Filter Portrait Progress Pt. II

Prof said the other version was too much like a background and that I should put more of me in there... not sure if she knows that every part of that image is just a filter on one image... but I added more recognizable me plus a cartooned version. I like the other one better, but I definitely like the cartoon version of me in there. Much more personalized, thus much more like a portrait.

[4/9/10 update]

Ughhhh I am so mad that I accidentally overwrote my original file and saved it as 72 dpi instead of 300. I actually really liked this one. 8*****[ And I am too lazy to redo it. FFFFFF

And I want to go to Europe.

Oh I forgot to sign this one. Oh well. Quick jumble in Photoshop. Finally installed the trial version right. Ugh.

And I want to go to sleep. So goodnight.

P.S. I guess I will format my entries as Picture, then description below. Whenever I see artists post their work, I just want to know their thought/creative processes and maybe what they did. But looking at the above one, some pictures don't really require that. for the lulz.

I want to go to Japan.

Quick jumble in ArtRage. Need a better program. Need Windows. Dammit. I will probably go back to PC's after this. Don't get me wrong, the Mac is hella bomb and it is pretty user friendly... but I like personalizing and it is soooo much easier to do what I want to do on a PC. Macs hide too many things from peeps who aren't computer savvy.

Idea: Gravity Boy

When I don't sleep, I think.

The idea of gravity came into mind. Scientists still don't really know what it is, but basically, it's like the force that keeps these magnetic chess pieces standing upright on the board. [image from google]

We always have this mindset of what is up or down [ex: gravity is pulling us down]. But what if you could control which "direction" gravity goes in?

THEREFORE:

Gravity Boy and his friend, Paula, otherwise known as gravity [she keeps her secrets so well that scientists don't even know how she works!].

Gravity Boy doesn't defy gravity, he... manages it? Or he works with it/her. I've done some sketches for it... but they're not very clear. What I want to portray is gravity changing "directions" so instead of falling down, maybe you'll fall to the left or 28 degrees to the right. 

In the following image, see how he is falling down... then gravity shifts [just for him] and so he is actually falling to the left now. Yayyyy it's like he's flying. But really just constantly falling. What a terrible feeling that must be. Hm. 

Most likely this will be stuffed into my file of stories I will probably never finish lol

Among those in more recent times...

• a reversal of gender roles in wartime
• everyone gets drunk within a certain tolerance radius of a girl, so she becomes friends with a really big guy because he has a pretty high tolerance to alcohol... but alcohol hurts your body just the same, whether you feel it or not.
• how we would live our lives if we didn't know/acknowledge death/mortality
• a film about the ends of movies that is really long and boring that seems like it'll never end and then ends abruptly #trolling
• lessons learned from driving
• a lesbian woman or gay man [originally had it woman, but iono. Never developed story enough to decide] who is only attractive to the opposite sex [I'll just conveniently put an ad in right here... can't figure out why the banner html won't show up. Lame.] 

Sketches and a Happy Birthday to Lebedeff

[Fyi: You can click on the images for larger versions]

Here are some sketches I've done in the past month.

This one is a gift/card [I guess? I don't really do gifts or cards. Just pictures. lol] for my geeky friend, Lebedeff, who is probably getting crunk on Space Mountain right now hahaha

Done with sharpies... ffffff Being home sucks. There are seriously no writing utensils with good ink in them except for one sharpie lol We have some pencils, but no erasers. Sigh.

I came up with this one last night. Just ballpoint. I would really like to make it into a painting, maybe a series even, if I can figure that out.

Just a quick pencil sketch of an overplayed idea I've had swimming around in my head for a while. 

I am Facebook, Twitter, and the Internet. 

A friend referred me to a Facebook group called "Fuck College, I wanna be a Panda" and there are some pretty legit panda facts on there. I wanted to illustrate them. Here are the first two in red sharpie.

Legit, right? The PandaBear Jew [Inglourious Basterds reference if you don't get it]. Oh, I guess I didn't scan the 2nd one, but you can kind of see it imprinted on the back of the one above lol E'splodin pandas = party pandas! Okay, that wasn't really what #2 was, but it's basically the same thing.

Sketched these last night because I am a sad and pathetic creature and I couldn't sleep and I needed sleep to go to the Jelly Belly Factory for the first time with a friend today... ended up not going because, well, I didn't get any sleep and I feel terrible. ALSO, accidentally set my alarm to the Pokemon Theme Song instead of vibrate, so I woke up to the theme blasting in my ear, which caused my heart to race so fast that my hands were shaking. Bad omens. Sad panda. I really wanted to go to the Jelly Belly Factory 8[

Oh yeah, and the bottom part of all that below the line is obviously from this morning. I am Garfield, the fat, orange, lasagna-loving, dog-kicking cat.