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http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/17655643/ Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:29:06 PDT
So the teacher I ended up talking to yesterday is like THE illustrator at our uni, and here's me bringing along my little sketch book filled with doodles and roughs. I swear I went bright red when she asked to look at it - I was freaking out big time!

BUT...
she said it was really good work, and I got the go ahead to do a cover and three double page spreads of a graphic novel to put in my portfolio! I'm so excited (and more freaking out) because an illustrator I really respect said I was good, AND this is the portfolio lots of people from the industry will come to see at the end of the year. I mean, obviously I'm pretty happy with all my other graphic design things that will end up in it, but to actually get to put my art in there too is just SO COOL!!



Projects
*MarikLover666 chocolate icecream
~MokubaLover cake!
~nynn hot chocolate affogato
Toner crazy pic
Collab with *MarikLover666


]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/17551065/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/17551065/ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:57:52 PDT
I'm excited! Not only do I get the whole weekend off work AND get to miss my ever so dull Design Honours seminar on Thursday afternoon, I get to hear people from Pixar talk! And Amy Sol, who's art is gorgeous ([link]) And a whole bunch of us nifty cool graphic design types are road tripping up. It's a gonna be AWESOME!

Also, I actually appear to be on top of all my uni work at the moment (how on earth did that happen?) Like my project due next Tuesday, I actually have all printed and photographed.
So I'm feeling a bit creatively restless, and the only art piece I feel like working on at the moment is on my other computer and involves all sorts of complicated screen tone stuff, so I'm putting it off....

So, who want to do a collab with me??
(wait, how did I mentally jump to that?)
I'll do it with the first person who wants it. Hooray!! Let's do something fun!!



Projects
*MarikLover666 chocolate icecream
~MokubaLover cake!
~nynn hot chocolate affogato
Toner crazy pic
Collab??

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/17417852/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/17417852/ Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:20:59 PDT
So here's a poem about tea (that I'm using for a coffeebook project about tea...) by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea.
Only in the awareness of the present,
can your hands feel the pleasant warmth of the cup.
Only in the present, can you savor the aroma,
taste the sweetness,
appreciate the delicacy.
If you are ruminating about the past,
or worrying about the future,
you will completely miss the experience of enjoying the cup of tea.
You will look down at the cup,
and the tea will be gone.
Life is like that.
If you are not fully present,
you will look around and it will be gone.
You will have missed the feel,
the aroma,
the delicacy and beauty of life.
It will seem to be speeding past you.
The past is finished. Learn from it and let it go.
The future is not even here yet.
Plan for it,
but do not waste your time worrying about it.
Worrying is worthless.
When you stop ruminating about what has already happened,
when you stop worrying about what might never happen,
then you will be in the present moment.
Then you will begin to experience joy in life.



Projects
*MarikLover666 chocolate icecream
~MokubaLover cake!
~nynn hot chocolate affogato
Easter picture??

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/17311192/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/17311192/ Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:34:40 PDT [link]), and I thought the advent of me getting my hair cut yesterday warranted the actual taking and putting up of said photo.



See, I'm musing. Cause he's my muse.

And you prolly can't tell, but I got mah hair dyed-ed PURPLE! ok, well, only streaks of purple down the sides so I can tie it up for work and the boss can't tell. But PURPLE! With a dark dark brown base. My dad says I look Japanese. But then, he just went to Japan over the weekend for a conference, so he probably has Japanese girls on the mind. Lucky man, was only in Japan for 4 days and got to see Geisha. I was there for 2 WEEKS and didn't see one.



Projects
*MarikLover666 chocolate icecream
*MokubaLover cake!
~nynn hot chocolate affogato
Easter picture??

