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Commissions closed for the time being due to school.
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Oi! I'm back... with commishes!
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Yep, I'm doing commissions again... though it's for more than just Guild Wars now!
Check out my post over on my tumblr for more info!
Check out my post over on my tumblr for more info!
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Every time...
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...I keep meaning to put more stuff, and then I don't. Yup.
Basically this summer was a black hole of laziness (among other things, including failing to get a job and teaching VBS and dealing with a death in the family). But it's good to be back at school!
I got to start my major classes, which are pretty excellent. I've had classes I've liked before, but Fashion 3D is the first class I've had that I've actively wanted to have more hours of it in a week. Any doubts I had about majoring in fashion are gone now, which is good. I'm sometimes frustrated by the industry focus, since I really am mostly interesting in having the skills so I can go into costume design later, but ultimately it's all useful I guess.
I wrapped up my Pathfinder campaign; I unfortunately had to truncate the plot a bit but I think it went over well. My friend is doing a great job on the new campaign and I'm really enjoying it. I'm playing a halfling fighter with a gladiator theme and she is so much fun. I'm also messing around with a few ideas for the senior year campaign; there's an area of the world we really haven't done much with and I think there's a lot of potential there (if that isn't a little too self-congratulatory). Meanwhile, the SCP friend is now doing an A:TLA-based story (the SCP one ended more or less without me as I handed my character over to a suitemate due to being distracted by other things - but it is being made into a comic by someone from the comic club, which is cool!), and that's pretty neat. Our group is a little lacking in cohesion but the plot is really great.
The SW:TOR group sort of fell through as one by one friends cut their subs and LoL regained its status as the primary game of the "WUGS afterparty". I dropped mine at the summer as I couldn't afford to maintain it. I did manage to finish Jaleen's personal story, which was spectacular. I might still doodle some of my characters, as I did rather like them, but I'm probably not going back. I was quite excited for the F2P transition but given the absolutely awful money-grubbing way EA's going about handling F2P accounts I'd really rather not deal with it. It's a pity.
Oh, and Guild Wars 2 happened. It's pretty cool, but I also haven't played in like a month (I logged on during Halloween, attempted the phase 3 event, failed twice before realizing it was group thing, didn't want to put the effort in of finding a group, and logged off - I really do like GW1 Halloweens better frankly). Like, it's a good game; I'd give it an 80 or so. But there's something missing and I can't quite put my finger on it. I'm sure part of it is that my GW1 guild got splayed across several servers and I haven't talked to a lot of them in a while, and part of it is I never got back in contact with the RP community, and part of it is my friend who I was excited to play with and I drifted apart once we got back to school, and part of it is despite several members having GW2 LoL sort of precludes most other games at WUGS. But there's something else, something that doesn't catch me like GW or WoW did. I dunno. It's enjoyable; I'm sure I'll get my money's worth out of it over time.
Also I really haven't been playing many computer games at all since school started. After I got out of my brief GW2 craze, it's really only been League with my WUGS buddies, a bit of a Torchlight II binge every few weeks (usually singleplayer, but I do run a character with my dad), and messing around in The Sims 3 (I may have made the Avengers... ehe). Really I've been spending waaaaaay more time fussing about Homestuck which is just all of the things, and fangirling over Avengers stuff like whoa. I have not read this much fanfiction since I was 12. A large portion of October was spent preparing for the grand Avengers Halloween thing we ended up doing - the friend running Pathfinder made a really intense Loki costume and her boyfriend was coming up to visit and being Hawkeye, so I decided to be Black Widow and coerced some friends into being everybody except Bruce (poor Bruce). I would post pictures of my costume but I actually don't have any good full-body shots and I don't feel like crawling into my costume to take them. It was awesome though! We swing danced and ate shawarma (nom nom) and got fanboyed over in a comic book store (awesome ego boost).
So yeah! That's things. Who knows if I'll post more soon or not. Hopefully so, but we'll see.
Basically this summer was a black hole of laziness (among other things, including failing to get a job and teaching VBS and dealing with a death in the family). But it's good to be back at school!
I got to start my major classes, which are pretty excellent. I've had classes I've liked before, but Fashion 3D is the first class I've had that I've actively wanted to have more hours of it in a week. Any doubts I had about majoring in fashion are gone now, which is good. I'm sometimes frustrated by the industry focus, since I really am mostly interesting in having the skills so I can go into costume design later, but ultimately it's all useful I guess.
I wrapped up my Pathfinder campaign; I unfortunately had to truncate the plot a bit but I think it went over well. My friend is doing a great job on the new campaign and I'm really enjoying it. I'm playing a halfling fighter with a gladiator theme and she is so much fun. I'm also messing around with a few ideas for the senior year campaign; there's an area of the world we really haven't done much with and I think there's a lot of potential there (if that isn't a little too self-congratulatory). Meanwhile, the SCP friend is now doing an A:TLA-based story (the SCP one ended more or less without me as I handed my character over to a suitemate due to being distracted by other things - but it is being made into a comic by someone from the comic club, which is cool!), and that's pretty neat. Our group is a little lacking in cohesion but the plot is really great.
