Red head bed said bread.

In case you have trouble recognizing me, this is what I look like now. I match the leaves!

First finished piece of the year (technically).

This is something I did for Roosh's Black and White Illustration class.

It's an editorial picture based on an article about uranium/plutonium-contaminated water in New Hampshire. I remember one line saying people were worried about "long-term effects."

I just wanted it to be silly and have kind of an old-school Hanna Barbara cartoon feel.

Brush and ink - I had never used it before this assignment.



In other news, I'm pretty caught up in my classwork, and as a reward to myself, I went to visit my boyfriend this past weekend. We got drunk and played cards and I beat him with his cane when he misbehaved and hung out with his family, who I adore. I had a wonderful time, and, despite doing random bits of homework before he got up yesterday and today, it was very, very relaxing. Jerry helps me to remember that life is great at present and that sometimes I need to hang on and appreciate what's around me before my head jumps to tomorrow and the next week too quickly. He's recovering so quickly, and I hope we'll be able to celebrate our one-year anniversary soon (he broke his leg on the 7th of September, and our anniversary was the 11th :( ).

So now I'm off to work on Andy Fish homework and Mister Roosh work. Boh-bye.

So yeah.

School is already making me crazy.
I feel like I have ZERO free time. As in, every day I wake up early and either go to class, go to work, or go to the studio, only to return home around 11 or midnight each night from either being at work or at the studio. Every freaking day. It's EXHAUSTING.


Though I did finish my clown doll prototype of Koko the clown. I was going to do my entire Degree Project in 3D, but upon seeing how much of a pain in the ass just one doll was, I'm probably going to stick with 2D. I think it's more consistent with my style, anyways. I'd rather make something for my portfolio that's refined and shows off my skills instead of something that's poorly constructed that I had to learn to make.

Either way, yeah, school's driving me pretty much insane. I didn't get to visit my boyfriend this weekend (for those who don't know, he broke his femur a couple of weeks ago, and he's stuck at home), so I was really sad. I mean, it was payday, so I COULD have gone to see him, but I didn't have any time between making that doll and going to work and doing other homework/homework prep and going to a sudden meeting with my surgeon on Friday. Speaking of: I'm getting surgery in the next month to get my cyst on my hand removed! Yay! I'll never have pain in my wrist or have to wear a stupid arm brace again!!! I'm so excited!!

I'm very tired - and I have to get up early to do some work (and hopefully laundry?), so goodnight.