Comment to myself

Comment by myself:

• The shading (like tone and brush) seems very sloppy. Need to spend more time on shading. Do it right, or not do it at all.
• I need to figure out how to create new pen and save it in Manga Studio. The default G Brush is too huge for shading some detail spot, and yet I can't find another default one that does the job.
• Lines are still shaky. Improving, but only slightly.
• Need to do more exercise drawing white lines on the top of black.

More inking exercise

I think beside trainning myself to draw lines smoother, I need to remind myself not to join all the lines all the time.

A little bit ... errr....

This is just panel of a page in a manga that I am working on, but since the content seems a bit H, I don't want to put it here. Maybe I'll create another blog for that later.

Inking exercise

I realized that I am not really good at using G Pen to ink manga, and thought that I need to keep doing exercise in order to master it. So in the coming future I will keep posting my exercise here. Please let me know if you have any comment. I need serious comment in order to improve :-} Thanks!

Nice to have a filled up car and power for home

Just came back from doing voluntary work at senior center, and along the way have my car filled up. It's pretty sweet to have power, water and gasoline back. Prayer, though, still goes to those who are still recovering from the disaster.

The friend I met

I met Rachel at A-kon this year, and I sort of promised her that I would attend AnimeFest so that we could met and chat. Well, there we were.

nerd

I couldn't believe that I could look so funny with my glasses on while crossplaying. By the way, guess which one is me.

Scar on my breast

I found out that there's some minor scars around the around of my chest. It must be the costume being too tight and thus left some wounds on my skin. Must ... resist ... scratching them ...

Feels like wearing makup

It's so strange, but I feel like I am still wearing makeup, wig and costume even though I have nothing on my face, nothing on my head, and I am definitely on my Tee now. That 3 days at AnimeFest really distorted my reality :-P

Thanks, the family of Rich

I really can't express my gratitude completely, but thank you to the family of Rich for giving me a wonderful whole day by allowing me to sleep over for a night, and allowing me to stay with them for the rest of the next day. Thanks thanks and thanks to Rich, Teresa , Nathan, Tonya, Tonya's boy friend (... darn I forgot his name), lovely doggy Chibo and Angel. Thanks.

woke up

Just woke up from a one hour nap. It's 1:40 pm now. I am supposed to be at work, but I took a day off because I don't feel good. Must be a post AnimeFest Symptom.

Finally a pair boots that I can wear a whole day

I brought three pairs of gogo boots from Frankel's Costume. Interesting enough, the web site says that only white is available, but when I went to the store, I found all kinds of color I want. Eventually are brought a pink one for a pink Qipao, a silver one for martial art girl cotume, and a hot pink one for Mongolian costume.

One thing I like the most about these boots are the heads of these boots. They are more round instead of pointy. To me that's great because I have big feet, and round head allow my toes some rooms to breathe. I brought size 10 for all of them, which is the biggest size they can get. Good that they all worked out very well and I was so glad that I brough them and wore them at AnimeFest instead of my red dance boot which was way to tight for being comfortable to wear.

Thanks to Polish Remover

I was not too happy when I realized that the silver boot and hot pink boot that I wore during AnimeFest had some dark marks on it. Seems like they were mostly left by having the bottom of my boots on one foot scratch at the surface on another boot.

Luckily I had polish remover at home. Rubbed the area gently and the dark marks are now gone. Sweet and sweet.