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I'll be at Anime Expo Artist Alley this weekend at table D20.  My super-amazing, friend-forever table partner, will be there Sat and Sun!  Please come visit us if you're at the con! hope to see you there!


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is corralling a bunch of artists to create a charity artbook around the theme of an animal kingdom playground . 100% of the profits for this book (after covering base costs) will be donated to St. Jude's Children Research Hospital. St. Jude's is committed to treating children with pediatric cancer, as well as researching for a cure.

A lot of great artists have signed onto this project already! You guys are amazing!
is currently looking for a few more participating artists~



If you want to join... Send a join request to the group as soon as possible. You do not need a finished artwork: we will only need to review your gallery (alternatively, you can link us to artwork posted outside of dA in the join request). If accepted, you art will be ensured a spot inside the art book as long as you submit it before the deadline!



To Learn more about the art book project and about St. Judes, please click the icon below to go to the group page:



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Has anyone had a chance to try out the new Wacom Inkling? Amazon link: [link]



Its $200 on Amazon, and lets you doodle in a notebook and transfer your sketches directly to the computer without scanning it. Thinking about getting one, though at $200, its not exactly cheap, and I'm not sure how much extra utility it'll bring, since I already have a scanner. ;u;

Would love some feedback if anyone's used it before.


Alsooo, recently got a new iPad 2 as a gift (thank you mom, lol). I've been playing around with it, and it's really nice. *u* bbbb. It will definitely come in handy when I travel. I want to find some good sketch/art apps for it though. ~fongmingyun and I were talking, and we definitely agree that a device that blends a wacom tablet w/ an iPad would be amazinggg. It'd be like a traveling portable cintiq. If Apple's able to build pressure sensitivity into their iPads, it would be a game-changer.

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Hey Guys!!~

At the moment, my friends and I who are a part of ( ) Boiled Fish are close to publishing an independent Art Book. Today is the LAST DAY to pledge through Kickstarter, a pledge based project funding website. We've met our original goal, but if you pledge now, you can enter raffles for original artwork as well as get pre-orders of the artbook/buttons. With the additional funds, we're hoping to expand the number of pages we'll have in the book.

  Click on the banner below to check out the KickStarter Art Book Project Page:



Group of Participating artists:



All the details for the Art Book project are explained at the Kickstarter Project Link above, but here's a quick synopsis:

At present, the softcover book stands to be between sixty pages to potentially eighty pages if we get enough funding, in full color.  As we receive pledges, we hope to add more illustrations, sketches, process work, and tutorials to give you, the backer, greater value. Pre-orders end REALLY SOON, and we need around a month for printing, so you can expect your copy (or copies) in March. You may order multiple copies, at $30 ea. Please comment in your donation with the number of books you want.


In addition, if you can't donate, we will have prizes for people who advertise our fund-raising project. Just post our image and link into your forum signature, journal, or banner, then note with the link to your advertisement, and you'll be entered into a raffle for an original sketch from one of our artists (number of sketches given will be proportional to number of entries received). You can find a number of banners and linking codes already here: [link]



Some Pledge Levels:

Pledge $15 or more: A set of limited-edition buttons featuring work from the book, a thank-you on our project page and two entries into a raffle to win an original sketch from one of the artists..

Pledge $30 or more: A copy of the Boiled Fish Art Book, a set of limited-edition buttons featuring work from the book, a thank-you on our project page, and five entries into a raffle to win an original sketch from one of the artists.

Pledge $60 or more: Pre-order up to two books and also get: a random original sketch (!), up to two button sets, a thank-you on our project page, and five entries into a raffle to win an additional sketch from one of the artists. Please specify the number of books and button sets you want.


So far, we have:

89 Backers
$4165 pledged
& 1 day to go

We really appreciate all the support guys! <333 Thank You!!

PS. WILL HAVE NEW ART COMING SOON, PROMISE!

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS~ Whatever you end up celebrating <3

At the moment, my friends and I who are a part of ( ) Boiled Fish are planning to publish an independent Art Book. However, we need some funds before we can start publishing this book. Working through the website Kickstarter, we're hoping to collect pledges so that we can fund this project.

  Click on the banner below to check out the KickStarter Art Book Project Page:



Group of Participating artists:



All the details for the Art Book project are explained at the Kickstarter Project Link above, but here's a quick synopsis:

At present, the softcover book stands to be between forty and sixty pages, in full color - but the more you donate, the more it will grow!  As we receive pledges, we hope to add more illustrations, sketches, process work, and tutorials to give you, the backer, greater value. Pre-orders end in January, and we need a month for printing, so you can expect your copy (or copies) in March. You may order multiple copies, at $30 ea. Please comment in your donation with the number of books you want.


