Hi, I'm just popping on to point out that I am, in fact, still alive. It's um...well, it's been a couple months short of a year or something since I've last logged on, hasn't it? Wow, it doesn't feel like that long. How times flies.
I've been rather busy with school and work since any of you have heard from me. Oh, that's something you haven't heard about - I'm on a team of researchers working for my university and the government now. It's not nearly as glamorous as it sounds, but it's something, I suppose.
I draw about as much as I always have...which basically means "sporadically with months in between each significant doodle". I've drawn quite a few sketches (maybe a dozen) and have worked on the banner I mentioned (a long time ago), but most of my sketches were gifts, so I don't have them anymore and can't really share them for the most part. Sorry about that. My camera battery is dead and I misplaced my charger about a year or so ago (a "cheap" replacement shouldn't cost as much as a Wii U), so I'm lacking my primary means of sharing things with you guys at the moment. I took some pictures of a few things with my 3DS, but the quality kind of sucks and I have to get around to actually taking them off...which could be awhile, since I'm kind of a procrastinator. I'll get to it at some point though. Crappy pictures or not.
(And, before you ask why I didn't scan or take a picture of the art with my phone: Scanners in my possession mysteriously get up and walk away. Box that I brought them home in and all. You leave it on the table for five minutes and then it's gone, never to be seen again. As for my phone - its photos are even worse quality than my 3DS. I still use my first phone and it's probably about 6-7 years old now. I refuse to replace it, because it has been lit on fire and didn't even melt in the slightest. I abuse phones, since I generally hate using them, so when one survives fire, I just HAVE to keep it. Samsung is the new Nokia, apparently.)
I met a bunch of independent film directors,
Gordon Quinn from "Kartemquin Films," and Johnny Yong Bosch thus far this year. Also, my one friend went and got my Blue Exorcist shirt and a Fire Emblem: Awakening art book signed by Bryce Papenbrook for me (Henry isn't even in the book. What kind of bullshit is that? Oh, well...). (I have some really awesome friends
) It was a bit of a chain process getting the merchandise back to me, but my lil bro was pretty stoked with his graduation gift (signed book). He's kind of a gaming nut and Papenbrook is in a lot of the stuff he stumbles across. It would have been cool to meet Papenbrook in person, but the signed shirt is cool too.
On another note, my hot water tank exploded and my house was flooded. Cold showers are oh so much fun. Ugh...
Hmm...what else...
My one friend,
, snapped two of his metatarsals in half and severed a bunch of ligaments in his foot. He got his cast off today, so that's good. He still can't walk on it for about another 4-5 months though. And my big sister (from another mister),
, got back from Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto) a couple weeks ago. She brought back a CD by my favorite band for me. Specifically, the single "Chase" by L'Arc~en~Ciel. I already have digital versions of all of their songs, but she knows that Chase has my favorite cover art and that I prefer having CD's or vinyl to digital copies of music. (Unfortunately, international purchases of CD's get expensive quickly.) My friends watched me giggle uncontrollably for 45 minutes afterwards and I kept showing it off to people for the remainder of the day. I'm just that kind of crazy.
Otherwise, I can't really think of anything, aside from my standard workaholic stuff that has only intensified in the past year...
I guess that's it, then, minus the odd creeper/stalker that's not really worth mentioning in detail. My life has sort of quieted down, in comparison to how hectic and generally unusual it has been for majority of my life. Seems almost a bit boring now though. It's still nice...just a bit mundane. Unfortunately, mundane does not mean that I have the time to sleep all of a sudden. That's still not really a thing.
I hope everyone has been doing well. I would
like to say that I'll be back with pictures soon...but a lot are trapped on my camera and I probably won't be back for a good long while again. If you've been waiting around for more art or something this whole time, thanks.
I'd hate to ask you to wait longer, but I don't really have much of a choice at the moment... I'm so sorry. Try to bear with me, if you can.