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/17183163/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/17183163/ Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:35:13 PST
Classs are pretty good. I'm in my final year of uni, so we're pretty much allowed to run free on what we design - with the exception of our first project which is called "Heartspace", where we have to design something that is good for our heart, like saving the environment, promoting women's rights, encouraging healthy eating etc etc I'm doing a Manners and Etiquette booklet for customers at cafes lol - douchebag customers are very close to my heart. Treat your wait staff nicely or they'll spit in your food! (j/k, I've never done that....yet )

I'm also doing a coffee table book, and for Honours some big essay with photos that is going to be published at the end of the semester in a book with everyone else doing honours work. I'll be a published academic

Free time is running pretty smoothly too. Drawing stuff (hopefully get to do a comic book for one of my projects this year!) and hanging with friends. ~nynn came over on the weekend and we made crepes Japanese style (read full of cream and berries) and watched live action Sailor Moon. Good times

Oh yeah, I am also now in the possession of a small plastic tiger whom I have dubbed Jasper who is apparently my creative muse for this year (teachers have weird ideas for class exercises). He's pretty demented looking, but what can you do. I'll try and put a photo up of him if anyone is interested.



Projects
*MarikLover666 chocolate icecream
*MokubaLover cake!
~nynn hot chocolate affogato

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/16987692/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/16987692/ Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:11:36 PST in your collection."?? or "Thanks for the collection add?"

It's all very confusing

And to anyone who had troubles with the previous journal layout, I hope I fixed the colour issues now. Should be easier to read....



Random Search Art Tag

Tagged by
RULES:
1) Answer the questions below.
2) Take each answer and type it into the dA search box.
3) Take a deviation from the first page of results (may use "popular" or "newest") and post the thumb (for subscribers) or link (non-subscribers).
4) You can't copy the answers of the person who posted this before you.

1. The age you will be on your next birthday: 23. So old!




2. A place you'd like to travel to: Nottingham




3. Your favorite place: Harajuku!




4. Your favorite object: my laptop




5. Favorite food: chicken cacciatore




6. Your favorite animal: white tiger




7. Your favorite color: red and purple




8. The town/state/etc. in which you live: Canberra




9. Name of past pet: robbie




10. A dream come true: living in Japan




11. Your nickname/screenname: kat




12. Middle name: don't have one




13. Favorite Smell: daphne
*elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/16924398/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/16924398/ Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:41:09 PST

In other news, go and see the movie Jumper - someone gets a bus thrown at them. Hilarious!



Projects
*MarikLover666 chocolate icecream
*MokubaLover cake!
~nynn hot chocolate affogato

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/16787960/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/16787960/ Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:23:25 PST Or maybe I'll draw a picture to the person who gets 10,000?
Anyway, I'm pretty stoked I'm actually getting there. I figure by the time I actually get there I might have finished all the pictures I owe people lol

Apologies to everyone, I've been a bit slack on the DA front the past few months. I blame it on my crazy over-workedness. Basically all us uni students have been working full time (30-50 hours a week) at Koko over our holidays, and our only reward has been staff cutbacks by head office. Had a bit of a spack at a work mate yesterday, and he's calmed me down enough to realise I'm trying to do too many things. So, resolving now to have more me time and stop taking on so many things in my very limited free time.

Staring with drawing more! And then watching bad japanese dramas. Currently addicted to Hanazakari no kimitachi e (To you in Full Bloom) - I love Nakatsu! His confusion over loving Mizuki (who is a girl disguised as a boy, but he doesn' t know that) is just so cute!

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/16558995/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/16558995/ Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:54:42 PST
Had an awesome time my last few days in Japan. Met up with some friends who were strangely also in Japan, and did karaoke (Mari - I sang Keep the Faith! KAT-TUN rocks!! ) with them. Got addicted to Matcha Au Lait, which is green tea with milk (brought some back to Australia ). Visited Ieyasu's tomb in Nikko - he was the first shogun in Japan. Went to Hakone and saw Mount Fuji while eating sulpher cooked eggs - each one extends your life by 7 years! (apparently) Walked along old Tokaido Road in 30cm of snow. Shopped in Harajuku and bought punk clothes from H (my new favourite designer, H. Naoto) and saw many many Goth lolis. Ate massive chocolate parfait, and creamy strawberry crepes.
Yeah, it was rocking

Got back last night and crashed after almost 24 hours of travelling to get home.

