Mkays, so its finally hit me after however many years that I need to refocus. My grades have been steadily going down the drain and it seems that I only post things here once in every six month period...if I'm lucky. So, its time to turn over a new leaf. I just bought two new sketchbooks - one for general use, and one for ink and marker work. Let's see what I can do with this. I'll try to post something every week.

Lots of love,

~ Toki

Sooo, yesterday I got to go see Stratovarius at the Regency Grand Ballroom in San Francisco. Very much not as good as the Edguy show from last week, but a very very great opportunity for photographs. I may post some of my favorites here, but for now, here's the link to the full library:

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The password, of course, is "stratovarius"

What ya think?

Once again, I do realize how long it has been since you guys have had a real update. Life has been a rollercoaster lately. Yea, I fall on cliche. But its true at least. School and work have eaten up huge amounts of time, not to mention family obligations. This hasn't left a whole lot of time for art and such, especially since my muses seem to have died after high school graduation. Its always a lovely feeling to feel the inspiration for something you love slipping away. I need a jump-start or something.

But in any case, I just started my fifth semester of community college. I'm pretty much down to just the fluff classes - y'know, the ones they want you to take to be a "well-rounded student" before you go off to the big university. Isn't that what high school was for? *shrug* I dunno, but I'm almost done, thank goodness. I'll probably take a year off between community and university though to work and save money and stuff.

I've been thinking though, would anybody be interested in commissions? I really could use the extra cash. They probably wouldn't be anything too extensive at first. Sketches and ink work probably, though I may have one slot for a bigger illustration. Might not though, as I've begun to favor the huge paper for full illustrations, and that stuff isn't cheap - not to mention the amount of media it takes to cover one of those sheets.

What do you think?

No, not the RPG site. I forgot I'd made a Freewebs account for it ages ago - seriously, like three years ago - and I just started working on it again. I'm in the process of adding in character and book descriptions, as well as any other little tidbits that I can think of. If you want to see the official names and get an idea of what the books are gonna be like, this is the place to go. Tell me what you think! :3

Edited to add the link! Stupid me forgot it!

I've always been a fan of fountain pens, but they've always been so hard to find, or just plain expensive - especially for a student who at the time didn't have a job. I just recently got back into the hobby about two weeks ago, and holy crap is it an obsession now. My bank account is seriously yelling at me. In that amount of time, I've taken my collection from 3 or 4 to 11, and I've just committed myself to a 12th and possibly a 13th. This doesn't even begin to touch the bottles of ink and ink samplers that I've ordered (seriously, who can resist an ink with a name like Widowmaker or Dragon's Napalm?).

All I can say is that the things are amazing. I haven't found the right one for me yet, but I think it will probably end up being one with an italic or flex type of nib as I love the flair it gives to my writing.

Anybody else use fountain pens?