SO I FINALLY PASSED MY PORTFOLIO REVIEW.

I am now officially going to graduate (if all goes well next semester) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design. BOOYAH.

We are ignoring the fact it took me three tries and two different schools to do it, cause I have finally done it.

I'm now going to scrub the last of the printing ink off of me and get dressed in something that isn't a bright red shirt bought from a truck stop.

Greetings from College.

Not much to report, this is supposed to be my last year here and I'm hoping that's the truth. While I don't dislike college I've been doing this academic thing for about five years now and I'm starting to get abit of a burn out. I've still got a fair amount to learn but I've also got some ideas and projects of my own I want to focus on.

There was one personal project I am actively working on that I'm rather excited about but am not going to jinx by talking about it just yet. It was one of the few projects I actually have an idea what it is supposed to be in the end, this is a rarity for me. Sadly I have no idea when I will actually be ready to discuss it.Though currently work on that is being held at a stand still for I am tied up with homework and an old old project of mine that has decided to not sit quietly in the back of my head any more.

My style of writing and character building tends to be rather conceptual, I come up with an idea, draw out a a few sketches, name them and after that take them out every so often to add more details and put them back down again. As for how well this works, its not the most effective of writing methods I most admit, then again that is why I focus my skills on pretty pictures not stories.

The point I'm trying to come to though, is it feels like I'm arriving at some sort of end product for the conceptual work of whatever the hell Tannis ends up being part of. The timing however couldn't be worse and its kind of hard to explain to people that I've zoned out not because I'm bored but just because some bit of plot I didn't even know I needed just clicked.

Ah well, this will all come to a head somehow. Here's hoping I actually survive classes along the way.

I don't know any details, the article explains it all, I'm more stunned by the concept art here. Apparently they are making some game that's like a post apocalyptic/steam punkish Disney Land setting.

I have little opinion, my mind, she is blown.

Haven't been doing much, packing stuff, playing old computer games and other things I'll ramble about but here, have some sketches.

( Click onward, warning image heavy )

I hate not doing art posts more often but life catches up with me and I rarely find myself wanting to unearth the scanner to get this stuff posted. Here's hoping I at least do one more post like this before the summer is over.

So my immune system is not as good as I had previously thought it.

Rather than fighting off con-crud and not getting the strange bronchitis mix my mother has my immune system has decided to pick and choose symptoms and I seem to have developed some sort of "walking crud" if you will.

I really don't feel any sicker than if my sinus' had revolted (which they do often) except for a slight temperature with the sensation of my head being not quite right. This is actually worse than normal crud where I just sleep it off till I feel better because I don't actually feel BAD, so I still feel stir crazy and have the urge to go places and do things rather than stay in bed.

So I'm sitting here killing time until my sleeping pills kick in.

Before my temperature rose I did manage to get to a book store and buy some comics with some of my con profits. I picked up the Clover omnibus and the latest Courtney Crumrin and was very happy with both.
( this turns into a review so click if you care )

Well now my sleeping pills are kicking in so now I go off to hopefully sleep and get rid of this crud. I will probably ramble on about Courtney Crumrin comics later so later folks.

So, I came back from A-kon, had to help my sick mom yesterday then I got about twelve or fourteen hours of sleep. I'm feeling much more human, though my voice is still lurking on the gravely octaves of exhaustion and talking too much.
( cut for ramblings )

So I returned yesterday from a short excursion home to try to salvage what I could of my earthly possessions from my flooded childhood home.

Things weren't as bad as I thought they were; they were in fact worse. The rain seeped through the weep holes in our brickwork into the low parts of our foundation and into the house. It was assumed most of the damage would be to areas along the outside wall, in my room the water seeped and soaked along all four walls and into all my closet, there was no carpet left to salvage it all had to be ripped up and my furniture moved or disassembled. When we ripped it all up the only dry patch in my room was a 2ft wide squarish patch in the very center of the room.

