Ruby-Hime

It's been about 3 years since I last posted anything on here. Long time, and lots has happened. I graduated college just recently and am going to find myself with a lot more free time to work on art and other related things, so I plan on becoming more active on here once again.  *cheers*

It'll be a few weeks before I get new art up, as I have 3 cosplays to get finished by next Thursday for Animazement. But new art will come, and probably some fanfiction as well. \o/

It's always such a long time between my entries I've noticed...  My lack of artistic motivation is drawing out more and more and I keep trying to find ways to pull myself back into it, even my cosplay drive is starting to suffer and that worries me just a bit.  I need to find the missing piece to my puzzle and fix this before the effects really pull me down and out of art completely.

But, dramatics aside, I just realized that I have almost had 200k views on my page, and I'd like to make a nice piece to commemorate that as a thank you for those that still keep up with my page, despite it being so lackluster lately.  I'm not sure what it will be yet, maybe a fanart or maybe something original, I'll have to decide soon and get to work on it and I will.  Not so sure it will be finished before my page hits the mark but it will be done!!

Outside of drawing I have my Black Rock Shooter cosplay to work on, and it will be finished before Animazement so that I can fangirl all over with my friend cosplay as Dead Master. <3<3  I also have a mostly finished Falsetto cosplay, from Eternal Sonata, must get that completed as well.  I didn't really want to get back into my Lightning armor but people are begging me to bring it back for just a little bit at con so I need to look it over and see how wearable it is... I really don't want to make any big repairs to it =.= (dang armor...).

That's about it for the artistic stuff, only other tidbits to update on would be that I am going to be signing up, and hopefully get accepted, into a graphic design program this fall.  I'm also playing the MMO Tera, on the RP server, so if anyone wants to say "Hi" on there you can find me on Tiana.Astria or Isis.Aeona.

And I feel I have rambled on long enough so with that I bid a farewell until next time~ <3's

-Dee

So I haven't really had time to work on much of anything lately, but if all goes well I'll finish my bartending classes this Friday and will have free time after that. :3  Things I am going to be working on; my entry for the Cycle 2 competition; Tutorials for my Lightning armor cosplay; chapter 4 of my FFXIII-2 fanfic, The end is just the beginning; fixing my Lightning armor; and whatever else I can think of or feel like doing.

Also now that DevArt has added the handy dandy ability to change ones user name on here, I am considering changing mine once I can afford a premium account.  I don't know if I really will yet or not, or what it will be if I do.  Decisions, decisions.

And that's all I can think of now... seemed like I had much more to say but oh well~ laters~ <3

So Animazement ended today and was the best con I've been to thus far.  After rushing and killing myself I finally finished making my armor for Lightning and wore it almost all day Saturday.  Seeing at it was my first armor making I found out quickly that some things work and others do not... suffice to say, it lasted one day and no longer as it started to fall apart in the end, but I'm proud of myself for pulling it together in time as I did.  Although it's technically not 100% done yet but mostly minor details to add... on top of the repairs I must make to it now.  I just want to say thanks to everyone that supported and kept me going to finish this. <3 all.  I'm going to post a few pictures now and maybe some art to come in the future now that I won't have armor to make me go crazy x.x

Sorry for no posts recently.  I, of course, got sucked into Final Fantasy XIII-2 for a week. XD  It's left me with so many more questions than answers at this point, awgh, but I won't go into that, hehe.... I'll end up going on forever.  x-x

BUT, now that I have beatin it, I am now free to continue working on some drawings without that distraction, probably a lot will be FFXIII-2 related, so I'll try to get some new goodies up soon.~  Also in the works is my Lightning costume, her armor from XIII-2.  I'll try to get up some WIP pics soon and see what everyone thinks of how it's coming along.  I have until late May to finish it, with this being my first time making armor, I'm just hoping I can finish in time at this point, and that it will come out looking how I want it to. >.<;;;;  So much pressure!!!

Anywho... other than that... *cries over XIII-2 ending again*, okay that's all I can honestly think of to waste anyones time for now, sooo, til next time.~ ^.^

-Dee