I got my new tarantula last night C: C: C: C: C;
Not sure of the gender but it'll be a girl for now haha
At least until she gets comfortable enough with me so I can check her pedipalp to see
if there are 'spurs' there. If there are then it's a boy.
If you want to see her I posted a twitpic on my twitter.
Anyways my mom came home last night after work cause a customer who worked in the
exotic pet trade said he could get me a tarantula and kritter keeper for just $15
I was worried at first because I wanted to pick out the species myself and the gender but
it was a chilean rose-hair like I wanted and if you see it's head from a certain angle of light
it reflects pink hairs so I named her peach fuzz and then Princess Peach came to mind
and my friend Kittie said that would be her name so it is xD
She was in a small styrofoam container all day with no food or water so when she came
home I let her craw on my hand (her belly feels like teddy bear fluff!) and then I put
her in the tank that I had set up for her and she went straight to the water dish and
started drinking and I was like awww poor baby she was so thirsty D: so I let her drink
and 20 minutes later I look back and she was STILL drinking so I was like D: D: D:
and I put more water in her dish. I attempted to feed her a couple of times but she
either already ate this week or she's about to molt. The front of her abdomen is darkening
so that could be a sign. It's getting colder here so she's been huddling in front of the
heating pad for a while now. Her tank is here right between my chair and the wall so when I
get tired and lean back I can just stare at her xD I'm so happy I finally got her i've been
having dreams about having/getting one for the past 2 weeks.

edit: Yeah Peach might be a male....if that's the case (I gotta make sure later) then it's name will
be Frodo Baggins xD b/c he's short and hairy and lives in round little home in the ground. Also my
mom thinks the tarantula is so cute. I'm surprised that she actually finds it somewhat appealing. My
dad on the other hand lol he wants nothing to do with it. My mom has to force him to go take a look
at it haha.

Anyways when I get the time I might get to that character design tutorial thing I wanted to share
they're all based on pixar characters but they apply to animation in general.

Anyways here's a peak of one of the pictures. The seagulls were done by Jason Deamer who came to
my school last week with Pixar and gave us a lecture.
The color/lighting key above was done by Ralph Eggleston a great great great color key artist at
Pixar. All those pastel looking color keys you see from Pixar are probably all done by this guy.



I also watched like 5 pixar movies alone this month haha. I just have it on in the background
while I do homework. It's really inspiring.

Mood: calm

So Fridays I'm usually working all day but I was extremely tired and could not stay awake to do anything. I didn't have class either but I woke up early to go to school and attend their internship meeting and afterwards I went to the library to scan some of my work and I looked at the 'Art Of' books in the animation section and I scanned a bunch of those as well. I scanned The Incredibles, Finding Nemo and Up and found great character designs and thought I'd make a post later on how to design a character and I hope that will be useful to people.

So I came home and took a nap and when I woke up my friend, Natalie, had texted me asking If I wanted to go to Dland later that night and I was like well I have work to do...but I haven't see Nat in 5 months....hell why not. And it was so good to see her. She was my bestie in high school and I'm sad I don't get to see her as often anymore. But last night was great. Despite the OVERWHELMING AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THERE LAST NIGHT. It was seriously so PACKED that people couldn't park at the Disneyland parking lot anymore but they reserved a spot for people wanting to go to Downtown Disney and we parked there. Sorry I don't have a lot of pics so you'll have to bear with me on this post....but i'll keep it short.

Basically I think it was a trick or treat night or something cause a bunch of kids came dressed up as disney characters. Nat and I went on Buzzlightyear's Astro Blasters, Haunted Mansion, and Splash Mountain and saw the first Fantasmic show of the night. And everywhere I went the place wreaked of either body odor or feet......WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE. Use deodarant please. It sucked sitting next to this guy while watching Fantasmic and having wind and mist blowing towards us and mixed with his B.O and I was just like DYING. And all the lines were RIDICULOUSLY long. Everything was an hour wait and Space Mountain was 100 minutes worth of waiting! That's an hour and forty minutes D': But we were able to get on some rides with shorter lines b/c a majority of the people in the park were watching Fantasmic and Natalie wanted to go on Splash Mountain so badly and I'm like....fine. It was a pretty warm night. And we take the most ridiculous picture ever! I ASKED HER WHAT POSE WE WERE GONNA MAKE AT THE DROP OFF POINT and she's like we should do this "NOOOOOO! WHY????" pose when we get a lot of people! and I had misheard her and thought she said that was the pose we were gonna do together and so when we took the picture I ended up being the only one on the boat making some ridiculous face AND NOT ONLY THAT but my neck looked so distorted that I looked like a Brontosaurus.


