Change of Design as of April 2012

Holaaa~

It's been... exactly one month since I last changed the design! The "Warmth Momoiro" theme was first seen on the 19th of March some time before 7.44pm. It is now the 19th of April, not 7.44pm, but who cares. :P
I deem it is time to change it, as I was getting bored of seeing the same design on my blog over and over again. :P

So yes...!
Open your eyes to this change of appearance!

P.S. The design this time is a little rushed, mind you, but I don't have much time, so let's just leave it be (the background's a little too dark for my liking). Off to work now then~

Skip Beat! Chapter 168

Finally, I got to read this chapter after putting it off for a bit.

That shower scene had me cracked-up laughing. >O<

But the first thing I'd like to voice is how much the art has improved. It's more clear and draw more... abstract now, which is something I like. ^^ The chibi-versions have always been my favourite part of the mangaka's art style, and there happened to be quite the amount in this chapter's, and the background was drawn quite well, too.

Maybe it's just me, but the scans this chapter seems to be better than usual, too. :)

After all, good chapter, a relax from the Cain Heel arc and going back to Kyouko acting...
Looking forward to the next chapter now.
I also need to re-read the Cain Heel arc over again, since it's hard for me to make sense of things when there's a big gap between chapters. ><

New Design > "Warmth Momoiro" Theme

Was what I had in mind, but seeing that I have no artistic sense...

It just so happens that my least favourite colour of all time is pink, but I'm currently telling myself that this... is not pink. It's peach! ...if that's even a colour. Naaah...

Well, just making a post to commemorate the change, that's all. :3

Ja na.

White is Supposed to Mean Purity or Something Similar Otherwise

Okay.

After reading this post, I was finally bothered enough to try out the New Blogger Interface.

As I clicked the button, I was suddenly overcome with... such whiteness. 
I was seriously taken aback at all the whiteness, seriously.
Apparently, this looks "clean" and "stunning/beautiful", whatever word they used on the Google Explanation Page.

I was surprised by its appearance, seeing that Ruby Mae complimented it.
Then again, I have no artistic sense and my sense of aesthetics is either weird or abnormal.

It felt... so... empty.
And emptiness is not good for someone suffering from Depression... I wouldn't think. :/
Gives me a "voided" sort of feeling. ==

It's easy to navigate around, obviously, once you remember to go the right way and click the right buttons. ==
I also like this "Create a New Post" look that I am currently on at the moment, too. ..although I think it still contains too much white. There should be some contrasting colours!! ><
I like how I won't ever scroll too far down or too far up and misses the text box. :3 (You'll know what I mean if you've used both versions. ...I think.) Very conventional.

I don't really like the new Dashboard design, however.
It's really hard to make out the different lines/links and stuff. I prefer the old one for this part, however I guess it also allows me to never miss new blog updates once I log in. ==

I like the features in the "Information/Settings" page you get directed to once you click on your blog, too.
But still, it's too much white.
Don't misunderstand what I'm saying. I don't have anything against the colour white. I quite like it, actually. It's just that it's too much of the same colour. And that makes it a bit hard to... see where things are...

Ugh. I hate explaining things that are... hard to explain. :/

And I'd just realised - the white also gives of a glare... one of that is opposite to what you'd get from staring at a page with a black background and white writing for too long and too much. It doesn't hurt your eyes as much, but I can currently see a bright strip of whiteness in front of me. :/

I prefer convenience above appearance, after all.

Oh well. I'll leave it like this for a couple more days.
If it doesn't work, I change it.

No big deal. :/

New Design Again :)

Wheeee, another change even though it hasn't even been that long yet. ><

I get bored with colours easily.

So it's back to blue.

Originally I wanted to go light green, but there isn't a template that's green and I can't be bothered changing the colours, I went with the blue instead. It looked decent. ==

I wanted this one to be... nice, relaxed... and... peaceful...
...after writing that post, that post, and that post. And many other posts out there.
^The above is intended to be unlinked. >.>

I wanted a font with has a... "round", "cute" feel to it...
The main font used is called "chewy", one that I've liked for quite a while but never got down to using it.
To me, the most important thing in the design is that it's easy to read. And this chewy font is pretty decent.
The Blog title is in a font called "permanent marker". xP Isn't that cool??
And the post title is in a font called "Indie Flower". ...and it's in BOLD, FYI.

