Some, not so much. Especially when you're trying to work in it. Blech. The average temperature in the store today was 78. And I was climbing up and down ladders and working at a pretty decent clip all day. Oh well. XD

As an update, I do love my job. There's something about getting to smell paint and canvas and get to answer art questions all day, when you're as big an art fag geek as myself. XD

Bad thing is I'm currently trying to adjust to the schedule of working 8 hours a day. So my body's like, "work? Wtf? SLEEP MOAR. TIRED BODY IS TIRED. Whetheritactuallyisornot." I feel like going to work, coming home and going straight to bed. x_x

I'm working on a watercolor right now of Le Fey from the SeraMyu musical "Transylvania no Mori". I'm excited, I think it's going to come out well. Mostly because I've had my fuck-up for the piece. I was really worried about starting the actual watercolor itself because the sketch took so f*cking long. First thing I did? Splat, paint out of the lines. But hey, it's watercolor *shrug*

Also, I found out one of the guys I work with lived in Japan for four years. Oh yeah, gonna pick his brain. >]

Well that was an incredibly random and unfocused update from Rico. Enjoy? o_O

A small rawr/grr/twitch/annoyance. I'm working on this art piece, and it's turning out a lot better than I expected it to, therefor I'm putting more effort in to it. I was having trouble getting the hair to look realistic, so I looked up some tutorials for examples. My main problem was the boards/sites/listings were swamped with photo retouching tutorials. That's not what bothered me.

What bothered me were the endless amount of photo manipulations tutorials. All the "Make your photo look like a painting!" and "make your photo look like a fantasy portrait!" I'm sure it takes a lot of practice or skill to be able to make a photo manip look convincing. But I don't consider it art, and I don't think it should be filed under an "artistic" category. Ah well.

One more small rant: How do people make it so EVERYTHING is about them. If you piss me off, don't excuse yourself by saying you said something because of your traumatic upbringing. What the hell.

IN OTHER NEWS: Yay I found steak in my freezer a little while ago. I was like "lolwut." I've been eating sandwiches for the past week and had no idea that stuff was in there. XD Fail.