so if you haven't checked out my latest deviantion you haven't heard my wonderful news. i'm now attending academy of art university! yeah me! well actually i'm staff over in the expiremental stop-motion animation lad, but who cares i'm taking classes and getting paid. i'm only taking two classes cause of the work thing, figure drawing and perspective. i really wanted to take clothed figure drawing but by the time i was able to register for classes the actual class was completely full and they only had one opening for the online course. and i just thought that would be way to pathetic of me to take an online course when frisco is only a hop skip and a jump away. plus it would be a total waste of money seeing as how these classes cost a freakin mint!

but my perspective class is pretty cool. i think my proff is showing all of his students final projects to get us motivated or something, but it only depresses me cause i'm not nearly that talented. i mean i know i can get down the whole perspective thing on buildings and the likes, but when it comes to adding people and animals and making it all choc full of awesome and stuff i just fall flat on my face. but here's hoping.

i'm planning on being more motivated this semester and get more of my stuff up on deviantart, i just wish more people would comment on my stuff, but i understand, i don't comment on everybodies stuff not even on 90% of the people i watch.

anyways my goal at taking some academy classes is to boost up my portfolio and get into academy's 2D MFA program next semester. Man if i can just get into that and get some hardcore ejumucation on i might have a shot at a rockingly awesome job after graduation. they have so many companies coming here like every month giing presentations, recruiting students, it's great. but unfortunatly i don't have that demo reel thingy they all seem to want.

slap hands, slap hands!

i know it aint much compared to the million+ peps out there but i still think it's so cool that like 1,000 people have stopped by. making my new years resolution early, i'm gonna do my best to draw like every day and add a hell of a lot more pics up here. having said that i now have the mollah to buy the ubiquitous wacom tablet intuos3 *oh joy* so that i can really start getting into using thos freaky hard bezier lines or whatever the hell they're called. not to mention i'll finally be able to add some highlights, lowlights, and all that other stuff inbetween ( without the use of tablet my little hand turns into a crampy, throbbing, evil looking claw that hurts like the dickens!) and i'll finally be getting dsl or broadband installed at home so i can lurk until my hearts content.

i can't stand this dame dell, it just thwarts my every move, and the resolution of my icon and other people's icons on lj is shitastic. and on deviantart. . . if it weren't for the full-view i wouldn't be able to make out anything. hopefully soon i'll have a job so i can get dsl, or comcast, cause it just isn't worth it to download netscape to my mac. then life will be perfect or as close to. my next purchase will be a tablet, i'm still debating on whether to get a graphire or intuos3. i know that the intuos has a thousand amazing more bells and whistles than the graphire but i'm going in for animation instead of illustration so those extra bells and whistles may not be needed and end up more of a hinderance than a help. but who am i kidding i love bells and whistles they make me so happy!

i shall ponder some more . . .

i get so bored with the sameness of most characters. it's like artists go out of their way to create these dynamic body positions, clothing, and environments for their characters yet they use the same cooke cutter format when drawing the 'race' of the character. and it's not that everyone is just white, if it's a female she's in her early 20's, a annorexic, and extremely buxomy. as for men they at least have a wider range but still conform to some basic structures. and then everyone like always has blue eyes, not to be harping because i personally think the italian way of having blue eyes and dark brown hair is oh so sexy, but come on people. i even started noticing in animated commercials that, particularily with animals, the majority of the caricatures have blue eyes, even though in nature that often denotes blindness or some other form of illness. and when other ethnicities are introduced, in america, they're black. and with women they like almost always have a fro. what gives? even on that new show on fx ' black and white' they gave the mother this horrible fro, who the hell wears their hair like that nowadays? (i have to note that all of the parents looked pretty bad, yet the special effects people did a pretty decent job with the kids).

i'm totally guilty of this facat and have tried to create more individuality amongst my characters. i bought these really great books, 'portraits'- that national geographic one that is the precursor to 'in focus'; and fruits- the oh so amazing and technical look at japanese harajuku style. if anyone else know's about books that for the majority contain full body photos of not only people of different ethnicities but also different age groups and body types i'd really appreciate a heads up to add to my reference books.