Heaven and Earth

 

This picture represents Heaven and earth. 

I was laying in bed one time and was thinking about my life, how blessed I am where I am right now but also how hard it has been. I have been going to therapy to help with my problems, and I think everyone that has just the smallest problems should try therapy, but that's totally up to you. I know that I got to the point of my life that I needed help, so therapy has been a miracle to me. 

But anyways, therapy has taught me a lot of things on how the mind heals and such. I am a religious person so I have experienced very spiritual moments during my therapy sessions. I have painted a few paintings about what I experienced but I'm only going to share this one because it is sweeter and I think it could apply to anyone.

I am swinging with a tree branch and a light rope from heaven, representing that I feel heaven around me while living on earth. The tree is a vision I had of me being buried in dirt and can't get out until a tree blooms up out of the dark and blossoms. I am sitting on the swing with two eggs, it's hard to see that but I am, the two eggs represent my kids. 

I am swinging with my kids, and it feels like I am heaven. 

There's more to this picture but that's all I will say about it. I just want to mention how I am so close to getting Sweet and Sour book 2 done! I am still making my goal that by the end of April I'll have it done and then take a short break and then get into book 3 and hopefully book three will be the last. It might possibly go to four books, but three sounds good to me.

Like I have explained many times before this was a test runbook for me, it was supposed to be a short story, but with my other stories that I hope to do will be a lot longer and it will be great!! I've been rewriting one of my stories that I have already finished drawing years ago, it took me five years to finish and I want to recreate it. Still have the same idea but add here and there. It's always good to rewrite a story for I feel like it gets better each time.

There was a time when I was 13 that I wanted my first ever story that I have ever written to be published. It was called The Lost Fairy. It started off as another comic book but I wanted my older sister to draw it for she was a better artist than me at the time, but when she wouldn't take the time to draw it for me I decided to do it and...I did a few pages but felt like I was doing a terrible job so I tried typing it. 

Typing was hard at first but it did get easier over time and soon enough I was a pro at typing. I would pass my typing class in a snap. I was that good, and still am, well now let's not talk about how bad my grammar is, my English is terrible. But I can type fast at least. Hehe. 

The Lost Fairy book was my project during my jr. and high school years. I would finish the book and then decide to start it over. All the way over. There would be times when it got erased by accident or didn't save, but I would rewrite it over and over again. The last time I rewrote it I find it perfect...well maybe it was, honestly I have no idea what happened to it, it could be lost on my parent's computer but who knows. I just know that each time I rewrote it, it was different but yet the same and I got better and better at telling a story.

My sisters would read it and would critique it for me. The main problem I had was telling it in the present or the past tense, for some reason that was a big struggle. And even though I am a little better at it, I still struggle with it. I am not a great writer, no not one bit. But I do love making stories and that's what I want to do for the rest of my life. 

High Adventure Music Video

 

OK, so something cool happened last week. 

My older sister has been telling me how she's been wanting to a music video to this song by Aladdin broadway version and I've never seen this musical before, (I've only seen the cartoon and real-life one) but never the broad way one.  For a few months she has been wanting to do a music video to that song and she and other siblings of mine have decided they are ok doing it, and I enjoy making music videos so I was totally cool with it, even though I have no idea what this song was. 

When the day came that we wanted to make this video I felt so unprepared for I didn't really listen to the song, and had a few months to listen to it, but I never really did! But in the end, it turns out really great! I played the part of Omar who is funny and I think it turned out perfect since I didn't know the song well I just acted dumb the whole time. It was fun, and it has been a long time since we have made a music video. We use to do them all the time growing up. 

You can check it out here.

So you know how I've been talking about Sweet and Sour book 2? 

You don't?

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Well, I have been. I have finished the first book in 2019 and been working on the second book since. I am so close to getting it done!! So I have decided to get it done by the end of April! I have no idea if I can make it, but I feel like I should because once book 2 is done, then I can get book 3 going and then get this story done! 

