It is almost my birthday! I got a new Wacom tablet already too! I'm working on some Tomba fanart at the moment. When I finish it really depends on how much my son naps and the amount of free-time I get.

I'm trying to be healthier. I've been walking at least a mile each day. Once I've built up more strength, I'll get more serious and do P90X or something.

Anyway, later.

I'm still around. Things are just crazy since I had my kid.

I should be getting a new Wacom tablet soon. My old one is busted. In the mean time I am messing around with Colors on my 3DS. I'll hopefully have something worth posting soon.

Anyway, just checking in.

Later.

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I need it NOW.

I haven't disappeared.

I've just had a lot of good news in the past month, and that good news has been keeping me busy.

The most awesome thing is that my son was finally born! He's a handsome little dude.

In addition to that, I finally found out what my lung problem was after months of testing: Asthma. I'm glad that it's just that after all the blood tests, X-rays, and CT scans. Not that asthma is good, but it's a lot better in consideration of the alternatives.

I'm also working again. Doing more union stuff. It's pretty fun, but it's tiring. Right now, I'm only working part time so I'm hoping to finally get some art done now that my breathing issue is under control.

Next submission will be Mansini's super late birthday pic. Not sure what after that. Maybe Juri Han or Cammy White. I dunno.

Anyway, I gotta get up early.

Peace.

First and foremost, thank you for the recent watches!

I figured I would do another journal with some health updates so people won't think I died or something.

I'm kind of back to square one with my lungs. After extensive testing, they think it's just asthma again. That's good I guess, considering what it could have been. I'm glad it doesn't seem to be anything serious.

I've been playing a lot of Pokemon White and Sengoku Basara 3. I think White is probably my favorite Pokemon game of all time. Sengoko Basara is awesome, in a man drama kind of way. I enjoy it. The battle where Tadakatsu chases you nearly made me shit my pants. That guy is fucking crazy powerful. I'm looking forward to unlocking him for play.

As usual, no art just yet. I'll get something done as soon as my doc gives me some lung meds. It's painful to sit too long drawing.

Peace.

I still have a pain in my ches' and I can' breave.

I had several chest X-rays and more comprehensive blood work done. I still haven't heard anything back. Apparently my normal doctor seems to think I have Restrictive Lung Disease. Which would suck. Luckily, my pulmonologist doesn't seem to agree. So now I just have to sit around waiting. Shit sucks, man.

I'm still working on getting some drawing done. Everything is just taking a lot longer because I can't breathe. It hurts to sit in one place for too long. I actually get a pain in my lungs.

I just started playing the Ys series. It's pretty fucking awesome. It's like Legend of Zelda only it's insanely difficult. I like it. I have a major appreciation for adventure games right now, seeing as I'm essentially stuck in my bed room at the moment. I'm trying to decide whether to get Radiant Historia, Dragon Quest 6, or Ys: I & II Chronicles next. I can't decide.

Peace.

So it turns out I don't have asthma. That said, I do have 1/4 the breathing capability of a normal person my age. The doctors don't know why yet. Now I have to have a bunch of fucking tests done by a pulmonary specialist. Good times.

I might draw tonight. I don't know. This health news hasn't exactly lifted my spirits.

I've been playing Star Ocean: The Last Hope. I really like it so far. It reminds me A LOT of Star Ocean: The Second Story, which is one of my all time favorite RPGs. Star Ocean 3 was kind of a disappointment to me. It felt too linear and lacked a sense of exploration and foreignness. That's what I've always loved about the Star Ocean series: that it feels alien. It doesn't try to be a Final Fantasy ripe off like most RPGs today. I'm really enjoying getting to explore alien worlds in Star Ocean: The Last Hope. It's pretty fucking awesome.

Peace.

Going to the doc later today to find out if I have asthma. I hope my doctor has all the shit the he needs to figure it out. I don't feel like going to the doctor twice.

I'm kind of nervous about the testing. I've always had breathing problems and it's not fun. I was reading about how they test for asthma and one of the ways is by spraying stuff in your lungs that forces an asthma attack. That doesn't sound like a good time to me.

As worried as I am though, I just hope they figure out what the fuck is going on with me. I've been sick a lot since middle school but docs have always passed it off as colds or allergies. Or when I was in track and field and lost my breath all the time, my coach just said I needed to "Practice more." No amount of practice has ever improved my breathing. At least asthma would be a definitive answer.

Peace.

I just got back from an 80 mile round trip with my dachshund, Danny. We went to the NEAREST GameStop (fuck, I live in a rural area) to pick up Dead Space 2. I was torn about getting the game at release, but I decided that I didn't want some asshole spoiling the ending for me. I also put another $20 down towards Trinity: Souls of Zill O'll. I am really fucking pumped for that game! It looks amazing! I've really been needing a good adventure-RPG since Rogue Galaxy. There has been an utter lack of adventure-RPGs this gen. Everything is an FPS-RPG these days. What the fuck, man? How about some variety?

Anyway, I had a good drive with my dog. He just chilled out in the passenger seat the whole time. Occasionally he would stand up on the dashboard to get a glimpse of things he'd never seen up close, like 18-wheelers and giant eucalyptus tress.

