Today has actually been rather awesome for me.

First of all, I got to see Expelled(that film Ben Stein made). It was awesome. Unfortunately, that's all I can say, due to site rules.

Next, my parents tried to hunt down an art stuff store. Though this one place my mom knew of was on our way back home, it was closed, so it really wouldn't have made much sense to go there. However, my dad decided to stop by a nearby office supply store. While we were there, my mom noticed that they were selling Prismacolors, and fountain pens on sale, like really, really cheap. Like, laymen such as myself could afford them kinda cheap(though my mom got them for me). So that was also fun.

When I got home, I went all crazy and started writing random stuff with my fountain pen, and whatnot. I also finished this drawing I did of the Marathon Cyborg a while back, so I'll likely post that later tomorrow.

On the subject of artwork, I've been experimenting like crazy with shading techniques, with a rather decent margin of success. I drew this one picture of an aloe-plant-ish-thing in a pot, and it's VERY well shaded. It almost looks like it was done in a vector rendering program from a distance, not to boast or anything...

Also, my entry for AC 15 is coming out very decently. As for what I'm actually drawing, it's a picture of Gali Nuva with her armor adapted to a tropical environment. I've based her mask off of her original Mata one, as opposed to the '08 version of it(which is bleh), and her armor is sorta asymmetrical, but still maintains an overall smooth, elegant, feminine shape. As for her secondary armor color, I'm thinking of making it sort of a whiteish color, with a hint of blue, or some other color, as opposed to the bleh silverish-bley color she has in the '08 version, which would probably be more vibrant.

Also, I'm actually getting slightly better with my health condition. The doctor said it's linked to stress, so he's recommended that I see a psychiatrist. The thing is, the things that bother me aren't silly little things that happened in my past; they're real world things that still cause problems, like certain issues in my life, and so on. They aren't things some one can just talk to me about; they're things that I have little control over, things that forgetting about will only make worse; things that forgetting about have only made worse. They're things I'm too afraid to speak openly about, that I can't clear my conscious of.

But other than that, I guess things are going alright...

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As for the seemingly random title, I just had the insane idea of drawing a penguin wearing "gangsta" clothing, and whatnot recently. Dunno how it came to mind, but I'll likely get to work on it after I finish my AC-15 entry.

-Ngakunui