So I came back to LA at about 9:30pm and not only was it a lot hotter, but the air was noticeably thicker ><

Seattle was a gorgeous place, really cold place, but amazing none the less. I have plenty of pictures to show and stories to tell .



The environment was gorgeous! So lush in color and the air was soooooo clean. Not to mention the beautiful rain and sudden snow. It was freezing like hell, but worth it. I sure do wish I could've stayed longer. If a job is offered there by Valve, I'll probably more than happily take it, maybe



Valve was an awesome building. It lies in a large skyscraper with various other companies, but it holds the three high up floors to itself. The interior is all Half-Life themed, and I heard the hotel in the building holds Valve themed rooms!



We got a tour of the great workplace and got to see some upcoming Meet the TF2 Cast videos as well as test the talked about Gold Rush map with other Valve employees!! OMG it was an amazing trip and all of us had to restrain ourselves and keep professional the whole time. Diego even got his Half-Life art book signed by the creator/founder: Gabe Newell. We even got some free stuff:



The food at every restaurant we went to was really good. We visited a comic store named Zanadau and took some alley shots along the way, then we went to the Pike Place Market. We wanted to visit The Space Needle, but ran out of time, and it got too cold, seeing as it was now snowing ><. Our plans to go to Digipen were cut too, they had an event going on and we couldn't go... Also, Sakura-Con was there at the convention center... but no time ><



All the things we got to do is what made this trip sooooo fun. Now I have to go finish that DomWar character and finish my portfolio

ostcount=18" DWIII-SashaP-Lilith


All images can be found here: Valve/Seattle Trip

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my younger sister
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My shop where you kind find t-shirts, bags, notebooks and more with my art on it:
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Fantastic clubs im in:

Going to Seattle Washington for a tour of Valve, the awesome game studio that created the amazing Half-Life series and many other incredible games.

I'm so excited!! This will be my first trip out of California(Farthest from Pasadena was two hours out!) and I just can't wait. The trip is from tomorrow to this Saturday, gonna be raining all that time >< But I love rain anyway just not the cold. I'll be trying to finish a lot of artwork on the trip as well.

I also just finished my 11th Term and am now on my Spring Break for two weeks. Next term is not only my 12th term, but my last term!!! I'm gonna be graduating I'm excited, stressed and nervous all at the same time! Gotta get a job and find a new house.

So Blizzard Entertainment came to my school Thursday, February 28 and gave a presentation on the game industry and Blizzard itself. They also informed us that they are open for internships and the deadline to apply was Friday(Yesterday). So I, and some of my other classmates, applied before 5pm yesterday for an internship in our desired field. I went for the 2D Illustration Internship.

yesterday for an internship in our desired field. I went for the 2D Illustration Internship.

I'm sooooooo excited, I do hope I get the internship, and if so, I'll be updating my portfolio with plenty of Warcraft inspired/themed pieces. I'll be asking my siblings for their WOW characters and draw them out in the Warcraft style. It would be such a great opportunity for me if I make it.

Aside from that, I've entered the Dominance War III in the 2D Character Design competition. It's a widely known contest and will give alot of great prizes aside from fame. Heres my entry so far: ostcount=18" DWIII-SashaP-Lilith



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Model Mayhem:
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MySpace....
Find me on MySpace and be my friend!
Art Gallery Worldwide - A lot of artworks in different styles and media. Website offers a wide variety of features and services that enable customers to buy and sell their art.
[link]

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Family:
my younger sister
my younger brother

Hubby:
My Babay!
Stock Account: ~00chalcedony00-stock

My shop where you kind find t-shirts, bags, notebooks and more with my art on it:
[link]
[link] -for more simple pics and photos i did.

Fantastic clubs im in:

So obviously school has started back up for me, and boy is it more intense now that I have this and one other term left. I have my Senior Thesis I class which has me developing a portfolio to hopefully use to get a character designing job, or at least an art related one.

Alot has happened lately, including that I've got a house! I really gorgeous little cottage like home, cozy and with a wonderful garden. Both me and Diego will be moving in the begining of March, we hope to have a House Warming party mid March to early April.

I've recently submitted a fan piece of Pepper: [link] for the Pepper Project: [link] and I really hope it gets into his book. I also am submitting to have my work in the next Ballistics Expose book. Hopefully I get in there too. I want to also submit my work to the wonderful magazine ImagineFX. All to help promote myself.

I never went to Las Vegas, things came up so I had to cancel, maybe another day. I'm very excited about moving out, and the fact that I finally have a room to dedicate to mine and Diego's collection of figurines and statuettes. But the Disney trip was fun, except for the missing of my baby.

I'm also happy my kitty, Kira, will have room to roam.

I hope Valentine's Day is good tomorrow, I plan of dying my hair a reddish brown like Miss Pasadena's: [link]

Well thats all I can remember for now, if anything is remembered, I'll edit.

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Model Mayhem:
[link]

MySpace....
Find me on MySpace and be my friend!
Art Gallery Worldwide - A lot of artworks in different styles and media. Website offers a wide variety of features and services that enable customers to buy and sell their art.
[link]

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Family:
my younger sister
my younger brother

Hubby:
My Babay!
Stock Account: ~00chalcedony00-stock

My shop where you kind find t-shirts, bags, notebooks and more with my art on it:
[link]
[link] -for more simple pics and photos i did.

