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I have to say that I'm extremely nervous about school starting tomorrow. It will be my very, very first semester as an art student. At first I was worried that changing to this major would be a decision that I would come to regret, and then I worried that if I didn't change I would regret it even more. Does that make sense? But now, working in this new job, it feels like all new doors of opportunity have been opened - and that maybe, just maybe, if I work hard enough and show that I really am dedicated, I can jam my foot into a few other doors. It's all wait and see right now... but one of the world's best scientific illustrators hangs out around ASU and, according to one person, "is old and retired, and giving away his secrets to anyone willing to listen." Nathan's mom contacted me the other day and gave me the phone number of yet another scientific illustrator that is also fairly famous, but I have yet to call her. I've just been shy and a bundle of nerves these last few days.
It's really relieving to have a day off for a change... away from the world, I mean. Granted, we are going to visit my mom tonight, but I desperately needed a break from the world to just refresh myself and mentally brace myself for whatever happens this semester. I'm still short one class, and I'm worried I won't be able to get into it. I contacted the professor to see if he would give me an override, but he replied that he has already written four so it doesn't seem likely... but that I'm more than welcome to attend the first class. Which I will do, and try to talk to him again to get in... and I'll do it the second class, third class, even all semester if I have to - because without this class, I am completely fucked for registering next semester. I still can't help but be super stressed about it, though.
Yesterday was art Sunday over our place. This time around it was only us serious about doing some art: Danny, Brendan, Chris, Edwin, and of course, me. I actually did make some progress on this ink project I have been working on, and then I did two artist trading cards on bristol board. They're both 2.5"x3.5" in real life, but I took high quality scans of them so I could show them on here. Matt asked me to make him into a trading card, and then I felt inspired and wanted to try drawing my roach, Lepidus. I'm going on a paper hunt this week so I can make high quality prints of it and sell those, especially since I don't want to part with the original. I've gotten three offers total now for places that would be willing to display my art, but as of right now I'm still unsure of what I would want to display, and how I would want to display it... and I don't have enough to display right now as it is, I think. But these are all things I am keeping in mind, as hopefully by the end (or even middle!) of the semester I'll have produced enough art.
Ink, prisma colors, and colored pencil.
Ink!
It's really relieving to have a day off for a change... away from the world, I mean. Granted, we are going to visit my mom tonight, but I desperately needed a break from the world to just refresh myself and mentally brace myself for whatever happens this semester. I'm still short one class, and I'm worried I won't be able to get into it. I contacted the professor to see if he would give me an override, but he replied that he has already written four so it doesn't seem likely... but that I'm more than welcome to attend the first class. Which I will do, and try to talk to him again to get in... and I'll do it the second class, third class, even all semester if I have to - because without this class, I am completely fucked for registering next semester. I still can't help but be super stressed about it, though.
Yesterday was art Sunday over our place. This time around it was only us serious about doing some art: Danny, Brendan, Chris, Edwin, and of course, me. I actually did make some progress on this ink project I have been working on, and then I did two artist trading cards on bristol board. They're both 2.5"x3.5" in real life, but I took high quality scans of them so I could show them on here. Matt asked me to make him into a trading card, and then I felt inspired and wanted to try drawing my roach, Lepidus. I'm going on a paper hunt this week so I can make high quality prints of it and sell those, especially since I don't want to part with the original. I've gotten three offers total now for places that would be willing to display my art, but as of right now I'm still unsure of what I would want to display, and how I would want to display it... and I don't have enough to display right now as it is, I think. But these are all things I am keeping in mind, as hopefully by the end (or even middle!) of the semester I'll have produced enough art.
Ink, prisma colors, and colored pencil.
Ink!