LOLI-POP
- Created By Wakusei Aoshi
MTAC
Pretteh sure this'll be long! Maybe I should start from the beginning...or...I dunno....I usually don't do things in chronological order...XD
First off when I got there I had no clue where the registration thing was so I had to ask some old man and he was SOOO nice and he showed me the way! But then I found my friends and they took me away to it.
Then my other friends came and blah blah blah (II actually don't remember this part) and then we walked around waiting for my other friends (we arrived in random groups...O.o; ) and we ran into them and we kept doing this for a long time and then they left at liiike 2:00 or something pretty early and never stayed with the group so we never got a group picture. It kinda made me mad and I wondered why they left so early...
Lemme just talk about he pictures and that'll be easier...then maybe it'll flow...XD
(I missed a number...let's call it 1.5)
First one my friend took a picture of some guy dressed up as Luka. I didn't know he was a guy at first! TT^TT That happened a lot at the convention...so many crossdressers...wait...I was a crossdresser...O.o;
1.5 I took a picture of him in a really good pose, but the picture was really blurry and I'm sad now....>3>
2 I love their outfits! *.* So pretty! I like the girl in the white the most! Her costume was really detailed and it complemented itself really well.
4 There were two girls as this character...I don't remember who the character was, though...Somebody from Soul Calibur or something...
5&6 I just did that thing where I walk by and take a picture! XD I'm a bad photographer...
8&9 These two were trying to pose but the girl in the Akatsuki costume was too shy so they started a slap fight and it was just really funny. I like these pictures 'cause they're so fun looking. I really like the girl who cosplayed Sakura's eyes! They were practically glowing! *.*
12 I dunno what was going on but a group of people were just pointing on a stage for a long time...I just took this as I walked outside.
13 I like this picture! She did a good job on the expression! She said it was hard to hold, though.
14 First picture of another cosplayer! I just walked out of the registration room to take a picture of her.
15 I just realized when I looked back this picture that I wasn't allowed to take this picture. We weren't allowed to take a pictures in the hallway and I took this in the hallway! XD The many scolded my friend for taking pictures, though...>3>
1 I would say this is by far my best picture that I took at the convention! It's another one of those walk by pictures. We just came back from lunch and jumped out of the car when I took the picture! XD
2 I had to get this picture! >:D Yes! A Trucy Wright!
3 I just thought this looked funny! XD The Ghostbusters group cosplayers standing in front a blood mobile! XD
4 Nostalgia Critic! This isn't the real guy, but he did a really convincing job on him! XD When I asked to take his picture he told his friend 'Yes! See! Told you they would know me!' XD I took this at my friends' hotel (I also took pictures of the hotel, I'll show it in this post).
5 My friends~! They're twins if you can't tell...O.O My friend who was dressed up as Kaito and I got a ton of hugs and pictures! XD We felt famous! XD
6 I dunno what they're cosplaying as, but it looks really cool. I like the poses they were in for this picture.
7 My friends who left early. They bought their costumes.
8 These people I danced with for a while. I took a picture of them doing the Hare Hare Yukai.
9 Will of the Abyss....or something...I don't remember her name...but my friend and I just called her Alice 'cause she basically is Alice, y'know, y'know. She did a great job on her cosplay.
10&11 These were actually in the same picture, but they were spaced far apart from eachother so I just split them apart. I don't think I would ever have the confidence to wear what they're wearing...
12 A close up of the people dressed up in that pointing thing. I actually just wanted to get the girl dressed up a Panda Hero Gumi! XD I like the other cosplayers in the picture, too.
1 Power Rangers! They were some of my favourite cosplayers there! I just love the Power Rangers! They just seem so energetic even if the people under them aren't in that kind of mood! XD They won something in the cosplay contest. I wanted to take picture in the cosplay contest, but it was took dark and far away so the pictures were really bad. There was this one guy who could barely walk but it was AMAZING! He was dressed at a Big Daddy from Bioshock and it looked EXACTLY like one! He had a moving drill on his arm (not a real one, but it was moving! XD) and lights on his helmet thingy, it was crazy! And this girl always who could barely walk cosplayed some character from World of Warcraft and she had all this armor looking stuff on! It was amazing! O.O
The cosplay contest was really interesting and the audience was fun, but it was kinda sad 'cause they'd announce who so-and-so is cosplaying and the crowd would erupt with cheers and then when they went on they all stopped cheering...>3>
