Screw 2009. That is all I have to say.



By now, I have fully recovered from my condition of internal injury-related deterioration and shot death and injury in the face with PURE VIGOR AND MIGHT (a bit late on this, since I've recovered for a little while, but was too busy to make an update) I could not have done it without the moral support of every single person out there who wished my well being, whether they thought it, or directly said it. Yah! Thank you everyone once again!

In the meanwhile, I have been drawing, studying, and painting like a madman for my portfolio, but I don't intend on posting things until later.. perhaps. I also want to jump back into VOID sometime and get active again.

I will make 2010 the best of the best, because that is also when I finally graduate High School and get ready to tough it out on my own.

Here's my resolutions.
-Get admitted to all of the Colleges/Universities I've applied for. [fuck highschool forever.]
-Go to Wizard World 2010, or meet a VOIDer or two.
-Write more substantially in comics.
-Improve illegible penmanship.
-Develop painting/inking/drawing style to be the way I expect it to be, continue experimenting.
-Get a new character into VOID or just fight more.
-Make a finished animation.
-Study naturalistic principles and technicalities harder.
-Gain weight/start a work out routine.
-Speak up more. [yeah right.]



What's your resolutions, guys?

I didn't get a chance to reply to every single one of your comments individually on the last entry, but I have read all of them. I was surprised because there were a few people that commented whom I don't recognize, or haven't spoken to before, but they were all the same wishing me the best and for my recovery. I also would like to give my thanks to those who have been contacting me over IM or Facebook to send me get well wishes or keep in touch.

The best news of all is that I did not need to get the operation after the period of time where I had to be put on standby for the decision.

Ever since the day they told me I didn't need it, I have been recovering gradually. Knowing that I'd be able to live on without those body-altering procedures hasn't felt so nice before.

Right now, I still have internal bleeding going on after these almost 3 weeks of fighting to live, but the amount of blood loss has decreased significantly, as well as the pains in my abdomen, and I'm continuing to function as a human being in my rather jagged fixture of life.

Thanks everyone, for your considerate words. They really mean alot to me.


DECEMBER TO-DO LIST. //
>A VOID battle with ~LemonDoodle
>Finish the rest of the 10+ free sketches
>Overdue commission piece
>Do an X-mas picture for my own sanity's sake
>Extreme portfolio preparation and tailoring for Art Center's exclusive 20-student spot. _{Entertainment Design Undergraduate division}
>Set up Website
>Work on Independent Project- SWINE, book 1 [if time allocates]

In case this has not made it to the ears of those who were watching me on dA, I have been recently diagnosed with a rather harsh internal bleeding condition with a 30% chance of dying if organ failure occurs (from Doctor's words). Where did it come from? I didn't even get into any sort of physical fight. It just turned out to be high volumes of stress that caused this, and this is what it can do to you, if you come from a family with high blood pressure. I never considered my physical body particularly fragile, because I've never treated it particularly well, nor do external circumstances, but this is just rather heavy.

The treatment I may end up receiving is surgery to repair the damage, if my bursted vessel does not heal completely within the next few days. The operation actually has a moderate amount of risk to it, too, disregarding the price of it all together, and I really don't want it to have to come to that.

30% chance of death is by no means overly high, but it is high enough to be concerned, and probably the closest to death I've ever been with some conscious decision lingering within the situation. The only other two times I've come close to death is when I nearly got hit by a bus in China or the time I nearly broke my neck (but instead, muscle tissue and not spinal cord was wrecked) in an acrobatic snowboarding accident.

I've been in so much indescribable pain in recent times. As the bleeding is located in my abdomen region, my digestive tract is been giving me hell every time food makes it to there and out the other end- I've been feeling alot of fatigue, near-fainting experiences, been crapping out blood, and excess dehydration.

I'm taking care of myself, and drinking, and taking it easy, though.

I consider myself very lucky. I've accomplished alot of things, and so many people care for me, it would be extremely selfish if I just gave up on my life because I would affect others, even though part of me would honestly not regret submitting to eternal sleep. The other half of me is trying to slap that with iron fists screaming at me that I have a promising and bright future ahead of me that hasn't arrived merely because I'm just not at that point yet and I'm not quite done with High School.

17 years may not be a particularly long span of time to live, but many stressful things have been happening to me in many shapes and forms, and it's far too hectic to sum up in any way. I can honestly say to other people I've probably experienced more than I've needed or ever wanted than the average teenager at this age in my lifetime, and for that, it would only be all the more unfortunate to pass away.

I really want to go to an art college. I've narrowed down my Undergraduate major selections to this, and in order of top to lower priority: Entertainment Design, Animation, Illustration.

If I fail at that, I'll just try being a doctor, and save other people's lives, lol.

EDIT: Get 'em while slots are still available!! Spaces automatically reserved for people that I have requested free sketches from even if 10 limit has been reached.

EDIT2: Well, I'll add people even if it leaks above ten, whatever. I want to see how far i can go with all this.



<sub>I think I'll try to give this another attempt; the one I did last time failed because the sketches in question for the most part, did not look good and I tossed 'em.

Anyways, I have been noticing this 10 sketches trend going on around amongst the people I watch, and I think I feel up to whipping up some quick ones for some practice later on. Quick little doodles.
If this is of a character, provide most updated image ref, or at least a detailed description. If this is of a broader open-interpretation subject matter, that's cool too.</sub>

1 Alto the Lion-Dog - Done!
2 Double Team & Ten Axes - Done!
3 FUSE's two protagonists - Done!
4 Whoa & Adonis - Done!
5 Spinel the Guinea Pig - Done!
6 Sol the Bard
7 Loobert
8 Soldat Veritas
9 Angie vs Godzilla - Done!
10 Duane Foster
11 Anaconda vs... Anaconda
12 ROBOTIC ALLIGATOR
13 Sakura Solo
14 Jak Nyfe
15 Something that relieves stress.
16 EPIUS