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Friday, December 14, 2007

pirates VI + not the angry itch

Yesterday:

I wore the mint green cropped jumpsuit to school today, the one I got at the holiday sale for $5. Got some compliments on it; nice to dress fun when it is so dreary all around.

Scanned in some of my new darkroom work and sketchbook to add to my website. The scanner kept scanning things smaller than I wanted and I had to redo about half of what I scanned. The weird glitches and kinks in my website seemed to get worked out. As much as I like Gordon, I will be glad for this class to be over. Only two more classes! One more week!

The substitute for Arvie was really enthusiastic about teaching. His methods were far different from Arvies; he had us to straight lines to build up the form and then come in with a contour. Sort of hard to explain, the final pieces don't have much emotion to me. Not really my cup of tea method of drawing. He gave us juice and cookies at the end. That was awesome. More teachers need to give out snacks.

Student council didn't have lunch, only candy canes. I stuffed my pockets and sat in for the meeting. Diana is the new moderator and that is downright awesome. Shes a real cool lady, that Diana.

After council, Jack and I went to Quizno's for lunch.

I made my comic run after drawing. I haven't been since First Thursday in November. Been a while, lots of comics had piled up. Two issues of The Boys, American Virgin, Black Summer, Y the Last Man and THE NEW PIRATES OF CONEY ISLAND!!! This comic was an eight issue mini-series. The first issue came out in October, 2006 and there was four monthly issues after that one. Then it went on hiatus while Vasilis Lolos did Last Call and I have been waiting since March for new issues. Such a rad comic, that one. So happy it is back with new goodness.

On my ride home I passed a Police Lady on a horse. About two blocks later I passed a pile of horse poo.

I finished my collage. Well, I haven't drawn in her face yet so I don't know if I am finished or not. It looks cool, nice and yellow/violet. Not quite Paranoia anymore. Hmmn.


Today:

Got my work done real quick. I do a good job, it just gets done quick and I have to kill time. Maybe something to clean will come up. Read some comics. Sean Carney gave me the OK to use the MFA's computers. Speaking of the MFA, they treat me nicer than the BFA's. Well they are a lot more conversational, some of the BFA are great and some just ignore me. Still, I like my job.

Midnight Update:

While biking home I saw Lindsay at about 13th and Burnside so I decreased my gear and escorted her home.

We watched Hedwig and the Angry Inch while eating dinner. Wonderful movie! Lovely songs and a good story. Is it wrong to be a little jealous about the costumes Drag Queens get to wear? I can't believe I went this long without watching it; what held me back?

Then I watched Kill Bill volume 1 and got to work on my comic. That movie and the part of Sin City I didn't finish a few nights ago; while watching those I achieved 23/50 panels pencilled onto Bristol paper. I got into a good rhythm, but the quality started to falter so I'm going to stop work for the night on it. Two more movies should be good for finishing it, if that. Then I have to ride my bicycle and find some of the architecture Libby recommended I write about.

Weekend goals: Finish comic on Saturday, scan it in and print out nice copy on Sunday so it can be critiqued on Monday. Find architecture on Saturday and write about it on Sunday and turn in paper on Monday. Plan out and start my second collage in the open time; due Wednesday.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

squares and holes

I achieved more today than I thought I would. Add that to the fact I might be a little behind...it evens out to being right on track!

Got to school early and photocopied and cut up the fliers for the next Comic Club meeting (the last of the semester). The fliers I designed are a little on the small size but they use large font and are bold so they are semi-eye catching.

We had our final (and only) test in 2D. I did fairly well, though I mixed up chroma and hue when it came to describing chroma. Oh well, that was one little bit. I received an A on my painting compositions that I turned in late. Booyah! In the break between other people finishing up their tests and working on my collage, I put up about half of the fliers for Comic Club. Lots of clumping around in my Wellies and running into Kurt again and again.

Cut up the gouache squares for the rest of the first section of class and cut up some Bristol. Lunch came quick.

Diana and I went to Tea Zone and had decent Strawberry Tea and the delicious perfectly sized Panini they make there. Gave many compliments to the super cute waiter. It was a great lunch, I treated Diana because she made dinner for me a few weeks ago. Today's walk for food was not as brisk as yesterdays but it still is very cold.

Drew out and painted/applied the squares to the background of my collage. I'm now half done! It really didn't take that long to do. Had to work fast as the acrylic dried almost as soon as I had applied it. Just need to think of what to do with my second collage. Hmm. This one is Paranoia so maybe Confidence?

I cut up and paneled all the pages for my Time Arts comic. Much of the time was spent figuring out more likes and dislikes for the characters and talking about the sheer awesome that are board games. Still, now that they are all drawn out it will be easy to just put the art in. The panels are also TINY so I won't have much room for detail.

Yoga wasn't so bad but my elbows were giving me some trouble. I still can't support my weight at all.

I punched out holes to use for the other part of my collage and that is all that I got done tonight after Yoga. I'm not worried. I'm on track. If I keep saying that I'll believe it.

fiddy panels


All my pages are planned out. All the panel layouts. 50 panels over 7 pages. 39 of which have a rough sketch for what will be contained/narration to go along with it. This is the hard part, after this is just sketching and inking it. I finished my comic page in about a night and that was 23 panels. I'm just doing about twice that with barely more detail.