(I'm the one in front)

WHAT IS GOING ON WITH MY NECK THERE?
When we saw it we could not stop laughing for like 10 minutes straight.
I LOVE YOU NATALIE.

MEME.

. Who are you?
. Are we friends?
. When and how did we meet?
. Would you kiss me?
. Give me a nickname and explain why?
. Describe me in one word!
. What was your first impression of me?
. Do you still think the same?
. What reminds you of me?
. If you could give me anything what would it be?
. How well do you know me?
. Are you going to put this on your journal and see what I say about you?
. Would you ever meet up with me?

Mood: grateful

I don't update here as much as I'd like so this will be a huge picture post haha BE WARNED.

Last week it was insect and arachnid day in my dynamic sketching class so the teacher brought in his son's two pets; a spider and scorpion.



Recently I've been thinking of what it would be like to handle a tarantula. I wasn't too fond of them before but I didn't really have a reason to dislike them because I do like spiders so I was like...well...what if I met one...would I like them then? AND I DID. I fell in love with them.
( I LOVED HOLDING THEM. )

So yeah I went to the Geisha House in Hollywood a few weeks ago for the naked sushi party. It was really awesome. It was in a small lounge area separate from the restaurant and they had a bartender in the corner and it was free for us so we were just drinking it up and the model was quite pretty and nice and you could talk to her if you'd like. They brought out sushi and put it on her and you grab what you want (the sushi, not her body parts lol) and then waiters would come around with food you eat with your hand like kabobs and there ended up being +30 guests and we all had an amazing time.



( NAKED SUSHI TIME. )


Oh! And I got to go to Dland with my friend Kelly. I wanted to see the halloween decorations and see the new firework show and Space Mountain ride. The Space Mountain ride was kinda cool...I'll post a video of it under the cut. The firework show wasn't..anything special. As my friend described it...it was basically Halloween + The Jonas Brothers + Hannah Montana. So sad but true. They played "This is Halloween", "Poor Unfortunate Souls" and some other songs and they were basically pop rock versions of them. The only cool part of the firework show was the giant ball that appeared by the castle and they projected Jack Skellington's head on it so he could talk to us. That and Zero flying over the castle. But the Haunted Mansion decorated with The Nightmare Before Christmas characters was still the best. It never ceases to impress me every year. The exterior of the mansion is soooooo amazing as is the inside.




( IT'S HALLOWEEN TIME! )

I went to the tidepool and marshland last week with my Ocean Science class. I brought along Kelly and we just geeked out every time we saw a living creature.





( Mr. Crabby says, FOLLOW ME! )




Mood: dorky

It's only the 3rd week of school and I'm already feeling dog-tired, zonked,
pooped, worn out, what ever way you wanna put it I'm beat. I have two 5 hour
studio classes and four 3 hour academics and about 15 hours of homework each week
plus the t.v. animation job I have on the side. I CAN SEE THE DARK CIRCLES UNDER MY
EYES I LOOK LIKE A PANDA.

I do like my classes though. Ocean Science is cool so far and we went on a field trip to
the aquarium last week and we're going to a tide pool in 2 weeks. Pacific Destiny is a'ight,
History of Entertainment is well entertaining C: We watched Sinbad this week and a bit of
Prince of Egypt. I LOVE THAT MOVIE SO MUCH I CRY EVERY TIME I WATCH IT.
And we got our semester project this week for Color & Story. We have to create characters,
backgrounds, and a color script for PRINCESS MONONOKE.
Last year I had to do Hunchback of Notre Dame haha. I haven't seen Mononoke yet and I hear it's
the best Miyazaki film and when I mentioned that to my friends all of them just gave me glares
and pretty much exploded in a WHAT? YOU HAVEN'T? OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDD. But i'll watch it this
weekend! My homework is based on it anyway...
Business 101 continues being a philosophy class and the teacher continues being awesome.
Dynamic Sketching is really fun, I should upload the project I did for it when I get the time.

