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Happy S.A.D.

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So I totally had a Scott Pilgrim moment today at the grocery store: I noticed an obscenely attractive girl grabbing groceries, and our paths crossed a few times. Finally, after nearly running into each other coming around a corner, I felt something needed to be said.

Option A) "We just keep running into each other, don't we?"
Option B) "We've gotta stop meeting like this."

Result:
Me: "We just keep running into... this."
Girl: *Forced smile and nod* "Uh... yeah." *Walks away*
Me: *Facepalm*

...And the truly sad part is, this scene is pretty indicative of all my romantic pursuits. ^^; Happy S.A.D.(Single's Awareness Day), folks!
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Hello, Internets!

Firstly, I wanted to take a moment to thank all the Teen Titan fans that have fave'd my most recent pics, I'm so happy that they were well-received! :heart: I'd appreciate a few more actual comments and critiques to see where I can strengthen my skillset, but I guess we can't have everything. ^^;

I'm trying to ride my renewed train of inspiration to finish up another TT holiday-themed piece that's been on the back burner for a couple of years, so keep an eye out for that as well. Unfortunately, having it finished and posted by any point tomorrow (Christmas) seems unlikely. =( Wish I'd finished the GB piece and started back on this one a week ago, blah. >.< Anyway, I'll see how much I can rap out on it. It's coming along well so far.

Finally, holy-poo-when-did-I-get-10,000-pageviews?!?!? :faint: Seriously guys, you rock. Even if I realize that those views have been almost solely for my Teen Titan work. Hey, do one thing and do it well, right? ;) So I guess this demands some sort of gift piece, right? Even if I wasn't aware in time to actually do a kiriban sort of contest. >.< Oy, something else to work on, I suppose.

But hey, all joking aside: thanks for your continued support, and may you all have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! :party:
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In Absentia

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Hello Internet,

I thought I should go ahead and put a post here explaining my lack of activity over the past year or two. >.< The fact of the matter is, I don't draw much anymore. In fact, the  only times I seem to produce any new work is when I get away from the rest of my technology for XYZ amount of time, because admittedly, my natural use of freetime is to be entertained by games/ anime. And to be perfectly honest, between working and going back to school for a health care profession, free time is fairly limited resource to begin with. =(

I recognize that it's a shame that my creative juices have fallen into disuse, but I also won't make excuses or unrealistic claims of renewed vigor. Drawing has become a job, whereas it used to be fun. Sorry to disappoint, guys.=/ Feel free to look through my past works though, there's a fair amount of Teen Titans stuff there, if nothing else. And my scrapbook chronicles all the occasional sketches than never make it past that stage. >.< Well, take care all.
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A-Kon: Day 2

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Yesterday was certainly a lot more relaxed than the previous day. Well, after the incident where every delay you can possibly imagine almost made me miss my Dart up there (seriously, it pulled out 5 secs after I got on. >.<)

It also seemed to go a lot faster though, no doubt b/c I got there shortly before the first panel and just hopped around between those for most of the day. Because I was rushing around between things, I couldn't afford to stop and take pictures of the plethora of cosplays, so that's a bit of a regrettable loss.

The highlight of the day was actually the first panel though, a "digital art and illustration" demo that I didn't realize until I got there was based around 3D-modeling! WHOO! And even bigger was an opportunity that cropped up when one of the attendees overheard me talking about my experience in 3D modeling and slipped me a business card for his start-up animation company and asked me to send him my demo reel/portfolio. That's BIG, folks. =D

I also got to do a cold read as a mock voice-over audition for Ichigo from Bleach, with feedback from a well-established voice over guru, Kyle Hebert. So that was definitely a blast as well.

Finally, the Abney Park concert blew my mind! They're style of music is... hard to explain, kind of like electro-assisted steampunk gypsies. Yeah. Let your mind feast on that for a bit. Absolutely awesome.

On to the last day. Hopefully I'll survive my lodging payment (manual labor) at the end of the day... We'll see.
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A-Kon: Day 1

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Wow, yesterday was very... dense. So much stuff crammed into one day. o.O I didn't get off to the best start, as first thing in the morning, the shoulder strap snapped off the laptop case that I was going to carry my stuff around in. =( Thankfully, I had brought a second shoulder-bag b/c I was being indecisive, and in the end it suited my needs much better anyway. (3 bottles of gatorade, some snack crackers, cookies... oh, and carrying art-relatedstuff too. =P

The day was looking downright terrible by the time I got to the Dart station, as I had gotten to a later start than I'd intended and wound up having to make two trips back to my car to claim miscellaneous things I forgot to put in my pockets. Like my wallet. o_0 This was agitated by the fact that I'd had to park in the furthest possible corner of the parking lot from the actual station. Yeah. Legwork.

After the long Dart ride though, things became smooth sailing. I would list all the various stuff I did, but I really need to be heading out to today's activities. The bare essential higlights of the day: lots of cosplay pictures, a parapara dance workshop, a jpop concert, and a psuedo-rave. I wouldn't mind today being a little less... physically exerting. -.-
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