jadeprince

So I dug out my Natsu pants, Kim's Miguel shirt, a leather vest my mother got me in Mexico, my gay gay Alucard necktie, the belt/waistband from my Lyserg costume, and the Urahara/Pauly/Dino wig. And I dressed myself like a spoiled little boy. Took reference pics. And drew some stuff for school. I liked how these two in particular turned out, so you get to see them. XD




ps. the peel-able paper General's charcoal pencils are making my life easier, btw. They go onto newsprint so smoothly. :3

The nice thing about my clothed figure drawing class is that we can use our own models. Thus, Kim features regularly in my homework. :) This time, Lussuria!Kim was too perfect not to use for my value-only, no-line drawing. I'm pretty happy with how this turned out tho the photography sucks. :P Photographing art is hard.



ps pastels suck almost as much as charcoal, but mostly because it's hard to draw in small parts, since pastels are fat sticks that take forever to sharpen. :P They're nice for getting good smooth coverage tho.

ANON MEME

Tell me how retarded I am. Tell me that I suck. Tell me you're madly in love with me and want to put me in bathtub of spaghetti. Tell me I should stop doing memes and finish my goddamn commissions. Tell me anything. <3

You know... I'm getting really sick of hearing "WE JUST HAVE TO CHANGE HEARTS AND MINDS!", "We've got to tell our stories!", "We've got to go door to door and CONNECT with people!".

You know what? No. NO.

Other minority groups didn't have to 'change the hearts and minds of the people' before being given -their- marriage rights. The courts gave interracial couples that right in a time that a vote of the people would not have passed by a long shot.

GAY PEOPLE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO PROVE THEMSELVES.

Why the FUCK do WE have to make EVERYONE LIKE US before we can get basic civil rights. How can people NOT see how fucked up that is?

I have a life to live. I can't wait for everyone to realize that gay people are real people too. That is the job of the COURTS (state AND federal) and the President who told us we were part of his nation too.

Fuck.

I actually did something in charcoal that I sorta like. And it's a self-portrait, whut.

( Yeah, I still have my Two-Face hair... )

See? I actually AM learning stuff in grad school.

I'm learning I still hate charcoal. But I CAN do realism if I put forth any sort of effort. Which is nice to know. :3

I'm still in DC-- Kim's on her way home tonight and I'll be heading back to San Diego tomorrow, but for now I'm in the hotel, searching for news coverage of the march and fluctuating between the awesome high of such a fantastic day and the lows of the reality of our situation as it still stands (plus i need to stop fucking reading comments on online news articles).

Positives/Negatives:
+Spending the weekend with Kim and my two moms.
+Spending Saturday at museums. American History and Natural History museums are AMAZING.
-I'd need another two weeks to see everything I wanted to see!
+Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Reflecting Pool, WWII Memorial = all awesome to see in person.
+Meeting Cleve Jones (who stayed in the same hotel) at dinner and being told "Oh don't call me sir!" Me: "'Cleve', then?" Him: "How about just 'Giiiirl'? So many <3<3<3
+The rainbow that appeared above the sun at the beginning of the march on Sunday. There was no rain, nor clouds.
+Being close enough to TOUCH John Oliver while he interviewed someone for the Daily Show. I had a sort of fan-spasm. <3
+The march. Was HUGE. Awe-inspiring. WAY bigger than the big march in San Diego.
-The few articles I CAN find on the march are all describing the turnout as "thousands" and no one is posting any pictures of the march/rally at its largest. No solid crowd estimates yet.
+The Speakers were, for the most part, very good, very inspiring.
+I may actually join the NAACP because of what Julian Bond talked about in his speech. What a great guy.
-The rally went on for toooo long and most of the marchers had left by the time 6pm rolled around (it was supposed to end at 5)
-More news coverage of Obama's speech the night before than of the actual march.
-Obama gave no timelines, only repeated his promises he gave during his campaign. Meanwhile, gay servicemen and women are still being discharged for being gay.
+Hate crime bill is on his desk to sign on Monday(?, I think).
+So many kids at the march. :) Was inspiring to see all those families.

...There's more, but it's almost 1:30am here so I should get some fucking sleep. Hah.

TL;DR = Proud to have been part of this historic march, proud to be fighting for my civil rights-- wish our president would follow through on his promises and get some of these things (DADT, DOMA, ENDA, etc) taken care of soon before midterm elections lose us our democratic majorities next year.

Miracle at St. Anne

If you can handle war movies, you MUST watch this film. Amazing. Just amazing. And beautiful. And heart-wrenching, and somehow, still manages to have something like a happy ending. Wow.

HOLY CRAP IT LOOKS AMAZING. AND ODACCHI IS WRITING IT AND DOING STORY BOARDS. NOT JUST CONCEPT DESIGN WORK.

FUCK 12/12 CANNOT COME TOO SOON.

I already wanna cosplay it...