Then today my boyfriend took me out for a picnic at the botanical gardens. And...well, proposed to me so, yeah, I'm engaged now *still slightly in shock* I have a shiny diamond and sapphire ring. We're going to wait til I finish uni at the end of the year before talking about actual wedding.

So that's my big news. *super blush* I feels all warm and fuzzy inside.

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/16449685/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/16449685/ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:48:36 PST
Oh noes! My subscription expired while I'm over here! Forgive the lack of pretty in this journal, I'll fix it when I get back to Australia.

Still rocking it out in Japan. We're heading over to Tokyo today, and meeting up with some other friends who happen to be in Japan to do karaoke. It'll be weird meeting other Aussie friends in a foreign country.

BIG NEWS! I ate sea salt flavoured ice cream - just like from Kingdom Hearts!! Ok, so it didn't look the same, but it was still awesome! I'll upload photos when I get back. Also try tofu and eel flavoured ice cream - eel was disgusting lol.

Hope everyone is all good! I'm letting all the deviations pile up in my inbox until I get home. warui warui

Ciao my lovelies!!

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/16339283/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/16339283/ Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:00:33 PST !!
Hello from　J-pan land,　where the keyboards are oh so confusing! I keep hitting the wrong button and turning everything to Japanese, and all the buttons are in the wrong place!!

~nynn and I are having a rocking time. Today we went to a floating garden observatory where you go up in a glass elevator and this awesome space age glass escalator that overlooks Osaka city. We also did some hardcore shopping - I've never seen so many major designers in such a small space! Lous Vuitton, Chanel, Dior, Dolce and Gabana, Ralph Lauren, Marc Jacobs, just everywhere. Completely out of my price league, but still fun to look at. We're still hunting for the Vivienne Westwood shop around here though.

I'm staying in a totally sweet guesthouse, which only has other australians in it at the moment for some weird reason. But it's all traditional like, and we sleep on tatami and walk around in yukata. Tomorrow I'm going to try my hand at making dinner as Chris (the owner of the place and awesome chef man) has left out some cook books for me. Braving a Japanese supermarket is fun and scary! Today we bought green tea flavoured Kit Kats.

Hope y'all looking after yourselves. I may not be drawing much while on holidays, but I'm gathering some awesome art supplies and taking some (hopefully) cool photos. I'll try to upload something soon.

Ciao my sweeties!

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/16167998/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/16167998/ Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:27:33 PST
This will probably be the last chance I get to update this year, so I thought I'd jot down some thoughts on the year that was. (warning, long, possible inaneness ahead full of all the personal tidbits I normally avoid)

Well there were ups, there were downs, tears and lots of laughter. In the end though, I'm really happy with how this year has gone. Yes, I had do deal with some pretty sh**ty stuff, but looking back I think it was stuff I had to go through.

Back in 12th grade, I went through some pretty awful stuff with some people I considered to be very close friends, and that really tore me up. At the time I compared it to having my "wings" broken. Apart from my lovely boyfriend and my bestie friend, I didn't really have any close friends. Things were okay, but always in the back of my mind was this unease, a worry that people would hurt and betray me again, and even my boyfriend would comment that I wasn't the same happy go lucky girl I had been in high school.

Then this year I lost a friend who, in a very short time, I had come to think of almost like a sister. She taught me a lot of things like how to wear makeup and miniskirts, and let me write trashy stories with her like I had done in high school. We fought a lot, but when things were going smoothly I though I was happy.

It didn't really come as a shock when we stopped talked to each other though. My true and loyal bestie had already had jack of her, and even my boyfriends endless supply of patience was running dry, and I have a lot less tolerence than both of them. The fall out was spectacular though, and from what other people tell me my old friend's life continues to be a spectacular escapade. On the off chance that this actually gets back to her, the only thing I have to say is Please, look long and hard at where things are going, and surround yourself with people who really care about you - not people who are going to say yes to you because they are scared of losing you or jump up and down at every slight on you because they want to prove how worthy they are of you. You deserve better.

