Is it madness?

So tonight I continued working on my Loki sculpt. I've started roughing in the other side of the face, and worked on the other as well. I really need to get a mouth on there soon because the placeholder mouth is sort of driving me nuts. I got more reference pictures and I think I'm going to resculpt the eyes because I'm not happy with them. I did some surgery on the head core since the head didn't end up in exactly the proportion I originally intended and so the core wasn't exactly in the right spot. I spent a fair bit of my sculpting time tonight actually getting that fixed up, which made me nervous because I was afraid I was going to smush his whole face on accident.


Soon you will have an entire face!

Watched the Voice tonight. I liked that the first song was Happy by Pharrell. People on twitter had said it should be Hiddles' theme song, and I like that thought.

You just keep on being adorbs Hiddles~
Plus it's a fun song. I'm not sure there was anything else in particular that jumped out at me.

I really liked the Blacklist tonight. :3

So now she knows that her hubby isn't what he seems, which should be interesting moving forward.
But the last bit with the music box and Reddington hit me in the feels. It seriously made the entire episode for me.
I really love James Spader's character. Scottie likes him too. It will be interesting to know more about why he is the way he is.

Watched Believe tonight too. Scottie said that he was impressed by the way they are pacing out the show. They're not info-dumping so much that it feels like an info-dump, but they've put a lot of stuff out there and it's only on it's third episode. Also, they've maintained an air of mystery. Also, I like the two main characters quite a bit.

Time for bed~

So tonight I worked a bit more on roughing out Loki's face. It needs a lot of work, I know, but here's the progress for today. xD


In the background you can see Loki!Pony and Lala!Pony

I also watched the first Voice battles tonight! It was entertaining. Still nobody has exactly grabbed me. I'm hoping that someone does so I can have a horse in this race. I mean, there are good singers but nobody that I really care deeply for.

I watched the Blacklist tonight. Brief ramble under cut:
It was rather interesting. It's too bad that the captured dude (I forget what his name was) that was tied to the chair didn't have Natasha's moves lol. He might have fared a bit better. The girl was way too trusting in that scene. And the husband was super creepy.

I respected the guy at the end tossing the blade to his former best friend to kill perform seppuku. If anyone caused me to lose Scottie something along those lines would be the best they could expect from me, consequences after would be irrelevant.

I really like James Spader's character.

Also, today I started a twitter RP account in addition to my regular twitter account. This was in part due to me following RP accounts, and while I could have fun talking to them I figured it would be more fun to have a full on RP account. Now, the last time I did RP in this fashion was back when I lived at home still. o_O I mean, I still RP but it's in more structured environments (DnD, Pathfinder, etc). But this is the first time that I've really done RP on twitter. I'm afraid that I'm going to do wrong things. n_n' It was fun though so far!
I've also been thinking about doing a tumblr RP blog (obviously this is something I've been thinking about), but since I spend part of my day at work on twitter as well as during my walk home it's just convenient for me.


This is relevant for reasons you don't know about, but regardless have a Hiddles~

I'm rather beat, I don't know if I'm making any sense. My walk home today was ridiculous because the snowstorm over the weekend made the trails I walk a mess, and the sidewalks mostly had all the snow off the roads just piled onto them. e_e I actually had to take a lot of detours to get around, which took extra time.

Today has been sort of a rough one. I went to sleep last night a bit late- but then because I felt unwell I couldn't sleep for at least an hour. Then nightmares were waking me up. Then at some point nearer to morning I got a charlie horse cramp in my calf and that bothered me for a while. I've spent most of the day sort of flailing around being a not terribly functional entity.

While I watched the Voice tonight I made a silly sketch because I wanted to do something creative, and so just continuing to get used to the tablet seemed like something of a plan. This whole digital art thing is strange to me still!


I had plans to work on my sculpt, or work on the actual comic that I have going... but I decided that it would be best to not work on something that I actually cared about because I was afraid I'd end up doing it harm.

The Voice had some fun music, though still nobody has really grabbed me. I do have to giggle whenever Shakira says something about hips not lying because

Hips do not lie, they do exactly what they say on the tin.
I am easily amused. xD

Also, a moose just walked by, I saw him through our sliding glass door. Well then.

Now it is time for bed, though frustratingly, it appears that the internet has stopped working and I'm currently connected via my phone. e_e

You guys, I am so excited Pony!Loki has his diadem!
First I sculpted the details:


Then I got the horns attached (which was tricky!).


