http://www.kaigaimangafesta.com/en/index.html

Found out about this through Twitter. Now I wish I could win the lottery.

Though at the same time, it's also weird. I can count the cons that promote original work in the US on one hand and yet I feel like going to this one more because ofogawaburukku's experiences and photos. Well, I'd like to go to TCAF which is closer but I still need to win the lottery :P But anyway, it probably has to do more with respect...in a great majority of US cons, original work (unless you're popular) is waylaid by the sidelines. *shrugs* Just got to live with it.

That being said, it's ironic considering I'm not going to AI this year. Not because I can't but basically because this year it wasn't worth buying the ticket :P Shame because I really wanted to go ;o; And now it's too late to go to any other con's AA or Dealers so it's off to Graceland in August 8D

OH GOD EVERYONE WAS RIGHT. /sob You know something is good when everyone's right OH GOD /sob sob sob

Also, holy cow that TGWTG thing with Mara Wilson. I'll admit, it looked scary. Though a bit unnecessary and dated but that's the price of a fandom that doesn't know the difference between opinions and "GTFO". A fandom that doesn't know how to tell time either apparently.


Also, my webcomic's has been updated with two pages and will soon be updated again the end of the month.

Also, two recent arts from my DA:
Jile khelimaske -- Dancing Hearts by =JadineR on deviantART

Jet Set by =JadineR on deviantART

I don't know why but today I feel like writing on LJ. I feel like a writing a couple of things on here instead of on Tumblr. I don't know why...and save for one mini-analysis thing that I will post here at some point, most of what I want to say doesn't merit posts. Maybe.

It doesn't help either that I feel like sometimes my posts don't get read. Only spammers read my posts and annoy the hell out of me. Very petty :P Granted, most of my recent posts have been videos :P I've also not commented on my friends' blogs that much due to time, so all's well that goes around!



But well...let's see; I've been thinking about my art style lately. I've been over-analyzing by my lonesome self how certain artists are recognized because they have a particular style and others because their style is nowhere else to be seen, it's so unique. I've been thinking about how my art style is perceived -- besides the obvious anime/manga influence. If you give me a comic or an illustration by an artist either super famous offline and online or fairly popular/mentioned, 7 times out of 10 I can tell you who it is. And so I wonder if people can do that for my art when they see it. If they can recognize it or at least say "oh hey, this part's of this is good." Heck, even a few years ago on Gaia when I was first participating in auctions, the owner of one made a collage of all the artists involved and...my art looked soooo generic compared to most of the artists, but just a tad better than others.

GRANTED that was years ago and I've improved vastly, thank God. But it's still in my head and niggling at me. I wouldn't want my art to be "generic". I dislike --- loathe generic with a passion. It doesn't help that I've been looking over potential employers of le art in magazines and seeing where I can submit a CV + samples. One of the recommendations I've read for potential employers is see whether your art style (among other things) matches their taste or published work. Like, I'm not going to send my samples to say, the New Yorker magazine XD;; So I keep that in mind....and the application guidelines and markets prove my theory right: if they say they want a cartoon or illustration, you better make sure it's appropriate to their tastes and audiences' tastes and none of that newfangled manga stuff.

Only two companies were willing to accept my type of style and they were two companies I didn't want to work for, ironically! XD


So now my obvious thought was "well, I'll just adapt my style to their tastes (even if their audiences are more open-minded [or not?]) and that way I have a better chance." But I really don't want to do that. If I change or adapt my style, it's because I want to for whatever reason, eg for one of my comics to better suit the story. I don't like changing my style because people say the style in question is unpopular, it sucks or because I have to in order to possibly be considered for a job that I might not even get*. I like my style. It's the one I've worked in for years and the one I've spent most time on improving. So if it turns generic, at least it's my fault and I'll wholeheartedly admit it. Just because other people have stereotyped badly the influence of anime/manga art doesn't make it bad. If anything, the people who made the anime/manga influenced-style a stereotype to run away from are the ones to blame. There are good and GREAT artists who work in that style and they're the ones who should be getting accolades, not the other ones.

At the same time, that's a double edged sword --egos inflating for one thing and the artists getting lazy in their art. So it's all treading on tip toes.


So yeah. There's a post.


I realize this is pessimistic. I'd say realistic but I've had people tell me I'm pretty dour lately, the opposite of me, so ?

Floor Jansen, how I love you <3 I mentioned it before I think, but Floor's voice is the one I imagine Delilah having while singing in the Warchicks.

Oh jeezus there's a perfect translation opportunity for me in the manner of a contest -- unfortunately it's translating Japanese to English and while I know how to translate and how to write a translation cohesively....I'm not THAT confident in translating Japanese to English ;____; What should I doooooooooooooo?

Just being judged by Bill Flanagan would be worth it, even if the prize is not really attractive...argghhhh.

This has been a very strange week for me. Strange in the sense of doing things.


I've been lazy in comicking lately. Maybe it's that gradual burn-out you get once in a while but up until this week, the only comicking I've done was on this month's A&C page. No thumbnails for anything else, no planning, nada. I think I needed to churn out a bit of fan-art in order to get over that burn-out. That has to eb it because I've basically been able to thumbnail 5 pages of my short story comic, almost 18-20 pages of another, 2-3 more of the G&M comic and pencil 2-3 A&C pages. I've also finished redoing one page of the first chapter of A&C and am currently 40% done with this one. Actually I would have probably finished it tonight but I'm going to sleep after this post because I will be watching Beauty & The Beast (not in 3D) tomorrow in big screen 8) This will be the 3rd time I see it in theaters. A few years back they re-released it and I saw it with my sister + my family and then when it premiered back in the 90s...tangential, yay.


I am almost slightly ashamed that one of these thumbnails set mentioned is a fancomic. It's actually completed because the story ended nice in 20 pgs, bwahahahaha. But I'm also going to do it as an excuse to practice inking more and depending less on tones. I will most likely work on it when I need an A&C break.


In hindsight this might not seem much. They're only small sketches of bigger things that need to be completed. But considering everything, I accomplished a lot. I hope this momentum can last a bit longer.

In an attempt to lessen my online clutter and such, I'll be cleaning up my LJ's friendlist. Almost half of the people on there are people from the SM forum I used to frequent but with who unfortunately I don't really know that well or even talk to them. I happen to be one who believes in the motto of "friendslist=literally friends or at least people I talk to on a semi-frequent basis".

So I'll be doing that, headsup.


Now I wish I could do the same for DA, except with absent watchers 8D XD:;

Nothing much to say except this painting I've been working on for about 4 days (for page 10 of A&C) has turned out fantastic! Yes, I'm being "modest", haha, but for someone who is not trained in painting and whatnot, that fact makes me feel good <3

Here's a preview. This was about two days ago? A day? *shrug*


Also, out of the 13 tracks on Nightwish's new album, I only like 3 songs....well, 4 but one was only until I heard it enough times and went "ok, it's not bad. Average XD" Here's "Ghost River":


And Himeka's new album <33 So far, based on the samples, I only like about 5-6 songs. Then again, that's what happened with Nightwish's samples and I ended up really liking less XD; But I'm more willing to buy Himeka's album if I could because her voice is still good <3