Fantastic clubs im in:

Wow, so a lot has gone down since my last journal, so lets start off with... I'm out of classes for the next two weeks!(we start back up Jan. 8th) and I'm already being told to go out on errands and to clean my room.(a mess I did not make!! Not to mention I already know my friends are gonna want me to go out with them and frankly I haven;t had time to enjoy being out of school... Especially with the Holidays. I do want to spend time with people I haven't been seeing, especially family... but I also want to play games that I've been wanting too, draw and surf the web and such...

Well out of the rant and into the actually stories of the journal. Last week for one of my other classes finals, there was the "On the Spot" Competition at my school and I was one of the 5 finalist to compete.

The competition had a prior competition where every week a theme is given, which you have to design a image of sorts, for 5 weeks and then at the end of those 5 weeks, a score is tallied and the 5 finalist with the highest score go at it at a major competition called "On the Spot"

I manage to make it to the final rounds, with just one entry from the 5 week set, and then I went up against what was supposed to be 4 other competitors in a 2 round competition of a time of 20 mins each to design the theme given to us.

Round 1 "When Little Things Mean a Lot" (I know I spelled "A lot" wrong...)
20 min. I scored 4/5 points

Info HERE

Round 2 "As Time Goes By" (May have quote that wrong)
20 min. I'm not sure what I scored, but I tied and then went into a Lightning Round

Info HERE

Lightning Round "Like a feather in the Wind"
10 min.

Info HERE

And after that nerve recking event, I won. I happy but I sure do wish the other competitors showed. I won a small plastic trophy saying Awesome Job and I think First Prize, a T-shirt from the school only it's large enough to be PJ's and a New Bamboo Blue Wacom, may use it or give to my sis.

The Miss G3 competition finally ended and I won 2nd place, Miss Dayton won altogether and I'm super happy she won and that Miss Greece got 3rd! Congrats yall! My prizes are:
-3 month subscription to Deviantart
-30$ Prize Money
-Full color Bust of Runner up with a dozen roses. Winner gets to choose if she is wearing her National Costume, swimsuit or evening wear in portrait!

To see the other entries and such heres the journal link: Here

Well I'm going to try and enjoy this vacation before I begin my 2nd to last term and my senior thesis. I really hope my grades come out A's and B's... I can't wait for Diego and I's trip to Las Vegas... it'll be something good for us.

Me and my family plan on going to Disney for 3 days for New Years. I want o head to a club with my friends this Friday again, not sure though if I'll be free. Wow this is a long journal... well Thank you for reading thus far, I appreciate it!! *hug* Happy Holidays all!!

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Model Mayhem:
[link]

MySpace....
Find me on MySpace and be my friend!
Art Gallery Worldwide - A lot of artworks in different styles and media. Website offers a wide variety of features and services that enable customers to buy and sell their art.
[link]

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Family:
my younger sister
my younger brother

Hubby:
My Babay!
Stock Account: ~00chalcedony00-stock

My shop where you kind find t-shirts, bags, notebooks and more with my art on it:
[link]
[link] -for more simple pics and photos i did.

Fantastic clubs im in:

So the 3rd round for the Miss G3 Contest entry for Evening Gowns has finally started and ended. My entry can be found in my gallery, most likely my most recent submittion.

Been busy with school lately, trying to pass with grades of at least B's or better. Hopefully I can get alot of that work in for these last 2 weeks of class...

Oh my God, I'm actually starting my Senior Thesis next quarterm meaning I have 2 terms left and I'm graduating! It's been a good long ~3 years, but I sure can't wait till its over ><

I went to a club friday night with my friends and my boyfriend, Diego. We had loads of fun, and I've been trying to find a way to exercise and I'm thinking of going to the club every friday and eating good to get back into modeling shape

Alison Mann came to our school last Thursday representing Nickelodean and all their possible jobs/internships available and how to apply. They seem to have a great environment, and good Character Designer jobs, but I'm not sure whether I should work fro them, they are a kids network and that provides some limits to my art. Alot of friends and professors were telling my that I should try it out... but I'm still to unsure.

Ballistic's Publishing Company, makers of the all famous Exotique and Expose artbook series, are looking for applicants for their next Expose 6 and Elemental 3 books. I want to send in some of my artworks, but I'm not sure which. I definately want to submit my 3DS Max piece:

For a larger image and description, go here: [link]

Mine and Diego's Las Vegas Trip was moved to Jan 14th. Its not much of a problem except its during the 2 week of my 11 Term. Hopefully not to much homework, I'll only be missing out in one class though.

Gosh I wish I was modeling again, I really do miss it... maybe after school is over, I'll have time to start it back up, because I really enjoyed it. Well, I guess that's all for now, I'll update if needed but until next journal, b-bye and Thank you for reading.

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Model Mayhem:
[link]

MySpace....
Find me on MySpace and be my friend!
Art Gallery Worldwide - A lot of artworks in different styles and media. Website offers a wide variety of features and services that enable customers to buy and sell their art.
[link]

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Family:
my younger sister
my younger brother

Hubby:
My Babay!
Stock Account: ~00chalcedony00-stock

My shop where you kind find t-shirts, bags, notebooks and more with my art on it:
[link]
[link] -for more simple pics and photos i did.

Fantastic clubs im in: