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Friday 10 July 2009 { 7/10/2009 06:03:00 pm }

Physical Activity (Low Blood Pressure)

Physical Activity helps cleansing, it brings balance and relieves stress.
Psycho-physical activities will help you balance your body and will help you relief accumulated stress. You will have to find a form of exercise that suit you. I will just give you a few examples:

Mini Trampoline jumping - rebounding!
Meditation
Walk or jog in the nature : Forest, Mountain , river / sea / lake side, beach ... fishing, photo-safari, rowing, riding, golf, ...

Tai Chi, Chi Gong, Meditation ...
Yoga - Hatha, Meditation, Chinese Yoga ...
Martial Arts: Karate, Judo, Kung Fu, Teakwood, Budokai, Uechi, Aikido ...
Dancing, Aerobics, Gymnastics, Stretching ...
Swimming in non-chlorinated water ! ( Best in minerals rich water - Ocean ! )
Weight lifting, ....

Do not exhaust yourself !

Do not exercise with full stomach ! (You may take a walk!)

Do not hurt yourself !

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That's what I found while browsing how to deal with Low Blood Pressure (LBP for short, Hypotension to complicate yourself). Let's see if this is effective for me. 1 glass of mineral water per hour. Yeah! Go healthy life!!

Labels: health, tips

Thursday 9 July 2009 { 7/09/2009 11:39:00 am }

This really is taken from a journal from dA. Unfortunately.. I forget already who posted this journal.. Gomen for anyone who posted this journal. I wish I can credit and link to you, but the fact, I can't. Hope she/he is in my friendlist. If he/she is, then you can check each of them whether one of them have this journal entry. Ehehe.. Yare yare.. Anyway, I found this by browsing as usual.. and I think this is just a good reference for me, and I hope for everyone else. Text below are copy-pasted. No edit. Actually I just post it so I can read it with a better beackground and view than reading this through notepad XP. Here it is anyway..

by someone I forgotten the ID. gomen..

I think the most important tip I can give anyone is that it is important to take regular art classes and learn the basics of art. It's only through practice of real life subjects that you can gain a deeper understanding of light and shadow, color balance, and different techniqes that are just as important in digital painting as in painting in real media. If you have access to classes, I say, go for it! I don't post many of my still life sketches or oil paintings up on my DA, but I have done them. Behind every piece in my gallery, there are hours and hours of practice on RL subjects in my sketchbook and canvases that have led up to developing a piece.
As for her other questions...

What program/s do you use, what tools do you use?

I usually use regular pencil and paper to draw all the lineart for my finished pictures. Then, I scan my pencil sketch onto the computer via Photoshop. I find that I don't have to ink my lineart since my sketches are usually pretty developed and tight enough to be used as the lineart for the final drawing pending some changes, however, if you do need to ink your lineart, then go ahead and do so.

After this, I usually save the file into jpeg at 100% quality and size, and open up the file in Open Canvas. Open Canvas has a handy multiply mode for its layers which allows you to paint right on top of your lineart without covering the blacklines. I usually lay down the skin color, hair color, clothing color, and background color (if the picture has a background) in that order. The coloring is pretty rough at this stage and I try to stick to midtones, since I'm just trying to see if the colors will all work together or not. Then, once I see what I need to change/keep the same, I start refining the base coloring that I had done before. I add shadows and highlights at this point and contours and anything else I need to do.

Once I have my basic coloring done, I merge all my layers together and start painting on top of the lineart as well. This will depend on your style, on how much emphasis you place on your lineart. I like coloring over my lineart, and leaving it untouched in certain places to define those areas, ie, face shape, eyes etc.

Once this is done, I save the file into jpeg and reload it into photoshop. This is the time when I make my final color changes, add tones/noise, fix the contrast, etc. Then I add my signature, save, and voila.

What brush types do you use when you color?

Brush types aren't as important in Photoshop and Open Canvas as they are in Painter, and since I'm not a Painter user, I don't really hold that much importance in brush type. I usually like to choose a brush that will give me a variation in opacity (opacity is how transparent the color is...100% opacity means no white from the background paper shows through) . Since I work with a tablet, I try to go with a brush that will let me darken and widen my lines as I press down harder on the tablet. Open Canvas is good in that they have many types of brushes that will allow you to do this, though I like to stick with the pencil brush when I'm doing fine details and the watercolor brush when I'm filling in large areas.

