Ok, 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)

Yay! I finished inking page 11 last night, about 11pm.
I did manage to get a little time with Lumines last night, it really is as addictive as they say. Strange and Beautiful, a puzzle game where the whole screen will change themes as you play, including associated sounds. Sometimes the backgrounds do what they can to distract you. It’s brilliant.

My husband has been surfing teh intarweb on the psp. Our geekery knows no bounds.

Lots to say, but I have to jot it down quick, otherwise it fades away.
Two weeks ago, hosted a party of about 15 people who had gone to the Chicago Auto Show on Friday. The usual raucous bunch drank and partied, and everything turned out ok. Though at one point I had to dissuade one of them that no, they could not take our 2 gallon of milk down to the basement to someone who had been bet they couldn’t drink it in an hour, Saturday night. I’m not sure if you’ve heard of that ‘challenge’, but it always ends up with at least one person puking. Then we went to bed around 4, hoping the place would still be standing when we woke up. (and it was, and they cleaned the kitchen.)

The rest of the weekend was great though, we had bacon and eggs and cinnamon rolls and biscuits for breakfast, cooked up by pal Roofer. (Well I did the baking) And Saturday night, my mom brought by a turkey that she had cooked for us, with some stuffing. It was all carved up for us, and there was enough for all fifteen some people, and was a nice change of pace from the pizza call that usually goes out. Lots of Halo 2 and Halo 1 were played, as well as a bit of silly Eyetoy experimentation.

Last weekend,
Spent Saturday on publicity and history of Studio Antithesis, partially by checking my old journal entries. Everything blurs together, and we’re trying to get a better handle on when we did things. We also updated the Studio Calender with some birthdays and tenative Con dates. (Acen, Anime Iowa) Maciek colored the cute chibi’s that Allie made for us. Then he turned them into Buttons (pictures forthcoming)
We also printed and/or dated all reviews we have for S.A.T. and put them in a portfolio.

This week
Finally got my teeth cleaned (flash smile). I surprised dental technician, ‘Your teeth aren’t that bad at all’, likely due to the fact that I had actually followed my dentist’s suggestion from last month that I increase the flossing. (which also helped keep my gums from being overly sensitive while being clawed at during the cleaning)

I took yesterday off, partially due to the awkward time for the dentist appointment, but also due to the fact that Wednesday night I really felt weak and sick, and not fun. But somehow, after sleeping in, I was actually feeling really well. Especially well after the great dentist appointment which was far less pain and time than I thought it would be.

I didn’t even waste my time, I vacuumed all but two rooms in the house, windexed three mirrors, emptied two trashcans and did two loads of laundry.

I removed a bookshelf from the bedroom(to be used downstairs for dvd and games), and put together a little circle table to hold my lamp and alarm clock. All the junk on the bookshelf was then reappointed, to the guestroom bookshelves, or to the art room.

I hope my neighbors didn’t mind the 2 min vacuum job, really late at night, I did before putting the circle table in place. But I just couldn’t put things back in place without it, the dust had gotten thick in that corner.

I still ended up with time to defrost the chicken, and cook said chicken and make the cressant rolls and then later to make cinnamon rolls (leftover bag of premade from the party, but needing an hour to rise in the oven before baking), and to play a few hours of Harvest Moon on the Game Cube (my husband bought me a new memory card!).

Year of the Rooster
Originally uploaded by Metahari.

It’s late, but I finished my Illustration Friday art! yay!

Happy New Year!

Art night was fantastic last night, we had a full house of people over at ‘s. At one point in the night we had two people pencilling pages, and two people inking pages, for three series total. That was very cool. Ray and Carlo talked writing. I also had a couple people notice my new hair, I have streaks of burgandy and a purply red in my hair right now. (Though I adore the brigher red streaks enough that I may go back in a couple weeks to get all my hair that color)

I got the full page 10 of Tabloid Roulette laid down on the page, loose pencils which I’ll be working on tightening up, after I do the loose pencil layout for page 11. I’m trying to work a bit faster, so doing two pages at a time. Happily, I think I’m getting faster at laying things down. I’m also very happy with page 10, I get to draw a lot of our Angry Rocker Chick panels, and that’s always fun.

I need to pick up the pace too, because our studio may be having a coffee shop art show, and I may need to have a full 4 pages down for that. (and our next Antithezine)

Aly has drawn chibis of some of our studiofolk, which is cool, though we only got to see the one she did for Ray, and it’s awesome.
showed off his new Apple Shuffle, which is darn cute.
Also, Joan saw the Grimm influence of my Balance piece right away (Swan Brothers), which made me happy.

We really have a great group of people in our Studio, many of us still surprised we are really working on comics/manga.

This is going to be a great year.

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Wow, when I agreed to do a Tax Day Art Trade with my friend Mark, due on the 15th, I expected that we’d both be working away in April to get things finished. He ended up with some free time over the holidays to create this for me. Wow! Just fantastic! He searched my gallery, picked out the monster woman in my misc. gallery to be the villan, and off he went.

I totally can’t wait to get this in the mail, it’s so getting matted, framed and hung in my art room.

Very cool.

(Mark rocks! He programs video games out in cali)

Ah, yes, yah for color! This illustration has been begging me to finish it since the first sketch, but it needed major work on the legs to make any sort of sense.

I’ve made a goal of 12 original illustrations for this year. This is the first one.

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Also, I’ve made a page for all the commissions we did for the Get Lea Hernandez to Anime Iowa Gig, I need to do some resizing and fix the css buttons at the top, but I wanted to share. We have a fantastic group of people, I’m so proud. So, check em out.
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Last week, the day I got back from the airport, I got part of my christmas copic order(the rest of the stuff is backordered) and my cool Marker Magic Book!! It’s great, more on that later. Also got to go out with my hubby to Damon’s, and we got right in even though all the other places to eat were full all over our side of town.

It’s really good to be home. Sunday night I got to hang out with K&M, and do arty things, which was fantastic, and I’ve missed them and art, and we had a super productive time, I think they got almost 3 pages of Kim’s comic done, and we worked out the anatomy better for this balance piece.

Ok, gotta go, I have a meeting that last’s all day today. guh!

Nimue
Originally uploaded by Metahari.

Here is my gift to !

Happy Holidays!

Adoption – Illustration Friday 12-17-04
Originally uploaded by Metahari.

Here’s my Illustration Friday Picture for the week. Wasn’t sure if I was going to participate, but am glad I did. It’s fun just to throw down ink and markers. I’ve been mulling the word of the week all week.

Bubble
Originally uploaded by Metahari.

This was created for last week’s Illustration Friday. I have no clue if you’re able to submit late, but this was fun, so I finished the markers last night.
(The inks really were pretty much done last week)

(again, if anyone has tips on how to get a good scan out of markers, please tell me.)

This was fun.