I really thought when this magnificentcollapse happened that I would feel hurt and betrayed all over again, that I would close myself off even more than I had after high school. And yet...I feel good. I found myself surrounded by the most wonderful and caring people, friends like I have never had before. I feel like after all these years I've actually recovered my "wings" as it were. Life is wonderful and fun, and I love all the people I'm close to. While I know that painful things might happen again, that people I care about might hurt me I'm no longer scared of it. Life goes on, all wounds heal and I am finally myself again.

Some thoughts for 2008 - from George Carlin

Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle.

Enjoy the simple things.

Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge .

Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.

Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER :
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away .


All The Best in 2008
-Katya

*elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/16049703/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/16049703/ Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:37:39 PST

I totally thought I wasn't going to, but I got the letter in the mail today Because I've been working so much, it was the first time I got to check it all week, and there it was! I'm so excited!! It's like an early Christmas present!!

Well, the real point of this journal was to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. My darling boss gave me today and tomorrow off, so I can go up to visit my family early. He also gave me an Emily the Strange clip purse for Christmas, and my other boss (the head honcho guy) gave everyone $20 gift cards to use at JB Hifi. I love-s my work...even if I did just work 3 weeks of 45 hours+. Oh oh, and I bought this awesome Christmas tree made out of chocolate from work for the centrepiece of our Christmas lunch.

Anyway, I've somehow managed to go over my 20 gig download limit for the month (curse you Mari! You got me addicted to Yukan Club!!), so my net's running very slow and I won't be able to comment on anyone's pictures, journals etc til after Christmas.

Have a happy and safe Christmas everyone~

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/15641878/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/15641878/ Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:24:39 PST

So yes, been very very busy! But in a good way. Many birthdays, dinners and Christmas parties to attend! Also, my very good friend who lives in Melbourne came up to visit this week, so ~nynn and I have been entertaining her. I took her up to Batemans Bay on Monday with some work mates (the closest beach to where I live, only 2 hours away lol) which was SO MUCH FUN and we've been shopping lots, and today we went to the zoo! So apart from ducking onto facebook briefly to update silly silly photos I really haven't been on the internet much.

Oh yeah, and I have a wicked burn mark on my hand. I'm learning to make coffees at work, and smacked my hand against one of the steaming wands. Painful, but I get to tell people I burnt myself learning firebending lol. I'm very sad.

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/15415424/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/15415424/ Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:57:02 PST There was free wine and champagne, and nibbles too.

I think we went a bit over board. Mum got lots of books for preschool and some cds and stuff, and I got an awesome little book about Tokyo (for when ~nynn and I go in January) and some cookbooks so I can reference food pictures. I'm thinking about going back tomorrow to get The Great Big Glorious Book for Girls which has lots of handy coolness in it. I had a flip through it and one of the cool things I found was this...

How to set your inner body clock.
Before you go to bed, hit your head against the pillow the same number of times as the hour you want to wake up. If you want to wake up at say 6 o'clock, hit your head 6 times. If it helps, repeat "6 o'clock" to yourself outloud.

I want to try it! I'm going to do it tonight. I'll let you all know if it works or not
//edit - it works! ...kind of. I woke up at 6.30 instead of 7, decided it was too early and went back to sleep for an hour

Still working on peoples pictures. Drawing lots and lots at the moment!

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/15221983/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/15221983/ Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:53:21 PDT

So I just handed in my last project for the year. Cut it a little bit close - project was due in at 11.30. I left the house at 11.30 curse my need for sleep. If I hadn't gotten those 4 hours of sleep last night I wouldn't have been freaking out at 10 this morning about not getting my project done in time. But luckily the teacher wasn't at the drop in point so he didn't care that it was handed in 15 minutes late (must be a new record for the drive to uni btw). Luckily my lovely lovely boss gave me the morning off work so I had a few extra hours to work on the project too. I would have been a crazy stressed out mess if he hadn't (as opposed to the zombie streesed out mess I was lol)

And now I'm free! SWEET SWEET FREEDOM!!!
I don't have to go into uni for 4 months! And I don't even have to hang around campus this year helping an ungrateful brat move her furniture around residence or keeping her company. Mucho free time! I'm so excited I don't know what to start with lol.

