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The song "More" by Matthew West really lifted me up today.
Today was really emotionally taxing for me. My one and only goal today was to finish the penciling for my last poster.With the whole family out and the house to myself you'd think that I'd be super productive. But I felt stir crazy. It's been like this all week and today was escalated.
I suppose it's pre-Japan home sickness, as I'm preparing for a trip out there in July.
So, between little spurts of drawing, I doted on my dog, visited my sister, mussed with facebook and went to a baby shower. Despite it all, I really felt kind of lonely all day. My time with people was like quarters spiraling down into the little black hole where you can't get them back and aren't satisfied with the investment. Just like that, the day dragged on and on; I wondered, is this what it's going to be like in Japan? Will I always be alone, scrounging around for someone to talk to or spend a fragment of time with? Or, on the flip side, will I just make myself so busy that I don't have time to think about people? Could I maintain that kind of lifestyle? No way... and wow did I get depressed.
Then this song plays. It says..

It's just what I needed. 

Thank you God.

As promised.

Had a funky week, but as promised, I'm uploading the work that I have done on my posters. The new camera is still a little hard to handle but I think these pictures represent the work pretty well.

I have a few more posters that are almost finished, so hopefully I'll have all of them finished and started coloring by the end of next week. Now, for the ART! That's what you really want right, what you've been waiting for so very patiently!
Okay, I'm stalling. Here you go.

More picture-less blogs.

An update on my life, in case you're so interested to read about it. Truth is, I'm just trying to become consistent in updating this blog, whether I've got something to show or not. Hopefully my charming personality and sparkling insights on life are enough to keep everyone interested, even if there aren't any pictures.

A funny thing... when I worked in the library I would always see books with cool titles and cover art and the first thing I would do is flip through to see if there were any good illustrations. I did the same thing when I was a kid and received a huge collection of old "Nancy Drew" books from my grandmother. First thing I'd do was flip through and look at all of the illustrations. Maybe you're doing the same thing, maybe you're passing by this nostalgic little chunk of text to see if I posted any pictures at the bottom of this blog. Even if you are, I wouldn't blame you. Not that you would know, since you just bypassed this whole section!

At any rate, I did get a new camera! So, this Saturday I plan on photographing the progress of the poster series that I'm working on. Each piece is coming along nicely. I'm sure you all will enjoy it!

Getting Organized

Working hard on finishing my body of work for the career concerns class! I've got the composition and content for all of the 10 posters sketched out and ready for detailing. Sadly, I can't upload any pictures because my camera is... well it's horrible to be perfectly honest.
I'm looking into getting a new camera that's good enough quality to be useful in the working arena!
I need to have pictures of my work for class, so no worries. This obstacle will soon be obliterated due to necessity! I hope you will look forward to it.

Note that on my December 21st post I mentioned scheduling the deadlines for accomplishing the goals you set. Well... I got a schedule book! I'm doing my best to be disciplined and realistic about scheduling tasks in order be as productive as possible! This way I'll hopefully stop letting all of you down. For real, you all are the most gracious audience I've ever had.  *sniff* ...........heh heh.

The Deadline... failure.

Well, I wasn't able to make my deadline. Though I have a somewhat valid excuse. My friend is visiting us from Japan and I've been working on getting our house together as well as planning and taking her places. So... my priorities somewhat shifted for the week.
However, I DID finish the base drawing. So, here is what I have.
I will start to color it next week after she leaves back for Japan.
I hope to get a lot of good work done after that.
I've learned one thing though: Take your circumstances into consideration when setting goals!
That being said. don't expect any finished work by the end of the week. Ha ha!

The goal and the deadline.

I felt it time to sit down and actually get some blog on my blog. Granted, I'm always super excited whenever I finish a picture, but I think it's important to take the time and reflect once and a while.

Upon reviewing my portfolio with Danielle for this springs Art Carreer Concern's class I realized that most of the finished work I have consists of portraits! I never thought of myself as a portrait artist, but whether it was for a class or just characters from my stories, a majority were in fact PORTRAITS!

So, Danielle picked a couple that would be good for a series, but I've given myself the challenge of making a series of posters. If the're good, I hope that I will be able to use them for the class. I told Danielle this, but my suspicion is that portraits are easier, conceptually for me, and so I think that's why I gravitate towards them for projects. To counter this, I plan on making these posters full scenes, consisting of full, or mostly full bodied characters as well as scenery and in full color!
There's the goal people! It's written and now I just have to accomplish it!

The first chapter of the textbook for the class focuses a lot on setting goals and organization. One of the steps is to write out long term and short term goals, then pinpointing requirements to accomplish them and scheduling deadlines for each. So, above is the goal people.
I will try to finish one poster each week starting today! There's the deadline. Wish me luck!

On a side note..
Here's a finished piece!