Guinea Pig Randomness

Here are some random guinea pig fun that is odd and may cause cuteness seizures:

Nick Jr. has a new show starring a guinea pig. Very annoying singing show, but the guinea pig is quite cute.
http://www.nickjr.com/home/shows/wond_parents/index.jhtml

In the UK, they have created a robot guinea pig that recharges from the remote carrot you give it. It has it's own hut and interacts with other robots. Guspi.....the robot of the future


Sooty the guinea pig who is defined as the pimp of all guinea pigs. Xiao Bao...thankfully hasn't learned his skills yet.
Read more here:
http://usera.imagecave.com/HBThingy/1137373097214.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1048327.stm

And the icing on the cake from "Cute Overload"
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2006/03/prepare_for_you.html

The cuteness....the cuteness

Numb

I'm a little distraught this morning, and I have been for the past couple of days. One of the people I admire the most might be very sick. He's currently taking medical examinations to see if he has Lou Gehrig's disease. This is a terrible disease that causes the body to slowly lose all function in movement and soon breathing. The hardest part is the person is completely aware that all of this is happening since intelligence isn't affected. Once diagnosed half of the people die within 2-3 years.

http://www.alsa.org/

I have been pretty numb since I found out that he might have this disease. I thought I could cheer him up by getting him a "don't give up" card, but he was out again today. I'm really worried. He seems to have given up. Before I knew, I never noticed the constant phone calls causing him to leave class or sitting by himself during break times. I thought he was just getting ready for an opening or something or he was absent because of the commute.

I hope to have a follow up post exclaiming all the tests are negative. I really do hope.

2-D animation at Disney?!?

Okay quick post. I hope this is true.

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22456

This is a dream come true. I might have a job after all lol.

My Valentine

Your little squeaks

And partial smile

Greets me perfectly when I wake

You jump with utter glee

Then you chew on my sleeve

While I just smile at the nibble

Long hours away

Yet you always wait for me

I love you and kiss you everyday

Cuddle and hold you close

You're my manly sassy Xiao Bao

My true valentine

Happy Valentines Day little cream puff!

Sleep Sleep

I've been so busy lately that I think my brain is about to melt.

Finished the rough sketch of Free Comic Book Day thing. It's four pages= $100 :( The sad thing is it's not my best work. The hard part is it's about 30 pages after of what is online right now. I want to get the in-between pages online before Free Comic Book Day. Otherwise people will get an unintentional spoiler. I'm very tempted to trash the whole idea and just create a little skit for the freebie. Well, I have until Monday.....

I'm very tempted to buy the debut pack from this software.
http://www.e-frontier.com/go/mangastudio_hpa

It seems to be great for creating manga, but I'm still thinking of diverging from that style. I really should just stick to traditional materials. I bought some Ph Dr. Martin's ink to try and start learning to paint in the character in oh mighty color. I'll tell you how it turns out.

Yay! During Spring Break, I'm going to California to visit my relatives and finally see CalArts. I'm really nervous because my work is nowhere near their caliber. Plus, the tuition can make babies cry.

Who Should Paint You: Gustav Klimt

Sensual and gorgeous, you would inspire an enchanting portrait..With just enough classic appeal to be hung in any museum!

What Artist Should Paint Your Portrait?

Damn Right!

Punxsutawney Phil and more

Well knowing how sometimes little old Phil can get the forecast wrong, I checked out my own little critter.

I woke up and saw Xiao Bao hiding under his gate. Xiao Bao saw his shadow!

which means....as my sister said....

12 more weeks of Xiao Bao (I have no idea what that means lol)

Watched the Asian Excellence Awards on AZN last night. Pretty wacky award show. I mean the honor awards given were quite weird.

"The Remy Martin® X.O Honors were presented for Inspiration to renowned AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho, for Visibility for actress Lucy Liu and for Bridge (bridging cultures) to writer/director Quentin Tarantino."

Dr. Ho getting the award for his research is very respectable.....but Tarantino and Lucy Liu? Even Quentin felt terribly embarassed because he didn't save millions of lives lol.
Stephen Chow won for best movie performance and best movie. (Now I know why I thought this year's Oscar noms was missing something...they didn't pick Kung Fu Hustle for best Foreign Film. The atrocity!!!!!)

