http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:RyuRedwings&section=today deviantART RSS for by:RyuRedwings en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:36:30 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/29006816/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/29006816/ Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:29:20 PST YOU KNOW WHAT THE MEANS!!
I can actually get some work done! I can start working on Through the Mirrors again! AND I CAN DRAW!!!
I'm currently working on a zodiac project, meaning that I've decided to try and draw all the astrological signs humanized! So far I've got Aquarius and Pisces done, and Aries in uber sketch mode. I.e., she's a stick figure with ram horns at the moment. >>;;
But yeah! Through the Mirrors! I started a little work on the 8-9th (can't remember what number it was it's been so long! D: ) chapter a little earlier in the year. Either way, expect a new chapter at some point in the last week of December or in the first few weeks of January.
I'm also working on a playlist for all the characters; I just need to find a really angry song for Charlie and an evil for Zaverick. >:3 If anyone has any suggestions, that'd be great!

Currently Working On:
~ Zodiac Project
~ Through the Mirrors
~ random comics

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/28821211/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/28821211/ Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:38:15 PST

I think that covers everything. >>;; I have two papers, one exam, and three drawing due tomorrow so I'm panicking. This is just my way of trying to relieve some stress. >>;;

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/28735294/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/28735294/ Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:10:36 PST
I can even put my little dragon collection off to the side of my journal!
So, yeah, it's finals week, and I'm going crazy. Which is why all work has completely stopped on nearly everything artistic I was working on. However, I'm sneaking in time for drawing cute food. In fact, I'm probably going to go paint a bit after this to make the cute candies a decent print since someone requested it as one. :3 Thankyou person for the print request on the doodles, but I want to make it better before putting it in as a print! And I think that's it for since I have to start working on a paper after I finish painting some of the cute candies... Stupid Shakespeare.

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/28536628/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/28536628/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:28:15 PST The bus driver nearly broke my nose since he accidentally closed the doors right in my face as I was getting out. I put my hand up in reaction, and, luckily, that saved my nose but not my nail. Better then my nose though!
The reason I'm late with this journal though is that a lot kind of happened last week, and not necessarily good things. Let's just say I want to move out of my house as soon as possible, but can't since everyone I know lives in a dorm! I basically can't stand living with my dad anymore since he's a giant ass. We've been over this before so I won't get into it...
In other news, the group Through the Mirrors picture is coming along very nicely! I'm hoping to put up sketches and the inked conga line (that's what I'm calling it; it'll make sense when you see it) tomorrow if I can get the computer hooked up to the scanner. Let me just say that drawing characters mentioned in passing in the background is actually kind of hard. ESPECIALLY if you can't decide what one of them looks like! Also, I'm finding the background annoying since I can't get the ground to make sense with where Troy is standing; he's tall but he's not that tall! The art department should be deserted Wednesday so I should be able to get to the light box then anyway to do more work on it. I'm forcing myself to do everything by hand, and not with Photoshop. I hope I can pull it off okay!

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/28399521/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/28399521/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:58:59 PST Mostly stuff from the Pokedex Gijinka club though; they tend to go a little nutty with the journals... A few were favorite notifications though! Lots of people faved my Amish pictures! Thankyou for showing so much love towards my kitty! Or one of them at least; I have two. There's Amish and then there's Wallace, who's a little, fluffy calico. :3 I don't have many kitten pictures of her though since we got her when she was around two months old and was already grown-up looking. (She's a small cat so I don't think you could tell the difference anyway >>;; )
Anyway! Life has been pretty non-adventurous, thank goodness. The only really crazy thing is that EVERYONE in my house got sick. Except me. Take that, compromised immune system!! You can't stop me, even with a house full of people who sound like they belong in the bronchitis ward at the hospital! I also had exam today; I thought I was going to lose my mind! It was all poetry! I had to study Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare Donne, Jonson, Marvel, and Milton, and a majority of all bullshit was freaking love sonnets. They're all the same!! However, I think I managed to do pretty well, all things considering. To top my day off, my drawing class was canceled! Whoo!
In art news, I'm drawing Through the Mirrors art! And this time, it isn't chibis! I'm doing a group art thing of Jaden and the gang, and possibly some other people who have been mentioned in passing in the background. ;3 It's only in sketch mode right now, but I'm going to keep working on it! I might (hopefully) order a light-box this weekend and buy some watercolor paper so I can paint it and everything. So, yeah! Expect some cool stuff coming soon if I get that light-box!

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/28234188/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/28234188/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:36:54 PST I feel like I have to apologize for that great big rant about the tuition hike that's blaring on my page for so long. >>;; I had no idea what to write after that, it was intimidating... But yeah, my panic attack is over thanks to my awesome friends at College Visions, who helped me see I'm not screwed as of yet. In fact, I'm getting a refund from the school at the end of the month of about $450. : D Yay! Money for art supplies during winter break, new boots (which I seriously need. The holes are so big in the soles I have acorns stuck in them! D: ), and books. And maybe a Christmas present for my family, or at least for my little brother and sister. I'm thinking of getting them the first season of Naruto, although I would much prefer the second season. *cough*GAARA Vs. LEE FIGHT!*cough*
Speaking of coughing, I've been sickness free for two months no! Whoo! Take that compromised immune system. Besides a faint outbreak, I've been doing okay. The rest of my family, eh, not so much. My dad and my sister have this awful cold right now, and my brother got this 24 hour thing on Saturday. Poor kid was puking his guts out the whole day. Me and my mom are the only ones who have been healthy so far. I honestly think my getting L1H1 in the beginning of the summer is helping me fight off whatever flu viruses come near me.
In other news, I've been drawing a lot lately! You just can't tell since I haven't been uploading anything... >>;; A lot of stuff is in sketch mode right now due to time constraints though. I should have at least one new comic, and FFX Ryu's new clothing design up by the end of the week though. I can't wait to show off her new outfit! She looks all business, and fighter like now!!
: DD
Anyway, that's all for now. See you on Saturday for another life post. I'm trying to get back into the habit of updating my journal weekly again for my own records. :3

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/27815604/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/27815604/ Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:14:56 PDT every year, and just with next semester's increase alone, I'm going to have to save up all my paychecks from now until the end of January to make up for the extra money. How the hek am I going to deal with a 9% increase?
Let's do some math... By calculator of course since I'm hopeless at math...
$6408+600= $7008
$7008* 0.09= $630.72
$7008+630.72= $7638.72
And that's just the tuition, not including all the other random library use fees, art fees, and whatever they can think of that you're going to use and half to pay for. And since I don't have insurance, I have to get the school's insurance by law, which puts on another $550. Then there's books, art supplies, and bus expenses... No matter how I look at it, I'm going to end up paying nearly 18k a year just at my random, in-state community college by the time I'm a senior. And not for nothing, this effects people I know who go to other colleges. Except PC since they're private and don't have to deal with R.I.'s craziness. What about the RISD students? RISD is already a 40k a year school, what's this 9% increase going to to to them? And there's URI, Brown, Johnson and Wales.... I've got friends who go to all these placesAnybody else thinking this new increase is just going to hurt the student population, and not hit the state with any lashback whatsoever? Money-grubbing bastards...
Welp, I've already made up my mind that I'm going to transfer away from all this madness. I did a little research and BYU Utah seems the most logical choice since its tuition is ridiculously low ($4k a year baby! Even for out-of-staters!). Plus, I know some people who live there, although they're all boys which doesn't bode well... However, getting there will be the major problem. I need to do some more research to see how much it would cost to get there since I am NOT getting on a plane!! I hate flying!! I can't even go on rollercoasters, what makes my parents think I'd willingly get on a ding-dong plane?! I mean, it's all the way UP THERE, in the freaking air with no ground whatsoever! I'm not getting on that!!! Train plz; kthnxbai. But it all depends if I can get in; BYU really like their students to have a 3.0 GPA which scares the bejebus out of me. I'll have to work my ass off this semester (not that I'm not already to make up for my idiocy last semester), and next semester to get my GPA back out of the gutter... As I keep saying, I still have research to do to see if there are other places that are cheap and have my major. I just skimmed over some colleges in Massachusetts, and a lot seem to be kinda cheap... It's the room and board that keep slapping me...
However we shall all just see depending on where I can get into... And if my parents jump for me going away slightly permanently. >>;;

