~bronze-fan

You might have noticed that the resolutions for the pictures I put here on DA is not that great. Call me paranoid, but I've heard bad stories about people stealing pictures, an example is this: [link]

Not that I think my pictures are good enough, but I want to start the habit from early on. I felt pretty bad of enabling the DA watermark though, because it looks like it is taking the beauty away from the picture.

So here is the deal: if you feel tempted to download the picture for your own personal use, just send me a note & I'll gladly give it away if you are a friend of mine (you know who you are ).

Also, I'm thinking of opening another account for posting pictures, because the pictures & anime drawings don't seem really related, do they? I'll update you when it does happen .

p.s.: Yay! At last a journal that talks about art instead of my personal life!

It seems that things have started to turn around to the better for me. I changed my treated-like-a-slave-job to a better one since last week & starting yesterday I'm officially a permanent resident of the U.S.! It may not seem like a big deal to some people, but I've put a lot of effort into that for years that it's totally a good news for me.

On the other hand, the past week was not a good one for my loved ones. My sister had a bad work week, my husband's car was bumped by another car in the highway, & my brother got hit by another car resulting in his car totaled. Thank God he's alright.

Back to DA, hopefully I'll post something simple in the next few days. It's something I drew for one of the DA member here. Hopefully she'll like it .

This week is another new chapter in my life. I start my low paying, long hours new job, 600 miles away from my old town. It doesn't seem great, does it? Well, I don't really mind about those 2, actually, the thing that worries me is that it seems the company have a very high rate of turnover. I can just pray that everything will work out fine, as if I'm out of job again I would need to go back to my home country, which means I would live very at the opposite end of the world from my husband . But it's not time to give up yet.

On another note, this moving means that I'll live closer with my husband (100 miles distance instead of 550 ). Also, I don't have a place to live yet here in the new city. So yeah, you can consider me as homeless . With the job starting from 8 am to 10 pm (without overtime pay) & homeworks (yes, they do ask me to read books outside of work hours), I can only search for apartments or rooms during the weekend.

Art wise, just before I moved, I got a chance to go to SF. I'll post some pictures if I think they are worth posting. These past few months I really haven't got a chance to practice my drawing skills, which is very unfortunate.

Now that I've got married, I really need to focus on my job search. Do pray for me, people!

Anyway, hope that you have had a great start in 2008 & hopefully this will be a great year for all of us.

I know it's been a long time since I submit anything to DA & it seems that I won't be able to do that either for a while. Before I was so buried in my work & my wedding preparation that I couldn't find any time to practice my drawing.

Well, yesterday the company I work for decided to have a workforce reduction, which is a subtle way to say they are laying off people. I'm one of the ones who got laid off, so now I'm still a bit at loss at what to do. The situation is complicated as the company was sponsoring my work visa, which means in the worst case scenario, I might need to go back to my home country in a few months.

My friends tried to comfort me by saying at least now I get enough time to prepare for my wedding, which is only a few weeks away but still has lots of things to be done (it was hard to get things done as I was working full time & my fiance lives in a different city). Because of the wedding & my sister's graduation, my parents & other siblings will come to the U.S. & they will spend a few weeks here as well (oh, how I dread meeting my dad).

Anyway, I really hope that things will turn out better than it looks now. I'm really sorry for putting my rants here in DA, as this has nothing to do with art (other than the fact that I won't be able to submit any drawing for a while).