Linkin Park won for best live performance. Fort Minor did a performance at the show. It was not intentionally hilarious, but when rappers in long jeans and gear play the violin, it's just too bizzarre lol. Pretty fun show for....asians I guess lol. Final thought....Bai Ling is very slutty.
http://www.i-channel.com/axa/

Happy Chinese New Year

I can't draw dogs. He looks like a puddle lol. Have a great New Year....and eat a lot of dumplings :)

Topic of the week:Pixar

If any of you are animation buffs, this week Disney might negotiate with Pixar again....

I have an uneasy feeling about this deal. Sure I'm glad Pixar will finally have a distribution company again, and Toy Story 3 may be stopped...thank god. This might means for sure Miyazaki films will be released in the US.

I'm worried Pixar will lose it's uniqueness. Lasseter might head both CG animation departments (I have no idea how that would work out.) Oh and the possibility Pixar may do 2-D animation is pretty slim.

I can't figure out who is groveling to whom. Disney needs Pixar and vice versa. So there is no way in the next 10 years they're going to open up a 2-D studio again. It's too costly and well they have to figure out the two CG studio problem. Plus, I have a feeling the American public doesn't care about 2-D anymore. They just want high-tech graphics. I only get this feeling because of how the public ignored Iron Giant.

Unless Curious George starts a renaissance of new traditional animated films or someone else does, I doubt 2-D will be back. So John Lasseter and Steve Jobs....the state of animation are in your hands.

Phew, now I feel better about spilling my guts on that topic :p
College has been fine. The reading material is interesting this semester, but it is just too much!
The highlight of my week was my Painting Class with Stefan! He actually showed us his mixing technique. Pretty amazing stuff. The mixture of colors are undefinable but do define a feeling or setting. hehe I feel bad he's telling us most of his secrets since he discovered it for himself.
You can check out his paintings here:
http://robischongallery.com/html/exhibresults.asp?exnum=1269&exname=Stefan+Kleinschuster%3A+New+Paintings&offset=0

He does most of it through palette knife and some brush work. I feel exhilarated to start painting again.

Oh and I have decided to pay the Free Comic Book Day offer. I think I will go for 3 pages. I can't afford any higher lol. It will be a recap/sidestory just so new readers won't get confused. Maybe I'll hide my little guinea in the comic just for good luck lol.

Comic pain

Well, it officially happened. Keenspace is finally gone for good, which means my comic domain name has changed. What a pain!

I only found out because a friend e-mailed me about the "author missing" problem on the website. I'll try to get it fixed.

So "DayDream" is officially http://manganese.comicgenesis.com

Longer name lol. I will try to buy a domain name to something smaller.
hehe and I'm thinking about publishing in the Free Comic Book Day anthology from them. It would be nice to see my comic finally published. $25 per full page....so it might just be a special introductory comic...or should I dish out the dough for a short story...roughly 4-8 pages?

Well, finally back at college. I'm taking way too much stuff this time lol.
Intro to Biological Anthropology (Monkeys!)
Art History II (Renaissance-Modern I believe)
Art History III Non-Western art (Really excited about this one)
Intermediate drawing (Probably more still lifes :(
Painting II with Stefan Kleinschuster (This should be interesting)

Everything but painting is on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Painting is on Saturday. Monday, Wednesday, and Sunday I work.

Gee look at that list. There is going to be a lot of reading this semester.

Ughhhh.....

2006 is not starting out good. Panic attack and a cold just sucks. Figures, it is still the year of the Rooster.

So I'm going to just start talking for no reason lol.



Cartoon Network is really becoming a let down. I thought Genndy was crazy for leaving, but he jumped ship before it exploded.

Anime fans are so fickle. I think Turner Classic Movies is doing a superb job in presenting the Miyazaki and Takahata movies. They're showing it in English and Japanese. What more can you ask? They are even showing "Only Yesterday" and "Whisper of the Heart" which isn't available on dvd yet. Also TCM isn't straying from their roots...they still show great cinema.

Bill Plympton is just too cool.

I finally saw Narnia, and I thought it was better than the book. It gave more depth and that turkish delight looked tasty.

Why can't I finish Prince of Persia 2? Gah!