I suppose I should start with doing these.....
1. chocolate icecream
2. cake!
3. a surprise
4. chocolate sundae
5 hot chocolate affogato

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/15095349/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/15095349/ Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:20:21 PDT
I feel bad that I've been neglecting my drawing so much this semester. Well, apart from the doodles I do down the side of my notes in really boring classes.

Anyway, I'm resolving now to do LOTS of drawing during the holidays. Even though I know I'll be working lots leading up to Christmas, and going to Japan in January. Got my passport in the mail today! Huzzah!

And I know it's a little behind, but I do still owe the following people drawings, and I'll get onto them as soon as I can.

1. chocolate icecream
2. cake!
3. a surprise
4. chocolate sundae
5 hot chocolate affogato

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/14878312/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/14878312/ Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:07:10 PDT
Then went to my main man Haydn-baby (guy I work with)'s house warming party - it was totally the bomb! Di (another person I work with) made all this amazingly good Vietnamese food. I wish I could cook that well!

But I'm inspired now (possibly by the good cooking, possibly by the lovely weather, and possibly from watching too much One Piece) to write down lots of notes on a cooking manga I want to do. Only 4 weeks until holidays and lots of drawing times!!

Word of the Day
bouleversement (pronounced bool-vair-suh-MAWN)
- complete overthrow, a turning upside down
"A complete boulversement of Halee's attitude was in order if she was to pass the exam."


And now, because I'm only a tiiiiiny bit obsessed - an Avatard Quiz!! From *lilfirebender

1. What is your favorite Avatar episode?

Tales of Ba Sing Se - I cried at the end of Iroh's story

2. What is your favoite Avatar character?

Zuko - no competition

3. Who is your favorite secondary character? (One who has only been in one or a few episodes.)

Suki! She kicks the major butt, and uses fans!

4. How many Avatar toys/videos do you own?
None T.T

5. Who would you be willing to kill to see all of season 3 right NOW?!
But I kinda like getting it week by week. Draws out the excitement

6. Which Avatar character would you be most likely to snog?
Zuko!!


Zuko portion.

7. Have you forgiven Zuko for betraying his poor Uncle?
Of course! Because I still maintain its all just an act to somehow overthrow his father/find out where his mother is/kick Azula's butt. I still believe in you Zuko!!


8. Do you believe Zuko will change sides? If so, which episode would you guess it happens in?
I'm guessing ....7 I think...whichever the one called "The Runaway" is.

9. Who do you think Zuko should end up with?
Katara!!! Because that fortune teller said she'd end up with a powerful bender, and Aang is just too obvious. And they have sizzling cave chemistry.
And because him and Mai just seem so fake. I mean he giggled with her for crying out loud. "You're so beautiful when you hate the world."???!!! WTF??


10. Do you believe Zuko will be/deserves to be the next Firelord?
yeaaaaaaaaah, I don't think he has it in him yet. Too much growing up to do still. I'm rooting for Iroh to be Firelord!

Aang portion

10. How do you think Aang will defeat the Firelord?
uuuhhh........I don't think Aang will. I think Azula will kill Ozai, and then Zuko will have to go up against Azula when he realises somehow its her fault their mother went missing? (or same idea, but insert Ozai instead of Azula in that last bit without him dying)

11. Who do you think Aang should end up with?
Toph!! No idea why. Because they're the same height?

Katara portion

12. Do you like Katara's character? (I must ask because everyone seems to either adore or hate her.)
She's alright I guess. When she's not being bossy or blushy over Aang or stuck up or emo over her Dad....

13. Who do you think Katara should end up with?
Zuko! See Answer 9


14. Will you still love/obsess over Avatar the same way in the 4th season, if the 4th season is written with all new characters? (There have been hints that Avatar will continue, but that the current character's stories will be over.)
Well I'd like to see the world continue. I guess if they could do it with the same awesomeness as these three seasons I would.

15. Who would you like to see play the main Avatar characters in the upcoming live action movie?
Who else could do Zuko but Dante Basco?? I have no idea who would do anyone else....

