I feel like such a kid; I like and get excited over little childish things.

Our faculty stormed to Toronto yesterday and did a gala concert at the George Weston Recital Hall, all 200 of us (160 choir members from 2 choirs and like 50 orchestra players? I seriously think 160 is too much for the choir, but if only the good choir gets to go then that means our choir won’t be able to sing cus we kind of suck, so I have no comlaint). It was fun as hell and I wish they did it every year. It’s like a giant field trip with a chance to showoff.

I wish I played some instrument so I can be in the orchestra instead though; nothing cooler than playing in an ensemble. poor deprived me!

We had 4 hours between our rehearsal and performance; 7 of us loitered around the street and 2 restaurants to kill time. (cus I was being an ass and refused to go walk in the mall; but come on! 7 people with different interest in the blandest mall in the universe? not interested) I think for once I wasn’t being absolutely boring/silent/awkward. Improvement improvement.

And my super special awesome friend lent me his DS and I played Children of Mana (and FAILED SO HARD, I got laughed at when I died. I think I got better though, after like 15 quests) and now I’m addicted. The last time I played a console game was pokemon on gameboy color. The graphics are so cool in CoM; I love their chara designs and art style. Luckily the power ran out or I would’ve been leveling/earning money right now.

[edit] photos! I’m not a prolific photo-taker at all; it makes me feel like my camera is going to waste. of my whole trip, I took these two pics =[ our orchestra before rehearsal…

On an unrelated note, I finished the first new image for the artbook! I think I will keep it for a while, until I have all the images ready, then I’ll post a slew of incentive images one by one on DA for promotion purposes or something. Because if I post now I think people will forget.

It’s almost that time of the year again; a new layout is due! But I’ve been debating on what to use. I’ve been using iframes (a frame in the website scrolls, the rest of the site stays stationary) for the past years because I think it’s click-friendly, and it allows me to be artistic with the rest of the layout. But it also kind of makes it hard for people who have smaller screen resolutions to browse, especially in the gallery. I have been thinking about this or this kind of layout, where the important things are on one page. It is less graphic-intense, a bit more professional, and allows for a less confusing hierarchy of webpages. But it scrolls a lot and it is a little harder to be creative with the layout artistically without sacrificing ease of navigation. More advanced alternatives are flash and more difficult uses of css and javascripts, which would both require the users’ browsers to be up to date to view the site properly and require me to learn a lot more in those areas before I can do anything decent. Opinions?

Oh and

This sketch was from December or November if anyone remembers from Mecha Penguin… The lineart was done over a span of 3 months because I just have sooooo much time to draw what I want to draw. I won’t be finishing it anytime soon seeing how the school term is coming to an end (I have to study hard to make the scholarship worth it! oh and the scholarship was 15000 a year instead of 15000 in total… so it’s 45000 LOL ”’orz) and I am slightly behind on the pace I want to go at for my manga. Expect it in may or something!