But I didn't break it, I wan't even awake yet. Mornings break early in Japan and the only time I've actually seen them do so is when I haven't gone to sleep yet at around 4.30 or 5 o'clock in the morning. Not so today though, went to bed at a perfectly sane hour (2.30 or so, sorry about the last post, late night and too much sugar).
I want to do laundry, but am prevented from doing so by PEOPLE WHO LEAVE THEIR LAUNDRY IN THE MACHINE FOR THE WHOLE BLOOMING DAY. I'm sure some of them put it in there yesterday. Nothing for it except going up again later to see if the situation has improved. Until then I will have to refrain from paying 150 yen to not get my laundry clean and then another hundred or two hundred to not get it dry. There are things about this place that I will miss not at all when I go home. Like the shower that will only be hot for another ten minutes... should I? nah, I'll wait until this afternoon instead.
Other things to do today... I should go to a Book Off and get the rest of the Berserk manga and send it home to my little brother tomorrow. I don't think it will reach him in time for his graduation anyway, but I'll send a card to tell him it's on the way.
I've started on another couple of random models in Blender that may or, more likely, may not ever get finished.
Finished colouring the Zombie sketch that Sayaka sent me a couple of days ago. I've no idea why she decided to call her that, maybe it's another example of the strange Japanese view of what's kawaii. I should upload it and show the world... the very limited part of it that will ever see this post.
Just a moment. Well actually, it'll take me a moment, you on the other hand don't really have to wait at all. Unless you're reading these lines before clicking on the link below.
So here's the "finished" picture: Zombie shrinking and compressing haven't been kind to her, but I freely admit that the main problem is my laziness when applying shadows. I really should add another layer of shadows to most of it. Right now only the hair is properly shaded, and I didn't do all that well even with that. It's been so long since I've done anything like this. Here's Sayaka's sketch. I just can't draw something like that, so thanks Sayaka for letting me mess with it.
Just to have mentioned it, I used Pixia to draw the lines and Photoshop for colouring. Pixia is freeware and has some really nice features, especially for drawing smooth lines. It's originally a japanese program, but is available in a whole bunch of languages at this point. Go get it!