Sometimes I get frustrated at my work and people are assholes.

( Did some sketches last night to feel better )

-- Not going to Comic-Con this year. Thus ends the 6 year streak. ;_; God, that con is expensive. Gonna go to San Francisco with my bro instead... gonna go watch a Wanda Sykes show and wander about.

-- Went to AX on Thursday. Haven't been to AX for three years? Maybe four? I forget. It was pretty nice. I like actually having room to walk around, and the booths were spaced pretty far apart.

Had lunch with greenapple2004  Hadn't seen you in forever! So glad we could hang out for a bit. ^_^

The Exhibit Hall isn't all that exciting after you've been to Japan. Also now I know for sure that a lot of vendors mark up the prices.

Bought some stuff at the carpediemstore.com booth. Got a medium Wacom Intuos4 for $295+tax. Still a good deal. Check Amazon... I speak truths. Also bought some Copic markers for 3.50 each. Seems pricey, but those fuckers are usually $5-ish. Also some .03 pencil lead (score!), and then I bought one of those Copic marker wallets.

Aritst Alley was more interesting. Ran into pinkchan  when she was signing in that morning for AA. We chatted it up, and then I looked behind us and it Emily Warren and Christina Strain so I said sup. Ah they're such good colorists ;_;

Bought some prints from bluef0x  and might've gotten some Pinkberry stickiness on her America!gloves during the brofist. Sorry dude. :T Got a couple more things from other tables and I didn't take note of who they were because I am dumb and now I dunno if they have sites I can stalk.

And I am a weirdo and didn't take any pics except for the parking garage (I might need those as reference pics ok) and the fucking awesome building for the Los Angeles HIgh School of Performing Arts. Those kids are lucky bastards.

Also, I remembered how much I hate driving in L.A. and its goddamn unprotected left turns. But I didn't have to get on the 405 at all this time, which kinda but not really made up for it.

Ganked from halcyonjazz 

List 10 of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, and if they're so inclined, to draw conclusions about you based on the patterns they've spotted.

1. Canada -- Axis Powers Hetalia
2. Kanda -- D.Gray-man
3. Yamamoto -- Reborn
4. Zoro -- One Piece
5. Soren -- Fire Emblem (Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn)
6. Hinata -- Naruto
7. Zell -- Final Fantasy 8
8. Akira Touya -- Hikaru no Go
9. Chichiri -- Fushigi Yuugi
10. Jubilee -- X-Men

... I have way more fandoms than these. ^^;

EDIT: ... There is a lot of nice hair on that list. Oh yeaaahh

Be nice to your pops, kids!

So I have been stupid for the past four (maybe five) days and staying up for 20 hours, sleeping about 6 to 7 hours... and then staying up for another 23 hours... I just woke up and my head really hurts.

now have some sketches that have nothing to do with Father's Day.

( Tally ho and shit )

... it's no twin towers, but my iMac not booting up is almost as tragic, right?

/me is shot

Aaanyway. Let's get past that awkwardness so I can talk about my conversation with the Apple tech support. Cuz it was weird and wonderful.

I installed updates on the iMac, restarted it, and then... nothing. It wouldn't boot up the OS. The loading gear just kept spiiiinning. This was around 10 pm Thursday. Naturally, I couldn't sleep and just stayed awake until the Apple Tech support opened at 6 am. and I called them up at 6 on the dot.

I got this dude who seemed like a patient and friendly tech support guy. He started taking me through processes to hopefully get my comp to boot. I had to do a lot fo restarting and waiting... and since I hate awkward silence, I started some awkward conversation. Then it got more fun (as I watched progress bars on the comp).

So I found out dude was Canadian and I mentioned the pics of Stephen Harper and the sweatervests and kittens (insert his shock at an American knowing who Stephen Harper is) .... and he said I couldn't have seen pictures because Stephen Harper was a vampire (is every Canadian in on this joke or something?!), and of course I made G20 jokes.

During the hour I spent on the phone, we made fun of Lithuania (stop being so contradictory, Lithuania) and Europe in general, he said Vancouverites were tweakers and said Toronto was better, we agreed that I wasn't really on the phone and was actually getting tech support from the Canadian igloo god in a dream vision. At some point, I said I drew comic books and dude was stoked and said he wanted to open a comic book store cuz he was a comic book nerd.

Best tech support call ever. Also Canadians are adorable.

