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]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/25370149/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/25370149/ Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:55:52 PDT
Uploaded the color series, basic colors: yellow, red and blue.

Now why, do you ask, aren't I making any more digital paintings/ drawings that make me happy? It's not for lack of inspiration... okay, maybe it is that, but other than that I'm just a bit busy. Don't throw tomatoes at me yet! lol

Will make something to show you soon.

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]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/20401427/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/20401427/ Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:07:24 PDT
and more and more and more,

but aside from Princess Tiana being the first black princess, isn't she also the first American princess?

I mean, everyone else was from Europe. O___O And/or Asia, and none really from America (ah, well, Pocahontas, yeah? Native Americans.) Okay, so revise, the first modern American princess. Because Cinderella is from somewhere in Europe. Probably ireland, even if she doesn't speak irrlanski. XD Plenty of castles and shiz there.

But I really can't recall there ever being a monarchy in America, so I suppose this HAS to be the first modern American Princess. Lol. *thinks*

YEAH. EVERYONE ELSE SPOKE IN BRITISH ACCENTS.

XD

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/20320776/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/20320776/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:27:57 PDT

"The Princess and the Frog" will be the first Disney animated film to feature an African-American Princess (much like Jasmine, our Arabian princess, and Mulan, our Chinese Princess, to fend off the haters) and honestly the concept sketches I have seen are GEORGEOUS. It helps that Tiana (the princess herself SQUEAL) is absolutely beautiful, and I love her dress to bits.

Now do you get the feeling of lots of controversy surrounding this? There is. Lots of it. The original film, apparently, had the princess named Maddy, and she was a chambermaid. TOTALLY Disney, right? But suddenly people come around saying that it's a racial thing, and so they had to change it. That is so sad, I actually wanted to see some sort of transformation in the movie, and the chambermaid thing could have been just like a Cinderella sort of thing. Although I admit, Maddy isnt the best name for a Princess.

Anyway, it's just nice knowing that Disney's back to creating lovely lovely Princess films. I also can't wait for the Rapunzel teasers in 2010!

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/18848595/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/18848595/ Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:43:32 PDT
I've been very busy lately with a lot of things. That's a lie. I've just been too lazy to update this blog. XD In my defense, I have managed to make a lot of artwork in the past few months, some of which were much too big and/or much too insignificant to place here. And considering that this year I have a lot of FA subjects... expect me to post them in here, post-submission.

Lovely.

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]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/17295928/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/17295928/ Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:27:17 PDT
Schoolwork has not been kind. This week and the next are what we call "hell week", where suddenly all the profs get a love for 8-page papers and creative projects, sending us students into a downward spiral of doom. Huhu

It's simply horrible, I shall not be able to make 3 this semester. D: I shall die.

But I shall make something during Holy Week, I promise. Holy Week! Such reprieve!

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/17160469/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/17160469/ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:12:16 PST
Just a few moments ago, a friend randomly messaged me about the time. I proceeded in providing her with said information, and followed up with a question about her baby thesis.

Her response: "Are you a unicorn?"

My response: "Am I a what? O___O"

... and she proceeded in answering me with a load of ridiculous answers, like "in the cupboard". I made the assumption that this was another sick hacker, as I've had quite the experiences with hackers and wish never to repeat them ever again.

So I replied: "Who the fuck is this?"

Afterwhich said friend finally told me that it was a Crissey game.

You must understand that this was some scary shit. It's one thing to talk to an intelligent hacker and another to talk to an insane one. The latter not being a very nice experience and had me reduced to disturbing his/her spams with comments about him/her needing too much attention because he/she was neglected by his/her momma (the attention bit got the job done and he/she finally stopped). Either way, it's still some scary shit.

So please people, never go OOC on someone while online. You might just bring out stuff you don't want to know. Thanks.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/17098706/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/17098706/ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:27:27 PST
TT____TT

Spammed with schoolwork. Spammed with fiction-writing for CW class. Spammed with orgworks and required papers that I ALWAYS procrastinate. Spammed spammed spammed.

Yum. Spam.

I promise to myself I will make something this weekend. DX

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/16923403/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/16923403/ Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:06:21 PST
1. I am smitten! Go figure.
2. I PROMISE I shall update something un-recycled and completely new soon.
3. Not feeling at all well since this morning. It could be the once-a-month thing or I could be genuinely sick. Won't really know until tomorrow morning.
4. Ugly time to be sick. Have a report tomorrow, a quiz and finals for wushu.
5. I realize that I'm having a lot of fun in college, and that you can't have that unless you get the stress that comes with it.
6. I COULD go to boracay this summer... only, I am completely unconfident of my ability to look good in a swimsuit. So I shan't and settle for tagaytay with friends.
7. Have to look up recipes with chocolate in them for Iron Chef Tagaytay. Haha.
8. Happy S.A.D.!
9. I haven't seen DenYap all week. I mishoo DenYap!
10. Harold is selling me his Illustrated guide to Batman.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/16751989/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/16751989/ Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:59:11 PST
And asmuch as I'd like to not let this affect me, it is disturbing to know that such people exist. I always believed that there was inherent good in every single person... not people like this.

But then, high school should have taught me better.

