how to have fun

it's "friday" night and what else is there to do? draw and paint, of course! as if i needed more work to do i decided to start some projects of my own. keep in mind its my first time painting in photoshop & its far from being done. the sketch is just for lining up purposes.

ill scan in project number 2 tomorrow.

i think it's bedtime now, waking up at 8 to head over to the lab tomorrow.

easter

been drawing pretty much all weekend. i think i drew from 11 am yesterday until 6 pm and then again today from 1 until 6 and then a few hours after that. i guess that sounds like a lot of hours when you think about it but it really wasn't, the time went by pretty quickly. it was nice to be able to listen to a heck of a lot of music. it's easter weekend and although RIT doesn't really acknowledge holidays, a lot of people went home for the weekend. i think i saw two people yesterday total. it's okay though, good to buckle down and get things done. i don't actually really care about how the drawing turned out, actually i kind of think that i would go back and change things but tomorrow is another day.

aside from all of this work nonsense. today is easter! despite going to bed around 2 am, i woke up at 6:20 and watched the sunrise-- with no alarm or anything! due to my still life taking over my bed, i slept on ashley's bed last night haha it's a good thing she was home for the weekend because then i didnt have to sleep on the floor. anyway, got ready and went to church with matt and ozzy. i don't think i can even fully describe this church. it's just amazing. we were talking about it afterwards and it's pretty much best described as a church for graphic designers. it's so overwhelming at first. the music is amazing-- they have a professional drummer, guitarist,etc. a hugeee (and when i say huge, i mean huge) screen tv along the back of the stage. i guess i never really realized until this weekend how much i missed being at church, it was really nice and i definitely plan on going back :)

after church the three of us went to jay's diner for breakfast! pancakes...yum. got back around 1 and drew until they informed me that it was dinner time... oops, i would have completely forgotten. hung around commons for a bit and then ashley got back! drew some more, hung out with people, etc. time for bed now, i have a headache. which i shouldn't be surprised about because i've had at least one headache a day for the past 3 weeks. lovely.



in case you couldn't tell, the drawing is of the quilt my mom made me and it's draped over my bed post.

5 weeks until the end of the quarter!

Painting, Drawing and the likes..

So, I thought I'd give a little view of what i've been working on lately... Some of the stuff is work in progress, some is finished, some is photographed horribly and others are just test prints. 

First, the two eye drawings go together, I actually finished this like 5 minutes ago. It's for drawing, the second one is the final and it's supposed to show wrath. There's kind of an awkward shadow made by the flash on both, i apologize. The paint was mad fun to do but I kind of got a little on the carpet and a lot on me. Oops. 

This next is just an in class drawing, probably spent 50 minutes total on it. We were just experimenting with what would happen if we drew something, messed it up and then tried to fix it. By the way, all of these are 18 inches by 24 inches. 

Next is a 2d project done in color aid which is basically just itty bitty pieces of ccolored paper and you cut them up with an exacto knife and then glue them. We were supposed to turn one thing into another using a series of transitions so I changed a drop of water into a carrot. I have no idea why there are little pieces of white on the picture, you can't see them in person. And i don't know why this text is blue and underlined but it does not seem to want to change.

This is just another version of an in class drawing/painting. It's semi-hard to tell what it is because i painted over the entire thing with white paint. 

I'm also working on a cardboard chair which will be done by Wednesday, pictures to come later. 

And the Beat Goes On....

Yeah, yeah... four updates in less than 24 hrs. At least, I think it's four. These past 24 hours have seriously felt like an eternity. I think that might have something to do with me staying up until 2:45 am, waking up at 5, attempting to register until 8:15, sleeping until 10, doing homework until 11:30, sitting in two lecture/critiques from noon until 5, doing homework until 7, eating dinner, watching the first game of the world series, hanging out with people, doing more homework, wandering around campus.. and the list goes on. Seriously, who knew you could fit so much in??

I didn't end up getting into the Vector Imaging class that I needed which has both pros and cons... Pros: no longer have class from 8am until 9 pm on Wednesdays. Cons: i'm going to have to end up taking it spring quarter, I'm only taking 12 credits right now, I wanted to take it... I tried applying for unmet needs but that didn't go so well. I'm currently in the process of trying to declare a minor so that I can take classes in that field...