It's a short story for sure, but I have enjoyed making this story. It could be a very long book if I wanted to, but I honestly want to get started on my other books that are my favorite. Sweet and Sour are still good, (at least I think so, maybe it isn't for others) but I didn't want to make it a long story, I originally just did it for practice because I had no idea how to draw on my Wacom tablet Stirling. Now that I do know how to use it, I want to be one of those authors or illustrators that published so many stories before she reached the age of 50. 

I am almost getting close to turning 30 and it freaks me out that I haven't published anything yet! 

It's my dream, my reason to live!

No, not really, I am still happy being a mom...most of the time.

Once Sweet and Sour book 2 is done, I will do a quick edit myself and then post it here, but want a better editor to look at it for I know that my grammar is terrible. Just terrible.  My English has never been the best, and I'm sure just by reading my blogs you would agree with me because I tend to not write very well. 

That's all I guess I'll have to say to this blog. So I'm just going to post random pictures that I have done in the past.

Tears of Joy

If you haven't seen the Among Us video by Ebb & Flow Gamerz, I highly checking it out. Here's the link. It is pretty good, I got to play with them along with another sibling. If you don't know, I edit Ebb and Flow videos and I am the one that is called Poe and my character is the Flamingo with the sunglasses on. Tatoe is the penguin that played with us as well. It was a lot of fun playing with them, hopefully, we will play with them again soon.

Making these videos are fun and I am happy doing them. But it can also be stressful for I got so much going in my life that when I do their videos I need at least three days to do one. For I have to watch thru a video they send to me, cut some parts out, make notes on what to animate, animate, then edit it again putting the animations in the video. It takes a lot of time, that's why I can only do one video a week. I don't know how people post a video daily, that just seems so impossible for me.

There were a few videos that I made that only took me a day to do because the video was easy and simple. But most of the videos I need at least three days to complete.

Besides that, I am getting really close to finishing Sweet and Sour book 2, once I get it done I'll do a quick edit myself and post it on my blog here. I'm already drafting the third book and it's getting really intense, I cannot wait for it to be done! This book has a very good message and I wanted it to be a short series for I want to focus on other books, but I am happy with Sweet and Sour I do love the characters and the plot and hopefully others would too.

And besides that, I have done more colored requests. Here below are what I've done, I only colored them, my friend drew them and got paid on each one. It's not much but still something.

Naruto

Vampire girl

I actually don't know what this show is called. I've seen small videos about it and the only thing I know is that the ladybug girl likes that cat boy.

I got an iPad Pro Air. Yep. I did. I have debated whether or not to get a Ipad or a new laptop for the longest time, I did a lot of studying and decided to get the iPad pro air. I couldn't get it thru amazon for some reason, I got everything else, the pen, the case, etc. But the actual Ipad, nope. So I did go to Best Buy and told the salesman exactly what I wanted and of course, he was trying to get me to buy something else, but I kept persisting that I just want the IPad Pro Air 4th generation. He showed me a laptop that was nice, but "no" I said, "I want the Ipad Pro Air 4th Generation," so he finally pulled it up on his computer and saw that they had one in stock, and added a pen and a black magic keyboard to go with it. And I said, "I already got a pen and case, all I need is the Ipad Pro Air 4th Generation," he did gave a curious look and tried to convince me to get this certain pen and keyboard, but I already spent money on what I need now all I need is the iPad pro air fourth GENERATION!! He finally got it from the back and I paid it and got out of there.

That was fun.

 I got MedibangPaint Pro on my Ipad and tried it out. It was different but got used to it right away.

The picture below is the first picture I did on it, I named my iPad pro air Dimitry, inspired by the game Fire Emblem Three Houses.

 

This picture is called Tears Of Joy, for I received some news that made me so happy, overjoy, overwhelmed, so exciting, so thrilled that tears rolled out of my eyes for five hours. I was truly happy. I don't know if I should share what the news was for I've been keeping it quiet for over a year now. But, for now, it did give me great joy, and never been so happy and relieved, so I decided to draw how I was feeling at that moment, and I was wearing a headband with my hair up in a bun. The person I draw represents me on how I was feeling and wearing at the moment.