2 My friend cosplaying Zatsune!
3 My other friend cosplaying Meiko. She kept saying that her costume was really bad, but I think she did an AWESOME job on it! And the reason why a lot of the pictures have their heads cut of or just certain parts of their body cut off is because I'm very short and can't get the camera over them...>3>
4 My other friend cosplay Yuki Kaai~! She is sweet and innocent like Yuki, but it's kinda funny that she's cosplaying her since she's the tallest one in the group...XD
5 Those guys again! My friends along with these guys did Love and Joy twice together. A lot of people took pictures of us doing that and filmed us doing that...XD I did some other dances with them, but none of us could remember them so we didn't do a very good job...>3> Later when I waiting in line for something a bunch of people were saying 'Hey, you were that person dancing'...XD Completely forgot about people watching me dance! XD
6 Traded picture taking! XD They took my picture and in turn I took a picture of them! XD I'm amazed that she can carry that plate of stuff around all day! O.O
7 Taking pictures of merchandise! XD Lots of Hangry&Angry stuff. It's like everyone forgot who they were and they're not Hangry&Angry not Yossy&Rika...XD Or nobody knew who they were originally....O.o;
8 Cute merchandise~! X3
7 I actually don't remember taking this picture...O.o;
11 It's very blurry, but I like how it looks. It's like misty blurry not painful blurry! *.*
12 I really like this picture 'cause of the cute merchandise and the Takeru magazine! XD
13 Lotsa Pocky! XD
14 I could've sworn a took a picture of the twins together...this was in the game room and the Len cosplayer was watching somebody play some dancing game...XD
1 PEDOBEAR~! :D My friends were taking a picture with him along with a Black Rock Shooter cosplayer! XD
2 My friends waving to me as they go in some Chacha line thingy...
3 Another picture of it as it went by. It was REALLY REALLY long! My friend and I were trying to get into the game room but there was like this endlessly long chacha line thingy...my friends are apparently the culprits of creating such a long line with some song. They said they went all over the convention site and they did it for hours...
4 Another crossdresser as Reimu. He was dancing and handing out candy the entire convention time. I couldn't get far enough away to take a picture of his whole cosplay. ONLY TOUHOU COSPLAYER...it was depressing...And there was some girl dressed as Kula Diamond who I really wanted to get a picture of but some girl hugged me and then I lost track of where she was and I never found her again...it was so weird how she disappeared like that...maybe she went back outside or something...O.o;
5 My friend dressed as Kaito changed for the rave. She looks like somebody from Gorrilaz! Which, by the way, there were a bunch of cosplayers of! It took me a while to figure out who a bunch of these guys were cosplaying as, they has spiky black hair and a plaid shirt on of the same colour so after seeing about 3 of them I realized they were probably cosplaying something! XD There were also a lot of L's (which I thought they were cosplaying as). There was this one guy walking through the hallway (I couldn't take a picture because of this) sucking on a lollipop EXACTLY like L! And his posture was EXACTLY like L and it was a comfortable posture, not like it was forced like most L cosplayers do...it was just unusual looking...O.o;
6 A REALLY good Gakupo cosplayer! I really like her pose in the picture! Her outfit was detailed and her wig was so pretty!
7 She was in the artist's alley. I really really liked her outfit so I had to take a picture of her! I wanted to commission her but I ran out of money...by buying only a few things...>3> Sad part is that I commissioned somebody I already had before (without knowing) and their art wasn't as good as hers...>3>
8 Picture of what it looks like outside. At night there was some Parapara performance and a bunch of people were sitting on their balconies watching.
9 Really awesome cosplay! But, crap...I forgot who this was! TT^TT Was it somebody from Versaille? That outfit has always stood out to me, I've always REALLY REALLY liked it! *.*
10 Another picture with PedoBear. My friends posed this time! XD
11 A random picture I took of my friend while were just sitting. We were sitting in the corner eating Mochi. It was VERY VERY good and interesting! I like how gooey it was~! X3 I kept my watch on The Suzan who were sitting at the table near us just so I knew when the concert would start...but I missed it anyways...>3> That's okay, I didn't really want to have my first concert with them. But it was so weird that they were just walking around normally and nobody said anything! My friend did make a comment about there being an old lady and I was like 'That's not an old lady! That's one of The Suzan members!' XD So different compared to how it was with Quaff. Somebody took a picture of my friends and I in front of their table and I was worried we would get in trouble for doing that! XD But still nobody knew who they were...that's so sad...
