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So like... this alien that raised me in the Australian wilderness is really upset that I say "I" a lot on my blog, therefore revealing my true identity. It gave me some pretty valid guidance on how I should change my ways.

The secret is that since you never know who is stalking you on the Internet, since you can never believe anything on the Internet [which is a subset of real life; something along the lines of "virtual reality"], and since you can never trust anyone [not even your parents probably], you ALSO have to lie on the Internet! 

You must conform and contribute to all fallacies and falsities! True, it may be at the point where you can't tell the difference between TRUE and FALSE, TROLL and... LOL? Really, even if you tell the truth at this point, everyone will think you're lying. REGARDLESS, you must lie. Do it in real life, too, so that no one can ever figure out your weaknesses and who you really are. SO THAT NOTHING CAN HARM YOU because, as we all know, having no identity means you can be a high-skilled government assassin and BLOW. SHIT. UP. 

This is my contribution to the Internetz.

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Also, new layout because blogger updated their generic design templates. fart.

Also, fyi, I want to be a children's book illustrator. Perfect, I know. :3

Today's Class Society

I don't know if I brag a lot about my art because... iono, there's not much to brag about, but I have to sound confident or else no one will have confidence in my art... if that makes any sense. And I don't consider having a website dedicated to my own art bragging... it's marketing. lol Which, I suppose in some sense, is a form of bragging. But I have to put myself out there somehow or die, right?

Two girls sitting in front of me. I hate those chairs. They are stupid designs and not much of an improvement from the regular stool.

Our assignment was to draw 21 thumbnails [3"x3" or so] consisting of a mixture of abstract, figure, and landscape with the seven principles of design [harmony, balance, variety, etc.]. 

Then we had to choose one to develop into a 9"x12" image consisting of all the principles of design. 

My image got cut off slightly [there's more to that IV bag at the top left, although not much to care for] in the scan, but I'm pretty satisfied with it for the time I spent on it [about 1.5 hours]. The idea has been floating around in my head for a few days. My friend works with a bunch of nurses that always seem to be doing things wrong or not caring to do things right, and we were talking about nursing homes a while back... and how old people always go to nursing homes to die. Because you've pretty much given up at that point. No one cares about you, or at least they don't have the time or money to do so. It's America. It's fast-paced, impersonal, and selfish. What can you expect? Anyway, that's that.

And then the second part of the assignment was to take a 4.5"x6" piece of the previous image and blow it up into a 9"x12" image. Personally, I thought this was pointless, but whatever. It's supposed to widen your capacity for creativity. 

More Current Projects

Some say it's good to have numerous works in progress going on so you can switch from one to another again and again when you get burned out on your current project. 

This one is a long board for one of the residents. I haven't done anything to it, so don't think I'm amazing. I think I'll have to scratch out a lot of the paint, paint some acrylic on there, and then put some kind of gloss over the whole thing. Hopefully it'll stay on. I'll have to do some research. 

This one is a gift for a friend that I disguised as a class project to kill two birds with one stone lol. It's oil on regular canvas. For this project, we were learning how to glaze with color like they did in the olden days. However, by the time we started glazing, I hadn't finished my painting yet, so... I didn't use glazing as much as I would have liked to. I will definitely keep it in mind for future paintings.

The concept is: What can vegetarians do when vegetables attack? My friend is a vegan and she's really against killing animals and stuff... but what about if vegetables turned into living creatures like animals? And what if they were violent creatures? Would vegetarians and the like kill or be killed?!?!?! WHO KNOWS. 

Really liked my professor's advice on painting some of the broccoli dudes and then swiping them with a cloth while the paint was still wet in order to create a sense of motion. However, finding a light source is super difficult. At first, I wanted it to be similar to an old retro advertisement for a monster movie, so I thought maybe there would be a camera flash on this photo... but then in the background, my light source is coming from somewhere to the right... so I had to change a lot. All of these progress photos are of the painting after I drastically changed the light source on the woman from the left to the right. What a pain @_@ 

This is the most current version. Still got to work a lot on it. My favorite part throughout all of this is the spaceship... I don't know why. 

Lessons learned thus far:

1. Always have a reference photo [which I don't.]
2. Always do a preliminary sketch to figure out composition and light source, etc. [which I did not.]
3. Always give enough time for the paint to dry completely or else you risk scratching it off unevenly with another layer of paint. 
4. Learn to draw boobs