Hi all! I hope everyone enjoyed their respective holidays (or at least the time off). My break has been going well, apart from needing to deal with filling out applications. Blech. Almost... done... with that...

I also was supposed to work on my big school project over break, but pfft! Who really expects me to do that when I am home and am able to relax for the first time in what feels like forever? I'd much rather just keep drawing. *guilt*

And when it comes to drawing, I finally finished a drawing of Zero I had in the works since last winter. I tried some new things with the lines, which I might try to do more often. I experimented with a few other things that were less successful, but that's what experimenting is for.

Hopefully I can get my next big drawing done a bit faster than in 1.083 years, because I want to give it to a friend as a gift. It's be nice if it is done in time for her birthday as opposed to next Christmas, heh. While my younger cousins were over, we spent time drawing, and I drew out the basic concept with colored pencils. I'm going to draw it again from scratch because the angles got kinda wonked out. However, I would like to report, it actually looks like the character has a torso. I had to pause and silently celebrate. Anatomy! Yes!

Also, for Christmas, I received Copic markers. They are really excellent, and almost make me want to go get a coloring book or something so I can just keep on coloring with them. Thank you to everyone who already gave me hints for using them. I made a drawing of Bulbasaur and colored it with the Copics, and I have almost finished coloring a drawing I made of Ivysaur.

I'm interested in the Pokemonathon challenge to draw the original Pokemon in order, but I don't want to Jynx myself, so I'm not going to promise anything officially. I did draw all 151 and about half of the Jhoto set back when I was younger, relying heavily on Ken Sugimori's artwork. I hope I can draw them again, but this time I want to make all unique poses and actually draw backgrounds. They're only going to be on index cards, so nothing huge... but don't expect me to keep pumping them out within any small time frame, and don't get mad if I get too busy and have to stop making them altogether, eheh.

I also got the first Phoenix Wright game for Christmas. It's a good game, though I almost think of it more as a book. It's a really good book that you have to keep reading until you are done, and then you want everyone you know to read it too. It also helps that all the jokes were made as if they were specifically targeting my particular sense of humor, and the music, characters, and animations are excellent.