16. What is your favorite Avatarverse Animal?
Turtle-ducks! They're so cuuuuuuuuute

17. What is your favorite Avatarverse weapon/tool?
I liked Jet's hook swords.

18. Which type of bender would you rather be and why? Firebender, Waterbender, Airbender or Earthbender or Nonbender?
Firebender!! Because fire is an awesome element, and if you could control it properly you wouldn't destroy stuff AND get to play with lightning and YOUR TEA WOULD NEVER GO COLD!

19. Which completed season is your favorite, 1 or 2?..and do you think... ]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/14793901/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/14793901/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:11:50 PDT
Word of the Day
Moribund
Something literally or figuratively near death.
eg. "Until I became completely creatively moribund. That's right, moribund."

So I'm actually getting some drawing done (as some of you would have seen), though getting monsterously distracted by One Piece. It's so good!! I've also discovered Chai Lattes, a little behind the eight ball but they're super yum. So basically been drawing, watching One Piece and drinking chai lattes.

I'm also playing around with some Avatar sketches, because AVATAR IS WICKED FRESH! I'm so excited that season three is on! And that lovely internet people care enough about the people in countries where the second season hasn't even been shown on tv to stream things onto the internet. (I even had to buy a copy of the All Avatar comic off ebay because you can't get them in Australia). I'm still rooting for Katara and Zuko, I don't care what Mai has to say about the situation.

Thankyou to all the people I owe pictures to for being so patient with me. I'm actually starting to do some work on them, though they might not be ready until November since I have 5 assignments due in the next 4 weeks. But at least I'm working on them

And if anyone has a facebook page, please go and join the group "Facebook is the COOLEST thing ever" - it's part of a group assignment I'm doing about why Facebook is just so awesome.

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/14583774/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/14583774/ Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:21:17 PDT
I do love my job though. I had the day off today, but ducked in anyway and set my laptop so I could work on my magazine there. It's much nicer designing away in all that lovely wooden decour, with my friends and chatting all around, then sitting at home on the computer. I got free chocolate too! And I didn't have to pay for my drink! Perks of working at a cafe!!

Afterwards I went shopping, cause I've lost weight since starting working there (HA HA to the people who said I'd get fat), and had to buy new clothes. Yaaaaaaaaaa, nothing quite like shopping! I got lots of pretty stockings and socks - which is kind of silly now I think of it since spring is starting to set in. Then I remembered that I'm going overseas with mah bestest buddy ~nynn in January, so I'll have somewhere to wear them since it will be winter over there. Gotta be stylish in Japan!!

So on the art side of things, should have some designs up within the next few days, and then I'm going to draw gorramit. I know I still owe people pictures, thankyou for being so patient with me!

10 Days til Avatar

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/14344969/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/14344969/ Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:02:52 PDT [link]

Speech deteriorating. Too Fangirly. ZUKO!!!

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/14261606/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/14261606/ Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:52:14 PDT
Having an alright day so far. One of my uni buddies brought me a bouquet of lollipops which is just the sweetest thing ever. I'll take a photo when I get home and put it in scraps - make them for your friends! Pretty and delicious.

Haven't gotten many presents yet, but that's because my birthday tends to get dragged out over several days. My mum's buying me an ipod because mine broke last week, but there are no ipods in Canberra at the moment! Yeah, they're all sold out so no musiks for me at the moment. Lovely ~nynn got me an Emily the Strange makeup bag which has gorgeous lining. It's so soft. My boyfriend got me a pre-birthday present of Silver Needles, which is this special white tea that's uber expensive because it can only be picked once a year.

So going pretty fine and dandy except that I've fallen out with one of my really close friends. I won't go into the details, but I'm feeling kind of miserable about it. It's not nice to lose friends.

Haven't done much drawing lately - stuck on stupid magazine layouts for class. But holidays next week so *fingers crossed* I miss drawing.

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/13855323/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/13855323/ Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:03:30 PDT
On the upside, with all my overworking, I have much much money with which to buy A NEW CAMERA (spunky digital, marked down to $600 from $700) and I got another piercing in my ear. That makes three in my left and two in my right. Is coooooool.