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/27666448/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/27666448/ Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:11:56 PDT >;;;
But anyway, Im in the thick of mid-terms now! I just handed in my first paper of the semester last week, had my first exam at the beginning of this week, and a now trying to come up with a topic for my English 206: British Literature 1800's-Present. I think I might write something about Coleridge, that Ancient Mariner poem was awesome... But Blake is pretty cool too. I mean, he wrote one of my favorite poems of all time, The Tyger! But, I also have to ready my portfolio for my drawing class, so we shall see how that goes... So far, my professor really likes what I'm doing! I'm shocked!
My last experience with an art teacher was pretty bad so I'm really glad this didn't turn out to be a disaster... He can be a little harsh at times (he once described a fellow student's drawing as "over-cooked spaghetti"), but he hasn't made me want to crack my drawing board over his head yet so that's always good. Unlike my other teacher whom I wanted to deck every other day.
But yeah, I'm alive and doing well so far. Haven't had time to work on Through the Mirrors lately, but I am working on some chibis of the characters! I would have had them up by now, but I then I realized I messed up Mirhae's AND Charlie's wings. >>;; Whoops. Expect Jaden, Toy, Charlie, Weirdling, and Mirhae to pop up in a little around next week, and Zaverick to follow after! He's bad guy so he gets his own little chibi-space. :3
Now, off to Utrecht! To buy a truck-load of erasers and eraser guards!! (We're starting with charcoal next week, hence all the erasers)

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/27223794/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/27223794/ Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:51:28 PDT *dies*
I don't even know how I got it, I barely see her at all these days! Unless she sneezed all over the light-switch in our room, I see no reason as to why I should have this stupid thing! It made me miss my drawing class the other night 'cause I felt like crap! >(
In other news, I've gotten my first paper assignment for the year. It's due on the 28th or whenever we finish "Nine Stories" by J.D. Salinger. Y'know, the guy who "The Catcher in the Rye"? Apparently he wrote a series of short stories. They're good, but his dialogue drives me nuts! He just lets his characters ramble on for pages, not interjecting any description at all. In a way, it reminds me of Jane Austen twice removed since she wasn't much for description either... But at least you could keep track of her conversations! However, the dialogue is very realistic sounding so I guess it's not too bad. Just drives me nuts to try and figure out what the characters are talking about...
Anyway! Should be uploading some more cartoons soon. I'm bringing my ink pot to work with me although I just realized I forgot to bring my painting mug. I'll need to borrow a plastic cup from somewhere...

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/26895197/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/26895197/ Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:22:55 PDT
I'm really... Kind of panicked if you can't tell. Last semester wasn't the best so I'm a little nervous about this one... Actually, I think I'm more nervous about how I'm going to pay for the rest of my stuff then anything since I still have to buy art supplies and books for my third English class. But I'm not going to know what I need until the class... Still, I can't help but want to freak out, even if there's nothing I can do about it. *frets*
Also, to make matters worse, I started this week off with a trip to the hospital! Isn't that dandy? I had to get treated for dehydration on top of being sick with some crazy virus. Which apparently won't release me of its hold for either 3 weeks or 7-10 days, my doctors couldn't agree. I think that just means they have no idea what's wrong with me. Again. My doctors have a habit of doing that... This virus also has a nasty habit of coming back when I'm stressed out (my docs knew that much) so I'll have to be careful in the future. *sigh* Stupid health...

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/26363116/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/26363116/ Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:08:50 PDT In other news, I go back to college at the end of the month! I'm both psyched and fearful at the prospect, but I think I'll be okay. At least I learned I have at least one easy class thanks to the encouragement of my co-worker at the art gallery who was/is an English major as well. I'm worried about my Drawing 1 class though, especially because of all the supplies it's supposed to use. But it should be good for me, I think, if I don't lose my mind. The art department definitely feels more laid back then the crazy-serious science department. Yeesh, I never want to step foot in there again... I also might be getting sick... I've had a burning tickle at the back of my throat since earlier this afternoon. I don't wanna get sick!! I hate getting sick!!
But hey, at least I'm not my sister! She's got a wicked sunburn (she's kind of been doing this for the last few days: ) AND she got swimmer's ear from going to the pool the entire last week. As for me, I find drinking a dragonfruit vitamin water always kicks whatever I'm getting pretty quickly. Now, how to ask my parents without my dad getting all germa-phob on me...

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/25983183/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/25983183/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:55:33 PDT And after some careful consideration, advice from friends, and fellow deviants, I’ve decided to not do commissions just yet. I will admit that I need more practice, and I’m going to do some still life’s to work on my shadow and highlighting techniques. When it comes to real objects, it’s easy for me, but not so much with my other works. It’s hard to figure out where the light would fall if your subject is always in your head, y’know? But I shall try my best! And look for tutorials along with my own efforts… >>;; If anyone has any suggestions for good tutorials, or any advice of their own, let me know!
Anyway, Through the Mirrors continues with its sixth chapter! Yay! I didn’t think I could keep it up for so long. I guess it’s a good thing a majority of these chapters are already written though; I’m just brushing them up and making them better. After the twelfth chapter though, I’m going to be starting over from scratch, so if you’re reading the series, don’t hold your breath. Well, you can you want, I just hope you start a few minutes before I upload the new chapters since I don’t want any dead people. Anyway, expect the uploads to slow up after the twelfth chapter. Just a tiny warning! Also, um… If you like the story so far, could you maybe spread the word? I’m curious as to see what people might think of it.
And for entertainment’s sake I’m going to give you fifteen minutes of my life:
Me and my mom spent about five of those minutes trying to remember the entire “The Ants Go Marching” for our nursery class on Sundays, I giggled incessantly over “Dinner Is Served” from the Pirates of the Caribbean 2 soundtrack (it goes right from the tribal drums to the orchestra playing in the background when Will and the gang are trying to swing across the cavern in those giant, cage-balls), and helping my little sister dig the fudgesicles out if the bottom of a Popsicle variety pack.
Anyway, I think that’s it for now. Bye!

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/25798223/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/25798223/ Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:20:29 PDT There's been A LOT of severe weather around my area, like crazy thunder, lightning, and flooding so I haven't been able to do much in terms of journaling. Writing (and lots of it considering my gallery >>;;; ) and drawing (not so much though) have been pretty much all I'm doing lately. :/ Don't know whether that's a good or bad thing. If the crazy weather continues though, don't be surprised if the chapter updates are late, or if I'm not able to put the latest Ryu comic.
Speaking of comics, there might be more coming in the future! This years Zine Swap at New Urban Arts (www.newurbanarts.org) is coming up, and I've decided to do a series of cartoons about everyday stuff that happens to me. I'm not going to say what just yet because I don't want to spoil the surprise, but it's going to be funny. And because I'm so original, the zine's going to be called Everyday.
In other news, I'm starting a dog walking thing (I'm not calling it a business until after I've gotten a customer) since I have no money, and my bank is yelling at me for my giant debt. >>;; So! I started a thing called Happy Paws Walking, and I'm going to put the ads up for it when it finally stops raining. If ever.
And since I'm in debt past my eyeballs, I was wondering... Should I do some commissions? I have no idea if anyone would actually take them, but I'm just curious. I'd most likely do cartoons and portraits if I did, but it all depends if anyone would commission me.
Comments anyone?

