Hot as, well, Hell

Well, it's really humid here. Even at night, it's absolutely horrid to go out. Sometimes, taking two showers a day isn't enough. You sweat so much just from existing, even with deodorant. My summer break is nearly over and I really don't want to teach kids in these sweltering conditions.

The work is finally finished (sort of)! Let the Vacation BEGIN!
Well, my commissioned work is finally done. All I'm doing with it is making various variations to it for the commissioner to choose her fancy. It looks great and I'll post them soon onto newly, near-finished portfolio of mine. It's looking great, but the navigation isn't up yet. It will be soon, though. Someone even was perusing my stuff today and left me a comment while I was busy re-doing and re-entering all my old posts. He was from India and he liked some of my fashion pieces (the only stuff up at the time).

I'm also working on the online Sketchbook which will hopefully be finished tomorrow or the day after.

The Glico Portfolio
The Glico company basically rejected my portfolio. They had asked for whatever I could give them (a lie that is now obvious in hindsight), and I put together a collection of works I had done, mostly revolving around cartoon characters - a good choice for a candy company.

After looking at it and being impressed they said my illustrations had too much story. Unfortunately they don't understand that all illustration HAS a story, no matter how simple. They completely over-looked the characters, which is what they were looking for in the first place. They liked them, but there was too much depth...? They said I should go for magazine work. I didn't even go for them. It was my wife who pursued this.

I think they were just trying to be polite to say 'no', but the ability for Japanese people to tell you anything directly simply doesn't exist. Tiresome...

Updates
Aside from the PORTFOLIO looking good and the SKETCHBOOK on it's way, I have added two new reviews of movies: Transformers and Ratatouille which have only recently come out in Japan.

And to take a note that Transformers has come out, I searched for some ROBOTS.

Until laterz...
Mike, the RocketRat who wants to slap every Japanese person he sees right now.