Archive for the “Art” Category

Earlier today I finally got my Christmas/birthday gift in the mail, my Wacom Intuos4 Large which I ordered from Amazon. I’ve wanted a new larger tablet for a while and that urge only got stronger when the new Intuos line was released early last year. The high price of the tablet had put me off for a while put after using it I can safely say that this was worth the money.
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I hope everyone had a good holiday. Today I wanted to do some work on my kinetic novel which is currently going by the working title ATCG and somehow I ended up doing another Christmas drawing this year. This is Aya, one of the main characters in ATCG and also one of my favorites. She is quite smart but often skips school due to severe social anxiety that she developed after being subjected to horrible trauma as a child. She only has one close friend at the beginning of the story but eventually she starts to make more. Because of her habit of ditching school and for other reasons she is referred to as “Hikikomori Princess” by her eventual friend Tsugumi (though they get into a massive fist fight at school and both get suspended before that happens). Aya also has a certain supernatural ability that directly and indirectly effects all parts of the story. I’ll keep it secret for now but I hope I can share it eventually. Now time to get back to work on it.

If I didn’t think it looked horribly wordy I would have subtitled this post “Stepping into a past decade before exiting the current one” or something similar. Thanks to Shance I rediscovered the Anime Otaku-ness Test 200, a 200 question assessment of one’s otaku power-level. The test is terribly out-of-date but I think it is a good primer for letting people get to know me a little better. I’ve taken a few of the more interesting questions for me and explained my answers right here. I hope this will be a pleasant insight into who I am.
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Wednesday Citrus and I received the most dangerous thing for us to get during University finals time. What I mean is Phantasy Star Zero. As big fans of Phantasy Star Online we knew that getting its successor in every way possible would result in our “Game Over.” I had planned to refrain from playing until I finished all my exams but it was less than 24 hours before I broke down and plunged in. Soon Citrus discovered and he started playing. Our housemate bought a copy as well and we got others interested further reinforcing our addiction. This is the best worst thing ever.
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