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/25565391/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/25565391/ Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:32:15 PDT
Yeah, I had soda today, bad idea. But anyway, a friend of mine wants to hear about Anime Boston, and since my time on the internet is super limited, I have to write my journals in advance. So, I dug through my flash-drive and found the entry I was supposed to put up a month ago! >>;;; Yeah, I got distracted by a lot of things… ANYWAY! On to the tale of my first Anime Boston!
I didn’t get to do a lot of stuff (hek, I was so annoyed with the Masquerade line, I didn’t bother to stay in it) but I did do a lot of shopping. Plus, it was just fun running around with my friends and seeing all the cosplayers. Especially since I saw a few of my favorite video game characters. I’d have to say my favorite cosplayers were all the different colored Links, KOS-MOS from Xenosaga (who looked freaking fantastic, I wish I had a picture), and the humanized Okami characters I saw on the first day. I really, really, really wish I had pictures to show but I can’t show anything until my friend sends them to me. Which I’m kind of doubting she’s actually going to do since I asked her a few weeks ago and she still hasn’t sent them. :/ At least I’ve got the memories and those are good enough for me. I wound up running around as a cat girl though since I lost one of my Orihime clips. It was fun, especially since I was able to color co-ordinate my cat ears with my outfits. And I met a guy dressed in opposite colors too (I was wearing pink and black, he was wearing baby-blue and white) which I thought was pretty funny. I’m also pretty sure you could hear me coming a mile away since I was wearing my bell necklace. >>;;
The Artist’s Alley was SO COOL. All the artists were so freaking talented, I felt so blasted useless it was pathetic. But it was also really neat to see so much good art and funky stuff all in one place. Kind of like dA, but you can touch everything and not have to worry about smudging your screen or getting drool on your keyboard. I’d have to say the best moment in the Artist’s Alley though was when I went to a table and found out that the artist made, are you ready for this? OBAMA TRADING CARDS. I about nearly fell over laughing for a good five minutes when I saw it. Apparently, he came up with an Obama caricature called Obama-sama, made a trading card for him AND a bunch of buttons with the different key slogans he (Obama) had used during his campaign. I got a portrait from the artist, a trading card, and a button. I wound up giving the card to my friend Rosalia though since she actually hoofed down to Washington for the inauguration. (Lucky, my college didn’t even give us the day off!)
The Dealer’s Room was just plain special. Except the lolita booths made me sad since nothing of that style can fit over my chest. Everything else though just made me stare with my jaw dropped open, especially since I had the most cosplayer interactions there. I was wandering around with my friend Elsa, her boyfriend, and her sister when I saw these two cosplayers as Dart and Shana from Legend of Dragoon, my favorite video game EVER. And NO ONE does cosplays for that, even though it’s such a good game. So I freaked out and took a picture with them. But that wasn’t where my fan-girl-ism got the best of me. I kind of wish it had; I tend to tie my inner fan-girl up, gag her, toss her in a garbage bag and hand her to the Fed’ Hill guys to keep her quiet. As we continued to walk around, I saw a guy dressed up as Kankuro standing next to a Gaara. Now, I had seen this Gaara guy wandering around the con for the last two days, and I was terrified to go near him since I was sure I would go rabid somehow. So, I decided I might as well try the Kankuro guy since he seemed less intimidating (even if he was about two feet taller then me), and I wound up hugging him. He didn’t seem to mind all that much, even if I did want to run screaming from my flaming fan-girl-mess afterwards… >>;;;
Anyway, I am now convinced a good chunk of the national debt is now thanks to me since I blew about $300 (yes, the same amount I owe the college. I are idiot spendthrift.) on stuff bought at the con, a good amount from the Artist’s Alley.
I Bought:
- two pairs of cat ears (one whole black, one pink with black fur)
- one black cat tail (to match the ears)
- two portraits (to be uploaded later)
- fox earrings (which I managed to lose at the hotel )
- fox hat (Didn’t lose and has now become my official thinking/job-hunting cap. :3 )
- various buttons (a custom three tailed fox, an Obama-sama button, chibi Gaara, chibi Reno, and a chibi Orihime)
- a black surgical mask with a heart on it (for cold/flu season... ]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/24842597/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/24842597/ Tue, 19 May 2009 16:12:52 PDT However, I’ve got art coming out of my ears. Now, if only the studio was open so I could work on all of it… I’ve got the next page/panel/painting for Legion Project all nice and inked, I just need to paint it. I really need to buy my own paints at some point… I also managed to pack my main sketchbook in one of the four boxes in my room that are all full of books and papers. :/ Yup, it takes a certain kinda special to be me… I did manage to finally draw Ryu again though since Moira has been the most drawn character out of Legion so I’m happy with that. I just need to get to a light box to make it look better and correct some mistakes. I did find out though, at a very boring night at work once, that white-out makes excellent stand-in white paint. :3
Speaking of which, the computer at work is broken so that’s why I haven’t been replying to anything or been that active lately. Sorry! I’m alive, I swear! Just technologically challenged at the moment due to unforeseeable circumstances… >>;;; Because of this, I’m actually writing this at my house, putting it on my flash drive and then putting it up in my journal! It’s actually a lot more complicated then it sounds considering I don’t have a desk at the moment. My computer’s actually sitting on the floor (along with me) while the keyboard is sitting in my lap and I’m looking at the screen from a good foot away so my back can be supported by a wall. This would actually be less annoying if my computer wasn’t on the floor of the dining room next to the living room where my dad insists at watching action flicks at maximum volume. Agh, I’m gonna hear machine guns in my sleep for weeks now… And to further the technology barrier, they're working on the computer lab at the art studio so that means no scanner! So, I can't update until they're done! Yeah, it kinda sucks... But I can always try the computer lab at school, I just need to call for hours... But I'll be sure to let people know if I'm out of commission for the summer...
I can’t wait for Anime Boston! It’s in (from when I’m writing this) three-four days away! Yippee! Now, all I have to do is pray (A LOT) that my group doesn’t get discovered trying to sneak in about fifteen people into one hotel room for only two. >>;;;; I really, really, really hope it works and everything turns out okay and that the hotel staff don’t care. I also have to figure out how I’m going to get over to the college, pick up my last check, cash my check, and catch the train along with my group so we get to the con in time since Misha has my train ticket, of course!! I hope they aren’t leaving too early or else I’m going to have trouble getting out of bed…

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/24637390/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/24637390/ Thu, 07 May 2009 15:18:40 PDT But summer vacation's here, so everything bad that happened this semester can go jump in a lake! Summer brings me lots of free-time, especially since I get out a month earlier then I'm used to so expect a lot of Legion Project to come suddenly flooding in. I just need to find my sketches, and I'll be raring to go! Summer also bring the Summer Zine Swap so expect another comic from the Akihara sisters/cousin. Not sure what I'm going to make happen to them this time, but I know I've got a script in one of my notebooks somewhere...
May also brings Anime Boston!! I finally get to go, this tome for sure! I'm going with a group of friends I know both from the studio and college (I even know a few of them from middle school!! Talk about a reunion!) I'm going to be there for the entire weekend. The first and third day I'm going to cosplay as Orihime from Bleach and the second day, I'm just going to run around looking crazy all in purple and black. If you're going to be there, let me know! My tag's going to say Ryu Redwings, of course. ;D Just pray that me and my friends don't get discovered trying to hide eleven people in one hotel room.... >>;;;; My mom says she has an emergency gas savings just for that week just in case we get kicked out of the hotel. Or I can possible crash with a friend of mine who's staying in Boston for the summer. Meh, I'm pretty sure we'll be okay though, we'll just hide all the luggage under the beds and bathroom...
I'm applying for my usual job at the art studio. I might be a project assistant for the Zine Team this summer since I did the Team last year and I have experience with zines before... I hope I get it since my summer financial aid fell through! It pays $12 an hour so it would be totally awesome if I got the job. Although I could apply for both alumni jobs since I fit both descriptions, but I want to go for the zine one instead since the other would require me to dredge up old hobbies that I've got REALLY rusty at... *cough*DARKROOM!*cough*
I'm also compiling a list of my technological needs/wants. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know!

