Back from EOY 09. It was very fun, and very tiring. So here's the report.
Painting in the works. That would be my HDD and 358/2 days Ultimania on the right.Rushing remaining drawings of Namine, spraying sandals, making ROK's keychain, fabric shopping with Jing Ting and working ( which was quite tiring too, since the school will be closing for 2 weeks at the end of the year).
Colour pencil drawing. This one was a lot more easier to do than the rest. Buying contact lens, buying acrylic paints and spray paint ( the chrome silver was very expensive but worth every bit of money.) at Artfriend, discussing with Geraldine on what needs to be done and finished by the time she's back from Penang and rushing Namine's drawings ( I was stuck for a very long time on the pirate ship drawing.)
Collecting lens (almost 1 hour long bus trip from City Hall to Queensway; should have taken the train instead ), checking bead and strings for Olette's pouch ( the shop was closing when I got there) and rushing Namine's drawings ( No. left: 2 )
Last day of work, buying beads and strings, making ROK's keychain and rushing Namine's drawings.
Fixing Kingdom Key ( I discovered Epoxy!!!! ) , finishing ROK's keychain, doing Roxas' zip head ( I tried 5 times before getting the correct shape and was cutting the paper patterns on Saturday. Other people thought I was making snowflakes ), finishing Namine's drawings ( the stupid pirate ship!!!!!!!!), drawing Munny pouch's measurements, met Jing Ting and Pei Jun for fabric shopping ( Sora's) at Spotlight. Later skipped over to Chinatown to get miscellaneous buckles and fabric. Had something at KFC before going to BBC's Art Friend to get paint and felt. Pei Jun bought foam.
About the same as above but I decided to bind the pages of Namine's sketchbook without finishing the drawings to my satisfaction. The shop I went to bind was also binding doujinshis and I saw someone's Dissisia 2010 calendar. O.o Sprayed zip ( Riku's zip ) silver. On my way back home, I dropped by Pei Jun's house to help her with Sora's shoes.
Packed paint and materials, met Lewis in the morning to discuss his progress and problem; Geraldine passed him the wig on the way to Woodlands, Pei Jun and Sheng Yi were late ( according to the leader: the meeting time could be anything from 11 am - 12.30 pm O.O It was a GOOD idea to have lunch first then), shifted discussion from KFC to the library, Geraldine got wax and spray, split ways with Geraldine to meet Jing Ting to pass zip and get dress, went Tiong Bahru Plaza's Popular to search for DAS clay ( didn't have, like Woodlands. ), then meet up again with Geraldine at Vivocity's Daiso to hunt down misc. stuff before heading Geraldine's house. We reached about 4pm? Finished KDK's modeling and found out that I forgot to make the leaf and crown for ROK's keychain.
Upon reaching home, after a bath, I went to string up ROK's charm and modeled whatever was needed to be modeled.
Geraldine's shoes. Generally we made a mess.
2nd day of work. Oblivion is finished. Oathkepper is at the back.Not really in Christmas moo
d. Went to Geraldine's house 1 hr later than planned. Major paint work day. Geraldine finished ROB. Painted the leaf and crown. Whitewashed ROB and KDK while waiting for the paint to dry. Finished up on Namine's sandals. Tightened ROK's charm and stringed it for ROK when the leaf and crown were done. I'm sure very few people have done it as detailed as I did.
Front of ROK's keychain.
Back of ROK's keychain.
Together with Namine's charm. :)
Roxas' shoes and Namine's sandals at the bottom. That would be the wig before cutting.
Geraldine got started on spiking the wig. Frustrating job. The spikes were still rather flat after waxing and cutting. I was in and out of the house spray painting keyblades and misc. things. I only started painting detailed about 6pm on ROB. -____- Whitewashing took way too long to dry and I didn't do a thick layer. : /
Left paints with Geraldine for her to paint ROK and asked her to see me next day to touch up. I bought both KDK and ROB back for painting. Her parents were very kind to send me almost to the door by car.
Took over the front of the living room to paint. Went out in the morning to buy the candies for presents. Spent about 6 hours on ROB. I'm proud of the shading. Got SOS call from Sora in the afternoon. Kairi declared herself unreachable. Got ROK in exchange for ROB from Geraldine at about 7 pm. Spent about 4 hours painting. It was great that Geraldine gave both sides 3 coats of white paint. I saved lots of work on the handles. The spikes were a nightmare when I was blending colours. Went to bed about 1am but I think I fell asleep at around 2 am. SMSed Geraldine that the 'handle was pretty ugly.'
Woke at 7am to wrap Boxing Day presents, received SOS call from Sora, added black leather paper to KDK, added Mickey, packed everything and proceeded to solve a fixed deposit problem. I was done by 9.30am and set off. Received SOS smses from both Sora and Roxas. Called Lewis at the station to find out that he was still at home waiting for call from the two of them. I rolled my eyes and told him to come down straight.