I'm having a creative slump with my comic. I have pages done, but it doesn't look right to me. I feel like I'm trying to rush the story just to get to the important part. So it might be a while before another comic comes up.

Back to college on Tuesday and I'm tired already lol.

Xiao Bao dandelion!

Here's a special drawing as an apology for the late comic. Plus, I just really wanted to draw him with his new favorite food, dandelion!

I mentioned under the updated comic that I was thinking about making a comic set in Ancient China. For now, I'm going to start researching references such as clothing, buildings, and events at that time. I really want to make this one special. The only character I finalized is a "Desperado" type character that slings a guzheng instead of a guitar to hide his weapon....so it won't be historically correct, but a guy having that huge instrument on his back is hilarious.

Guzheng

http://www.chinesemusic.co.uk/english/pluckints.htm#guzheng

On a side note: Holy Shit! I'm on Squidworks website!. I'm actually a creator! :D

http://www.squidworks.com/creatorlinks.html

2006 or is it?

Sorry for the comic lateness. My work has been keeping me away. A new comic probably won't be up until Tuesday.

Happy New Year! However... if you want to be in the "in-crowd" it is not even 2006.

January 29, 2006 is the Chinese year 4704. This year is the Year of the Dog. Predicted to be a better year than the rooster, thankfully. A symbol of rebirth and destruction =Xiao Bao being born :D and Katrina :(

So around Jan. 29 go see if you can see the Lion Dance at a local festival.

http://www.factmonster.com/spot/chinesenewyear1.html

I eat these words

"Comic is going to resume Monday. (i promise :p)."

Yeah.....

I'm so ashamed of my lateness!

There is going to be a change of plans. One of my sisters thought it would be better to back log the comic to update on one day per week instead of updating all the time during break.

What day would it be? The mighty holy Sunday I use to update my comic on.

Expect a new comic Sunday!

On a sad note, a terrible accident happened near my neighborhood.
http://9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=6ee24e1f-0abe-421a-00e3-342dafa45edd&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf

I usually go to school using this road. All of the teenagers were from Smoky Hill High School. My high school....

Rest in peace.

Happy Holidays!

Comic is going to resume on Monday (I promise :p)

hehe also expect to see Xiao Bao's first Christmas experience! I even bought him a stocking.

Holiday time can be a jolly time and depressing time for some.

-Wallet is empty.
-No romance for the holidays.
-Family drama.
-Loss of family.

But remember the good always comes with the bad....yes ying and yang. With all the trouble I got this year, I got Xiao Bao ^^. So I guess the main moral of the story is to get a guinea pig lol.

Have a wonderful and safe holiday my cyber friends!

Spiffy

DayDream should be updated tomorrow. Hooray!
And there should be a new comic for every day up until I get back to school :D

I have a nice new profile pic. Hooray!


Hooray!
Hooray!
Hooray!

Cuddles with Xiao Bao. Ah life is good!

Comic suggestions

Yay! Finally off of school!

As I am getting ready to update my comic, I found this neat site thanks to reading Stan Yan's comic. http://www.squidworks.com It is a really awesome site that has downloadable fonts to use for comic lettering and logos. I might change the DayDream logo into something more spiffy.
http://www.blambot.com

I'm going to start updating soon. I already inked a couple of pages.

I'm debating on saving up to buy a Mac G4 laptop. I'm usually a PC user, but I always keep hearing Macs are for artists and it is easier for plug and play. Plus the mac is compatible with some really cool programs. My wonderful readers! give me some advice on this matter. Should I dish out the moolah?

oh and on a different note....as many of you know I'm a huge CLAMP fan. I practically have every english release and I even bought some imported artbooks. CLAMP back in the day use to have music videos about their manga: Wish, X, and Clamp in Wonderland. I managed to have seen all of them except one....the infamous and highly unseen Clover music video. Dear god somebody found it. Thank you catsuka and ChibiYuuto. A great day in Clamp fandom lol
http://www.livejournal.com/users/chibiyuuto/52038.html#cutid1

Hooray for winter break!

I'm at the home stretch! One week of finals then I'm free!

Which means no newspaper comic duties for the next couple of weeks....
I'll get the chance to update my comic finally! Whoo hoo! hehe I'll try to do this first instead of updating my blog like crazy. I really should have updated during Thanksgiving.

