Wahoooooo

8 Page comic is done! Did I say that already? I forget. Just gotta edit a few things, then I'll scan it and put it up here for you lovelies.

Today was craaazy successful! Got an A on my 9 page Romare Bearden paper, and did an okay-looking Jamie Hewlett portrait done with Corel Painter for Digital Illustration class:

LOOK AT THIS WONDERFUL MAN. Is he not the best man. <3 Actually, if you want to look at this wonderful man, you should probably Google him, I didn't do him much justice.
The portrait was really fun to do! (I might work more on it later)

Sitting here with the windows open. About to take a nap, done with tomorrow's homework, listening to Radiolab with peppermint chocolate. Feeling pretty good.

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.

Illustration Homework

6:00 AM, and I've just finished my Illustration project that's due today. HAHAH, I've outsmarted you again, time!

Except for that class I have before illustration, where I need to finish a little analysis paper.

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Swiftly putting that in the back of my mind, I give you two 'Little Red Riding Hood' Re-write illustrations. We were pretty much given a choice of two fairytales and told to re-write it in another 'style' or whatever. I feel like I could have done something way more radical (compared to the ideas my classmates came up with) but overall I decided to do something with a semi-dark neo-victorian feel -- which, unfortunately didn't come out at ALL in anything I drew.

Red was really Lizzie Borden, and she hacks up the wolf with an axe and makes a fur coat. Original.

So my initial idea was this:

A kinda simple 'first meeting' thing going on. Playing around with Sai Painter, but nothing exciting.

And then I had a week's worth of trouble developing how the final idea was going to physically make sense (angle, including everything in the picture, etc.) but I managed, after an all-nighter to pull something together. It doesn't look fantastic, but I'm proud of how I learned to deal with Photoshop. I learned a bunch last night.

I feel like it has a really successfully warm atmosphere. Except for that blood-smeared axe over in the corner there.

And now I'm crashing and I want to go to bed, but I have class in 2 hours and I know I won't wake up if I nap. This... could be a problem.

Aww man... my cheekbones hurt. I hate that.

Hay Guize

A blog! I can say I have a blog now.
Not sure how I feel about that. :B

Today I unintentionally watched two movies with Ben Stiller and Jack Black. They were both wonderfully stupid.
'S been a weird day.

So here's some art. A little old, but