Worked more on my website. Couldn't add much too it besides an influences page. I left my resume and extra image files at home (I'll remember to bring them this Thursday). Class went quick. Gordon and Ric had a tiff about the value of teaching us iWeb. Poor Gordon, even though he could totally own Ric in a fight. I do think that I would have liked more Illustrator and Photoshop projects but any Mac practice is good practice. I guess.

In Drawing Arvie told us to go out into the school and draw something from observation. Anything we wanted and spend three hours on it. I did not want to do this. The school has messed up architecture anyway so it is difficult to draw with the perspective tools we have been taught. I had to find a way to make this project fun.

I drew Jim sitting in the student lounge up until he moved and so I smeared out the charcoal drawing and drew Kat instead. It didn't look great so I smeared that. Then I layered another drawing of Jim (moves around so much) over that and then he left to work on a paper. At around this point I decided to just layer drawings over one another. I drew Kat a few more times, Evan sitting and working on his drawing, the microwave, the hall across the commons, the couch, the ceiling, and the railing. Lots of charcoal drawings over one another. Then it was time for lunch.

Kat and I went to Yoga Pearl, which was a very cold brisk walk down to Davis. I'm okay with Vegan food as long as it tastes good and my Mexican hot chocolate, brown rice and corn bread was DELICIOUS! Well worth the walk. Really warmed me up after the walk. Portland is really cold now. Like, I don't care if I look like a mugger I am going to buy a face covering ski-mask because it is so cold, cold. I sure hope Santa leaves me some long johns under the tree for me this year.

After lunch I didn't really want to add more black charcoal so I went back to the class room and drew it as well as Michael, Eva and Mel. For this I used white conte over the charcoal. When I had reached this point was when Arvie first saw it. I explained it to him as "well you told us to draw something from observation, you didn't say just one thing" he grinned at me and told me it was looking great. For the final part I went down into the commons and with the edge of a red conte I did a line drawing of the main stairwell and wall. The whole piece came together in that "it is abstract but there is still thought to the form and lines and still sort of cool how you can make out the different bits" sort of way. I'm really pleased with it and even sprayed it. I hardly ever spray my drawings.

Michael and Eva did self portraits. Kat drew someone on a couch. Tess drew Kat. Mel drew a toilet. Evan drew the student lounge. Danny drew the pool table. Sara drew the exercise bike/installation. Nell drew the student lounge from the commons. Alex drew a chair. Cool the variety that came from the open assignment.

Arvie said to me "some people say why, others say why not. good job Trillian." and he patted me on the back. Yay! I've really enjoyed having him as a teacher. He is going to Africa for the winter (90 degree weather, how ever will he survive) and so this was the last class he is teaching (we are having a sub for the last three days). While painting was not a requirement I'm still sad that I'm not going to have him again.

Pedaled as fast as I could home. My scarf was bundled tight against my face and my hands were nice and cozy in my gloves. Nothing was protecting my thighs and they became sufficiently numb upon my return. Watched Saved and worked on my thumbnails. Brandon came over and Lindsay made us all dinner (she is awesome) and they watched Saved and for whatever reason I joined them. So yeah, Saved twice in one night. Great movie so I'm not really complaining.

Monday, December 10, 2007

geoduck vs sloth

Back to it all after a very disappointing weekend. Managed to get to school right on time only to find Art History cancelled. There will be no final exam, only the paper. So that's pretty...non stress.

Sat about and chatted with people. Robin drew me for her drawing project. Looks like me; she really got my nose. It is fun modeling for people.

We did teacher reviews in 2D design. Yeah mine wasn't so favorable in the whole "did you learn the concepts?" part. We had a review for the exam on Wednesday. I'm not too worried about it seeing as how I get her feebly explained concepts.

Had some Quizno's for lunch. Tasty though pricey. Cidney is leaving PNCA for Evergreen. Tabitha didn't know what a Geoduck was. She does now.

I have one of my collages planned out. Whoo! Just have to put it together and plan out the other one. Busy week ahead!

In Time Arts we looked at some installations of Rose's. Pretty cool animated projections; might be spooky if they blended more in with the surroundings. Wrote out and thumbnailed my comic. Helped Diana brainstorm, talked about weird Internet stuff, chatted about food, and even had a dialogue about smashing TV's. I'm on track.

Couldn't find my gloves so my hands were numb when I returned home. Designed the new Comic Club meeting flier. Might use it, might not. Hmmn.

Sunday, December 9, 2007

David Not Delivered

Mom and Celia missed the punctuation in the show title. What we thought to be “David Sedaris reads Santaland Diaries” was really “David Sedaris’ Santaland Diaries and Other Stories.” There was not David Sedaris reading. Should have figured. Why would he be in Tacoma doing multiple readings during this busy time? So that sucked. Royally and hardly. The two man performance was cute but overacted and that always annoys me. Christmas Means Giving has never been a short that I liked so I was anti-thrilled when it was performed. The guy performing as David looked like Quentin Tarantino. He did convey some of the moods but his acting prowess was underwritten by his over exaggeration. Nothing can compare to the real thing. Some day, I will see and hear the real thing.

But this… This was not worth the six hours worth of travel.

And also this kid spit apple on me on the bus. And smelled like he needed a diaper change. Cry cry cry. Remember how I mentioned the sweet train riding kids? Hah. Yeah.

Michael picked me up from the train. Back home safe and sound. But uhg. What kind of parent allows a little kid to spit apple. Repeatedly? Bleeh!