I guess with a certain amount of fame you are destined to a certain amount of bashing, and it is this that makes me feel adequate just being where I am. And that beauty does indeed come with a price. Moral: never overadvertise yourself. It will only lead to a lot of trouble.
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IN OTHER NEWS: Um. Hi.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/16655714/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/16655714/ Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:38:21 PST
When I was younger I had a little poem published in the children's section of the national newspaper. I thought it was good at the time, and I even got recognized for it yadda yadda.

Heh, two years later I look at it again and want to tear my eyes out. So I hid it in the back of my mind to rot and shrivel until the memory of bad writing no longer existed.

The thing is, I've just recently found out that said newspaper had an online version of it, and is actually keeping tabs on its former issues. And today, a very good friend of mine happened to stumble across that horrible little poem that I made back when I was a wee fifth-grader.

Imagine my surprise when I check out his blog and find that thing splattered across the site. I turned pale. Seriously. The blood just rushed out of my face and I stared. I stared long and hard. I stared until my eyes bled, and then I screamed in frustration because it's back to haunting me.

"The love you will give will be..."

OMFG.

I haven't been drawing much lately. Or at least nothing major, seeing as my notebooks are full of the little doodles that I do-dull in every class I take. My most recent favorite subject is this character I made up named Juan Kapre and his friend Nana (who happens to be a manananggal).

For those of you who aren't familiar with Philippine mythology, a Kapre is basically a giant who sits under a tree smoking tobacco all day. Completely harmless if he's not provoked.

The Manananggal is a different story. The manananggal is a gorgeous woman by day, but by night her top half separates from her bottom half and she goes flying into the night with her black wings to seek out pregnant women. Then, with her long succubus-like tongue, she just sucks the babies out of them.

I don't know why I've suddenly taken an interest in the aswangs (demons), but the Philippine ones are just too cute. Mostly because they're a major part of our culture. I mean, people really don't like entering taxis in balete drive because they really do believe that a white lady will creep up behind them and scare their asses off. As I recall, a lot of our commercials are also built around philippine mythology.

Juan Kapre!

I've discovered the wonders of fast food fiction.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/16220978/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/16220978/ Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:15:22 PST
A hero who lives in a cementery.

The souls of monsters living in cats and dogs.

A particularly obtrusive cat-- an empty tomb.

Sleeping dinosaurs in the sea.

High waves making rainbows.

The waves are just television.

The sky is limited, a dome of blue and white screens.

The world is very small.

Very small.
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I realize lately that I'm going a bit too fast. I see my friends-- a lot of them are happily (not so much actually) working for other companies or doing freelancing jobs or whatnot, and heck, we're all only 19.

Sometimes I really wonder. What's the rush?

I try so hard to do my best in everything, sometimes when I think about it, I hardly have anything to say about my life other than study, draw and watch TV.

So for my new years resolutions:
1. Mediocrity is unacceptable.
2. Relax.
3. Have fun.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/16075479/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/16075479/ Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:09:50 PST
Just wanted to wish everyone a very merry christmas and a very happy new year! Whatever happened happened, and whatever is to come will come, so let's all just sit back, relax, and let the good times roll.

It's a new year, and so are we. Let's work hard, everybody! Fight to the end!

~megumi00

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/15789537/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/15789537/ Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:59:06 PST is yummy! XD Because she helped me with my Filipino homework and I absolutely suck at it. SO GO VISIT HER NOW!!



So this christmas, she's getting gift art!

Ah, am accepting challenges and art trades now, by the way. Feel free.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/15747348/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/15747348/ Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:59:49 PST
So I have decided to do something a bit different. My 3 recent illustrations portray this quite well I think, that I will no longer try to be Japanese but be true to my own nationality as a Chinese and as a Filipino.

Try. Try. Try, and I think this is the best way for me to achieve my own style.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/15688583/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/15688583/ Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:51:41 PST
I'm constantly being reminded of how awesome my friends really are.

Thank you!

Back to work!

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/15489833/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/15489833/ Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:44:02 PST
It is true that good artists get a lot of pageviews, but not because they "worked" for it. Quite the opposite, their pageviews are the result of their art skills, and not in their advertising. I have seen a lot of people (I will not mention any names) post such advertisments on my frontpage, and while I do not mind visiting their galleries, I only ask that they do not post their little ads on MY frontpage. A note would be nice. Or perhaps a link on his/her signature.

But I do not appreciate pure ads. My frontpage is not a forum.

There are quite a lot of great artists in deviantart that are not given their due pageviews, not because they do not advertise, but because this site seems to veer on the anime/western/borderlineporn pop culture. Again, if you take a gander at the recent favorites on the home page of deviantart, you would see quite an abundance of avatar, full metal alchemist, bleach, naruto, or any random anime pinup girl.

I am all for the fanart and the prOn, but please. Visit the ones on the featured pages. They're very good.

And yes, I do agree that having pageviews feels nice. It feels great to reach 10K, but I think the most gratifying thing of all is knowing that the people who visit my site actually LOOK at the work, and more importantly, give comments.

Another thing, while I really like receiving things such as "nice!" and "cute!", I much rather appreciate the ones that critique the work. Point out mistakes, give suggestions on improvement, give a little insight, perhaps share a story related to the work, or even ask a question.