Loss wise, its hard to judge, I lost a few blank sketchpads,a large quantity of loose sketches (mainly concept work for a story project I hope to do one day.)My first sketchbook (from when I was like nine) go damp but it has dried out and while not in great shape it is still around,

I also lost some old roleplaying logs and a few books and comics and an untold amount of clothes and socks. However I did end up finally throwing away lots of stuff that should have been thrown out ages ago.

Thankfully, my furniture looks like it might survive, and my printer and scanner appear to be unscathed. But it still seems like it will be a while before I have my bed back in the room.

So the situation could be better, but it could also be much much worse

So I've got one thing on my list of large important projects done. This would normally be a relief if it wasn't for the fact that the local weather has seen fit to dump another project on my door. Apparently my parent's house has seen fit to flood for the first time in over 20 years.

So now I'm taking some time out of what would be a light work day working on my animation project and buying spray paint to go home and try to clean up my room and salvage what I can.

Wish me luck folks.

Greetings y'all*
So that time of the semester has come. That time when all classes have to have something earth shattering and amazing NOW. This plus the fact my fight or flight instinct is hung up on con prep means I'm a worn out mess.

On top of this its allergy season so my sinuses are clogged and my brain feels like its been wrapped in cotton fluff, this tends to wear me down so classes have really become those things between nap times for me.

I think I'm going to collapse in bed and hope my brain is better in about 6 hours.

Send help, send caffiene








*shut up, I'm Texan I'm allowed to use y'all

Con season is upon us once again and I am now preparing more pieces and buttons for such occasions.  

While I'm at it, I feel that this is an appropriate time to announce : 
as far as I know I shall be at  A-KON 20  this May.  I will post more info pertaining to my location in the con when I get such news.

I am looking towards going to other cons but for the moment this is the only one I have lined up so far.

Greetings from college. I have been busy avoiding actual work so I havent much to show for it.

But hey I saw Watchmen over break, so here, have a chibi.

So scans_daily got banned from livejournal.

More Info Here

I personally think this is a shame cause, yes scans daily was posting copyright material but they were doing it within limits and would have taken it down if someone complained. Banning them is a bit extreme. All in all it was a nice community where some of the actual comic pros would show up and post, which was neat. And you could see scans of comics from ages ago and stuff from yesterday.

And in their defense I actually bought a fair amount of comics (some stuff I wouldn't even have given a second glance at in a shop) from stuff I had seen on scans_daily.

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, IPod, etc.)
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press play.
4. For the first question, type the song that's playing.
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button twice.
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...just type it in.

( click on for the over produced avante garde film that is my life )

I started listening to Jill Tracy recently and blame her entirely for this piece. This is not a finished piece by a long shot but is the mock up to work from when I get around to doing the actual piece.

Well folks, the new Doctor Who has been cast. It's apparently this guy. No, its not a woman or a black man, sorry. I dunno why everyone seems to think the BBC would/should take such a risk as to go against decades of tradition and cast something outside the Doctor's norm (white and male). As a Timelord it makes no sense for him to cling to one race repeatedly, this I agree with. But as a company not wanting to rock the boat too much it makes sense. If Doctor Who isn't broken why fix it?

The new guy doesn't look like much, he really isn't terribly photogenic in the photo-still sense. It looks like hes got one good side and rest of his face is odd angles. I mean no insult to the guy, there is enough of that going on right now. I merely over analyze faces and I like faces more if there's some interest there, gives them character, makes them stand out. So he looks good but in a very unusual sense that works very well for this role.

But you really need to see the guy actually moving and talking to get a good idea of how hes going to be in the show. He actually has lots of little quirks and such that would probably translate to his performances. True he doesn't have his character built yet or anything but I'm optimistic.

Oh yea, this evening Disney got back to me and I received an e-mail apologizing for the inconvenience of the lack of digital copy code and sent me a new one in the same e-mail. This is a vast improvement from the complaints I've heard earlier of people having to jump through hoops and then wait for the code to come in on snail mail.

They however did not mention the fact that the main disk itself doesn't work. I shall have to call Disney's tech support as soon as the holiday week is over and complain again.