i wish i had something more interesting and/or important to report

Oh man. I haven't written in here for quite some time. I'm so neglectful. :< Finished the Persephone painting that had been in the works for a little while, which I am very proud of for all its flaws and failings (surprisingly few for something of mine!).


Next time I'm working with Alizarin crimson for a more pomegranate shade. Acrylic on heavy particle board. Ignore the shitty flash that wiped out detailed shading. :/

lalala i'll post again. when i have more relevant things to say.

bummer.

Yeah, so i can't actually afford that painting class i was raving about after all. i dropped the only other class i had (couldn't afford books), and that in turn gave UMA the excuse to cut all my funding except a Pell Grant. the Grant itself was cut in half. so AFTER the Grant went in, i still owe them $583. and i SO don't have that kind of money and i know i won't be able to make enough commissions by TOMORROW to pay it, i'm gonna have to drop it.

i'm really really unhappy about this. i mean, i can get work done of my own volition, that's not the problem. i lose that setting. i lose working with a bunch of other art students, i lose that feedback and inspiration. and i lose critiques. i mean my friends on y! gal have been really good about helping me with my Thriving Ivy piece, but it's still not the same.

the plus sides here tho are: i have more time to collect/finish commissions and portfolio work of my own choosing, and that extra day could probably get me another shift at work. i'd love to be able to afford my own studio space (shared of course).

and on that note, commissions are still open. thanks, luvs.

p.s. I SEE U WATCHIN ME LEELEE.

*rollroll*

SO BORED. ugh. i HATE waiting for gesso to dry. i'm an idiot for leaving my sketchbook at home.

i'd imbibe more coffee if i didn't think it'd shut me down at this point.

oh my god, what the hell have i gotten into? starting my Painting II class today. writing this on my lunch break actually, because i'm too nervous to eat. probably should tho, considering the amount of coffee i've consumed in the last two and a half hours.

on the one hand, i'm terribly grateful to have the class. it's kicking my ass into gear to get more work done, more than the scribbles and junk i've been doing on my own on the computer. i have a large canvas back at my apartment with a sketch already worked on it, but i haven't touched it with a paintbrush yet, and it's just been sitting there since September. i should be ashamed. this class is a 300-level, my first, and i'm so done for with the amount of work we have to do for it. first project alone, we have to have two paintings done for the crit in 3 WEEKS. that's this class for planning/brainstorming/research, and then the next two classes for actual painting. thank god they're 6-hours straight and that i've only got one other class this semester. it would've blown really hard to try and juggle three other 200-level courses on top of Painting II. i don't know how other people do it.

KELSEY DOES 6 CLASSES A SEMESTER. PLUS senior project. i'd collapse from it all. i have no idea how she manages it. i'm severely impressed.

posting up a piece i've been working on for almost a week now. still very much WIP but i'm getting less angry with it lately. i learned to step back from it when i start getting pissed, then going back once i haven't looked at it for half a day.

working through it with the help of friends and fellow artists on Y!gallery. this is the only post i'll be making here about it before it's completely finished. i hate repeating myself excessively.

it's going to be a long, frustrating, and awesome semester.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa caffeeeeen and a laptoooop.

http://explore.toshiba.com/laptops/satellite/A300

4 srs, gaiz.

a la Tegaki e. not linking it yet cuz it's just got shit right now.

because there's beauty in the breaking down

Sketch dump from the last couple days between stories for CW, work and sleeping. The inking's
finished on the bookmark commissions but I can't print them just yet. Have some sketches.

This dump proudly brought to you by my obsession with Imogen Heap/Frou Frou right now.

Jyn puppuuuu. :3 if only he's as sweet as he looks here. asshole. Photoshop.


MSPaint sketch of Syl while listening to Frou Frou's "Let Go" on repeat. Imogen is my muse. It's official. She helps me in writing and art.


A more painterly sketch of Syl again. I wanted to practice a different way to color, and I enjoyed it. It makes me think and handle it in a different way than usual, and I need to break out of my comfort zone more often. Photoshop. needs more practice, but i love his colors.

Reminds me to draw the other two werewolves now. *wanders off to check on her pasta*

ting tings

One of my biggest pet peeves as an artist (and I've been told this shouldn't be one) is the fact that I can't sit down and finish something in one go. Except for things I shouldn't be working on. Case in point: the bookmark commission. I pushed myself for an hour trying to digitally ink those (not supposed to be digitally inked but I screwed up a lot of things and blahblahblahsuck) and it just wasn't happening. It wasn't clean enough, it wasn't tight enough, too thick, you know how it goes. So I put it aside and took a bit of time to play around with an idea that was bouncing around in my head and had been for a while.

I want to do sticker sets. Like sets of three or four stickers, with my own characters (and maybe fan characters later) and bits of lyrics. Each sticker will have a part of a lyric line or stanza and when put together it makes the whole lyric. So this was a demo. And I completed the bastard from start to finish in about 3 hours, including a break for homemade chicken soup (i love you, Davyn! best roommate EVAR!).



NOW WHY CAN'T I DO THIS WITH COMMISSION WORK? *fail* I'll eventually finish the other two for this set, probably in the same way I finished this. Now excuse me while I go attempt that inking again.