Lack of updates? No just been busy.

April 25th, 2013

Not really a lack of blog updates, just been busy getting things together for upcoming conventions. I’ve been at my computer cleaning it up, drawing new images, and planning for the next and upcoming events, all while tending to a 7 year old, and dealing with 3 dogs. It’s been a crazy 4 months since I last posted and the last post was about a convention I had been in Artist Alley for. 

I attended FreeCon earlier in April and did decent for the most part. I did make my table money back which was good and did see foot traffic. As the tables were assigned not like the last convention I went to, I was put  next to an old acquaintance, that I met while I was in Orlando. Most people would know her as NEN. I know her as Amanda or she use to be mythchan on deviantart. The story of all that happenings can be found here.

So now I am preparing for the third con of the year. Hama-con. Yeah I am doing the little anime cons this year until I am able to have enough to try for a big con. Although the big con I am trying for is AWA. I’ve put in an application for it when it was out for process and here’s hoping I get in. I probably won’t considering there was about 250 applications. I’m crossing my fingers in hopes though. If not I can always try again next year. Possibly by then I will have a bigger portfolio to show on my deviantart. I have been trying to post new images as soon as I get them done. Not trying to rush them so much but trying to get enough done so I can make a batch of prints for the next con which is coming at the end of May.

I would also like to say how psyched I am for November’s convention choice. What is it? Why? It’s BLIZZCON of course! Last night my husband and I got our clicking fingers ready for the first batch of ticket sales and I was at 2500 at 13 mins when I clicked. My husband was at 4000 or something. Of course I got us the tickets at 29% but we are so excited to have gotten our tickets for our 4th Blizzcon trip. Our rooms are booked already, and we’re still debating on flying or driving there. I like the drive though I know it’s very tiring for my husband. Plus we might be carrying  some extra luggage due to my husband wanting to the costume contest. Which we are going to get started on sometime next month. Or the month after. There’s a lot of planning to do for the costume.

I should get back to making Circle Lens reviews and such. Well at least I updated. Probably will update more when the time  comes. 

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Conventions

February 20th, 2013

I posted this on Decimated Eden.com so I am also going to post it here.

I know I had made promises to get pages up by now though it’s been a long few months. November to December was the holidays and well not much time spent on doing artwork though I did force myself to get something done so that I will have something to sell at <a href=”http://www.destinationanime.com”>Destination Anime</a> which was in January. I didn’t sell much as much as I saw a lot of foot traffic, but then again I didn’t have an awesome display to let anyone know what I was selling or doing. So it was a slow start for my first Artist Alley. I did get two commissions on the last day and a sale or two. Not much sold. I also did make some new friends.

<a href=”http://musetap.deviantart.com/”>Musetap Studio’s</a> artist brother Josh was there selling prints of the two artist Will Woods and Tyrine Carver. Last day I had bought some prints myself. Did get some tips and pointers from Josh on how to prepare for the next AA I will be at. He’s a real nice guy.

Then there was this mini top hat lady named Aimee. She makes <a href=”https://www.facebook.com/3aartistries”>cute little top hats</a> and of course most foot traffic I saw was people purchasing her hats. Have to check them out. She is also super nice.

I did catch a cold or the flu bug after the convention was over. So for three weeks I was bed ridden and so tired of being sick. I tried my best to get art work done and continue with the commission but I was hurting so much just by sitting at my desk. So I am behind on commission work.

I have been working on more artwork to make prints out of for the next convention. I will be at <a href=”http://www.tallahasseeanime.com/freecon/”>FreeCon9</a> in Tallahassee at the FSU campus. The event is free for anyone that wants to go, though I as the artist and the other vendors have to pay for our tables. =o So that is coming in April and I am pushing myself to get some work pulled out so I can get stickers and buttons made and prints printed.

After FreeCon9 I will be heading to Alabama in at the end of May for <a href=”http://hama-con.com/”>Hama-con</a>. I have to make my hotel reservations next month for that one. So catch me there if you are going to be there.

Then trying see if I can hit Anime Weekend Atlanta in September. Just waiting for the Artist Alley registration to open for that.

I did try to apply for Florida Anime Experience in Orlando and Hoshicon in North Carolina but I was turned down for the Artist Alley so that’s a bit of a bust. It’s ok it’ll give me more time to get some new artwork ready.

Hubby is pulling together at least $300 bucks for me to get some prints and what nots ready for next month. If I need more maybe he’ll give it to me, but going to do the $300 budget at the moment. I think I can get 5 images of prints for that and then some bookmarks and buttons made.

I’d love to get stickers made, but not too sure.
I could start up a kickstarter to raise the money to get my stuff done, but I don’t even know how many people will support the cause. I could at least try I suppose.

Also Blizzcon 2013 is in November 5-6 this year. So gotta save money for that. Cause the hubby and I always try to make it to Blizzcon.

That’s the news for now. I’ll have to update the comic soon.

 

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A little quick update.

January 6th, 2013

Today is the last day of Destination Anime. I’ve taken some pictures and made acquaintance with some cool people and seen some nice cosplays. I’m doing a little update because I can’t sleep for some reason or another. I think I went to sleep for an hour and then woke up all groggy. Some days I know I do that but for days that I stay up and work on artwork and stuff I usually just want to pass out. I guess it was because I also had a headache forming. I don’t know. 

 

Anyway just doing a quick little update but will do a major big update about this convention and my first time experience with Artist Alley and the help I got from a couple of people. 

 

Oh did I mention today is my birthday?

