| hourly comic day |
[03 Feb 2010|11:25pm] |
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the decemberists "the wanting comes in waves/repaid" |
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I did Hourly Comic Day on 1 February! I didn't draw all my comics on the hour, nor did I finish them all, but I'm doing that right now. For someone that 1) never draws comics and b) has never done Hourly Comic Day before, I think I did pretty good. Here is the first "panel", this is the style that they're in:
I've been thinking a lot about comics, which may sound dumb, but I was thinking about PANELS and how I can't draw within them. So I took a thing that I've seen on several French comic blogs, which is just drawing a drawing and then making it a panel by some other method than enclosing it in lines. I think it worked well. The only problem is resizing consistency in the end.
Speaking of French comic blogs, I really dig soit dit en passant, which I would translate as "should it be said in passing" (the subjunctive, dontchaknow). I love...well, pretty much everything about it.
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| excerpts from essay 1 |
[25 Jan 2010|09:19am] |
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This semester I'm in a writing class called "Getting it in Writing", taught by Prudence Mackintosh. It's basically about writing nonfiction (autobiographical/opinion) essays, and we'll be writing about a paper a week. While I despair about how much work it's going to be, I know it's going to help me be a better writer in the end. (I hope.)
Here are some unused sentences from the first essay, on the topic of "my writing life":
I will never again try to slog through the Lord of the Rings trilogy and I refuse to grace the book Twilight with even a reading of the back-cover summary.
I’m really at my best when I’m mocking or criticizing something; I don’t go in for “Chicken Soup for the Soul”-type heartwarming. In fact, show me a story from “Chicken Soup for the Soul” and I’ll probably mock or criticize it.
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[15 Jan 2010|06:40pm] |
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"causa y efecto" paulina rubio |
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| from depressed to super-bored |
[13 Jan 2010|07:29pm] |
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"chaiyya chaiyya" dil se |
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I admit it, there are things I could (and should) be doing, but I take this opportunity not to do any of them. It helps when you're waiting for a phone call that will never come to make plans that will never happen.
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| hola, me llama tristessa |
[12 Jan 2010|09:34pm] |
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"chuck" episode 3.1 |
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Hey dudes. I am sad today. Something about leaving a familiar and inhabited home for the unfamiliar, isolated desert wasteland that is campus. This always happens. Even more so now that it's my last semester, I feel that I have regressed because I'm back to living on campus with a roommate, and I feel it's useless making friends because I'm just going to leave them like all my friends have left me. AUGH I AM THROWING A PITY PARTY, EVERYONE IS INVITED BECAUSE I AM LONELY.
Here is some art that I have made.
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| get rrready |
[11 Jan 2010|10:21pm] |
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"community" episode 1 |
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ok, so geared up! going to austin tomorrow, the first thing i do after making my bed will be to unpack my printer/scanner and scan the pages i've made over the break! then i'm going to hang out with some austin-based friends... then i'm going to ART IT UP, baby!
</stalling>
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| hey guys, wanna play some hopscotch? |
[12 Dec 2009|05:52pm] |
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inxs "new sensation" |
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So when I went to Paris (oh man do I love saying that), I saw Mozart: L'opéra rock. You don't need to be a French rocket scientist to figure it out: it's a rock opera. It's kind of a mediocre show, but boy is it pretty! And the music is incredibly catchy, in an I-hate-myself-for-listening-to-this way. And it's intentionally historically inaccurate because it's trying to be cool. But it's in French, so all is forgiven. (Don't you just love that?) Anyhow, I've become kind of... obsessed. All my art lately revolves around this thing. As you can see.
(They're saying song titles, and they're not done yet.)
There's also this:
Which I unashamedly copied from a painting that I took a photo of in Montmartre. I'm not selling it, so I think it's okay.
A week from today, I will be flying across the Atlantic, back to good ole Texas. I have mixed feelings about that, but one thing I can say is I will be glad to get away from how cold it is here!
oh hey mountains, i didn't see you there
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| encounters on the tram |
[18 Nov 2009|07:38pm] |
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utada hikaru "keep tryin" |
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girl on the tram. her hair was maroon and her scarf was leopard-print in real life, and she was wearing awesome oxford-style high heels. but she looked a little mean.
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| bonne aventure |
[08 Nov 2009|10:11pm] |
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sondre lerche "i'll be ok" |
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So I'm back from Lisbon, and my camera isn't working, which has got me down. I can't get my Lisbon photos off. So I figured I'd give you a quick summary of my trips so far. Approximately 1 photo for each place, exactly 1 sentence for each photo.
( photos )
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| well hi there guys |
[25 Oct 2009|04:45pm] |
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kiss me kate "were thine that special face" |
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So I've been in France for about 2 months. Pretty cool. I've got pictures, I can upload those. I'm actually just recovering from this virus that hit me really hard and really fast; I went to visit a doctor who prescribed me some medicaments: an ibuprofen pill, nose spray, and really nasty-tasting syrup stuff (although honestly, what syrup stuff doesn't taste nasty?)
I haven't been doing as much painting as I wanted to (or art-journalling, I think this is because of my lack of supplies; and also reason 1 not to pack paints in a suitcase: the pressure it's under can pop the tube so that paint gets on and dries on everything else in the bag your paints are in, but good thing you put your paints in a plastic bag to begin with!), but I did buy this sketchbook thing and I was doing pretty well drawing stuff until the last couple of weeks.
Here is some of my sketching stuff, if you would like to see it.
( lots )
I am, however, working on a mini-book, San Francisco style. It's a little hard to work on it while I'm still on the trip though.
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| in what is probably the last post for a while |
[31 Aug 2009|01:43pm] |
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Guys. Guys.
I'm going to France, guys.
The butterflies in my stomach have set up for 4 months' housekeeping.
I just have to keep telling myself: you'll be fine. Everything will work out. You won't die (probably).
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| time warp |
[29 Aug 2009|10:09am] |
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beirut "la banlieue" |
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Redone page to reflect my trip to San Francisco.
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