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Art from 2007

2009-11-16T06:57:00.000-08:00

A friend of mine asked to see some of the paintings I've done.
The only one's I have with me are paintings I did for AP Art in my senior year of highschool. (These are the only one's I have on my computer, the rest are at home.. ><) I only have three of them on me--a watercolor, a mixed media piece, and a pastel (and oil) paintings.

The first piece is a mixed media piece...supposed to represent the different elements. The second piece is done almost entirely out of pastels, although I used a little bit of oil paint in some parts. :] I took the picture of these pots at the Hawaii Chinatown. The third piece are bicycles done in watercolor. This picture was taken at Waikiki. :D

Lastly, sorry for the kind-of poor quality images...I took pictures of them, as I couldn't scan them or anything.. ><

Writings pt. I

2009-08-16T05:13:00.000-07:00

Some writings/fanfics/etc. Yupp.

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The first one is a short that I wrote. I said I may make a short manga related to this. I might try my hand at that after I finish this painting I'm working on.
I may add onto this more later. idk yet, haha~

5.12

It rained all day today. A soaked, foggy version of a would-be paradise.
The heavens were coated a dark grey, sheets of rain pouring onto my town, forming reflections of myself on the pavement as I walked.
I look down, watching as I step onto another version of myself, only to have my copy dissipate as the water's ripples spread out from beneath my feet. My feet are damp, my slippers soaked. I continue to walk, my mind as foggy and overcast as the sky above me.
Bag in hand, a heavy weight that leans me to one side. It's times like these I wish I were stronger. Physically, emotionally, mentally. My hand tenses up from the weight, but I keep holding on until it becomes unbearable, my fingers red from strain. I release the weight to my other hand, juggling the weight from one to the other. I wish I were stronger.
I smile to myself at the cliche scene I happened myself into. Earlier I watched my relationship walk slowly away into the distance, the rain falling between us as our distance slowly increased. No longer could I look down onto the puddles and see the reflections of two walking side by side. I looked down at my reflection, my lonely, pathetic being standing alone in the rain.
This greatly cliched scene is complete. I am now alone.

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This next one is a short fanfic of Code Geass. Lelouch x Shirley, based on episode 13.

Shirley…
Lelouch was still sitting, clutching onto Shirley Fenette’s body, her spirit already gone and faded from his world. He didn’t know how long he’d been crying, but he didn’t care. He was overflowing with emotions, so full of regret, despair, and yearning.
He yearned for her touch, her voice. He will never admit it out loud, but Shirley was a person of great importance in his life.
She was one of the only people to see Lelouch as the young man that she always knew. She was still able to see the “old” Lelouch, even after knowing about his alter-ego Zero, and all the things he had done under his alias. She did not see Lelouch as a backstabber, as a betrayer, a leader, or a god. She saw Lelouch as Lelouch, and she loved him for that.
Lelouch killed her father. He erased her memories. He made her live a lie for a year. Shirley knew all this, and yet she still loved him.

She loved me.
Lelouch was overwhelmed with despondency, as he thought about her confession to him in the last moments of her life. She did nothing wrong, all she did was love him unconditionally. Loved a man who killed hundreds, tortured many, and manipulated even more.
And yet, this man is the one still alive, who clutched onto this love struck girl as she bled for the love of the man.
Why Shirley? She did nothing. She was not supposed to die. Not here, not now.
And as much as this man wished, as much as he cried, he wasn’t able to revive the girl. He held a high status and great power, but nothing could bring the girl back to him.
Everything that she did was out of love. This realization made Lelouch’s heart ache even more, and he could not help but cry outwardly in agony. She wanted to be next to him, through the good and the bad. He was alone amongst his army of Knights, and she knew this. She did not want him to go through all of this pain alone; this pain that was slowly tearing him apart. She wanted to be by his side, so he would have someone there with him at the end.
She wanted to be the one truthful thing to me...the only truthful thing.
Her words repeated inside Lelouch’s mind as he hugged Shirley’s body closer to him. He knew she was the only truthful person to him, and Lelouch knew that his trust died along with her.

The great king hunched lower to his queen, sobbing uncontrollably. A picture no commoner or Knight would ever see, an image of their king in such a helpless and defenseless state.
The sun faded behind a smoky, foggy sky, opening up for the night; the same way the light dimmed in the king’s heart that day.
For she represented all that was good, pure and light in his life. And with her gone, all that was left in his fading heart was revenge.