12 I think a bit of The Suzan was in this picture, but I cut them out. I saw Turnip Head jumping around the room so I had to take a picture of them! I like how they did it, too! X3
13 Meowth and Charizard gijinka cosplayers! They looked really cool! My friend said that we should've done a gijinka group cosplay or something when she saw this! XD
My friend kept making suggests for what we should dress up as next year. She wants to do steam punk and I want to do Ciel. I want to do Ciel sooo bad! I just dream about wearing clothes like his! *.*
I don't have any pictures of myself 'cause I forgot to take pictures of myself...>3> But a lot of people took pictures of me, so maybe I could find some of them on the internet...*searches*
Also! I just learned that there's two MTACs! XD I keep getting results for another convention whenever I search for MTAC stuff...O.o;
During the Cosplay Contest the chairman of MTAC or something went on stage to tell us about next year's MTAC and he said 'y'know what, I like Easter, let's keep it that way' and then a bunch of people in the audience yelled 'NOO!!!' XD It really is a terrible time to do a convention...Don't do conventions on holidays!
My friends' hotel was AMAZING! I took picture of the lobby from their room:
It had a piano down there with waterfalls and a pond thingy! it was amazing! O.O It was apparently 'the overflow' so most of the con goers roomed there...except...most of the people in my group...>3>
I bought only 3 things! I bought a drink thingy....I dunno it just tastes good...XD And I bought a (AMAZING) magazine 'half-price' even though $12.50 for a magazine it PRETTEH expensive...but it was imported...sooo...And I commissioned somebody...but I think I should've have done that since she had really high prices and not so great artwork...>3> I mean, it's good, but for those prices...plus I have already commissioned her before (I still have her e-mail...XD)
The magazine is basically a boy band magazine, which was all they had in the room I was in (I didn't know there was another shop room! O.O), but it's fine. It has lots of pictures of Tomohisa Yamashita...and I am just TIRED OF THAT GUY! BLARGH! He needs a haircut, too. His hair now brings out his eyes...in a bad way...all I see are puffy eyes and a look as if he hasn't showered and is very oilly. I liked his hair when it was all fluffy looking! >:3 But it has lots of fashion kinds of pictures of boy bands and it's very helpful in drawing guys and designing clothes for them. It's a good thing I didn't buy a visual kei magazine, despite one of them having Takeru on it...and even though those were cheaper...feh...I don't think I should've commission...blarglefragin...But looked at visual kei boys all of them time makes me draw some...out there designs for boys clothing that I doubt they'd want to wear...XD
But it helps with MaxP stuff. There's also some AKB48 in it. WHY IS AKB48 SO POPULAR?! Well...actually...I know several answers to that...but I feel like all japanese idol magazines are required to have something about AKB48 since I haven't found many without something about AKB48 or Hey!Say!JUMP in it...>3>
I talked to a lot of random people about random things. They were all very nice people~! Except this one guy at the Cosplay Convention who kept showing me his pictures and yelling at the people on stage about how they messed up on their costumes or something...it was very rude.
I went to the rave, too. I was too tired to fully enjoy it and I was carrying a bunch of bags so I could barely dance. We kept trying to get in a chacha line kind of thing, but it kept breaking up so we gave up and started dancing together and some random people came dancing with us. This one big guy was dancing REALLY crazy and by crazy I mean CRAZY, not good, CRAZY. He was kicking his leg around and going all over the place and a bunch of people backed away from him from fear of getting kicked! TT^TT
...What to talk about now...?
It was really fun getting all that attention! XD One of my friends said that my wig looked almost real...which...is very hard to believe, but I think she meant that it look clean 'cause I combed it a bunch before coming. But then it gradually got worse as the con progressed! XD
I kinda feel like next year I want to do commissions or something...Hrmm...I dunno...maybe I would be too young...
