but I got a horrible grade on my modeling assignment. I need to touch it up and resubmit it.

I'm still not used to finishing school in the middle of June. At UH the semester ended in early May and then you just had finals. My internal clock is all messed up and today I realized it was nearly June and was totally weirded out. Anyway, my last day of class is on June 19, then I'll be house/dog sitting for two weeks. I still think it's pretty cool that I'll be getting paid to move out for two weeks. e_e

Once summer starts I need to work on pin designs, the paintings for the art show at Animefest, and my costume! It's been forever since I've mentioned it, but I'm still going to cosplay Atoli and Maggie's still doing Shino. Though I'm doing in-game/movie Atoli instead of art Atoli, so my outfit will be a lot greener than that weird shade on the picture. I don't know if I've mentioned it, but I've pretty much dropped doing Seong Mi-na. I just don't have the time or money to spend on it. After Atoli, I'll probably stop doing contests and just make simple costumes. Right now I'm thinking about doing Nagi from Kannagi next, but I still want to do Rena from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. I've always wanted to cosplay a character that does crazy faces because it looks like wild fun. It's nice to just start cosplaying characters that SMILE after my long string of serious character cosplay.

Nothing really exciting has been going on. We got a new page at work at long last. I hope she doesn't suck and sticks around for a while because that would make her awesome. I didn't get to talk to her much today, though, since it was her first day and the boss was introducing her to everyone and she was a bit busy learning how we do things. When it was time to leave, I got trapped at work for a little while today. When I wanted to leave, there was an 18 wheeler parked in the staff parking blocking my way out of my parking space, so I went and pestered Maggie.

OK. This worked in high school so I shall now use this method now. I will make myself a schedule to follow. It's unlikely that I will follow it perfectly, but even only somewhat following it is better than not doing it at all.

If you don't care, you can ignore this. If you enjoy doing such things, you are welcome nag me about "You should be doing homework~" and such.

Tonight:

11:30-? - Work on homework, especially Modeling II homework. Get most of this done tonight.

Tomorrow:

10-3 - Work

3-6 - Nap. This may be shorter, since I tend to actually take 1.5 to two hour naps.

When I wake up - Dinner

For an hour after dinner - Slack time. Sounds stupid, but I need to slack before serious business

After slack time (estimated about 8:00)-? - Homework. Finish modeling, texturing, lighting. Render and sleep. May take a midnight nap if necessary. These actually help, oddly enough.

Friday:

WTF in the morning (aka 6-7ish) - Wake up. Do a final check on the model to see if I overlooked anything. If I did, fix and rerender.

8-9-ish - Leave for school. Make photo print of render and mount. I do this so early because no one is printing this early in the morning.

Afterwards - Nap in car or classroom until 30 minutes before class. Probably the car. My classmates are nefarious and like to do things while you sleep. Or just wake you up to annoy you and be like "Why are you asleep Aliiii~~~." Bastards.

Saturday

Work, NAP, design Maggie's damned Sen from Kekkaishi pin. I want one, too. And go play with her Nendoroids.

After this is all over: start writing down a planned homework schedule. I stopped doing this in college and when I was at UH, I could get away with procrastinating and stopped. I need to get rid of this bad habit that I've developed...

Heads up for those who know me. My schedule starting the week of July 13:

Tuesday:
Texture Attributes and Material and Lighting 6-10

Wednesday:
Modeling III 1-5

Thursday:
Sequential Design 6-10

Online (First Session):
Psychology

Sequential Design is the comic class~♥ Animation Studio I was also highlighted, but it was a Friday class and I really wanted to take the comic class as an elective. This is the second time it's ever been offered and I don't know if it will be before I graduate. Also, I'm back to my Tues-Wed-Thurs schedule. Hurrah!