THIS IS A SERIOUSFACE FOR SERIOUS ARTISTS

I have only made 4 art posts since the start of the year. Including a schoolwork one. That is less than one a month! Dayum, that's slack.




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There was some charcoal stuff from another session too but it's way too big to scan and too crumpled to make a decent photo because I had to fold it up into my sketchbook for submission. I gotta do moar life drawin'! I never thought that $15 a week would be so hard to come by though. Maybe if I'm careful I can go every fortnight?

Here is a Badfu to tide you over from the seriousfaceart:

I think he'll make an okay practice digital painting.




Next time, less serious arts and more demons frolicking in meadows! Well, not so much meadows OR frolicking, but maybe at least one demon. I already have enough for another post scanned and cleaned so I have NO EXCUSE.

As with almost (almost) every Pixar release, every artist on my f-list is just bursting with praise for Up. Well, screw you distributors because I will be hearing about how great it is until freakin' September when I will finally be able to see it. Pirating it isn't even really an option cause it won't look nearly as good on the small screen. Bah. And Coraline. Coraline! SIGH.

Star Trek was good. I enjoyed it.

Argh, gotta do more art. I could post some stuff from school but that's, eh, I'm really over last semester's work, I guess. I'll get around to it eventually. Maybe.

SMASH! is in August but I can't go. :( I expect school to get really busy for me right about then so I can't really justify spending all that money to go to Sydney AND jeopardising precious schooltime. If it was one of the other, certainly! I am willing to make sacrifices. xD

I'm sure there is a better way to photograph glass. Natural lighting would help a lot, for one. Unfortunately, I am a night owl. Even when I am exhausted and have more important things to work on.



Contact stencils all cut and ready to go. :D




One of Ath running along the side of the glass, trailing flowers and love and sharks! I hope you can make the more complicated stuff out. :/ This one had a lot of fine cutting in it that went down surprisingly well. Not 100% well though. Learning experience.


And Ferend/Ignatius. :D I like the way his wings turned out. There's some small details and lines that didn't turn out so well though. I dunno, sometimes these things seem to turn out perfectly and other times...not so hot. It's got to do with judging how rigid the contact is and whether the etching cream will manage to seep under. I'm a slacker and tend to go for it and hope for the best instead of redoing bad bits.

Four more glasses in this series of 6 to go! I'm doing the six DnD player characters in one of the first games I ever played. Nostalgia. <3 Not-so-important that all the trial and error going on will be bad but important enough that I actually care to finish them all. So. Hooray. :D Dunno what I'm going to do with the set when it's done.



As you can see in that first picture, I also tried etching some jolteons on a yellow glass but due to the way the glass had been treated (colour was accomplished through a film and not colouring the glass itself) it didn't turn out at all. :( All the cutting for nothing. The designs weren't bad though. I'll try something similar again in the future when I get nicer glass.

Speaking of nicer glass, Joey's sister gave me a very pretty little red glass sort of candy-bowl-jar thing. I have NO IDEA what to etch on it. It has to be nice! I guess fudogs is always a good choice? But then I think a gold trim would look great with fudogs and I haven't a clue in hell how to do THAT lol. Shmans, I'll keep thinking. I've also got to work out a way to seal it nicely as the lid doesn't shut properly right now. :( I'm thinking some sort of rubber addition.

I'll try to take better photos another time. Maybe there is tutorials on the net out there for it. I'll take photos and scans of life drawings and new sketches while I'm at it, too.

Whose printer just shat itself? Why, my printer just shat itself!

Handed in my "Communication" essay about an hour before it was due today. Probably the crappiest essay I have written in my life but it should still get an okay mark just because it fulfills most of the referencing/layout/grammar criteria. Seriously though, I have never argued a point so badly, hahaha. It's hard to argue a point that is obviously wrong wrong wrong. Alas, that was probably the point of the exercise.

I cleaned my room. omgosh so exciting. Also my office. Now I get to work on my resume maybe! These things are only exciting to me because they are a trillion percents better than writing bad essays.

Had a drawing assignment due last week that I think went pretty okay. With the exception of the last two tasks. I swear whoever planned out the assignment was like "Let's combine the two things Sam is worst at - perspective and vehicles, muahahahaha!" .



Organic life drawing. Eh. A big storm started while I was out at the Parklands trying to do this one.


Portrait. I think the actor is Christopher Walken? You probably already knew that though, I am the only one who doesn't recognise these people.


Still life. Of course I saw the roboraptor sitting on my shelf and though "Why, yes, it would be out of character of me not to attempt something overly complex". Would've taken half the time if I'd just drawn a bloody fruit bowl.

Also had to do some character designs based on fish and a couple vehicles but they are boring and sucky! The fish weren't tooooo bad actually but I'd definitely polish them before I used them for anything. As for the vehicles. Well. Rest assured I will be a-practicin'.




Also had life drawing on Monday which was pretty cool. I kinda like working with charcoal cause it forces me to work with form and shapes instead of just lines like I tend to do with pencils... I might post those up later if I can get decent photos.

Internet Censorship is Retarded

Wikileaks is a site for whistleblowers to anonymously report stuff. Recently the ACMA blacklist that is going to be used in the compulsory Australian internet filter our government is planning was leaked on the site. It listed about 1300 sites, including a few that really shouldn't have been on there (Wikipedia pages and a dentist's office site??). Wikileaks stated their position: that the information needs to be public knowledge because such systems are known to become corrupt over time.

The government responded by adding Wikileaks to the blacklist.

...Nice.

Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given. (via rosek)

1. Traditional Media
Yeah, I'm a traditional media person. FOR REALS. Paper, ink, paints, clay, I love em all! This is probably a result of going to an after-school art class as a child with a particularly inventive teacher lady who let us mess with anything and everything in her studio - oils, canvas, earth clay, whatever was there. I've been working with these materials since I was, like, ten or something as a result. Traditional media does not daunt me.

2. pokemans
I love pokemon. <3 The first episode of the anime I saw was the one with the Gastly and the lighthouse. It was so different to anything I'd seen before! I think I got the game after that and I totally loved that too. omg pogemans! I even have the pokemon N64. I actually made my own pokemon card game! I wonder where those cards went...

3. indie
This would be about indie comics. You know, I don't consider myself very "indie" but my boyfriend makes fun of me for being indie all the time so MAYBE I AM. 90% of indie stuff is shit but maybe 2% of it is BRILLIANT so for that 2% of indie creators I am full on gungho with my support. I can't really consider myself a creator until I properly create something though. U_U I guess that makes me 50% indie or something? That is still more than average. xD

4. Talk like a Pirate Day
Funnily enough I have never remembered to participate in Talk Like A Pirate Day! I always mark it on my calenders and stuff but I am failsauce and never look at my calender on the morning of the day in question apparently! Ugh, maybe this year. I better start practicin', aarrrrrr.

5. Gamer
I am sooo a gamer but I have so much trouble finishing stuff. I used to be able to focus on one game at oncee and finish it and BE DONE but at the moment I am partially through: Frozen Throne, FFXII, Okami, WoW, GW, HeroesV, JakII, +more. I guess I have sort of given up on JakII though cause I have no idea where I am at in that game. 75% through or something? :/ I have totals given up on Harvest Moon DS and Lost Magic too. The last HeroesV mission is a bitch so I've been putting it off. I'm really looking forward to Aion at the end of 2009 (hopefully). An MMORPG with flying and unprecedented amounts of character customisation (body proportions!) and really pretty looking art deserves support.