In addition, if you can't donate, we will have prizes for people who advertise our fund-raising project. Just post our image and link into your forum signature, journal, or banner, then note with the link to your advertisement, and you'll be entered into a raffle for an original sketch from one of our artists (number of sketches given will be proportional to number of entries received). You can find a number of banners and linking codes already here: [link]



Some Pledge Levels:

Pledge $15 or more: A set of limited-edition buttons featuring work from the book, a thank-you on our project page and two entries into a raffle to win an original sketch from one of the artists..

Pledge $30 or more: A copy of the Boiled Fish Art Book, a set of limited-edition buttons featuring work from the book, a thank-you on our project page, and five entries into a raffle to win an original sketch from one of the artists.

Pledge $60 or more: Pre-order up to two books and also get: a random original sketch (!), up to two button sets, a thank-you on our project page, and five entries into a raffle to win an additional sketch from one of the artists. Please specify the number of books and button sets you want.


So far, we have:

45 Backers
$1603 pledged of $3,000 goal
& 34 days to go

We really appreciate all the support guys! <333 If you have some money to spare, please consider pledging any amount you so desire for the artbook.

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Hey guys!

Me and a few friends: are going to be in the Manganext Artist Alley for the next 3 days. If you guys are in the area, please stop by and say hi!



<3 Also, Boiled Fish is planning to produce an artbook! But I'll write more about that in the next entry~

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I'm planning to get a new tablet, since I've had my Intuos 2 for 7 years now, and it's finally dying. I'm not sure what tablet I should get though. I want to get an intuos 4, but I hear that it has some problems, especially with the nibs and coverslips wearing down...

Anyone have any advice on tablets/what I can do about the nib problem if I do get an intuos 4?

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Got back from my post-grad trip recently, and here are pictures from the first part of my trip. I took the Maglev train from the airport to downtown Shanghai. The Maglev train is pretty awesome, it reached a top speed of 430 km/h (268 mph)  and works by floating on top of the tracks through magnetic levitation. *u*





Shanghai from the top of the Pearl Tower:





I spent about a week in Shanghai, and went to the Shanghai Zoo to see the pandas. They had 10 pandas...10! They were super adorable, and were eating Bamboo when we got there xD


^ Thats how close I got to them!







Wish my camera were better though ;A;

There were lions, tigers, and bears too, oh my.







And the scenery at the zoo was really nice too:




We also spent some time visiting the World Expo and being touristy.
There were so many people, I don't know if I've seen so many people visiting one place before. Estimated daily crowds at the expo while we were there was 400,000 people. Its probably even more now.

From the inside of the Czech Republic Pavilion:

^ lol an interesting neon sign in their urban art section


^ A bunch of china that looks normal until you realize that I took this picture shooting straight up at the ceiling. xD

From the French Pavilion:

^ They had a really nice water crystal display


^ and an LV exhibit


The German Pavilion was pretty awesome too... well, at least I'd like to think so, since we waited 2 hours in line just to get in xD


^ They had a lighted up walkway/hallway


^ the ceiling of their take on an indoor park


^ And they had a live light show too, with a glowing globe

Here's the outside of the Chinese Pavillion:

^ We couldn't go in, since you need to line up at 6-7 am just to get reserve tickets

We took the free ferry at night too, and got a good view of the whole expo center, as well as much of the Shanghai city line




PS: I'm leaving for AX tomorrow!

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Hey guys, thank you for 2 million pageviews!

This is a mile stone I never thought my page would hit. Actually, I didn't even know it'd hit 1 million, let alone 2. xD

Thanks for all the llamas too! NinjaLlama is amazing. I'll try to give more llamas out as well.

And now that school is finally over (forever...?) I should have some new art soon!

Love you all!


Summer Plans:
Trip to Shanghai + Tokyo

Anyone have any suggestions on where to go in Japan? I've never been there before!

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Anime Next!
Anime Expo!
Otakon!

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I'm currently at Anime Boston with a bunch of other awesome artists. Come stop by the Artist Alley if you guys are at this convention!

Also with me:



Also~ Thanks for all the llamas for April Fools! Llama Powah!