But with the design being nice and relaxed and happy, it doesn't actually mean that I won't write pessimism and depression filled posts anymore...
(Damn, when I type "depression", it sounds really serious. Way too serious. More serious than "pessimism" sounds, at least.)

The World is Stopping me From Obtaining Happiness

This post was written in the December of last year. ==

There aren't many things that I really really want right now.

One of them being a G-Pen.

...I just want to try really drawing proper manga for a change... even though I'm still not that good at drawing!! ><

You see this?:

My friend one day came back from going to Brisbane:
"Hey, Mage-chan! I went to [this random store] and they had manga pens that you say you wanted!"
(They actually weren't what I wanted, but I want them anyway.)

And then she told me that was going to go to Brisbane, like, next week or something, so I was like:
"Then buy the pens for me."

On the day that she was supposed to buy them, she texted me, in this wording; "Umm... Mage-chan, here (there were several different stores she can get them from) there are colour shoujo-shonen set. Do you want them or the b n w?"
Me: "Both...?" I thought that having both would be a good idea although I dislike colouring... maybe I'll feel like it someday, plus, since there's a chance to buy it, I have to take the advantage of the opportunity.

But because of that text message, I knew to re-position my hopes to its lowest point.
And I was not disappointed. >.>
I got the colour shoujo set,

instead.
But without the Black pens, I can't actually draw any decent manga, so... I'll have to wait...

And then around a week later, she came up to see and said brightly, "Hey, guess what? G-chan got a G-Pen for Christmas!" No puns intended, G-chan is my friend's friend.
Me, "Ah... hah..." *thoughtful look* Dude... are you doing this on purpose!? Are you trying make me unhappy!?
Then she adds with a teasing-sort-of smile, "Are you jealous, are you?"
Me, *smiles thinly* Confirmed. She's doing this on purpose...
Then we abandoned the conversation. :/
(It was during work and she had to go serve some stuff)

Yeahh... my life doesn't really suck, but I don't exactly enjoy living, so I can't really say much...

Anyways, there's no way in hell I'm putting anything I draw up on the internet. It's too... well, it's not downright "terrible", but... naaah.
Maybe one day when I can be bothered to take a picture/scan it. (< that's actually my real reason... Laziness.)

But I guess my computer and fast internet alone is enough to make me happy at times. And by that, I meant MANGA.
One of the several things that are (probably?) stopping me from committing suicide. :P

Meh... I don't have any intentions of committing suicide anyway. Baaaaad karma.

So I'd Changed it Yet Again

This time we're back to the original colour; orange. :/ Although it was orange for only a short time before I changed it to blue; most of you probably have never seen it or can't remember... or can vaguely remember.

I'd changed it because white on brown really does hurt your eyes; especially more so because my latest post is extra long. ;)

I changed from of fonts as well; since this time the page gives off a vibrant, cheerful feel, I decided to change some of the more sophisticated looking fonts.

I also changed the layout since it looks better and is easier to read this way. x)

Very cheerful-looking, indeed. ==

New Design :)

So I changed it... >.>
...if you hadn't already noticed. But I bet you did. Unless you're colour blind or something of the kind.

It's brown. ==

I was getting tired of the constant blue; everything was blue. It was all too much blue.
...My smiggle pencil case is also blue. Plus my flexible ruler. :/ ...among many other blue things in my possession.

Anyway, I decided on brown simply because it looked nice. I just clicked on a random template, and then pick on of the colour themes.
It looked nice, so I just went with it. ==
> White writing on a black background really... flares against your eyes. It's painful to read... but what about white on brown? 8D

After that I readjusted the page and changed the fonts.

I usually try my best to make my pages easy to read; that's why last style was in "Arial" font and this time in "Verdana" > they're both standard extremely-legible fonts, but using Arial again would be a repeat, so I had to pick something else for the sake of un-repetitiveness. >.>

The "Quote" thing isn't anything new; it's been up for about two weeks or so now, except I added a couple new quotes today. I thought it would be better up the top where people actually notices it. It was down the bottom before. ==
I wanted the 'Quote" thing to be on the left side for unknown subconscious reasons, so I made it have two columns, one on each side...

And yeah, blah blah blah...

Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh