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{Edit: Birthday coming up soon: August 15. I can't believe I'm going to be 17 already... I don't want to be an adult yet... *sigh* Regardless, I'm going to be a senior in high school next semester... 4 days left till my birthday}

Okay, I'm nearly dead on DA. Everyone should know that by now... But I do watch your artwork and comment from time to time. It's mostly because I'm too busy with my life and typing entries for pictures and journals are a bother. I only type if something seems important... Any way, I'm still alive, so if you guys send me a message or note, I 100% read them, don't be afraid to do that although I look dead. I will always read comments you have for me, surely.

Real World:
I went and came back from Anime Expo 2009, for people who didn't know. I was dressed up as Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES's Main character, Arisato Minato. (Because I'm almost his exact replica in real life, by looks and [GENERAL] character personality.) I dressed up as him for Thursday, Friday, (Not Saturday because I got his pants dirty) and Sunday... I was the asian with Black hair and blue contacts... The only thing I was missing from Minato's costume was his velvet-blue hair, his boots (which I bet no one made/has), and his envoker... SoI had his headphones/MP3-Player and everything. Most people would remember me best by my ninja jumps everywhere in the convention, being the mostly silent Minato (unless with my friends), wandering aimlessly, seeing me BE chased by Rin (Vocaloid) and also CHASING Rin (Vocaloid) and another girl for random things like ducktape/my shoe, and finally the caramelldancen' train on the final day which I held one of the member's (Cloud from Final Fantasy) massive sword as he danced around the whole day. (I also bought a white kitty scarf with blue button eyes if you've seen that around ;3...)

In other news:
I'm not drawing alot anymore, I'm mostly composing ideas for a game I'm hopefully going to create for a future gamining company I'm going to start up. (Btw, any volunteers would be appreciated, I'll give you the full info/details if you PM me... including the over-view of what we plan to do and the game we are making itself... note that anything I tell you is classified to the public and even if leaving, not allowed to share with the public till the game's/future games' release... If you are wondering "Why volunteer? Shouldn't I get paid?" there is a perfectly good explanation for why, PM me for that too.) And I'm massively playing games right now, because I'm getting addicted to Atlantica Online. Though I'd like to get back to drawing, composing music/learning music, and writing stories, I don't have any inspiration or motivation... partly most of the stuff I make is always in it's rough draft states and will take forever to complete/refine and they look like crap in their rough draft states... Most of you would probably say I should more time on it so it doesn't look like rough draft crap, but I have other things I want to do besides that... Yes I'm commited to drawing/other arts, but I would like to know the tricks and tools to make it faster... for instance, learning how to use photoshop expert tools and when to use them to make things faster for me rather then using only the smudge and easy tools which are really time consuming... I understand that that takes practice too, but I need something I need a "manual" to show me where to start first, master that, then move on to the next ones till I completely understand how to use all the tools together... (I use Photoshop CS4 if anyone wants to help...)

Finishing Up:
I would like someone to give me a kick start on my artistic inspiration for drawing, playing my guitar, and writing if they can. If anyone could lead me in a direction towards getting better, I'd like to try it. So basically I'm asking for anyone has good practice work for my skills. To make it simpler...

A practice of some sort to improve mediocre skills in drawing/coloring from traditional to digital (painting is accepted too)[preferably in chibi/manga/anime style]

A practice of some sort to improve beginner skills in playing the acoustic guitar (I've learned handful of cords and songs but in bits and pieces, so for this I'm asking as if I were COMPLETELY new the guitar so I can go through them in order so I won't skip anything.)

A practice of some sort to (not improve) but inspire me to write more about my story (Medieval fantasy with dragons and stuff are my sort of stories, if that helps rule out some practices, though my story consists of all elements of a good story, drama, comedy, action, suspense, mystery, horror, and the works.) [I'm trying to create and "Epic" like the Odyssey/Iliad and such, but not to classical like poetry, more modern and interesting rather then boring... including irony and allusions to many books/speechies, history,philosophy, and even having its own languages and hieroglyphics to translate... {you don't need to understand/translate them to enjoy the book though... it's only there for the more intelligent/"deep" readers to enjoy}... The reason for this is to do the old "Shakespeare" thing where the intelligent and "commoners" both enjoy the "play"... (though I don't really think of the not-as-educated as "commoners, I'm just giving a understanding)]

And an extra if possible... A practice of some sort do develop skills for animation using Flash CS4 Professional. I've been trying to learn already for a really long time, but I haven't understood how to use it at all~!! I'm trying to integrate this and Photoshop for a really cool mix... I'm totally clueless how to use flash at all (Complete nub with no experiance). If someone could set me off in the right direction, that'd be great...

Thank you all for reading this VERY long journal entry... This should make up for some of the time I've been gone... Anyway for now.... Peace out~.

Notes: I'm currently obsessed with Vocaloid, Gaming, and Animation... I really want a PS3/X-Box 360 but have absolutely no money... and I've got a computer with high enough specs for the newer games, but again have no money to buy them... I'm stuck with old games such as starcraft... and only a couple semi-new games such as Fable (1) and Command and Conquer 3 -Tiberium Wars- (without expansion)... *sigh* I feel so left behind... x<