Uuuuuuugh it is way too hot for anything. I hate it when it's this hot, because it just saps out all of my energy and I can't get anything done. I may have to put my commission project on hold for awhile until it gets less hot, because when it's this hot, sitting in front of my computer in my room-on-the-top-floor is the worst place to be. (That and the client is still waffling on some designs.) Why doesn't this house have air conditioniiiiing. DX I really hope it cools off by Wednesday.

So, no energy for "productive" things, but I apparently have the willpower for silliness:

( BBS Political parties )

( At the doctor's )

Kingdom Hearts 30 Day Meme
Day 6 - Favorite Magic Spell

In most of the games, aside from cure (that's practically it's own category) I'd say thunder spells. Especially in KH2, where top level Final Form + Oathkeeper + Thundaga = OODLES OF FUN. But in BBS, I fell in love with MINE SPELLS. Those things were nifty and useful in boss battles. Bring back mine spells in a later game, please?

( KH 30 Days Meme )

Also...lol, KHFFR.

Drawing: 10HAD, just putzing around with fanarts and LG now

Writing: Still little

Last night I went with my 'rents to see Legend of the Guardians - The Owls of Ga'Hoole...or Legend of the Owls of...ANYWAY it was that movie with the owls. Storywise, it was just okay. It was basically LOTR, except with owls, right down to the hero character having Elijah Wood's big wet eyes and Hugo Weaving playing that stern leader guy in charge of the amazing warrior people. Kind of a lotta plot holes, though.

But anyone who knows me at all knows that I have a thing for flying animals, creatures in flight, flight animation, anything involving cool things with wings. I love Flying Things. And this movie was like 90% owls flying, so it was like an hour and a half of flying porn for me. Eventually I just went "screw the story, LOOK AT HOW MUCH STUFF IS FLYING :DDDD" and was happy. So, if you like pretty shiny things, it's a pretty shiny movie to see. But if you're going for that super deep good story, ehh, pass it up. Oh also, I haven't read the books, so I have nothing to compare it to there.

Continuing on with 10HAD...only a few people will get this too, since it's with a particular group of awesome friend dudes. XD I thought it'd be fun to try and redraw most of the FOD characters; that's like 40 people right there. So, started with New York first!

( New York, New Yooooooork )

Kingdom Hearts 30 Day Meme
Day 5 - Favorite Minigame

Ironically, that may be the gummi ships from KH2. At least, I haven't spent as much time on any other minigame as I have on trying to get all the treasures in the KH2 gummi ships. (I am ONE AWAY from 100%...stupid impossible gold phoenix in Splash Island! DX) Fruitball may come in second, though, just because it is playing volleyball with giant fruit and it is so. silly. I'm trying to recall what all of the Winnie the Pooh minigames are, and I can't...

( KH 30 Days Meme )

Also, I ended up downloading all of the English BBS cutscenes from kh13.com, and I've been busy converting them to .mov format, because .wmv is useless to me and .mov is higher quality anyways. If anyone wants some cutscenes for screencap/icon/AMV purposes, just give me a poke! XD

Drawing: 10HAD, on to the second painting

Writing: Still little

I've been musing over something this morning; may post a poll on it later, but for now I'll keep musing. Might also be going to the movies tonight, but not certain.

dorkage said that I should do a gijinka for Sweetstack, soooo I went ahead and did one. He is really goofy-looking. |D

( Sweetstack )

Kingdom Hearts 30 Day Meme
Day 4 - Favorite Song from the games

...Yeah I think this song may be my fav. 8D; Playing this song in the car makes me want to drive really fast and blow up other cars in the road with a giant laser



However, I think Vanitas's battle theme may be edging in a close second, actually.

( KH 30 Days Meme )

Now gotta go try and finish that first painting today...

Drawing: 10HAD, painty-painty

Writing: Noth

Happy happy birthday, fairytaledreams! \:D/

Just one other drawing to share today; another Keyblade gijinka. Decided to try out Kairi's (or I guess rather Aqua's) Keyblade, Destiny's Embrace. More stuff may come later.