A fading heart, but still a heart.
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2009-02-26T22:43:00.000-08:00

Drawings of my Grandma (mom's side) and Grandpa (dad's side).
I'm working on my Grandma (dad's side) and Grandpa (mom's side). :D

Fall Doodles II

2008-12-12T02:12:00.000-08:00

More doodles from my sketchbook. I've only had time to do ink sketches. Hopefully I'll be able to do some watercolor ones during break/January Term.

Fall Doodles

2008-10-01T14:16:00.000-07:00

- cali

Code Geass R2 episode 21 - I am Zero, the man who accomplishes miracles.

2008-08-31T23:03:00.001-07:00

"Why do people lie?
This is not only to battle something else,
but because they yearn for something.
A world that is fine as it is, is a world without change.
You cannot call that living."

And that quote from Lelouch basically summed up the entire episode. Lelouch's mommy and daddy were frolicking around planning to create some kind of perfect alternate-reality world (or something like that)...but Lelouch was basically all, 'NUH-UH GIRLFRIEND~' and wiped their asses off the face of...any planet.

Which was cool and all, except now Lelouch took over as the Emperor of Britannia (o, irony!) and is now craaazy power hungry. And I'm sure C.C. feels the same way, too. (See her expression at the end of the episode)
There's not much to say about this episode, really. Though the BK's are probably still pissed, the Chinese Fed. are confused, everyone else are Geaass'd and Schniezel and his lackies and plotting...
But ahh, kind of dissappointing that Lelouch's mum was a selfish bitch. v___v I mean, holy shiiiiiiittz. The entire series you think she's a great person, only to discover in episode 21 that she was Charles' selfish whore who basically abandoned and lied to her children to keep some promise crap...so keep a promise even if it means abandoning your children. What a jerk. v_v THANK GOD THE ART IS BACK TO USUAL. Last episode's funky animation made me cry.

"This is not a lie, but reality's answer."

Summer Doodles

2008-08-19T20:43:00.000-07:00

I've been randomly doodling a lot throughout the summer, most of them not developing further than simple doodles.
I still kind of like them, though.
Here are some of the doodles that I've done...

<--I already posted this one before, but I'd like to point out that I have done some realistic-like doodles...not all were animu. >>;;
Top dog is a Welsh Corgi. I WANT A WELSH CORGI... O__O They're so awesome. ><

This one is a fanart of Apollo Justice from the DS series, Ace Attorney. It was one of the very first doodles I did this summer. It was more of a practice doodle, and hand/arm angle kind of thing. I still need to work on that some.

This next one is of Mao from Code Geass. Based off of this screenshot: here. I mean wow..I didn't even notice that till someone pointed it out to me. But I find it dreadfully amusing nevertheless.

This next one is basically Heath Ledger's version of The Joker in the Dark Knight. Except chibi version, ya. :D I had fun drawing his eye makeup and such, though. tee-hee!
It's chibi, and that is my excuse for his lack of fingers. Ya, deal with it. :>
This one is purely for perspective...usually I draw people with their face showing, so I wanted to try a pose where you can't see her face. And the shoulder that potrudes toward you is always fun / difficult to show...

so yea, that was the point of this one. >>;;

This next, and last one, is of Flonne from Disgaea. Aaron got the game and I thought the art looked nice, so I decided to do some fanart. I kind of like how sketchy it turned out, so I'll probably leave it like this. I probably out the outfit wrong at some points, since I couldn't really figure it out, but you get the general gist of it.
Haha, notice how it gets less detailed near the bottom, compared to the top. |D

So yea. These are some of the doodles I've done. CLICK THE IMAGE TO ENLARGE. :D Though I suppose some of them look better small and miniscule like this. :P I will continue to doodle, and if I'm not lazy, I'll upload them here, too! : ]

Code Geass R2 episode 19 - SOO BETRAYED

2008-08-19T00:28:00.000-07:00

SO MUCH BETRAYAL IN THIS EPISODE.
& a lot of stupid people.

Betrayal was to be expected, after so much death in the previous episodes.

To put it simply...the people who betrayed Lelouch/Zero were:

All of the Black Knights

Simple as that. ><>
As for the other Balck Knights though, they'll continue to be pawns in Schniezel's little game.

I'm happy Rollo is finally dead though, and I'm glad he redeemed himself at the end, too.
(Better then him going out in some lame manner, like committing suicide or something.) I mean, he was such a little b**** since the very beginning, so of course I'm glad he's gone. But the fact he kind of redeemed himself by saving his 'brother' was good...he was at least able to die on a slightly better note.

And Schniezel had such an easy time turning the BKs on Zero. XD He was just like, 'yada yada here's some tampered evidence, k!?' and they were just like, 'oh snap! okz! Zero you bastard lets kill him ya!?'
I mean, Schniezel just told the BKs about Geass...and they hardly questioned him about it. If someone told me about Geass I sure as hell wouldn't believe it. I mean seriously, it's basically a superpower that controls people's minds. Yeaa, I'd think Schniezel was crazy if he told me that.

