Hand project 

Hand #2 

Rendered model then drew my hands 

#6 

Minute sketches 

Face not right, but I like the blocky feeling. 

Lovely poses 

Portrait #2 

Portrait #1 

Darn you forshortening! 

Back 

Back sketch 

#5 

#4 

#2 

#3 

Sketches 

#1 

Spooky Guinea

Halloween pictures of our pumpkins and Xiao Bao!
http://www.vgcats.com
http://homestarrunner.com


Last year I believe my me and my sister did Samurai Jack so this year was less creative :(

hehe Xiao Bao hates the clothing now. If I even put it in front of him, he immediately turns around.


And yes, he does have his own couch XD.

The infamous Strong Bad. Nuff' said. 

This is the VGCats pumpkin. We used the template from the webcomic's website. 

Poor guy. He's a real tropper for wearing the Santa hat lol. 

John Wayne Xiao Bao....I wonder how he herds the cattle? 

Full-blown coma lol 

Really tired. 

A candid shot with the Bao. 

Big Update

Update on big update lol: Busier day than I expected. I got my MRI and I do have a fused bone in my ankle so I will get surgery when summer comes 0.o

I at least downloaded all the pictures on the computer. Tomorrow I will save them all then upload them for your viewing pleasure.

I'm sorry, but here are some Xiao Bao pics to tie you over:
http://usera.imagecave.com/HBThingy/xiaobao003.jpg
http://usera.imagecave.com/HBThingy/xiaobao004.jpg
http://usera.imagecave.com/HBThingy/xiaobao005shrunk.PNG

Thanks Enoch. At least my leg will feel better and I can maybe ram people with a wheel chair for several weeks ^^.



Tomorrow night I will make a huge update with photos and neat stuff.

Stuff to look forward to:

New Profile pic
Xiao Bao pictures galore
Pumpkin pics
Squidworks meeting and sketchcrawl
Life Drawings

and if I get these all up with time to spare I will update my comic...although I can't color it :(

Phew, I would have updated sooner, but fall break has been rather busy. I have to get a MRI for my foot in the morning. My right foot has been aching ever since I started working. I thought I put too much stress on the foot, but I might actually have a fused bone in the ankle. This explains why it hurts soo much. That was rather too much information lol.

Let the updates begin!

Ba gah?

Two weeks before fall break and Thanksgiving...

For some reason right now it feels like finals. I have a biology project due Thursday. I presented my speech on Japan's wartime atrocities in speech class (I always wanted to research this.)
Plus, I have a funeral for my grandfather on Saturday. (Pretty odd situation since I never knew him. I don't even remember his face.)
Also Sunday I'm going to the Squidworks meeting to do a Sketch Crawl.
http://www.squidworks.com
http://www.sketchcrawl.com

This week is already turning out bad and will probably worsen until Sunday.

I want turkey really bad and I want to update my comic and blog really bad.

Thanks Enoch, Romy, and Bemmie for all of your comments. Sorry I couldn't reply immediately.

"Ephemeral comics" may be the official name of my new url. I picked "ephemeral" because my artwork is best in black and white with bits of color. Plus, charcoal is a crucial medium I will use in the future. This medium has an airy and frail quality that can really make comics fun. The name just sound so dramatic and real.

I recently saw this awesome book about Van Gogh's drawings. I was really surprised he sketches like he paints. The style is so beautiful, and the drawings have swirls and lines that seemingly map the feeling of a paintbrush. I tried this type of technique on a tree I was drawing, and it made it 50% better.

Here are some of his drawings:
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Van_Gogh/images.asp

"The Cypresses" just gave me chills. ^^

The Xiao Bao pictures will (cross your fingers) be put up this weekend.
hehe it's really funny. I never noticed how much he grew until my sister saw some baby guinea pigs. Xiao Bao is pretty huge now. I think he grew 2 inches. He can almost get out of the gate I have o.0. Yet, he's still just as adorable when I first got him.

Wow this is a really long post. Well, back to my art seminar paper...what a long week this is going to be and Enoch don't give up on your website!! :D

Profile change

I couldn't stand looking at my profile pic anymore. It's kind of creepy seeing your face so much lol. I'm probably going to put up a better pic or a doodle of me.

I also updated my interests a bit. Franz Ferdinand finally got on the music list. They rock and Alex Kapranos always has the sexy eyes lol.