( Destiny's Embrace )

Uhh, speaking of...so what's the deal with tinypic? Something about only American users can view them all of a sudden? 8| That's lame. I stopped using Photobucket specifically because it kept downsizing my larger images; don't wanna have to go back to that! *decides to try imageshack instead*


Kingdom Hearts 30 Day Meme
Day 3 - Favorite Keyblade Design

Sweetstack, which is ironic as I was never able to actually obtain it in the game. But come on, it's a Keyblade. Made out of ice cream. An ice cream blade. You kill things with ice cream. How is this not awesome?

( KH 30 Days Meme )

Drawing: 10HAD, still on that first painting

Writing: Nothing ATM

Whelp, started in on that large commish project. Hopefully it'll come out okay. I'm trying to make myself take it a little slow, think stuff through. We'll see if I'm successful. @_@

But I have more arts in the meanwhile...

( Fuzzball and Big Bear )

( Way to the Dawn Gijinka )

Kingdom Hearts 30 Day Meme
Day 2 - Last Favorite Character

Pffff I don't really have a least favorite character...or rather, I don't have any characters that I dislike. I have some that I love-to-hate, but I dunno if that translates to least favorite? Probably my most love-to-hate character at this point is Xehanort, especially as he is in BBS. The character I care the least about...uhhhhh may have to say Xigbar. (Which is a feat considering Braig is much more interesting.)

( KH 30 Days Meme )

Drawing: 10HAD, started in on the robin's big commish.

Writing: Still on dear_mun

A new Lunargyros page is up today! Check it here.

Ummm not much to say, so let's do a meme stolen from a bunch of different people:

The Fifteen Pictures Meme!
- Post ten to fifteen of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive.
- NO CAPTIONS! It must be like we're speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words.
- They must ALREADY be on your hard drive - no googling or flickr! They have to have been saved to your folders sometime in the past. They must be something you've saved there because it resonated with you for some reason.
- You do NOT have to answer any questions about any of your pictures if you don't want to. You can make them as mysterious as you like. Or you can explain them away as much as you like.

Uh I probably did this wrong since I just picked pictures that seemed interesting or whatever, but yeah. Silly memes.

( Under the cut )

OH I know, I'll post the tiki room board that I finished later.

Drawing: Some LG and a bunch of coloring on a KH fanart

Writing: LG script

Days until BBS release: 62

So, back from seeing World of Color last night! While I got to DCA around 2 in the afternoon, I went and stopped for some lunch, then headed over to see about seats...it turns out, they're actually giving fast passes for the show, which I've never seen them do before. (Or rather, fast passes for the roped-off "optimal viewing" area, i.e. seeing the show from front and center.) The passes were totally all out by the time I asked for them, sheesh! So, I went around to the back-and-center side of the show, and staked out a spot along the rail really close to Toy Story mania. Obviously had a bunch of hours to kill, so I did some sketching while waiting:

( Bunch of ink sketches )

yamikonumber7 showed up, and I nabbed some ice cream and we geeked out a bit. We could see over on the other side of the bay they had light-up character costumes chilling with the VIP audience; they were definitely doing some preshow stuff over there.

AND THEN THE SHOW. HOLY COW, that was one seriously awesome show. And we were just seeing it from the back, so we didn't get the full layered effect/the sound going in our direction, and it was still awesome. It opened with the synchronized water and lights, and then went into a whole bunch of the movies, starting with The Little Mermaid and getting into Aladdin and Pocahontas. They had a bunch of scenes from Pixar movies, including recent ones like Wall-E and Up, which made me glee. They also had a bunch of scenes from Fantasia and Fantasia 2000, including the whales, spring sprite and Sorcerer's Apprentice!Mickey.

For the whole danger/villain sequence, they started it off with a shot from The Old Mill, which is WAAAY oldschool and I almost didn't recognize it. They also included Chernabog (which someone else in the audience recognized, yay!) and some HBoND scenes, like the Hellfire song holy crap. Hellfire + the firebird = AAAAH EPIC. The parts with pyrotechnics I actually had to shield my eyes because they were SO bright and so hot, but that coupled with the fountains gave this amazing lava effect. They finished it off with the stampede scene from Lion King, which was really heartbreaking since they took it all the way up to Mufasa's death. D:

And of course, they then build up to a happier ending, with a montage of romance shots and shots from more of the classics. Of course, the entire thing was incredible to watch, and it totally kept my attention for the whole half hour. (I think it's just a little bit longer than Fantasmic? Not sure.) Definitely epic, totally beautiful to watch, and next time I go back I'm going to make sure to go early so that I can snag a fast pass of the good seating area. 8D Someone come with me again!

