Paula Bailey's Happy Mix! Blog

Today Google has “Pac-Man” logo, in celebration of 30th anniversary of Pac-Man. This is their first interactive logo! I was surprised! And I played the Pac-Man game. Those ghosts are fast-I am determined to win by the end of the day.  Hehehe.

U P D A T E: A few minutes after posting this entry, I won the game.

Recently, I found this site which is a very good resource for model poses and anatomy.
—>www.posemaniacs.com
—>www.posemaniacs.com/blog/ (Japanese)

And there is even a way to view the poses on iPhone~!! Very good—> http://www.posemaniacs.com/blog/2008/11/iphone.php

Yesterday in New York, for the first time, I encountered and heard the experiences of hibakusha, atomic bomb survivors.

(More to come…)

A doodle I did on my Wacom. Tanoshikatta, demo…I am still getting used to it~!

I treated myself to a massage over the weekend. It was kind of painful but my understanding is it should be if it’s being done right. it had its relaxing moments though; I would do it again anyway.

more later, when I have time!

Earlier in this blog, I mentioned how I wanted a Wacom Cintiq tablet.

Well, recently, I purchased a Wacom Intuos4 Medium tablet and while it doesn’t allow one to draw on the screen like the Cintiq does, it is still without a doubt, one fantastic piece of technology. Actually, this is my first time drawing with a Wacom tablet so I was a bit nervous in making this purchase at first…I considered getting the Bamboo which is cheaper and noted as a good tablet for beginners. But on the Wacom website, they introduced this tablet as “the most popular and versatile choice among creative professionals.” And so, since I am a creative professional I figured I should use the tools meant for me. Plus, I found this awesome super in-depth User review video on Youtube. PLUS, a friend of mine just bought one herself and said she loved it! So without hesitation, I made up my mind and bought this one and so far, I have no regrets.

To practice drawing with it, I used an image from the internet of this cute character by DENTSU company, called “Mimi Bread” as reference and below is my result of drawing this cute character. (She’s one of my favorites~so cute and funny~!)

Again, this is not my character, I just drew her as practice. I have to say I am tickled by the result~! (^_^) So cute and the lines came out good. It’s just a matter of time until I am drawing my own cute characters using this tablet. Actually, that is one of the main reasons I got it. As you see in the image above, I mentioned that it took me 20 minutes to draw this picture. Not bad. But as I get better and more used to drawing with the tablet, I am bound to finish my illustrations even faster. Eventually, I can do short animations as well. With the tablet, drawing the characters for that will be more efficient as well. Yay~! (^_^)

As I just twittered, I have to go do my laundry, but I wish it was sunny outside!! >_<;; Rain, rain, go away/Come back another day~!

A funny little exchange between me and my Dad…

Me: (calling him from my room) “Daddy!!!”

Dad: Yeah!

Me: Can you make the rain stop so I can go do my laundry??

Dad: OK! Give me about five minutes!

Me: OK, thanks!!

I give a short, loud laugh and he follows with a hearty chuckle.

Hmmm…why is it people look at your website all throughout the day (and I mean, all throughout, even 2:00 in the morning) but make no attempt to contact you to comment, like, “hey, I like what I see” or “I’m interested in your work”. Because if they didn’t like it, they wouldn’t come back again and again would they? Mysterious. Heh, I am just in Sherlock Holmes mode at the moment.

Hiromi Uehara is a one of a kind musician.
I listened to her song “Spiral” more than once, as I did some drawing tonight.

すばらしい〜！

I don’t care what anyone says, I think this just looks downright funny. Hilarious even. Thank you for the good laugh, Ben Stiller.

面白い〜！（＾＿＾）