Pageviews aren't bad. But I find that wasting space on someone else's page is exactly that. Wasting space. If you do not have anything important to say other than "Please visit my gallery" (which, again, I stress, a hundredfold, should be in your signature) then don't waste your time or mine. Thanks.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/15378281/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/15378281/ Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:43:44 PST
I'm thinking of getting painter. The colors of photoshop are just too limited. Either that or I just suck. Haha.

Need to study more. :<

Practice practice practice.

I want to go ice skating.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/15167800/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/15167800/ Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:46:24 PDT
Well, I could blab on about sembreak so far and about how much fun HK was, but I'm too lazy to do even that. See what sembreak has done to me.

I am working on Halloween piece right now. Hating it. But I shall stick to my guns and try again tomorrow. Right now I think I am spent. Wakoo. I'm missing my coursemates. DX Hello coursemates~

The Disney Princesses don't have ears. Haha.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14995021/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14995021/ Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:18:06 PDT
Improve your artistical skills with 100 drawings, each one focusing on one of the themes on the list. Stolen from Parker. Will make it my pseudo-project this sembreak.

--- THE LIST ---

1. Introduction
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Away
9. Cut
10. Breathe
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Spit
17. Blood
18. Under
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. War
22. Mother
23. Distastefull
24. Want
25. Lurking
26. Europe
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Urban
30. Rain
31. Flower
32. Night
33. Wrath
34. Moon
35. Walk
36. Precious
37. See
38. Abandoned
39. Dream
40. 4:29 PM
41. Citric Acid
42. Still
43. Die
44. Two Roads
45. Two Guns
46. Drop
47. Dirt
48. Young
49. Preservatives
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Old
53. Desecrate
54. Tower
55. Need
56. Biohazard
57. Sacrificial
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Desert
61. Fairy Tale
62. Voodoo
63. Do Not Disturb
64. City
65. Horrorific
66. Snow
67. Drum
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mislead
73. I. Can't.
74. Confrontation
75. Mirror
76. Broken
77. Testament
78. Drink
79. FUCK [if this theme offends you, you may do the alternate theme "Balk"]
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. +
83. Heal
84. Cold
85. Sick
86. Seeing Red
87. Hunger
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drown
92. Rape
93. Iron
94. Soft
95. Advertisement
96. Storm
97. Safety
98. Puzzle
99. Alone
100. Gone
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Looks like fun, yeah?

Also, I have a challenge for all of you who are interested: DRAW AN UGLY GIRL. As in, the ugliest girl you could EVER think of. I DARE YOU. XD

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14922440/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14922440/ Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:34:40 PDT

But I find it so strange that in the middle of my not being able to think about anything else, I found little seconds of thought where I find myself drifting past everything to imagine little things. I hope I'll be able to illustrate these soon. Whahaha

There's a lot to think about.

I'm tired of playing games. Sometimes I just get nowhere.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14825008/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14825008/ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:34:02 PDT
Well, I really wasn't expecting anything, since my birthday's... well... today, as of now 12am haha. But a few hours ago I wasn't. It was quite embarassing actually, since I'm used to throwing people surprise birthdays/despedida's rather than receiving them.

So a while ago, I was peacefully doing my asian history research when I stepped out for a while to use the CR. When I came back, John and Chuchay were writing in one of those big birthday cards. It was quite funny, actually, since they hid it right away and I had a good laugh. But still, I assumed it was for Carina or Manman. I am dense.

A few seconds later, I spotted a very familiar head floating about outside the FA lounge. So I went to investigate and lo! Gin and Pao were there, with four boxes of pizza. Apparently the pizzas were for my birthday, so I brought the boxes inside and started inviting people to partake, and then continued with my research. A few seconds later I got to staring at the boxes and started to cry. Good thing no one was around when I did.

Logic of tears: Usually in a birthday, especially in Philippine culture, the birthday celebrant treats people to food and stuffs. I was already contemplating on ordering yellow cab to share to people even if I didn't exactly have money. I felt kinda unworthy that my friends would do something like that. And a bit inferior, like I should have done it myself really. Thank you.

And then Bea (I think) comes in and gives me the huge ass birthday card chuchay and John were signing earlier. And THEN in comes ID people and Paopei and Gingin singing happy birthday with cake and stuffs. Then Denise handed me a printed copy of the ten commandments (tablet #1, which made me keel over in laughter) and I think it was Gia who handed me tablet #2, ascorbic acid, which also made me keel over in laughter. And then I blew out the cake, and then Paopei pulls out this wrapped box from hyperspace, which made me kinda scared like; OMG DID THEY ACTUALLY GET ME A TABLET?!?!?

And they did. Needless to say I hugged it and almost cried again and was so friggin' happy I hid underneath the big ass card. Haha.

It was wonderful. Thanks to all the people who contributed and planned the thing, among them :iconismayleebaybee: and others who's DA accounts I cannot recall anymore. DX. I'm so unworthy, really. I shall use it forever and ever and ever and ever. I'm so unworthy to know you guys and to be your friends because, really, I haven't done anything in my life to deserv... ]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14769006/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14769006/ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:58:52 PDT
Stayed up until 4am this morning editing the final project for asian history. I shall pull off another all-nighter tonight, as I have a flash fiction and a scene for a play due tomorrow at precisely 10:30am. And I have absolutely nothing in my head that counts as an idea.