ALSO. DUDE WITH SWORDS FOR LEGS. MOST AWESOME VILLIAN EVER? Y/Y?

I've been to Akon, AX, Otakon and ComicCon in the last few months and have barely posted anything about them. Yeah, I suck at con reports.

In quick summary:

Akon--
Business was so so. Didn't do as well as three years ago, but broke even and made a little profit. This con was really all about the people. It was amazing to see and spend time with Kyra and Spork in particular and to meet Adam (WANTED TO TAKE HIM HOME AND KEEP HIM IN MY POCKET) and others. Saw Angel and other amazing One Piece kids too, which was awesome and I know I added some of you crazy cool people to my f-list, but shout out at me anyway because connecting names and faces is something I SUCK BALLS at.

AX--
We did surprisingly well this year. Better than last year and with few overhead costs (yay no plane tickets!) we did nicely. Yay for money! I needs it. Wearing Okama!Sanji and meeting Ener's VA were highlights of the con for me (thank you again, Skuld-chan! You rock!) Again AX is so much about people these days since the rest of it sorta sucks balls. I did hear that Kenji is gone from the masquerade which is good but not sure I'm ready to go back to AX's masq. Heard they got a shitty fold-up portable stage this year. :P Also still bitter about the shitty judging from Hellsing year. Besides, these days Fanime is WAY better for craftsmanship judging. People who's opinion I actually care about, yay! Anyway, AX. OUR NEW MARINE GROUP FRIENDS. YA'LL ARE AWESOME, but I can't keep any of you guys straight. I need photos and names or something because there is just way too much cool goin' on there to keep track of. :D And summer beach BBQ needs to happen. yes. oh yes.

Otakon--
Not the best con this year in terms of sales but good enough to go back to next year! Also, the people in Baltimore are SO NICE. Totally changed my opinion of east-coasters after so many nasty people at Katsucon the one year we went. Srsly. Also, a definite record for people coming to the table and telling me they read our fic. I dunno if all our readers are on the east coast or if east-coasters just have more balls, but it was a really pleasant surprise! Also, seeing dethorats and Brian and Sherri (or is it Shari? Fuck, did I mention I suck at names?) made me miss them so much! Drawing Iva's giant head for Em was a highlight of the con. Also got to hang out with Laina and Amanda which was some nice, much needed relaxing down time. :) At least for me. They got to work on costumes. OMG THAT FURNITURE COMMERCIAL. WTF. XD We need to cosplay together sometime, guys, for serious. :P Also met kyatto in person which was cool because we've exchanged words on the various Avatar coms, but I always like putting faces to names. :) Got a bunch of art commissions from various awesome artists which I'm waiting with bated breath to recieve. Yay! :D Aaaaand, epic retarded times with Kei and Emi and Karen and our sketchbooks on the flight back meant my sketchbook is full of lulz. The lulz also came courtesy of sw_inku and her lovely friends who I had the pleasure of rooming with (THANKS AGAIN GUYS!!!! XD). Wiggly and BB, dunno who you are on LJ, but you both rock. Fer sure. <3 Also STEVIE IS HOT, GUYS. SERIOUSLY. DAMN. Hooker heels and boobs. Yeah. I had an awesome time. Kim's coming' with me next year for sure.

SDCC--
No selling at this con, yay! But still lots of prep work because of getting ready for the masq. booooo. We all looked AMAZING, guys, seriously. Kim as Joker rocks my socks and I actually managed to finish Two-Face with hardly any stressing out. Once again I was reminded that SDCC's workmanship judging is a joke ("Stand here and turn around once. Okay next person" <--not exaggerating) but we still had a ton of fun, the lighting they did for us was fantastic and gay and we won DC's industry award! Yay! Too bad they didn't have a certificate or anything to give us other than a check for $300 in the mail. lol. Lame sauce... Anyway, other highlights were all the autographs I got (woo too much money spent): Leonard Nimoy, Robert Picardo, Brent Spiner all were there and I grabbed in person and then Kim bought me Andy Robinson's from the same booth. I really want to meet him in person one day (the guy who plays Garak on DS9). Other than that and the masq, the best part of the weekend was the Avatar gathering where Kim and I went as Sokka and Zuko and met up with Chas in her Jet. Also hung with ali_wildgoose and took some Jetko pics with Chas for her. XD THEN Sifu Kisu (who is an incredibly nice guy) shows up and wants a picture with US (later he was giving little mini lessons on the forms and movements used in the show). THEN, the guys making the Avatar documentary ask us for an interview (WE'S GONNA BE FAMOUS MAYBE, GAIZ). AND THEN. Mike and Bryan show up and HANG OUT FOR LIKE AN HOUR, taking photos with people and just socializing and generally being cool. I love people who love their fans. It was totally worth having to miss the autograph session with them because of Masq stuff later that day. So in general? Yeah, ComicCon is awesome. :D

I'M SURE I'M FORGETTING SOME AWESOME PEOPLE AND THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS, BUT NOW I HAVE TO CATCH UP ON ALL THE COMMISSIONS I PUT OFF. So, if I did, remind me here and I will grovel in apology.