I just saw some of the artists drawing at their tables and I just thought to myself 'I could do that...I don't even go to the panels, I just go shopping'...I would probably go to a concert or go shopping, but not really that much stuff. Plus I could spend my money on the con stuff! XD
I ran out of stuff to say...I want to go look at my magazine...byebye!
Covering up for the missed days!
30 Day Music Challenge:
day 07 – a song that reminds you of a certain event
This is because at my kenpo stage performance thingy we played that song in the background as we rolled out onto the stage. It was silly! XD
day 08 – a song that you know all the words to
XD I love this song! XD I can't help it! It's odd to know all the lyrics to this song...but it's very song to sing! *.*
I may or may not know the words to some other songs...but this one I sing in my head very often...ummm...'cause it's catchy...XD
I'll talk about MTAC stuff next post.
I'm really bushed so sorry if I don't post on your stuffs guys! TT^TT
30 Day Music Challenge - Day 06
30 Day Music Challenge:
day 06 – a song that reminds you of somewhere
...actually...no song reminds me of anywhere...I don't really like to think about my location when I'm listening to music. It lets me escape to another world.
But this song just reminds me of being...SOMEWHERE...anywhere really, but it reminds me more of being there...if that makes any sense...O.o;
I also really love the video! XD
...MTAC TOMORROW~! <333
I'm SO excited even though I don't really want to go to most of the panels...but STUFF! OMIGOSHH!!
Oh, and because cellphone cameras are pretteh crappy and don't hold that many pictures (my family's cellphone only holds liike 15 pictures...it's terrible) and because my parents want to use their camera wherever they're going to I bought a camera.
But I don't really like the colour...but I don't think that really matters.
And it was a last minute really quick buy...and I feel bad for doing so....but I did need a camera so there's that.
And I finished my costume for the most part...just need to try it on and my mom is sewing the buttons on. I'm afraid it'll fall apart...I hot glued the majority of it...I wonder if it'll stay...I have to be very gentle with it...
I don't have much to say...after MTAC...I won't have much to do anymore...So I'll have to work on some new projects.
I'm looking at new summer camps to apply to...maybe I won't go to a summer camp, that's fine with me, I can teach myself some stuff that I've been wanting to learn anyways (languages).
Bye-bye for now! See youuUUuuUUuU Sunday with MTAC stuffingtons~! >:D
30 Day Music Challenge - Day 05
30 Day Music Challenge:
day 05 – a song that reminds you of someone
I was going to pick Rolling Star by YUI...but it actually reminds me more of Bleach than it does my friend...
So I chose a song that completely randomly reminds me of one of my friends. I...have this weird idea/thought/perception that Aoi (the singer) looks like my friend...and so the song reminds me of her. Why don't the other Ayabie songs remind me of her? Probably 'cause I don't like most of Ayabie's songs except for this one. I love this song to death, I'm always singing it in my head~! <333 I also love the PV for it and that they're not wearing crazy clothes! *.* Oh, but I do absolutely love it when they dress up all visual kei-y, but it's really interesting seeing them wear casual clothing! *.*
I gotta go do some work, so bye-bye! Probably not going to get on again tonight so this will be the only time...*sigh*...Hopefully I will actually finish something! TT^TT I want my costume to be done and I only have a few days left...*panics*)
30 Day Music Challenge - Day 04
It's the fourth day, right?
30 Day Music Challenge:
day 04 – a song that makes you sad
...can't listen to it...to sad...TT^TT
This makes me sad for two reasons...maybe three...maybe four (I could go on...let's just not number the reasons). This song was written by Maki Goto for her mother because her mother told her that when she becomes a singer that she wants her to write a ballad for her so they can sing together. But her mother died...I think right before or at the time of the release...I don't remember. But I don't think they ever got to sing this song together. On top of that the lyrics almost make it seem like it's a song about her mother's death or something, but it's not. Because of the lyrics it reminds you that her mother is dead, but she will still remember her...So sad...Also first time I listened to the song she ws crying 'cause of her mother...I don't know where the video is...But it makes me even more sad! TT^TT Poor Gocchin! She's an orphan at such the young age of 25! TT^TT
I actually couldn't decide between this song which makes me sad for Gocchin, or this song:
I LOVE this song, but I listened to it so much during the time of my cat's sickness and death that it reminds me of that time...so it makes me really sad...But it's a beautiful song...but it's still a sad song...despite the personal stuff...XD
And, gosh, they make that light blending look on the video like when you're crying and looking through your wet eyes. I really like that, but it makes it hard to watch the video...