On wednesday I also have a presentation due (which means I'll have to read a chapter in Exploding Art) and another paper. On thursday, god forbid, I have nothing to do and will spend it sleeping peacefully before the weekend starts and my time is consumed by dinners, competitions, nstp, cheat sheets, and other stuff that I can't put my finger on at the moment.

WATCHED AVATAR BOOK 3 EPISODE 1 TODAY. CRAP. TOPH IS F*CKING HARDCORE.

Okay. Let's get to work!

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14734429/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14734429/ Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:14:19 PDT
Time to make Avatar fanart!! XD WHEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14697569/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14697569/ Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:07:04 PDT So I'll give a kiriban to whoever gets the 10,000th pageview. Haha.

In any case, I am failing. It is not a nice feeling.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14666884/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14666884/ Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:23:26 PDT - Shorty (Bust a Groove)
- Tifa (FF7)
- Toph (Avatar)

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14657664/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14657664/ Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:33:06 PDT It's so strange, and it's usually at around this time that I start drawing some good stuff. But I'm not going to, cuz' I'm just so friggin' HAPPY. XD

"It's 4am, the paperboy's at it again
but I can't get no sleep
I mean what's the point?
If I can't even dream up and dream
that's worth the keep
and so there's no need in even going
'cause I'm better off never knowing
the media's getting
pretty good at lying this time around
well I'm not buying

cuz' this life is a beautiful one!
and though I've seen it coming undone
well I know most definitely
that it's gonna be you, it's gonna be me so,
better keep your head up
keep it on the up and up and know
that you got all my
LOVE LOVE LOVE!!"

gave me this song around a year ago. It's been my favorite song ever since. It's so great to have such an optimistic view of the world.

Keep it on the up and up and know that you've got all my love love love!

I'll most definitely be skipping into class tomorrow.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14635277/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14635277/ Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:59:49 PDT
Well, I do. I'm a very mean person. I'm so mean I could actually be hateful. But none of you know that. Because I'm too cheerful to look mean. Mwahaha.

Bitch thought of the day:
For some reason the teen generations of today (13-16 year olds) are characterized by their overly emo-ness. It's best reflected in their music, apparently, with bands such as Simple Plan and Good Charlotte and Fall Out Boy. Not saying that these bands are BAD... they're just too EMO. As if they're going to cut themselves just because their "soul mates" don't know they exist. GAH. GET OVER IT!! Geez! [/bitchthought]

What ever happened to the Goo Goo Dolls and Vertical Horizon? DX

Today is the UP cosplay/concert event at the college of fine arts! I shall be going. Not to cosplay though, because I have no cosplaying costume to speak of at the moment. I'll be with the funkily-dressed ninja people though. We're going to stalk people! Hoohah! XD

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14542758/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14542758/ Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:03:12 PDT
Last week was Japanese week, so the Japanese classes/majors had a bunch of stuff lined up. One of my best friends asked me a while back to help hold an anime workshop, so I invited and to talk and give an anime tutorial, while and facilitated. Well, in this case, um... watch.

In any case, so we held it last monday, September 3, 2007. It was fun! A couple of the FA freshment came to sit in, and a relative number of people came to observe and ask questions yadda yadda. Thank you to all who came. Pictures can be found here. I'm the one in gray har har.

To those who missed it, I'm thinking of maybe holding a part II come next semester, when I might be taking up Japanese as my foreign language. I shall publicize it next time if I do.

The same week, friday, they held a jpop karaoke contest. The same best friend coerced me into singing our duet song (which was originally a triplet song, and we've been singing it since grade school) for it, and, waddayaknow, we won. O___O Don't know what we got since I left before they could announce the winners, but she called me and I was all WTF??

Misadventuring! XD

I'm almost at 10,000 pageviews pala. O___O I'll give a kiriban to the 10,000th pageviewer. Anything at all. Haha. Just send me a screenshot or a message or something.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14494743/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14494743/ Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:56:14 PDT
Ironically, progression comes from breaking these comfort zones, but only if the systems established within the zone no longer works in the constant bending of rules. People change. Thinkings change. Therefore systems change. They evolve to work better in a world who'se only goal is to change.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14449932/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14449932/ Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:51:37 PDT
I've been meaning to work on my nonexistent vector skillz anyway, and this is the best time to learn. Vectoring may be the convention of the 21st century.

I'll be working on these for the entire of September, then I'll move on to another project.
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Fransette: drawn/pictured
Anjali: drawn/pictured
Meggy: drawn/pictured

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14404277/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14404277/ Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:54:10 PDT She folded her paper cranes.

She stood on a bridge, under a blue sky. The cherry blossoms framed her, the wind loosening strands of her hair.
“Haruko-chan, good morning.” A man came up to her, his handsome face soft with a kind smile. She smiled back at him, her cheeks slowly flushing.
“Good morning, Nobuo-san.” She echoed, her voice almost a whisper.

Nine hundred and eighty cranes.

A woman in a scarlet kimono approached them. “Takeshi. Are we not on our way to the Noh Theatre? Good morning, Haruko-chan. Isn’t she looking especially sweet today?” she cooed, linking her arm with Nobuo-san’s. “Haruko-chan, where did you get that kimono? That exquisite shade of pink!”

