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My Clothed Fig. 3 instructor- who is also the head of the Illustration Department -came across me after class today while I was picking up a project that was accidentally left behind last semester and he asked me why he didn't see that particular artwork (a portrait. of a killer klown) for student scholarship applications.

Me: I didn't even know about it o.o

He just shook his head at me and then made me promise to submit the painting to this year's Spring Show.

First day of the semester, minus the butt-fuck-early-morning-classes and almost falling asleep in my afternoon lecture, was pretty awesome for that moment alone.

Was at Borders earlier today with my dad and found two books that I really, really want:

Yoga Anatomy
Strength Training Anatomy

Both are typical fitness books in which they show and explain various poses and which muscle groups they target. What makes these different, better and should be coveted by artists much like myself, is the fact that they actually DRAW OUT the musculature of each position so you can SEE how these muscle groups are interacting with each other.

Next time I do massive book buy, those two are definitely going to be on my list.

As of right now, my schedule for the next few months looks as thus:

Wednesday
Clothed Figure Drawing 3
8:00-3:00

Eccentric Illustration
3:30-7:00

Thursday
Illustration 3
8:00-3:00

Online Classes
Urban Sociology

Saturday and Sunday
Work
12:00-9:00

No more staying up past 1 for me. I think Imma go get a head start on my crying now.

I'm going to be taking part in the art auction at help_haiti because I have no other way to contribute to the efforts over there. If you're able to donate and would like spiffy artwork in return, please hit up my thread and make a bid. Thank you.

You know, there are many things I've done that I tend to forget about that come back at me, makes me pause and go 'oh yeah, I did do that'. Thankfully these are generally good things I've done and wonderful reminders. Such as this note I got about the comic I did for World Without Oil back in '07 (and, yes, that is me in the video on the site).

( Slightly edited note within )

I must say that I was surprised to find this in my inbox, as well as ecstatic that my work is considered important enough for something like this. It was already used in an article about the game and also got me an interview with BrokenFrontier.com, but every time the comic gets brought up, I always find it both surprising and humbling. I guess part because I never expected it to get the kind of attention it did. I'm just hoping that the kind of interest I've gotten from my WWO comic will continue on in other work that I do.

More random character memes while I debate on if I want to sketch more or go to sleep at a semi-decent time tonight.

First, select your ten fictional characters by whichever method you like best. Then answer the questions below.

( HumanAU!Wreckers )

( DCU )

( Skip Tracers )

In memory of family and friends who have lost the battle with cancer; and in support of the ones who continue to conquer it!

Post this on your LJ if you know someone who has or had cancer.

Here's to the survivors, who soldier on, and to those whom cancer has claimed.

In memory of my grandfather who, along with our grandmother, helped raise me and my brother when our parents couldn't. And for those on my f-list who has lost someone dear to them, has someone struggling with cancer now or knows someone or has survived cancer themselves.

Picture post from ontd_political and I must say...



"Swiss pilot Yves Rossy, the world’s first man to fly with a jet-powered fixed-wing apparatus strapped to his back, flies during his first official demonstration, on May 14, 2008 above Bex, Switzerland."

WHY DID I NOT KNOW THIS EXISTED? THERE ARE NO LEVELS OF AWESOME THAT CONTAINS THIS EVENT AND I DID NOT KNOW IT HAPPENED!

In the order they were written:
Fics:
With All Thy Mercies (Transformers, Octane, Fireflight)
A Warm and Tender Devil Soul (Transformers, Octane, Sandstorm)
It Takes a Family 8 (Transformers, Springer, Wreckers)
Under Clearer Skies (Transformers, Octane, Smokescreen)
Out of the Shadow of Solitude (One Piece, Robin, Brook)
The Not-Better Alternative (One Piece, Kaku, Zoro, Jyabura, Usopp- mild spoilers for CP9 arc)
Well Played (One Piece, CP9)
Struggle On (Transformers, Springer, Perceptor, Kup)
Browncoat (Firefly, Mal)
The Shape You Left Behind (Transformers, Fireflight, Sandstorm, human!AU, nsfw)
Meeting of the Minds (Star Trek XI, McCoy, Scotty, Chekov)
It Takes a Family 9 (Transformers, Springer, ensemble, Wreckers)
The Little Things (Transformers, Skywarp, Thundercracker, human!AU, mild nsfw)
Forward Thinking (Transformers, Starscream, Thundercracker, Skywarp, human!AU)
Long is a Dragon (Transformers, Springer, Smokescreen)
By the Numbers (Transformers, ensemble, OC-centric)
Last One Home Turn Out the Lights (Skip Tracers, Hunter)
And Lines Between (Transformers, Thundercracker, Springer)
Become Unchained (Bleach, Hitsugaya, Mercy Street!AU)
The Last Temptation of Haninozuka Mitsukuni (Ouran Host Club, Hani, Mori, Satoshi, Chika)
Do No Harm (Transformers, First Aid, Topspin)
It Takes a Family 10 (Transformers, Springer, ensemble)
Best Laid Plans (Star Wars, Boss, Niner, nsfw)
For Science! (DCU, Ted/Blue Beetle II, Jaime/Blue Beetle III)
Office Warfare (DCU, Ted/Blue Beetle II, Booster Gold, JLI-era)
Nothing for the Tin Man (DCU, Ted/Blue Beetle II, Extreme Justice-era)

( This year in writing meme )

So in a tradition I'm likely going to forget by next year, I'm going to share with you all some of the best fics I've found this year. Of course, if I shared ALL my favorites, this would be a very, very long list. Therefore I'm just going to do what I think is the most intriguing, well executed or just all-round favorite of the various fandoms I've dabbled in. Under the cut will be nine fics for nine series, each with a mini-backgrounds and reviews though.

