Updates and Goals
Okay, so I've been out of school for almost two months now and things haven't been going as well as I hoped. I've come to a stand still in the whole job search thing, it's slow at my current job so there's not a lot of work, and I haven't done nearly as much art as I would like. While things were a lot harder in school, at least I didn't have to worry about the real world crashing down on me just yet. Although, I really don't miss the constant homework...
Anyway, I figure it's about time that I start focusing on something and while I battle the job market that thing might as well be some artwork. Usually, every time I try to set some goal here on DA I end up quickly failing in it. But hopefully that won't be the case this time, as I think I'm setting a reasonable goal for myself that I should be able to stick to (I hope!) So my goal is this...for everyday in the month of February I will draw something. It might be a finished piece or it might be some small sketches. It may take me two hours or more or it might be just ten minutes. No matter what it is or how long it takes me, my goal is to draw. I probably won't update everyday, but I'll definitely try to post that week's pieces by the end of that week. I'll see how well I can stick to this goal for February and, if it goes well, I might think about extending it into March. Only time will tell though.
I'm also working on some bigger pieces and ideas, so I'll try to work on those as well. I'm really excited for the one piece I'm working on now, I just hope I can make it look the way I want it to in my head. Also, as I keep attempting to do, if anyone wants to offer me a suggestion or challenge me to draw something feel free and I'll take it into consideration. I'm definitely willing to challenge myself and try something new.
So yeah, just wanted to post about some updates and my current goals. I'll probably upload today's drawing in a little while, since it's more finished than a sketch. I'm certainly excited for this personal challenge though and hopefully I can keep that enthusiasm up for the entire month!
It's the Holidays!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Everyone! 
I'm Alive!!
So I finally have time to get onto DA and I realized something...I haven't been on here in forever! It's been months since I've really done anything and goodness, my last journal entry was from like last July. Definitely time to write a new journal and one that isn't so full of ranting like the last one was.
So anyway, the last couple of months/semester has been insane. School was pretty much running my life with all the homework and art projects that I had to work on, including the stuff for my senior show (which thankfully turned out great in the end!). I also was doing an internship, which I absolutely loved and am so thankful to have had that oppertunity. However, now it's summer and things have wound down quite a bit. I only have one more semester to go as well as some summer classes and then I'll be done. Yay!!
As far as art goes, I'll hopefully be doing a lot more in the coming months. Especially now that I have the time to do personal stuff thats not driven by deadlines and assignments. I have some stuff that I'm working on, as well as some randomness that I'll probably be posting in the coming days/weeks/months. And as I've kinda tried for the past two summers, if anyone wants to challenge me to draw something (within reason), feel free. I can't guarentee I'll get it done in a timely fashion but I'll certainly try. (Finally finished that Psych picture that I was challenged to draw like two summers ago. I'll be uploading it very soon!)
So yeah, that's pretty much it. It's great to be back!
Random Supernatural quote: "I'm sitting in a laundry mat reading about myself, sitting in a laundry mat reading about myself. My head hurts." -Dean
Random Leverage quote: "Did you just kill a guy with an appetizer?"- Nate "I don't know, maybe." -Eliot
Technology hates me...
So it's official, technology hates me. My laptop decided to die on me about three weeks ago and I had to send it in for repairs. Thankfully it was still covered under my warranty but that was only one of the few good things about the entire fiasco. The other good things were that they were able to repair it and with all of the new parts that I got my computer is practically brand new. However, while it was away the hard drive crashed and so they replaced that too. Which means I lost basically everything. Ugh, why me?
My computer seems so strange to me now that it's not even funny. I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm happy that it's fixed and that it has new parts but I would like to still have my old hard drive. I lost a lot of my music, my artwork and photos, documents from the past year or so related to school, among other things. This isn't the first time something has happened that caused me to lose everything; I've had some bad luck with computer viruses in the past. You would think I'd learn to be a bit better about backing stuff up...but apparently not. What's really a pain is that I was just starting to back that stuff up so that something like this wouldn't happen to me. Obviously I was a little too late on that one.
Oh well, nothing I can do now but try to get my computer back to some semblance of normalcy. Of course it's going to be quite a while before that happens. At least I changed the wallpaper to something that didn't scream new computer; I couldn't stand seeing the laptop brand's logo staring me in the face. Only time I want my laptop to look like a new computer is when it's a new computer.
Sometimes it seems like if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any at all.
Back from the dead
Ugh, so much stress and work has gone into the last semester. I honestly didn't think that I was going to survive it. Though thankfully it's now over and I don't have to deal with those classes anymore. Yay!
But really, it's been forever since I've been on here let alone written a journal so I figured that it was about time I did so. Especially since I now have free time thanks to summer vacation. So let's see...what to write about?
Well, for one thing I hope to be focusing on art a lot more this summer. I have to work toward my senior show next year and besides having to think about what the heck I want to do for it I can use all the practice I can get. So because of that I still want to try taking suggestions, so if anyone would like to suggest something for me to try drawing please feel free. (Still working on one from last summer though, a picture of Shawn and Gus from Psych. Major fail at getting it finished...It's almost done though, I swear!) I also plan on getting better at finishing things within a decent amount of time, haha...
Ideally I would like to try posting something to DA at least once a week, but I never really do well with that kind of thing so I'm not going to hold myself to that. Basically my goal is to just draw and do artwork as much as possible and to upload here on a somewhat regular basis. If that happens or not we shall have to see...especially since there's a ton of work and stuff that I have to do over the summer, ugh. Oh well, I'm going to try and stay positive!
So I have no idea what else to write so I guess I'll just leave it at that. Man, it feels so great to be back!
