~RazzledAngel. Go there nowz.

My bestest friend in the whole wide world and I were up late last night, and we had a few things going for us. One, she has a fancy Nikon digital camera. Two, I had some fancy clothes with me at her place. Three, she had the creative spark.

So we did an impromptu photoshoot that lasted until about two in the morning.

My last photoshoot, done by a bona-fide photographer, was crazy and awkward. I have all the pictures from it and I use them sparingly. I think he expected me to behave like a real model and want to show off my body parts or something. Well, anybody that knows me, knows I just don't do that sort of thing.

However, ~RazzledAngel knows that I can be a total prude XD So I had some awesome orchestra music playing in the background, and she got the idea to make me look more badass than Sephiroth. She has a red dress with a collar that is sleeveless and buttons all the way down the front, and I've teased her before saying that that's what Sephiroth & Aeris' lovechild would look like. So I put that on and went for eeeeevvviillll. And I am infinitely pleased with the results.

I have already asked for her permission to use some of the pics from the shoot (I have 'em all) to post up here as my modelling work XD I might do a little photo editing myself, I have a tendency to put words or phrases into my hand drawn art to try and beef up the meaning I'm aiming for, so I might do that with these.

~RazzledAngel is the BOMB, and while she hasn't been to some big fancy school or has any buisness cards to hand out (yet), she will bring out the real you. The last shoot I was uncomfortable and awkward trying to meet demands that didn't feel at all natural. This shoot however, I was all me. And it was AWESOME.

Considering I haven't done hardly anything with my account, because I always seem to be insanely busy? Next to none, I think. Also doesn't help that I haven't even bothered to update my journal in almost a year. Kinda hard to when my AC^3 post is staring me in the face all the time, and that convention started events that led to losing nearly all my self-esteem and hope for the future. No, I don't want to talk about it.

Moving on, I do have some good news. I got my own apartment all to myself, and I got a store transfer so I have all-new coworkers and new things to learn about my awesometastic job. It's like a fresh start.

However, the move means my loss of access to a scanner/printer thing, so I've got it on my wishlist of things I'm going to have to buy myself/ask for as gifts in the near future, because damnit, I need to practice and stuff.

For now, I'm going to track down and upload some photos taken of me with my camera at this year's Anime North, because I cosplayed as two characters; Dahlia Hawthorne from Phoenix Wright: Justice For All, and Aeris Gainsborough (Duh) from FF7: Crisis Core.

AC Cubed is still over a month away, but I'm in debate as to what I should go as I know I make an OK Aeris but I don't want to cosplay her all the time, so this year I'm considering going as Atoli from .hack (A character I know little about admittedly, but this would be in an effort to match my dance partner, who is going as Haseo ). I could also pull off a Katara from Avatar pretty well I'd think. And of course, there's my KH2 Aeris costume as a last resort. At least I have a month to figure it all out, eh? But any thoughts would be appreciated

Also, I submitted my story, An Unlikely Pair, to their fanfiction contest. I had to alter it severely to meet the requirements of the contest (It's told in seven chapters but they wanted one long flowing story, where I'm a fan of chopping up my fics into scenes or moments) but I'm hoping it'll meet the cut. The original can be found at: [link]

I have realized that, due to letting my Aeris cut grow out a bit, I have attained a hairstyle that is very much like Renge's from Host Club.

I scare myself...

Finally!! This afternoon I had to pester my dad to help me print copies of my updated resume, and I figured I could do this using the laptop I play WoW on. No such luck, unfortunately, because he hadn't installed the drivers for the new printer yet, but I guess he was bored with WoW or something because he immediately did for me So finally, I managed to at least scan a whole bunch of drawings! I obviously haven't done anything to them yet, no inking, just pencil sketches and stuff, but I will post them as they are in my scraps within the next hour or so.

The characters featured in each drawing are all part of a fantasy story I've had running through my head for the past couple years. With the sketches and completed drawings I'll try to describe who the characters featured are and what part they play in that story. Maybe eventually I'll post the story itself, but it's going through it's 34th revision or so, so no guarantees ^-^;;

But hey! You'll at least see I can draw stuff by hand!!