Today

A life drawing self portrait that I am rather proud of.

Holy crap it's only Monday! (yesterday, at least)
For about 3 hours today I had myself convinced it was a Tuesday.
I've taken to pacing around in the life drawing room lately. It's a nice quiet place to think. I like the sound of my shoes on the wood floor.
You know that feeling where everything is in check and you're feeling solid and safe?
I feel like I've left that region entirely and am now sitting on the floor stupidly with the rest of the world flying around wildly around me in 16 million colors.

Cool artist: Parskid

Acrylic, modeling paste and tissue paper. Its a little washed out. Also, there's supposed to be some text in the red balloons, but I kind of like it better without.

Oh, and:
Ian Francis

I lost his name last week and all I had were two little printouts of his work. I found it again on some random advertisement on a random website I clicked on by accident.

Also!
I may be extremely late on this boat, but James Jean put his sketchbooks up on his website. And quite frankly, they're awesome.

Happy Monday

It'll be okay! Monday will be over soon!



Then everything will be a'ight.

Sorry for the cat only post (images gleaned from Cute Overload)
I didn't get to say goodbye to mine when I left this weekend. :'C
He's quite the hider.

I also just realized my computer clock is 5 minutes fast. Hmm.

Some things

I don't know when I thought of it, but awhile back I made a list of all the random characters I made for some reason or another, and it topped at about 20- and those are just the ones I can remember. So I decided to go through and see if I could draw them all. This was the earliest character I can remember entirely- Angela. She actually had chartreuse bangs at first creation, which makes these nasty purple bangs a bit more tolerable.

Some interesting things;

Ultimate Rejection Letter
Oil Painting Demo
Ultimate Flash Face holy shit this one is a lot of fun.
ansiform - an ambient music netlabel
Transparent Image Tape Transfer I picked this one especially for all my fellow majors since we were discussing it a few weeks ago.
Darkcopy- full screen text editing. Write with no distractions.
Play NES games online for free!!
HOLY SHIT BATTLETOADS.

I would easily kill someone for a bit of watermelon, right now.

Also there is this current stink about Orphan Works legislation. I don't know exactly what is going on here, but according to this interview with Brad Holland, if this legistlation passes, we are going to lose our copyrights, and will have to pay out the ass for other people not to lose it. I know tons of people will be like "psh, artists, who cares what happens to their stuff" but this applies to people's photos and videos of their family. You don't even have to be an artist to affected by this law. Anything you do can be just taken and used by someone else and used for their own profit. You get no rights on that photo of your baby or the picture of your late cat. Booyah!
I remember hearing about this before, and I don't know what caused this to flare up again, but I hope it doesn't pass, not purely for my own gain (hey, I guess I'm ok with having a part time job and just painting in my basement, unbeknownst to anybody but me or my cat), but because that's not cool to just have anything of yours be used by anybody, LEGALLY hands free. I can see companies and businesses failing on a country wide scale. Our economy is already in the shitter, why on earth is this even coming up as an issue. Why BOTHER?

ETA: I found a helpful article that debunks a lot of the scary myths surrounding this thing.

"Save"

For Illustration Friday's "Save" topic!

Anyone who plays Resident Evil knows they save their game progress on a dirty old typewriter. I couldn't resist throwing down some watercolors and making a wonderfully gritty and dirty old typewriter. Nom.

In other news, I'm reading I Am Legend and I can't put it down. In fact, I'm going to avoid my homework and go read it now.