Nice comments

"I love that you are armed with Copics and not afraid to use them.. you will pull out colors to color things and I am like sayyyy what.. then it turns out so cool looking. When I grow up.. I wanna be like you and not afraid to step out of the box and grab colors that I normally wouldn't and just play." - Tracy S

Sometimes people don't realize how much of an impact their comments will have on people, but THIS...this made me SO happy!

Copic Classes

In early 2011 I will be starting Online Copic marker classes on the CDAC. I will strive to make them universally applicable to all purposes not just illustration or crafting. They will be entertaining, stimulating and informative, and I think they're a pretty unique angle for markers.

For the most part classes will be affordable, 1 month long, have at least 1 assignment, free digital images, and a give away at the end of the class. you will receive a completion badge for your blog or website as well.

if you think you'll be interested in the classes please feel free to fill out this short form to be informed when enrolment begins.

You will not be emailed for anything but Copic classes hosted by myself.

Please help me by spreading the word to your friends for me, I'd really appreciate it!

I'll be cross posting this to all my blogs, so I apologize if anyone watches more than one blog, you'll be bombarded. 

Headache

I'm burnt out.
I have had a headache since I woke up - not uncommon.
Yesterday I worked the Frame sale (normally my day off) and while it wasn't the worst experience of my life, it certainly wasn't the best.
It was Freezing cold (I'm still trying to raise my core temperature), Filthy, and crowded.my jeans are terrifying with how much dirt is on them, I have a ton of mysterious bruises that showed up as well.
I've been working so hard. Moving boxes and stuff at mums house for her move, renovations at Opus and thne the frame sale (unloading skids, loading skids moving frames) I was moving heavy stuff for 8 days straight. Today's my day off then I have the shipment to do on Tuesday. I'd kill for a week off. SOON.

I'm also pretty frustrated with life in general. It seems like there is no one who actually listens to me. the people that should often brush me off, or ignore me - especially in the company of specific others.
Normally when someone says something that I find incredibly hurtful I will say something - despite the fact that I get LAUGHED at most times, or told I'm opinionated or over-sensitive (as if that matters in the value of feelings - they're felt either way and when someone says "you hurt me" that shouldn't just be ignored) but last weekend I said nothing. I regret it, but I think I'd regret it more if I said more at the time. I'd rather bawl in bed for 3 hours once in a while than be laughed at or ignored by the people who are supposed to love me.
Well anyway, according to them I don't know what bad times are, so what am I so upset about? I don't know. Maybe something's in my eye. That must be it.

I've been asked to host a Colouring Contest over at the CDAC so I'm working on setting that up. It will be December 16th I think. I'm also working on setting up some paid online copic colouring courses as well. That will be in the new year.
I'm debating the continuation of the Digi Stamp selling as well. I don't sell much and it's a great deal of work coming up with images for it.
I'll focus on comics  I think.
I need to organize and standardize my work for Hello, Albertosaurus soon. it's sorta... eveywhere right now.
guess I should do that now....
First, a shower to warm my poor bones.

32 days until Christmas

My Desk - Copic Cases

Don't doubt my nerdiness.

I just spent ...oh, about an hour with tape, and rubber making a Copic display case, LOL.

What I did was tape the 2 72piece hard cases together, then using Amazing mold putty rubber, I made a foot on the front of it, to be places right behind the grove where the lid sits. This makes it lean back on an angle so the markers don't tumble out.

The Various refills are 2 bins taped together but the foot isn't rubber and isn't permanent because I can't easily pull them out of there. It's not a real refill case, just a sketch marker cases. Snug.

anyway, sharing is caring.

Bummed!

Lame! my class I was going to take, The graphic memoir at Emily Carr was cancelled because not enough people enrolled.
Lame, I was looking forward to it. Well, that jsut means I'll be going full steam on hello, Albertosaurus.
Going to go make a tutorial. COPICS!

OH YA!
I Love that X-press it blending card so much, but the shipping on icopic.com is insane for Canadian orders so I sure wont be ordering through there! I tried a special order through Opus and it's the same price as the "special" price on icopic! I ordered a ream of it! I'm just stoked about that! I've already got more paper than I could shake a cat at, but I love that stuff.
I have 5 reams of Aquabee paper already and several packs of Copic Illustration paper...lol

anyway, now my Canadian friends know they can get it within Canada and if you're near an Opus location, no shipping either :)

Stormy

Jeri and Mum took stormy to the vet in Surrey on Saturday and had her put to sleep. I'm feeling pretty guilty about it since she was so sick, but she was still mobile and stuff. it felt wrong. people always say "you did the right thing". How the fuck do you know?

Anyways, I've been live streaming like crazy lately. and I figured out how to manage my library, so all my multiclip files are all playing as one file now :) It's great.

Watch live streaming video from guruubii at livestream.com

Well, I made delicious rotini casserole today, cleaned some of the carpet, livestreamed 2 different things (copics and animation). I'm going to make dinner for Jeri before tackling DIP on the film :)

Easter and copics

So I registered and paid for the Copic Certification course. Man they only give 3 days of a window to pay once you've been accepted, which is tough to do for some people. With all the holidays my money transfers have all been delayed so I had to ask mummy to use her credit card. The course cost more than I thought but my job may pay for it. Get reimbursed. We'll see.

May 30th, I'm excited.

Going to be heading out as soon as Erica calls to hang out with her today.
I've been eating Oreo's all day. I didn't realize how much I like them.

Happy easter.