(these are just two of the pictures I took tonight while messing around with the camera for a 3d design project. Ashley is rather cooperative while I mess around settings, Drake on the other hand moves around more than a 3 year old.. in fact, he moves around so much that I have to use the motion setting for him =) It took about 15 tries to get this one haha)

It's so hard to believe that it's already Thursday!! Where the heck did the week go??? Last time I checked it was Sunday morning and we were being idiots standing outside waiting for an event that had actually happened a day earlier. Only a week and 2 days before finals week and then we get to go home and eat mashed potatoes!! Mmmm.

Say Something

Busy, busy, busy. That pretty much sums up my life lately. I'm finally not sick anymore! Yay. We just made it through week 5 which means there are only 4 weeks left until finals... what a weird thought?! I'm currently working on a giant 30 by 40 inch self-portrait of my face, writing a paper on the democratic plan for the environment, working on a 2d project, making apples out of everyday objects for 3d and trying to have a life in there somewhere. 

No really, I've been pretty good about setting aside certain time for homework and then making sure that i'm getting out too. It definitely helps that my floor is awesome so I can just walk right outside my room and find a ton of people to hang out with. Funny thing is that the other night when Ash and I were hanging out with a bunch of people we looked around and realized they were all deaf. It never occurred to me that the majority of my friends now are hard of hearing or completely deaf. I think it's kind of awesome, really. I've been picking up a lot more sign and I can actually hold an entire conversation without really awkward pauses. My finger spelling is still pretty slow but eh, that'll improve with time. 

greg and ash

drake dancing like always

he wanted me to teach him to draw so i said "here draw tigger" 

then he got frustrated so i just drew tigger... 

i got bored and drew on a bunch of people's whiteboards

Wednesday Drake, Ashley and I went to the girls volleyball game. Thursday after classes I met up with Ashley, Drake, Andrew and a couple of other people to see 21 at Ingle Aud. RIT has this thing Friday night after classes, I went to dinner with Ash and Drake (at Gracie's of course...). We came back to the dorms and ended up running around our floor until nearly 4 am. We did make an attempt to go out to Ritchie's, a free game room in the tunnels but the couches smelled really bad so we just came back here. Saturday morning we woke up around noon and then went out shopping. Ashley needed some ink for her printers and a couple of other things and I needed to pick up some board from Home Depot and some rag paper and more charcoal for my art project. It's super nice and super convenient that I have a roommate with a car :) Today looks like it's going to be very homework filled. I can't remember if there is anything else that needed to get done today. The huge, creepy drawing of my face needs to get done as well as the paper for writing. Since my parents are coming next weekend (well, thursday..) I'm trying to get as much done now as I can. 

We're going to be signing up for classes for winter quarter here in a few weeks (Oct 22nd). I met with my academic advisor the other day to go over which classes i'm going to be taking...  

Monday

8-10:50am ASL 1

2:00-4:50am 2d Design

Tuesday 

9:00-11:50am 3d design

12:00-1:00pm FYE

2:00-4:50pm drawing

Wednesday

8:00-10:00am ASL 1

2:00-4:50pm 2d Design

6:00-7:50pm Design Survey

Thursday 

9:00-11:50am 3d Design

2:00-4:50pm drawing

Friday

10:00-11:50am Vector Imaging 

So it'll be about the same course load as this quarter except slightly more challenging. We'll see how that goes, I'm taking the maximum number of credits they allow you to take without getting special permission. I've decided to "minor" or "concentrate" in american sign language. I'm still going to pick another thing to minor in but I'll probably wait to declare that until sophomore year. 

Maybe i'll see if I can get Ash out of bed now so we can go get some brunch :) 

Busy Beaver

It's been one full weekend.. and it's only 8:00pm on Saturday. Friday night after classes Ashley and I went over to Gracie's and picked up waffles for Wonderful Waffle Wednesday! We came back and watched two episodes of the OC until Ashley fell asleep and I had to throw a cow at her. Worked on some homework in the lounge. I didn't want to paint in our room because it gets too messy. I'm working on this project for 2d design. We had to come up with a recognizable object and then make a pattern with it.. I chose pretzels because they're yummy. I think it turned out pretty neat? It looks a little funny on the computer.


