Another picture

Had a rough day today. Feel like hell, slept in, was late for work, blah blah blah...

Since I wanted to at least post something today here is another one of my drawings.
In the anime Bleach there is a character Yachiru who is constantly perched on the back of one of the other characters Kenpachi. She is so cute and funny I thought it would be funny if I had someone like that on my back all the time. So one day when I was working this image popped into my head. It's very rare for me to have an idea in my head about what to draw and for it to come out exactly like I want it to (I have an indredible imagination so my drawings don't usually live up to my expectations). But this was one of the rare exceptions. It, for the most part, came out exactly as I wanted it to.

I had longer hair at the time which works wel for making someone "look" anime but I feel it looks a bit too emo. Oh well.

Hope you enjoy! Otakon post coming soon.

So close!

So I was about to blog about Otakon but my friend called and wants to play Warcraft. Since my comp has had a virus and I haven't been able to play WoW I'm gonna do that.

Here are a few pics though to enjoy...

Me and some Haruhi's!! There was another girl but she was shy and didn't want her picture taken.



PedoBear! lol

Virus

So I haven't been online the past couple days because I had a pretty obnoxious virus on my computer. I'm not exactly sure it's gone, but more on that in a second.


It was one of those "Security Center" virus' that's made to look like an anti-virus program on your computer. I've dealt with this little fucker before many months back but it has seemed to have evolved since then. All the tricks that were used before to get rid of it wouldn't work because it would restrict you from opening anything Anti-virus related. Nothing! I couldn't even open Firefox. Anytime I would try I would get a message saying "This application has been infected by Spyware. Open your anti-virus program to get rid of it" This message was of course coming from the "Fake anti-virus" program on my task bar. Every several seconds an error message would pop up and blah blah blah. It was incredibly obnoxious.

I went on the forums to try and deal with this as fast as possible spending the majority of my only day off this week trying to fix it (My plans to play WoW all day went right out the window). The forums had all these different ways to try to get rid of it but none would work for me because I couldn't open any of my applications. One tip suggested opening the task manager and deleting the corrupted files. I couldn't even open my task manager! I tried going into safe mode and all this other crap until I just got tired of it and gave up for the day. I didn't even try it yesterday because I worked all day and then went to go see the new Harry Potter movie (which was amazing). I got home at around 2am or so and wasn't in the mood to try to fix it so I let it be.

When I got home later tonight I turned on my computer to find it wasn't acting weird. For a moment I thought I was in the clear until another message popped up on my screen. In a fit of anger I was about to punch my wall but then I actually looked closely at the message on my screen to read that it was my ACTUAL anti-virus program! It had found several threats to be deleted. This whole time before the virus would kick in before I could start my anti-virus program. It would always beat me. But it looks like this time mine actually prevailed!

I'm not getting too excited yet. Tonight I'm going to run all my protection shit.
"Sōten Kisshun I reject!!"

Hopefully I've beat this thing but you can never be to careful. I'd love to know what's going on inside the mind of the pathetic loser who sits in his parents basement and creates something so terrible it could destroy ones computer so they have to spend a crap load of money to buy a new one. I wonder what it's like to be a soulless loser like that. I really do. Don't you wish there was a way that we could find out who created virus' like these? Then everybody who has ever been infected could show up at his door and really thank him for messing up our computers?

I think that would be awesome.

You know what else is awesome? The fact that I'm going to Otakon tomorrow!! Huzzah! For those unfamiliar it's an anime convention held in Baltimore. I shall take many a pictures!

Pictures

I figure every now and then I'll post some up my artwork up on here. Although most of my friends have seen them on my Facebook, I'd like to share them with everyone else out there.


This one is most likely my favorite so far. In one of my Haruhi dvd's I got a pencil board with Kyon holding Haruhi in his arms. I'd had been thinking for awhile how awesome it would be to incorporate myself into a drawing and after seeing that picture I knew that's the one I wanted to do. Though there will probably be others in the future.

While I do have many drawings on regular sized paper those are usually just sketches. What I enjoy doing is drawing on 14x17 inch posterboard. That's what this is on. The original picture is pretty small but it's really detailed so that made it easier for me to "blow up" if you will.

The main thing was turning Kyon into me. Kyon already looks almost like an exact anime version of myself anyway so I figured all I had to do was change a few things. This was harder than I thought because as I drew it I realized how little I needed to change. I didn't want it to look like Kyon, but he already has my squinty eyes and facial structure. And in anime, the eyes are what make the character. His hair is a bit longer than mine so that needed to be cut short. But in the original picture he's wearing his school uniform. Since I never wear a suit and tie I had to change it to my normal plain t-shirt. I'm probably going to color the shirt in black at some point since that's the color I usually where. Either that or add a design to the shirt.

The original picture was fully painted, so there were all these details that I couldn't capture with just a pen. Her hair especially because it has a lot of detail and I kinda had to color it in all black. Oh well. I decided to add my own highlights and think they give it more depth. Same with her hair ribbons. I think they look really awesome. It's funny how something so simple looking can be such a pain to draw. The ribbons looked OK when I sketched them, but they looked more real once I inked it. It's very rewarding. I kinda screwed up on her left eye but hey, shit happens. Eyes are so incredibly difficult to draw. I was upset about ti for awhile but I got over it.

Unlike Kyon, I would probably be happy in this situation, but this was the face he was making in the photo and I liked it so much I didn't want to change it (plus I'm always angry so it fits). So for the sake of realism let's just say that I look upset because I'm a pansy and I'm having trouble holding a 90 lbs girl in my arms.

Another random

At my grocery store the Redbox is right next to the exit. As I was about to leave the store I had to stop and wait because there was a lady and her husband standing right in front of the doorway yelling at their kids to get away from the Redbox so they could leave. So I'm standing there for several seconds and they aren't even moving. The wife is the main one in my way but there is barely any room to squeeze by her. The husband had even made eye contact with me at one point! Didn't have the decency to tell his wife to move for a second so I could get through. So I just stood there for 30 seconds while she is yelling at her children. At one point she moved ever so slightly to the side so I used this opportunity to slip on past. At that exact moment she also moved back and she bumped into me. She actually had the nerve to tell me to "watch where I was walking"

She bumped into me! I was just trying to get by. Standing in front of the exit is not the best place to stand for several minutes! People need to get by! Not wanting to get into an altercation with this lady I just told her to "shut up" under my breath and walked away. She definitely couldn't hear me over the sound of her own voice.

I really feel bad for those kids. All they wanted to do was rent Spectacular Spider-man! It's a great show!

Random lawlz...

This is just a quick one. It's too funny not to comment on.

So I work right next to a Yoga Studio. There are two doors to the studio. They are literally touching each other. If you were to be facing the doors you have the option of opening the right or the left. The RIGHT door has a sign on it that says "Please use other door" with an arrow pointing to the door right next to it.

Literally right next to it. They touch each other. I know I already mentioned that but it must be said again.

You don't know how many times random people open the door to my store all confused and say "I was told to use the other door. How do I get to the Yoga Studio?" As if there is a secret passage in my store that leads to the Yoga studio.

I'm gonna have to get a picture and post it so you all can really see what I'm talking about.

Later!

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Not really a blog but more of a question.

I've never seen the show Avatar the Last Airbender. I know that M. Night Shyamalan is making a live action movie and that got me thinking that I should probably give the show a try. I've heard nothing but good things about it so I already added it to my queue, but was wondering if anyone who reads this has seen it?

In other news, there should be a new Haruhi tonight so I'm geeking out about that. Last episode was amazing.

Adios!