And my iMac works now. It was my fault anyway. I'm never putting off update installs ever again. Also, I just ordered a 1 TB external hard drive. :T

I got me a sketchblog over yonder. I'll probably post stuff over there since its easier to get pics uploaded. I'll link to 'em from here every once in a while. Just started it, so there's only a couple of things so far... mostly Hetalia and Star Trek things.

And if you have a blogger thing, link me so I can add more peeps to my watchlist.

Yay! it's drawing tiemz!

... but for me its sleeptiemz. Drawing will happen once I am conscious.

Uh... I don't have anything to say, really.

I have a Twitter now. Username beanclam... because I'm unoriginal like that. Go talk to me! I wanna add more people.

I think that's it.



... someone brought that ^ up in IRC. It's quite terrifying.

Man, I haven't sketch dumped in a while. Oops. You might have seen some of these already idk

Mostly Hetalia and SPOILERY PIC for D.gray-man's latest chapter. You've been warned~

( Draaaawiiiiiingsss )

So, Cloak and Dagger is now on "hold." Marvel is apparently doing some sort of crossover event and plans to use the characters... but doesn't want "conflicting storylines to affect continuity" lolz rite? so I suppose that's it for the 5 issues I'm working on. Still getting paid for that first issue I finished, which is nice.

So I was bummed, but I'm over it. I hope Marvel will let me play with them again someday.

I  still have the gig with WIldstorm, so I hope that doesn't fall through. orz

... can we talk? I know I haven't posted much lately... and it's not you, it's me. I know that I have to work on my communication to make this relationship work. But I'm kinda sleepy, so have a list for now.

-- The Intuos4 is out. Wacom finally labeled those expresskeys. Won't be getting one, since my Intuos3 is still great, but it's pretty cool anyway.

-- I've just finished penciling/inking issue 1 of Cloak and Dagger. I would celebrate more, but i am le tired.

-- ... my office is really messy.

-- Heroes is good again

-- been playing FF4 on the DS. I'm liking it so far.

-- I finally uploaded my pics from my month-long Japan trip. Not all of them. Just... 152. Over here.

The end

My flight for Japan is tomorrow. Well, technically, 12:30 am Tuesday, but I need to get to LAX tomorrow night so whatev.

I'll be hobo-ing it up at Ash's place for all of February which is insane. And I need to bring work. Because I am a weeee bit behind schedule on... well... everything. SOBSOBSOB

Haven't finished packing... clothes are secondary to making sure I have all I need uploaded into the laptop.

Expect some pic spammage form me very soon.

I swooned...

( ... like Canada )

I... haven't posted anything in about a month, so I figure I ought to let you guys know I'm still alive. *sob* I don't feel like talking about work so... how about I talk about Axis Powers Hetalia? The countries are people. There's Russia in my icon ... he's socute. <3

And now... Canada and Korea ...


And so begins their adventures through time. Or something. And I redrew that final panel. Why yes. That is Canada's polar bear at the on/off switch controls.

So, most of you know that I'm drawing Cloak and Dagger for Marvel. But see... it's set in the New York/Brooklyn area. And I have never been to the New York/Brooklyn area.

Google likes to give me aerial shots and pretty "touristy" pics.  If you have any photos, know any sites, or can recommend books with more street view and especially more the ... seedy side of NY, it would be much appreciated. I just need as much ref as possible to get a feel for it.

Also, I love you. Yes... YOU.

Hindo pa yata ako nakaka-post ng Tagalog. Er... Taglish na lang, kasi wala na akong practice. Nakakapanibago magtype ng tagalog ^^; Kinakausap ko yung aking magulang ng Tagalog, pero parang weird magtype. ^^; Sigurado mali mali ang aking grammar... pero nagta-Taglish naman ako anyway, kaya ok lang. ^^;

Pahirapan na itong post na ito. ^^; Hindo yata ako makakatapos ng more than 2 paragraphs (parami at parami na ang aking English use! Aarrrgh ) Gagayahin ko na lang so kyokou_kuroda  (kasi nag-link siya ng Youtube vid of Parokya ni Edgar).

Favorite ko pa rin si Freddie Aguilar. ^^; Talagang out of the loop na ako sa Filipino music scene. Sino ba ang sikat singer/bands diyan? Bigyan nyo naman ako ng links! .... Anyway, alam ko may mga Filipinos sa f-list ko... reply and roll call! XD

... but I still weep like a bitch whenever I watch A League of Their Own. D:


That's it. Carry on.




EDIT: ... I'm gonna watch it again now.