“Hey Jake, go police somebody else’s blog”

I was in the exactly same situation all week during April, and sadly I didn’t meet one deadline which was the first exhibition at my school =| But the second one hosted here I will enter some of my work for sure. Keep your head up and be happy, it gets better later on

Also, if you have time like later later (in a couple of months?) I wanted to ask if you want to do some collaborative work. I don’t have anything in mind right now since I am finishing up projects for my class and other illustrations for myself. If you are interested then let me know! Take care!

Hey I really appreciate you explaining to me about the Dove! I did ask my mom but that symbols with the bird wasn’t in her department (I was in shock, I thought my mom knew everything haha) But thank you for that Tannie, hopefully that dove comes back to my window tomorrow. And I try to keep it at my window (aka lure it, I am not mean enough to trap the poor thing) by putting a bit of cooked rice outside my window … the Dove hasn’t show up in the past two days. And my Filipino neighbor (all girls) are going like “did your rice cooker broke or something?” xD Man, now I look like an idiot with a bunch of rice outside my window ahahaha. Hopefully the dove will drop by tomorrow morning to hang out by my window again.

I find the 30 day challenge to be difficult as well even though I’ve made no attempt at starting it. There is so much stuff already happening in my life that I can’t seem to find time and dedicate 30 days to that challenge, it would be way too stressful. I think we all (art students) should just make the best of our education while we have the chance, and if there is time then we can put those time into side projects (in my case then is my art website). You’ll have time soon Tannie, just make sure you keep rockin with your art classes, main priority!

With my novel … man I don’t even want to think about it. So many projects in my head right now, information overload fa sho. And I believe Art Center does require you to finish up an English class. I am not certain since some private art school don’t really care about your GE’s as long as you meet the criteria of their degree, but I am kind of sure that Art Center is one of those school that requires you to finish up your GEs. I’ve finish my English requirement (oh thank Buddha!) and there is a few left for my GE (History, Science, you know … the blah blah department) >_<;

I am way too occupied with my 5 art classes this semester, there was room for me to fit my science class but I rather stay “okay” then go insane. Have a good week Tannie, talk to you next time!

… and thanks for your comment on my blog.

Jacq

And I just looked up that 30 Day Challenge with Ed Dale … wah? 0_0; Well I don’t have any plan to market myself at that rate because I am a fresh artist, I have no experience with managing business globally just yet.

I wouldn’t say that I am good Tannie, I try to draw as much as I can but there has been a lot of ups and down in life so I can’t really focus that much. I feel that I am developing a style of my own but as in “being good”, well nah I don’t think so =| There is so much to learn in such a small amount of time. And I will surely link you to my site once I bring it up next month.

Everyone’s life is different, I believe you are sacrificing as much time as me in art as well. Maybe I am pushing myself too hard, I don’t even know anymore. There are those days where I sit down and just can’t draw anything, maybe my mom is right about being in the “mood” to draw because I find it hard to sit down and finish up at least one artwork every night. With all of the projects from my classes in the back of my head that I need to finish up (and I am not those kind of student who tend to half ass my work, so I spent a lot of time on it … way too much sometimes.) there are some days where I just snap and then burned out just like that.

That pokemon quote is cool! And it is true, there is always someone better then you. So that should push you to work harder, even through you might never surpass that person above you but at least it’ll get you way far from the ordinary crowd. Oh by the way, I never knew that gargling salt + warm water helps with sore throat 0_0; That was a very helpful tip dude! Keep Arting and I hope your arm gets better!

I’ve been to Aethereality before, but I didn’t know they had a gallery, I mostly go there because of photoshop tutorials.

I feel bad for not knowning more about European artists though because I know there’s a lot of people in Western society that does beautiful fine arts and a lot contemporary talents. My teacher has been having us look at other figure artists and I’ve been looking into Juliet Aristides. She’s not that great, but I think her pictures really pop out because of the crosshatching style. But there was another one that I was really enthralled by, but I wish I remembered that person’s name. Anyway, I’m hoping to invest in some art books in the near future and hope to find inspiration from different people. Should probably look into my own culture too.
Thanks again.

http://www.anonib.com/artgalleries/index.php?t=190

whos work is laced with homosexual undertones and blatancies of both genders, as well as a dark fetishism, but in a very classy and graphic in a non pornographic way. Its beautiful, in my opinion.

i never really think of the Yaoi/Shounen-ai thing that many anime and manga fans are ogling over when i think of these artists. i have no problem with either, and like it the same as any other art- if its presented well and with class, i can like it and probably will. I’m not one for seeing people (fictional or in this physical world) as objects to begin with, so that is my main issue with the whole thing. i’m not a fan of ’slashing’ people because they’re ‘hot’ or whatever. it lacks taste and maturity, in my opinion. Personally, gender doesn’t particularly exist to me, so it matters not, you know? i see the annoyances with the trend of fans though, definately.

haha, i spend a lot of time on art sites. i have many of them. If you like such watercolor styles, i think that you would also like the artist Rain. She is a chinese watercolor and digital artist:

http://animeartbooks.net/author/83-rain/

and much more (and a few of the same) here:

http://gallery.aethereality.net/list/artist/164/

With the boom, no wonder art school is hiking up their prices =| I learn to make a lot more sacrifice then before in order to sharpen my illustration skills and try to get ahead of those who just go to class and do THE exact assignment / criteria / never pushing beyond that. Seriously Tannie, like I’ve tried pulling an all nighter and it didn’t work out so well for me. Usual I sleep around 10 pm because it is a hard schedule to get rid off from middle / high school but on Tuesday (2 weeks ago) I stayed up until 2 am to finish up my storyboard project. That was way too hardcore for me, I don’t know how some of my friends pulled it together to finish up these stuff and still wake up early -_- But art at night is great, good atmosphere and it seems more calm drawing to the light of the lamp (maybe is just me, I am kind of weird when it comes to having a “setup” for my art station).

The past is the past, you can surely make your parent proud of you as a great artist after you’ve finish AAU over there That’s what I am going to do, prove my dad wrong haha … I love him to death but sometimes he can really be the baddest person in the world. With my website design … dude like I still need to draw myself a banner for the main site + my blog (because I can’t stand these natural and free banner that comes with the theme … xP Catch up na Tannie? You have a lot of time! Talk to you next time, take care!