O, and Nunnally is apparently FO SHO dead now. Fancy that. I wonder if the plot is heading toward the shit hole now.. :(

I feel soo bad for Lelouch though. His sister is dead, his best friend is dead, the BKs betrayed him, his fake brother is dead, everyone he's ever trusted is gone... damn. o_o

Ohh, but Suzaku is so crazy now. He laughed like a MANIAC this episode. It made me literally laugh out loud. He's a crazy guy, seriously. He completely lost it, and any respect I had for him is POOF. Gone. And unless he pulls some epic shit in the upcoming episodes, my respect for him will stay the same. ><

Code Geass R2 episode 18 - SOO DEDZ

2008-08-10T19:01:00.000-07:00

HOLY SHIT SO MUCH DEATH IN THIS EPISODE. ZOMELIEKWOAH.

Nunnally = ded?
If above is true, then Sayoko is prolly ded too. (But she's ninja, so who knows.)
Kinoshita dies. THANK GOD. Worthless excuse of a crappy side character.
Asahina freaks out over the loss of Kinoshita (his gay lover. Not really, but might as well be) and starts babbling about betraying Zero...buut he dies so no one cares.
Guilford = ded. So sad...D:
Four Valkyrie team chicks are dead. No one cares.
Luciano Bradley aka Vampire died. Kallen pwn'd him, it was joyous.
Glaston Knights are all dead...I think? (i.e. the cool glasses group)
Blonde lady who wheeled Nunnally around = ded if Nunnally is ded.

And if Lancelot were a person and not a crazy killing mecha, it probably would be dead too.
It lost an arm and a leg, after all.

Rollo is still a pussy ass, planning on killing Nunnally because he thinks that he's enough of a famiyl for Lelouch.
Though I think Rollo is crawling closer to death. This is good. :D

&& Suzaku kills Nunnally, (or indirectly, Lelouch killed her? :O) after Suzaku's whole spiel about protecting her in the previous episodes. GG SUZAKU, GG. The fourms have now dubbed him "Nukezaku"...

Oh, and Cornelia used her massive boobs to escape, and now she's walking around the ship, or something. o_O

<-- pissed off Lelouch = dead Rollo?? -hopes-

Artistic: Olympics

2008-08-09T15:27:00.001-07:00

Yesterday was 8/8/08, which chinese consider to be a very lucky day. (8 = lucky number. So naturally three 8's would be really, really, really lucky.) Anything lucky happen to you today? :D

I watched the opening ceremonies last night for the Olympics. (I love watching it, almost more than watching the actual games. XD) And the first thing I noticed was the the Chinese Olympics were a lot more artistic...no joke! o-o
And they sure used their mass numbers well, haha! There were a shitload of Chinese participating in that, and they were doing all sorts of greatly stereotypically Asian things...creating crazy complicated murals with their bodies, performances so in-sync that you weren't surprised in the slightest that a bunch of Asian's were performing it...and they were wearing odd, stylistic outfits (you know, the odd styles Asian's are well-known for? See 'harajuku' or 'kogal')
Not to mention the hilariously awesome torch lighting ceremony at the end... heh.

But seriously, it was uber artistic, and pretty sweet. : ]

o, and Phelps is a freakin' mermaid or something, I swear. D: HOSHIT.

& am I the only one who feels really dumb when I see a nation and realize I have NOO IDEA they exsited before? D: Gah I feel so dumb and uneducated.. D':

Beach Volleyball...I never knew that was an Olympic sport. XD I am amused.

& in other news, I've been doodling some more.
I've been wanting a pet dog (A Welsh Corgi, a Shiba Inu or a German Shepherd) for awhile now...so I decided to doodle some dogs...since I can't have one IRL, I'll just draw them till I get one. >3

* I took a picture of it, because I am too lazy to turn on my mom's computer and scan it. >>;

Ohh, I added a imeem playlist to the left. I'll be adding more songs and such, but yea. Enjoy!? : ]

rant w/ code geass snuck in.

2008-07-22T01:48:00.000-07:00

Yay, it's...that Chinese Federation guy from Code Geass R2. lol.
Typical bishie, it's great...every anime has to have one of those!
I don't know, I don't like him, but I don't hate him. I just don't see much to him yet. XD;
Anyways, this is a sketch of him. I will ink/color him tomorrow, and then post them up on MB and dA.