My sister is coming home from Wisconsin! Yay!

I love the holiday season. I'm not religious, but I just love the feeling and family gatherings this time of year.

Thanks everyone for your concern over the last post. I'm fine and my cast is coming off this week. The only problem is my dang trunk on my car keeps flipping open when I drive 0.o. I tried duct tape and bungee cords to shut it, but nothing seems to work. Colorado weather seems to be freezing everything except my trunk lol.

I got the Franz Ferdinand Live DVD. Pretty awesome. The best part is the backstage footage. One word: Franzypants.

Oh and I must add something comic or animation related to the end of this post.

If you haven't read "The Perry Bible Fellowship" by Nicholas Gurewitch, you're missing out on the morbid hilarity!
Click on the white figure for the comic archives.
http://www.thepbf.com/

A Very Very Bad week

Sorry for the non-posting as of late, but it has been a really bad week. Now I shall complain!

Monday I woke up with a really bad cold. I can't touch the Xiao Bao. I might get him sick :(

Tuesday I got my cast. It's a walking one. While I was driving home (and no I wasn't wearing the cast while driving :p) I was rear-ended by a car going like 40 mph. My poor car is crushed in on both ends and I can't close the trunk ><. (I love you duct tape.)

I miss both of my art classes yesterday because of my neck and shoulder pain from the accident. Sadly, I can't paint lying down lol. It's getting better but it still hurts.

I wish all of this happened when finals weren't looming, but oh well.

I'm glad I got some great compliments about my life-drawings. I'm happy people enjoyed it.

Sorry Bemmie for telling you all on this blog. I haven't had time to call you :(

Enoch, keep going on your website. I know it will be very awesome when it is done. Frankly, if I were you now, I would have thrown the computer outside and set it on fire. Html frustrates me a lot.....which explains how ugly my comic website is lol.

Oh fun stuff to note.

What? Kanye West and Bill Plympton?
http://www.flightcomics.com/?p=64#comments

The best part is the end with "Animated by Bill Plympton" in huge letters lol.
Oh and check out the rest of the Flight comic's site. I love these people lol.

As well, the Aeon Flux movie is coming with Charlize Theron. For a while I thought wait a minute...did Peter Chung consent to this?
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=33425
The poor guy had to let them make the movie in order for him to ever have a chance of making an animated movie. It may be a "sell out" kinda thing to do, but his work will get publicity and the series is out on box set now. I have no idea what I would have done in his situation.

Squidworks Sketchcrawl

Wow what a great time I had. We really didn't Sketchcrawl that much...mainly because I had to go to work :(

It was so much fun to meet these other artists. They all passed around portfolios and books.

Top (counterclockwise):
Stan
Lonnie
Kyle
John
Michael
Brand
Craig

Tim, little Molly, and Coco were there as well, but I didn't get a picture :(

I can't wait until December 11th next meeting and Sketchcrawl.

John, I'm sorry I keep cutting you off lol. 

The Squidworks crew! 

Kyle, I am very envious of how beautiful your horse getting punched in the face looks lol. 

Michael you have really great kitties :D 

Mysterious sketching! 

Life Drawing

This is the best of my drawing pad in life drawing currently. I want to warn any young viewer out there. There is nudity, nothing suggestive just nude art.

First up, is the hand project I'm working on for my final. I'll post the final result when Winter Break comes. Most of the hands are the models, but the hands with more action are mine. It's really hard to draw your hand while making the other hand perfectly still.

I've been seeing so many animators' blogs put up their life drawings that I thought I should do as well.

The drawings that look like sketches are usually one minute poses while the rendered ones can be up to an hour pose. lol I usually get done pretty quickly though. About two of those drawings filled with hands took me about 30-45 minutes during an hour pose.

I use for most of the drawings: a newpaper pad, vine charcoal, a rag, and a kneaded eraser.

I recommend anyone to find a life drawing session or class.

Too many hands!! 

lots of hands 

You guessed it more hands 

Hand #5 

Hand #4 

Hand #3 

Hand project 

Hand #2 

Rendered model then drew my hands 

#6 

Minute sketches 

Face not right, but I like the blocky feeling. 

Lovely poses 

Portrait #2 

Portrait #1 

Darn you forshortening!