I lurk on this thing a lot, I don't really post much anymore.
I've been doing a lot of studies and boring things that I wont post here, along with some character sketches but nothing quality. Gonna play with some new mediums soon hopefully.

I finally scheduled my classes for MICA and so far i'm taking two liberal arts courses, illustration I (night class boo) painting I, and drawing from the masters. Sadly no illustration electives because they all filled up. X.X; I'm definitely planning on taking four studios next semester though, three is gonna feel light. Oh well, I felt like I needed more technical practice anyway, so I'm getting it. xD

Other than that not much is up, I'm thinking of account hopping because after being here five years my gallery is filled terrible and embarassing moments. I should probably store it but it takes forever. If I do account hop, I'll probably lurk on this account because moving watchers will be a pain in my ass. So maybe I won't account hop, we'll see. Any thoughts on the subject?

I'll keep it brief because nooone likes to read boring prattle.

Beach was good, the keys were nice, seeing nick everyday all day for a while was really nice as opposed to like... once a month, maybe two if we're lucky during school. Now my life has taken another turn. Nick has been left in the keys to work with his grandpa, so it's back to distance again, yay.

I'm back where I was most of winter break, in hampton and i'll either been getting a nightshift job at the donut shop (most likely) or giant eagle. (not really walking distance so i'd be a ride mooch, but what else is new) speaking of ride mooching, my goal is to get that license before i go to baltimore so i can focus on school and saving money for a damn car.

In fact I have all kinds of goals and things I need to do before school.. like dentist, i fear my widsom teeth are finally coming in (how convienient) because my teeth have felt a little crammed lately, like hurt crammed. Stupid health.

So yeah, If anyone wants to hang without me like, living at your house, hit me up. But you probably still will need to get me. *fail*

GOALS:

[ ] Aquire Job
[ ] Aquire license
[ ] stop sucking at art
[ ] post art, sucky or not

also sorry if this journal was cracked out or retarded or lame, i'm really tired from traveling from NC to PA today and FL to NC the day before. car lag? o.o

It's been like a month since I've updated this thing, so hi!

The past few weeks have been epic, I've been travelin' around Mars catching up with people and living at their houses, it's been great. xD I definitely missed being around. Now as my visit comes to a close I'm heading off to an even more exciting escapade, florida! I'm tagging along with Nick's family and we're hitting up the keys and daytona where his grandparents live. I'm so totally psyched.

As far as art goes, I've been kinda lazy-ish but I'm hoping to remedy that on the 20 hour car ride down, some character doodles, hopefully the beginnings of a comic, and maybe a little script depending how inspired i get. (that last bit will prolly never end up online but whatever) So hopefully, when I return to boring meadville in July I'll have enough inspo to actually get good before MICA. Yaaay.

That's about it, I guess. xD

Note to self: I really need to stop blowing money at borders..

Boring but good for sad attempts at artistic progress. I actually was good about it until today/yesterday then I failedboated and just didn't draw. I've been screwing around a lot with brown paper, colored pencils and celeb portraits but not the gay boring ones. these are just dumb studies anyway and i'm doodling people I like to keep me entertained. Oh and I drew a bollywood lady for the hell of it, I guess she's kind of a celeb too, but I don't know her name.

Anyway, onto other things. Other than art I've done nothing interesting whatsoever. At dads I stay up till like six infront of my computer drawing/wowing/facebooking or wtf ever then i crash till like two or three. Kind of a silly existance but oh well.

If I could just fast forward this summer away I totally would, I feel like I'm so rooted in my stupid crap style i'm never going to get out, I never see anyone because I'm an hour and a half away at dad's. Nick tries to see me but lately the attempts are going nowhere. I just want to be at MICA already *total loser* I think next summer I'm going to just stay in baltimore, I want to get an apartment for junior year anyway and i'm going to be far/displaced as it is anyway, so why the hell not.

Damn this is getting whiny, sorry for the QQing i'll stop now. Anyway, changing the subject around completely, last summer my drawings were geared toward Snoppy's KNTM as you remember. Though KNTM 2 shows little signs of ever appearing, Snoppy has turned to a new project that I think some of you should check out. She made this funky little site called 'spacebook' that functions as a myspace/facebook lovechild for not you but your characters. I have a few profiles but I only use 'Kashi's. However, right now it seems like the whole thing is just a giant Snoppy sort of clique thing, everyone seems to know each other save for a few random profiles. And the artists could be kicked up a notch too, most of it, save for a few interesting people are all the same sort of style/calibre, it would be nice to see some variation. So, some of you should join, especially if we'd RPed in the past, it would be fun to have some characters I actually know on there. Link is here: [link]

Oh yeah and for the record, I don't plan on being a lazy bum the whole summer but I don't know what to do about getting a job. My dad seems kinda doubtful I will get one due to the economy and that supposedly the county i'm in has the worst unemployment rate in the state. But saying, positively I can get a job at a crappy gas station..
I want to start working as soon as possible but with all the crap I've got going in june, I don't know how to work it in. June 4th, Nick's graduation, June 6th-13th beach vacation with dad, then a random week off, june 19th + another week is supposed to be florida vacation with Nick and his family but I just don't know. I really want to go with him, but then that's an entire month gone as far as working goes, then all I have is july/august to make enough money to afford supplies for school. And that's being optimistic that they will A) hire me and B) give me a lot of hours. I normally don't ask for random advice on here, but what should I do? Or rather, what would you do?

Ok, that's enough babble for now. I'll hopefully post some junk soon, we'll see. For now though, I'm running off. Peace.

So I finally got the last peice of the puzzle from MICA today, money!

I couldn't be more ecstatic, right now, my dream is finally happening.
They awarded me 11,000k a year in port scholarships which is slightly under what I'm getting here but I don't care! The school is amazing and transfers can only get a max of 18,000 a year anyway so I'm takin' it and runnin' to Baltimore, no appeals or nothin'. Even better is for some reason I got more financial aid from them than CIA so technically MICA is giving me more money!

Of course, they're a good little chunk more expensive than CIA, but I don't care, this is the school I've dreamed of ever since I went to national portfolio day, I'm going damn it!!!!!!

Words truely can't describe how I'm feeling right now. To finally succeed after failing so stupidly after deadlines is just an utterly amazing feeling! Best part is all my credits are transfering, I just have to take freshman painting, which will be hella fun!!

Seriously, I'm so happy right now, I literally almost cried happy tears when I opened the damn letter, I honestly don't know if I've ever been this overjoyed in my life. The last few years have been full of crazy, rollercoaster-like ups and downs, but now i'm going down the big hill full force and the feeling is great! Cheesy I know, but HELL YEAH!!

As far as the summer, this week I'm finishin' up finals, next week we sit around and watch BFAs and write papers, and then I go home for prom! After that I'll be stuck in Meadville working at kwik fill prolly but oh well, money will be good and I'll be busting my ass this summer trying to get all epic so I truely stand out in the fantastic school i'm attending it the fall. I just can't wait! The summer will be utterly great, but I can't wait for my first day of class!

Backing up though, I'll prolly be in meadville for most of the summer but due to the fact that Nick and I are goin' strong I should be in and out of mars a decent bit. At the very least I'll be visitin' mum occasionally up near the 'burgh, so hopefully I'll see ya'll.

And lastly to my CIA homies out there, though I prolly won't miss Cleveland much, I will definitely miss some of it's people, please keep in touch!



I'm going to go actually do work now, later!!

I'll post during the summer or BFA week when I'm pretending to write my papers. xD