Sundays and YesterSketches

"SUNDAY WE MEET AGAIN."

and I'm behind once again.
But it's not Sunday's fault I forgot my camera yesterday to take pictures in the city with for my Photoshop project due TOMORROW.

There were so many great captions that I saw with the potential of a damn A+!
The project is mainly doing color selections on a grayscale and what not. Still in the basics of photoshop thus far into the semester.

So I decided to head to the city yesterday and meet up with a bunch of my friends. Otherwise I had planned to stay home to finish the Sisly painting and then work on other projects...

"...like my photoshop one..."

Now I'm technically behind BUT it's okay. I had a good time yesterday with friends AND I made some good loving with my sketchbook.

LOOKIE!


"I Love the way these markers are working for me!"

The first one was fun doing because the guy was practically right in front of me on the train and my friend was being very conspicuous, continuously poking at me that he might be looking.
I made the other Munny's ear too big. But its okay. Then I realized how flamboyant I made it's highlights. And the Ikaris Munny that I would love to make! I wanted to do a project with them and do a whole superhero collection of them for a project. But that's something I'll do in the future when I have more extra free time and extra cash to spend on all of those Munnies.

"OH!"

And definately looking forward to reading
WATCHMEN.
My friend gave me his graphic novel because I've been missing out on a lot of amazing reads because I don't take the time to dig through any form of literature...

::scratches head::

Art Club Fun

The first thing I want to say for this entry is that

I JOINED THE ART CLUB!

I know, I know. Big woop, anyone can join. But for me it's something special because it's the first time I've actually gotten involved in such a thing.

"And I'm SO set on it!"

Like I'm really trying to throw in ideas and inspirations to whatever task we are going to present in terms of representing the club to its full extent. I'm so excited for everything about it. Especially the random trips to random places, mainly museums here and far. Last year the club actually had gone to Philadelphia! I forgot for what but heck, thats Awesome anyway!
This October we're actually set on going to the Botanical Garden in the Bronx. I can't wait to get closer to the people and share artworks and visions and just expand my mind and talents even further.

So today, since most of the clubs have just settled and started a small group, Nassau held the Student Activities Fair where all of the clubs in the school come together in one huge lot and just represent and try to bring in more and more students and have them more involved. Personally, aside from the breakdancing club, I feel like ours was one of the most attractive booths set. Everyone was hanging out doing their job mingling and talking up how amazing the art club truly is (::wink::). What made it even better was that a couple of us (three including me) had some artworks to represent some styles and views the club had. We even had a bunch of food from our leader who works at Starbucks.
Fresh food in terms of small coffee cakes, banana nuts, glazed watchamacoffee cakes - that gets thrown away every close because they always serve their products fresh... Dunkin' Donuts does it also... and Auntie Anne's.... I think Pretzel Time... and any other companies you can think of that I can possibly digress the topic about how wasteful they are...

"but, mmm... Starbucks..."

We had coffee, balloons, really bright table cloth... and to top it off we had a small print making demo where two of our members printed the art club flyer design on tshirts. I wish I had brought my camera to show how we had everything displayed in our gallery made up of 8 pieces taped on a mobile chalkboard.

"It feels AMAZING to finally be so involved"

Here are the pieces I made though. I had promised the club I'd work on 3 large pieces to present for everyone on Tuesday. Pieces I started from then til late last night...

"Alll last night..."
(allowing me only 45 minutes of sleeptime until my eight o'clock English class...)
"and I'm still awake... why?"

All in that order. I actually liked the way they all turned out, except maybe the middle one... Which looks much better in the picture than actuality. They're mainly self portraits fun and exciting to catch the eye and represent the art club through a saying.

::SIGHhhhh::

That whole hour of just promoting the club was just so much fun. Then I had work two hours later where I had to fight against my horribly fatigued body to work against seven more hours before I sank deep in my bed...

OH so UPDATE on the painting!
Take a look.
I'm not gonna say much for it now but that I'm happy with how its turning out but of course.

"truly I can't stand looking at it because the unfinished piece is just SO obnoxious..."


"Go Sisley!... ..."

Hot Artistic Mess

Hot Artistic Messy Sunday...

I've been locked up in my room all day working on this Sisley painting. I haven't worked on it in a couple of days due to work and school and a Thursday where I did absolutely nothing but deteriorate in front of my laptop for about 20 hours...
Started on it a little after an hour since I woke up and had major trouble getting the certain colors I wanted to use.

"Mixing paint to the exact color is harder than I had figured..."

So most of the time I did painting it today was all put on getting the right color. Otherwise I'm confident the painting you see in the background would had more to it than the sky I've had on it for a while now. Overall I'm having fun with this project, after fighting off a couple of nagging distractions, such as my dad bothering me about dragging my 90 lb bulldog out of under my bed for a shower...

"My mind has been so... erratic today."

I still feel like everything is just bouncing around my skull as I type this. Twitching and shaking my legs... I don't know what's wrong with me. I need to get out.

"Don't care where, but somewhere brighter than here..."

back to painting...

Inspiration with a side of Narcissm

Enjoying my Sunday night with a cup of hypnotiq
and a moment of narcissm.

So here I am on another wasteful Sunday.
Allowing my all alluring laptop to take hold of another hour of what's left of my day...
I should be painting but I just needed something to level my mind... and to me, nothing does it better than writing. As you can see from the background of the image, it's what I have so far under that Sisley project due in a week or two... I forget. Having some trouble with the sky but I'll get it no worries.
Wasn't needed at work so I stayed home and stared at my non productive computer screen providing me contact with other life forms keeping me company through instant messages.

