i did it!

I BEAT TIERKREIS!! UGWAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! (some spoiler free comments below)

all the events that led up to the final battle were pretty epic, but seeing as i saved right after those events and held off on the actual FINAL BATTLE (for several days), it felt rather anti-climactic for me. though i'm sure it's really only because i had already learned everything i could possibly learn about the tierkreis world before that point.... so no new information was really learned after that final battle, and i could have possibly just left the game as is at the point i was at, without defeating the super evil boss dude.

i started the new professor layton game as well. exciting! : >

~appler-pie: I WILL GET STARTED ON THAT ART TRADE SOME TIME SOON....!! hopefully.

and i also changed my icon . it's of something i made for ~jonathanisonfire's birthday, and once he emails me the photos, i'll post it up here.

sorry, haven't been doing much arting besides silly little cartoony style stuff here and there (most of which are incomplete). I hope to get more artwork done, and possibly post some fashion and photography stuff i've been working on (still debating and sorting copyrights to fashion photos and such).

in other news, i went to AX again this year to find that i am seriously out of the anime-loop. i really don't know what anything is. the only comic series' i've been keeping up with are fullmetal alchemist and ouran host club, and i've been falling behind on D.Gray-man. i started re-watching fullmetal alchemist to introduce it to ~jonathanisonfire and also following fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood, which has rekindled my interest in anime. i'm also considering looking into gurren lagan, since i have a load of friends who are just head over heels in love with that series.

if there's anything i need updating on, please let me know! (that means YOU, ~BobaLunatic and ~appler-pie!!)

:edit:
i was looking through my gallery to find the will to draw again, and i stumbled across this. i was thinking of possibly going back and actually finishing it, then i realized that i don't have it (and a whole bunch of other unfinished artworks) on my new computer and that it was lost on my old computer with the broken graphics card.

uuuuuuuuuughhhhhhha;skdfnasdjf;alkdjnshhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnffffffff.

i came back to a butt-load of messages on DA!! i quickly looked through them then massively deleted a bunch of them, so if there's anything that i really must see, tell me!

but after looking through the deviations in my messages, i feel really inspired to do some art! alas, i don't know if i will have much time, since classes resume for me on monday. not to mention that with my restaurant job being close to campus, work is going to be a lot busier once class starts...

so how is everyone out there? tell me how you've been!

sorry. i've just fallen off the face of the internet due to busy days filled with summer classes. so i'll officially declare a hiatus until further notice.

so far, not much new art, but lots of sewing!

this is a rant! kinda pointless...

man. it's been a long time since i've posted any art. it seems i have gotten really lazy! i've somewhat been straying away from illustration related art, feeling that there is no inspiration left in me! well... not exactly a lack of inspiration, but a lack of the right kind of inspiration.... does that make any sense?

i've always felt that sadness and anger were the best types of inspiration. happiness... well i do love being happy, but when you're happy, you don't want to change your situation, hence the art that results from such unchanging circumstances also comes out similar to one another. at least with anger and sadness... it's such a broad range of emotions for different reasons, resulting in diverse artworks!

i suppose this is why most of my artwork was done when i was... well... somewhat depressed! and all those fanart illustrations i had done in the past, the inspiration came from the range of emotions and unfortunate circumstances experienced by those characters, so it was not necessary to derive inspiration from my own sadness.

right now... i've been at a standstill. my life has taken on an unchanging pattern, and i've been rather content with my quiet life. being in such a state, my art reflects this.... i have not posted any of it here due to their same-ness.

i need to learn to channel my emotions into the right kind of inspiration, without the sacrifice of my well-being, and at the same time, trying to stay original and not relying upon creating fanart.

overall, i need variety!

maybe this is why i'm turning towards fashion design and clothing construction... for me, inspiration comes from just about anything!