What have I been up to anyway?

Well for starters, I got my first commission outside of school. Yes that's right, somebody other than my professors and classmates liked my paintings. In fact they liked them so much they want me to illustrate an English language textbook to be used in a Cambodian High School. Yes, you read it right, Cambodia. It's a country in South East Asia, famous for traditional dances and the Angkor Wat Temple. (I really hope I'm getting the spelling right) . I'm going to start drawing a cut away of a typical American home this afternoon. (If I write it down here it'll keep me from procrastinating; honest!)

Also, I've been keeping up with my arts and crafts stuff. Right now I'm sewing up a makeup bag.
My goal is to actually sell some of the things I make this summer. Last year, I made a dozen or so decorative hair combs and ended up keeping half of them for myself and giving the other half away as Christmas gifts. That did save a trip to the mall though.

Acrylics for illustration class

yes I am still alive!
whoooo and I've been making more stuff!
so here is my acrylic techniques for illustration final

Valentines Day!

Arts and crafts are generally a solitary and contemplative activity. Of corse on this day of love and general sappiness, solitary and contemplative will easily devolve into depressing and mildly pathetic. So what are the dateless to do? Well, with a large supply of colored tissue paper and a small collection of empty and cleaned yogurt containers you and your friends can have a paper bouquet party! You can even entice your romantically attached friends to join in for a few minuets and make a pretty gift for the bf/gf , that is not only inexpensive, but displays their cleverness and dexterity. Guests without dates will go home with a lovely bunch of flowers to display on their bookshelves, wear in their hair, or hand out to family members in liu of cards.

note: thanks to Jay for showing me how to make these flowers :)

Four / sketchbook 1.2

For the record I can't stand having to admit that I'm still a college student. It has a weird feeling to it. Like stating "Hi I can drive and vote and everything but I need to spend another four years or so in a state of extended semi-adolescence racking up massive amounts of debt and awkward social experiences before I can officially enter the real world. "
but I kind of have to now since (drum roll) It's finals week! (whoohoo). which means I've been working on three projects at once for the past three days!(the horror) but I passed my drawing critique and finished that portrait for watercolor and handed in my essay on Mr./Ms. English Artist of my choice. So all I have to do is study for that Test on Thursday.
I miss sleep.
and my room's a mess and I think I accidentally put the left over Chinese food in the deli container that I kept my beta fish in while I cleaned his tank.

Quote of the day: " I don't have a facebook. I think looking up cute videos of cats on YouTube is a better use of my time" - my friend Doug
Tomorrow's entry will contain robots.

Three

Hi there again. Sorry for the recent lull in posting
To make up for it I've finally uploaded some images from my sketchbook dating from Sept.- Dec. of 2008. I think an appropriate theme could be "dreamy ladies" or maybe that's too corny. Hopefully I'll get a chance to post some more drawings before I leave to visit my lover. Tragically I could only get a plane ticket for the morning of Christmas day ( it hurts thinking about it) but I'm not about to let the poor guy spend his entire holiday alone. So yes spending Christmas morning on a long plane ride sucks, spending Christmas evening with my man totally worth it
Anyway, I happened to come across the book "Fresh Fruits" in the library. Which is amazing! I tend to get very excited about seeing people dressed up in funky costumes and the " Fruits" photo albums of Japanese street fashion have been a source of amusement and inspiration to me since high school. Course then I was more interested in spooky Gothic Lolitas. Now my taste has expanded to include frilly punk, futuristic neon stuff and twenty-year olds who want to dress like pretty magical princesses; all of which looks a hell of a lot cooler than it sounds. So yeah I'm wearing a modified Heath Ledger as the Joker disguised as a nurse costume today, even though I'm only going out to run some boring errands. Wait scratch that, I'm wearing this costume because I'm going out to run some boring errands. Also it's gray and cold and slightly soggy out so the scenery just needs more pink in it.

Random Quote: "wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes turns a dull trip back to the grocery store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp"- Patch Adams
(the real one not the Disney movie version)

Sketchbook 1

Two

Tonight was the first snowfall of the season.