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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

the News I mentioned before

I'm preparing for the Society of Illustrator's show. I'll submit what I can. I can't promise winning anything spectacular but I want to be at least prepared to meet art directors that will be present. That means I have to get some kind of fancy list of contacts if I were to, ahem, put myself out there.

That means business card and some kind of website. I still only have my Behance but now I made a Facebook page as well. It's super new so it's quite bare at the moment, but it's there and up for messages from anyone who also has a Facebook.
So please, check it out here!!→  ★★★★★

Now that this blog is connected to my more legitimate sites, I think personal and non-art posts will have to cease eventually. I want to change the layout for the site as well. That will also come eventually. 

I hope you all have a fantastic New Year. This has been quite an eventful year for me; I've had my soul-crushing downs many times, but I've also had some really nice experiences I thought I could never achieve. It really only feels like it was yesterday when I was writing a similar new year's post.

 Don't lie, you know after a while New Year's feels exactly like this.

I won't be available for contact after this point, so onwards, to 2014!! 

Sunday, December 29, 2013

back to basics

Not sure why, but this blog title reminds me when I had actual TV and would watch Barefoot Contessa at that time of the day when I get bored, almost everyday. Anyways.

I'm certain I didn't get to talk about this guy yet, but I consider him one of the reasons why attending SVA is worthwhile for me. Because I know nothing about my own art, my other instructors told me, based on how and what I like to paint, I would benefit greatly from taking a technique class taught by a maestro of portrait painting.

I enjoyed this class so much. There is not one time when he speaks and I don't stick my nose into the business, and I leap out of my spot in excitement whenever he has a painting he made to show as examples on how to improve what we can do. It wasn't difficult but keeping up with the methodology is necessary. This is a early to mid-noon class but once you start, you don't stop and results can be surprising.
Unfortunately I have a children's book illustration class overlapping this class and because my career is steering more that way, priorities, priorities.

Well, here's a 90% portrait I did, done at the end of the semester.

I also have a full-body painting as well.  
**Careful, there's nudity beyond this point. 

Thursday, December 19, 2013

the unfamiliar ceiling

So recently, I caught the cold my sister had and it was the most exciting week ever; if one considers being barely able to talk and being  generally all around uncomfortable exciting.

Winter break's finally here, but thanks to some circumstances I think there's no way I can enjoy it. I'm just so anxious thinking about things and over-thinking more things. Just how vulnerable am I supposed to let myself be and not get hurt?

Well anyways. I fully enjoy the amount of metal CD's my school's library carries. Not sure if SVA gets the CD's via donations or what, but if that's the case, I want to know who's that awesome fan who's kind to spread the metal love. And it's just not CD's of the Big 4 and something lame like Slipknot; there's genuine stuff, such as Death, Sepultra, and Dio.
I totes picked up this Mastodon piece for looks. 

And because I did want to take advantage of Coastal Scent's Black Friday 50% off everything sale, I got my rear into gear and got me concealer that I really needed, and decided to throw in a spanking new set of brushes. I love Coastal Scents and their great prices!

I really haven't been posting as much artwork as I would have liked. I've been neglecting everything: schoolwork for non-school work and housework for schoolwork. Of course there's personal issues as well. I suppose hibernating can temporarily solve these problems but at the end of the day, it just proves that I'm not as responsible as I think I am, haha.