froggy

My AP art comic, Silent Centipede. Reads left to right, top to bottom. Its under this cover art I made. It took an entire school year from sep 2024 to june 2025. All done traditionally with manga pen, brush pen, and screentone:)

This morning I checked my AP score results. I had signed up for two classes, AP art where I had drawn a comic series throughout the year, building a portfolio to submit. And AP Japanese, where my knowledge from the past 4 years of my studying would be put to the test. How scoring works, is its 1 - 5, 3 is passing and anything under means you don't get the college credit. Japanese I got a 2 (｡•́︿•̀｡). And for Art I got a 4 (o_O) ! I was expecting to fail my art, since I wasn't sure how anime esque manga inspired comic would be received by highly technical artists who are scoring my work. If you would like to see my comic, I'll be posting it on my art channel called Froggy's Art or something like that. I forget. This is a link to the thread here. I was feeling confident with my writing and reading, but I think I messed up on the speaking portion, I fumbled that for sure. I didn't really know what to say in regards to Japanese sports since I'm not a fan. But oh well. I was planning to take the JPLT, but I think I might postpone it. I've been studying less since I've just been pursuing other things than school. But seeing these scores really makes me reflect, with my dad I've been having a lot of conversations about what career I'm going to pursue. I'm already taking a gap year, so I can just figure something out. But really, I just want to make art, hang out with friends, and watch anime. I enjoy reading manga in Japanese and anime without the subtitles, and when I go to Japan again then I'll have skills to navigate. But in regards, to working in Japan or trying to fit in there, I don't think its for me. In middle school, I used to idealize Japan a lot. As any normal child, I've done my fair share of daydreaming. But when it comes to reality, I want to develop my art skills. Practice Japanese as a hobby, and enjoy other aspects of my life like skateboarding and making memories with people that are important to me. Pretending to be something I'm not is something I'm going to let go of. Just to reference, the area I live has a high korean population. I'm asian, but south asian. Ever since I was kid, I've had a hard time fitting in or having a community because I'm mixed and don't properly relate to my white or asian side. At my school, the korean kids always sticked together because of discrimination, but that meant I couldn't fit in with the white kids or the asians at all. I felt really left out, after giving up on trying to fit in, I just did everything in my power to be as weird as possible because I just wanted attention. (-_-;)・・・ I thought I could make my whole personality be being weird, but that also wasn't me. There are very normal things about me, liking anime is important to me like a lot of different things. I'm glad my interest has pushed me to work hard in Japanese class, and anime and manga for inspiring me to make art. In my Japanese and art classes, I've made great friends and memories. It was the best part of my highschool life, which is why I wanted to take the AP, just to see how what I learned would measure up. But the actual value of those classes was teaching me that identity is made up of tons of things, who you are changes, but the things you love don't fade away that easily. Doing what you love to is the best way to live(〃￣ω￣〃ゞ That's all!

Those enamel pins r super cute! I don't have merch. But I do have the first DVD set of Azumango Daioh, it even has a reversible cover:D

Thanks!! I rlly appreciate it

I'll post pictures of my cos if I ever do it lolz

Just vacuumed and added special effects to my art! I've been having a decent day so far. Being graduated from high school is weird because last night I went to bed at 11, and then I woke up at 11 in the morning lol. I have so much free time too! I've recently been getting back into osu, which is a three month phase I have every year or so,

Bagel with cream cheese

I have an important announcement to make! I will be opening commissions for banners and profile pictures! Profile picture is 15$ and banner is 25$. I will have three slots open, then I will close them for the month. An example of a banner I could do is my most recent artwork. A fanart of the manga of Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro Chan! If you're interested, message me and I'll send you a document containing more information:)

Crescent Moon

I stopped by the library to study Japanese, and I saw this cool dvd called MFKZ. It's an American cartoon but the studio is GKIDS. It was a great movie. About this little black guy, with his skeleton head friend. He's just trying to survive the shit in cali then the government starts hunting him down. I loved it.

My dad loves this one kdrama called Alchemy of the Soul. He's probably watched it three times over, so I started watching it with my sister. It's pretty funny!

I've always wanted to cosplay naruto, or killua. Either one of those shounen boys. Once my skateboard breaks, I'll set up one that looks like Killua's. Then just ride around in cosplay would be so cool.

I played Hot Pixel on my psp 1000 today. My friend and I got korean fried chicken and snacks from H-mart, got boba, then drove to a park. We ate lunch, then drew some anime, and I showed her how to play the game. It was pretty fun, I perfected an episode too!

Thanks!!