Finni Chang

Posted on Monday, May 21 2012.

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Sorry I always end up procrastinating on answering these! Usually I respond to non-anon asks very quickly so that’s a good way to get a hold of me. Sailor Moon pic under the cut!

Posted on Thursday, May 17 with 1 note.

Monoprice tablet (10x6.25” widescreen w/ hotkeys) REVIEW — with comparison to Wacom Intuos 3

DISCLAIMER: I was not paid to write this review.

Additional apologies for the size dimension mistake in the graphic above and below: it’s 10x6.25”, not 10x6.5”.

As many of you have seen the hype for the Monoprice tablets going around on Tumblr not too long ago, I was also extremely intrigued and purchased the widescreen 10x6.5” tablet with hotkeys for myself at an amazing price of $49.60 plus shipping. The tablet itself arrived within two days and I was eager to try it out. For reference, I run Windows 7 on a PC with Photoshop CS4 and occasionally work in Paint Tool SAI.

Posted on Wednesday, May 16 with 43 notes.

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Posted on Wednesday, May 16 2012.

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Posted on Sunday, March 11 2012.

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dragonbloodink:

If you have or will have student loans, you need to read this.
Something potentially life-changing for millions of people has happened.
On March 8, 2012, Rep. Hansen Clarke introduced H.R. 4170, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012. This act proposes that people with federal student loan debt pay 10% of their discretionary income for a period of 10 years, and then the rest of the debt would be forgiven. I’m not clear on the details, but I’m also hearing that somehow it proposes to roll private debt into federal debt so it would apply, too.
Student loan debt is financially crippling millions of people and having negative effects on the economic recovery efforts.
Suze Ormond gives a very good explanation here of why student loan debt is contributing to the economic crisis in America. Not to mention the personal cost for young people trying to start out in life with the double whammy of a poor economy and serious loan debt. What’s even less certain is how this will affect Americans for generations to come, with some calling young Americans “The New Lost Generation.”
When you can barely afford to pay your loans, you aren’t buying cars. You aren’t buying houses. You aren’t spending a lot of money on consumer items or vacations. You’re trying to scrape up enough money to pay that bill so Sallie Mae will stop sending you threatening letters.
Think what would happen if suddenly, all of the people sending most of their paychecks to student loan companies had hundreds of dollars more to spend on other things.
Think how many people would move out of their family home and get a place of their own.
Think how many people would buy a car.
Think how many couples would decide to get married.
Think how many people would be able to start saving for retirement, or be able to afford health insurance.
Think how many people would buy clothes, shoes, electronics, or better-quality food.
Think how many people would stop considering suicide as the only way out of an apparently impossible financial crisis.
And now think how all that money flooding into the economy would improve things in America.
This is one economic problem that is not going to get better over time without action. It’s actually getting worse. It’s not only students themselves suffering. With nowhere else to go, many have moved back in with families and are relying on family support. That’s making it very hard for their parents to retire.

To date, the government has done little to nothing to help out people with existing student debt, despite economists screaming from the rooftops that student loans are a bubble about to burst and when it does, it could tip the country right back into another full-blown recession or even depression. At the very least, it’s likely hampering efforts to get the economy back on track.
It’s telling when you consider where the government chooses to help. The government bailed out the banks. It bailed out the auto industry. It put in place measures to help people facing foreclosure. It’s looking at addressing credit card rules. But what has it done to help people with student loans, which – again – is now a larger problem than credit card debt?
This is a groundbreaking measure and it needs people to get behind it immediately and show their support, to let Congress know what such a relief could mean to a generation of young people struggling under a mountain of debt unlike anything our country has seen before.
I fully support The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 as a way to help stimulate the economy, remove a financial and emotional burden from millions of people, and help pull the country out of the sinkhole it entered nearly four years ago.
The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 will stop the bleeding. We need other things to happen, too.
We need representatives to call for student loan reforms to stop the problem for future generations.
We need representatives to call for colleges and universities to bring down tuition for current and future students.
We need representatives to support community and technical colleges.
We need to change the tenor of conversation about higher education in America.
We need media to start asking the hard questions about why this happened in the first place.
But first, we have to put a tourniquet on the debt that is bleeding Americans dry.
If you support this bill, contact your representatives and senators and tell them so immediately. Call them. Email them. Write letters.
For more information, check out http://forgivestudentloandebt.com/
You can track the bill through GovTrack here.
Sign the petition here!
And SPREAD THE WORD!

Anonymous asks

Cleaning out some asks from my inbox!

Posted on Wednesday, March 7 with 3 notes.

Public service announcement

Just letting people know I’ve been drowning in work lately and working super hard and therefore I have nothing to post for a while that’s not covered by NDA :( But I’m still here and alive!!

Work hard ~~party harder~~

Posted on Tuesday, March 6 with 8 notes.

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Posted on Wednesday, February 22 2012.

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$Congrats to msoule354! I’m really thankful for the response I got on the PacSet promotional text image so after they make their choice, I’ll be randomizing again to give away whichever artbook they didn’t want, so stay tuned! \o/ Thanks for reblogging~$

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Posted on Friday, February 10 2012.

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Reblog prize! Ends 2/21/12 OVER!
I’ll be randomly raffling one lucky reblogger to receive either The Art of Howl’s Moving Castle by Studio Ghibli (in the original Japanese text; 252pgs softcover) OR OXIDE 2x: Kim Hyung-Tae Illustration, the artist of Magna Carta and War of Genesis. The Oxide 2x book is hardcover, 172pgs! Both are in gently used condition.
Due to the weight of these books, the prizes are for North American tumblr folks only. 8( But if I draw an international prize winner, I’ll send them a $30 coupon for my online store.
Thanks for looking~
PacSet: Animated Spring Tour | May Festa Tour | Starving Artist Tour

Samsung Series 7 Slate review

So this image I did for Anime Conji took almost double the time it would have normally taken me for an image like that, due to making about 90% of it while experimenting on my new tablet PC: a Samsung Series 7 Slate.

For people who might be interested in a machine such as this one for artistic work, I’m giving a very lengthy thorough review with my pros/cons under the cut!

Posted on Friday, February 3 with 36 notes.

Artist Alley Resources Post!

Follow up on TMI-Tuesday! Most of the questions were about artist alley so I am compiling everything into one post. Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with any of the companies below.

Posted on Wednesday, February 1 with 208 notes.

Anonymous asked:

What do you plan on doing with your science degree? Did you take any art courses in school?

My degree will essentially be a last resort back-up plan. I’m really grateful for the experience because I’m able to appreciate the life I have right now so much more, but I don’t plan on ever going back to science unless idk my wrist falls off or nobody wants to hire me anymore as an artist.

I didn’t take art courses in college because I thought I’d get over the drawing thing, though I did take a course in high school. I’ve read some books but mostly I just make stuff up as I go along. I most definitely mess up on a lot of basics so feel free to leave me constructive critique and I’ll try to keep those concepts in mind for the next drawing I do!

Posted on Wednesday, February 1 with 5 notes.