I know I haven’t posted much, and I’m sorry about it! Â A lot has been happening and I haven’t had much time to update, but I’ll be sure to update again regularly from now on.
First off, a few changes and/or updates on my life.  I’m officially part of the AniMaid Café staff as the Webmaster, so I pretty much have all control over the website design and whatnot.  I’m currently working on re-designing the whole site into a Wordpress based site, just like this one.
Secondly, I’m also now part of the ePublications staff of Anime Expo. Â I’m the graphics designer of the site, which makes me feel rather proud. Â I’ve already done a few small things on the website such as creating some of the banners, making the design of the countdown widget, and a few other things that haven’t been released yet. Â I will soon be designing some more major aspects of the Anime Expo website… I’ll announce it once things are published.
Thirdly, I’ve completed my Miku Maid cosplay as my maid design for AniMaid Café.  Here are a few of the highlight shots from the photoshoot I did with Fiverings:
I’ve been trying to do more artwork, so that I can finally join artist alley at either Fanime Con or Anime Expo. Â I just recently completed this out-of-character painting of Miku Hatsune. I’ll have prints available of “Sexy Miku” at Fanime and/or Anime Expo.
I’ve also finalized my Cosplay list for 2010. Â My main main cosplay is Miku Hatsune, but [...]
ell, I have the photoshoot pictures now! Â I’m really happy with them! Â These shots just seem so professional, they amaze me. @_@ Â I’ve been spoiled with amazing photographers, haha. Â This shoot has really inspired me to improve myself though… I’m trying to learn to use make up better now and I’m going to be working out more, dieting better, and whatnot to get a better figure. ^_^ Â It’s really amazing how much cosplay can help someone, hehe. (If you happen to be a cosplayer looking for a photographer, ask Tim Vo or Omar Hussain! Â They’re both wonderful, as you can see with these beautiful shots!)
To the right is a sketch I worked on for my next mini cosplay project, gothic-lolita Miku. Â I’m going to be using my wavy wig and black yukata as well as making little accessories for the ponytails. Â I’m going to look into purchasing tattoo paper so I can design myself something for my cheek. Â I need to get some shoes and some cute socks, and possibly buy some mini bows to enhance a few spots (ie; socks). Â Really looking forward to getting this look down, though I need to figure out what kind of make up would look good with it.
Working on AniMaid Café stuff and commissions now, as well as juggling school work, so busy! And I just realized I need to finish writing the step-by-step tutorial of my gun, though I ended up not getting progress pictures of the end steps.. >_> Oops, but [...]
Oops, I haven’t posted in way too long! Â I guess I’ll try to recap everything that’s gone on this past week.
ast weekend as some of you may know/remember, was MikomiCon. Â I didn’t get to spend too much time there, but there were a few things that were really awesome. Â I discovered that on our way to the convention that my gun’s magazine and pistol had broken off my gun. Â I was pretty upset because I was looking forward to showing off my revamped gun and hopefully getting a photoshoot done with Magume as Kamina. Â I tried to take it to the convention with me, but they fell right off.. So decided it was time to take it back to the car after all. Â My friend Impulse offered for us to go to his house and possibly try to fix the gun up with hot glue, so we took the offer.
Once we got there though, he unfortunately couldn’t find his hot glue gun. ><” So we just decided that the gun would take a break, haha. Â We stopped by at 7-11 and grabbed slurpies and headed back to the convention. Â Kerry, Impulse, Carl, Kat, and a few others were hanging out together at MikomiCon. Â Got a few pictures taken, inlcuding the one on the right (taken by Cephas of cosplay.com). Â I “met” Tim Vo for the first time and saw April again (another Yoko cosplayer – wonderful one at that), which was nice. Â Didn’t really get to talk to [...]
Today was pretty eventful and fun~! Â Started the day off with minor groceries; purchased carrots, potatoes, spinach (for lizard), and chicken for some curry I was going to make. Â The curry came out pretty good, I really liked it and both my dad and Kerry liked it, so yay!
Kerry and I walked my dog after playing a game of HoN, and after the walk I decided to check for my package… Â I honestly wasn’t expecting it to come in today even though it did reach Los Angeles at 4:00am. Â I’ve just been so pessimistic about the packages that I thought it didn’t come in lol. Â I almost overlooked the fact that it came in, even! Â But the best part about the package? Â How destroyed the box was. Â (The wig itself is fine, thankfully)
Hahaha, look how messed up that is! Â Kerry and I looked at the wig and it looked a bit too green, which bugged me quite a bit, but I figured it didn’t matter that much considering this isn’t my main Miku wig anyways (it’s the wavy wig). Â I didn’t get to try it on because we had to head out for the Green Day concert.