I will definately be trying to do some drawing this Sunday, so I'm going to start on those food drawings I promised people.

Taggage
The Rules of this Tagging Game:

The 1st player of this “game” starts with the topic “6 weird habits/facts/dislikes about yourself”
and people who get tagged must write in their journals about their 6 weird habits/facts/dislikes as well as state this rule clearly.

In the end, you need to choose the next 6 people to be tagged and list to their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says “you're tagged” in their deviant page comments and tell them to read yours.

1. I think I can taste the difference between tea bags and loose leaf tea

2. I'm a wimp when it comes to needles

3. I hate having long nails that click when I type. It drives me nuts when I do it, but not so much when its other people...

4. I think my work is a lot more fun when there are no customers. Customers suck.

5. I finished Harry Potter on Sunday!! It was teh awesome. And no, I won't spoil it for you.... yet

6. It's my birthday in a month!!

I taaaaaaag

because she is awesome

because she always tags me

because she needs to change her journal

because he never updates anymore and I want to see if he's still alive

because I can!

because I bet she can come up with some really interesting stuff.


Inspire me with sweets!
The first 5 people to reply to this journal with their favourite sweet/drink/cafe style food will get a free anime style drawing from yours truly feturing said food. If it's something really obscure please include a link of it so I know what it is.
1. chocolate icecream
2. cake!
3. a surprise
4. chocolate sundae
5

*elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/13758706/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/13758706/ Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:13:55 PDT
Ok, so it's not actually National Honesty Day, but the morning show I'm watching is encouraging everyone to be honest today, in memorial of Stan Zemanek (an Australian radio personality) who died last week.

So I thought I'd pass on the message. Today everyone should be very honest with each other, and themselves, and say something you've been wanting to say.

My Honest Thing for the day is to say how much I love all my DA friends. You guys rock my socks.
Also a rock out to my most awesome friend ~nynn. She's always there when I need her, always makes me feel better, and is truly a beautiful person.



Inspire me with sweets!
The first 5 people to reply to this journal with their favourite sweet/drink/cafe style food will get a free anime style drawing from yours truly feturing said food. If it's something really obscure please include a link of it so I know what it is.
1. chocolate icecream
2. cake!
3. a surprise
4. chocolate sundae
5

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/13465937/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/13465937/ Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:04:06 PDT How will I tell people what I like? HOW???

In other news: I have a new job which is totally awesome. Yeah, things were going alright at the bakery but this new CHOCOLATE LOUNGE opened up in the city (Koko Black, for all you Melbournians and Canberrans) and I'm working there. It's very swish, and we make the best hot chocolate EVER! Check it out [link]

So that's inspired me a little. I'm working on a picture at the moment to do with sweet things, and I thought, hey everyone seems to be doing free drawings at the moment. And you know how I'm a fan of the bandwagon and jumping on it.....

Inspire me with sweets!
The first 5 people to reply to this journal with their favourite sweet/drink/cafe style food will get a free anime style drawing from yours truly feturing said food. If it's something really obscure please include a link of it so I know what it is.
1. chocolate icecream
2. cake!
3. ?
4. chocolate sundae
5

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/13286957/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/13286957/ Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:49:34 PDT Now that I'm officially on holidays, and have recovered from the evils of wisdom teeth extraction (which I won't go into detail, suffice to say I still look like I've been drawn on with bright yellow highlighter from the bruises) I might actually be able to start drawing again. w00t!

Anyway, back to the two years thingy.
I'd just like to say a BIG thank you to all my wonderful watchers and friends here on DA. You're the reason I stay here.
Keep up the awesome art work guys

//edit
I apologise for the use of "zomg" in my subject heading, and can only direct you to [link] for an explanation. It's corrupting my mind I tells you!!

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/13145318/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/13145318/ Tue, 29 May 2007 23:35:36 PDT
I'm surviving on very limited sleep, copious amounts of green tea, vege chips and chocolate scones pinched from work.

