Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Food, Holidays, Cops and North Korean A$$holes

Ah cooking ~ something I really do enjoy doing. I love making new things and experimenting <3 This is my aunts boyfriends daughter. I had a lot of fun drawing this. I had intended to do shading but it looked odd with the background so I left it like this and it works! I like the smaller lines too. I played with bigger lines with her brothers which will be tomorrow.

Been having troubles sleeping. You know the whole not being able to turn your brain off thing? I'm disturbed that I can't seem to keep this up and I am falling behind in what I want to do. Saying that I have dropped some weight which is nice. I just wish I could get the dances I'm learning down haha. It is building my confidence though! I am eating an Asian pear while typing this. To be honest it is the first time I have knowingly had it and its soooo good. Bites like fresh cold solid watermelon but tastes like a pear in the shape of an apple. It is quite the experience.

Today I was stopped by the cops .... because my car was SO dirty they couldnt read my license plate clearly enough. No ticket so I went and washed my car but it was a wand wash with no dry system. being -17C today I have little frozen ice droplets all over my car .... look awesome.

Holidays are coming up and I honestly am not really looking forward to them. I don't feel in the holiday spirit what-so-ever. Still a week to go so it might change. I wonder if anyone else feels this way ~

Anyways. I am a proud Nasty and really support Simon and Martina. I love the cause they chose this year and for it to work no one needs to spend money! Watch, like, fav, share, click and vote. All it takes!
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Anyways goodnight! Love you all <3

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Winter love birds

So this is my tutors roommate and his girlfriend from Korea! She is visiting until February. I have had the pleasure of meeting both of them a couple times now. They are so sweet together :3

After lessons we went to a local farmers market in the city by UofA campus. Felt more like a craft sale but still equally awesome. We also met up with another of his friends who plays in the military band. He was playing with his buddies at the market and it was so pretty. It was nice to sight see a bit.

Sorry I haven't posted in so long. Working long hours at my new job and its exhausting. Things are piling up on me and kinda stressing myself out! Need to stop it haha. Other then that I have been making plans to get myself up to schedule and speed with what I want to do versus what I feel I can do. So Regular updates should start happening soon. To be honest probably wont start till after the holidays.... Just to be safe :)

Anyways love you all!

Sunday, December 01, 2013

:D

Drew a picture of my Korean tutor and my Boyfriend :D I made my tutor alittle taller but yeah haha. this was fun to do. And had an awesome day today.

First was our lessons where I think I didn't do too bad. I feel great about my knowledge and then I'm put on the spot and my head goes blank ^-^; I think I should try to think the greetings in my head when I am meeting new people etc. in my daily life to help get used to them.

My tattoo on Linda was a lot of fun! She is such a strong woman to not only sit on a table for 3 hours so I can tattoo her foot but to also go through the pain of having a tattoo on her foot! I'm digg'n her new hair cut and I think it suits her well and damn she lost weight and looks sexy! Love ya girl! <3

After had dinner with my family and had my cousin come by too for a surprise. It was awesome to see my ferret Douglas again ... I miss him dearly. And on the way home the fog was so bad I was driving like 80km/hr the whole way ! (normal 100-110) We are expected to have a snow storm at some point ... I hope it waits till after my first day at my new day job tomorrow. Well thats it for tonight.

Love you all <3

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Diane re-do!

Well since Fai's was at a table I figured I should do hers at one too! lol I like this one much better. :3 I hope she does too! I have been making a lot of new contacts and friends and it's great. A lot of them are speaking to me in Korean which is helping :D

Looking forward to starting my new job tomorrow. Its really close to my house and the manager I will have is really nice and straight forward. I think we will get along well. She believes in respect for employees and management so plus plus. I need to keep this short because I have more studying to do before tomorrow.

I am also very excited to be giving my very very close friend Linda a tattoo tomorrow. She's like a sister to me and I can give her son Ethan his birthday gift finally! haha. Anyways.

Love you all <3

Friday, November 29, 2013

Fai

This was fun to draw. I really liked the picture she had up on the Penpal site that we connected on. She is learning English and a really smart girl! I really like her smile and giggle ^-^

 I feel bad that I spent more time on this then the one previous so tomorrow will be a re-do of Diane. She also introduced me to a site for people interested in Korean culture and want to go and make friends. the chat is always so crazy haha.