Ryu's Tech Needs/Wants:
- (want) New mp3 player ($50+)
- (need) laptop ($200+)
- (need) New flash drive ($20+) {I lost my other one somehow >>;;}
- (want) tablet ($80+) {OHMIGAWD, I WANT ONE SO BAD!!!}

So, yeah, summer job is a BIG need this summer or else I'm screwed! Plus, I kind of need the money for books and stuff, y'know? I'm looking at an hp mini for my laptop since one, they're cheap, and two, I have the smallest hands known to mankind so it's be easy for me to handle. Easier handling= less likely to drop. Anyway, I think that's it for now since I don't have as much internet access from my house since we don't have internet there... >>;;; I'll upload whatever doodles and paintings I'm doing when I get the chance.

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/24341028/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/24341028/ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:32:51 PDT [link] )on Friday/Saturday and then went to Boston on Sunday! No pictures though, sorry. I don't own a camera so.... ANYWAY! FUN STUFF!

I shall start with the lock-in and it's two day epic-ness! A lock-in is where you're locked in a building for about twelve hours or so and you stay up the whole night doing stuff! At NUA we tend to have dance parties, jam sessions, and art-making workshops lead by artist mentors (volunteers who teach classes during the week) set up the whole night so everyone was pretty well-occupied. I kept a record though of the highlights that happened. To me anyway, I was a bit too tired to pay attention to anyone else.

Highlights!:
- My scavenger hunt team won! The last three years we've always lost so this was exciting! Especially since one of the items was to find two napkins with business logos on them and Pedro ran about five blocks straight to get to a Dunkin' Donuts to beat the other team. Our reward was Ringpops. XD
- I joined Jason's creative movement workshop and after two warm-up exercises, we did slow motion combat!! Me and my friend Emely (her MB: [link]) stuck together and did a lightsaber duel followed by another duel that ended with grenades. Yup, grenades. I think it might of been her idea, but I know the lightsabers were mine... Or were they both hers? >>;;
- Jason did the silly thing of yawning and stretching his arms in the air while I was walking by so I very quickly tickled his waist then ran away cackling. I'm such an evil little thing... X3
- Me and Emely somehow started discussing REPO and Sweeney Todd when my friend Kate overheard us and told us about how she participated in a shadow cast of REPO the night before. She then gave me a bottle of Zydrate!! Well, not REAL Zydrate, but a little bottle with what looks like blue hair gel. That I do have a picture of, I just need to get it from a friend...
- My friend and mentor Jean was doing a bread making workshop so I popped over to help since I bake a lot, but all I wound up doing was playing with flour. I kept throwing it on people, but somehow I kept getting it in people's eyes! D : Not fun!! Especially when I got my friend Andrew really bad (like completely in his eye), I think I stood there apologizing for about five minutes.
- Andrew grabbed Pedro's low-rider bike and started riding it around the studio. My friend Heather noticed and insisted he needed traffic signs. So we made some, including a unicorn crossing sign. :3
- "But now I can't control my other fingers!" "Well, they're stupid!!"
XDDDD That was a quote from my friend Rosalia, who was trying to wrap one of her fingers around the entire top of the guitar and Andrew, who was just sitting there being silly and playing whatever popped into his head on someone else's guitar.
- Moviokie!! Say the lines along with the movie and show off how obsessed you are with your favorite! Kate and Ashley did Grease "You're The One That I Want", many people did Hairspray, Shrek, and my friends Michelle and Pedro did Sweeney Todd "A Little Priest". I tried my best with Moulin Rouge's "Diamonds Are A Girl's Bestfriend" but I couldn't hear myself singing so... Hm... >>;;
- SURPRISE DRUM ATTACK!!!!!! Marching band came up from the basement during a Movioki break and made everyone dance. They were really good and woke everyone seeing as it was past midnight!
- JAM SESSION!! Lasted about two hours long with me banging on a tambourine for all of it. It was fun!
- I got my tarot cards read by Kate, and found out I need to get organized since the entire layout was screaming "BALANCE!!!!!" Gee, I wonder why..
- 5 AM DANCE PARTY!! No lock-in is complete without a Michael Jackson dance party. I think we danced for a good hour then were allowed to run away to sleep. Finally.

And now for my epic Boston trip! Full of bus alarms and subway rides! I met up with my friends McKayla, Kaitlin, and Alle and we all got on the bus to Boston. Once we arrived, we went into the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and ran around the artifacts exhibits. HOLY FREAKING CRAP, THE EGYPT EXHIBIT IS HUGE!!!!!! LIKE SIX ROOMS WORTH!! WITH SIDE ROOMS ADDED ON!!!! They have siderooms with pieces from Sakkara (the city where a lot of the temples are)with floor to ceiling pieces from the temples. It was WAY cool. If you're ever in Boston, go to the this museum JUST to see the Egypt stuff, it's that cool. Then we went running around the Japan exhibit, OMFG'd over practically everything in it, then had to go back to the bus to get McKayla's bag. Only we didn't know the bus had an alarm so we had to... ]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/24218727/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/24218727/ Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:25:34 PDT Sorry.

Anyway! I've got the first part to the One year anniversary art done! Just have to ink and color it, then drew the other three. Yes, there are three other parts! Although I'm a little nervous of it all since I'm not... Quite sure... How I'm gonna put it together... >>;;;
A very badly put together photoshop maybe? It's okay though; if the photoshop jigsaw puzzle comes out crappy, I'll just individually load all four parts so people can enjoy it. :3

The English class thing got solved! It turns out, after being in a class for a certain length of time, you still have the credit. So that means I can withdraw and still have the credit, and not get kicked out of the dorms! Yippee! Not that being back at my house wouldn't be that bad, since it really wasn't... The commuting wasn't as awful as I thought it would be, and my cat, Amish, really liked me being around. He misses me a lot at college. But now I have more time to devote to studying for Biology! So I can pass! If I actually do it that is...

I found a new video game to play. It's called Okami, and it's the most fun I've had in ages. Then again, it might be the fact that I've been video game deprived since going to college, but either way it's fun! It kind of reminds me of Spyro though, with the whole platform/RPG style. The fact that you're a nature-fixing goddess running around in the form of a wolf is definitely a plus though. The game style is pretty cool too; the entire thing looks like an ink painting. The only thing I find annoying though is the slightly childish storyline/characters (even the main character, who's a freaking god for goodness sake isn't taken seriously), and the dialogue. There actually isn't any speaking at all, everyone's speaking gibberish! What makes it fun is the actually playing though, since you can make things bloom and feed animals, which is way fun for me since I'm such an earth-freak. And the general butt-kicking of demons is fun too, especially since I found the right weapon for me.... >>

Well, anyway, I just decided to do a quick update since I felt the need. I've got to catch a bus over to the studio to take part in some street painting! Meaning, we're all going to go outside and draw on the sidewalk outside.