Nine hundred and eighty-one cranes.

“I agree. She looks exquisite.” Nobuo-san nodded. “Haruko-chan, you have met my wife?”
“Of course. Good morning, Nadeshiko-san.” Haruko slowly bowed.
“There is no need for that, Haruko-chan.” Nadeshiko waved her hand as if swatting a fly.

Nine hundred and eighty-two.

“How is your grandmother, Haruko-chan?” Nobuo-san asked, taking his silver glasses off and wiping them with a kerchief he pulled out of his pocket.
“Much better since the last time you visited. Thank you for looking after my grandmother.”
“It is no problem at all. I enjoy my visits to your estate. The tea you serve is the best I’ve ever had.”
She smiled. The tea that she served was for him, and only for him.

Nine hundred and eighty-three.

“Yes, Haruko-chan. Where do you buy your tea? This man constantly talks about your home and this special tea. Why, if I’d had known any better, I’d say that he was married to tea instead of me!” Nadeshiko laughed like summer glass.
“It’s an old family brew. We grow it in our own gardens.” Haruko lied.

Nine hundred and eighty-four.

“Well, then permit me to come over one of these days and bring home a cutting of that plant. I just bought a lovely cutting knife from the store. I’m sure you will like it.”
“Of course.”

Nine hundred and eighty-five.

A paper flew by. Nobuo-san snatched it from the air. “Origami paper?” he laughed. “Why don’t you make Haruko-chan one of your paper cranes?” Nadeshiko suggested. “It’s a waste to keep paper flying in the wind.”
Nobuo-san laughed again. He folded the paper intricately. He offered Haruko the paper crane.

Nine hundred and eighty-six.

Haruko took the delicate thing in her hands. She lowered her face to hide her blushing.

Nine hundred and eighty-seven.

“They say that if you make a thousand paper cranes, the gods will be pleased and will grant you one wish.” Nobuo-san said.
Haruko looked up. “Is that true?” she asked desperately.
“Who knows?” Nadeshiko waved her hand again. “Takeshi, we’ll be late for the theatre. Come,”

Nine hundred and eighty-eight.

“It was good to see you, Haruko-chan.” Nobuo-san nodded.
“Haruko-chan, I look forward to cutting that plant.” Nadeshiko smiled.
“Yes. Farewell, Nobuo-san.” Haruko bowed.
And they walked away.

Nine hundred and eighty-nine paper cranes.

A thousand paper cranes will have the gods grant me one wish, Haruko thought to herself.

Nine hundred and ninety paper cranes.

She folded the paper cranes in the solitude of her room.

Nine hundred and ninety-one paper cranes.

Please make Nobuo-san be mine. Please kill Nadeshiko-san.

Nine hundred and ninety-two paper cranes.

Please make Nobuo-san be mine. Please make Nobuo-san be mine. Please make Nobuo-san be mine. Please make Nobuo Takeshi mine. Please make Takeshi mine. Please kill Nadeshiko-san. Please kill Nadeshiko-san.

Nine hundred and ninety-three paper cranes.

“Haruko-chan! Are you here?” Nadeshiko’s voice came from beyond the thin screen door. It opened. Nadeshiko entered the room. “Haruko-chan. I’m sorry to disturb you. I came to cut that plant you were speaking of. Haruko-chan?”
She kept folding her paper cranes.

Nine hundred and ninety-four paper cranes.

“Haruko-chan. Ah, I see you are folding paper cranes. How wonderful,” she sat behind Haruko.

Nine hundred and ninety-five paper cranes. Please kill Nadeshiko-san.

“I brought the cutting knife I mentioned before,” Nadeshiko took out the knife from her sleeve. She admired it. “Ah, if only you would get out of your trance, Haruko-chan, to see this knife. It is lovely.”

Nine hundred and ninety-six paper cranes. Please ki... ]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14377719/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14377719/ Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:07:15 PDT
Everyone's hyped up about Hana Kimi. :3 I loved the manga, so I decided to check out the japanese drama version this afternoon. I LOVED THE FIRST EPISODE. It's so adorable, very well done, very well directed. XD Super cute and super funny. Can't wait to see more mwahaha
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Haruko is done! XD Her story is still in conceptualization. I'm having fun with this portfolio. Whahaha.

Next is Fransette.

Ah. So much to tell. But so little words to say them. And watching is fun, but is it enough?
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Mirai yori mo, ima ga kanjin
uruwashi haru no koi wa
hanasaku ottome no bigaku!

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14281567/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14281567/ Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:42:34 PDT
then

sploosh!

attitude was given

but

I was happy again.

then

sploosh!

my thighs got red

but

I was happy one more time

then

sploosh!

teachers went mad and the rain fell

And when I was down

it went

pop!

and I was happy again.
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Expect to see more of these "day poems" that don't really make much sense to anyone else but me. XD I think I shall compile them into one big journal entry. Whaha.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14253521/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14253521/ Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:46:38 PDT
I entered into this course not knowing what I wanted from life. I only know that I wanted to draw, and spend a good deal of my life drawing or doing fun creative stuffs for other people. Now I wonder if I knew what I was getting myself into.