I can fit two costumes in my luggage... what should I bring?

I've got:

England - Hetalia
BlueHoodie!Sanji - One Piece (Thrillar Bark arc)
GrandJipangu!Sanji - One Piece (feudal Japan filler)
PinkApron!Sanji - One Piece
TealVest!Luffy - One Piece (Impel Down arc)
Gokudera - Reborn

Any request/suggestions? <3

Oh yeah. I'm... something. Awesome isn't really the right word. Retarded, though, that's pretty close.

I'll probably make another post later, but another big highlight of the weekend was getting Morikawa's autograph and watching his face light up when he saw me in my Ener cosplay. He then proceded to offer Ener's laugh ("Yahaha!") and his "I am God, I am lightning" catch phrase. Be still my heart. I just hope it was cool for him to see that he has fans outside of BL and Final Fantasy fandoms. <3 What a nice guy.

We're thinking about adding an Allen from D Grayman to our line up of fan badges, to go with the Luffy "Pirate", Naruto "Ninja", Spike "Bounty Hunter", etc. Would Allen be an "Excorcist"? or something else? Thanks, f-list!

ALSO, we're gonna make Team Fortress badges. What are the most popular classes (besides Scout, cuz I know everyone loves him)? Or do I have to break down and draw all nine and hate myself? Maybe if I were going to put three or four on a badge, who should it be? Or if I split it up into two groups? Basically I know almost nothing about the game, so any advice would be appreciated! Thanks again, f-list!

So I need to get into the swing of drawing again, since I've done barely anything but fanbadge commissions since summer break started.

Hit me with your suggestions. -->Pairing and/or characters + prompt OR if you want to see something non-fanart, general type of character + prompt.

One Piece is appreciated, but I'll consider anything, any pairing. Stuff that forces me to do backgrounds is good too. If it ends up being something I really like, I might clean it up and put it on our art table to sell. :)


I can't promise I'll finish everything, but this will help me a lot. :)

Thanks!

(and yes Laura, I will get around to drawing you Kirk/Spock. XD)

So Kim and I are crazy. And are considering possibly trying to hit up Metrocon. Yes, it's very last minute. Yes, we might be crazy. But they also still have room in their artist alley.

So here's my question. Anyone on my f-list going? Anyone on my f-list going to Metrocon and have hotel room to share/spare? Anyone else crazy and last minute like us who is still looking for a room and wants to go in together? Any ladies up for sexy pajama party fun tiems?

:D *hopeful grin*

EDIT: I'mma sharing a room with Thea! Still wanna know who else, if anyone is going tho! :3

I'm going, thanks to working out a mutual arrangement with Kei. :)

Kim's staying home this time, cuz getting days off for Comiccon and AX is more important.

But the point is, who else is going? Is it possible I get to see some peeps I haven't in a long time? Mayhaps? Tell me here! :D

WHO'S GOING TO OTAKON?

D: I'm sorry guys, i just don't have time to finish my naruto stuff for Fanime... you'll have to count me out this time. My priorities to finish are my masq costume and Brook because I'm making him for Aaron...

As for the rest of my costumes, stuff is going well! UK is DONE!! Yay!

Back to the slog....

Whoops, this is very last minute and sort of a long shot, but does anyone going to Fanime have a severed leg (or arm) that they could bring and I could borrow? You know, like one of those halloween props. Yeah.... anyway. If you do, drop me a note! Thanks! :) It's for Resident Evil masquerade fun times. yes. :)

Edit: ALSO, if anyone has a unicorn plush I can borrow I would love you forever!! I'm having a terrible time finding one!!!

Nm, I found a beanie baby at the grocery store this morning. Lol.

I HAVE A NEW COSPLAY PLAN FOR THIS YEAR. FUCK. YES.

YES I DO.

FUCK.

UNGH.

*DEAD OF AWESOME*

EDIT: SPOILERS IN THE COMMENTS

Who should be on a Soul Eater Fan badge? No more than 6 people, plz.

Suggestions?

Edit:

Would it work okay to have Soul+Maka, Death and BlackStar?

Or should I stick to just Maka, Death, and Blackstar (+Stein?)

I gues can't fit every team on there and I only want to make one badge until I see how they sell.

Well I feel vaguely ill. I can't at all tell how this went.

If I had to guess about what was going to happen, I'd say the court will rule to let Prop 8 stand but not to invalidate the marriages that already took place. Which would, of course, open up a whole new can of worms...

All I can say is I want to punch Starr in the face.

His response to the idea that the majority should not have the power to take rights away from the minority? --> "Well your Honor, each of us is a minority of one!" Fuck. You.

Also "We don't want to say invalidate. We're not invalidating these unions". No you're just saying that only straight marriage will be valid. WAIT WHAT? You unbelievable asshole.