Only two days to go though. Then I'll be free. FREE! And I'll finally get around to commenting on everyone's pictures and journals etc. (And I'll be wisdom tooth-less, so I get a week off work too)

Anyway, just thought I'd let you all know I'm still here, lurking. And go watch Pirates of the Caribbean 3! It rocked my socks.

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/12746110/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/12746110/ Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:59:22 PDT [link] where basically we're trying to encourage people to take public transport or walk instead of driving places. Save the environment and all that jazz.

Anyway, to cut a loooooong and rant filled story short, they were also offering some prizes. One of them was getting your postcard published by AvantCard and sent all over Australia to promote these guys.

Guess who won??


Yeaaaaaah, I'm gonna be a published Graphic Designer.
(And I get $200, but that's just an added bonus)

I have to check with my tutor type people, but I'll see if I can get permission to put a copy of it up on DA.

So much awesome!!

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/12332038/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/12332038/ Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:28:56 PDT
But I was surfing the net (as I do) and went to check out the Tokyopop website to see when the next volume of Nosatsu Junkie comes out.
And I'm greated with this. [link]
Avril Lavigne's Makes 5 Wishes

I wept. My soul cried. WHY??

Ok, I'll admit, I don't really like Avril Lavigne anyway. (Especially after her theme song for that abomination that was the Eragon movie) But to make a manga, starring her as the girl's imaginary friend??

Let's look at this logically. Take out the Avril Lavigne factor. Girl's parents having marriage problems, girl withdraws and only has imaginary friend for comfort, mother tries to solve relationship problems by forcing girl to hang out with creepy old men. As far as stories go, it's not awful. Not terribly interesting and I'm sure it's been done before but we're not treading on anybodies toes here.

What really gets me is the art. It looks like someone has sat down, drawn a 5 second sketch, not even bothered to rub out the pencil lines, then slapped colour over the top of it. And, to quote one of the comments from the message board, I've seen closer eyes on a horse.

For all us struggling, aspiring manga/anime artists, I really think this is an insult. If I turned up to Tokyopop with such a lame manga I'd be thrown out before I got past reception. I'm really disappointed that a star would use her fame to endorse this, especially when there are so many talented artists out there who are trying really hard to get their art noticed. This really just seems like a money making endevour to me.

Well, to finish this rant, I think I shall showcase a few of the awesome comics available on the net that Tokyopop is ignoring.

Red String (ok, so Dark Horse recently picked them up, put that took aaages)

Alpha Shade

Patches

DMFA (and this isn't technically a manga, but I love Amber's work >.<

And of course, DA's very own Irrel with her awesome Avatar AU

If you have any other great online comics, or even DA people who you know do great stuff, leave a comment and I'll put them up.

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/12305806/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/12305806/ Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:54:51 PDT

First things first. I got a job again. WH~~~Y?? I've only done one training shift and already I miss my free time. I think I just got used to not working. Anyway, for you Canberra dudes, you can now find me at Belconnen Baker's Delight. I work in a bakery! So that's alright, especially seeing as I'm on a big bread kick from watching way too much Yakitate Japan.

Other news - the plug. My bestest buddy ~nynn is writing columns for SciFiFantasy Reviews ([link]). If you like sci-fi, fantasy, or just reading books, go check it out.

]]> *elphin-art http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/12189529/ http://elphin-art.deviantart.com/journal/12189529/ Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:32:07 PDT
3rd year is so so busy. I've got a postcard, poster, invitation combo due for graphic design next monday, a flash site and 2D mockup of the screens for GDT next thursday, an abstract and summation biography also on thursday, another mock poster, AND a 1500 word report.

...*streeeeeeeesssssssssssssssss*

On an up note, I got to see Varekai last night. My dad bid for some tickets at a charity ball for kid's with cancer, and he won. But then he realised he couldn't make it, so I got to go with my step-mum.

Wow, it was awesome. The costumes were just amazing, and the Icarus boy was just gorgeous in a birdy/flighty kind of way. And the last scene they were flipping people from one swinging board to another and over eachother. It was just insane.

And I got a t-shirt. YAY!!

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