Friday, April 17, 2009

Laduree

I did a lot of sketches today. They are mostly doodles with rough design and ideas. In the evening, I went to visit my uncle and aunt who just came back from England. They are so sweet. They brought back Laduree for me. I love good French Macaroons. The good ones are not that sweet. Supposedly, it's a difficult pastry to make. The outside is crunchy and the inside is soft. Laduree's macaroon is divine *tears of joy*. They are light, not too sweet, delicate, and oh sooo very tasty.

My mom's friend gave me a manicure :D. The little flower is so cute.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Spring Breeze

I like the weather lately. It's sunny and there is a light breeze. I feel extra positive and energetic. I'm happy :). I hope this feeling lasts a long long time.

Talk about Sunny, I finally got a frame for this. Something Sunny drew for us waay wayy back. It was when we were working on Avatar for Nickelodeon. I was a bit of a perfectionist, so I'd spend a long time on each drawing, but we had 270 drawings to do, so we had to rush. It was very hard. I have always loved this picture.

Taxes & Chocolixers

Taxes!!! Taxes!!! Taxes!! Aarrgggh!!! I need to be more organized *stares at the pile of receipts*

I'm currently addicted to:

Godiva Chocolixers

Monday, April 13, 2009

Flower <3

A flower at home.

My mom likes plants, and they like her. They always bloom extra pretty for my mom. Whenever she's gone on vacation, she'd ask me to water the plants for her. For some reason, they'd still die. When she gets back, she'd be upset at me saying that I didn't water them. I swear I really watered them everday!

Hmm...Sometimes, I'd catch my mom talking to her plants. I wonder if that's the secret for making them grow extra pretty.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Stripped + Doodle

OMG, I was stripped!! She even took off my underwear!!!

My mom wanted to get a foot massage, so she dragged me to a Thai Massage place next to her work. I was lead into a dark room, then my masseuse said to lay down on my stomach, and took off my bra. I thought it was supposed to be a foot massage, but she said that when your feet and legs hurt, it's good to massage your back too. They all link to each others. It was soooo painful. Thai deep tissue massage is super painful. I looked like ---> >_< (trying not to scream). Then she took off my undie (I was so unprepared for that). She was pulling down my undie, and I was pulling it up.. hahaha. Anyways, in the end, I gave in. At least the room was super dark. I felt so violate T_T. It's the first time, I've ever been stripped by a masseuse.

The result - I'm super sore. I had a lot of knots. Oh, she said I'm super flexible because I was able to clasp my hands together behind my back (behind the scapulae) XD.

The whole masseuse thing totally distracted me from my doodling time. Here is another unfinished drawing again.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Lazy Weekend


I had a lazy weekend. Saturday, we went out to Santa Monica to check out the G4 Ninja Warrior event. CP, Pailin, and I used to watch the Japanese show version together. It turned out to be small, but it was good to get out anyways.

I met up with Gary and Ed. Gary took us to THE BEST Pastry shop ever! Say hello to Amadine Cafe ! They have extremely good Fruit Tarts. It has papaya and berries on a layer of spongy cake with yummy crusts. Their Banana Caramel Tart and Lemon Tarts were also really good and not too sweet. It's a french bakery with a Japanese Owner, so the desserts are very light. Yummy! That made my day <3.

Here are some pics from the Beach and Third Street Promanade. There were a lot of cute dogs that day :).




Sunday, Coco fell asleep on me, so I fell asleep too... Then I woke up super uber late and played games all day >_<;

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Photoshop and Me


old sketch

Lack of Sleep + Photoshop Mishaps x Deadlines = very very Angry Patara...
Gaaahhhh~ I'm so tired. I haven't update in a while, so I figure it's good to update now that I'm done with work.

Pailin was craving McDonald's breakfast, but because of jet lag, she goes to sleep at 3-4am and wakes up after McDonald's breakfast hours. A few days ago, Pailin and I went to a meeting and met up with a company that was very interested in some of our original properties. They were so nice and laid back. They also seemed very genuine. It would be really cool to see my characters become toys or animation. Maybe I'm daydreaming too much *haha*. Anyways, we were so busy with work, so we ended up not sleeping and just go straight to the meeting. Pailin was happy though since she finally got her McDonald's breakfast xP.

After the meeting, we continued on Lego project through the weekend. I didn't sleep for 2 days straight T_T. James came over to set up my server and set up some computer things, but after he left, my computer acted up. It's hellish when a computer won't cooperate with you during a deadline. Photoshop and Painter crashed on me 3 times, so I lost a lot of works. Then I realized that my Photoshop is acting VERY VERY weird when I save. The color shifts horribly causing me a lot of confusion. See! --> EVIL EVIL PHOTOSHOP It drives me crazy! I hate not being in control. Why can't my computer just cooperate with me! >_<;;;

I'm getting sleepy now, so Zzzzzzzzz.