Kettles.

Was feeling bad, but feeling better now. Sometimes a million things want to kick you down in one day, and you get fed up.

Today is a day for coffee with friends, cleaning my mum's house for company, doing all my laundry (and it's a hell of a lot of laundry), depositing the hundred smackaroos I got for being second place in Detour, finishing my Dracula piece, and stealing a couple of my mum's Kahlua mudslides.

Today is a new triumphant day. It's almost Thanksgiving, and I have many things and people to be thankful for. That's the whole point of the holiday, right? Oh, I forgot. Pie. Pie is the whole point of the holiday. I'm so thankful for pie. <3


It's not a lover I want no more,
and it's not heaven I'm pining for,
but there's some spirit I used to know,
that's been drowned out by the radio

They say a watched pot won't ever boil,
you can't raise a baby on motor oil,
just like a seed down in the soil
you gotta give it time.

The Arcade Fire - Kettles

1st Part of Degree Project

Here's the first part of my first final for Degree Project. This fine gentleman is Quail Dobbs, a famous rodeo clown. My Degree Project is basically a children's book (not my original idea..) showcasing different famous clowns and telling a few facts about their lives in poem-form (Lindsay's idea, which I think is cute). As per Linda's request, I'm doing the finished portraits separate from the Backgrounds, leaving more room for mistakes.

Gouache, about 5 hours. 16" x 20" or so. I'm really pleased with how this came out - I actually redrew him from my sketch instead of just transferring my final sketch (something I've become accustomed to NOT doing anymore). Either way, love him, love him, love him.

Wish me luck on the background! I'll post them both together once I've got them done. 

Hey, rich people:

My tablet stylus has disappeared. After I had my surgery and brought it to my parents' house (ugh, horrible idea), I feel one of their kittens took it and hid it and possibly destroyed it.

So visit my Amazon wishlist and buy me a new one. Or I'll make you a sick drawing in exchange.

Also, there are some AWESOME, GORGEOUS books on that wishlist, too. Christmas? Anyone? For me?


<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Going on a trip!

Third weekend in December, I'll be bouncing around Portland, Maine, spending some much-needed time with great friends, including Jared. Jared's always been wonderful to me (except that time he cheated on me and we broke up :P), but he's still one of the few men in my life who are genuinely concerned with my progress and always have something supportive to say. So we'll have some Brandy and watch Hedwig and the Angry Inch and catch up, and it will be a good time to get away after final reviews.

Go check out the movie Jared worked on and won the 2008 Audience Choice Award for here!

Doing some freelance work - not sure what yet, but hopefully something simple that I can complete without schoolwork killing me. Might even be doing some promo stuff for Chaos Before Creation (a local band from the south shore), so we'll see if anything comes of that.

I also did a couple of sketches on the train today. Here they are if you want to check them out.

Shame In You

It sucks to know you probably didn't mean as much to someone you loved as you thought. And it sucks to think that you were probably never that important to them to begin with.

I'm tired of living life alone.


It doesn't matter if you miss someone. It doesn't make everything right.


...I hate being depressed about this stuff.



When I awaken, and I'm aching, time for sleeping, yeah
When I'm saying time to go and, I've been hurting, yeah
When I'm laying, I'm still trying, concentrating on dying
Yeah

Second place, bitches.

Everybody congratulate Lindsay Small for pwning everybody in the Detour cover contest for Undercover Fish. She's my super hero!!!!

Here's her cover!!!

Go to her blog and tell her you love her!
http://lindsaysmall.blogspot.com

YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY


As for me, I got second place. But I'll take second if she's first. :)


AND YAY THE DETOUR PROJECT IS OVER
*fall over*

Sketchdump.

Today, I finished another sketchbook. It's always so sad when you get to the last page (which I never draw on, by the way, because I don't like my pencil digging into the chipboard on the back). It's like part of your life is just sectioned off in this thing, this number of pages, and you know in a few months it won't be as vital and important and, well, as good as the work you'll be producing later on. But every chapter is an important one. Sophomore year, I couldn't even finish a sketchbook in a year. Now I work in several at a time.

So here are some of my favorite sketches from my 9" x 12" (an odd size for me, because I like working in squares) that lasted me from the first day of school this semester until today.




And last but not least, a drawing I made of Lindsay on our first class of the year together. She's become a great friend to me this year, and I've admired her work and her enthusiasm for a long time. She's one of few people I'll openly admit has made my project look like crap in comparison on many, many occasions. Her love for art and her humble attitude make her one of the most lovely people I know, and I know she's gonna get somewhere in life. And I'll be right behind her.