New Blog Launch!

Okay, more shameless self-promotion. But really, I'm making this post because I know at least a couple people follow my blog and want to keep up with what I'm doing around who-knows-where.

So, I just launched I Can Play The Game, a blog about personal development for young people in a school-of-hard-knocks society. I'm hoping that I can gather some resources there to help other young people looking to get on their feet online, but I'll also be tracking my own online income.

Still, the purpose of this blog is to help people.

I'm sick of everybody around me being poor and miserable, and I want to do something about it.

So if you're poor and miserable, go take a look at I Can Play The Game, subscribe, and see if I can't bring anything to the table for you. The more you subscribe and comment, the more you're helping out other young people who are having trouble figuring out what to do with themselves.

And spread it around. If you see something you like, Tweet it, Stumble it, do whatever you like.

Set new goals for yourselves, guys.

Keep on keeping on.

And other motivational stuff.

So basically...

I realized that most of the posts on this blog have been blatant self-promotion. And who wants to watch a blog about that? I'll start talking about fun stuff a little more.

Well, here goes a tentative journal entry:

Got back from New York a few days ago from visiting my big sister at college. I'm sooooo exhausted! It was fun while I was there, but the plane rides to and from were brutal. I at least got a bit farther in Dragon Quest IX.

Right now I'm working on making some bullet hell games with Danmakufu, but I'm not so good at the whole coding thing. But still, I figure that if I ever want to be a game developer, I need to start learning early, right? So I'm gonna work harder.

Also considering getting a job at the local movie theater. But who am I kidding, I'm not really going to get a job. That's just... I don't get jobs. That's not "me."

I really wanna do some more posts about drawing. I need some feedback for those, though. What do you guys want to see? More theory, or more practice?

Anyway, off to eat gummy bears and do other moderately fun things. See you guys, I really appreciate the feedback!

Started a Helium Account...

For all the bad things I've heard about Helium, it actually seems pretty nice.

While I'm depending on another website for real income, Helium seems like a great hobby to rake in a few extra cents here or there.

I earned my first penny today! And hell, writing what was practically a journal entry about Astid? Yeah, baby!

Anyway, if you want to see my posts on Helium, check them out here.

If you're interested in writing at Helium, let me know and I'll drop you a referral email (it'd help you and me out a ton).

I'll probably write a review of the service in a few months, whether or not my earnings take off. But with ten articles on my first two days, I think this is gonna be a pretty nice working relationship.

I got a capture card! + New Arts!

As the title obviously states...

I GOT A CAPTURE CARD! :D WOOHOO!

Basically what that means is I can record video directly from my television. I can do all sorts of things for Youtube now. If you want to see what it can do, just check out this short video I posted a few days ago:



Speaking of Youtube, I've also posted a ton of new art. If you're interested, check out this video for some tidbits of what I've been doing (warning: the sound is a bit loud!):



I want to post some drawing tutorials in the future, though I'm not really good enough. What do you think?

Also, please comment and subscribe! I haven't had many of those yet, and I really appreciate the feedback. Don't forget to comment on the blog, too--it's good to know that people are actually reading it.

As it turns out, this blog is becoming about art. Funny, huh?

Anyway, check out the Youtube and everything. =) I love you guys! If you have any ideas on what you'd like to see posted on the blog or what might be interesting to see, let me know. I'm always scratching my head for ideas.

My Etsy Site!

So I got some pendants set up on Etsy a while ago and thought I'd let you guys know about them. The pictures were blown up on Etsy's site--just click on the picture on the listing to get the actual size.

Anyway, some of my stuff is on my new widget on the left of the blog. Check them out! They're handmade so they don't cost a lot.

I've also been working on some rings. I just love making rings! It's so fun. There are so many simple designs you can do that turn out looking great.

Anyway, that's all for now. I'll see you guys soon!

Watch me draw!

So I just posted some videos to Youtube. I FINALLY got around to using my Hypercam.

Anyway, my laptop caught a virus last week so if you haven't heard from me in a few days that's why.



It's sped up, of course. But anyway, I'll be posting more videos when I finish up that drawing. One of them's up right now--check it out!

PopCon 2010 Day Two!

So today was the second day of Grey School's 2010 Illinois Conclave (lovingly nicknamed PopCon) and I had the joy of meeting Dean Stonetalker at a guided meditation session.

I thought I'd walk you through it.

Dean Stonetalker walks us through the introduction to the meditation and beckons us to a grove. We have a guest, an animal.

It was a deer, with glowing red eyes.

Dean Stonetalker continues to tell us the guest has a message for us.

The deer continues to stare wordlessly.

Our guest has someplace to take us. Dean Stonetalker encourages us to follow our animal guest.

The deer hesitates. It eventually leaves the clearing, just past the treeline, where downhill awaits the seemingly endless landscape I escape to in my private meditations. For these two places to be physically connected would be impossible--the landscape is vast. I see it placed in front of me despite knowing this would be impossible in the world of reason.

We return to the grove, and our guest has given us a gift.

The deer regurgitates a large iron bullet, round, about half the size of my fist. It looks nothing like a bullet, but I know it to be fired from a gun.

We take the gift and return to the realm of normal consciousness.

The significance of this I don't know. I'm sure it will become clear in due time--meditations have a way of doing that. But for now, it's a genuine enigma. I have no idea why a deer, and I have no idea why an iron bullet.

Dean Stonetalker was absolutely great, gave me some ideas. I was kind of hesitant in the meditation because, to be quite honest, I just don't go that deeply into trance. In fact, I wasn't entirely sure I had gone into trance at all, maybe that I was just following along with the Dean's words and picturing what came most easily to mind. But I heard the others' stories and they seemed pretty vivid.

Even now, I'm starting to make sense of it all.