Yo Ken, what's good?

I've been keeping up with work and school, and occasionally playing WoW. As for art...I guess I'll try to upload some pages from my sketchbook. Aside from that, the only other drawings I've been doing are in my notes for classes. Yes... it's a bad habit that has lasted all throughout my education career. I do love my sketchbook though. It's right next to my DS Lite, in terms of important portable objects ;].


p..P...Pp..Pepper?

I would really like to submit an entry to Artgerm's Pepper Project([link]). I have a few concepts sketched out and a few more that I've thought about. I guess I should bring it down to two choices. I actually started working on one, but after spending 2hours on it, Photoshop crashed when I tried to save it.

You shouldn't have VMware, WoW, and Photoshop running at the same time on an Aluminum iMac.

Yup, I learned the hard way. Photoshop uses a lot of memory apparently. But anyways! Hopefully I can come up with something for the Pepper Project before the deadline.


I<3Lacus

Gundam SEED. When it first came out, I thought it was absolutely horrible. I watched 5 episodes and couldn't bear with it. At that time, I thought most otaku were retards for praising that POS. I was so so wrong.

As the story goes...I cook at a Japanese restaurant on the weekends. One of our japanese customers recommended SEED to me, saying that it was his favorite Gundam series. I was skeptical because this customer was:

• Old (maybe early 40s? I didn't think there were 40yo otakuz)


• Drunk (japanese company men drink an ass-ton)


• and a "Salary Man" (This point goes along with the top two. I thought J-salarymen only worked, drank alcohol, and played golf)

But I try to have faith in people...sooo I decided to give it another shot. After gritting my teeth and enduring through the first 10 episodes, I actually started to like it. It seemed to get better and better! Since then, I watched all 50 episodes last week and started watching SEED Destiny yesterday.

If you were like me and decided not to watch Gundam SEED, please give it another chance. I know it's an old series now, but it's really good! There are many parallels with the original gundam, which you may notice. I've been noticing parallels with SEED Destiny and Z Gundam too. Anyways, the character development is really top-notch and one of the biggest pluses going for SEED. I think you just have to get past the fact that Kira dresses like a fag and cries like an alien monster giving birth to a bowling ball.

And yea....it seems like a lot of the great anime shows start off slow and after a few episodes, get really good and grow into an epic climax. That's how Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann was for me. Still my favorite show.

Sorry for the long-windedness of this journal. I quit xanga and all those other "journal sites" a long time ago, so that's my excuse ;].

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