Danny is also helping me get into shape again. He makes me walk him around a mile everyday, so hopefully I'll start being a little bit less of a fatass.

Not to sound cliched, but Danny is seriously my best friend. I joke to my pregnant gf that he is my first son. She fails to find the humor.

I'll probably end up making some artistic progress tonight. I'm sure Dead Space 2 will get too intense for me once it gets darker, and at that point I'll have to take a break and draw.

Peace.

I feel way better today. I think I'll try to get some kind of art started tonight.

Art priorities:
1. Something for Mansini
2. Norma from Rogue Galaxy (You can barely find reference images on Google, let alone porn of her. I love me some sexy bad girls.)
3. Something funny involving Appleman (I'm thinking about some kind of bar scene at this point.)

Peace.

Okay, so my vacation hit a few snags this week. Everything is finally sorted out. I leave for Mexico first thing tomorrow morning and I'll be gone for a week.

When I get back, I'm probably going to draw something non-porn related. I'm thinking of some kind of drawing about the adventures of Appleman. Something funny. I'm still not sure what yet.

Anyhow, I'll be around for the next 12 hours, but then I'll be gone for a week. Feel free to write/ comment still.

Peace.

Thank you for making awesome drawing instruction books. I was just about to smash my laptop into the fucking wall until I remembered you had a pretty comprehensive section on how to draw weird arm and torso angles. You are the man, Jack Hamm.

Thanks,
-GRiVEN

So I finished and posted the Lotus/999 picture. Now I'm trying to finish my Clover/999 picture before I go on vacation. I'm actually pretty pleased with how well the pencil work came out, considering how fucking messy I am. That's as far as I've got though. I need to finish the lines AND color it by Tuesday night because I'm leaving for Hawaii on Wednesday.

I guess that means I need to start working on the lines RIGHT NOW. Time to cue up some music.

I'm actually drawing shit. It's just taking me a while. I'm trying to do it proper for once... Rather than my usually method of "Fuck it, that's close enough!"

I'm actually on my second day for linework... Which never happens. I usually move one to coloring after the first day. Partly though, the character's hair is just so fucking nuts it's taking me forever. FFFFFUUUUCK. Anyway, I'll probably finish the lines tonight. Hopefully. Not sure if I'll post the lines version or not.

Anyway I AM DRAWING. I'm not full of shit like I am sometimes.

SRSLY U GAIZ. SRSLY. U GAIZ, SRSLY.

Star Date: 30.12.2010.002839328932890328098329036.17.49

I've been working out a lot lately. I started by walking my dachshund daily. Now I'm doing 30 minutes of Wii Fit a day plus crunches, push-ups, and weights. Hopefully I will lose some of my extra pounds soon, or at least replace those fat pounds with muscle. I'm still not really that bad. I went from being 6'2" and 145lbs one year to 180lbs the next year though... So yeah, that's why I got off my ass about it.

Anyway, I'm still in the process of playing a bunch of games. Just finished the second Professor Layton game so now I'm on to the third. I'm near the end of my new playthrough of Final Fantasy 2. And I'm switching back in forth between Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Splatterhouse. I really like Splatterhouse, despite the negative reviews. Who doesn't like hearing Darkwing Duck/Tigger's voice actor dropping F-bombs and talking about ass!?

I plan on drawing something tonight. I might even do the rough draft in pencil first. I haven't done that in forever.

Now that I've written this, I kind of wonder where the hell I find time to do all this shit... Then I remember I have insomnia.

End log.

I REALLY want to get some art done.

That said, I am one of those artists that is absolutely crippled by depression. If I have even a slightly off day, I can't draw. Everything will just look like shit (not that it doesn't anyway lol).

I have a lot of big stuff going on. I've been running a lot of political campaigns etc, and I have a son coming at the end of March.

My girlfriend has really been up my ass about pretty much everything (we aren't living together). I get yelled at for things like spending money on Christmas gifts for my FAMILY. Good times. So that hasn't really been helping my mood.

I really want to get some stuff done. Maybe I'll force myself to at least draw SOMETHING for Christmas.

Another note to self: Draw Princess Hilda from Final Fantasy 2. There's like no porn of her.

I was on a roll there drawing for a few days. Then too many good video games came out. Hahaha.

I just finished 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors for the third time, with the best possible ending. That being the case, I'll probably draw some 34 of Lotus, and maybe Clover since there seems to be no porn WHATSOEVER for the game.

Kind of bouncing around between playing Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, Epic Mickey, and Birth by Sleep. Probably going to start playing Golden Sun: Dark Dawn now that I FINALLY finished 999. Fuck that took forever.

999 was eating up the majority of my free time, so hopefully now I'll get off my ass and draw.

Plan:
1. Lotus - 999
2. Nami - One Piece
3. Clover - 999
4. She-Hulk?

Seems like there's another character I've really been wanting to draw, but I keep forgetting. That's the main reason I'm writing this down. My memory for art ideas is shit.

Peace.

I guess I'm back.

I don't really have much of my drawing equipment anymore, but my mouse and oekaki seem to be serving me fine at the moment.

Peace.