When I was a kid, I had dreams of working for Disney and making classic animations like Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella. When I stumbled upon anime, I decided that my future lay in manga and anime character design. In high school, I thought that my entire life could be spent editing the pages of a magazine. Now, I'm not really sure.

I mean, what could you do with degrees in Information Design and Creative Writing? Not much, I can tell you that. I guess it was also a way to delay the "real world", because I knew that I wanted to get into art grad school and eventually get a doctorate's degree in fiction writing. What do you do after all that, then?

That's why it's refreshing to see people who know where they want to go and what they want to do. There are so many talented people in the world. Drifting from dream to dream, I can only imagine what future lies in store for me.

Sometimes I wonder if I've made the right choices in life so far. Wondering makes reality hit a lot harder, yeah?

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14240647/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14240647/ Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:57:40 PDT
I'm wondering if I can pull off cosplaying as Toph. And if I do, where I would get the materials to make the costume. And if I could make the costume. Haha.

Love pentagons are fun to watch. n___n

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14231493/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14231493/ Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:33:49 PDT
I find it funny that no one really mentions meeting God. But putting religion aside, I've never really known what my idea of heaven is. Many times I wonder if I'll just be put in a blank room, and I'd have to paint the entire thing myself. I think I would end up with something bland and fake, and I'd end up in limbo anyhow. Maybe I'll paint the people I love the most on the walls. Or my high school. Or chocolate.

And then, last night, I found my heaven.

My family and I had just come from a cousin's 2nd birthday party. We were all pretty full and it was six o' clock on a saturday, so we decided to go to Serendra to see what was there. On our way, we spotted the new Fully Booked building, the biggest Fully Booked in the Philippines. We haven't been there yet, so we decided to check it out.

Stepping in, I awed at the distinct Fully Booked interior. The bookshelves still weren't labelled right, so I had to go around looking for books by author in alphabetical order without any guide whatsoever. I found my Jostein Gaarder books, "The Solitaire Mystery" and "The Orange Girl", and held them so that I'd get them later since they were the last copies in stock.

I looked around for the other book that I wanted to get. I've been looking for "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" for a while now, and I figured that it would be another while until I step into a bookstore, so I decided to get it right then and there. I searched through four floors. I found dictionaries, almanacs, CD's, Newberry winners, artbooks, Der Mont, Photography manuals, Harry Potter, Anne Rice... but no Gregory Maguire.

I went back to the ground floor to Customer Service and asked for it. The girl pointed me to some stairs going downstairs. It's funny because I hadn't noticed those stairs until now. I guess I should have, because when I descended them the signs read "Fantasy Novels, Graphic Novels and Art Supplies".

I stepped onto the floor of my heaven. The walls were covered in DC comics: Batman, Superman, Justice League, Nightwing, Green Lantern, Flash, The new Teen Titans... so much that, as my eyes scanned the bookshelf in all its glory, I couldn't stop the smile that was threatening to stretch my face in two. I held the comics in my hands, just barely touching them, admiring the way they fit perfectly into my hands, feeling the weight of their stories. I must have gawked in front of that shelf forever.

I moved onto the next shelf, where the independent comics rested. There was "Blanket", one of my favorite independent comic books, and there was "Flight vol.2", which I got immediately because Jen Wang is a contributor. Sadly they didn't have volume 1, but I didn't mind. For another time. They also had the collection for Penny Arcade. I was mesmerized.

In front of that bookshelf were shelves stocked full of manga. They had the full collection of Kare Kano, the newest volumes of Wallflower, stocks of Shaman King and Rurouni Kenshin, the new editions of Tsubasa and XXXholic, and a lot of other manga that I can't recall anymore.

On the other side of the room were the fantasy novels. I scanned around and finally found "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister", right there next to "Wicked" and "Mirror Mirror", two of Gregory Maguire's books which I never get tired of reading.

The rest of the basement showcased notebooks, canvasses, art mediums, and stands. Something glinted. I moved closer to the glass cases beside the staircases and there they were: Batman figures from his movie debut to his latest comic release. The one I wanted cost 14,600 php. I squatted there on the floor, just staring at batman and the older figures where Robin didn't wear any tights.

And suddenly it was eight o' clock, and my celphone rang and I had to go back to my parents and eat dinner. It almost hurt to leave that basement. But I don't think that would be the last time I go there. I think I've found my heaven.

And my heaven would be there, with some choice friends, sitting on clouds and flipping through Justice League comics, sketching the action figures and reading the fantasy novels, with Jim Chapell playing in the background. There would be laughter and a giddiness that only comes with escaping the world and into surrealty. I would take the brushes and paint the white walls with t... ]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14204876/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14204876/ Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:35:45 PDT [ ] Music is life.
[x] I write poetry/song lyrics.
[x] My hair covers part of my face.
[ ] I wear band shirts.
[ ] I know who Jeffree Star is.
[x] I wear/wore converse.
[ ] I wear/wore vans.
[ ] I wear/wore eyeliner.
[ ] I have/had my lip pierced.
[ ] I listen to Saves The Day, Emanual and Saliva.


Total = 3

[ ] I'm in a band.
[ ] My screen name had an x in it.
[ ] I like My Chemical Romance.
[ ] I also like Green Day.
[x] I know what "mosh" means.
[x] I sit in corners.
[ ] I hate MTV.
[x] I take pictures of myself a lot.
[x] Especially ones where you can’t see my whole face.