I actually modelled the diadem on my design for my own cosplay diadem- just a lot smaller! Also the shape is a bit different because some of the side details wouldn't work on the pony version. The helmet is currently cooling, I just pulled it out of the oven. Of course I baked it off separate from the Pony!Loki himself, because I never intended the armour to be permantely attached- and as such have already done much of the painting. Now I just hope nothing got moved during baking so it still fits properly!

Loki needs to be fabulous of course.

I've finally gotten all of my ponies up on dA except for Pony!Loki, tomorrow hopefully I can get Loki on there too, and just keep my dA up to date. It would be so much easier to upload them in real time, I'm trying to be better about keeping that updated.

Also, so much tv tonight! There were more Voice blinds, which I listened to while I was sculpting. I really like the Voice especially to have one while I'm doing crafts. It's even less necessary to look at the tv! lol

We also watched the season premiere of Rizzoli and Isles and Perception.
For Rizzoli and Isles, I've never been afraid of clowns, but the clown on this episode was pretty creepy. Does anyone actually like clowns? I don't remember really liking them as a kid, though at least I didn't find them scary.
I was REALLY REALLY excited for the next season of Perception, and I was so happy that it was renewed for a second season. I <3 Daniel so much. x3 I also find him so relatable.
I thought the model trains were especially interesting though since Scottie has actually been talking about wanting to get into model trains.

SO MUCH TV STARTING BACK UP THOUGH OMG. lol

Still not feeling well, so here are some previously unposted photos I took of Jinafire and Heath. I thought that I might post them around now because of the romantic holiday times. n_n


Hello Darling~

AREN'T THEY CUTE TOGETHER


( More pictures of Heath and Jinafire )

I was super excited today because Top Gear was finally showing the new episode that had Hiddles as the Star in the Reasonably Priced Car!

It aired last week across the pond, but didn't show here until this week. I know that I could have found it online somewhere, but I decided to wait and watch it on tv all official like. xD
The interview was amazing too! I loved how they were talking about the Jaguar #GoodToBeBad ad campaign that he's a part of, and how he was acting all cool and collected for the shoot while up in the helicopter:
Acting:


Actual Feels:


Considering how bad I felt today, which was at least a bit better than yesterday, I was especially excited to have that to watch today! Luckily too I had the day off today because it's a holiday (President's Day).
I'm going to stay home from work tomorrow too, since while I usually am ok with just pushing through work no matter how crappy I feel, these last couple of days are not those kind of days.

I was really excited to watch the final bit of Olympics ice dancing, cuddled up with Scottie. I thought Meryl Davis and Charlie White had a really nice performance, and I have to say that I was in love with her outfit. So sparkly! Also, while I loved their performance, I had to laugh whenever her skirt would go fluttering in front of his face in lifts. What's visability? Not that it was necessary, and not that it was blocking his view for long, but it amused me anyway. xD
I also loved Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir! Their performance was really nice.
Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani's performance was a lot of fun! I wasn't sold on it when it started, because of the song choice. But then it went from the first Michael Jackson song to Man in the Mirror, which will now forever make me smile because I've heard Hiddles sing it, and shoot there is a gif of it on my journal RIGHT NOW in an entry with him singing it (Priorities I haz dem)... And then they went to Thriller and I love that song, and so I got more into it as it went. Also really liked the costume change he did mid performance. Not as good of a performance as others but I thought it was a lot of fun.
When Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalap came on I was like IS SHE THE BLACK SWAN and she was. Scottie said that they did really good, but it seemed like they needed more practice to get their great individual things to flow together, and that if they were early in their career that they'd end up being more of a threat later. And then they said that she was only 19, and he was 22, and that we'd be sure to see more of them, so he totes called that.

Also, I was just on DeviantArt. I went and poked around and noticed that people have been commenting on my stuff, and putting my stuff in faves and I had absolutely no idea. xD I've been a member of DA for more than 10 years, but for the most part I never uploaded anything until recently. I have a whole crapload of things in the notices thing that I've been meaning to clear out that have built up over those 10 years, though for some reason it didn't occur to me that was where I needed to be looking at for activity on my stuff. I felt like I was in a bubble and that nobody saw anything I put there. Not true, I was just unintentially ignoring people! Erm, oops.

Just a quick entry as holy kau it's late, but I was just so excited to start on Pony!Loki's armour. I'm starting with Loki's bracers, these will go on his forelegs. I've just done the one side so far, and I'll definitely use paint to help bring out the detail after baking. Also I'm probably going to add moar battle scarring. (Those gashes are totes intentional!) I should probably take a closer picture of the detail, but that's not going to happen quite yet. n_n'


I suppose that will suffice.


