Crazy Paint Day

After reading Hyperbole and a Half and LOLing loud enough to concern my family, I thought it'd be appropriate to talk about one of my own crazy experiences.

I go to Autistry studios on request to do a painting for their upcoming fundraiser last month. I wake up late, and not to mention tired, so I grab a mug of coffee on my way out the door. My mother who drove me should've known better - she was there when I was duck-stepping through the hardware store with my sister after my first latte, why would she give me coffee again?
Anyhow - we arrived to meet with Robert Evans, the artist who was there to help us with things like brushes, color, ect.

On a side note, if you have time to look him up, he's fairly well-known for doing things like the dog for the rootbeer can.

Yeah, this one.

Robert showed us some of his paintings before we scattered to get our pictures started and by this point the caffeine was starting to affect my system. My hands were a little twitchy as I did the wash for the background, and downright shaking while I drew my characters out in pencil.

On top of this, I was getting crap from Daniel - another student - for taking so long.

It took at least an hour to draw my characters and lay out the brickwork used in the scene, and by then things were going terribly, terribly wrong for me.

I am the shortest person in my family at 5'3, and the handmade tables in the cold warehouse were too low for me to use on a swivel chair. Therefore, I was kneeling on a rolling chair trying to put a good effort into a painting to be sold for a few hundred dollars while my thigh and ass muscles are quivering like a chihuahua pulled out of a swimming pool.

All of this was so distressing - the shaking, the cold, and the time limit - that I barely had the capacoty to figure out what everything would look like. The characters I was portraying had never been put in color before, so eyes and hair was a new issue.

I ended up giving my supposedly 100% Japanese guy blue eyes and his Japanese friend light-colored brown hair and green eyes.

My caffeine-addled brain apologized, saying his mom was now European.

Even with my efforts and others' attempts to help me soak up the coffee with pretzels and food, I didn't finish the painting until a week later when I came in for my regular workshop.

Can't win 'em all, especially when you can't hold your mocha.

-Much luvz, Hideki.

PS - the painting was my second for a fundraiser and sold for $400. The first was for Jennie McArthy's  (spelling?) Comedy Night and sold for $600.

Avatar Excitement!

OH GOOD LORD, MY HANDS ARE SHAKING!!!
Ahhh....
I'm such an idiot...

Avatar: The Last Podcast from Earth-2 just read my e-mail on air!! I was panicking as I heard my NAME READ ON ITUNES by Kellen Scrivens.

I wrote that a month ago in a grumpy fangirl fit - I had no clue what it'd said!!

Anyhow, if Randy, Steph and Kellen somehow find this... Thanks a ton. I'm glad I didn't make you want to kill me. *Laughs.*

So... I was just excited is all, so that's why I posted twice today. :D

-Much luvz, Hideki.

Seiyuu is a Stalker

Those of you that know me have HEARD the name "Vic Mignogna" at LEAST once. Vic is the reason I'm striving to work in anime, as he is one of the best-known and most-loved voice-actors in the last decade. I've uploaded pictures for three of his characters, but he's voiced well over 100 in his career. Besides those shown, he's known for Broly in Dragon Ball, Dark in DN Angel, Fai in Tsubasa, Death Scythe in Soul Eater, and many many others.

Getting to the point, I don't bother trying to HIDE my admiration for him, since I met him a few years ago at a convention. Anyway, someone posted one of the videos from his YouTube account on my Facebook page the other day saying "I recall you being a fan".
It was funny that he remembered, but what was even funnier was my reaction:
"I've already seen this."

Vic, if you're out there.... Please, please PLEASE don't think I'm stalking you!!

-Much luvz, Hideki

Amazon Adventures

Huzzah! I got a $50 Amazon gift card for my birthday and my first packages came in today. One of the series I actually hadn't READ yet was Bakuman and good GOD WHY did I try to read it?!

Let me just say: I have nothing against the writer and artist. I was actually excited about reading the Death Note creators' new series, especially a lighter-themed one.

I just CAN'T read dream-related stories anymore.

The exact same thing happened when I borrowed Pearl Pink from a friend for the first time. (another series I bought.) I get too worked up over the characters and their seemingly-hopeless attempts at glory while wailing when they end the series while exceeding and I'm stuck behind my laptop with YouTube as my only employer.

I tried reading Seiyuu Ka a while back and never even reached the end of the first chapter for this same reason....

Sigh...


Much luvz, Hideki.

A Starving Artist in Texas

Spring Formal is tonight, and since fangirls don't have much use for dances, none of my friends are going so I'm at home watching more Arxaith and Spoonychan tonight. Kimmie, one of the girls my sister invited over to primp with, mentioned moving to New York for work. (No surprise - she's an excellent actress. :D) She said something about being a starving artist, so I said: "Hey Kimmie - we can be starving artists TOGETHER!!... Except I'll be in Texas..."
"'Starving artist in Texas' - that doesn't sound right." She'd replied. "And why Texas?"
"Well, the company I wanna work for is in Texas. =3=" I said.
"Texas?" She asked. "Why Texas?"
"I don't know, it's there!"
"But who likes Texas?!"

My sincerest apologies to Vic Mignogna, Todd Haberkorn, Greg Ayres, and the various other FUNimation voice-actors.

Much luvz, Hideki.

Spoonychan Has Ruined Me

For the past few weeks I've been addicted to the work of Spoonychan and Arxaith from YouTube. Having never played a full video game in my life, save Minecraft, most of the Kingdom Hearts references are lost on me. However, yaoi humor is universal.

Spoonychan and Arxaith were introduced via Facebook through their fancomic dubs. Already they've possessed me to wiki Organization XIII and watch clips from the games to hear the characters' real voices. I was even watching The Misadventures of MarVex before coming to write this blog.

What in the world is wrong with me that I now root for fan-pairings to a series I know virtually nothing about? My best guess is that I've caught the yaoi disease from a close friend (you know who you are).

All in all, you should check their work out. I really enjoy their voice range and acting ability - cosplay and voice.

much luvz, Hideki.

PS - this is their first video I saw, and it's fairly tame. Enjoy! ^_^

Starting Up

Hello there! This is your beloved (I hope) Hideki writing her first blog. Since it's 10:00, I should probably just lay down what the heck this is all about and introduce myself, huh?

I got addicted to anime at age thirteen, so for a little under 3 years now. Before that I was obsessive over everything from the Animorphs series to dragons to Greek mythology. Nowadays I'm focusing on a career as a future voice-actor for FUNimation, the largest anime distributer in North America.

Basically, this blog is going to be a bunch of random things from fan-squee-ing over my new favorite bishies or ranting about hot topics in nerd culture, mostly focusing around (you guessed it) anime and the like.
Oh, I'll also be reviewing series and movies now and then. :)

So then - I'll try not to bore you!! Next time we'll have a REAL subject!

Much luvz, Hideki