Thanks god there's an anime CFG uwu

 

This semester I have to decide on a CFG. And I’ve got one that attract my attention since first year: “Translations and Betrayals: Manga & anime, from the comic book pages to the multimedia”.

As an Otaku, I know a lot about Anime history, But not in a Economic and Political way. It was amazing how the teachers spook about this themes, When you have a teacher who know their area and love it you can see it, and this is the case.

He tells us about how before the Second World War, Japan was on the worst. So, it decide to focus on the evolution of their technology and Animation.

Like they say “Before the rain, the sun will reapper”

By the 90’s, is where the “Gold Era” in anime began, with amazing series like Evangelion, Sailor Moon or Saint Seiya.

We learn about anime genres like Shoujo, shonen, Mahou Shoujo. Anime studios like Toei Animation and Studio Ghibli or important anime directors like Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and Osamu Tezuka

I’ve got a gut feeling that I would love this subject, and of course it’ll do, I’m an anime fan since… i’m not sure, 2005? And I’m so happy about that because I’m learning about what I love

My baby

 

I took this photo in 2020, in the middle of the Pandemic. When I started university, I went to live in an apartment in the center of Santiago, After 18 years of living with my parents, in a place that I didn’t like it so much. But when the “Estallido Social” Began, and then Covid 19, I was forced to return to that house. At first I wasn’t a problem, But as time went on, I was starting to feel worse and worse. I remember that day of the photo, I had a horrible panick attack because I had argued with my dad. And then my baby, Chiizu, went to my room, jumped in my bed, and sat next to me while I was crying. He just saw me for a while, purr to me, gave me some kisses, he helped a lot, And I’m pretty sure that he knew what he was doing, he could feel exactly how I was feeling.

When I calmed down, I went to get some tea, Camomille, one of my favorites. And we stayed there, just both of us.

I love this photo because everytime that I see it, and to be honest every time that I see a photo that I’ve took of my cat, it feel so warm, so soft, so in love. It feels like sleeps in a cloud, a soft spot that protect you at at all cost.

Our animals are souls that always will be with us. Baby Chiizu is still in my parents houses while i’m in Santiago Centro again, but I promise that I’ll be with him as soon as I can.

I prefer my way

Well, Unfornately FAU has made me feel dissapointed in a lot of ways, first, the building are not in their best condition, I have heard that they had not have a reacondition in years, and you can see that easily.

Another problema is probably the use of the faculty. Did you know that here in FAU there is machines for laser-cut? I discover it because I wanted to make handmade merch for an illustration event, if is not for that, probably I have never know that. Obviusly think that I am in design, probably if you are in Architecture you use it a lot, but this faculty is for all of us, and we need that kind of information. It would help me a lot in some subjects, probably not even the teachers know about it.

And, the most important, Teaching Methods. I am a person who is so practical. I love doing mockups, drawing, photography, and I think that in a lot of subjets they can teach us the same but with some funny plot twist, I do not want writing an essay, I do not learn a lot by doing something that I do not think that I would do in the “real world”, I need to understand what designing is, how I can help people with my knowledge and creativity, learn more of how to use Illustrator, Photoshop or InDesign, Programs that I need to manage very well for doing my job

                        -Another Illustration!-

It's a promise

Something that I really hate is hot weather. Literally it exhausts me a lot, and even I’ve got fainted because of it. So, thinking about it, probably my best summer holidays could be in somewhere is cold, or at least the weather is more regulated than here in Santiago.

So, if I think about somewhere that is cold, probably my first thought is “The Antartica”, But of course is not where I want to go haha, I can’t stand hot weather and I can’t stand super cold weather either.

I guess that the best place I could choose to summer holiday vacation probably is the south of my country, Chile. To be honest, My dad once made a promise with me of going there, because I’ve never went to the south. I’ve been in a lot of places of my country, always in north side though, Like, Iquique or La Serena, and I love those places, but I want to see more of my own culture and country, like, “the next stage” is going there. Saw Torres del Paine or visit Chiloé, a lot of people always say to me that the South of Chile is amazing, beautiful, and if I go there someday, I’ll never forget how marvelous it is. I don’t want to have such a high expectative about it, but at the same time it excite me, more than anything.

Calm

 

To be honest, I am not pretty sure about my future. I am not pretty sure if I am ready for laboral world, like, the “typical” laboral world that everyone tells you that is so awful, and it makes you anxious about, I am not pretty sure if I am ready to take care of myself, I am still feeling like I am a little girl who don’t know that to do, when I’m walking ing the Street, going to market for example, I always feel like people see me and is like “why this child is walking alone?”, it is so stressful that you are not feeling enough not even for yourself, your family and even people that literally never saw you before thing some thing like that, or you feel is like that. The only thing that I am sure about is that I want to draw, I want to express all of my feelings, I want to see the world and learn a lot of cultures, being with my cat, stay in a park, maybe with an ice cream, being with my Friends, talking, laughing, playing … I want to feel calm once in my life, not feeling guilty for doing nothing in a day or eat something that I love eating, create things with my hands, appreciate the little details in life that you can’t appreciate being anxious.

 

                          - One of my draws!<3 -

My ideal future

I’m not pretty sure about my future, but, something that I would love to do is learning more about drawing and illustration. Something that a lot of people don’t know is that this subjects is something that you are always in learning pase. How to physic and anatomy Works, how to express an emotion or a message in a drawings, color theory, how to make dynamics poses, harmonious compositions, is a BIG world for learning, and studying that probably will make me so happy not only because I love learning, because it also will make me drawing better, my dream of live from my drawing and illustration could come true, and for that kind of learning it don’t necessary need to be in a college, I can go travel through the world and draw whatever I want, or whatever that makes me feel happy, sad, or even angry. Other thing that I dream about is learning different cultures and see how other countries are and knowing people from there, so traveling and drawing, can you imagine it? Two dreams coming true <3 That is what I always ask the stars and the moon <3.

Drawing and energies

 

When I think in the future, I see a girl (Yes, a girl, because I still can’t feel me like a woman haha) who have her own studio or workshop, illustrating all day, making things with her own hands in her own printing house like stationary, prints, stickers, pins, keychains with her designs and others designs, but also designing clothes like dresses or t-shirts, and plushies, doing drawing comissions too. And in the other hand, having her own altar for tarot reading with an specific schedule for that.

I’m someone who prefers doing thing indoor, I think it’s more comfortable, but sometimes drawing or reading cards in a park, connecting with nature, meditate there hearing some birds it’s nice too. I have to mention that some people prefer their tarot reading to be in person, and even sometimes in their house, everything can be discussed, but how I’ll have some special schedule it can’t be always how the client want.

About traveling, of course! In other countries the materials for everything I want to do usually is better in quality and cheaper, like paper or fabric, equipments that I probably use to draw for example like an iPad, or a Tablet, and even the tarot or oracle decks, I’ve travelled before and I’ve seen with my own eyes that there’s a lot of more options too, in everything. And, well, who don’t want to see the world? Haha!

About numbers, I’m not pretty sure… I just want to live with complete calm, have the money to buy me things, and give to others, travel not just for work, doing what I love to do: Drawing and understand energies.

If I have the possibility of studying a Major, I would like to do something in Illustration. Because, like I said before, that’s what I want to do, I love drawing, I love connect with me in my drawings, and connecting with others by them.

Obviusly drawing need a lot of study, And if I can concentrate in only that would be amazing for me and my drawings of course. Understanding better how anatomy and physics works, character design, learn better the digital programs, etc.

Here one of my illustrations!