For some art fun go check out Lui Ferreyra's work. I saw his figure painitngs at Emmanuel Gallery. He also has a pretty nifty site.
http://www.luiferreyra.com/

California cries

There is a Shojo Manga Exhibition at California State University.....dear god they have Clamp art.
http://animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=7720

Maybe I should quickly fly out to California to see this exhibit.....wait I don't have any money. (cries) I haven't been this depressed about living Colorado since Maaya Sakamoto performed at the Anime Expo. Curse you California fo getting such awesome stuff. You better go if you're in California!

Hey Em....they said it's coming to Chicago art Institute as well. (shakes fist)

That's it I'm moving to California as soon as possible.

Halloween and Randomness

Xiao Bao's costume has already come in. He's going to be a cowboy. I put the hat on him and it seemed to stay on. hehe I'll post some pics on Halloween.

I'm really behind on Halloween this year. I haven't decided what picture I should carve on the pumpkin. I'm tempted to do this VGCats template.
http://vgcats.com/news/pumpkins/leo.gif

I'm silly and masochistic. I may even do a XXXholic pumpkin. Clamp art is sooo hard to carve lol. If it's good maybe I'll enter it in to this contest.
http://animenewsnetwork.com/contest.php?id=64 Soo much dvds :D

And about DayDream....it's been almost three months since I updated it. (I'm terrible.) Well, as soon as fallbreak comes I'm going to try to make up for lost time. The problem with leaving a comic for soo long is that other ideas pop into your head that are better. I'm going to finish the comic for sure though.

I want to get an official domain...that illustrates the comics to come...kind of like a label. I really need some ideas.

Flipbook comics <---maybe
Drip comics
Label Eraser
Comic Gems
Felt Comics
Colorless comics
Coal comics
Visionary comics
Volatile comics
Ephemeral <-----maybe
Meteoric comics <-----maybe
Reverie comics ( may be taken already)

All of these names are crappy. I mean names like "Flight", "Squidworks", and "Blank Labels comics" are awesome names. Okay...Ephemeral would be an awesome name too....but it may be too serious. And Meteoric is interesting, but people may think I do sci-fi comics....(I really hate spaceships lol)

Give me some ideas wonderful bloggers!

I admit

I really want to open myself up as an individual, so just like Conan O'Brien's celebrity secrets segment. Here are my (whispers) "Secrets."

1) I really like anime and no not the tentacle stuff or Yugi-oh.

2) I saw the first three Pokemon movies in theaters. I'm not that bad. When I saw the third movie, a 40 year-old guy with loads of snacks around him giggled "Pika pika."

3) People who learn Japanese to be hip really annoys me.

4) Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar? Ellen stole the cookie from the cookie jar.Who me? Yes you! Couldn’t be! Then who... (I lied. I really did steal those yummy cookies and they were good.)

5) I don't know Chinese or Kung Fu and please don't call me a twinkie.

6) Moths and spiders freak me out.

7) Shopping carts are the devil.

8) I get jealous when I see really fantastic art.

9) I'm beginning to think only winning the lotto will insure my chances to go to Calarts (around $30,000 a year).

10) Xiao Bao is my new hairy chested boyfriend XD.

Now you know some of my (whispers) secrets. And yes I will buy a Powerball ticket for the 340 million jackpot. I really only want one million for goodness sakes.

Halloween

Hehe this year Halloween maybe more exciting than usual.

http://cuddlycavies.homestead.com/costumes.html

I am so bad lol. I might get Xiao Bao the Cowboy outfit and the santa hat. The pirate outfit is just too tempting....now if I got the turkey outfit Xiao Bao will never speak to me again lol.

Tell me what other outfits I should consider....

Gosh now I know why some parents go crazy in dressing up their kids.

Wallace and Gromit

A great and cute movie with classic wit and intelligence. I was so happy to hear that the movie made it to number one. Aardman deserved it, but they didn't deserve this :
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/10/aardman.fire/index.html

I consider Aardman's work high art and when something so amazing is destroyed. It just breaks my heart. Just like when Edvard Munch's "The Scream" was stolen and damaged, I just felt hopeless.

Thankfully nobody was hurt in the fire and Aardman will make new creations to fill up another warehouse, but I would have loved to have seen an Aardman museum of such wonderful creations.