The SW:TOR group sort of fell through as one by one friends cut their subs and LoL regained its status as the primary game of the "WUGS afterparty". I dropped mine at the summer as I couldn't afford to maintain it. I did manage to finish Jaleen's personal story, which was spectacular. I might still doodle some of my characters, as I did rather like them, but I'm probably not going back. I was quite excited for the F2P transition but given the absolutely awful money-grubbing way EA's going about handling F2P accounts I'd really rather not deal with it. It's a pity.
Oh, and Guild Wars 2 happened. It's pretty cool, but I also haven't played in like a month (I logged on during Halloween, attempted the phase 3 event, failed twice before realizing it was group thing, didn't want to put the effort in of finding a group, and logged off - I really do like GW1 Halloweens better frankly). Like, it's a good game; I'd give it an 80 or so. But there's something missing and I can't quite put my finger on it. I'm sure part of it is that my GW1 guild got splayed across several servers and I haven't talked to a lot of them in a while, and part of it is I never got back in contact with the RP community, and part of it is my friend who I was excited to play with and I drifted apart once we got back to school, and part of it is despite several members having GW2 LoL sort of precludes most other games at WUGS. But there's something else, something that doesn't catch me like GW or WoW did. I dunno. It's enjoyable; I'm sure I'll get my money's worth out of it over time.
Also I really haven't been playing many computer games at all since school started. After I got out of my brief GW2 craze, it's really only been League with my WUGS buddies, a bit of a Torchlight II binge every few weeks (usually singleplayer, but I do run a character with my dad), and messing around in The Sims 3 (I may have made the Avengers... ehe). Really I've been spending waaaaaay more time fussing about Homestuck which is just all of the things, and fangirling over Avengers stuff like whoa. I have not read this much fanfiction since I was 12. A large portion of October was spent preparing for the grand Avengers Halloween thing we ended up doing - the friend running Pathfinder made a really intense Loki costume and her boyfriend was coming up to visit and being Hawkeye, so I decided to be Black Widow and coerced some friends into being everybody except Bruce (poor Bruce). I would post pictures of my costume but I actually don't have any good full-body shots and I don't feel like crawling into my costume to take them. It was awesome though! We swing danced and ate shawarma (nom nom) and got fanboyed over in a comic book store (awesome ego boost).
So yeah! That's things. Who knows if I'll post more soon or not. Hopefully so, but we'll see.
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Happy February!
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Looks like it's about time for my more or less biannual journal update, haha.
News time!
Finally done with GW commissions! I am a huge procrastinator and school is evil, but victory is mine. Now for a bit of a breather until GW2... jk, actually I'll be doing stuff about something new (more on that later).
Speaking of school, I am a fake art student this semester. The one studio class I was going to take got cancelled because it got an apparently horrible new teacher last semester and the kids who took it then did such a good job of warning everyone away that only two people enrolled. So I'm just working on my linguistics minor (and taking one particularly awesome lit course - we get to learn Old English and then read Beowulf and stuff!). It's a nice change of pace and has definitely upped my drive to doodle.
I have discovered symphonic and power metal. All the cool sound of metal, minus the ugly growling! A bit different from my usual fare, but awesome. I'm especially fond of Nightwish, particularly from before Tarja was kicked out (I like Anette, but they just had such a beautiful sound with Tarja).
I'm now apparently an old hand at swing dancing, having been at it for one semester. It feels really weird helping teach the newbies, but at least my backseat leading is useful for something.
Joined a friend's tabletop gaming campaign based on the SCP Foundation (look it up; it's really cool). The first sesh was pretty spooky, so I'm excited! My character is more or less useless for anything involving life-or-death situations (she's an archaeologist/linguist, not a soldier! guns are for tough people), but I'm enjoying it anyway.
My own campaign is coming along pretty well. I've finally managed to actually stay on our Sunday-evening schedule, so that's cool (we ended up having only about half the sessions last fall). It's a lot of work, though. My other friend's also planning to take up the GM mantle for next year's campaign, but we'll be staying in my setting, so I'm super excited about that.
A couple of friends got me reading MSPA, specifically Homestuck (though I do intend to go back and read Problem Sleuth someday). OMG IT IS AMAZING. I'm in the middle of Act 5 right now and it is blowing my mind. I cannot fully express my love of this comic.
