I'm in town today, waiting for a meeting with my client-through-Design-Studio at four...so I have about 5 more hours to hang around. "Hang around" will actually = tackle more of my monumental mountain of homework and projects soon, but as I am still waiting for the caffeine to kick in enough for my brain to function at it's peak, I thought I'd drop a little status update journal.
I have actually been making some progress with my homework and getting most of it done, with the help of my to-do list of doom.
My extra projects are coming along fairly well, too....I struggled horribly with the third spread in my book (first of the two images below), and it took way longer than it should have before I reached a point where I was...grudgingly accepting of it, though still not HAPPY, per say. Especially with as much I like the page preceding it, it feels like a step down. If I have time at a later date (see: post graduation) I hope to go back and fix it, but for now it will just have to do. However, on Tuesday, after fighting with that page for three-and-a-half days, I finally got it "finished" AND did the line art and base colors for the next two pages and completely finished one of those two (second of the two images). Hopefully I will get the second done tonight, and a third this weekend (I'm aiming for 3 per week, which is a LOT.)
(I think the second bear looks a little too eye-lash-y. I'll have to fix that.)
The sketches for the Gay and Lesbian Community Center that I posted in an earlier journal seem like they are really likely to fit the bill for what the center wants...which I should be finding out in my meeting later today. I have nearly finished the cleaned-up line art on one of the two and hopefully will have something good to show them today.
*Edit-->make that two of the two...look how cute and romantic:
...yeah, I have an assignment that is basically drawing cute yaoi and yuri. AWESOME.
Also, my portfolio arrived yesterday and the laser etching looks lovely, and I ordered my business cards last night. On Saturday I plan on going down to Commonwealth Press and placing the order for my screen printed t-shirts. At some time in the next few days I will order my very own shiny new copy of CS5.
And our AT&T contract finally expired, so yesterday I joined the 21st century and got a smart phone. I can now go on the interwebs from anywhere (though I really don't like the mobile facebook interface) and take pictures and play bejeweled on my phone. And text, which was not covered under my old plan and drove a few of my friends crazy. Yeah...I'm joining the 2002 part of the 21st century. I get that.
The weather has been relativly warm this past few days (and I don't mean warm for winter in PA, thus, 25 degrees...it is almost 60 today!) and the sheet of ice that is our driveway is finally melting. Though I love winter, I am kind of hoping it is over and that spring is starting early, and that when my mom comes out for my graduation next month, she will be greeted by sprouts and blooms and greenery of full spring, rather than the soggy dead brownness of early spring....but as this is Pennsylvania, I know that snow is entirely possible until Easter. I have only lived here 4 years or so and I have seen snow on Easter. So I expect that any day, a cold front will blow in and freeze us all over again. At least the driveway will get a chance to melt first.
The mountain of homework beckons, and I'm out of things to write about, except how I fervently hope that some day I figure out how to end pieces of writing gracefully. Not like this.