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/24144776/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/24144776/ Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:30:57 PDT
Yeesh, I've really been into the caps lock these days. Must be the extra sugar from the chocolate I keep finding in my house... >>;; Anyway, many many things have happened since I last updated. I'll start at the beginning of the madness and work my way down.

The first thing that happened is that I had some very disturbing news this week. On Monday I basically found out I was failing my English 201 class because I missed so many classes. I kept getting on and off sick, so I missed a lot and the professor counts absences in your grade. So, I was screwed with that class and I had two options: I could fail the class (and not bother having to show up) or withdraw from the class (which would save my GPA). Problem is, if I withdraw from the class, I might not have enough credits to stay in the dorm so the school would kick me out. The entire thing seemed like a catastrophe in the beginning of the week, but now, not so much. I talked with my professor and my adviser, and there might be a chance I can withdraw from the class and still stay in the dorms, considering that it's near the end of the year. We practically only have a month left so it'd be pretty pointless to throw me out now. Plus, whether I withdraw or fail doesn't exactly matter since I'll be retaking the class next semester (summer courses are UBER expensive so I already ruled those out) and the grade I get from that class with replace the one I've got now. It'll still be on my transcript but it will also show that I improved the next time around!
MOVING ON!

I basically sat at my house the entire week! I went home for the weekend early last week and just never got around to packing so I've been commuting the whole week. >>;; I think all my roommates and friends thought I died. But I didn't! I was just at my house because I felt like it... I'll be back over there next Monday, I just felt like chilling out at my house for a while where there isn't any pressure. Or neighbors that come home drunk at 4 am.... >: (

I'M GOING TO ANIME BOSTON THIS YEAR!!!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
It's official! I'm going with a bunch of friends from the art studio and college. We've got a hotel room all ready to go. We just have to get the money together for that and the train up to Boston. I'm getting paid this Friday so all I have to do is register. Yes, I know I waited forever, but I wanted to see if I was going for sure before I threw money at the con. So! I already know I'm going as Orihime one day (Friday), and possibly Rikku the next (Saturday)! I just need to order the costume for Rikku with my next paycheck (almost over $200!!! AND I'm going to have to adjust it when it comes in after all that! YEESH!!), so I'll be all set for that one. I just need to buy some ribbon, a white shirt, and a pair of gray ballet flats for the Orihime costume. I'm not going to look exactly like her, but it'll be enough for me since I want to look different anyway. :3 So yeah, if you're going to be there, be on the look out for me! My card shall have Ryu Redwings proudly printed on it for the whole con to see! I'm hoping none of my crazy fan-fic fans find me and flip out on me for discontinuing the Ryu Akihara series... Then I'll be in REAL trouble! Although if they ask they can hear the rest of the story sine I won't have time to write it...
ANYWAY!
I'm also going crazy registering for classes for next semester. It looks like I'm going to be up to my eyeballs in English. I'm re-taking English 201 which is an introduction to literature class, English 205 which is a course on British literature from who-knows-when to the 1800's. Which most likely means I'm going to be Dickens'ed, Eyre'ed, and Shakespear'ed to death in that class. Eyre I don't really mind, Shakespeare's okay, but Dickens? I'd rather jump out a window. And I just realized I'll be reading Cantebury Tales again. Crap. I'll also be either taking English 206, which is British literature from the 1800's to the present, or Introduction to Creative Writing. But the creative writing class prospects are looking very grim so I might go with the 206 option and get all my British books out of the way. I'll also be taking an art class! General Drawing 101 to start my Painting minor off! I just need to find a class that's not either full or at night, but that isn't looking very promising either. Either way, I'm going to be pretty busy next semester.
And I'm happy to say I have been struck in the head with creative juices again. I've got an idea for a new Naruto fan-fic... ]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23929288/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23929288/ Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:04:01 PDT I also got all the stuff I ordered a few weeks, this including more jewelry but of the uber cute kind. I was running around different sites when I stumbled across this place right here: [link] It's a store that basically specializes in super cute stuff, and I ordered a necklace (the tiger one) and a pair of earrings (the happy clouds). I also got my Orihime` clips from Hong Kong that I bought off eBay! That package especially drove my family nuts because they REALLY wanted to know what in the world I could have gotten from Hong Kong. XD Just wait until I start ordering fans from Japan, then they'll really go rabid...
But alas, such good moods can't last forever seeing as I have four papers and an exam next week, the exam and three of those papers all due on the same day. I started studying for the exam already, but I still have three to four chapters to go. I'm really worried that I'm not going to get any of this done on time, especially since SO MUCH is piled onto one day, and I don't really have that much time to devote to so many things. Next week is going to be hella busy too since not only after the giant day of exams and papers, we're going to be opening a show at the gallery on the same night the arts studio I go to is having it's annual fund raiser, and I promised I'd go. I'm trying to think of a polite and nice way to ask if I can leave early on such a big night. It's really just going from gallery to another, except at one I'm being paid to count people and the other I get to wear a crazy hat (the theme this year is "Hat's Off!" and we're all being encouraged to wear something goofy) and hang out with my friends. Although, I'm pretty sure if my boss says no, I can explain to the other party that I have to work that night and it'll be okay. Either way, I'll be getting free food at some point that night.
So, yeah, other then yesterday, this week went by fast, and I'm steadily preparing myself for a crazy week next week. I guess I'll just take it one day at a time...

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23810309/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23810309/ Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:39:29 PDT In other news, I dyed my hair this week! Not a drastic change, I just went one shade up from my natural color. My natural color is a sort of dark blonde/light brown sort of thing, I'm not very sure what to call it but it looks blonde and brown at the same time. But now I'm just plain blonde, no more brown to be seen, and I really like it. But the shade is so close to my other color, no one can really tell the difference unless I'm in really bright light. Which is fine by me. I could go up another shade once this color fades, but I'm not sure if I want to do that since my hair is a little crispy-fried from just this. I might let all this fade, wait a few months, and then dye it again. Or I could just find a deep-conditioner somewhere...
And much to my annoyance, I've over-drawn on my bank account again. I have no idea how either, I calculated EVERYTHING before I bought it and somehow it happened anyway. I didn't even buy the camcorder yet, I just ordered some jewelry! Well, I'll just hand over $40 out of my next paycheck to the bank and give the rest to the school. Maybe I'll keep about $20 for myself, but I REALLY need to start paying off the rest of my tuition bill...
Anyway, I'm off to eat my lunch and then pack to go home for the weekend. Oh, and on a humorous note, I downloaded the Russian version of Numa Numa, and had my mom listen to it. She loved it. XDD I've never seen her so into a foreign song except for some of the Japenese stuff I've found.

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23778132/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23778132/ Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:50:41 PDT The first ten people to comment on this journal will be featured along with three pieces of their work that I like. Now have at it!

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And now for a life update. I went to the doctor's over spring break and she loaded me up with so many pills I felt like I was in a at-home psych ward. But it's no biggie. She just re-filled my naproxen prescription (super pain killer for death cramps), and then she gave me a bunch of progesterone pills and birth control packs. You know, I think I'd much rather have my lung problems back then all this nonsense. But beggars can't be choosers, especially when it comes to health so...
And my dad got fired from his job. And has proceeded to be an asshole about it, of course. All he's done is feel sorry for himself, and almost get himself sued for calling the health department on the store he used to work at after he signed an non-disclosure form. Honestly, he has no common sense when it comes to repairing his pride. And of course he's only applied to one place because he's just too good to grab just any old job. *rolls eyes* If he keeps being an ass though my mom will just go back to work at one of the pharmacies around here. But that would create problems though since my dad has no parenting skills, and can't/won't help my little brother and sister with their homework and would generally cause mayhem while my mom isn't there... We'll just have to wait around and see what happens, but rough times are ahead for my family no matter what Obama or any political legislature does.
Anyway, those were the two biggest things that's happened lately. Not the most cheerful of episodes, but I've been in a much better mood since returning to campus. Getting away from my dad helped a lot, and so have my friends.

