Ideas.....At 3 Am

Ideas at 3 Am... cuz I got home from work around 7pm and decided 'you know whats a good idea? Taking a nap.' No. Dumb. Dumb idea. I'm up far to late now. What has come out of this is the mulling over of ideas. I've had some ideas of comics that I've been batting around (cuz what, i'm a cat now?) and i've put some scribbles to paper.

I've been really into the idea of coming up with a story about girl scouts. I really want to use scout paraphernalia but I'm having a hard time deciding on what audience I'd want it to appeal to. I dunno. I really would like to write something for young girls to relate to thats comedic but at the same time I love adult humor so it would probably turn into something for young adults. I dunno. I should come up with a few story ideas first and see which audience it would appeal more to and then work from there.

I've come up with a new daily sketch theme. Lets see how long that will last. It's called "Everything is Science" in which I depict bluntly the fact that everything is science....because it is.....think about it....

Also I've been considering my wanting to do animations. I've always wanted to combine my love for music with my love of cartoons.....so animating to music? I've always thought it'd be really cool if i took clips of songs and just animated a character to it....I really like combining acting and feeling with the overall feel of the songs I'm listening to. We'll see....I have a lot of school work to catch up on.

What have I learned from this post? 1.) My writing skills need some serious work 2.)You can't start every other sentence with "I've" that's ridiculous....and lazy....and also 3.) I refuse to cut down on my use of ellipses. Deal with it.

Remember That One Time I Used To Like Drawing?

I used to like drawing. School killed that. I'm trying real hard to build my self confidence back up. It's hard when you feel like your only cheerleader. Life is gonna push you over but you gotta be able to pick yourself back up with no ones help right? Anyway, here is the final project from my digital painting class last semester. The assignment was to depict a forest from a well known story two different ways. Each scene had to have its own emotion. The morning scene was suppose to feel comforting and the night scene was suppose to feel threatening. I chose Snow White as my story.

I'm going to try and make it a point to post more often. It'll give me a goal and a reason to make personal art and not feel bad. I think I'm finally done feel bad for myself and now I'm just motivated.

Mid Program Portfolio Review: Aka "Great Job Amber, You Suck"

So I just finished submitting my mid program portfolio for upper division consideration and ehhhhhh. It's not great. I used my best pieces so far from the program but I know I can do so much better! I feel like a slacker and that bums me out. I submitted despite my knowing that the work wasn't good enough. But really, I submitted this semester for the practice. I'm just gonna have to work my butt off next semester!

Uggggggggh I'm garbage at graphic design. I should pick up a book on it. My layouts suuuuuuuck.

This one I added to make me feel better. Being dumb amounts of dorky always makes me feel better!

Bwahahaha next semseter! I'm going to destroy you portfolio review!

Tinkerbell mock ups

For the first 2 I figured the background would just be some sort of gradient or abstract coloring.
The last 2 I imagined as parts of a scene in a movie so the background is a specific location.
Image would be done in acrylic or gauche and would be as close to a 2d cartoon as possible.

this is how i read

Comic Book Characters

Sooooooooooo those designs didn't turn out like I wanted....I wanted Egon Schiele + Jhonen Vasquez and I got Amber.....uhhhhhh. That's not what I wanted. I hope my team likes or at least isn't disappointed. I'll post the designs tomorrow maybe. -3-

One Hour Wine

Oh! The homework! Still not even done yet! I took the day off from school today just so I could finish it all! So far I've gotten my still life underpainting done, my cover letter/resume/thank you assignment done and my four 1 hour paintings done. Still have 15 character designs to do. Ugh! I just wanna play battle block theater. I feel like my attention span has been depleted for the day.

Well, here are the 4 paintings. I had the hardest time deciding on the object to paint.....I have no interesting objects. So I defaulted to my one wine glass. Ohhhh poor lonely wine glass. He needs a friend. I ended up using coffee in place of wine and slowly depleted in over the course of the four paintings. I'm not sure if there was an improvement in the painting....I did get fast. So at least there's that. However, my shapes are not accurate. Poor lopsided wine glass!

Acrylic on illustration board