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Not producing much post-worthy stuff lately, just unattractive doodles. Learning some interesting stuff with the Gnomon dvd on Painter tho. Will have something from what I learned soon. Here's a crappy quicksketch

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Drawing of Larrick Dining Hall that recently won me a VCU USCA contest. Its nice when only 3 people enter these things:

Day 1

I've often wondered why I keep failing at achieving my goals so often. Mainly, it is a problem of consistency. I know all too well how to get better at what I do. I was taught that early on during my junior year of high school. I'll have the clearest vision ever of what I want to achieve and I'll even know how to get there, but I usually end up falling short. The burst of motivation runs thin too quickly. And one of the problems is that that is how I've been looking at it. A lack of motivation or initiative is not something I can keep relying on. Waiting until it comes around so that I'm super comfortable with creating something is a sure way to the path of laziness, which is incredibly easy to fall into. The laziness leads to me getting into a habit of not creating, which soon turns into fear whenever I tell myself I need to create. I feel like committing seppuku when I realize how good I could be right now. But as the saying goes: no matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back!

Got inspired by a friends recent blog so here it goes. I'm writing this at work now, so sometime tonight expect a post. I will do this daily. Daily posts from now on, whatever it is.

random animals

Older stuff

Brothers Quay

Haven't posted anything in a while, but I shall soooon! Scouts honor! I hated cub scouts actually. At least I was never an alter boy, haha. It's amazing how much the internet has done to increase the flow of information in our world. Almost any piece of knowledge you want can be found, or at least you can find out where to get it. You can bit torrent almost any book on any subject written or get any piece of software you want. Just think what it'll be in ten years. You'll be able to illegally download your groceries! (...i thought that was funny at least)

Looked up my favorite short-film/music video ever by the Quay Brothers. First saw this a few years ago and I've always been fascinated by it. Truly the masters of stop-motion avant garde pee in your pants doing acid gothic flimmaking, or whatever you want to call it. I don't care, its amazing. The awesomely emotional music by His Name Is Alive compliments it perfectly. It reminds me a little of something Tim Burton would do, but just a LOT more powerful for some eerie reason. I love these guys. Kind of how I like Ho-Ho's. Here ya go:

They've done a lot of other work that is worth checking out.

Inspiring stuff...

Lately I've been watching a lot of Bobby Chiu's video podcasts up on the youtube, and damn this guy is GREAT to listen to. If you're like me, human, or mostly anyway, and still very amateur, then you're probly frustrated from time to time with art and it can be hard to continue when things aren't going well. Mr. Chiu had some really good insight about how to push past that in this 3-part podcast, specifically in part-2 when he talks about his photos of inspirational figures he had posted around his workspace. Awesome stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfCkJdNiLh8

Some stuff done for Videogaim/movie concept class. Should have gave myself more time to complete the final one... may go back to it.

Assignment from Graphic Essay: We had to write a twist on a fairy tale. I did Law & Order SVU Detectives busting Rumplestiltskin. I wanted to try something different from the usual photoshop under ink drawing like I always do, so i decided to try my hand at a vector illustration. Inspired by a great tutorial from Jeff Miracola. Damn did it take forever... O_0






Doodling our teacher in business class

Post dump, (crapping out the start of this blog)

Portraits from Albert's class (yeah, crappy photos). Albert Epshteyn is definitely an instructor whom I will always have the utmost respect for. The man's knowledge of the figure is unrivaled at VCU and the level of improvement one will achieve in his class is incredible. As much as I complain about the below average level of teaching in Communication Arts, you can be sure I'm not complaining about Albert.

And if anyone can tell me why these images go directly to "Open with" when clicked on, that would be appreciated...