So yeah on Saturday I'm going to my friend's birthday party in Hollywood. And it's a naked sushi
party. That's right. A NAKED SUSHI PARTY.
You basically eat sushi off a naked model which is something i've never done before so THIS SHOULD BE INTERESTING.
And like 30 people are going and after wards we might hit a club.

I miss Disneyland so much. Tomorrow they're doing the new Halloween firework shows and opening the
Halloween version of Space Mountain. D: Ughhh I was thinking about going tomorrow night but depends
on if I have the energy. Also Chris Sanders went last week and I'm pissed that I missed him at
Disneyland lol.

AND I FOUND THESE PICTURES OF CINDERELLA'S CASTLE IN DISNEYLAND PARIS. IT'S 10X PRETTIER THAN THE
SLEEPING BEAUTY CASTLE WE HAVE HERE. Also the fancy lights were for their 15th anniversary, we had
ours decorated like that for the 50th anniversary 2 years ago.




And lately my school had been under attack by GIANT BUGS. I love them though. The weather is still
really warm here in California so they like coming out at night and just stare at you as you walk past
them.



Here's a katydid.





( and 4 praying mantises )




I HAVEN'T HAD MUCH TIME TO DRAW STUFF OTHER THAN HOMEWORK BUT I MANAGED TO CRAM THIS INTO MY BUSY
SCHEDULE. HERE YOU GO MAY HAPPY LATE BDAY <3




And now for a nap.


Mood: drained

So Monday was Labor day so there was no class. But I have Ocean Science on Mondays and I'm really excited about that class. Can't wait to visit the tide pools and go to the aquarium.

Tuesday
Usually there are classes from 8am-1pm but there are also classes from 12pm-3pm. I was unfortunate to get the 12 o'clock class because it is IMPOSSIBLE to find parking. All the students who are in the 8-1 class have already filled up the parking lot and they don't leave till 1 so us 12 o'clock students can't get parking! At 12 they finally open the additional parking and I rush to class to find no one there but one student so I was like WOAH. AM I EARLY? And he was like is this Shou Wang
s class? And I'm like yeah I think it is. And we sit in our seats and waited for 10 minutes and nobody showed up not even the teacher so I was like...this isn't right. So I went next door and asked the instructor if this was Pacific Destiny and he was like yes and I was like UARGGGHHHHH THE PAPER TOLD ME TO GO TO THE WRONG CLASSROOM HNNGGGH. But he was very cool about it. He's such a funny and nerdy instructor haha.
After that class was over I had another class with the same teacher in the same room so I just chilled there for 30 minutes before my next class, History of Entertainment Design which is basically a film class, mainly focusing on CGI films and animation. We watched 2 hours of Behind the Scenes of Star Wars. It was awesome. There's two essays and no exams in the class. The first essay is about this French animation and what you think about it and the other essay......get this......is on Pixar's Ratatouille fdkjghdskfjhgdsklfjgdfg. Yes you have to talk about what you think about the story and the character design and such. BAW I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER BEEN SO HAPPY TO BE WRITING AN ESSAY BEFORE. Of course I'd be more excited if I was writing about Finding Nemo or Monsters Inc. but Ratatouille is good too.

Wednesday
Had Color & Story which i've taken before when it was still called Color Theory for Entertainment Arts with Richard Keyes. He is so nice he would never hurt a puppy! We just sat and listened to Richard talk for 4 and a half lecture on color, the teacher is an awesome guy though so I've never found anything he said to be boring. I can't wait for the character design part of the class though. Class ended an hour early at 12 and I didn't start my next class till 7 ASDFGHJKL;;;; so I stayed in the library with my laptop, called my client about our project and then didn't know what to doodle to pass the time so I went on Twitter and asked for suggestions lol. And here's what was suggested.