What would make me happy? Commission me! I have needs to do artwork and improve more before I get OLDER next year. XD

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It’s been a long time since I blogged…

October 22nd, 2012

Yes I have slacked off in blogging the last two months… maybe more, but things seem to have slowed down for this time of the year. July had gone to my sister’s wedding which was a beautiful wedding up until the end of it where some drama had occurred. A month had past since that drama and when I went to talk to my parents again it seems like they didn’t want to let it go. Everyone seems to just say “what’s done is done you can’t changed what happened, just move on and deal with it,” but that is not the case with my mother. All I wanted to do was give my daughter her grandparents time to video chat and mother just wants to spew on about the drama that happened a month ago. And she use to say that I never let shit go. >.>

Anyway, September 25th Cataclysm came to an end when Mist of Pandaria was released and I busted my ass for 15 hours trying to catch up to the server 1st priest. Though I know I was about 4 hours behind the first priest but when I hit 88 and saw he was 89 I was like crap. I could make it by a hairline but I know I won’t and I feel like I did all this staying up for launch hour to try to make it to server first for nothing. I only knew of two people that rooted for me to make it and at least supported me in trying. Maybe three, but one of my longest friends said I wouldn’t, and that I couldn’t because I wasn’t known to be “hardcore.” 

Seriously if I can sit down at the computer for 4 hours + raiding and make it to raids I can do the grind. I’m not a lightweight when it comes to playing games. The only time when I can’t do it is when I start getting massive pains in my stomach (gallstone attacks) or major headaches that don’t go away after an hour after taking aspirin/tylenol. The thing that made me get behind on reaching server first 90 priest was cause the first part of the quests to Pandaria, where you fly and bomb the ships. After bombing the horde on the island, you have to bomb the ships. Oh the lack of visual on that part. You can’t zoom out so you can barely see the ship and what you are shooting at. You can’t group up with people to get that quest objective, if you do group you aren’t credited for it which is a bit an annoyance since it took me 30 mins to try to sink the ship. Oh and all you see is the insides of everyone else’s polygons. There was a spare moment every so often that you will see the ship and the barrel you have to shoot but when you do  you can’t hit the barrel cause someone else already hit it. That was such an annoying flaw. I’m sure there was no qualms or quarrels about this problem during beta because it went smoothly in beta. You don’t have hundreds of people trying for it at once. 

I did make it to 90 in the first couple of days so it was fine for me. So I spent a lot of time trying to get loremaster of pandaria achievement and then working on getting cooking done and all that jazz. I have to say I do like the MoP expansion, although most of my friends aren’t playing as much anymore cause they got disenchanted with Cataclysm. 

So after two weeks of that Resident Evil 6 was released and my husband got it for me and I’m like “ZOMG CHRIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSS.” First campaign I played was Chris’. =p So with 5 chapters in each campaign about 1 hour each to play or more cause I was looking for emblems, I was able to finish all campaigns in about a week, so then I played it a second time around, need to do Ada’s campaign again but not too sure if I want to do it on Normal. 

I do like RE6. The controls though could’ve used some more polished and work, in my opinion, and after finishing Ada’s campaign the first time around there seems to be hints that they will make a 7th Resident Evil game. Just hints, though I am not positive on that. If so though I would like to see something with Claire in it. /shrug.

I have some reviews to post up but that will be in a different entry. 

<3

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Sleepless nights because of the Slender Man

August 20th, 2012

Last  week, my husband was watching some YouTube reaction videos to the game Slender. To those that know what  Slender is, good for you, to those that don’t, CLICK HERE, HERE and HERE  learn more about it. Also the birthplace of  Slender Man is here at Something Awful. So after watching the reaction videos he got into watching the MarbleHornets videos which is the series based off SlenderMan, and well I couldn’t sleep well last week because of watching those videos with my husband (and some by myself) so well I was freaked out. At one more my husband had goosebumps watching the videos.

I know the whole Slender Man is all fiction that came out of someone’s imaginative mind but well the though of “what ifs” tends to linger after watching things like that. Then it ends  up being funny because of one video, and that is the video where someone unlocks “20 Dollar” mode in Slender. Because of  that video I’ve been spontaneously singing “Gimme 20 dollars” last week as well. 

After watching some reaction video to gameplays of Slender I decided I’m going to try. My husband got all excited and when he saw that I downloaded the game and was getting ready to play it he turned off all the lights and the tv because he wanted me to have the “experience.” Regardless the first time playing it I only got 2 or 3 pages and I didn’t see Slender Man but I did get static across the screen and I made  the character run like hell away from Slender. Then like 10  mins of playing my flashlight didn’t work, even though I was told  you never run out of batteries in the game but there was no light source after a while. Also 10 mins of running around in circles only to have 2-3 pages I gave up on the first  try. Slender didn’t get me but I was still freaked out.

Second gameplay through with the lights on and people in the room, this includes my daughter, went well ok. I tried to record the reaction video but the gameplay video didn’t get recorded, so I just popped in the system audio into my recorded webcam video. Here it is:

 

I can’t say this  is much of a review or not because I didn’t finish the game nor don’t know if I ever will. Even playing the game in the day time I still get freaked out, and it’s because of how this game was made. It’s terribly good at making sure you are  looking over your shoulder. What is worse is that the first time playing this game at night about 3-4 hours later when I’m trying to sleep there was a major thunderstorm. Woke me up scared  the crap out of me and I looked around in the dark at all corners of my bedroom making sure there wasn’t any suspicious shadows. 

I’m starting to kick myself in the ass for even watching the videos and playing the game, but I want to know what happens in the videos and want to unlock the other modes in the game. So glutton for punishment it is.

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