Also, anyone know if the soundtrack for WoC is floating around somewheres?


COMPLETELY UNRELATED to the above; guess I may as well do me some bandwagon-hopping and try this meme. I may not have enough fandoms or something to make it work, I dunno. I'll just make up answers:

1. The first character I fell in love with:
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now:
3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t:
4. The character I love that everyone else hates:
5. The character I would shag anytime:
6. The character I'd want to be like:
7. The character I'd slap:
8. A pairing that I love:
9. A pairing that I despise:
10. Favorite character:
11. What are my five favorite things about the fandom.
12. What are my five least favorite things about the fandom.
13. Who are my five favorite characters.
14. Who are my five least favorite characters.
15. What are my five favorite pairings.
16. What are my five least favorite pairings.
17. Which character are you most like.
18. What is my deep, dark fandom secret.

Drawing: LG, sketches, may work more on Tiki Room stuff...

Writing: Going slow

Days until BBS release: 86

It's a week of seeing people again for me, it seems! Emailed some dudes that I haven't talked to in awhile, and today Florian, our exchange student from almost 14 years ago, is visiting! I remember him being so much taller when I was a wee bitty, and now he's not that much taller than me.

Otherwise I've been Boring McBoring lately. I beat the Elite Four in Heart Gold (WOOOO FERALIGATR), and started a new game of Okami. Aaaah that game is still so beautiful.

So, have a meme:

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to post with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.

I got tagged by chicanery, so heeeere goes!

( Kinda long )

Uhhh I'm too lazy to actually go pick 25 from the profile page, so if you want to do it, BE MY GUEST. /o/


Drawing: Working on some paintings, actually. Also some more LG.

Writing: Working slowly...

Consecutive Days Gone Spoiler-Free: 55 (Man, it's going to suck if I break my record now.)

Chapter six of Lunargyros is now up and running! See the newest stuff here.

As some people have probably figured out by now, I finally got off my butt and went and got a Facebook. XD So if you see any new friend requests, they may be from me! And if you're on FB and know me well enough, feel free to friend me, too. It may take me a bit to get used to it, but it looks nifty so far. Hopefully at least it'll help me poke at people I know through working/school, although I'll probably still do most of my posting here.

And hey, here's another meme:


Comment and I will tell you:

1. Something random about you.
2. Which color you remind me of.
3. My first memory of you.
4. What animal you remind me of.
5. Ask you something I've always wondered about you.
6. My favorite thing about you.
7. My least favorite thing about you.
8. Challenge you to post this on your journal.

Drawing: Finished a card I had to draw for my family, otherwise been up to my knees in email city today.

Writing: Still workin' on chapter eight.

Consecutive Days Gone Spoiler-Free: 50 (MAGICAL LARGE NUMBER)

the POKEMON TYPE meme

I've completed about five gyms in HeartGold now, but the steel gym is proving difficult, so I need to stop and explore/train my team some more before I go on. I also need to transfer over some stuff from Platinum (although I still need a shiny stone so that I can evolve my togetic!) and eventually transfer over my Normal team once I beat the elite four. Want my Normal team to get some action beyond just srs bzns training!

Also, I'll give out my HG friend code to anyone that wants to trade/battle with me! o/

But mostly I've been spending my day working on art project stuff, (not Scratch and the Tooth Troll), which is still proving frustrating. However, the rewards should be worth the frustration.

I think maybe I need to start doing stretches in the morning, or...I dunno, yoga, or something. I've got this horrible pain in my back now, and I've had it since yesterday. It kept me up all night. DX I probably need to be more flexible.

Drawing: Storyboards, storyboards and more. Commissions I'll have to start on next week.

Writing: Fic

Consecutive Days Gone Spoiler-Free: 44

It's been awhile since I've bandwagon'd, so let's go ahead and do this meme:

( Big ol' icon meme )

Now I should be heading out with my mom all the way to Burbank to go see Waking Sleeping Beauty! I'm excited! I can be a sucker for documentaries if they're in my area of interest, and this definitely is. XD Hopefully it should be good.


Drawing: Been working my butt off on more stuff for Scratch and the Tooth Troll.

Writing: Stuck on where to go next...