I do need a closer view, you can't really see but there is a snake in the top right corner.

This isn't the best view of what they look like for reference, but I like this anyway. *koff*


Tonight I watched curling with Scottie tonight! I think that's a really interesting sport. I just wish they didn't have to jump ahead in the game so much, we're actually interested in seeing how they get to the points where it's "exciting". xD

Also watched Lost Girl, but I shouldn't get into that quite yet.

Tonight I did some more sculpting on the Loki pony. I worked more on the face sculpt, then attached the head to the body. I did some sculpting around the neck, and also planned the ears. I didn't get quite as far as I'd have wanted to, but still- got some done!



Tomorrow I should be able to finish up the neck, then sculpt the ears and start the mane and tail. :3

In other news, Scottie has been an amazing chef lately (like he always is, but still!) Since I was sick on Sunday he made chicken noodle soup for me from scratch. It was so good! And then yesterday he made homeade spring rolls, which were amazing. I was also having a craving for spagetti last week when I was feeling the most sick, and he ran out at midnight to get spagetti and sauce so I could have spagetti. He's such a sweetie! xD I think he wanted to make sure that I was eating so that I'd be able to get better sooner.


So sleepy, I hope I'm making some amount of sense. Time for bed!

Today I made more progress on the Loki pony. I finished sculpting the legs, and set them baking. Tomorrow I should be able to finish the head sculpt, and sculpt the legs to the body. I have plans for the mane and tail that should be interesting should I go with it. Then armour. :D


Heath: Ya'know, I could bake this for you!
Abbey: Perhaps you would have use as sculpt baker.
Frankie: I don't think that's how it works guys...

I might have gotten a bit further, but we were both rather antsy so we went out for a bit. We went to the comic book store. I didn't see the next issue of Young Avengers and I'm not sure if I should be worried about that since it's supposed to have been published already... I do have a pull box but nobody ever puts anything in it. I really need to fix that. I'd be really annoyed if I missed the final issue simply because of a mix-up with my box.

Since I wasn't picking up a copy of Young Avengers, I went and picked up a copy of Journey Into Mystery #622, which is the start of kid Loki. :3 I really want to get all of those back issues!

I felt bad because the girl checking me out was asking me if I saw and liked Thor 2, and was talking to me about how she really liked the comic I was picking up, and I was feeling all flustered because of random anxiety I've been dealing with today and because I was having trouble breathing because of the tail end of my plague. Afterward I was like OMG SOMEBODY WANTED TO TALK TO ME IRL ABOUT THE STUFF THAT I FANGIRL ABOUT AND THIS IS THE TIME THAT MY BRAIN AND BODY DECIDE THEY WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH BEING FUNCTIONAL. ASDFGHLJLLKJFWHY


Anyway, the girl put a preview comic in my bag, and one of the first things that I saw was a teaser for Loki: Agent of Asgard WHICH I AM UNCONTROLLABLY EXCITED FOR. xD


I didn't get to unbox all of my new dolls today because we spent part of the day out and about, but Scottie did unbox his Operetta and I snapped a quick picture. Here she is!
( Quick picture of Operetta! )
The Dance Class Operetta has swing dancing as her theme. Which is especially appropriate, since Scottie was vice president of the swing dance club at our university. :D I also swing dance, but I don't have that distinction. I just went to the meetings and danced! xD

Have a completely unrelated gif of Hiddles dancing because I do what I want.

Here's my progress so far! I have the head sculpt started. I might change the eye shape, I sort of just doodled that on for an idea of how it would look. I also started shaping the body, and started the front legs.



I wish I had been able to get more done, but I'm still sick and apparently doing anything makes me want to take a nap. lol :P I'm planning on going in to work tomorrow though, so time to get to bed.

So last time we saw N, he was all white except for the green mane and tail. I wanted to sort of represent his outfit in his paint scheme though, so I didn't want to just have a white coat.

INCOMING

At first I wanted to try and do tovero markings to represent the black undershirt he has, but I didn't really like how it turned out. And I wasn't 100% happy with the white. Then I decided that maybe I could be a little more flexable, and then I was inspired to paint him as a buckskin. He has tan pants, so it is in the colour scheme, and then I could do some of the other black markings without him looking like a cow.



Still needs a lot of work, but he's coming along. I think I'm going to lighten the tan.

I have no idea how much sense I'm making as I should have gone to bed a few hours ago I have no idea what I'm doing