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23661124/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23661124/ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:41:18 PDT [link] 's sexy meme for Ebon Spire, and that sent me on a Meme hunt for the Legion girls and my other OC's. I found this little beauty here: [link]
And now for the meme!

1.) What is Moira's favorite TV show or movie?
Law and Order SVU. Moira's the most serious out of the Legion characters so she likes serious tv. But she also likes solving the cases along with the show, it gives her something to do after she finishes her homework.

2.)What's your fondest memory of Ryu?
I would say when I first started drawing her. I had always wanted a character I could give a giant sword to, and when I came up with her, I thought, "This is the one! This is the girl I give a giant sword to!!" I designed it, using old stories as inspiration for the holes, and then I drew her. Originally she was for my AP Art project, but as you can see, along with Moira she turned into something else.


3.)Who's Zephyr dating?
No one! Zephyr is actually married. Yes, one of my characters is married! You never see her husband though, but there is a scene where she's talking to him on her com-link explaining why she can't be home in time for dinner.

4.) If Kindred played in a movie, what kind of character would they play?
Considering she is a autonomous robot, she would be the ideal actress to play KOS-MOS if Xenosaga was ever made into a movie. They'd have a hard time dying her hair though since it's actually made out of fiberoptic wires and not hair... Then again

5.) Do you think Yet-To-Be-Revealed Character is a virgin?
Well, gee, I never thought of that... I think... Maybe yes since I haven't pictured her in a relationship yet.

6.) If you could do anything with Dragon (Me!), what would it be?
With myself, huh? Hm... I'd take myself to the studio, sit down, and paint the next page of Legion and maybe goof around photoshop trying to come up with a deviant id. And then go out for chinese food.

7.) How would Ryu Akihara insult Nara Akihara?
Considering they're twin sisters, she could insult her pretty easily. Most likely she would just tease Nara about doing her homework until she couldn't stand it anymore and got chased around the house by her sister.

8.) Oh no, Nara Akihara got kidnapped by aliens! What do you say once they get back?
"WTF, man!! You can throw fireballs, but you can't escape from aiens?! ... Anyway, are you okay?"

9.) Have you dreamt of Aliss before?
Nope. I've never had a dream about my characters. You would think I would at least once, but I tend to dream about me.

10.) What's Cheschire to you?
Cheschire is... A boy in his twenties with purple hair and cat ears. He has purple striped tail, and primarily wears greens. He's also a traveling bard. ^_~

And that's it for this one... I think I might try actually drawing one later when I find one I like...

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23552579/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23552579/ Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:42:20 PST I'm happy to announce Legion Project will be getting maybe two to three page additions next week due to it being spring break! Yaaaaay! You can finally see the startling conclusion of Moira's fight with the shadow beast and get introduced to Ryu finally! In a picture where she's not bleeding for once... >>;;;
It also seems that I've been turning my weekly word challenges into pictures for Legion also since this week's entry I drew a picture of Zephyr. Well, at least you get to see what she looks like. And I FINALLY sketched Kindred after months of putting around when it came to drawing her. It's not entirely finished but at least I know what the top half of her looks like. I want to give her sexy shoes, but I'm not that good with feet so we'll just see what happens...
My week was very normal except for crazy friend drama that blowed over within a day, thank god. I swear, sometimes the people I hang out with are just as bad as my dad when it comes to acting immature. Yeah, I definitely need this vacation; I'm getting really impatient with people and their complaining. Then again, I shouldn't really be one to talk... <<;;; ANYWAY!
Next week I most definitely should be getting paid so that means I get to order my camcorder!! YAY!!! I was going to try and buy No Doubt tickets, but they go on sale tomorrow and there probably won't be anymore by the time I get the money so... Camcorder it is then! I'm going to be using it to do tours of my favorite places in Providence and where I work and stuff. Should be lots of fun! I'll have to let my deviants know when I get the show off the ground.
So you'll only be hearing from me next week in the forms of art. See you in a week! <3

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23447983/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23447983/ Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:31:22 PST She starts playing telephone tag, trying to track him down since you're supposed to call if you're going to be late, no matter by how much. Then my boss walks in, assesses the situation and tells Jen to tell Joel when he finally shows up to come see him in his office so he can send him home. So Joel got fired which led to a number of things.
The first thing was that that meant there was a good hour and a half left open where no one was covering since Jen usually leaves around 4 and I leave at 5 since that's when my shift ends. Now, my boss looks at me and asks if I could stay until 6:30 when my friend Carissa comes in for her shift so I said yes even though I hadn't eaten all day. Jen knew I hadn't though, told my boss this, and they both forced me to take a fifteen minute break even though it wasn't enough time to get anything to eat from the dining hall. I wound up making some ramen in record time in the microwave at my dorm and then ran back to the gallery.
The second thing is now that Joel is gone, that leaves his time slot open. And guess who got it? Me! So now I work from 2 to 9 on Thursdays now. I can sleep in, AND I'm getting paid an extra hour! Whoo-hoo! I like this job!
The third thing that resulted was that when Carissa got in at around 6, I STILL hadn't eaten a real meal the entire day so I was pretty psyched she had gotten there early. The thing is though, that since Joel got fired, that meant she would be at the gallery by herself until 8 when someone else showed up. And since she's my friend, I didn't want to leave her there alone since the building gets kind of creepy at night. So I ran to the dining hall, grabbed dinner, and ran back to the gallery. I wound up staying there until 9. So, Thursday I worked ten hours instead of my usual six.
Then Friday rolls around. Friday was the day the current exhibit was being taken down so my boss wanted as many people as possible to show up so I signed up for some extra hours from 9 to 11. Now, my mom likes to do my laundry (I honestly don't know why) and usually my dad comes to pick it up on Fridays at 10. But because I was going to work at nine, he couldn't do that so I called him up and told him to come get it at 8 instead. He shows up ten minutes early and I'm still in my pajamas when I answer the phone. I hadn't gotten out of bed yet, and he answers the phone on the other end with a funny accent saying, "Here to pick up laundry now? You come down?" And so I decided to joke back, but it was so early, I sounded completely serious when I said, "You're early!! Ten minutes!" And my dad, being the bipolar man he is, took it the complete wrong way and said, "I'm leaving then!!" Me, being the crazy-tired person I was, hung up on him in some strange reaction and then shut my phone off. Of course that's when my brain catches up, and I freak out and call my dad back. He answers the phone, completely pissed off, and says, "I'M NOT TURNING AROUND!"
Let me say this now. I have almost no patience when it comes to my dad and his mood swings. I've been dealing with them for over 18 years, and so when he decided to revert to being five years old over laundry, I snapped.
Me: FINE!! BE THAT WAY!!
And THAT'S when I purposefully hung up! That immediately got me in a bad mood, I was practically seething the entire morning until Carissa got up and I was able to rant to her. Then I calmed down a little and figured, "Hey, screw him! I'll just do my laundry here since I'm getting paid today!" Went to work, got out of work, and then headed over to the payroll office on campus. I get there, and my name isn't on the list to get a paycheck. I ask the woman at the desk about this, and she gets her supervisor. The supervisor looks around the art gallery's payroll and papers and tells me I'm not on the payroll.
So I get out of the payroll office as fast as I can and stomp around on the concrete a bunch because everything just seemed to go wrong yesterday. I didn't have any money or clean clothes, and without the money I couldn't do my laundry OR start paying off the money I owe to the school which is WAY more important then the laundry. So I just started freaking out, like nearly on... ]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23320650/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23320650/ Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:56:26 PST Anyway, my Biology professor posted the grades the same day as the test and I got a C- on it. Not bad for only reading everything for the first time in my opinion. I'll do better on the next one since I'll be caught up on the reading. Which reminds me, I should probably do that this weekend. >>;;
I haven't had much time to draw lately, due to studying madness, but I should have at least one comic (whether it be the Grab Her sequel or 500 Views) up next week along with my usual Word Challenge submission. This week's word is "Instinct", and I've got so many ideas, I'm going crazy trying to pick one. I already tried one out though, and decided it was full of fail since I couldn't draw it properly. I'm trying to stay away from drawing anime style for the submissions since people seem to like the realistic stuff I draw more then the other stuff. I dunno, I'll just see which idea will be easier and I'll just go with that.
In other news, half my suite at college is practically dying. My next door neighbor brought some weird virus home with her when we first moved in, and it spread like wild-fire to the people she hangs out with the most. I haven't caught it, to say the least. She's been sick for a good month now though, and she went to the doctor yesterday to see what was wrong with her. I almost feel like telling her to just take the semester off and go home since it looks like mono. Then again, if she just stopped drinking once a week that would help her too. I actually haven't gotten sick once yet while I've been at school even though practically everyone around me did at some point or another. I think it's because I've been drinking lots of vitamin water and orange juice lately.
Ooh, I can't wait for spring break!! Why? Because I'll have time to paint again, that's why!! Screw Fort Wherever-It-Is, I've got me some painting to do!! I'll be able to get the third page done for Legion Project! If I can find it that is. It's all inked and ready to go, it's just in a giant mess with all my English books. I hope I can find it...
And I think that's it for this week. Although, I must say I'm thinking of attempting the White Wings of Darkness sequel on fanfiction.net since I seem to have a lot of time on my hands when I'm studying like a mad woman. We'll just have to see if I can find the beginning I started to write in my other notebook. WHY AM I SO DISORGANIZED?! Hek, it's like everything I like to do insists on losing itself!