Consecutive Days Gone Spoiler-Free: 38

Okay, here are the results from the art request post yesterday. It was fun to do!

( Request madness )

Edit: And DUUUUDE CHECK IT OUT, umi_mikazuki made a bunch of icons from it! How awesome is that? :D

Also, have another character from the new story idea I am working on. I think the title of it will be "Scratch and the Tooth Troll," but it may be changed.

( The Worldsnake )

I really need to be working more on this all this week, as well as some boards, at least until I hear back about anything else. *Tries really, really hard to destressssss and just have fun with it*

Drawing: LG, the meme, upcoming boards and character pics

Writing: Fic!

Consecutive Days Gone Spoiler-Free: 15

NNNNNNGH daylight savings has mucked me up good. I didn't get nearly as much sleep as I should have. I went in to do life drawing today but I wasn't happy with anything that I did, to the point where I just started doodling random critters because I felt so un-draw-able.

So I also tried to work on that Kipper model, only the computer was being unbearably slow, and then after doing an export/import of the armor and making some adjustments, I realized that I had lost all of those beautiful UVs that I spent forever on gaaaaaah! So I don't know if I'm even going to bother texturing it. If that's the case, it might be done as is:

( Kipper and Bo )

ONE good point, though, I found my missing black bag with the paints in it! Hooray! I would seriously have cried if I lost all of those paints and brushes.

Also, I really want to go get HeartGold, but I don't feel at all justified buying it when I just got FFXIII and I have so much stuff to do otherwise. 8( So I guess I'll have to wait on the shiny new Pokemons, sob.


Don't like having the drawing dumps, soooo I think it's time for another request thread:
Ask me to draw anything or anyone at all, and I will. The only catch is that I will draw it on the same page as everything else requested here, and post that page when it's full (or when I run out of requests.) And I reserve the right to refuse a request and ask that you try again. Other than that, anything can be asked for!

Drawing: Just what I can, need to do lots more...

Writing: Still slow progress

Consecutive Days Gone Spoiler-Free: 15

PHEW. Yesterday I got a sudden call asking if I was available for a rush illustration job, and since I said yes, I ended up spending the past two days working on the project since it had to be done by tomorrow. However, the characters were a lot more along the lines of my personal style and interest, so I enjoyed working on it! I think the client's happy with it, too, and I hope it leads to more things in the future if it's successful. Can't share anything obviously, so I'll have no new art to post for a bit, but getting some illustration work that I also like working on is definitely good stuff.

But now I need to relax my brain a bit, so here's a meme!

Well, I'm not RPing on LJ anymore, but I think it's still fair game to do this one:

Name seven of your characters/muses (Uhhh, I don't actually HAVE seven characters/muses, so we'll be a little creative here...)

1) Sora (Kingdom Hearts 2)
2) Wolf (The 10th Kingdom)
3) Joel Robinson (MST3K)
4) Bolt (Bolt)
5) Clover (Cloverfield/Daisychain crack)
6) Sporker MCP (KH2 crack)
7) Uhh...we'll go with Bruce, one of the random Tagruato NPCs. (Cloverfield/Daisychain)

( Answers Here )

Drawing: LOTS AND LOTS on that illustration project.

Writing: No time!

Consecutive Days Gone Spoiler-Free: 21 (Hope I can hang on...)

ffffff, totally forgot to mention so, but there was a new Lunargyros page this past Tuesday.

Since I'm not doing that daily meme, have this one nabbed from princalia instead:

Ask me to take a picture of any aspect of my life that you're interested in/curious about - it can be anything from the house I live in to my favorite shoes. Leave your choice here as a comment, and I will reciprocate by taking the pictures and posting them. That way you get to know a little bit about my life. Join in! It's fun! Let's pick some fun stuff, too!

Now, art stuff...
I really shouldn't have gone in to Gnomon today, considering it was pouring down rain and the traffic was horrendous. Buuut I did anyway, and made a bit more progress on things:

( Models )

And then tonight I went with the family to see my little bro dance at the Dance In Flight show that Pepperdine puts on. As always, I like taking my sketchbook and drawing the dances! But since it's all in the dark, all of it is superfast blind contours:

( Dance In Flight )

Hopefully more tomorrow.

