Miss Romy-chan's sparse rants

Merry X-mas!

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:03:36 GMT

I drew this one last year while doing my training at the hotel...
I started working right around this time last year, same holds true for when I started working at Publix. It's been a year in "hospitality" and I'm not going completely angry/crazy over it yet XD

"It's all over!"

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:25:58 GMT

A doodle from back in 2004, working for Kuni and despaired at the lack of ideas...

This past week has been very stressful at work, and life in general too, it ain't easy getting ready for 2 weddings and noticing how at this particular point in my life everything is at a crossroads.

Green Ariel

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:31:02 GMT

Finally uploading this one.

somebody's bored...

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:18:34 GMT

Fill this out with an anonymous comment so I can guess who it is!

1. Who are you? (um~ either don't reply to this one or put something witty)
2. Are we friends?
3. When and how did we meet?
4. How have I affected you?
5. What do you think of me?
6. What's the fondest memory you have of me?
7. How long do you think we will be friends?
8. Do you love me?
9. Do you have a crush on me?
10. Would you kiss me?
11. Would you hug me?
12. Physically, what stands out?
13. Emotionally, what stands out?
14. Do you wish I was cooler?
15. When you think of me, what goes threw your mind?
16. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.
17. Am I lovable?
18. How long have you known me?
19. Describe me in one word.
20. What was your first impression?
21. Do you still think that way about me now?
22. What do you think my weakness is?
23. Do you think I'll get married?
24. What makes me happy?
25. What makes me sad?
26. What reminds you of me?
27. If you could give me anything what would it be?
28. How well do you know me?
29. When's the last time you saw me?
30. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't?
31. Do you think I could kill someone?
32. Do you think our friendship is getting stronger/weaker/or staying the same?
33. Do you feel that you could talk to me about anything and I would listen?
34. Are you going to put this on your Journal and see what I say about you?

Mutusmi-chan

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:54:44 GMT

Uh... I'm drawing again...
It's sucking.

Click for DA full view

I wanted to try a couple things out, amongst them drawing with Paint Tool SAI, since my Illustrator behaves like a senior citizen lately. There's a nifty pen tool in SAI but it doesn't let you have fills with the pen lines or stack shapes which is the way my brain works when drawing, it's all stacked shapes of color and shade already lined.
After most of it was colored I had to switch to Photoshop to draw the BG and fix it up and color the robes since SAI was driving me nuts with its lack of tools or layer effects.
I also did the nipples different, but the drawing style is still generic, looking too close to the original anime and what I usually draw. I'm supposed to do fanart in a style that is my own. Argh~

hacked it!

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:43:38 GMT

And a sketch after I hacked it.

hack it!

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:12:27 GMT

A doodle of when I first decided to hack my hair, short in the back, long in the front.

Hatsumi-chan

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:27:36 GMT

Hatsumi-chan from Hot Gimmick in a public bath, she was supposed to be holding a bucket up there.

slave girl

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:29:39 GMT

I'm drawing (one drawing a week goal, from a pool of backed up sketches dating back to 2005) and I'm horny.

social overeating

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:01:34 GMT

"social overeating" : guilty as charged. I really coulda gone without those wings and cheesecake and 2 cups of milk last night.

Alas I vented with food and drink

smoking maid

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:08:13 GMT

I dug up some stuff from old notebooks when I re-organzed my drawing filing cabinet to catch up on all the stuff I didn't finish drawing....

alvis

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:03:04 GMT

back to back doodle postings.
I organized my drawings today, but stupidly ran out of folder labels due to bad planning.

De-organized organization

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:18:26 GMT

Hey! it's Nami! Who remembers Nami??
Ultra old stuff too... 2005

Why do I always come back to my room on my days off, after an event, or after a string of work days and say: well this day I'm gonna organize stuff!! It's either my endless flow of recently downloaded music, recent photos (currently at overflow), old artwork and sketches, toys on rotation, stuff I buy and leave in bags piling up in my room for weeks, my freshly laundered clothes, art materials I barely used, and all the stuff I take out after I'm done with a cosplay project... Lately it feels like I just organize and organize to make space, and clear up the path for a new project or for an old stagnant project that I've just been meaning to get to... for the past 3 years.

