| You Are Cyclops |
 You are a commanding leader - after all, you can kill someone just by looking at them. Power: force beams from your eyes |
May 28, 2006
May 26, 2006
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//It's Not That Easy
A friend of mine wanted me to hang out with her and her boyfriend, who happens to be my buddy as well, this weekend. I declined. I am having a fulfilling weekend with guys and dates. Plus I want to relax.
It's not that I couldn't spare some time to hang out with them. I just don't want to. I don't want to take any part of their time together. I don’t want to have to have half-ass conversation with guy while the girl nibbles him like an annoying cat, distracting him from “guy talk”. I don’t want to have to answer her, give suggestions and advices while he gets the feeling that she seeks me out as the person to confide.
She couldn’t understand that. She wanted to just simply slap me into the category of "The type of person that do not believe in guy-girl friendship." She cut our conversation short, choosing not to hear any TRUTH and FACTS and ISSUES that SHE MUST LEARN TO ACCEPT – You cannot have your cake and eat it, too.
So, let me give you the friggin’ DEFINITE scenarios that will happen when you try to date and hang out with your friends at the same time:
"Hey, Sherry. Wanna hang out with Jason and I today? While we're out, Jason and I will be talking about sports, cars, games, girl, bitches and ho's, and leaving you feeling totally left out."
"Hey, Jason. Joanna and I are going out today. Wanna come? Since we're all friends, you can try to have a decent conversation with me while Joanna whines, nags, and pulls my shirt constantly to remind us that she needs to be the center of my universe. Great, huh?"
It’s not that simple. Look at past examples of the people around you. Stop trying to reinvent the friggin’ wheel. It’s as perfectly round as it is.
May 18, 2006
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Writer/Editor's Email to me (2pm, right before my night shift: 4pm - 12:30pm):
"5 character design sets. 3 full body shots and 6 expressions for each. Clean lines, ready for inks. Due date: [Next day], 12 Noon. Let me know if you cannot make the deadline."
My Reply (2:55pm, getting ready to leave for work):
"[Name], it takes me 30 minute to do each full body pose, 30 more for six expressions. That makes the assignment a total of 10 hour worth of work without breaks. My regular job takes up 10 hours a day, including the commute. That leaves me 14 hours more without sleeping or eating. I get off work at 12:30am and would get home at 1:15am the earliest. That would leave me less than 11 hours to draw and sleep and eat. I can't make this deadline."
Writer/Editor's Reply to me (5:42pm, another stressful work day[evening]):
"YES YOU CAN! I've seen you drawn numerous sketches, such as Pikachu and anime headshots [My note: "sketches...headshots"] at conventions and cafes in a few minutes. You should be able to finish these characters just as fast. I think you're just being lazy. Do more research and start thinking outside of the box."
"More research!" must be a favorite lingo for those writers who can't come up with character personalities, so they blame the artists for "not drawing the characters right." Of course, it was the "editor" that came down on me, since the writer didn't have the right to.
And people wonder why I start communicating less and less with certain individuals. Did the above messages seemed like a conversation that was worthy of good communication, when there's clearly no room for any negotiation?! I especially love the faulty reasoning of comparing the time and effort needed for "sketching" and simple "headshots" of existing characters to character designs that needed to be created from scratch, especially when the friggin writer didn't bother to do his job! So I gotta "do more research" because he didn't do any. I have to design AND draw clean, inkable lines for a full figure in the same amount of time that I draw a friggin Pikachu. And it's OBVIOUSLY not that hard since he's not the one that has a full time job and draw for hours and hours a day to come up with characters he hasn't even written a word down on.
That's why people with no clue about character designs and no understanding of the creative process should never be given the position of managing artists. People who has never written before shouldn't be professional writers. And people with bad handwritings are probably not suitable to be writers, because they obviously don't write enough to get their handwritings to look nice.
F'You!
May 6, 2006
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I dug out an old post of mine to state a point: I don't have a separate persona just because I get to hide behind the LCD monitor that, through a few more connecting points, separated me from the rest of the digital highway travelers.
I take a lot of pride in being honest and stand for all things and ideas which I believe to be righteous. Some may call me self-righteous. But I don't ever make "empty" arguments without supportive scenarios. [Thanks, Mr. Friss. (my English teacher at Northgate Highschool, Walnut Creek, CA)]
When you're genuine and up front with people, you naturally make a lot of friends in the process because you give them the opportunity to trust you. Sure, you may be viewed as being "transparent" and as "an open target". But you learn to the true colors of those people who take advantage of you sooner, and learn to cope and defend yourself as you grow. You, of course, find out who your true friends are at the same time.
I don't need another identity or multiple identities to pretend I have friends. I just do. And I certainly didn't intimate and bait my way to get them. They'll defend me whenever they see fit. They are also part of my motivation to be successful in life, because I know they'll be in the front line to share my pride and joy.
Thanks guy. I love you all.
May 5, 2006
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//#@%!...
This didn't come out well. But ultimately I think you all deserve to see when an artwork of mine doesn't come out well...
May 4, 2006
April 28, 2006
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April 27, 2006
April 25, 2006
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//Let There Be Some Light
It takes one person's greed to mess up a good working relationship for the whole group. Lying and conniving, just to get his way. Never pulling any weight or doing any actual work. It just takes one bad apple, and the smell of rotting forever ruins the basket.
So glad to have things cleared up. So glad to have you finally see the light.
And I welcome you with open arms.
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