Total = 4


[ ] I am lost without a CD player/my iPod/mp3.
[ ] I have/had thick rimmed glasses.
[x] I love to skate.
[ ] I hate the president.
[ ] I have/had a mohawk.
[ ] I`ve worn black nail polish.
[ ] I like Slipknot.
[ ] I hate where I live.
[x] Black is a great color.

Total: 2


[x] Right now I am listening to music.
[ ] MySpace
[ ] Hot Topic doesn`t scare me.
[ ] I wear/wore studded belts.
[ ] I`ve cried while listening to Hawthorne Heights.
[ ] For girls: I have madeout with another.
[ ] For guys: I have worn girls jeans.
[ ] I have dyed my hair black.
[ ] I cry a lot.
[ ] I write on myself.
[x] I`ve been called emo before.

Total = 2

OVER ALL TOTAL = 11 -> (11 x 3 = 33% )
Multiply your answers by 3.
Re-post this as "I`m __ % emo."
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WTF? Haha. I'm nowhere near emo right now. I'm just very very happy.

Yesterday I went out with and , we had fun in Greenhills. Wala lang. Whahaha.

Superville and Fallopian Tubes. Conversations about high school and kindergarden. Loved it. Haven't gone out in a while.

Right now I'm stuck at home though, under house arrest. Paranoid fathers and incoming storms. So I'm getting some painting and sculpture done. Wheee.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14176486/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14176486/ Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:46:40 PDT
I'll also scan in the inks tomorrow and see what I can do with them in photoshop. n___n I have a mouse I can use now! XD Uh... that's given that my living scanner down the street is at home and willing to do my dirty work. O__O Pao, you know I love yoooooooo

Duck Umbrella is currently on hold. Because I'm lazy to handle watercolor pencils right now. Let's do with some inking and blah.
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Duck Umbrella: 10% done, on hold
Living Room Dancing: inked for scanning
Three little birds sat on my window: inked for scanning
Gotta Love that afro hairdo: pencilled
Jenny: pencilled
I loved you first: in concept

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14159951/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14159951/ Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:57:35 PDT
I call on thee, powers of bola, to use my fingers as your humble vessel to write words which sound meaningful but are truly meaningless to my existence.

I call on thee, powers of bola, to help extend my vocabulary to the simplest terms for me to digress upon, that I may use the digression to take up useless space.

I call on thee, powers of bola, to answer this fucking question which honestly only takes half a page, and to stretch it to fill three pages. Or more.

Powers of bola!

Amen.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14156475/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14156475/ Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:19:00 PDT
Times New Roman is strange. But I think Helvetica makes up for it's strangeness. As Fee says, "this paragon of beauty" makes up for a lot of other font's inability.

Perhaps that is why it is such a popular font. XD

Optima is strange as well. Optima has its own faults though. It's sort of broken.

Comic Sans. You poor thing.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14155262/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14155262/ Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:44:41 PDT That means I have time to revise my short fiction... again.

And now is time to do my paper on the AAA. Woohoo! XD

Sadako is popular. How strange.
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Duck Umbrella: 10% done
Living Room Dancing: Inked
Three little birds sat on my window: pencilled
Gotta love that afro hairdo: pencilled sketch
Jenny: Conceptualizing

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14144365/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14144365/ Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:10:52 PDT
In any case, I shall try to update sooooon, when I scan in something worth posting. XD
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Duck Umbrella: 10% done
Living Room Dancing: inked
Three little birds sat on my window: pencilled
Gotta love that afro hairdo: in sketch concept
Jenny: In concept

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14114906/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14114906/ Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:40:54 PDT
But yeah, Comic Sans, you cannot get in the picture. They were made to type together, them two fonts.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14101631/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14101631/ Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:23:53 PDT
Oh 7th symphony, you slay me so. Jim Chappel makes me cry. He's so great.

"Oh irritated oyster, calcify me."
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I will not lose! Not until Times New Roman chooses Helvettica! I will not lose! Comic Sans MS is no spoilsport! Go Comic Sans!! Even with your over-boldified exterior, you are still a font! Do not give up!

Don't mind me if I'm not making much sense.

No updates. None anytime soon. I hadn't been myself for the last couple of days, but a day of boredom and dancing in the living room in my pajamas remedied that. Now I have a renewed vigor!! Fight! Fight! Fight!

LET'S DO THIS!!!!

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14080903/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14080903/ Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:18:23 PDT
And I don't have a chance.

I see it in the pictures, my time is over.
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Duck Umbrella: 10% done

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Painting apples: 99% done
Duck Umbrella: 1% done
Season series: In conceptualization
Element series: In conceptualization
Culture series: In conceptualization

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14039531/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14039531/ Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:04:52 PDT
I also have a current piece that I'm tweaking. Lovely KT commented on it the other day and yeah, I realized it was quite unfinished. So I tweaked it tonight and hopefully it will be okay. It's okay. The first serious piece I've done in a long while.

The other day me and KT had a drawing session at my place (she was conveniently here for a party) and we were talking about art in UP and art in Ateneo. Perspective was placed. I admit I don't like drawing seriously around other people, especially in the lounge. It's not for a major inferiorit complex, but the fact that you're surrounded by fifty-something other artists is kind of intimidating.