Cat- a cake, a sandwich, a sphinx, and a hummingbird/elephant/cheetah thing
Kittie- shirix and sexla
elijahbean- an orange and a dress...which..i.....combined into an orange...in a dress.
Uru- an elephant
Annie- Flounder and Stitch fighting? lol they're more like trying to intimidate each other.


Don't have time to color it but I might someday.

Then my friend Denny came by after his class and he was like I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN FOREVERRRRRRRRR and we hugged but i pretty much head-butted his chin cause we were just too excited. Then my friend Ben and Kay came by and we talked about classes. After they left my friend Eastwood saw me from outside the library then came in and sat next to me and when he looked at me he was like, "ELSA, YOU LOOK REALLY PRETTY TODAY." and I was like LOL and we were talking about how much of a bummer it is that we have classes at night cause we were missing our favorite t.v. shows xD
Then at 7 I went to my Business 101 class in the auditorium and we had Errol Gerson for our lecturer and he is INCREDIBLY funny. He's like the awesome Jewish uncle you never had! And his lectures were about starting your first business but at the same time it was like a philosophy class. His stories and mottos were all so touching that me and I'm sure a few of the 70 students in the class started tearing up and when the class had ended we all clapped. I've never had a class where the students clapped after a lecture. IT WAS THAT RESPONSIVE. So when I went home and retold the stories to my mom I could not stop crying and she hugged me ;____;

Thursday
Had a morning class with Norm Schureman called Dynamic Sketching and he was so nice and an AMAZING artist. Basically this class teaches you how to draw animals and vehicles correctly, realistically, and with structure. The best part is that you use pen to draw everything. No pencil or charcoal. So we're going to take A LOT of field trips. We're going to be going to the zoo, the aquarium, the military museum to draw tanks AND HE SAID WE'RE GOING INSIDE A TANK TOO, and the arboretum to draw botanics, and a vintage car museum, and maybe the natural history museum if the dinosaur exhibit is done remodeling. So in the class we introduce ourselves to the class by going to the white board, saying your name and hobby and then the teacher's assistant gives you an object or animal to draw and you have to draw it on the white board in 2 minutes lol. I got a human skull....I was like KDJHKSFJHGDKJGHDFKG but we've all drawn this 200 times when we first started art school.....why couldn't I have gotten like....a camel or a t-rex WHICH SOMEONE ELSE GOT I WAS SO PISSED. But no a human skull. I think I would have been more excited if it was a horse skull. But yeah while you're drawing on the white board the whole class has to draw the same object as well. I could draw all the animals that were given but I failed to hard when we had to draw boats, cars, and planes xD. The teacher saw the toad I drew and he was like NICE, YOU'RE GONNA LIKE THIS CLASS. Yes. Yes I will. Until we draw tanks and cars.
Then I'll shoot myself.
And then after class my crush who I haven't seen the whole summer saw me and came over and was like ELSA YOU LOOK REALLY NICE, I LIKE YOUR HAIR LIKE THAT and I was like skdjhdkfgddfghj C:
But yeah I've been wearing my hair down this whole week cause I usually tie it up in high pony tail so you don't actually know how long my hair is but yeah it's lonnng.

I'm sad our deers didn't great us this semester :C the fire must've drove them away. Usually this time of year we'd have like 10 wild deers on our campus eating the grass and just chillin'.


SHOUT OUTS! I'VE NEVER DONE A SHOUT OUT BUT TODAY I WILL.