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Happy 2010!! This feels weird. I need to stop adding 0's in front of the year now. My new years resolution is to be independent and self sufficient this year (and to lose 5-10 lbs, but I'm off to a bad start on that...darn you yummy holiday food)! Hope it happens. >A<;;;




Speaking of good (holiday) deeds, one of my good friend's apartment just flooded and she's taking character commissions to help her cope with the resulting costs. Please check out her commissions here: [link]

Her DA:


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So...the new Twilight movie comes out today. Anyone going to go see it?


...For some reason...Twilight bothers me a lot. Maybe I'm just too old to be part of the target audience for Twilight, but I don't think that's quite it, since there are a bunch of Twilight moms. And I'm not nearly that old yet...


I've also got nothing against Robert Pattinson...


What I do have a problem with is the lack of any sort of literary merit Twilight has. If the author wants to write about Vampires, the least she could do is read Dracula and a little bit of Anne Rice, right? I feel as though she's taken the whole genre of Vampires and spat on it, and then sprinkled a little bit of white fairy dust (aka crack) and re-marketed it as Vampires with a Mary Sue as the main character.


The only JOY I get from Twilight is from making fun of it, which is why I love the Twilight parody video Marvel made here: || [link] ||


Give me my creepy yet cool vampires back! I miss Spike from Buffy. At least he doesn't sparkle.

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I find it funny that even though I like a lot of really girly shoujo manga and anime series, my favorite series of all time is Gundam Wing, uber manly (not really).

I love the fact that the show is intellectual without shoving it in your face or being too existential. War and peace, revenge and redemption are constant and recurring themes.

If you haven't seen this series, definitely give it a shot.


Manga rec: Bakuman - it's by the same author/artist team that did Death Note and is a manga about mangaka.

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So, I'm pretty much done with all of the Summer cons this year (besides the commissions)! Had a ton of fun at all of them, especially AX.

Meeting Ishiwatari Daisuke, the man who single-handedly created Guilty Gear was the BEST FEELING EVER.

One of my friends had given him the Blaz Blue drawing I drew as a gift earlier.

And when told him that I had drawn it, he pulled it out and made me sign it for him. I was basically floating on air for the rest of the day...<33!!!


I'll miss all the people I saw at the cons, including the regular gang of people, as well as the awesome Canadians!! Though, I'm not sure is still Canadian? I guess he is...hmm.





But less cons means more time at Marvel, which is pretty darn awesome. I'm seeing a lot of stuff at the office...most of which I can't say anything about.

One thing that stood out to me though is the news that Marvel is teaming up with Studio Madhouse to produce an Iron Man and a Wolverine Anime.




Link to Youtube Videos:

Iron Man: [link]
Wolverine: [link]


(anyone know how to embed videos onto Dev Journals?)


I've watched Marvel animated shows growing up, back when I didn't really know the difference between Sailor Moon and X-men the Animated series.

I grew up watching Spider Man, Batman, and X-men so animated Super Hero shows have a special place in my heart. Even later, when I started really getting into anime, I still liked those shows.

But honestly, I'm such a sucker for animation quality, anime really blew the animation on those superhero shows out of the water.

That's why I'm pretty excited for the Iron Man Anime. I really hope they do Tony Stark Justice! (love the music in the trailers too)




I wonder who the blond girl in the trailer is. I'm not quite sure if she's Pepper Potts, since her hair is blond, not red. Could she be Black Widow?




Not quite sure who the guy with the white hair is either, but his character design is pretty cool!! *A* I can't resist a good uniform or two.

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I just have to say that I had a blast at Anime Boston. I saw old friends and new. Thanks to all the people who stopped by and said hi!

So exhausted when I got back though. Since I started my internship pretty soon afterwards. Hope I'll be back at ABoston next year!


This summer I'm interning at Marvel Entertainment as part of the digital media group. I'm not doing art for them, but that's alright, I'm super happy with what I AM doing. I've always loved Spiderman and X-men, so getting to intern at the company that started it all is pretty rewarding in its own right.

I got a stack of free X-men comics on my first day~ and sat reading them on the bus ride home. I'm really looking forward to all the things I'll get to learn and do in the Marvel offices this summer!~


AX: I thought I couldn't go, but it turns out that I can~ thanks to the awesome and amazing

as well as the kind AX AA coordinator Jen.

I really miss Cali~!!! Super happy I'll go going back to SoCal this year. I haven't been to AX since I went in 2007~!!

AnimeNext: Ho shibby, this is in two weeks. I'm not prepared at all!!! Though I'm looking forward to it anyways. Can't wait to see everyone again~!!


Otakon: Not 100% sure on the status of this yet, ^^ but more details later~


Other awesome people who will also be at cons this summer, they're my con famu~






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