So we doodled on the big glass table downstairs. I marvelled at UP hardcore-ness. She used really nice colors together: orange, a yellow, a sort of green and a bit of purple for shadow. She wanted to draw hippy girls and I wanted to draw a hippy hippy. I have the drawing at home for anyone who wants to see it. I'll upload it into my scraps someday, a testament to my progress in seeking another kind of art style.

Oops. I shouldn't be calling it that.

But talking with KT was nice. I had another episode of "what if's" sometimes in the conversation, because we were talking about the icalettes and I got to thinking about my ineptitude and lack of closure/courage/reliance, and by not choosing to act differently I could have left some sort of a mark as well, and by mark I do not mean my cute Berry comics.

It's one of those things in life that goes on with regret no matter how many times you try to push it to the back of your head. But it's gone, and all you can say now is that you were there and you didn't carpe diem, and so it never was and never will be.

It's funny how high school can never happen again, even if you want it to. Eternal return theory applied.

But then again, even if high school will never happen again, I'm stuck here in the present, constantly shifting into the future, becoming the present, and the last minute melting into an existing past.

Time theory has never been so clear than it's been now, that for every tap on the keyboard is another tap on the keyboard a few seconds before, and in a different plane it's no longer a past but a present, and for another plane it's a future. Forgive my rant on theories. I know things that are absolutely not necessary in a scholastic life, and create theories that are entirely strange and my own. Haha. I remember arguing with my parents about it in the car.

I can't remember the last time I've thought completely rationally. Oh yes, what does this all have to do with art? After all, this is my art journal, not my blog. I apologize.

Art, then, I guess, is not just a solitary being, existing in the present. Somehow art is a living time machine. It bears the weight of culture, life, existence... and preserves it in a ritualistic meeting of painter and brush. Sir Ali once explained that it is important to look at art from the point of view of the artist, from his life, and it's connection with other works of art and so on, and he also explained that it is equally as important to look at art from our own perspective. What a piece of art is to the painter is equally as significant and as truthful as what it is to our own experience with it. This is the time machine.

Art exists in every time plane from the day it was conceptualized to our current time frame and beyond, up to a point when it will dwindle and fade away because of its own existence. It exists in the time plane of the painter and our own, and in the time that we view the painting the painter is simply adding on the layer of color in another plane, a completely different one, but still in parallel to our own. This, I think, is the ultimate experience of art. That as we view it, we interact with the artist, we interact with the artwork and with the time plane, so that the only common factor in the entirety of time and space is this, the artwork, paint on canvas.

And in so doing, we manage to touch the life of one who was born so far away, in another time altogether, and make it known to our own. It is the same with creating artwork, the uncertain knowledge of whether it will survive long enough for someone else to view it is uncanny, and yet in some future time plane someone may be experiencing all the uneasiness and truth that you are experiencing now. The past is always certain for us in the present, and the future remains obscure, but the future in another plane is a present.

I end this entry with a quote: "Some peop... ]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14026369/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14026369/ Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:33:22 PDT
Like food, art has to be savored... there's a big difference between potato chips and foie gras, a difference that requires a higher understanding of food, of how the flavors blend together, of how the fat melts on your tongue and brings you to a somewhat higher understanding. Good art is like foie gras.

So many times in my life I meet people who look at a crappy piece of art and actually like it. I get confused, put them in front of good art, and they don't get it. I guess not many people appreciate good art because they don't see what's IN it, all they see is paint on canvas or whatever medium used. Like how some people eat foie gras and puke it out when they find out it's just the fat liver of a duck, but savor the fake cheeze they put in cheetos.

And then there's actually MAKING art. To quote Ratatuille: Anyone can cook. Anyone can make food and serve it on a dish, but it takes a master to make it look, smell, and taste spectacular. The same with art, anyone can just draw lines on a piece of paper, but it takes an artist to form those lines into something different.

Not saying that people like that get there quickly. Every master is made, not born, and every master has gone through shitty work. Chefs were once kids playing with fire. Artists were once kids drawing on walls (much to their parents' disapproval).

Art is like food. Art is food. Art is food for your soul.
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The more lines there are, the more I understand.

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14005768/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/14005768/ Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:36:32 PDT
I also found a lot of kiribans and plushie requests undone and unanswered. I'm thinking of maybe catching up with some of them. That is, given that in time I shall have a working scanner and/or tablet.

In any case, I've been working on a lot of art lately. Most of which are kinda big and can't fit any scanner I know of. I mostly work at home since the FA lounge is full of gods.

By the way, illustrator is the shittiest thing when you're using a trackpad.
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Painting apples: 73% done
Yellow: 1% done

]]> ~megumi00 http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/13995850/ http://megumi00.deviantart.com/journal/13995850/ Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:27:22 PDT
A work is often favorited if it is:
- related to Harry Potter
- related to Naruto
- related to Kingdom Hearts
- related to Death Note
- realted to Avatar: the last airbender
- involves a very popular yaoi/het ship
- is otherwise extremely macabre
- borders on pornography or hentai

Hmm. Sociological experiment much? XD
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Shall we dance?
Painting apples: 25% done

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