Last, I finally filled the WoW-shaped hole in my life by caving and getting SWTOR. It rocks! I know there's been a lot of hate aimed at SWTOR since its release (well, since before that, actually), especially from my fellow GW2-anticipators, but honestly I think most of it is undeserved. Did it deserve all those 90-somethings reviewers gave it? Probably not; it didn't really perfect the existing MMO formula or completely revamp the format. But it's an above-average game, and for a big KotOR fan like me (Might and Magic VIII might have been my first real game, but KotOR was my formative gaming experience) who enjoyed WoW, that's good enough. I'm actually a bit spoiled for GW2's personal story because of it - my first thought upon seeing some of the dialogues from the beta was "Hey! That's not what Sigyn [my norn] would say! God what I'd give for conversation options..." But seriously - if you like modern MMOs and you like Star Wars, it's win. My main, Jaleen, is an Imperial Sniper (Chiss, of course!) on Jung Ma, but a bunch of my friends from the game design club and I have got an Imperial guild on Lord Adraas. I'm probably going to be putting some sketches of our characters up here soon.
That's pretty much it for now.
News time!
Finally done with GW commissions! I am a huge procrastinator and school is evil, but victory is mine. Now for a bit of a breather until GW2... jk, actually I'll be doing stuff about something new (more on that later).
Speaking of school, I am a fake art student this semester. The one studio class I was going to take got cancelled because it got an apparently horrible new teacher last semester and the kids who took it then did such a good job of warning everyone away that only two people enrolled. So I'm just working on my linguistics minor (and taking one particularly awesome lit course - we get to learn Old English and then read Beowulf and stuff!). It's a nice change of pace and has definitely upped my drive to doodle.
I have discovered symphonic and power metal. All the cool sound of metal, minus the ugly growling! A bit different from my usual fare, but awesome. I'm especially fond of Nightwish, particularly from before Tarja was kicked out (I like Anette, but they just had such a beautiful sound with Tarja).
I'm now apparently an old hand at swing dancing, having been at it for one semester. It feels really weird helping teach the newbies, but at least my backseat leading is useful for something.
Joined a friend's tabletop gaming campaign based on the SCP Foundation (look it up; it's really cool). The first sesh was pretty spooky, so I'm excited! My character is more or less useless for anything involving life-or-death situations (she's an archaeologist/linguist, not a soldier! guns are for tough people), but I'm enjoying it anyway.
My own campaign is coming along pretty well. I've finally managed to actually stay on our Sunday-evening schedule, so that's cool (we ended up having only about half the sessions last fall). It's a lot of work, though. My other friend's also planning to take up the GM mantle for next year's campaign, but we'll be staying in my setting, so I'm super excited about that.
A couple of friends got me reading MSPA, specifically Homestuck (though I do intend to go back and read Problem Sleuth someday). OMG IT IS AMAZING. I'm in the middle of Act 5 right now and it is blowing my mind. I cannot fully express my love of this comic.
Last, I finally filled the WoW-shaped hole in my life by caving and getting SWTOR. It rocks! I know there's been a lot of hate aimed at SWTOR since its release (well, since before that, actually), especially from my fellow GW2-anticipators, but honestly I think most of it is undeserved. Did it deserve all those 90-somethings reviewers gave it? Probably not; it didn't really perfect the existing MMO formula or completely revamp the format. But it's an above-average game, and for a big KotOR fan like me (Might and Magic VIII might have been my first real game, but KotOR was my formative gaming experience) who enjoyed WoW, that's good enough. I'm actually a bit spoiled for GW2's personal story because of it - my first thought upon seeing some of the dialogues from the beta was "Hey! That's not what Sigyn [my norn] would say! God what I'd give for conversation options..." But seriously - if you like modern MMOs and you like Star Wars, it's win. My main, Jaleen, is an Imperial Sniper (Chiss, of course!) on Jung Ma, but a bunch of my friends from the game design club and I have got an Imperial guild on Lord Adraas. I'm probably going to be putting some sketches of our characters up here soon.
That's pretty much it for now.
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HAHA I am the WORST UPDATER EVAR.
Finally uploaded all of my stuffs. Yay. Still debating whether to add my better school projects here also. I was rather fond of a couple of the Illustration ones. I'll think about it.
Brief update on life (in no particular order):
Developed amazing pastel skills.
Tried raiding in WoW.
Quit WoW.
Took up LoL.
Started playing GW again.
Started doing forum roleplay for serious.
Started learning to render/animate in Maya.
Joined college's game developers' club (posting this during meeting, lol).
Took up swing dancing (SO AWESOME).
Finally uploaded all of my stuffs. Yay. Still debating whether to add my better school projects here also. I was rather fond of a couple of the Illustration ones. I'll think about it.
Brief update on life (in no particular order):
Developed amazing pastel skills.
Tried raiding in WoW.
Quit WoW.
Took up LoL.
Started playing GW again.
Started doing forum roleplay for serious.
Started learning to render/animate in Maya.
Joined college's game developers' club (posting this during meeting, lol).
Took up swing dancing (SO AWESOME).
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