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feeling: eyes are tired
listening to: Due le Quartz - Warning
Just turned this song on for the first time, not even a minute into it, and already I'm hooked. Ooooooh.
Either I have loads of inspiration but no motivation to act on it, or I'm all motivated to act but have no inspiration to act on. Currently it's the latter. Every day for the past couple weeks or more, I've pulled out my folder and sat there staring at incomplete drawings or blank white pages, pencil in hand, wanting to do something cool but having absolutely no ideas. After anywhere from 3 to 45 minutes (give or take...), the folder goes back to its little nest and I return to staring at the computer screen like the zombie I am.
Of course, sometimes I actually have both motivation AND inspiration, one greatly outweighing the other but nevertheless both present... just no time to act on it. Whereas at one time I was worried that my sister-in-law's decision to kick out my brother would mean I'd have very few chances to see my nephew from then on, it actually seems like he's here twice as often as he was when his family was still whole. He still seems to think he's "Becky's boy," but the fact that his daddy is staying with us too eases the load on me quite a bit. He still demands me when daddy's at work, but at least I'm able to slink off to my room and get some things done now and then. Whereas before I couldn't escape his field of vision for more than 10 seconds without him either starting to whine or starting to follow me.
One of the biggest motivations I've had lately is to do BLOOD fanart. But I don't want to do anything that I might actually consider showing/giving to them until they unveil this new image they promised would come in July sometime. On the other hand, Fu-ki's birthday is August 20, which means at my normal rate of working on art stuff, I'll be lucky if I can finish what I was planning to make for him in the short time I have. Then, of course, I started having second thoughts about that plan and thinking it might be better to try something else... but... arg.
...Ok, since I doubt anyone reading this cares much about BLOOD anyway (except the one, of course :3), I'll describe my idea. Maybe I can get some opinions. *hint nudge*
So I wanted to make him one of those little dangly ornament-type things that you hang on a cell phone. Originally I wanted to make one of the Fukigen mascot, a character I know Fu-ki really likes... but then I thought maybe I could do one of Fu-ki himself, either just the head or an uber-chibi type thing. And that thought led to the thought of maybe doing the same thing for Kaede and Kiwamu also, when their birthdays roll around. I also thought it'd be a good idea to send a second little someting along with each, so that way I could still do the Fukigen mascot dangly too and send Fu-ki both. But I'm afraid the other guys wouldn't be surprised after Fu-ki gets the one of him; especially Kiwamu, whose birthday is the last of the three (November). Once he sees Fu-ki and Kaede get theirs, he'd know his is coming. So I thought, eh, I can hold off on the cell phone danglies and plan to give them to the members all at once, either for Christmas, in a fellow fan's collection for a gift project she's organizing, or at the next convention I see them at. Which, assuming I can actually attend, will be in February. But if I do that, it probably wouldn't be a great idea to send the Fukigen one next month.
So basically, now I'm thinking I'll go ahead and plan on sending the personalized danglies for their birthdays along with another little cool something just so everyone will get SOME kind of surprise... and if in the next few weeks I change my mind and decide to give the danglies all at once instead, it won't make any difference. Except I'll have them ready (or in the making) so I'll be prepared ahead of time. However, two roadblocks remain:
1) I refuse to start the personalized dangle-charms until I've seen the band's new look, which may end up leaving me with a week or less to start and finish Fu-ki's. AND to come up with a second/altenate gift for him. T_T
2) I want to do SOMEthing with that Fukigen mascot, even if it's not a cell phone dangly. (I just now found out, by the way, that they DO make those... but I have no idea where to buy them, and even if I did it'd probably be too late to order one and send it to him. >_<;;) But I don't know what else I can make out of him besides either a keyring or cell dangly charm. THIS is where those opinions would come in handy. :P Anyone have any ideas what kind of gift I could make in the visage of this character? I'm open to just about anything... get creative if you must >.>
So that's the plan, such as it is. Time is running out and I have no idea what I'm doing... whyyyy don't they hurry up and show me that new image??? At least then I could get the personalized danglies done as defaults >o<
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 7/20/2004 12:03:00 AM
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