Sakura Sakura

So many trees are in bloom now. It's like a real life animeee~ Ovo

<- This photo was taken in 2007. There are these awesome young cherry trees in front of my house and I love them. The pink ones are the "classic" pink Japanese sakura trees you can always see in romantic anime.

2008. I can't really remember when these trees were planted here, but as an avid nature and tree lover person, I was so happy when they started blossoming every spring.

2009. The white ones are so pretty here.

This is also from 2009, but the other side. These trees are more beautiful because a lady who lives in the other side of the house took care of them and she was watering them a lot.

2011. They were still quite pretty in this year, but the summer was hot and their leaves started becoming yellow earlier than they should have. We kept watering them that summer. However, they grew only a few flowers in 2012, I didn't even take photos of them that year.

2013. I see this and it breaks my heart. They are dead, DEAD. All of my beloved pink trees are dead on this side and most of the white ones too. It's the end of April and only two of the white trees are blossoming. I blame myself because I was working all summer last year and didn't pay that much attention to the trees. I think I was the only one on this side who actually cared about them, but then even I abandoned them...


3 trees on the other side are still quite beautiful thanks to the neighbour lady, especially the one next to the lamp - that one has always been the most beautiful. However, even one of those trees seems to have died down and the one in the back doesn't have leaves or flowers on the highest part of its branches anymore. Maybe they were actually infected with some disease...

So yeah... I'm a simple person who can easily get happy or sad because of small things like this. I was hoping they would at least grow leaves eventually, but they are still naked, ugly and dead. :( I feel that the entire world is slowly getting ravaged around me. The places where I used to play as a child are getting destroyed, plants and older people I used to know are dying. Everything is changing and I don't like it. Sometimes I wish I could go back to those happy carefree times when I was a child, everything was simpler yet more colourful and even time passed more slowly. Ugh, growing up sucks...

Ok, I'd better stop rambling about nonsense and post a few sketches...

Roy and Riza, my holy OTP, yeaaah. I did this like... over a week ago, but stopped working on it for some reason. I originally wanted to do a lineart for it, but I like the sketch too much and I'm afraid I'd ruin it with a bad lineart. So I think I'm gonna clean and refine it a bit more and then slap some quick colours on it.
I'm not gonna tell what inspired this... -___-;

And this is a crapstatic Judal/Judar from Magi. I tried to draw some random pose I normally don't draw, but I messed up his right leg. I have a love/hate relationship with this character. I think he's shallow. He doesn't get to be in the spotlight enough to become deep or lovable enough to me. But sometimes he's kind of cool...? Or just so eccentric and rude that it seems cool. And I like his character song. :O

I don't have any more to post atm because I'm frigging lazy. I should really finish up and post that Sinbad I did about 2 months ago (you know, the one where he's in his alternate orange outfit, which looks kinda like a rag that is about to fall off of him), but I already have so many sketches of him it's getting ridiculous. I'm not even a Sinbad fangirl, he's just too fun to draw, gaaah... And I miss drawing my precious brother-obsessed baby, Vincent.

My internet is utter crap lately. I'm currently using Skype to determine when I can click on things without having to worry about getting a "page not found" error. (The small green icon usually turns gray when my modem disconnects.) I wanted to link some songs and a cute animation, but my connection is so bad at the moment that I'll be lucky if I manage to post this entry... :B

More Winter in Spring

So the extreme cold weather stayed and it looks like Santa will be bringing the Easter eggs instead of the rabbit, haha~ I just need to write about this in my blog because such a thing has never occurred in my life so far and I want to remember this extreme cold spring.

Yesterday.

Today.

It was snowing all day today. I didn't need my boots during all last winter, but I had to wear them today. We never had this much snow last winter. It's crazy. @___@ What's going to happen to all those tiny little leaves and flowers that were already out? Most of them probably froze. Poor things...

Another view. It looks like this in summer.

I've been pretty busy this week and haven't had much time to draw. But I had an appointment on Monday and had a bit of time before I had to go, so I decided to doodle some stupid random things while waiting for time to pass.

I was high on some sickeningly sweet waka!Sinbad + child!Ja'far doujinshis, so I ended up doing an entire sketchdump of them. They are all very fast scribbly things, though. I thought child Ja'far would be really difficult to draw, but he emotes so well. XD There's only like 4 years of age difference between these two, but it usually seems to be more on fanarts. Ja'far is so small and baby-faced.

And now I promise myself that I will draw tomorrow. MUST WORK ON COMMISSIONS or do Pandora Hearts fanart. I really should finish something worth to submit to my deviantART gallery...

Winter in March

We had snowstorms where I live last weekend. O___o It started snowing on the afternoon of March 14 and then it kept snowing for almost an entire day. The snow didn't melt right away and it was still cold and windy even today. A snowy March 15 like this has never happened in my life before and I heard the last one before this happened when my mother was still a kid. Nature is not fooled, though. The blackbirds sing in the morning and evening and small leaves and flowers began growing everywhere.

 It looked like this.
My mother says if you washed your face in March snow, you'd be beautiful, haha~

Anyway, Pandora Hearts Retrace 82 came out yesterday. It's 65 pages. It's beautiful. This series never ceases to amaze me. It's so cute, emotional, exciting and bloody dark and tragic at the same time. I love Oscar so damn much. I've loved him from the beginning, but at first I didn't expect Jun would give him any special attention or character development or anything. I thought he'd only be this random funny uncle, who won't have much purpose in the story other than being a minor comic relief character. Well, I was wrong. Oscar is a great character like everyone else.

I did so many super fast PH scribbles in the past 1-2 days. @___@

Oh, and I'm also refining/colouring this thing from my previous entry:

VERY SLOWLY because I had commissions and other more important things to draw in the meantime. But I'm having so much fun with this lame sketch. XD

The story of this sketch:
hand: SINBAD PLZ.
brain: NO. COMMISSIONS.
hand: NO. SINBAD.
brain: NO. PANDORA HEARTS.
hand: I WANT MY SINBAD.
brain: I ORDER YOU TO WORK, HAND.
hand: ONLY IF I CAN DRAW SINBAD FIRST.
brain: ... OK.

I think I'm crazy... Anyway, I'd better go to sleep now. I'll work on my Pandora Hearts sketches tomorrow.

Spring is here!

Today was officially the first day of spring! The blackbirds sing in the mornings, so cute. Today, I woke up at about 1:30 am. And I couldn't fall back asleep. I managed to fall asleep at around 3 am, but then I got up at 4:30. The moon was just above the neighbouring house and it was so big and orange. O___o I've been on my period since Friday night / Saturday morning and it made me feel awful. Although period = new Pandora Hearts chapter lately. 8D
So, a few quick drawings:

This is my take on someone else's character. He probably doesn't look like himself, but he was fun to draw.

Elliot from Pandora Hearts. I drew this now in a few minutes. It kinda sucks, I hate his face. The latest few chapters were... powerful. I adore this headhunter arc. I think the mangaka tortures poor Elliot way too much, though. He didn't deserve to end up like this! D:

Ok, I think my inspiration is finally coming back. Tomorrow, I'll try to draw as much as I can!