Oh! And sorry if I forget to comment on any of your stuffs it's mostly that I'm so busy on my costume that I don't get on here until late so I don't have to do much stuff...>3>
I also messed up on my costume big time...well...it's fixed now...but I'm done sewing! I'm just gonna glue the pieces I have on and anything else I'm going to draw on there 'cause I'm tired of cutting and sewing things that won't work together...>.> All I did today was mess up...what a waste of a day...>.>
One more thing! I came up with this a while ago....maybe I talked about it maybe I didn't (don't remember anything). Well, after taking an animal personality test and getting a 'bat'...I thought more about it...and my skin is pale like they say vampires are, now that I apparently have the personality of a bat, and my nails are really long like a vampires, I also sleep in a vampire-like position with my blankets in the shape of a coffin (completely accidental...actually, not even accidental... unconscious....O.o.o; ...<-- woah...that looks weird...I was going to fix it...but I'm confused now...), annnd...I wear black...a lot...not intentionally, that's just all I have...O.o; (It's not in a gothic style, by the way, it's more in a business style...or how most kids say it 'office' style), and I have really huge pupils (if that means anything). So in conclusion I am a vampire! XD I just find there to be lots of coincidences.
But no, I'm not really a vampire...I have no thirst for blood, I really like garlic (just not in a large amount....anything in a large amount is bad, even chocolate, then I would be very thirsty and have sores all over my mouth), I can go out in the sunlight (without sparkling! XD)...and I can't think of much else.
Oh! I got rejected from that one thing I spent all my time auditioning for...Not that I really care that much, I can try again next year...nor do I totally like the program...they told me what they'd be doing and it wasn't all amazing like I was expecting. Most of it is just observations and...oh, we get to go outside, to do more observations...>.> I can do observations on my own time, I want to learn construction of art! >3>
I read on some website that there are two types of learning styles of drawing art. There's realism and construction. Realism is mostly observations and copying directly from what you see, construction is drawing based on set figures and stuffingtons (I seem to use this word a lot lately)...hold on...maybe I can find it..(and waste more time)
A linky!
And quote:
"-- About the schools that emphasise realism --
The schools that emphasise realism are built on the system of Bargue and partly on the system of the french academy. Their method is optical - they start by copying shadow shapes rather than constructing a figure.
They emphasise technical mastery of the materials(paper, paints, colors, glazing, varnish) and completeness of a work of art. And of course realism(realistic skin color studies and realistic rendering, perfection of still life paintings).
Weaknesses are a lack of focus on structural anatomy, construction, form, big form movement, perspective, and imaginary drawing.
These subjects might be taught as seperate lectures, but they are more or less not taught in everyday drawing.
The method is to copy in 2 dimension, make a 2-value graphical image, and then add the 3rd dimension with shading.
Sight size is in general taught for copy of drawings(bargues) and drawing/painting the plastercasts. At some schools/ateliers they also use sight size for drawing the figure.
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-- About the schools that emphasise construction --
The constructional schools are built on the sculptural drawing techniques invented in the renaissance.(Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael
The method is to built the figure or still life in 3 dimensions - using perspective. Crosshatch and planar rendering.
There is a difference in the emphasis of the individual schools, some are leaning towards realism more than others, but all are still based on 3d construction, not shape-copying.
Strength :
Understanding of 3 dimensions, (perspective) and mass. Structural anatomy, construction, big form movement, gesture, drawing and shading from imagination, preperation for clay or computer sculpting. As well as animation.
Weaknesses :
Time!!! (it takes years alone to master anatomy and figure construction) so it will not be possible to draw or paint realistically within a few years.
Works thus won't have the same completeness as in the realist system(will look constructed). Not possible to get the same technical mastery over paint and colors within few years."
As boring as construction sounds, I REALLY think I need that and I want to learn that way. It'll probably be a boring journey, but I'll learn bunches from it.
GAH! Speaking of journey! I need to write my english paper! I don't know what I want it to be about persay...probably my oriental story idea...just a random scene from in since we got words having to do with age and maturity, which can work if you're talking about fantasy stories and stuffingtons.
Well...I'll be going now! XD
