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| Alright... so I finished school last weekend but it wasn't over because I had my comic to finish up. I told myself I wasn't going to by Silent Hill 5 until I finished this because I couldn't afford the distraction. I've stopped myself from playing Tales of Vesperia long enough to finish school and right after, I had to work on this.
So I'm done. It has three stories that I've never posted anywhere before, Uppercut-Justice, Diary of a Corporate Whore, and Cigs are Cool. I was going to reuse an old comic for space, but I already hit the 24 page mark... so I'll probably save that for next time if I need be. I also expected to use a lot more filler... but it wasn't necessary. It's going to debut at Small Press Expo this Saturday.
My mum took one look at it and asked me "Why is there blood" followed by "why can't you ever draw anything nice?"
I really have to thank Qiao for all of this though. I doubt I could have done it on my own. Heaven knows I've been trying. She's really the only one I've ever dated that actively pushes me in art. She gives me feed back and tells me if she doesn't like it or if she thinks it's good. I don't follow all of her suggestions and I'm sure I sound annoyed when she does say it, but actually, I'm glad she does. I think most of the people I've dated previously would just absent mindly agree.
I really never expected Qiao to be so honest with me with her opinions. She's always seemed soft spoken and reserved with others. But when it comes to my art, my photography, my comics, she is very aggressive in her opinions. It's not just the mindless praises but actual constructive critisms. And she keeps pushing myself to do more. She really wanted this comic to be in FULL color. I told her price was an issue, she told me she'd help cover me, so I had to tell her TIME was an issue as well. But I think the next comic, I really want to do a full color comic for her.
Qiao tends to see through me when I do things half ass, so I doubt I can use some cheap excuse...
Kind of funny though, I never thought I'd get this much feed back from her.
Anyway, I digress, I think I meant to talk more about Silent Hill but got side track. So all over the internet it says, "Silent Hill 5 being released in September 30". So I go to Game Stop and the lady at the counter tells me, "Oh, Sept 30 is the shipping day. It sells Oct. 1"
THANK YOU INTERNET... FOR DESTROYING MY HOPES AND DREAMS... I wish I could sue you... Ah well...
Even with that let down, I still feel good. I feel... accomplished. WOOT.
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| I took a candid picture of my buddy Domingo yesterday, while we were at Chinatown.
Caroline, Nini, Keeshawn, Peter, Domingo, Qiao and me went to Chinatown in DC (can you even call it that anymore?) and watched the Moon Festival. We saw the parade, but we missed the Kung Fu demonstration because we were drinking bubble tea at Wok n Roll. Well.. everyone else missed it. I kinda stepped out for a moment to try to capture it.
 In awesome news, Silent Hill 5 is out tommorow... or tonight. Also, not so much awesome news, I'll be at Small Press Expo. Um... I should have been working on my comic than editing photos. DARN IT.
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|  I couldn't make it look evil... :( Okay, I'm just about finish with my classes and my webpage is in what I consider a finalized form. Now I have Small Press Expo to deal with. I swear, it's like I finish one thing, I have another. Kind of like Sisyphus. When I think back to August and how I told myself I'll get everything done THEN... I forgot about all those crazy vacations I was sent on. Not that I regret it... but I think I did more that month than possible. Canada, Otakon, Florida, OBX. Holy crap. And the PHP class I was taking prior, I was damn near failing... but I pulled out with a C. Maybe I just spread myself too thin. And maybe I don't sleep enough. I should be asleep now. | | |
| I went to a bridal expo on Sunday with Qiao and Caroline, the Maid of Honor. Here's a fun fact: I guess because of the term bride's maid, I keep calling the groom's men, "groom's maid". Anyway, here are two of the designs I did for the Notice of Intent to Marry.
 While I like the concept of the second one more, the first one is probably alot easier on the eyes. I though pink was in the color scheme, but I was corrected and it's not. While at the Expo, I took a good look at the photographers and at first I thought Qiao was just being really peculiar when it comes to who to hire, but I'm beginning to see her point. There were some rather, um... yeah. Anyway, some people keep telling me I shouldn't worry about the photographer, as a good majority of my friends are photographers, but I don't want them to be shooting at our wedding, I want them to be enjoying themselves. Though, they're welcome to bring their cameras. LOL. And since I'm speaking of marrage, a lot of my older co-workers keep thinking I'm in my early twenties and would question if I'm really ready, how long have I been dating, etc. I remind them I'm close to thirty and that I've been with her for 5 years. "Oh, sorry Chris, I keep thinking you're 19-22." I've stopped shaving for the purpose that people will think I'm older, except I think it makes me look like a pervert. Also, this is my last week of class and hopefully I'm done forever. I don't really have much to say about that though. I'll just shut up and post some pictures of flowers I took in my mum's garden today. 
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