SEWING MACHINE!!
http://haven9270.deviantart.com/art/Sewing-Machine-94660840

Tags: sewing machine

It's 10:20 in the evening and still I don't feel like sleeping.
Because when I wake up tomorrow, it's gonna happen again.
I'll be driving my mom to work, then I'll be going to work, then I'll be doing some schoolwork.
And the weekends are nothing more than 48 hours of brainstorming on what I should be doing on my free time.

Exhausting
Stressful

But what's really pissing me off is I feel like I don't have the right to complain.
Because I feel like I can do more than I am doing now.... I should be doing more than I am doing now.
Yes, what I am doing is not enough.

*sigh*
I know - if I got time to whine, I got time to work no?

Tags: getting it out of your system, stress

THE WAIT IS KILLING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I've been going to the Tokyopop forums, and it seems the forums are...kinda dead.
People were asking here and there whether or not there would be an RSOM9, and it seems the
only answers they receive are speculations by fellow forum members.

The mods and staff, from what I heard, seem to be...on vacation at the moment.
At least it kinda explains the lack of updates.... of does it?

So far, our only glimmer of hope is the "look forward to future contest RSOM9" in the RSOM page.

Tags: nada, no, rsom9

I found nobody with interesting costumes (except for the lone Ranka Lee cosplayer).
I never met with the people I'm supposed to meet with.
No merchandise caught my interests.
Went to my Japanese language instructor's booth.... didn't catch him in the best of his moods.
Food was overpriced (as expected).

And worst of all, I couldn't make it to Shoko Nakagawa's concert since I had to drive my mom to her workplace at noon,
especially considering the travel time to the convention center (I live about an hour away).

It felt like a slap to my face.
And my aching limbs don't help lower my headache.

The only good thing about this, however, is that I'm really surprised at
the fact that I'm not taking this nearly as bad as I would've 5 years ago ^^

Hopefully, I'll eat something good for dinner...
Plus I gotta watch the new season of Slayers (ZOMG has it been more than 10 years!?).

Tags: anime expo, sad, worst
Current Mood: blank

I'm a little worried about my future in comics.
I've read rumors about Tokyopop no longer publishing OEL which also lowers the chances of there having an RSOM9 contest.
Add to that the public outrage of the Pilot Program and the company restructuring.
Their forums are sorta dead, showing little to no enthusiasm about the subject.

It's already July, and I'm still willing to wait until the end of the month for any form of news whether Tokyopop is either going to continue of stop this tradition.

There is the option of submissions, but I just don't know which companies are good to work with.
I don't mind starting out small. I just want enough exposure to be able to take off.

Please PLEASE Tokyopop, don't let me down.

At least I'm finished storyboarding my comic.
Time to move to refining the designs.

Tags: comics, future, rsom, worried

 The layouts and roughs stage for my comic is going more smoothly than I thought.
Especially after I decided to extend the intro to 5 pages (which turned out to be the perfect length for it).
I'm now at page 7 which is the second page of the the fight scene.
If my editor's calculations are correct, it should take me about 8 pages to do this part, but instead spread it out on 10 pages

Hopefully I don't "save pages" again :P

I just found out today that the dog in the bottom left corner of
Peter Paul Rubens' painting "Elevation of the Cross" was actually Patrasche.

Rubens pulled a Metal Gear Solid on me, that's for sure....

Anyway, I've learned about this in the documentary Patrasche - A Dog of Flanders which you could find out more at
http://www.dogofflanders.be/ (also the site I ordered the DVD in).
Basically, there's this book by some chick  named Marie Louise de la Ramée (aka Ouida) way back in 1872.
It had an anime adaption in 1975 as part of Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater series, along with
a TV series remake in the mid 90s followed by a full blown animated movie version in 1997.
Ironically, the people from Belgium have absolutely zero idea as to why Japanese tourists would
flock in front of Rubens' painting in the Antwerp Cathedral.
They didn't know that a book and an anime taking place in their neighborhood have touched the hearts of these sushi-eating folks.

I watched the mid 90s TV series remake in my younger days, and I have to say it's a moving story.

Tags: dog of flanders, nello, patrasche, world masterpiece theater

I just watched this movie called Juno.
I was expecting another "ZOMG TEEN MOVIE WITH HOT TEEN CELEBS WHO LOOK CUTE TOGETHER WHERE THEY MAKE A DEEP SPEECH ABOUT LOVE IN THE END ghbegbergbewrbg".

And I was proven wrong.
It was surprisingly refreshing and mature for a change.
And I love it^^

MOAR LIKE THIS PLZ!

HOLY FUCK SDF-1!!

So I am currently planning the page layouts for my RSOM9 comic.
I can't believe I had all day yet all I was able to roughly do are the layouts for the first and last 3 pages.
The last 3 pages (18-20) will pretty much remain the same (hopefully) as I go through the layouts of the entire comic.
But I'm just sooooo stuck on the first 3 pages.
It will probably give me nightmares tonight If I fail to come up with a solution.

My main problem is trying to compress the "intro" portion of the script within 3 pages.
As much as possible, I don't want to extend the intro to 5 pages as I want to give the middle portion a lot of real estate.
Especially because I'm seeing the ending portion as 5 pages long.

It was a tough decision to not include establishing shots of the setting in the intro.
I left shots of the main character's "room" to the ending where they have symbolic significance (sorta).
The challenge in the intro is that I wanted the shots of the main character to cut in back and forth with shots of another scene involving another character whom he will encounter by the end of the intro scene (that is.... page 3).

Surprisingly enough, I'm not having the "crowded artwork" problem so far (one of the main complaints in Soda Pop).
However, looking at the thumbnails, the narration, which would be part of the layout, seems to be competing for space.
This problem became obvious when I actually couldn't fit the title logo at all on the 3rd page as I planned.

From the looks of it, I might actually redraw the first 2 pages to make the 3rd page the title page as it should be.

After this, 12 PAGE FIGHT SCENE!

Tags: comic, dog of flanders, manga, rsom9