After a few hours of homework we watched the last two episodes of the OC! We finished season one, yay! That took forever, there was never enough free time to fit a whole episode in. Went to bed around 3 after talking for a while. This morning I set my alarm for 10 am although i guess I kept pushing snooze because next thing I knew it was noon and my phone was ringing. Turns out it was Nicole.. she's from Columbia too and her family was up here for the RIT Open House. She's looking at the school for graphic design too so I said I'd meet up with her and show her around. Kicked Ashley out of bed and we got ready in 10 minutes or less and made it over to Gracie's to meet up with them. After lunch we came back here and I worked on some more homework until Nicole was done with her portfolio review and then I could show her around the dorm rooms and such. Went to dinner with Ashley at 5 and then Drake came in here and bugged us so much that we told him we'd hang out.. just kidding, we wanted to :) Walked over to Park Point for an outdoor concert they have going on. It was pretty decent, the music wasn't that good but it's really nice outside so it didn't much matter. All of the restaurants are finally open so people were giving out lots of free stuff, yay again! Met up with some of Drake's friends from elementary school back in St. Louis and hung around. Walked back and now we're waiting until 9 for Drake to come back and come to a comedy show at Ingle Auditorium with us. Tomorrow is homework, homework, homework. I have 240 gesture drawings to finish by Tuesday as well as another project for 3d and a paper for writing. Tomorrow night there is an ice cream social in the Sol activity room, wherever that is. It's one busyyy weekend!

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

Who knew Monday could be such a good day?

Well, half of my day was said in the post below this one. So this one will recount the facts since 1:30 this afternoon. Had the 2pm 2D class. Today was a critique day since we just finished up a major project. Critique days mean we sit around for 3 hours talking about everyone's work and what we like/don't like about it. Sounds easy but it gets quite long and boring after a while. I've been working on this project for about 3 weeks now-- I think. I honestly cannot remember if I have mentioned anything about what this project was before, so I'll recap. We had to bend wire, photograph it, cut it up, piece it together and come up with something that uses line, repetition, movement, etc. I had one idea going for 3 weeks, it was pretty decent, however, there was something about it that just didn't seem to work. To get around this I went home and tore it apart. Sounds violent but you never know what else you can do until you try and I have a serious problem getting around my first idea so it's best to just destroy it all together. I'm SO glad I did because I'm pretty happy with my final piece-- and it even got an A! No small feat at this school... so it feels pretty good every once in a while.

I took a picture today of my 3d project too, but the picture came out so horribly because of the odd lighting in the room so I'm embarrassed even to post it up here. I'll see if I can get a better one tomorrow if it's not ripped apart by then.

I've been working on yet another tinfoil drawing tonight--due tomorrow. Went and played volleyball with some guys over at the SLC for a break from homework. Ended up playing doubles because there were only 3 other guys on the court, oh well, not bad for a Monday night. It was pretty nice because two of the guys have played before so there was always someone to set plus I got to pass a lot since the guy on the other side is a huge hitter. I think i'm going to play volleyball tomorrow night after class with Andrew's (Ashley's boyfriend) intramural team. We'll see. My class ends at 8:50 and the game starts at 9.

Anyway, I'm off to watch another episode of the OC with Ashley before bedtime!

Yay Weekends!

This weekend was pretty relaxing. Spent most of yesterday working on my 2d project-- lots and lots of gluing. Too bad I forgot that rubber cement has latex in it and i'm allergic to latex.. that was interesting. Went to quiznos for dinner last night with Ashley around 9 because I guess we were such good kids doing homework and we forgot to go to dinner. Yeah, the dining hall closes at 7 here. How stupid. Anyway, worked some more on projects and then two of the guys from next door came over and watched 60 minutes on our tv so I stopped to watch it since it was an interview with Obama. Later I went and watched some really dumb show with Drake called Stella. He tried to convince me it is better that gilmore girls (which he says is a biohazard...)... I don't think so. Worked for a few more hours and then hung out with Ashley and watched the OC until around 3:30. I love weekends! 

It's been a rather relaxing morning. Woke up at 9 to get ready for my noon class (had some printing and gluing to do) only to find out that it was canceled! Yay! I'm not exactly sure why, but we got an email around 10 saying that it was not going to be held today so I've been wandering around getting stuff done until it's time for my 2pm class. Re-organized all of my drawers/closet so that my clothes were easier to find. Finished up my project for 2d, worked a little on the tinfoil (due tomorrow), caught up on emails, and put up more pictures on my wall. It's kind of nice to have an unexpected relaxing morning since I finished most of my homework this weekend. 

Got a few more things to do and then i'm going to head over to building 7 to pick up some things before 2d. 

Yayayayay It's a good day and it's only 1pm =)