*o, sorry for the bad quality..the scanner is in my parent's room, and they're alseep...so i just took a picture of it instead. -fail-
& yea, I've tried a slightly different style again...smaller eyes, farther up, elongated face, more pronounced nose...mmya.. XD;

So , I've been doing a lot more doodles now that I actually plan on tidying up and such.

Hopefully I'll be able to sell them! :D Sakura Con is nearly IMPOSSIBLE to get tables for, though, which really bothers me. --; Kawaii Kon has a much larger Artist Alley, and the artists there were much more friendly.
Aah, well. Maybe the Sakura con guys are friendly...maybe if I get to work with them, I'll be able to actually talk to them more. :]

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and on a totally different subject...though still relating to art...
I hate people who are soo cocky about their work. Especially those who know they're good, and thus they flaunt it and look down upon everyone else. They only talk to people who, in their eyes, have work almost as good as theirs, and ignore everyone else.
Luckily this has never happened to me, but I've seen this happen to many other people, and it makes me want to walk up to those arrogant artists and smack their heads.
-sigh- I mean, seriously? What if this guy really tried his best? Who are you to say that what he drew did not take up as much time and effort as you did on yours? He may have took a long time to draw that. You don't know that, and don't judge it just because you look at it and think that, 'Oh, I can do this in 10 seconds. WTF!!111!!'
And why is it you only think about profit here? Ever think of giving something for the sake of giving? You're regretting giving it away because you couldn't sell it, and if you kept it you could have sold it online. It's not all about making money. It feels nice to give sometimes. You should try it.

-breathes- Okay, I'm calm...I just hate it when people are so arrogant and stuck up towards anyone that they view are less superior than them. I feel that each artist has their own certain style. There is always room for improvement, but just because someone's style is different than yours does not mean that they are below you.
There is a difference between badly drawn art, and art with a different style. Some people have to learn that, seriously.

ok ok i'm done... ><

Code Geass R2 episode 13 [spoilers, ya]

2008-07-08T03:03:00.000-07:00

HOLYMOTHEROFALLTHATISHOLY.

Episode 13 was so epically sad...I cried more than I did in episode 12, that's for sure. XD

I was so sad, I just had to draw fanart...I'm inking it now. And then I'll color it. :D
But seriously. SO SAD.

"I love you, Lulu."

AAAHHHHHH.

For Shirley--

Shirley was such an innocent, pure and sweet person. She was the only person to see Lelouch as what he really was--as Lelouch.
Not a backstabber, not as someone who betrayed people, not as a leader, or a supreme being.
She saw him as he was. I think the only other person who ever did that was Lelouch's sister.

I still don't understand why people dislike her. She never did anything. She may have gotten into trouble at times, but nearly every character has. And majority of the time she did those things out of love, and because she cared for Lelouch's well-being. She did this because she knew Lelouch was doing this all by himself. She knew he was alone, and she didn't want him to be. Like she said, she "wanted to become the one thing truthful to him."

She loved him. She loved him even after realizing he was Zero. She loved him even after knowing Zero killed her father.
And that killed me. That her love for him was so deep that she still loved him, even after she realized all that. She couldn't bring herself to hate him. And what killed me even more was when she said that whatever and whenever she is reincarnated, she knows she'll still love him.

I was bawling at that point.
And then he tries to use his Geass, yelling 'Shirley, don't die! Don't die!' trying to save her...Aah that was so sad...And to see Lelouch cry made it even worse. Lelouch is not one to be sentimental and cry, but to see him in such a defenseless state was absolutely saddening. And the way he sobbed at the end before he screamed in pain...AWW. So much emotion in that.
Man...

But yea...I'm not even going to talk about the other parts of the episode...I'm waaay too hung up over this part...the last 2 and a half minutes of the episode... D:

Code Geass R2 episode 12

2008-06-29T17:41:00.000-07:00

Okay, so first off, it was pretty much filler except for the last 2 minutes...

but the last two minutes made me go, 'OMGSQUEE!' like a sad, sad, Shirley x Lelouch otaku fangirl... v_v

First off, I loved that slight OOC look there in this first pic on the left. But then again, it wasn't too OOC, especially for the "old Lelouch" that Shirley wanted back from him. Lelouch's relationship with Shirley is so beautiful, it makes me tear up~ She seems like one of the only people who truly understands Lelouch, even without knowing all of him, per say.
And next off, LELOUCH BLUSHED. <3>

Anyway, and after all that cuteness, and sweet goodbyes for the President...the episode ends in a complete 180 turn around. One moment it was happy, cheerful, kind of thoughtful and sweet... and the next moment, BAM! Dark, gloomy, it's frickin' POURING...and woosh! EPIC FAIL.

wtf bullshit... T_T