OMIGOODNESS I CAN'T BELIEVE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN MY WHOLE ENTIRE LIFEEEEEEEEEEEEE... I managed to finish drawing all the lines for so many illusto homeworks in SOOOO little time... God is really with me! :D Hehe, I hope I'd be able to continue at this pace in the days to come. You know how sometimes you're on the top of the curve and the next day you're at less than 0.



Anyway, OMGOODNESS OMGOODNESS, it's April, it's the start of the new season animes! Whoot! And the start of the very highly anticipated second series of HAGAREN. I watched it somewhat like I was on Marijuana, the typical side effect of watching any BONES production. They are so hella good. I watched I.G.'s BASARA too, which was pretty good action but it was still so caught in the game-ish kind of atmosphere I really didn't seem to find anything worth praising about the storyboarding. I hope it changes as the story goes along :S. Funny thing is its in the WARRING STATES period and the first thing you hear when Date Masamune takes the screen is 'LETSSSSS PARTAAAAAAYYYYY!!!' and no it wasn't in Japanese! Haha!



Hmm okay let's see.. I watched Satellite's BASQUASH too and it was like Bones Studio4deg high quality funky sh*t and some pretty interesting individualistic expressions in there. Keeping that on my regulars list. Haha okay and then I watched this Ristorante Paradiso. Picture an Ojisan host club.. HAHA. Okay no, it's not what you might think but that is the general idea. The story is based in Italy where this girl from the countryside goes to Rome to look for her mom who practically abandoned her (with relatives) to marry this man who isn't interested in divorcees so she's trying to keep it all hush hush and her daughter intends to look for her and spilla the beans big time. Anyway, she ends up at this restaurant whose mom's BF is the owner of. The customers who are mostly toward middle aged women go there to gawk at the toward middle aged waiters who all wear antique spectacles. Okay I guess my taste isn't really the Ojisan type but I think the character designs are decently good in standard considering its *THAT* type of anime. The preview for the second episode was WAY IYARASHII (questionable). Girl pounced on one of the waiters and attempts to str*p him, like what?! In the second episode already?



Oh man, anyway, with the start of the new animes, I hope to regularly keep up with them, which is ever so important in order to preserve a constant interest and for (obviously) new ideas. Hmmm... okay anyway, will make an exit now :O Here are the illust-o sketches I did, cheerios!

"GIJINKA" (to give something non-human human characteristics) homework part(a) - Jellyfish! Actually started rough sketching at the start of spring break but threw it aside and only semi-finalised the lines on Friday.

"GIJINKA" homework part(b) - Okayama Prefecture! Like I was so what the.. of all things you give me a prefecture, kinda thing. Anyway, looked up Okayama and what its known for producing and some sources said fruits like Cantaloupes, grapes and white peaches. So I thought I'd so something of a prince theme. Drew that today! :D This is really one of my favorites :)

"White Day" homework. White day is a day in Japan (3/14) where the guys are supposed to reciprocate the girls choc-giving tradition on Valentines. So for this one, I drew.. okay you can see what it is! Didn't want to spend too much time drawing too elaborate a picture cos I'm really not quite up to that standard yet so I decided to just capture the girl's reaction. Semi did this during the hols and finalised yesterday.

"Hina Matsuri" (Doll's Festival) homework. It's a festival for the girls whereby families put up displays of Hina dolls and eat certain special foods like sushi rice, mochi and other stuff. I like baking and all so I decided to do a cake after seeing some pictures of special cakes for that occasion. Chose to do it in a kind of From the top view so I could spare myself from drawing the body.. hehe. Anything to save time! I don't have much of it anyways!

"GothicLoli" homework: Gothic Lolita is this outrageously popular fashion style in Japan. Having said that, not everyone dresses like that so don't get the wrong idea. Think Edwardian, Vicorian, over frilly, overlacey, black, white, red, throw in some fusion with punk or rock and hey presto! Welcome to Japan! Did this today! :D

Haha okay and the one that drew a lot of laughter from myself...

"Vesak Day" homework: STUPID TEACHER, was what I thought when I saw this one. I didn't want to draw Buddha, I mean who wants to right?! It had to include Buddha and some flowers so oh well, internalising the trait of anime to sensationalise things and to make viewers think a certain concept might be cool.. I did MR BUDDHA in a lotus enjoying the sunshine! HAHA. Oh man, he looks soooo comfortable. Some *friends* thought it looked erotic.. Haha. But I promise to cover him up properly so don't get the wrong idea!

Hurhur. Okay thats all folks :)