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23151061/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23151061/ Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:04:40 PST And holy cow people, you really like the Eye-Clock, don't you? It's reaching around a hundred views already and I just stuck it up yesterday! AND it's been fav'ed about five times. NONE of my stuff has ever done that! EVER! I'm just kind of sitting here in shock...
Now, I know people usually do art when they hit a certain number mark to thank the people who watch them, and stuff so I've been thinking... I think I might do two pieces. One's going to be a comic, and I think the other might be a realistic something or other. Although I'll most likely go with the comic since they take me two seconds to do, and I have no time until after my Bio exam next Wednesday. I'm so nervous about... That's an exam on EIGHT chapters!! Really LONG chapters! With crazy, geeky terms I have to know what the hek mean!! I guess it's a good thing my mom was a Biology major when she was in college...
Anyway, here in New England, the weather's gotten really nice. It's not longer just 30 degrees outside, and it's supposed to hit around 50 today. I wanna wear a skirt but they're all at my house... I'll just have to settle for a cute t-shirt and jeans with flip-flops. Holy cow, I'm weating flip-flops!! IN FEBRUARY!!! Aw man, I just checked the weather for next week and it's supposed to go back down into the 30's. Stupid weather, teasing us like that! Well, at least that's how I know global warming isn't completely killing us yet. It's only killing us a little.
Oh, and while I'm here, I'll explain my new signature. They're quotes from the characters in Legion Project, to give people a taste of their personalities. Ryu's the most normal out of the group so I had her saying something funny about Moira, who's always wearing boots. Gee, sounds like someone else I know... Moira's a very serious person so when Ryu acts weird, she just sort of sits there and tries to ignore her like she's doing in the quote. Zephyr's not from Earth so she has no idea what plastic is. Or what China is for that matter too. And... I'd explain Kindred's quote, but I don't want to spoil too much of the story. It'll explain itself when we meet her later.
Welp, I've got to get to work. Bye for now!

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23035772/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/23035772/ Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:22:01 PST XD
Alrighty, here I go!

1.) I have never dyed my hair. I've only gotten highlights and the stuff you rinse out. The rinse out stuff was usually blue or red, and me and my mom got into a big fight over it once since she hated me doing it. I would LOVE to get highlights again since I looked really good with parts of my hair a lighter shade then it was, but as I am a working college student, all my money goes towards books.

2.) I get paid more than my dad. He makes around $7.50 or something, and I make $9.20 an hour. This doesn't exactly seem fair to me since he's worked at the same grocery store for over three years now, and they shuttled him from his last department to the other so the company had an excuse not to give him a raise. Yes, Stop and Shop is evil to it's people.

3.) I actually think my life story would be better then any book I could ever write. It's insane!! It's takes me over TWO HOURS just to tell it to my friends because so much crap has happened to me and my family. I'm not going to write it here since it would take forever. Maybe later...

4.)I wear glasses! And I LIKE them! First off, they help me see where the hek I'm going, and second, they draw attention AWAY from my chest and towards my face.

5.) In response to above comment, I will now inform you of my chest size: I am a DD38. Hurrah. Fuck you, genetics!

6.) I'm getting used to the color pink again. I was such an anti-girl growing up (I hated barbies, made believe I was a dinosaur, ect.), that I insisted that I hated pink. Now, not so much. I found out that the right color pink can make you look less pale, which is always good in my skin tone since I'm practically vampiric, so I'm giving it a shot. Just not too much of it or else I'm pretty sure I'll run screaming from my wardrobe.

7.) My mom is my best friend, and I'm her's. We can talk about anything at all and not feel uncomfortable. Like, I can ask her as many questions about sex as I want and it's not awkward at all. It's kind of like having one of my highschool friends in the house all the time since once we start talking, it's hard for us to shut up.

8.) I don't shut up. I am THE biggest chatterbox you will ever meet, though I do know when to shut my mouth unlike other people that I know. I can talk about absolutely anything too as my friend Karen would completely attest too. Hek, I've had conversations about the color yellow!! Although that had a reason behind it so...

9.) I have had more medical issues then I can count. But I can list the big ones in the next number!

10.) I was born premature by two months so that's one big hurdle down. My lungs are crap; they fill up with liquid at the drop of a hat and that's when I run for the nearest restroom to cough my guts out. I have the weakest ankles in the world. Because of this, I've had to have a diet high in calcium for a good third of my life. Cheese is my best friend. I sneeze and my period is late by four months. And all this is because I was born premature! Isn't life grand?

11.) This medical issue is listed separate because it caused a chain of events. I had an ovarian cyst (WORST DAY OF MY LIFE!! HANDS DOWN!!!) March 29th, 2006, which has caused me to not have a regular period up until the present.

12.) Because of said irregularness, I was put on birth control. Which promptly drove me crazy because the hormones were too strong for my little premature body. I had insomnia for two years thanks to that crap.

13.) I was cured of my insomnia two months after moving into college! YAY!! NO PILLS!! Don't really know how, I just went to bed one night without taking anything and I've been fine ever since. Weird, right?

14.) The older I get, the more earth-crazy I get I've noticed. I turn off all the electronics and lights whenever I leave a place, make sure the shower head doesn't drip, don't leave the water on when I brush my teeth, recycle like crazy, and am totally against owning a car. I check all the stuff I buy at stores too to make sure there isn't anything crazy in them.