How can I produce clean lines that slightly vary in thickness?

This usually depends on having a pressure sensitive device (ie tablet). And a brush that allows different opacities depending on pressure.

If you're thinking about getting a tablet, I recommend a Wacom. If your not sure about whether or not you want to do art seriously, but would like to try out a tablet, I recommend the Wacom Graphire line. I've heard that it works decently and is pretty affordable.

I have a Wacom Intuos, which is a step above the Graphire, meaning more sensitivity, however, its also more expensive. If you know you want to do digital art seriously, it's not a bad idea to invest in a Intuos tablet.

There is another line that's a step above the Intuos, but you probably don't need that unless you're thinking of/are doing art professionally.

Hope this answers some of your questions.

...Another question...anyone think I should to a tutorial? And if so, then on what?

:3
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PS: Actually I would post that journal entry w/o edit.. but it was impossible, caused by html error that make the texts do not appear as I want them to.. T.T

Labels: deviant art, tips

{ 7/09/2009 06:46:00 am }

Ahaaa.. even last nite I couldn't really fall asleep (I laid on the bed already.. but my eyes wouldn't shut!!) I "wake up" this morning with the new spirit!! Yeah!! Haha.. Hontou ni arigatou gozaimasu Kami-sama~

Today, I would continue washing my clothes ehehehh.. Aand.. I think today I would almost fully use my time to print out Rovina's notebook and Wallmax postings.. Yeahaa.. OKAY!!

Ehm.. listing out what I should do for this entire bright day ^^..

1. Editing Grace's article and show it up to Huey nee-san, after agreed, print.
2. Print Rovina's notebook
3. Continue yearbook: content, student council's pages, closing parts.
4. Draw for Cynthia n Rossie's b'day gift =)

That's it!!!!! Ahaaaa~ I'm so excited rite now =3. hyper mode: ON!!

gonna get workin asap. Ja ne~

Labels: projects

{ 7/09/2009 12:32:00 am }

So.. yesterday was my birthday (8 July 09). Aand, I didn't celebrate it personally.. But my family, especially my mom treated me lunch at bentoya, SPI this afternoon. Also Rovina, treated me lunch, right after I had lunch w/ my friends.. That made me could'nt eat much. I was full already! XD

Now, I'm confused.. First, that why I slept from about 8 p.m, n now I can sleep no more >.<. The second is, that somehow ppl are vanishing rite away!! Whether in FB, CB, or Y!m.. *screaming, rolling on the floor* << no lah!

Aahh.. highschool gonna star 2 tomorrow.. It feels so fast!! And the bad thing is that Yearbook isn't finished yet.. It is quite stressfull thinking of yearbook.. GOD, I need a break..

list of things i haven't done.. and HAVE TO be done::

-Yearbook:
^ content
^ Student Council's photos
^ the Closing part

-Notebook:
^ May haven't given her photos
^ Print Rovina's notebook

awh mann.. Now I'm having a head ache ==". I've been too much thinking till I can't enjoy the life I have.. haha.. I should be relax more.. but I feel like I have no time to relax.. I want to reach my goal.. I can't become lazy anymore!!

GOD.. help me while I'm living this 15th year of my life.. I pray so I wouldn't fall onto the evil but stays in the right path of Thee.. I beg You, my Lord.. Arigatou gozaimasu Kami-sama.. Amen..

Labels: personal

Saturday 4 July 2009 { 7/04/2009 09:33:00 pm }

Romaji:
zasetsu mamire ryuukou ni magire shiawase na furi wo shite utau
motto hashire to iikikashite mubou ni mo sotto kazakami e
kita michi wo ichibetsu yutori wa gomen shimensoka sansen ni tsugu one game
"yama ari tani ari gake ari" gomi wa tsumotteku
hateshinai tabi no tochuu de machi no hazure ni tachiyoru
tsukareta ryouashi wo sotto nagedashite nekorobu to kurikaesareru asai nemuri
nandomo onaji ano yokogao nandomo onaji ano kotoba wo...
"ikiteru dake de kanashii to omou no wa watashi dake na no?" to

tabako no kemuri ga chuu wo uneri utsuro ni kieru

kitto mada chikara naki osanai hi ni
minakute ii kanashimi wo mite kita kimi wa ima
koraenakute ii namida wo koraete sugoshiteru
honto no koto dake de ikite yukeru hodo
bokura wa tsuyokunai sa tsuyokunakute ii
ii?

