Home for the weekend

I don't think being home is good for me. Fills me with anxiety, and I get angry and frustrated very easily. Despite the fact that I always want to be home when I'm at school.

Computer will soon have 8 gigs of RAM. DEAR GOD.

Here, have two doodles. I'm much happier with the second one than the first.

I've been watching Porco Rosso over and over and over and over and I just can't get enough of it.

Also I just bricked my mom's brand new computer monitor. Whoops. :(

Shit I have to memorize a new year

HEY WHAT 2011

Wintersession is just. The most unhealthy thing ever conceived.

I'm stuck in another artistic rut, but the problem is that there's nothing to push me through it. I'm just kinda drifting, playing games and bar

ely doodling. I need to start a new project.

It's just impossible to get motivated in this weather.

This isn't new, but I had to post an image.

Oh and also a SNEEK PEEK of this fucking drawing that I've been desperately trying to color for a couple months now. I just kind of like these characters.

RESTLESS

I'm so ready to leave school and get a job. Well, maybe not ready artistically, but there's nothing I want to do more than go out and work. I'm making lists of game companies I want to apply to and I'm incredibly nervous and excited at the same time.
I'm sitting here with assignments piling up and just LONGING to be done with them so I can just build up a portfolio.
I'm a little conflicted, because I don't quite know which would be better for me: working on things that I like-- things that will make my portfolio better, or working on what I'm supposed to work on-- things that I really have no interest in but will make my grades better. I have a lot of trouble balancing things that use TIME, so it's very much one way or the other.
Also I need a bigger desk, dammit.

Also also: I'm listening to the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack, wishing it would come out on DVD already. The more I think about it, the more I realize that I loved that movie and how much it resonated with me. It's like: if there ever was a movie I could use to show my kids a snapshot of our generation's adolescence, Scott Pilgrim fits it to a T.

Also also also: I'm just going to keep a 'New Post' page on my screen every day. My head is completely full of things to say, and then my the time I sit down to write it, it's all gone. Guess I have to trick myself into putting things out there.

Also^5: Photoshop CS5 is THE BEST

Here's a new style I'm sort of playing with in my sketch book.

Sketchbloggy

This summer I have hardly had any time to make finished pieces, but I have been working while running my Ghibli art camp thing. I need something to reassure me that I'm doing work. So, I think this is just gonna be my sketchbook blog or summat.

... I'm assuming I haven't posted this same entry already. As far as I know, every post in this blog says the same thing.

Uhmmmmm

SCHOOL OVER

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

NOW I CAN DO THINGS I WANT TO

LIKE SPENDING THE DAY OUTSIDE DRAWING IN 90 DEGREE WEATHER

HERE ARE SOME CHARACTER DOODLES

Bioshock 2 and Other Things

I was playing Bioshock 2 and actively thinking "wow, this is really getting fun" and suddenly while taking down a Big Sister, the game froze. I hadn't saved in a while, so I lost a lot of time and effort and now I'm venting.
GRRRRRRokay.

About Bioshock 2. As mind-blowingly pretty as it is, it has none of the deliciously scary moments it's predecessor had (so far, anyway) so I'm a little put-out. But I just found out how to use a mini-turret, so the Little Sister escort missions are getting more fun and less frustrating.

There's something less charming about the characters, but I'm sure I'll grow to accept them.

Also, Bioshock 2's online multiplayer mode is FUN AS ALL HELL. It's pretty much a dumbed-down version of Team Fortress 2, except I'M WINNING ALL THE TIME. HAW HAW.

Blah blah February vacation blah.

OH SHIT new computer coming in March :B I AM EXCITE because TF2 and S4 League.

Andddd.

Some character sketches. From different sketch books. They'll be coloured soonish.

Herp a Derp

Quite Fantastic

Make sure to watch through the entire thing.

Hurr, Dethdoodles

I. Am such a sucker for Metalocalypse. Brendon Small is my hero.
I don't even enjoy death metal, but after watching all of the show, I have a fuckton of respect for the musicians. I mean - number 1, they, for the most part have a fantastic sense of humor. It seems like they would be the most down-to -earth compared to pop singers who edit their music to the point that a computer is singing or, I dunno, hipsters more into their image then music.

Number 2, they're in it for the music more than anything else. You've got to be pretty fucking dedicated to take part in death metal.

I dunno where I'm going with this. Anyway, I doodled a lot.
Guess I'm on a Deth-kick right now.

The strip is from "Dethlessons", possibly my favorite episode. Nathan just sounds so truly shocked and his voice gets all high-pitched... I laugh really hard every time.

Also, the DVD extras are pure gold. 20 minutes of Nathan reading Shakespeare... Oh God. I can't stop watching it.

X-posted @ y! by the way. Shush.

Homework

Tomorrow's illustration homework-- DONE.

It's one of Aesop's Fables, The Crow and the Pitcher.

And I FINALLY (sort-of) configured my printer so it doesn't vomit colours all over my final prints.

I feel like I'm improving in terms of Photoshop skill, but moving farther away from what I want things to look like. I think I need to play around with sketches some more...

I've been so tired lately. I slept through all of Saturday, and here I am falling asleep on my desk Sunday night. I dun get it.