But it is not I.

is accepting because he has bills. College bills and they are holding him out of college because he is broke. I had the same thing happen to me and it took years to get back in. So, in an attempt to stop this from happening to him, I ask of you to help him out a bit.

Thanks.

That is the way one starts every year. So if there is any sign of getting up, it's a good year.

Now. I guess I should be obligated to doing lists on what i am supposed to do, but to tell the stone cold truth life does not work as streamlined. especially in this time and age. So, what I can only hope for is that whatever decisions and paths that you, I, that person you love, the person you loathe, that dude in the van listening to our conversations and reading our emails as we make them, all that I hope is that the culmination of decisions during the next year and decade will let you emerge that period in a better spot, because upward progress is what we all strive for from the homeless, to the elite.

In short, have a happy shiny new year, a brave new decade, and keep pushing towards your goal.

Well, I might as well tell you what's been going on while I am listening to the herbaliser.

Went to Midwest Furfest on Sunday. Met up with a few folks that I have been looking for, and felt like it was well worth the trip. Yippe for Wheeling.

Thanksgiving went well. Birthday went well. Wii get and new super mario as a bonus. Lucky way of getting it too.

I was also lucky in getting passed all the classes. The grades were terrible, but at least the tough semester was not the last semester.

Ok, I have spent too much of your time. Have a good time, and happy 2010 wherever you are.

If you are going to Midwest Fur Fest, maybe you will get the chance to see me around. It's a 40% chance on Saturday and Sunday, but a chance non the less.

If I go, it should be easy to spot me walking around trying to draw in someone's sketchbook because I will more than likely have a Guess? leather jacket and a black cap on in a way that you will barely see my eyes. If there's a policy against outside jackets and stuff, just look for the dude with the bright red book with "MIAD" on the front. School spirit for the win.

I don't have any intentions of an artist table... this could be my first convention of the fur kind, second overall.

I bet a bunch of cancellations are about to occur because I said I might be there.

Oh yeah, the meme. I guess I should join in.


THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
gene (eugene)
runde
hey you.

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU'VE HAD:
runde
sinowhonda
urizu

THREE THINGS YOU'VE DONE IN THE LAST 33 MINUTES (Of the last day)
written
drew
payed a bill

THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
i work.
i am steady.
i learn from the past.

THREE THINGS YOU DISLIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
world-class mumbler
award winning skeptic
all-city worrywart

THREE PARTS OF YOUR ORIGINS:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Houston, Texas
Chicago, Illinois

THREE THINGS YOU'RE AFRAID OF:
the future ... in ways.
a sudden impact
nothing else.

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
black tee
faded and worn navy cargo pants (work pants)
black socks

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
pencils
cell phone
keys

THREE IMPORTANT OBJECTS:
aluminum macbook (school stuff)
sketchbooks
traditional art stuff

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE BANDS:
haven't listened to much music as of late.

THREE WAYS TO BE HAPPY:
go with the flow
don't take stuff too serious
know that you are ultimately in control of yourself. no more, no less.

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE SONGS AT PRESENT:
As I said, I haven't really listened to much music.

THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
get the bachelors degree
get started in the art field
make preparations for the next big move

THREE THINGS YOU REGRET:
not staying in college the first time around
staying in the jobs i had for far too long
i don't know what else.

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP:
i don't know
i don't think
i will have a relationship

THREE IMPORTANT THINGS YOU'VE GIVEN TO THE WORLD:
jack squat
diddly poo
not a dang gone thing... yet.

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE:
i survived a golf club swing near the temple.
i have a hong kong phooey plush.
i want to be a video game reporter after school.

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE IN THE SAME SEX:
hommes chins variate more than femmes
hommes eyes have interesting variations
some necks can give a humorous look.

THREE EMOTIONAL THINGS YOU LIKE IN THE SAME SEX:
the guts (in some)
silly humor
steady emotion (in some)

THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
eat crazy stuff.
own guns (i can look at them just fine)
be a boss to others.

THREE THINGS YOU MISS FROM YOUR PAST:
my pets.
the arcades.
cartoons.

THREE GIFTS YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE:
surprise drawings >_> <_<
a real life "get out of jail free" card
some means to get a wacom cintiq 21 in.

THREE REASONS WHY YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE:
my parents
my experiences in life
just being very low profile

THREE OF YOUR FAVOURITE HOBBIES:
drawing (duh)
playing certain genres of video games
reading books periodicals and magazines (really all i do now)

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
get these assignments done
get this alternator in this car
pay these dang gone parking tickets

THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
freelance illustrator
concept artist
animator

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO FOR HOLIDAY:
east coast
west coast
the middle of nowhere

THREE CARTOON CHARACTERS:
speedy gonzales
woody woodpecker (vers. 1 and 2)
Norman (Mighty Max)

THREE BOY’S NAMES:
Ron
John
Don

THREE GIRL'S NAMES:
Sue
Louise
Jillian

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
have something to hang my hat on.
get a job that doesn't feel like a job.
be a better me.

and I have no clue as to why there should be a runde in this place, what's the purpose of sitting around in this site? I have no idea because there's nothing, in my opinion, that is worth going for.

Oh well. Just a short observation of "the hell am I doing?!?" ... oh well.

yep. I expanded the devart 10 because 14 people crammed in, so it's only fair...

I almost ran out of good stuff to draw so, you probably know the drill. Visual reference preferred, no x-rated stuff, et cetera, et cetera.

(edit)

5 more will be chosen out of here for a total of 15.

If the first 10 were anything to measure, people should not be shy.