I do have things from 3 years ago that I sill want to draw/do...

I remember a point in time when I closed my facebook account and myspace to stop my relentless time wasting. I don't feel I can bring myself to do that again, I have tried to be less active but I might as well be called on "bullshit" for having a twitter, embellishing my google calendar at leisure, and lurking on 4chan now and again.

Also I must stop buying things I dont strictly NEED! Like more bras (but I need some in my current size...) A new haircut (aww.... bangs...) and Hello Kitty junk (it's too out of the way anyways). Or go to more flipping cons!!

Only 3 months until wedding mayhem, I need to straighten up on my bridesmaid duties yo~

I need my beach body back. New love is making me fat.

Return from the nice

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:28:06 GMT

Just got back from a nice weekend escapade in Sarasota, FL. Got to visit the famous Siesta Key, idle around the town, play video games, watch movies, eat junk and wake up very late.
I've been very indulged these past couple days, work and regular (organized) life feels like such a hassle now. =p

pre-independence!

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:51:46 GMT

Kinda complicated partying going on for tonite.
Let's see how all that goes...

bored

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:04:47 GMT

Nobody posts in their journals anymore.
For reals.

Doodle of kitty-chan

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:43:11 GMT

doodle

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:30:46 GMT

I'll try to put more doodles up.
It's one of those "I'm not gonna let Takumy keep kicking my ass at art stuffs no more!" days...

odalisque

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:56:54 GMT

I still have doodles from 2007. I sometimes doodle stuff at work and take the half crumpled papers home. Haven't really drawn anything in a whole year T_T
Shame.

purging

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:20:23 GMT

My LJ is hereby purged of automatic tweets; past, present and future.

Looking forward to SUMMER!

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:59:15 GMT

Why don't none of you be making real posts anymore!? Specially David. You barely even tweet man! Too busy with the GF I bet... uh huh.
My excuse for not doing everything or refusing to do anything is always "working on my costume, sorry" and although I don't put as many hours into it as I make it sound, or even wish I had, I'm making some progress.
My latest distraction is all these peopl I can now chat to... the internets always makes me late for things but I've put all the clocks around me forward, so now I make it 5 minutes late instead of 10. Pretty good I think.
Man, if only Teri would wake up earlier I could get more procrastinating done!!! I really wish we could be up and gymming by 9am, but if we're going to sleep by 2am that ain't gonna happen. Also considering the shit schedule we have next week I dunno when we're gonna squeeze in some gymmings.

I'm actually looking forward to this summer. SUMMER! Can't wait till I'm done with the costume and start a new project. Won't do school this summer semester... but maybe I'll look into going for Fall but maybe for a new degree? Anything to make moolah~

So close to achieving my ultimate body goal, 'xcept I've lost most of my boobage in the process. Thought about implants but I think wearing falsies when the situation calls for it is gonna make do for most of the time, 3K in tits IS a great investment. At least I won't have to spend in on SmartLipo (really thought about this!!). I wanna run faster, do more crunches, lift more weight... and have great hair!!

Bridesmaid dresses try on was such an eye opening experience for me. I really felt anything I threw on looked *good*. Like woah~
Also I totally suck at wedding planning stuffs... I'll just stick to my duty of making Teri hot for the date and holding her dress up when she needs to pee. And maybe learn a choreography for the DANCE OFF!

Muahahahahahhaah. I feel great today.
Peace out~

To hose or not to hose?

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:41:53 GMT

Hey guyse!
I just want to ask your opinion on the issue of wearing skin colored pantyhose with a leg bearing cosumte. See?

WITH pantyhose

WITHOUT pantyhose

Lay it on me folks, this is an important issue for me.

*EDIT*
Please be advised by butt WILL be doing this:

The makings of my dressfrom

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:22:30 GMT

This is my completed dress form. It's made from a plaster cast which is covered in duct tape and currently wearing a bra since the chest got smushed when I tried to make the paper mache mold from it.

I wore my ultimate push-up bra plus the falsies to recreate my boobage for the cosplay.