It's weird carrying 2 keyblades on the train, even though they were wrapped. Saw a Katekyo Hitman Reborn team ( I recognized the trident. ) when I changed trains. I think I saw Stellar in full costume at Bugis. Bought a carton of milk at Cold Storage.
I was done with base makeup, clothes and shoes before Geraldine came. Then the next flurry of activity - fixing chain to ROB, putting on contacts ( I tried about 4 times before getting the first one in ), putting on wigs, calling people, collecting people. I actually 'collected' Jing Ting on the way to collecting Lewis. It was kinda funny.
Then Jing Ting fitted him, and we had to gel and style his wig also. I had to make sure the stuff were quite organized before setting off. It was like one already and we lost patience waiting for the other two. The munny pouch was bulging.
And we found them at the library. Gave them the tickets and told them to get themselves ready and went up. I was fed up with waiting.
Riku and Roxas abandoned Namine with the keyblades almost immediately at the corridor with glass panels. -_____- Maya stayed with me. I opened my sketchbook and decided to finish up the drawings that weren't finished. I bought a few colour pencils and crayons with me. But I didn't bring any reference pictures to draw from. Then the photographers came asking to take photographs. I haven't gotten any or found any yet so far. Only one photographer asked for my dA name though, but he couldn't remember what's my character name. -_-'''
King Mickey is Fezzy from sgcafe. Sora is soraminyuki from sgcafe.Roxas found another Sora though and we took some photos. Later found out she's a first timer. Hm. Her friend did Chun Li. : ) That's like one of the abysmal few characters I remembered from KoF. There's was a King Mickey too. I saw Adellexe around in Orgy coat. I don't really know him, but he's been appearing as Roxas for the past few events and even asked in the group thread; so i kind of remember him. I still don't think he made his own keyblades - ROB looks too plastic. Then, Roxas and Riku abandoned me AGAIN.
I saw mini Kakashi~ Very cute~ I found out on the forum later than the mini Kakashi and Sasuke were two little girls belonging to a female cosplayer. : ) Wah~
Roxas found a table in the cafe area, so we shifted keyblades and stuff over. Finally got a chance to walk around with Maya. Very little booths ( saw 1 KH doujinshi on sale but when Roxas went to take a look, it was sold out), a lot of people and very little space to walk. : / The stuff from the cafe were expensive. I bought a bottle of apple sparkling juice and brought out the tolberones in the pouch to share. The other Sora came by again. And the King came for some more photos. :D There was a L who came over to take a good look at Oblivion. Ha. I turned to the page when I clipped Reno and continued inking.
Lots of emergency repair work. Kairi's keyblade lost quite a bit of stuff ( it's the construction's fault ), Sora's shoe sole kept coming off, ROB's centre chain broke, Roxas broke ROK's keychain's leaf ( the keyblade dropped to the floor with a big bang and broke the leaf??!! Roxas, what did you do????? TT.TT ), one of the stars on my sandals came loose and another star lost a circle.
Taken by Jun Hui.Finally met Jun Hui at Level 2 while Roxas was meeting a friend who was doing Roxas Orgy version ( she didn't cosplay, by the way ). That was where Roxas broke ROK's leaf. We kinda got lost with Jun Hui when we reentered the place.
Roxas wasn't feeling too well anyway, with tiredness and binding. So Roxas went to sit at a friend's booth as that side is quieter. Saw Naz in an updated version of a cosplay I saw in 2006. We decided to leave since there was nothing much left to do.
The first floor was flooded with people. I found a spot so more pictures. There were quite a bit of candid pictures. We got asked by a couple of people for photographs. There were two people who wanted to be in the pictures with us - 1 Indian and 1 Japanese ( : ? because the photographer counted in Japanese ). And when we assembled to do a group shot for Maya, there were a swarm of cameras from nowhere. : o
Moved to Iluma but only managed a few shots at the top there.
Then to change back, pack and go for what I think was a well deserved dinner at LJS with Maya.
The contacts were really comfortable, and I didn't feel any pain or whatever while wearing it. The only weird part was putting it one by one and looking with one eye clear and the other blur. And that blur outline. I think my lens slipped a little a couple of times because my vision blurred. So I tilted my head and blinked to right it.
But seriously, I had no idea whether the gradually building up headache was due to lack of sleep, or the first time I'm wearing lens or both. XDDDDDD Geraldine thinks the Freshkon lens we bought were the newer kind, the sort that made to make the eye look bigger and the color more obvious. Hm.
I would love to wear it to work. But my boss would ask why am I wearing lens, and why blue. Oh well. I'm leaving the other pair ( my eyes are not the same degree) as it is for some photoshoot in June or something.
Overall, I think it was good. Quite tiring, but good.
