...as no such thing.

Happy mother fucking new year! For a change I thought i'd make some new years resolutions and take them seriously - helped by the fact its already apart of my mentality. One of these is to become shit hot at everything I do - white hot! Having said that I've not had the most eventful of new years, seeing as I've been playing Wrath and doing sweet f.a. for the last month or so - it's tiem to kick it up a gear.

Even though games consume me I have been watching anime and keeping up to date on my manga yo, thanks mainly to my lovely - and much needed - 600gb harddrive! So whats been on my hit list animewise?

Over Drive is good shit - if youre into sports/levelups and cool characters then this may be your cup of tea, although the subject matter of cycling is a bit odd its animated well so theres no shoddy drifting bikes to endure just the cool characters!

I also felt in the need for some lighthearted casual shit to sit down with my noodles and zone out too - so, i grabbed Doki Doki School Hours which is very similar to Azumanga but with an added mix of Pani Poni Dash for a nice slice of life comedy with some mania mixed in! And to take the mania to the extreme i've been watching Hayate no Gotoku which is so damn obscure and funny at times!

On the manga side of things I've been really into the usual stuff and totally addicted to Bakuman, which is so god damn motivational and awesome. If youre feeling like you need a kick up the ass than that always helps me! It's about two aspiring mangakas and it takes a fairly serious approach with the stance of hardwork gets you results - something I always favour. I just dont work hard... harrr.


Right, my sleeping patterns are beyond fucked up at the moment - its getting annoying to go to bed at 1am and get up at 4:30am, but hey, I cant expect normality after pushing for 6am bed times for a month, so I'm now on a mission to return the land of the daywalkers, but for now I guess ill return to painting some shit up and getting some of that much needed practice.

Well, my first job application to a games company was denied - which was a good thing really. See with me i'm striving for something far down the road so things like this dont really disrupt my long term plan, if anything its nodding to the fact I dont cut it yet which is all the reason to work harder!

Lately I've just been studying from photos and attempting some things traditionally, I've done a few selfportraits which should be the first of many and drawing assorted things to help me draw what I see - not what i think i see. I think drawing from life has so much more meaning and im a fool for not paying more attention to it previously. It seems so much more valuable to be able to convey something from 3d to 2d than it is to compare negative space and things in an already 2d image against your own.

Bit of a preachy waffle journal but ah well! Been reading the usual Manga and whatnot but im currently short on things to watch. I've gone through a phase of rewatching big series - as its nice to have characters that you grow attached to. So ive gone from Hajime no Ippo to Hikaru no go and ive just finished rewatching all of Hunter x Hunter. Just picked up a series called Hataraki man which is a good bit of fun but I want something to sink my teeth into!

Yeah, right... random japanese journal headers are great, this time round its a random line nabbed from Cannabis Works; which i cant stop looking through. I horde images at the best of times and ive got a fucking huge reference folder but tbh... I dont really revisit that much, when i do i enjoy it but this, this is different. The level of cool, detail and overall badessness is just too much!

I've been cuttin down on the WoW lately, due to boredom as per usual and no doubt ill pick it up come October... but prior to that I need to knock up a good portfolio for mid September so I can keep moving forwards! I swear anime has so much good underlying mentality stuff in it, and its all rubbing off on me! I'm becoming like an amalgamation of protagonists and I will be the pirate king.

So yea, i've been humming and harring and thinking about all deep and meaningful things... i.e. my future, and after reading some nifty little article by Midway on character design and whatnot I thought aww heck, why not revitalise Not Quite White and use that for what I had initially intended - being a means to design characters all of the same universe and have a good piss about at the same time.

Also im 22 now well, thats old news but if i can work my balls off a bit i can man up a bit before im 23!

I guess its evident that my draw every day for 30 days didn't really end up as good as i had intially intended... Hell, i've had another bout of inactivity again, mainly because i fell to wow's temptations yet again but what can i say, season4 was around the corner and im incredibly competitive!

More importantly however I got my uniwork handed in and i've passed with a 2:2 which is fair really, i've never geared my work towards forfilling the marking criteria as im more selfishly interested in my self improvement. Way i see it, at the end of the day my mark doesnt mean shit if my skill isnt up to par...
I think the most surprising aspect of my mark was getting 65% in my Dissertation which i forced ~8k words out over 2days (with 1~ week of reading... i never want to do that again, it hurt my brain.)

My exhibition and shit ended up better than expected though and was a decent night to boot and as nice as it would be to get a job sometime in the near future ive still got a long way to go. I really could do with another year to float around without the pressure of money bearing down on me but thats a luxury i cant afford. I really should step it up a gear if im going to land that dream job at blizzard, but its going to be so fucking hard to do when they make such good games that eat my time away!

P.s. the onepiece manga is godlike, i think i love zoro...