Archive for May, 2005

a long weekend not wasted

Monday, May 30th, 2005

I haven’t had a long relaxing weekend in some time.

I role-played till late in two games.(forgotten realms/call of cthulu)
I finished two xbox games (syberia 2/jade empire)
Spent a good deal of friday and saturday with my parents.
Saturday cookout over at Mom’s, with grandparents, husband, and brother.

Watched two enjoyable movies(Emma/Hero)

yesterday, for the first time in months, I felt truly relaxed. I wish I
could feel that way more often.

oh yes, did some art as well. finished the metahari picture, worked on my
art trade(inking soon) and drew my character from the CoC game, Jinx
Pickman (inked and markered! fun!)

Metahari - 2005

Friday, May 27th, 2005


Metahari - 2005

Uploaded by Metahari.

My latest Illustration. This makes 5/12 original illustrations for me this year.
6, is already in progress!
happiness.

This is Metahari, the avatar for my
http://www.metahari.com , haven’t drawn this character since 2000!

Spent most of today with Mom and Dad.
Prognosis, not so good. Days remaining are numbered in weeks and months. :(

sadness.

additional update

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

I’m having issues sending mail from quixotica, I can recieve there… will
figure that out later, but
I AM WRITING TONIGHT

Meet the usual suspects at the usual place around 8ish, ok!

yay

ACEN recap

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

Our new banner goes upOk, I have a longer post in the workings (will likely edit this one) for full ACEN recap, but!
I have pictures here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/metahari/sets/341046/

and I wrote the Convention recap for our Studio webpage, so check that out
here:
http://www.studioantithesis.com

(backlogged with mental-lj-posts, might as well do them in order)

Off to ACEN

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

I’m off to ACEN, I’m packed and ready to go. I’m leaving my husband here
to hold down the fort.

Zines = done!

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005


Zines all stapled
Uploaded by Metahari.

Yay! zines all done!

~~~
Dad does not have cancer in his brain.
doubleyay!

~~~
ok, sleepy. time to start packing for tommorrow night.

p.s.
check out Lor’s cool posters
Rain-Arc's cool posters

daily daze

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

So, last night I did indeed finish up the toning for page 12! Yay for
photoshop. After I did, Pete, Kim and I took a walk up and down the street
near the lake, for a change of pace. It was wonderful, nice breeze, calm
waters, cool, but not cold.

I’m so proud of this zine, it’s all coming together to look great. We
submitted the proofs from yesterday, and Maciek had most of the
corrections done by the time we came back.

I had to head home, as it was quite late, before getting a new proof, but
the crew will be looking it over today. Then Pete and I are going to
copymax to make up a buncha zines, where we’ll collate them, and run them
through the stapling machine. whee!

~~
Today, my husband sold his beautiful 71 sassy grass barracuda. This has
enabled us to do things like: pay off the neon, pay taxes and, more
importantly, order my husband the first new computer he’s had since 91.

He is more than a little enthused.

He’s getting Apple’s monster laptop, the 17inch. I made sure to order a
bag to fit it, so he wouldn’t be carrying it around in a bag older than
91, with no padding.

I also managed to sneak a copy of Tiger, iLife and iWork in there for me.

Whee!
So, much excitement, and I won’t likely be here when it arrives, either.
(we opted for the 2-3 day shipping)

~~
Dad had a brain scan today, to see if the cancer has spread to his brain.
Not sure if they got a clear picture though. He has radiation this
afternoon, and was still really groggy from drugs and lack of sleep, when
I went to my parents for lunch today. I wanted to make sure I saw my
parents though, before I’m gone for the rest of the week.

Almost there

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

Really dying to get home and finish up page 12. I ended up doing about 3
hours of photoshop on it, after tightening up some of the inks. But I did
it! Surprised my studio mates too. I didn’t talk to them all weekend, and
somehow finished a whole page in three days.

We put most everything into the zine last night, played about 12 versions
of ‘Fly me to the Moon’ and did a lot of giggling. This is really going to
be a nice zine, lots of solid art in this one, I’m so proud!

I took a printout for proofing, and we have more proofing tonight.

Down to the wire, like always, but we always pull through.

yay!

sleepy. -art!

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

hey, i finished drawing and inked page 12 today. yay.

hope to finish the shading/toning tommorrow night, and then yay! done with
the comicking for acen.

whew!

-falls over.

Only good things

Friday, May 6th, 2005
  • I saw a rainbow on my way into work today.
  • I have completely finished the toning of pages 10-11.
  • Kotoko, my iBook, is 1 year old today. Happy Birthday, Kotoko.
  • I have a great idea for a new manga.
  • Listening to music by Gackt is very calming.
  • Today is casual day at work, so I’m wearing my new black jeans.
  • I have lost 7lbs over the last couple weeks, by eating mostly low
    glycemic foods.
  • I am having sushi for lunch.