15.) Despite all this, I STILL don't know whether my using hairspray (non-aerosol) is eating the ozone. I am SUCH a hypocrite!

16.) I love, love, love legends and myths. Absolutely ADORE them! Especially Asian ones lately. I used to be really into Greek and Egyptian ones during middle school and my early years in highschool. Then I found out how crazy the Asian ones were and started getting into those.

17.) I'm pretty sure if I hadn't gotten into anime and manga, I wouldn't be drawing. Growing up, I was taught that drawing was still lifes and self-portraits, but once I started trying to draw anime-style, it kept me... ]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/22960496/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/22960496/ Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:17:47 PST You see, last Monday I went to the Student Career Center on my campus and took a look at the giant list of work-study jobs that were available on campus. One of them was a job where my friend in my dorm works at. So, I putzed around for the rest of the week, doing schoolwork and such instead of job-hunting. Friday rolled around and I decided to go to the gym then went to lunch afterwards. (I got to ride one of those bike-things! It was fun! And then I was all hyper on endorphine and adrenaline for the rest of the day! 8D )I met up with my friend there who just happened to be on her lunchbreak. I decided to go back to her job with her after her lunch break and talk to her manager. She works at an art gallery and it just so happens that the director is one of my former professors. Can someone say networking to the max? XD
Basically he just asked if I had work-study and hired me right on the spot! I start this week! Great, right?
Now I get to go to Anime Boston this year! YAY!!
But I got some bad news too. One of the soles of my favorite boots fell off so now I can only wear my sneakers. It's kind of funny though since my friend didn't even know I OWNED sneakers until I wore them to the gym! Yup, I do love boots... And now that I have a job, I can go out and buy some Dr.Martens like I've always wanted!
What a great way to start off the Chinese New Year...
I just hope it doesn't all go down-hill tomorrow. My little sister goes in for an MRI tomorrow as a follow-up to her scoliosis. The problem is that the doctors and stuff dragged their asses getting their act together so it's almost been two-three years since she had the surgery! If something's screwed up, it's a bit late now! The only thing I can do is hope they don't find anything. Again.
*bits fingernails*

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/22755405/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/22755405/ Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:48:06 PST Welp, I got fired from my job at the library. And not for nothing, but what a screwed up way to do it too. They didn't even give me any warning! Here's what happened:
On the last day of classes, I was supposed to get my schedule for work next semester but they weren't done with them yet so I had to wait. I waited the entire four weeks of break, and I didn't get a single phone call or e-mail about my schedule. Around last week I just started to drop by the library to check my mailbox and it still wasn't there. I even e-mailed the schedule manager last week, and she didn't even bother to reply to me even though I specifically told her that I needed my schedule for this internship I might do at the art studio. So, I had my first class on Tuesday and the building is right behind the library and I thought to myself, "They have to have the schedule done by now! It's the second semester!"
I popped in, and saw that all the mailboxes had schedules in them. Except mine. By then, I was pretty upset. I mean, I signed everything that saud if I did a good job (which I've been doing imo, despite huge klutziness and the occasional flying book), and it was starting to look like they were trying to just ignore me until I go away. Seeing this, I went straight over to the schedule manager, and, doing everything politely and nicely, asked about my schedule. She told me that the head manager wanted to talk to me about it.
This was on Tuesday, and I waited until Wednesday to call the mananger to set up an appointment to talk to her about whatever she wanted to talk to me about. The first time I called, she didn't pick up and I left a message on her answering machine and then I went to my English 201 class. After class, I checked my phone (it's a two-three hour class) to see if I had any voicemail, and she hadn't called me back which I thought strange since she's usually pretty snappy when it comes to calling people back. So, I called again and this time she picked up and we set up an appointment for ten on Friday (today, atm). I just got back from that a little while ago, and they had "decided to let me go". They basically did it because they could afford to because they hired too many students, and they thought I wasn't doing a good enough job.
So now I have no job. How the hek am I going to pay for school?! I still owe them $300 dollars!! Although my parents are supposed to get a HUGE tax return (for people not living in the US, that's when you file your taxes and you get money back from the government. The poorer you are, the larger the sum, supposedly) but they're already buying me a book for my English class and my Biology books which is a whopping $300 right there! And I hate asking them for money, even if they do owe me $25 from a few months ago...
But there might still be hope yet! After kicking a few snowbanks in frustration (it's been snowing like crazy around here), I walked right into the newspaper office since I had seen an add for some paid jobs there and asked about them. There was only one guy there at the time (who looked like he had slept there or something >_>;; ), and he told me to come back around noon since all the information was locked up in someone's desk. I have a TON of newspaper experience from editing the student-run magazine for three years and running the interviews for that AND the radio show I helped with for a year so that should look great on my resume. They're also desperate for cartoonists so that's another thing in my favor. And I also have a friend who has a friend who works there, and that would give me plenty of insight and leverage. Hek yes! But I have a feeling it might be another editing position which would kind of suck since my friend told that they fire their editors all the time. I don't want to get fired from ANOTHER job after a semester! That would be just too screwed up.
But still, back to the library firing. What a messed up way to fire someone! They just jerked me around for a good five weeks and then set me loose! I want to be mad, but I kind of already got over since I've been expecting to be fired since my performance meeting a month ago. And I do feel they were a little unfair to me since my talking kept coming up as a nuisance when other people talked just as much as me when I was around. People stand around and have conversations all the time! Just because they were higher ups doesn't mean the rules don't apply to them! Ridiculous... Well, there's not much I can do about it now.
And there are some upsides to this as well. No more having to go to work at eight in the morning! No more having to do guard duty downstairs! NO MORE HEADACHES FROM DUST!! Whoo-hoo! AND NO MORE GETTING HIT ON BY FAT DUDES WHO THINK I'M CUTE! YES-NESS ON A FREAKING FUDGE BROWNIE!!
Now, onward! To a newspaper job!!!

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/22713146/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/22713146/ Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:49:40 PST Lots of things have changed. I'm in college as an English major. It's a little daunting, especially since it doesn't seem that there are that many English majors that are my age... A lot of them seem to be juniors or sophmores or something along those lines. It seems I'm hanging out more with the art and nursing majors it seems. Wonder if that's a sign...
I got a job at the library. But things have happened, results have ensued, and I have a feeling I'm going to be fired or laid off very soon due to management's not liking me that much... It's all good though, I've already got two-three other jobs lined up. One is at the college's newspaper (something geared a lot more towards what I do) and another is at the art gallery (something I could in my sleep due to all the past experience I have at New Urban Arts). But yeah, I'll try to keep this updated...
But yeah, poor Legion Project. I started it during break when I had all the time in the world, but now that I'm back in school I don't have the time to devote four hours a day to painting. I have about half an hour during classes to devote to art after internet, studying, and eating. So, the next page will probably have to wait until spring break or until when I get lucky with time. But I'll most likely keep up with the Suites Weekly Art Challenge and whatever cartoons I draw. If I get that job at the newspaper, I'll most likely be drawing cartoons so I'll put those up.
And... I think that's it. Bye for now!

]]> *RyuRedwings http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/18529780/ http://RyuRedwings.deviantart.com/journal/18529780/ Tue, 27 May 2008 15:37:18 PDT Anyway, I wandered around on the internet a little but after that and calmed down. I realised I'll be able to finish everything; I'll just have to work my ass off tonight inking two drawings (one finished in pencil, the other not) and the next couple of days on my math and tomorrow on my graduation speech. I REALLY hope I can finish it in time!!!!
>_<

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