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Last time I'll have to catch the shuttle, I hope. This whole not having a bike thing is a total drag.

Almost everyone brought amazing art in for the final critique. The almost just refers to Kristen, who unfortunately couldn't get hers done in time. Oh well, she had a nice start. All the work of the semester resolved quite nicely. We all seemed to have figured out what makes our work effective. Me? I'm going for dynamic flat shapes and minimal colors. Yeah. The Stephen Fry sequence was very nice and well received. It went last. Chase and Somala both did their fathers, Madeline did Hercules, Kristen did Patrick Wolf, Beth did David Bowie, Cassandra did Shirley Temple, Danny did Orson Welles, Rachel did Genji from Tale of Genji, and Amanda did Hayao Miyazaki. Pretty darn amazing.

The idea of Illustration is that the majority of people who look at it, will look at it for a second. The challenge for us to is convey an idea that fits in a second while still having a sense of style and skill. Other majors have work that is looked at and studied for a long while, they have to go deep and all that. Not that illustration majors don't think, we just can't make artwork that has to survive on explanation.

After critique, Martin took us out for pizza! His treat! Getting us soft in time for our last semester before we are seniors. Holy crap. Three semester left. Where did the time go? A year and a half and I am done with college. AHHHH!!!!!!!

Oh, before critique we looked at everyone's sketchbooks from the semester.

Not wanting to end the party, Danny and I went to Yur's. We ran into Dominic on the way there and dragged him with us. We grabbed a booth and chatted for a good while. Dom left because he had to get to class, he was replaced with Jon Werrin and Rachel. Morriah showed up as well. Had a great time. The couple hours we were there just breezed by.

Sauntered back to PNCA in a good mood and did my last minute chores at school. Some documenting and all that.

The streetcar was a long time coming, so I picked up a cone of ice cream. Mmm. Heavy traffic kept the streetcar in a permanent state of close enough to stick around to take it/wanting to just start walking.

I'm done and it feels so good. Watched new episode of Misfits, QI, watched some Skins (poor Sid), and just lollygagged. Katie is giving me a ride to the train station. Yay. Will get up. Shower. Pack. Head home.