Sleepy sleepy

Yeah, yeah, no right to be sleepy when you slept in till 10:40 but I was up late doing art again which nowadays is my only reason for staying up. I get the drive and can't sleep because of it. Oh well, I'm up now and FINALLY have a day off to get stuff done (so I'm procrastinating being productive by writing a blog, LOGIC!). Checklist for today is:

~clean and detail inside of car (Check! I did this yesterday so I wouldn't have to do it today)
~laundry (too much laundry, this is gonna take all day)
~Organize room (um....impossible. Just cleaning before I move out and starting to get boxes)
~Go to pet store (need more litter for Holiday and more food/litter for Dulce and a rolly ball for her also so I can clean her cage without watching her at the same time.)
~Mess around more on photoshop (have some WIP's[Work In Progress] I need to finish, including this one:


~Cook food (I gotta decide if I'm cooking or buying something simple like hamburger helper)
~ Stop at bank to deposit money for mom (health insurance and cell phone bill)
~oogle at AIF's website again
~Make sure everything is ready for next week when Heidi visits (clean sheets and such)


SO! That should be fun
Also, I saw Wall-e, the new Pixar/Disney movie and ooooooooh my god! Not only was the story line adorable and funny, this is how cartoons USED to be made. There isn't much dialog between the robots, save fore the occasional "wall-e" or "eeeeve" coming out all static sounding. This story is told by the music (just how I like it!) and expressions of the robots are through movement and "facial" expressions. The lesson of the movie cracks me up, especially how it is shown. The rendering in the movie was awesome (though in the space ship everything was smooth so textures weren't terribly abound) and the ending credits (this might only make sense to people who studied art) goes through the times of art, starting with cave paintings, then Egyptian, eventually going to impressionism and pointillism and ending in the digital age. All over, I loved this movie and want to see it again, and will continue watching it when I own it.


IN OTHER NEWS:
Ninja Gaiden II is so pretty and makes me want an xbox 360 JUST for that game. I watch some gameplay and sweet jesus, it had me drooling. More checklist:
~ Save up for xbox360 and ninja gaiden II
~get Mac laptop for art
~Finish Guiter Hero II

Photoshop

Lately, I've been trying to get the hang of photoshop, coloring, making clean lineart, etc.
I'm finding that everything you do on there takes TEN MILLION steps before you get what you wanted, but, after doing it about 5 times, you have the steps memorized and you can do them quickly. My latest excursion in photoshop-land resulted in this:(the resizing on this site makes the picture blurry)



I don't know how I feel about it, it's tiny and cute, but the layering process just about killed me. I'm so much more used to Open Canvas 4.05 in comparison to Photoshop CS3. There, when you layer one color on top of another, the colors blend a bit, giving a good basis for shadow (this is Open Canvas in "multiply" layer mode) But in Photoshop you have to select the color and find a darker shade which goes well with the first color, but they are in completely different layers! The result looks the same (except that of course, Open canvas imitates watercolor and photoshop has a more flat acrylic or gouche (did I spell that right?) feel to it.

I guess it's really just a matter of me getting used to it and learning everything I can about the program, no matter how much I miss Open Canvas. Haha.


IN OTHER NEWS:
Went to Ringling on Wednesday with my dad and step mom. Holy Crap. Like....there are no words for how much I love that school. Who knows, maybe it's just cause it's an art school and I'm so used to community college or UCF and feeling like there isn't anything there for me, now I've seen a school that has EVERYTHING I want and it's like some kind of sensory overload.
But, my dad and step mom went to The Art Institute of Florida (Fort Lauderdale location) and looked around for me and got information (which really is a great help, I just don't have the time to go many places with summer school and work and all that jazz) and my dad said he really liked it more than Ringling (he said it seemed less snooty, I think I was able to ignore the snootiness of Ringling because I was too flabbergasted at everything they had to offer). So I checked out the website and looked into their illustration program curriculum.

Holy Crap!....AGAIN!!! Another school which has what I want and FOR less. If I went to Ringling I'd be getting a major in illustration and visual development. Art Institute (AIF) has everything from Ringlings major and minor I'd be taking, crammed into one degree (save for a few classes, which I'm sure I could take as electives or something). AIF also doesn't start till October, which means I can still get in for fall (the big thing with Ringling is I couldn't get in till January AT THE EARLIEST and even so, I'd be a half-year freshman in January.) I'm obviously leaning towards AIF now, but for some reason, Ringling is still in the back of my head screaming "hey! what about me?!?!?" I guess thats normal, considering how long I've been talking about and thinking about Ringling.

Whatever will be, will be, and it will all turn out for the best.

JUST KIDDING

Decided to throw at least SOMETHING up here, so I doodled some fanart of the movie Ratatouille, one of my favorites. Seriously, Pixar Studios has changed the animation industry like nobodies business. And how they treat their employees on a daily basis is a testament to how a business can keep so many of their people on board, the turn over rate not being all that high from what I hear.

Wooo!

Man, never thought I'd have one of these...

After seeing my Step mom's journal, along with many other artists that I admire also keeping blogs, simply updating with doodles, ramblings and rantings etc I finally decided to take my shot at this. Mostly this is for those who are interested in knowing my day to day life, as well as a drawing exersize of sorts for myself. If I draw at least one thing everyday, specifically for this, then it should keep my "creative juices flowing", per say. That being said...I have no drawings for you today....


Well, I think we can all see how this is going to turn out...