Rocket Punching His Way Into Your Heart!

I’ve gotten to a point in my life where I respond to any of my character’s names. 

Thank you so much for the birthday wishes everyone! I really appreciate them. Even if I don’t reply, I’ve been reading each one, so thank you very much! 

25

What do people normally do on their birthdays? Make a joke about leveling up? Lament that they’re getting old? 

Regardless, I bought myself some cheesecake and goddamn I’m going to eat all of it! 

State of The Zeny

Hey guys, I’ve been slower than usual producing art for a number of reasons. The first is I’m really busy with school, volunteering as an academic tutor, and generally running around making sure my goals are in check. I’m also having a few issues with my current drawing tools, but I should be able to get it situated. I submitted the JET Program application a few weeks ago. Here’s hoping the Japanese government picks me to teach English over there!

In other news, my birthday is this Friday on the 27th. I’ll be 25! Normally I feel really bad about advertising my own birthday because it feels manipulative to demand attention, but to hell with it. Getting attention on the one day it’s most likely justified isn’t wrong as long as I’m not a jerk about it, right? Anyway, a simple “happy birthday!” on Friday will go a long way with me. I like well wishes. 

Or, if you’re feeling particularly adventurous you can dig through my Amazon wishlist and get me 50 packs of Umaibou , among other things. You don’t have to though and I’m generally not public about my wishlist because it makes me feel like an entitled jerk but I also have to learn not to feel bad about wanting attention and neat stuff. 

Anyway this became more of my own ramblings than a proper journal post. Thanks for reading! 

Hehe you have good friends dontcha~

Aha, they’re great folk and very dear to me! 

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So @htodinth got me Makoto Shinkai’s A Sky Longing For Memories art book as an early birthday present (which is next Friday). It’s really good! You might recognize Mr. Shinkai’s background art in 5 Centimeters Per Second and The Place Promised in Our Early Days. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to seriously pursue getting better at drawing backgrounds! 

Thanks again, Odin!

After rewatching Tenchi Muyo and Tenchi Universe, I came to the conclusion that it’s not the harem anime genre I have a problem with. I have a problem with how aggressively heteronormative it is. I’d love a really fun LGBTQA+ harem anime that also avoids some of the more problematic aspects of harem anime like an unrealistic portrayal of how romance works. 

Harem anime can be fun, but having inclusive ones would be hella rad. Also let’s ditch the blank slate protagonists please. PLEASE. 

Busy

So I’ve been really busy which is why all I’ve managed are doodles lately. Those that follow my twitter know that besides a heavy course load, I’m also a tutor at my school’s writing center and I’m in the middle of the JET program (A government program for teaching English in Japan) application process which is really taxing in itself. 

Once I get the JET application out of the way I might have more time for more involved artwork. 

Ordered the new Surface Pro 4 pen (shown right). I decided to take a photo of it side by side with the original SP3 pen. It works with the SP3 so I thought I’d get it because it has different textured nibs. The default one has some nice resistance to...

Ordered the new Surface Pro 4 pen (shown right). I decided to take a photo of it side by side with the original SP3 pen. It works with the SP3 so I thought I’d get it because it has different textured nibs. The default one has some nice resistance to it so far. I haven’t tried them all yet, but according to the manual:

2H- Very low friction

H- Low friction

HB- Medium friction (the default tip)

B- High friction

Unfortunately, unless you have a Surface Pro 4 you don’t get the benefit of the new digitizer which has 1024 pressure points and less Initial Activation Force, but for the longer battery life, an actual eraser, design and various tips I feel like this’ll be a pretty good investment. 

Every time I see a popular comic going around part of me is very glad for their success and the other part of me is upset knowing one day some asshole is going to upload it on a content aggregate like 9gag and remove the artist credit from it.