First, self pimp!
Onto life, applying to universities sucks so hard and is costing a fortune ): I really hope my cousin gets into at least one of them so that she wouldn’t have to go through this process again and spend even more money on everything… But in between the process something even worse came up within our family circle. I’m not a direct victim but it really made everyone stressed out, worried, feel guilty and just at a loss of what to do because there is nothing we can do about it except to pray for the best. The entire family atmosphere is tiring because everyone has to try to remain optimistic about it, but at the same time we feel bad for not worrying our asses off even though doing so changes nothing. I really wish people don’t put so much emphasis on how we’re supposed to react towards death and disease. Sure if somebody happen to be on their last days it would be nice of their friends to give them the best last days ever, but we can’t just constantly live in fear and guilt ourselves. we can die any minute since we were born, what the hell kind of life would we lead if we spend a lot of it working towards buying ourselves and others more time to live? isn’t that kind of stupid?
In a less depressing note, I did some scraps! I think our wireless got stolen last month because we went way over limit so I couldn’t stream some drawings when I wanted to ): I did manage to get all my carciphona 2 release stuff ready and can finally sell it after 3 months. I originally was trying to get a special pendant made for the occasion but the company I was working with suddenly became very sluggish because they said their systems broke down and had to spend a lot of time recovering. To this day I’m still waiting for the sample piece to arrive so I decided to just leave it for next time. To be honest I’m a little burned out working on the next book, doing stuff for family and just plain waiting for so long that I’m not as excited as I was with the book releases last year, and people can probably tell from the release notices since I’m pretty bad at pretending to give a crap when I don’t have any :1
one day I’ll get to them in the story, maybe… I was looking at this colour scheme generator that somebody linked and suddenly realized that the eyes of these three are pretty much a triad even though I didn’t think about it when I made them like…. 6 years ago? I ended up drawing them afterwards just for the traffic light eyes :v
and idk attempt to draw generic anime #35098405
{ Sygmyr }
Traffic Lights 1,2 & 3 (as my brain just dubbed them) look like beast-humans, am I right? (If you're willing to say.) Yay for weird-looking characters!
I hope that family member feels better!
And don't worry, we give enough craps so you don't have to. xD
{ Kiwichan }
Saw this and randomly thought of you…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeoT66v4EHg&feature=related
Enjoy and get stuff sorted out! :D
{ A. Hormell }
I'm really sorry to hear about the trouble in the family. I hope everything works out for you and your family.
I wish the best of luck to your cousin in getting into a university.
And those pictures look really great. I haven't had any time lately for sketching anything out, so there went my whole get-two-sketches-out-a-month-schedule. It's good that you got some scraps up though. And I'm loving the eyes D: so jelly~~~
Carciphona looks so great. I can't wait to get the second book. I just have one question about it. Do you have an estimated cost for it yet? I read on DA that you were expecting the shipping cost to be around $5? You dun have to answer just curious ^^;;
{ Shilin }
It will be $12 for the book and $5 for shipping (:
{ Helios }
I'm sorry to hear about your family troubles. I hope things turn better soon, or that something good will come from this. At least you have a decent place to vent, to get it out of your system properly so it doesn't build up. And as always, sending out positive thoughts.
A pendant? That sounds pretty cool. Maybe we'll see it someday?? C: Seems like there was a lot of hustle & bustle around the finishing of the second book. Even if you aren't as excited…we all are! We appreciate the hard word you put into your baby, despite all the chaos that goes on in the making, the end result will be worth it.
{ Ruina }
Best of luck to your cousin to get accepted at a uni somewhere! And I'm sorry to hear about the sudden heavy issue that struck your family. My thoughts go out to you guys.
I don't think there's any right or wrong way to deal with these things. Like you said, the end is universal to us all, and yet each individual leads their life so differently so that when their time comes, it just leads to that many different ends that need to be dealt differently and not any one certain way. I'm only speaking for myself when I say this, but I'd like to think that fear and appreciation, and guilt and love, are two sides of the same coins. Both sides are necessary to make the most out of your life and appreciate it, and to appreciate the lives of your loved ones and the times you spend together. This is a really generic way of putting it and probably doesn't apply to what your family might be going through right now (again, speaking for myself), but I guess I didn't want to dismiss one of the many life struggles as something stupid, since I didn't have the luxury to be with three of my loved ones, let alone keep them in my thoughts or pray for them, until they were already gone.
Aaaand that probably didn't make any sense. Sorry, I just woke up x_x
And I love the strong emotions depicted in each of the characters! I might be mixing up characters, but wasn't the green/yellow character on the left on your website design some years ago? And that's a really neat generator! *bookmarks*
I really hope happier news will come your way soon! ;; *hugs* And I'm really looking forward to your 2nd book! :)
{ Shilin }
thanks for sharing your thoughts ;; and yeah it is her!
{ R e a f u }
I'm very sorry to hear about the university problems and more so about the health issues pertaining to your family. I can only hope that things resolve themselves peacefully and the affected person, doesn't doesn't have to suffer for very long. On a lighter note, can't go wrong with glowy, traffic light eyed characters lol!
{ Maiev }
Sorry to hear so much stuff is going on in your life :< I hope your cousin gets into University too :) there are plenty but it is exhausting to write all those entry essays and stuff I suppose.
I always like how the Guai Lo's way of looking at disease/death. You can obviously see it in their.. funeral. It's a celebration of their life and achievement, a gathering vs the Chinese one… I'm sure you know what I mean.
Anyway, hope all goes well and haha if I ever bump into you I'll treat you bubble tea haha!