Drawing: Dudes dancin'

Writing: Nah much

Consecutive Days Gone Spoiler-Free: 1

There are in fact two new Lunargyros pages today; you can read them here. Almost done thumbnailing chapter five, aaack!

I've been doing a lot of practice sketches of human anatomy, but not gonna post any of it since none of it is that interesting to look at. So, have a meme instead:

Put your music player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty-one songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-second is the title.

It's Been, It's Been, It's Been, It's Been

Sitting in the corner
I left my heart in San Francisco
The mystery of death before us
Sunbeam, stop tugging me

One minute I'm in Central Park
Nobody loves you, everybody hates you
When I woke up I could see the daylight had already passed me
Here in the place where we first met

Maybe he's right
Hey Mr. Wonderful, oh you're so incredible
I'm wishing, I'm wishing
Follow the crowd and love everybody now

In the afternoon
My heart is crying for a stranger's name
How brightly shone the moon that night
Follow your common sense

These are my final lines


...Wow, that was surprisingly...poetically coherent? o_oa

Drawing: Anatomy practice and LG things

Writing: Just some script

First off, a meme:

Comment on this entry and I will pick out an icon of yours that I think best represents you. Then post the same in your journal!

Second off, even more Dissidia commentary:

( Stories for Bartz, Terra and Warrior! )

I wanted to take this week to do a whole ton of anatomy drawing practice...just focus on that as much as I can. So that means little to no Dissidia, except maybe in the evenings some. We'll see when it continues!

Drawing: Plans for that stuff...

Writing: Nah much

Late to this meme, but oh well:

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! Last Monday I put money in hammster's expired parking meter (14 points). Last Saturday I gave tacto a Dutch Oven (-10 points). In February I gave ligtness a kidney (1000 points). In August I caught a purse-snatcher who stole purapea's purse (30 points). In April I bought porn for beanclam (10 points). Overall, I've been nice (1044 points). For Christmas I deserve a new dolly! Sincerely, LynxGriffin

Write your letter to Santa! Enter your LJ username:

I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT beanclam
...Wait, what is a Dutch Oven?


It's so bizarre, I really can't believe that Christmas is this week. It doesn't feel like Christmas at all. o_o Maybe because it's not cold enough again, or I haven't been listening to enough Christmas music, or...something, I dunno. I hope it's not because I'm getting too old and cynical, 'cause it's way too early for me to be there yet. D: It'll probably be better once I'm not at work and can relax some. Of course, I'm working all the way up through Christmas Eve, sooo... @_@

Drawing: Working on a new art project now, and I wish I could work on it more, except I can't do it at work, soooob. Lots and lots of other stuff I want to work on, too.

Writing: LG scriptness!

Before I get to a zillion memes, some random stuff:

- There's a new Lunargyros page, you can read it here.
- I now have a Blog! I am going to use my Blog account mainly for posting random art and stuff, so if you have a Blogger and want to watch me, go ahead! I'll keep posting some arts stuff here, too, just because I don't think I can ever leave LJ. Just Blogger is a nice place to keep updating on creative/random stuff while my LJ is more for my fannish loves. XD
- Does anyone out there know how pro registration for Comic Con 2010 is working? Apparently 4-day passes are sold out, but they haven't even opened pro registration yet. And pro registration is pretty much automatic "four days and preview night" pass. Emailing Comic Con basically got me the same thing (That pro reg isn't open yet; we'll let you know when it is) so that wasn't helpful.
- GUYS WHEN YOU RESPOND TO THE CHRISTMAS CARD POST, PLEASE TELL ME WHAT KIND OF CARD YOU WANT! THANK YOU!

Okay, now a meme flood...

( Questions meme )

Aaaand I tag bouncy_erbear, daisy_the_mage1, ecojak, ghettopeach, loveotter, sbcpanuru, purafag and universejuice.

AND NOW, AS IF THIS ISN'T FLOODING YOUR FLIST ENOUGH

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever music player you have on random.
Step 2: Post a line/stanza from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly

( Music meme )

*scurries off to...THINGS*

Drawing: Commissiooooons AAAA

Writing: Hmm...

It's that time again! It's...

Art Meme Time!

Give me any sort of nonsense word, whether it's something you make up yourself or pull from a different phrase, and I will draw you a character or creature based off of that word. It may or may not be colored, but it will be drawn!

Not imposing any limits, so anyone who wants to can comment!