To my friend Kittie, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. YOU ARE SUCH A GREAT PERSON AND I WILL ALWAYS BE THERE FOR YOU. I THINK ABOUT YOU EVERYDAY AND YOU ALWAYS CHEER ME UP, I DON'T KNOW WHERE I'D BE WITHOUT YOU. YOU MEAN THE WORLD TO ME! I HOPE THAT WE GET TO SEE EACH OTHER NEXT SUMMER. THAT'S REALLY SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO. DON'T EVER CHANGE <3

To my friend Tiffany, Happy Birthday! I don't know if you read my LJ but I already sent you a happy birthday on poupee BUT ONE HAPPY BIRTHDAY IS NEVER ENOUGH SO HAPPY BIRTHDDAAAAYYY.

hopefull

So classes start for me tomorrow. Both excited and sad about it.
But I graduate in 2010 so I'm like AHHHHH! *arm flail*
I HOPE THE AIR HAS CLEARED UP. For those of you who've been
watching the news you know there's been some big fires on the hills near
Pasadena and Valencia so the air for the past 2 weeks around then has been well...not the best.
I took snaps of it from my house which is like 30+ miles away
from the fire and I could still see the smoke.








And the sky was RED around the sun. It was like being on mars.

I did my back to school cleaning where I clean my room from the mess of summer. But slowly
it will revert back to it's old messy state by the time school ends. Yeah so when school starts I'll
have less free time but I'll update when I can.

Has anybody started school yet? Does anybody likes/hate any of their classes already???

Mood: productive

School starts next week so this will probably be my last Dland post for a few weeks. I'll miss going back that's for sure :C
I'm definitely going around Halloween for their ~special~ Halloween events.

Anyways

( DISNEYLAND FOR THE PAST TWO DAYS. )



Summary:
Day1.
-Various rides including water rapids, Space Mountain, Astroblasters, Thunder Mountain, and Splash Mountain
-Kelly and I being the mustache twins
-Seeing the new dragon Maleficent for the first time
Day2.
-Aladdin musical
-Crying @ DCA ;___;
-Various rides including Tower of Terror, water rapids, carousel, Toy Story Mania (+video), and Space Mountain
-Saw a rat at DCA, named him Mickey.
-DELICIOUS BBQ DINNER
-Saw dragon Maleficent for the 2nd time
-Drew eyeballs on our hands and went on Space Mountain


Mood: okay

I SAW DRAGON MALIFICENT TONIIIIIIIIIIGHT.
FOUR PICTURES UNDER THE CUT AND THAT'S ALL.
EDIT: AND A VIDEO.




( SEE THE POWER OF IMAGINATION. )





Mood: ecstatic

So....Twitter? I have an account that I made 6 months ago
that I've yet to go public with. I mainly 'tweet' to myself which my
brother finds weird but I also have two very close friends on there that
I share my tweets too and a few lurkers.

So now i'm making my account public if anybody wants to know what I tweet about.

http://twitter.com/Blithegirl

Heed this warning. I do strange things on it from time to time like making it private and
then public and deleting random things...






( Now for that art dump... )


Mood: bored

Today is Kittie's (nayruasukei @ dA) birthday so wish her a happy birthday on her page!


Ugh these past 3 days has been really hot. There is a huge brush fire by
my school but it's still too far for the ashes to travel here so the air has
been clean enough to breathe. This is just a random post because I wanted to
share some stuff. School starts in 3 weeks and I'm really looking forward to it.
I'm pretty excited about all my classes. I also got this in the mail today.
That got me really excited and I want to go back to Dland again right now xD




It's magazine for annual pass holders and it has upcoming events at Disneyland.
Something new is coming to Space Mountain for the Halloween event so I can't
wait to see what they've done with the ride. I also really miss the Haunted Mansion
decked out as The Nightmare Before Christmas.

It's been soooo hot that I actually for once want to go to Dland and go on Splash
Mountain lol. Usually when I go I try to avoid it because I don't like walking around
in wet shoes w/ socks and wet jeans are probably the worse. But the heat is actually
making me reconsider! I'll dress light when I do go...but my friend Kelly who I
usually go with has a bad sun burn so I don't know when's the soonest we can go.
I also haven't been in a pool all summer. THAT'S KINDA SAD CONSIDERING THAT I LOVE
TO SWIM SO MUCH .But I've mainly just been at Dland instead...getting crispier and crispier.

Anyways thought I'd share some pictures. These are of my current pets and some interesting
stuff I found in my backyard.




( INTERESTING I SAY!!!! )



Mood: lethargic