So, I finally updated my portfolio. I added some more digital paintings, and a lot of school projects (at least, those that I wasn’t completely ashamed of). I’m going to try and enable comments on the new portfolio I have going if anyone wants to give me any feed back (always looking for that.

As for school, it’s going along as usual. Still waiting for my student loan, which god willing will arrive in my bank account by the end of the month (and that would really help with the whole rent thing I usually do then). Like everyone I’m short of cash, made worse by the fact that I’m going to school and I loath my part time job (and by ‘part time’ I mean 30 hours a week…). I just keep telling myself ‘Three and a half more months and you’ll never have to work in a call centre ever again’. Sometimes it makes me feel better, other times….
I know I’m doing the right thing, but staying focused recently has been difficult. I’m trying to get back into the grove, step up the work I’m handing in as opposed to living with whatever crap I can pull out of my ass at the last minute. I know I can be better.

*sigh*

These are all sentences that look familiar. But maybe this time it’ll change.

Posted: February 18th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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For those of you too lazy to waltze over to my DA page, you can see a few of my latest design attempts below. I’ll be updating the gallery soon (as well as FIXING the gallery, it’ve let it sit like that for a deplorably long time…) but ‘soon’ really translates into ‘god knows when’ with me. It might just happen with the pasties for now. Anywho, I’d like to add that all of the below examples are available as prints if anyone wants to help a starving artist!

Posted: October 21st, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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So, I’m about a month and a half into my Design program and I have to say I’m loving it. Like, a lot. Like, I’ve never been so sure of my life choices before. The next step of course is to get enough free time so that I can really focus on what I’m doing and hand in the quality I’d like to produce. Nex step of course is to start producing a new portfolio (a lot of the stuff I have here is old and not up to my current level). If any of you watch me on DA, you’ll see some of my latest attempts, which are…shall we say indicative of a learning curve. Not wholly satisfied yet, but it’s coming. I’ll post some here later, but I have a feeling this page is gonna get redesigned soon anyway (yes, it’s that time again!). I’m gonna play with the CSS, and next semester we start Flash, which is a good 60% of the reason I’m taking this course. In the meantime I just found a new apartment that couldn’t be more convenient and it only $10 more, which has me very excited. All in all things are good. Had a bad week but I’m recovering. We’ll see how it goes.

Oh, and if anyone is dying to see what I’ve done so far and is too lazy to go to DA, just let me know and I’ll post them here.

Posted: October 10th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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I’ve added a bunch of new links, a few more web comics and a new section for artists that really inspire me. Definitely worth checking out if you’ve got the time.

As for me, besides the fact that I got woken up on my day off to the fire alarm (which apparently goes off anytime the power turns off …or flickers briefly as the case may be), and then a hornet decided to join me in the shower, and it went from being so hot yesterday I was sweating just sitting around and now after walking my dog I can barely feel my hands, the days is looking up. I think it’s going to be one of those days where I get a lot of random little things done, like finally getting my wall planer organized, finalizing my living room furniture, and getting some art done. Hopefully I’ll be updating here soon with some results!

Posted: June 10th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Well, as those of you who read my Naruto doujinshi have already noticed I have updated with the first chapter of Volume (Christ, how did I let it get this far? Now I can’t stop…), which you can read here. No flashy first page this time but the last page ain’t bad (if you can ignore the blatant fan-service).

Also, I’ve updated my portfolio–if you keep up with my DA page there will be some repeats but there’s also a tone of images added to the ‘sketch Dump’ section, some I might rework later. Thought I’d update since I’m about to start looking for a new job in earnest again now that I’m settled (mostly) in my new apartment and suddenly have an extra two hours a day that I used to spend sitting on a bus.

Posted: June 3rd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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I really haven’t been abusing this soap box as much as I should (or have).  Well, maybe that’s a good thing for some of you as I am prone to ramble. However I feel inspired to produce an update on my situation. Also, I would like to submit a disclaimer before you proceed–my current writing is heavily coloured by my role as a contact center agent who has to write emails in a profusely apologetic manner and am to be extremely all encompassing (to prevent accusations of withhold information) in my replies. Concurrently I’ve been re-reading a lot of Anne McCaffry as of late, who’s prose has a definite style which I adore. Essentially if it seems like I’m writing in a manner that is strange, it’s because I can’t help it.

As for my life at the moment I have finally succeeded in securing a lease until the end of December on a wonderful one bedroom located with in (not entirely easy) walking distance to work.It’s veryconveniently priced, spacey and with excellent light with what has so far proven to be a very accommodating. The area is also rife with dogs, which is fortuitous (that’s a word that doesn’t get enough use these day, honestly). The only issue is that I must wait for the beginning of May before I can more in. The result is an increasing discontent with my daily 3 hour bus commute.

I’ve also sent of my computer (who shall hence forth be known as ‘Gigiboo’) to be repaired upon discovering that Future Shop did indeed have a record of my overpriced warranty. The result is that I will spend 8-10 days without Gigiboo, a trauma which makes me die a little inside every time I think about it.

Emotionally lately I’ve noticed a rather prevalent schizophrenia in my behavior, fluctuating between extreme cheerfulness (especially with the slowly improving weather, my poor body hasn’t received this much vitamin D in months) and absolute annoyance with everything that lives and has the misfortune to communicate with me. This is a rather obnoxious state of being when you’re a call center rep. For now I’ve attempted to focus on the happier side of my emotions while thinking up some sort of non-computer related project to occupy me for the next week and a half. Expect to see a perforation of sketches at that time.

Also, check out my latest print:
Hunting the Red Swan by =scruffykitty on deviantART

Posted: April 15th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Getting some things done today. Rare day off and after procrastinating all morning I finally finished somethings, like setting up an appointment for my puppy’s yearly check up (what all good pet owners do! don’t wait for them to get sick before you do something about it, kids!), and finally finished sprucing up this page. Actually spell checked the sections (why hadn’t I done that already, I’ll never know) and customized things a bit more. Though briefly about integrating my portfolio into the new design but the current system is just way to easy (also, it would take me hours just to do the damn thumb nails). Anywho, if you notice something please let me know, otherwise I think everything is as I want it. Oh, and I added a few new pages to the Links section, and if you’d like to do a link exchange you can comment here or email me.

Posted: January 16th, 2008 under News, Uncategorized.
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Why didn’t I hear about this?   They remastered freakin’ Star Trek! I happened to see an episode on tv (FOX i think) today and was like, “Since when could you pull that shit with model ships on wires?”  The answer of course is you can’t, so I checked out the website (see link above) and turns out they’re doing the whole series for the 40th aniversity.  You’d think they’d advertise this shit…..Anyway, they did a really good job.  The video is really clear and the re-recording of the music is really done well–same notes just sharper.  They took a lot of care when they reanimated the scenes of the ships in space, it isn’t obvious and flashy, just pulling off some interesting angles without added any new crap.  Which is fine ’cause half the fun of watching TOS is the hilarity the ensues from watching outdated material (I mean that as a complement). Anyway, if you get a chance, you should check it out. If you can’t find it on TV you can get it off iTunes.

PS: I promise to have some art up soon, I’ve been working on a lot of stuff and i’ve got a major sketch dump planned.

Posted: November 17th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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