( In no particular order: Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, Transformers, Detective Conan, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Eureka, Justice League, crossover and bonus awesome fic within )

Obligatory first sentence of the months for the last year thingy.

Jan: The first (technically second) recipe I made from my new game!

Feb: Rally Ireland, the first one of the season, had just finished this morning.

Mar: Been meaning to do these for a while but finally got around to doing them now.

Apr: HA! Best AMV I've seen in a while!

May: Finally figured out the questions for my anthro paper!

Jun: Feeling so very much more relaxed in which case main objective of vacation: get.

Jul: I just got called in for jury duty at the end of the month.

Aug: Right. I've decided. At some point, hopefully in the next two or three years I want to go to a WRC event.

Sep: I thought Rally Australia would be awesome because I'd actually be wide awake and not attempting to get some number of hours of sleep during the live radio coverage.

Oct: The first day of Rally Spain begins tomorrow, radio coverage starts about 2330, my time.

Nov: Oh ontd_political, I think you've just traumatized me to the point I'm afraid to leave my house to go to class tonight.

Dec: Read the interview of James Roberts and Nick Roche in regards to The Last Stand of the Wreckers and already this picture is making me very sad

Read the interview of James Roberts and Nick Roche in regards to The Last Stand of the Wreckers and already this picture is making me very sad



Twin Twist on one end, Topspin on the other and the interview states there's a high body count and from what I've seen in All Hail Megatron (the first, like, five issues) they don't show up. Two guesses as to who's included in this body count...

Also, they said there's a total of 10 Wreckers and we see five here. The interview also states that they're bringing in new characters and switching out- as implicitly stated -Roadbuster, Whirl, Sandstorm and Broadside. Also implicitly stated that they're not exactly dead or written out and since I know RB at least shows up in AHM, I'm going to think the four of them had to split off for a separate mission until it's stated elsewhere (the fact that ONLY rb showed up in ahm makes me think that other mission didn't exactly end well...)

My illustration homework was coming along well. It wasn't the greatest thing I've done this semester, but it wasn't so bad.

Observe the use of past tense, there.

It WAS fine. Until I took the masking fluid off and wondered why the fuck I thought it was a good idea to put that stuff on in the first place. Oh yeah- because my teacher told me to! And, with her being the teacher and having more watercolor experience than me, I thought taking her advice would be a good idea!

Except it's a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE FRUSTRATING BEYOND BELIEF NOT!

Goddammit, now I'm going to have to remix ALL my colors in order to get these bright white patches to BLEND properly and redo all the layers that got cleaned off after trying to blend what I COULD and now, instead of a passably okay ferret, it looks like a ferret with mange.

Fuck me, it's a good thing I don't have class tomorrow and I can work on fixing this. I'm never taking advice again if part of my brain says 'yeah, that doesn't sound smart'.

Because this just came at me and won't let me properly focus on my homework until I get it done. One random fact for every major and important secondary character in Skip Tracers.

( One random fact for every Tracer )

Damn you, TVTropes! Damn you to hell!

Asides from you amusing and link-webbing goodness wasting away all hours of the day, you single-handedly managed to get me shipping Boostle! Boostle!

I've never read their comics! Hell- I haven't even picked up any DC comics since before I joined the Corps and here I am, squeeing over the adorkability of Blue Beetle- who I only saw in the Last Laugh tie-ins and was amused by -and Booster Gold- who I only knew as kind of an ass from one of the Justice League cartoons.

And now? I STILL haven't seen their comics, but I've seen some of their hijinks, waded into their fandom and I'm stuck at working thinking about how much I just want to go home and read about their silly, woobie bromance!

Curse you and me and their too-addictive fandom! (i swear to god, if boostle gets me back into comic slashing again, i think i may cry)

Meme that I ganked from some random journals I was trolling after a mix of boredom, insomnia and waiting for something to update.

You’ve somehow acquired a magical dimension-splicing conversion van and are planning an epic cross-country road trip with your friends and fandom. First, pick ten travel buddies from anywhere -- real life, fiction, OCs, celebrities, whatever. Then answer these questions to see how cracktastic your adventure turns out to be.

Transformers
1. Springer
2. Roadbuster
3. Whirl
4. Sandstorm
5. Broadside
6. Scoop
7. Twin Twist
8. Topspin
9. Prowl
10. Wheeljack

( Road trips with Wreckers- always an adventure )

Keroro Gunsou
1. Keroro
2. Tamama
3. Giroro
4. Kululu
5. Dororo
6. Fuyuki
7. Natsumi
8. Koyuki
9. Aki
10. Paul

( Invaders need vacations, too! )

Republic Commando (don't judge me DX)
1. Boss
2. Sev
3. Scorch
4. Fixer
5. Niner
6. Darman
7. Atin
8. Fi
9. Corr
10. Mird (yes. the strill is going on a roadtrip.)

( Does anyone die by the end of this? )

Oh ontd_political, I think you've just traumatized me to the point I'm afraid to leave my house to go to class tonight.

Oh God, what do I do?

Watch more Sgt Frog- an adorably hilarious show I just discovered yesterday?

Or read 501st Imperial Commando which just came in today?

WHY MUST MY LIFE BE FULL OF DIFFICULT DECISIONS?

More fun from sleep-deprived art students.

Crime School with the following teachers:

Jack the Ripper
-Media Baiting 101
-Advanced Prostitute Killing

H.H. Holmes
-Intermediate Architecture
-Basic Body Disposal

Charles Manson
-Introduction to Creating Cults

Albert Fish
-head chef

Caligula
-guest speaker

Someone, somewhere, at some point, is going to be getting a thorough talking to for letting this job get as fucked up as it did. And, if I were to gauge my luck, I'd bet that person will somehow end up being me.