I'm actually doing art again? no wai :(

[ayashi]

I'm very excited for Siggraph :) and the DotA MC run on saturday :D Probably, we will be leaving as soon as it is over -and depending on how long it takes, I may have to leave early. But regardless I am super excited :D

I've been working on my art too, to try to put together a nice portfolio before I leave for Siggraph. I saved a lot of images that I really liked / wanted to work on more. One is almost done - I have the highlights/shading on her hair and face done, and I'm getting to work on the rest now. Last night and this morning, the majority of my time was spent just cleaning up the lines! I'll be able to finish the coloring today, though :D I'm trying a relatively new method (for me) for coloring, and I'm liking it a lot so far. Besides plainly just being fun, it has been looking quite nice :) Not cleaning up my drawings is definitely my biggest problem D:

Last night we went to Tony's house for game night as normal :) it was fun! I played some Big Brain Academy while Tony finished up the video game he was playing, and then we settled down and played some 6-player citadels. I finally won a game of Citadels! For the first time I actually took advantage of the fact that certain colors yield money for certain characters, and the Warlord became "my guy". I used him for abouot 3 turns in a row (and Jared was also using the Bishop 3 times in a row). Then Jared got assassinated, so I spent my money that turn to buy a second Gold building so I could be the King as well. Everyone seemed too focused on Jared being the Bishop though to go after me :) I won the game with 30 points, finishing with 8 districts first and having all 5 colors :)

Next we played Ticket to Ride (Europe), and since it's only a max of 5 players, Chris and I teamed up. We ended up winning that one too :D Jared seemed to be getting frustrated at times, and almost didn't play because of his sight, but it worked out in the end and he even liked the game. I love it because the turns are so fast, unlike some games :)

We also watched the Daily Show excerpts on Net Neutrality. There were many hilarious bits on the dump truck / tubes analogies :P

I don't think there is much else for me to ramble on about, so I guess I should get back to work :) (Oh, speaking of work, the actual body of my character is done :D I worked all day on friday to get it finished. Next I have to get started on the legs :) (to be true, I only have to do half of everything - it will be copy/flipped/attached at the end) But I'm excited because it looks quite good :D)

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[roninalchemist.livejournal.com]

As we all know, the Internet is a series of TUBES!!! omg, that was hysterical! The horses can get through because they have legs...and if the tubes get clogged, just blast a ROUND lottery ball through to clear them!!!! XDDDD So awful and terrible, but very funny. Its frightening the stupid that Americans elect to their positions...so frightening.

"My staff sent me internets..." oi. Why? Well, Mr. Congressman, I would guess its because of all the pron your colleagues are downloading instead of actually LEARNING something!!! Ugh.

[chichiri.livejournal.com]

What is Siggraph?

I miss you!@ :) Haven't read LJ's friend's page in like a month...

[ayashi.livejournal.com]

It's a computer graphics/animation convention :) It's almost NEVER over on this coast - this is the first year in a very long time it's been over here. So we're going to go to it over in Boston :D

http://www.siggraph.org/s2006/

:D