mochiageta mabuta sekai wa haru da sakurairo no kaze wo kakiwakete
haruka kanata e mukau tochuu kono na no hanabatake ni kimi wa ita no ka na
kono sora ni tori no shiroi habataki wo boku ga sagasu ma kitto
kimi wa daichi ni mimi wo sumashi ari no kuroi ashioto wo sagashita n darou na

pierrot no you na kamen wo haide taiyou ni wasurerareta oka ni tachi

tsuki no hikari wo abite fukaku iki wo suu
sara wo wareru oto mo donari goe mo nai sekai
nukumori ga nakutatte ikite wa yukeru sa
dakedo bokura ikiteru dake ja tarinakute

mebuku daichi ya buatsui miki ya kiesaru niji ya sugisaru hibi ya
yozora no speaker shiki no fushigi ga oshiete kureta shinjitsu wo sagashi tsuzukeru bokura ni

doko made tabi wo shite mo inochi no hajimari wa
ikite ai saretai to naita hitori no akago
koko de wa nai doko ka wo mezasu riyuu to wa
kokoro de wa nai doko ka ni kotae wa nai to shiru tame

English Translation:
Smeared with frustration, lost in fads, I sing as I pretend to be happy
Persuading myself to run some more, I go recklessly and quietly windward
Taking a glance at the road I came down, sorry I've got time to spare; Enemies on all sides, one game after going into war
"Life has its mountains, valleys, and cliffs" Garbage piles up
On an endless journey, I stop by the outskirts of town
Quietly throwing down my tired legs, when I lie down I fall into a repeating shallow sleep
That same profile over and over again, saying those same words over and over again
"Am I the only one that thinks being alive is sad?"

Cigarette smoke rolls into the air and disappears into the empty space

On a day when we're definitely still feeble and childish
You now have looked at a sadness that you don't have to look at
You're passing the time holding back tears that you don't have to hold back
We're not so strong that I can live my life only by what's real
We don't have to be strong
Alright?

I raised my eyelids and the world was in spring; Pushing my way through the cherry blossom colored wind
Headed toward somewhere far away, I wonder if you were in this vegetable garden?
As I searched for the flapping of white bird's wings in the sky
I wonder if you definitely listened closely to the ground and searched for an ant's black footsteps?

Taking off the pierrot like mask, standing on a hill forgotten by the sun

Basking in the moonlight, I take in a deep breath
A world without yelling voices and the sound of plates cracking
We can live our lives without warmth
But us just living our lives isn't enough

The budding earth, the thick trees, the disappearing rainbow, the passing days
And the night sky's speaker; The wonders of the four seasons taught us, who continue to search for truth, these things

No matter how far you travel, at the beginning of life
We were lone babies that cried out to want to live and be loved
For the sake of knowing that the reason for heading somewhere that isn't here
Is somewhere that isn't in the heart

love the meanings :D
it is so.. ME

Labels: music, words

Friday 3 July 2009 { 7/03/2009 08:10:00 pm }

everything is my fault.
everybody blames me.

even i am the one who's guilty..
i am not the only one in the world who does sins!!

they say i am hard to communicate to..
who are my parents who should have teach me how to communicate well??

who's fault?? my fault?? why it is always my fault???????? IS IT THAT YOU'RE TOO HOLY TO FEEL A BIT GUILTY OF YOUR DISABILITY TO EDUCATE ME ALL THIS TIME?????

why is it always me?
you are the ones who GOD chose to take care of me while i'm in this cruel world..
but you always make me cornered with all the blame you drop upon me..

who are you??

you DON'T KNOW me.. so NEVER JUDGE me.. get yourself a mirror please.

I am small and the world is big
All around me is fast moving
Surrounded by so many things..
But suddenly, suddenly

I am young and I am free
But I get tired and I get weak
I get lost and I can't sleep...

How Does It Feel by Avril Lavigne

Labels: personal, words