Yep. It's me. I'm doing pretty well right now... nothing that would be considered anywhere near bad.

Teacher's aide job is done. I was pretty much another instructor out there helping out people with photoshop and illustrator... too bad I don't use those programs as much as I would like. So since Monday, there was no job to go to and well... when runde has no job to go to, he sketches... a lot ... to catch up ... to a lot of people ... because I don't want to be the odd man out once a certain convention comes.

Umm... not really too much to say. What's going on with you?

Just want to bring that out.

What I am doing is being a teacher's aid at MIAD during their pre-college program, which is a very active role to tell the truth. I am having a real taste of teaching art to folks and the conclusion is mixed but mostly good in my opinion. Teaching Graphic Design, or trying to...
The proceeds will go ... somewhere...

Oh well. That's about all I can tell you about right now because since no one wants to know what i am drawing, so i won't tell. (shrugs)

I'm doing alright for myself. Just working at the hotel and doing a lot of drawing. Being a teacher's aide soon in pre college so, oh well...

I have no idea as of what subject would i want to start with in a tutorial so... oh well.

What I am up to doing is drawing characters in the vein of the racing yoshi... they will be in colour ... who wants it?

I have been asked this numerous times before, and I asked this to all 12 of my watchers at deviant art... and now I will ask all 5 of you who watch me here. I wonder if you would like for me to bring tutorials about some of the traditional techniques that I use or even some basic things about drawing in line or shape or stuff like clothing.

Any answer is appreciated, thanks for reading.

Junior year is through. I think I passed everything, which is cool. There's not much else for me to do other than shower people with my crappy drawing.

i'm going out for a while. I'll be back once school's over. i don't wanna fail.

I go to St. John's University
and since kinde garten I aquired the knowledge
and after 12th grade I went straight to college

Man, drawing stuff in digital media is tough. Trying to color on this program... I would have painted or used marker ... I would have been done hours ago! XD Man! Now I know what you all had to do to get good at this... there is really a large learning curve involved with it!

I guess that the month that passed is ok for you all, as it was so-so for myself.

As I sit through listening to this music from PSO, I reminisce about the time when I was playing it. As I compare then to now, I think that there is not much to really there that's different. In the days when I was playing as either Malice (lv. 195 RAcaseal), light katta (lv. 125 FOnewearl) or Sinow Honda (lv. 108 HUcast)on the xbox version, I really only hung out at the spots where I would be fairly alone, but sometimes came to the first ship, first sector to see what's going on or get in a seabed run or two.

It really didn't matter for me to go alone or not online because I had the timing down so I would minimize damage with minimum movement in most places except ultimate mines... I got that from having to use red handguns from lv. 100 to level 129 in Version 2 for dreamcast. That's a lot of blasting.

On the xbox version I was in a challenge mode crew who was as good as the Japanese in that aspect. Doing Time Attack in that aspect just got me hooked for a little while longer. I had under an under 4 hour time (3:57, light katta) and a 4:12 with Sinow Honda. It used to be potentially annoying to try to play a casual challenge mode with those two characters because:

1)bu-EI over all three of the characters = harassment for s-rank weapon beggars, not a problem though cause I love challenge.

2)I would join some challenge team as support or tank ... the other three would see the time I have for that stage ... suddenly I'm the leader.

3) Especially with xbox folks, when I try to tell secrets that will trim their time, it just falls on deaf ears.

It seemed that respect was in short supply, so I kept to myself most of the time.

As I think about it now, art so much imitated life.

The desire of self reliance, yet the willingness to help someone else or to take someone's input or literally take someone along is greater than in the past.

The long absence from social places only making my technique a lot stronger.

The love of challenge.

The hiding in plain sight that I do all too well. Also with the "know more that you show" look at life.

I don't know. I feel that I have had a lot better life than I would admit. I have a loving family that I am close to. I have no drama except for job angst... which should be a good thing. I'm at art school, getting better at what I do, understanding design and have a way to pay my way out of debt in 3 years. Not many can say that. ... The only thing is that I feel that in my own mind, i don't have any promise, and thus I must prove to myself that I have a future, which is just that, the future. So the struggle goes on with a war against inner self, to keep an empty space from going out of control.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGQMZkTYszg&feature=related

Ask me .... whatever you wanted to ask.

Tell me ... whatever you want to tell me.

nothing of music related for this time.

Got a laptop. Getting some stuff next week. (CS4, Painter X, intuos3 6x8) I'll generally be still a crap painter for a long time after. Yeah.

Got a lot of extra money... and no intentions of commissioning. None. Nada.

Other than that, I'm just walking around in a gloomy, reflective mood. Oh well.

it's a tough one

but somebody's gotta do it.

It's his 30th birthday

but you can't take back the days you live
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you get a sketch of your char for guessing the right song to this line.


Back in school... sort of. It's under zero degrees F out here. No school these next couple days. Oh well.

Now that 2008 has passed, it's time for a status report.

All of the requests from devart and from FA are through, and castle 1 is up to page 27. Should be past 30 by the 6th... oh well that's the news that most care about.

cause to me, today has worn from being the climax of the longest week of the year, to just another day to be thankful to be alive for. That's more in tune to the real purpose of this day, anyways.

What's going on right now, is a whole lot of nothing. No work, no school, not a lot of drawing in particular. Thinking about another student loan in order to get the stuff I really need for school and to be more adept in digital media, so that someday, I can churn something that might compare to somebody else's work.

Since turkey day has passed and the age number has made a tick towards 30, request time is through. And since the request quota is real weak, I guess I have to do something else with my month off. Oh well.

Hope you had a good time and good luck in your studies/job/life :]