Next time (if I ever) decide to make a cast again, I will skip the saran-wrap altogether and sacrifice a bra getting covered in plaster for greater accuracy.

Cosplay adventures part deux!

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:46:36 GMT

I am so super excited about the cosplay, it's ridiculous. Today I walked in Teri's house to get working on the props and I noticed that she had her staff roughly perched up next to the wall. It's only the wooden pole and the wood cutout of the top design but I couldn't stop omg-ing about it. Suddenly I could see it; my dream realized: WE CAN DO THIS!

At this moment I am extremely thankful for the reduction of my work hours and ample amounts of days off. It looks like the plan is going right on schedule.

This week I finished my dressform after a failed attempt to create the paper mache mold (super fail waste of 4+ hours). At least I already had the sturdy-ish plaster cast which I ended sealing back up, filling up with newspapers, and wrapping in duct tape. Only thing is that it has to wear a bra since the boobies got squished with the paper mache paste. Finally I can say that one of things on my checklist is DONE.

Today we managed super duper progress on the props. We were able to cut the poles to fit into my sword and Teri's staff. It was so super exciting to actually hold my sword up and point it at things, strike a few poses. Also re-realizing that the dammed thing is so effing huuuugee...

I've tested out several spray paints and finally settled on which to use. At this point I have to pick a day to go back to Home Depot and Pearl's to return a shitload of stuff >_< Thank god I live in Miami and not some small town where going to these places would be a field trip.

Pics coming up for reals... I thought the LJ gallery system would work from the hotel computers but it didnt :(

Late night cosplay adventures

okazu_neko@hotmail.com — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:05:53 GMT

Remember those pics on the progress of my awesomely huge sword?? Well, I went ahead and drew the thing, took it to Aysha's house to have Kolin show us how to cut it, returned to Teri's house with what happens to be not the most appropiate tool for the job, have Juankie give me a superior bit for faster cutting, and get to work!
Well, the darned thing was cut and then Moo and Juankie are going "it's just not quite right..." and it wasn't, but I had drawn and re-drawn the design so many times I was quite stubborn about doing it over or changing it.
In any case I had decided to go in and vector the intricate design on the middle of the sword when it dawned on me: I COULDA VECTOR THE WHOLE THING! DURH! Tracing the sword in illustrator will enable me to neatly print it even it it needs to be 8 feet high, so of course I go in and trace the darned thing only to find how completely inaccurate my original draft had been. At least with my previous experience I was able to fisnish much faster and get the sanding done too. Only issue now is putting in the dowel... but that I will worry about once we gather the right tools.

And so I move on to other parts of my costume... all the items that I could possibly think I would be needing to order online have been ordered. I received my boxes with yards of foamies, plaster bandages, Cocona in her PVC flesh, I drove 40 minutes to a plastics warehouse to acquire precious styrene sheets and if all goes well wigs and contacts will arrive in time to even do tryouts.

I had even started to make a budget to track my already exorbitant expenses in this venture, but left that in the backburner since with each passing day feel like I'm not gonna make it on time =_=.

I decided it was time to get my hands drity and start crossing some stuff off my list. We squeezed in making Teri's ductape dressform on Monday and Moo helped me in making a plaster cast for mine. That's still only 50% done cuz the dressforms still have to be filled and made to stand in some sort of way...

After that I got inspired to try my hand at making the shoes (cuz they be some crazy shoes yo!), I stayed up until 3am just to barely figure out how I was gonna go about certain parts of the shoe, tried to go to sleep at 3 while my mind still thought of 20 different ways to make a heel, and my body still feeling like it was going thru the motions of hot glueing, cutting, tracing, and heat gunning. I took some nyquil to knock myself out and clear my nostrils, fell officially asleep at 6am and woke up 10:30 thinking I was gonna make myself gym with Teri.
Needless to say I found whatever I was doing for the shoe inappropiate to the point I almost had to start them over for scratch.

At least I feel better about actually trying to get started on the costume, even if failing at most of my attempts. I took another trip down to Pearl's before work today and should be better stocked to make more progress.

Right now I just one to be able to say *one* thing is 100% done. Be it one shoe, one breastplate, one accessorie or smth.

Rawr... pics later cuz I'm at work.