I finally managed to get my Korean and Japanese keyboards working on my computer now which making responding to the messages a lot easier. It is hard to learn using an English keyboard though haha.

Well a few more informitive videos on YouTube and then off to bed.

Love you all <3

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Diane from the Philippines

It is a sketch blog and got busy tonight so I did an actual sketch tonight. I met a girl from the Philippines today and she is really awesome. She's really into Korean culture and stuff so we had a lot to talk about and she is an artist as well. :D

Tomorrow I will sketch another of my new friends from Thailand! (if she is ohkay with that) I might also re-do this a bit better later for her. So yeah a quick post tonight. I want to shout out to all the people who are helping me learn and wanting to be my friend!

Hmmm I don't really have a lot to say tonight!
Love you all <3

Monday, November 25, 2013

weeeeeeeeee

Wasn't sure what to draw and I promised a picture! so I drew myself haha >.> well the way I see myself? I definitely like the way I look in clothing better then bare skinned but meh. So Im making a promise to myself to loose 50lbs before June! RAWR haha I will do it so I can be fashionable (sorrta) in South Korea.

Man conversational Korean is proving to hurt my brain but its fun and our teacher is super nice and easy on the eyes haha. I have also taken it upon myself to meet new people from the countries I want to learn or better myself in their language! I have a few new friends now ^-^ YAY excited. It will be fun to meet with a whole bunch of people.

So I have a tattoo that I have yet to finish and it was my first one! So for all my Alberta, B.C. and Saskatchewan fans, if you would like a tattoo let me know and the proceeds will go to getting mine finished before I go! I need about $700-$1000 which is only like 13-20 hours of work for my rates. Wish I could make that at my day job haha.  For those that don't want ink and looking for artwork I will be doing prints and commissions to raise money for Tattoo/Korea. I need to force myself to get into a schedule and art work habit and business habit. Hopefully this will cure my procrastination disease lol.

Other then that I hope to post another tomorrow! I will do this! Still thinking of what kind of vlog I would want to do. Any tattoo/art/questions can be posted and answered on my Facebook Page :D

Love you all <3

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Procrastination and Addictions

Warning .... this is long!

Oh man I like to procrastinate .... terrible habit! I have SOOOO much I am doing and working on and not actually working on it .... /sigh

When Final Fantasy XIV came out, man I was so addicted. I was injured from work so I figured it was a good a time as any to play as much as possible D: Don't get me wrong, I still love the game and the franchise but I haven't played since I transferred servers and don't really feel bad about it (minus not speaking to my lovely new friends I met. MISS YOU <3).

