One session left

Finally the 6th session is over! You don't know I much I was waiting for this present day, Thursday April 26th! At noon, I was done with my last exam and just left school for the whole summer. A month and a half ago, when the mid-term exams where done, I was already eager to quit school for summer. I wanted to draw, to write, to listen to all kind of animes and read a bunch of mangas. Studying wasn't my priority. Anyway, summer vacation are starting well : I received a B+ grade for my astronomy course.

So what now?

There's a lot of things to do. I gotta work for the summer so I could afford the last session of my physics degree... and other needs like a new computer, a new bike, maybe a graphic tablet... I would also like a table like those architects use for drawing huge plans. I'd like to draw bigger, but I have no place but the floor to let me drive by my artistic instincts (did I write it right?).

I'm also eager to play Exalted, which should happen often this summer. It's been like 3 weeks we didn't fight any creepy vampires in our 1800's London-like game and I miss my character as well as the other players. And it's been almost 10 months the other Game (with a big G) is been left aside. I'm building up a new character, an Lunar archer with a jackal totem. I think I spent a good 16 hours just to complete all of her stats and still I have to create her a past and a story. Got few ideas, I'm still waiting for the approval of the Storyteller.

Now listening to Hellsing OST. I'm addicted to it!


Myriam

Hi honey, I'm home!

I think that's the first thing that came to my mind when I entered my new apartment on April 1st. Since then, Alex and I settle ourselves comfortably in our new love nest (that's a direct translation of "nid d'amour", but I think it's good). We love it! It's a huge apartment, lots of room, and close to all of our needs : grocery, subway, drug store, friends, etc. Name it, it's close. Actually, I'm just repeating myself (I'm getting old, you know, 22 years old!), I remember writing in a previous post about our new apartment situation, but never mind.

6 out of 7, I'm done with this 2007 Winter session. I attended to my last course this morning (didn't pay attention though, I was finishing my last subatomic homework). There's only 3 exams left, starting Monday morning. Then, on April 26th, I'll be free as a bird from school until next fall, to complete my degree. I have 3 courses left, including an astronomy project, a stellar atmosphere course and another course that's yet to be chosen. I'm hoping I could take a physics didactics class, trading it for a option course.

I'm still in the middle of this artistic mood I was writing about last time. Things are getting more serious as I speak about it to my friends. One of them is ready to lend me is Wacom tablet so I could try it out and another one showed me a few Photoshop tricks. I bought myself recently a pen and ink to get use to the technique (is it right to write it this way?). I'm thinking about building myself a little drawing table with a few pieces of scrap wood so I could improve my drawings on a bigger scale. Still, I can show you a recent fan art drawing I inked, Alucard from Hellsing manga. It's a whole original fan art and not just a copy from another picture. I had a hard time with it actually, got big headaches just to complete it.
I did a little modification on Photoshop to color the background. It may have worsen some details, but nothing terrible. I just have to mention that this is not the original drawing, just a photocopy I inked for a test.


Myriam