My online business, body and art have taken a huge dive thanks to my addiction and laziness and it has to stop. I feel crappy all the time and so down on myself. For example I was looking at some of the reference letters from my teachers and how they were talking about me being an out going individual who loved everyone and could make anyone having a bad day be bright and cheerful. I was also always doodling and trying to incorporate art into all of my projects where I could.
~~~shout out to Mr. H, Mr. C, and Mrs. J ~~~
After reading those, I felt a sense of shame and regret. What happened to me? I go to work and I become negative (usually fake it in front of customers because I believe in customer service where its deserved).
[side note: if my boss is reading this for some reason then maybe being nice to your customers will make them come back you scrooge].

Majority of my co-workers are happy showing up doing the least amount and a comfortable pace and brooding amongst themselves about how much they 'hate' where they are, what they make and where they work but have no motivation to do anything about it. It makes me frustrated and negative and I've found myself joining in their conversations! Ridiculous. However, I am not satisfied where I am and DO have the motivation to change it. So I am making plans to move to Korea in June to teach for the company I have been working with for some time now (love you Soon Min <3).

In said process of all this, my boyfriend, who will be accompanying me, doesn't know any Korean and up till this point wasn't interested in any of the music or TV (except one movie) that I love and listen to so much. It caused a few pains in my chest. But now, even if its to listen to the pronunciation, he asks to listen to my music :D Makes me happy. But anyways, I searched the internet for classes or tutors and found one on kijiji.ca . An amazing individual (not gonna name names because he is kinda reserved and not sure how he would feel about it) native to South Korea who was offering lessons for an awesome price!

I am blessed to have found this person. He has made me realize that my version of Korean was very lacking and almost completely wrong. I had taught myself through lyrics and over-the-top dramas. Although I had a base on the grammar from Japanese .... it was lacking so bad from not actually speaking Japanese on a constant basis and lyrics are horrible excuses for conversational grammar. I do know quite a bit of Korean, but his lessons are teaching me so much about the language, culture and people and my spelling @_@.

Some of my older fans might notice I took down the MEDE story page and replaced it with my soon to be Tattoo Gallery. My story is not a huge priority in my life right now and I really need to get my priorities straight, like seriously. So after my business function in Regina last weekend I have promised myself to work on 4 things until I can get myself into a routine I feel I can add more into.

Me / Relationship
Business
Language
Art

In that order. So the next few posts will definitely have a new sketch because this IS a sketch a day blog. I am disappointed that I stopped. It might not be every day just yet as I need to adjust to a schedule I'm setting for myself but I will work back up into doing it daily. I also have a goal to loose weight before Korea ..... so I'm not told I look like a whale (I know you guys mean well but I've been watching too many videos on the tube of you from some amazing people and they are SKINNY and told they are fat) plus its healthier. And business because extra monies to pay off stuff and have that little extra just in-case will be amazing, especially since my bf wont be working. That and my goal is retirement before 30.

Anyways I know this is really long but feels good. Love you all. <3

P.S. I know I have a channel showing my art but was thinking of vloging as well at some point. Build my confidence of speaking to people (even though there wont be actually any one there, but I know how many possible people could be). It would be fun too. Not sure what kind of show I would do or what I would talk about. Ideas?

Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Internet, Kpop, FFXIV

Finally have internet after a week of waiting haha. Got a lot of work done though, moving into the new place. I feel at ease at this new place. its so relaxing and amazing seeing the birds on the tree outside the kitchen/bedroom windows. So now I'm sitting, translating new korean music with the warm light from the gorgeous weather on me and enjoying my day off. Speaking of music, I am soooo addicted to G-Dragon, Lee Hi and Zion T right now.... I'm just so in love. I will post their 3 new songs on the music video page for you all to enjoy!

Oh man stage 2 of the FFXIV beta was kinda lame after the first weekend but I am getting pumped for stage 3! and they are going to let us post stuff about it this time! I'm thinking of doing some fan art or starting a 30 day challenge again. I feel like I'm cheating on myself for not doing this more often. And my manga is suffering as well. I need to find a schedule for work, business, art (comic and blog), gaming and my 90 day weight loss challenge with BodyKey. Once FFXIV fully comes out I have considered doing a 'Let's Play' of it on YouTube along with my time-lapse sketches.

Well back to catching up on work. Maybe post a picture as an update later!

Thursday, April 04, 2013

Durarara?

Big picture today. Took me awhile to finish just the sketch of this. Not sure about the pets or twins yet but i will most likely add them. (Based off Durarara end pic)

Since Blogger thinks its toooo big I posted on DA for everyone CLICK ME

Sorry for not posting in awhile! As usual things are crazy. Speaking of which I was also invited to the second beta stage for the re-launch of Final Fantasy XIV : A Realm Reborn! So excited! But means it will cut into my drawing time.... its only for the weekend though until the next phase. So yeah. Maybe after I will want to do some fan art! ;) anyways enjoy!

Love you all <3

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

So umm?

Pyowaan in her school outfit. I haven't been updating as much as I like and I am sorry.  I plan to update more but not every day. Business and work need to come first for me right now. I have also recieved some horrible news that a friend/mentor/coach/business team member was in a fatal car accident last night. This week will be hard as I hope to be there for his wife and kids. 



Anyways, short today. 

Love you all~

Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Sofie the Goddess

Sofie. The nanny and best friend of Pyowaan. She is an important character in the story and ends up being one of the only major plot characters that's of the god/goddess race. Special background story as to why she is allowed to be so will be explained in the story later on. She is of African descent and I really want to base her off of my friend Tricia. She is gorgeous inside and out and just love her personality. Guess you could say I had to have her as a character!

Okay so I managed to get food poisoning from cookies... yep. Dad's brand Goodie Rings. Don't know why or how but it was a miserable night! seems to be almost gone now but anything overly sweet since is making my stomach turn and hurt .... maybe this is a good thing for my weight loss goals haha.

Also, I am going to be working hard at my businesses. So as much as I would love to continue this as a sketch-a-DAY blog it might have to be 2-3 every week. I cannot promise to have enough time to do a picture everyday. However, that also means that once my financial goals start reaching a point that I can get some time back then I would love to focus more time towards my art and this blog. I need to straighten out my priorities for my future.

This blog and my art and stories make me happy and help me relax. I love this. And love my fans! I feel bad for all the ones I lost in my absence a while back but I hope to gain new and old ones back. Well I have a few things to do tonight so here is the coloring time-lapse (I forgot to record the sketch part sorry!)

Love you all <3

Friday, February 01, 2013

Air Demons!

Dyzi. An air elemental demon from Laled in the Dominion of Eeres. He has keen ears for sound and is the fastest swordsman known. Although blunt and outspoken, he has a strong heart and overall good intentions. He is a mercenary however, and if the price is right and feels it is worth his time and beliefs he is always up for a good fight. Love does find its way to the center of the storm and the one to break that barrier both amazes and scares him. You never know whats in store for this free spirit!

So as you all know Ive been working on a female character music video and wanted to do a male one after. I really want to do U-KISS - Tick Tack Japanese single, but only had like 5 male characters and one wasn't really a major character so I decided to do a Big Bang song. Probably Gara Gara Go ... love that song haha even though its so old! Anyways been needing a few new male toons and short on air elemental characters so wolla! It's also Brandon's character cause he wanted one haha.




love you all <3

Thursday, January 31, 2013

MV animation

Okay Here is one of my animation stills for the girls generation music video I'm going to animate with my characters. I have a feeling this project will take me more time then I wanted but the over all will be amazing :D. This still took me about 4.5 hours without the background (which i can easily transfer between pictures so I don't have to keep drawing it over and over again). Hoping I can figure something out for ease doing the pictures with flash. Any ways I have the 4.5 hour time-lapse into 33 minute video for those that want to see.

Love you all

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Pyowaan Colored

This took me 2 hours and 17 minutes to color yesterday haha. Thank you to everyone that watched! I am posting the lime-lapse videos on YouTube for those that want to watch that couldn't because of time-zones . Really short but this was for yesterday. So I am in the process of making a music video frame by frame animation with all of my female characters so you should see little snippets of the screen shots here and there. The song I'm doing is the new Girl's Generation Dancing Queen music video so w00t! Anyways.



Love you all <3

Saturday, January 26, 2013

SKETCHES AGAIN

Pyowaan~ new main character for my new story/comic. I'm still in the writing for this but I'm changing up the characters and story ... a lot haha. got my creative juices flowing again so I'm happy to announce this! Tomorrow I will have a lined, possibly colored version of this (or a full bodied one). I will also be live streaming it for those that want to watch.

So Pyowaan is kind of like a bard. That's all you get!
*sticks tongue out*

I will be streaming my sketches from now on for those that want to watch. I have a Facebook page to help with stream schedules and updates on art, events and books. I look forward to saying hi to you all!


Facebook Page
LiveStream

Much love <3

Sunday, January 06, 2013

Hey everyone! It's a new year meaning I should really get back into the swing of things with my sketch blog ...

A lot has happened since my last post which has me feeling quite embarrassed to be honest :(

My dad was hospitalized on Nov 15 after being hit buy a double tanker transport truck or lori for my British peeps. He was hit head on on a trip up north to Fort McMurray, Alberta just outside of Boyle. He was driving a small pick-up at the time. We do not know the exact details of the crash but its looking towards the transport driver fell asleep behind the wheel and crossed the line. There were many accidents on the stretch of road that week.

He suffered from many broken bones and fractures and was on supported breathing for his torn lungs. After examination he was found to have a fractured spinal disc and forced to wear a halo brace to support his neck and head until surgery was an option. He has been looked after in ICU neurology unit for some time until a few days ago.

His success is surprising the nurses and doctors and he has been moved into the hospital ward with news of a transfer to a smaller local hospital! He still needs to be monitored for his breathing and injuries but not much else. Very proud of him.

As you all know I had lost my beautiful Alienware laptop, to which I was doing all my work from. Well Boxing Day sales here are AMAZING and ended up getting a huge deal on a new ASUS G series laptop. SOooooo expect for me to start up again soon!

Tattoos have been going well and I have a few pictures to post of the ones I have done so far since my last posts on the topic.

Overall things have been going A LOT better since my last post and I may have some big news to post in the coming months depending on how things go from here.

Anyways, I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and a safe/fun new years!

Here is a little something for you all <3

Its a lily from the comic I'm working on.