"OH, how fun."

I ended up just reading a blog and by the time it hit two, I figured I'd do something productive with myself. I decided I'd catch up on one of my current favorite shows;
I Want to Work for Diddy.
Before this show, I never looked up to Diddy as the man with the golden touch. Little did I know of course what an inspiring person he is and exactly what he offers to the world under his name and how he presents it. All of the hard work he puts, through hours of his own sweat and determination, brought him to the level of fame people acknowledge today.

"I've always praised the value of Hard Work to get you to where you want."

and hearing him - not as the musician - but as the hard working business man that he truly is, gives me all the more drive to follow under this belief and just give every piece of me to get to the top of the steps.

"Ambition is my muse. Mind, Body and Soul I offer to it..."

"Greatness comes to those who earn it"
-Sean "P. Diddy" Combs

P.S.
"That leech "Poprah" needs to gtfo already. Laverhne leaving was my last straw!"

Gump and Sisley

FAVORITED!

Sometimes I ask myself how I manage to let all of these well known - award winning movies just pass right through my life for so long. I really do ask myself heavily about it because I've spent so much of my teen life doing completely nothing!

"Seriously... How do I manage? ... ... "

So as you've probably figured, I've just watched Forrest Gump completely for the first time in my deprived life. And for the first time, in a long time, I am in awe. Everything about the movie just hit me so good. I'm not a major history buff or anything but the subject of revolution and civil movements of the 60s and 70s have always grabbed me immensely in films like these. All of the historical moments and how they just threw Forrest's character into it was genius.
It really made me think about so much in life that I really needed to see in an example for me to finally move on from this ditch I've lodged myself in. I've been completely contemplative about so many things dealing with the future in terms of friendships, relationships, careers and just where in the heck I'm gonna find myself in the long run in terms of me and my art. Just so many things have been running through my head about it all and...
.
"I just can't stop Thinking!"

But all is well.
I've been completely and utterly moved and am damn happy I decided to push aside a couple of homeworks to watch this heartful movie (finally). I've needed to get away from all of the generic flamboyancies and comedies and watch a movie that actually hits a nerve in you.

One of the scenes that moved me the most;
"and am still getting over...ughh so gooood"
was when Jenny came back to Forrest towards the end and they came back to her old house.

"The symbolism in this was just Amazing..."

::sigh...::

Okay I'll get over it as I end this blog with a quick update on my painting project.
No more Van Gogh's "Undergrowth with Two Figures"... Seeing as I had forgotten that image at home for class today... I was forced to choose a new one to be productive with class time. Which throughout time failing to paint the sky with the original subtlety because of my lack of color mixing abilities in acrylics as of yet, became more advantageous and preferable. But here's my new project study;

"Flood at Port Marley" by Alfred Sisley

I've really began to fall in love with this piece myself mainly because of the browns and blues he used. I've always been attracted to light and stand out color combinations and this one just catches my eye the way I like it.
As a performance update seeing as I can't seem to find my digital camera, my rendition looks somewhat like that just... really... freaking obnoxious and too many extra strokes.

::grumbles::

If you don't know him like I don't...
Here's a link to a site with some information on Sisley.
http://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/sisley.php

Jinx and a Poem

So UNFORTUNATELY...

I jinxed myself on the planning of that short movie me and my friend had aspired to do.
It seems that she has succumbed to the schedule of the active senior in high school. It's all okay though because I offered another (yet to be started) project to another one of my more than willing friends. We see eye to eye on a variety of things so hopefully we can make something amazing to start of my malnourished passion for film and directing. Which I've only treated once in my short attention spanned life. All it is are our ideas and our reliance on this one fragile digi-camera...

::crosses fingers::

I don't have much to write about this blog around but I can offer you guys a poem I had just recently wrote and edited for the attraction of your wandering eyes.

"Hope I did well on the editing as well as the poem!"

Small Announcement

Does that look like me AT ALL?
No it doesn't... Well... Kinda... They didn't have a darker skin option... My friend sends me an IM telling me to make one from FaceYourManga.com. HIS came out good. Mine... needs a tan. And the site needs a better selection of features.

"As if I need to be remind of how dark I already am..."

Whatevers...

Wow so today wasn't too bad for a sunday. I usually lay low on this day of the week and either work or stay home... Unless I really need to go out. BUT its cool. I wasn't entirely supposed to work today but my manager had to fill in hours for the week because my store isn't closing down for renovation anymore. The company totally screwed us all over last minute right on the day we were supposed to close with the reason under that they messed up on the permit... Which sounds like a load of shidoobie to me.

"Shidoobie... I love that word..."

ANYWAYSS to more important things!
I've really been considering joining an Art Club in my school.
Don't know which one but hopefully I'll find a good one with awesome people and amazing artists all in one jampacked academic orgy! Aside from starting a network of friends and artists, I truly want to be more involved in the school and it's art matters.

"I want to be one of Those guys."

Then again... who doesn't?

So I bought my art supplies yesterday over at the Utrecht Art Store over in Carle Place. If you know about it, yes it's the new one. My painting teacher recommended it to the class and boy was it a help ^^. Got some good deals and and apparently I caught them right on sale! What made it even greater was that it was saturday... The day of Hannah blessing her stormy remnants upon us New Yorkers... Why?

"Because I love rain and also because every one else was hiding from Hannah."

How much can people complain about getting a little bit wet?

So Anywayzzz.
THE SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT I HAVE IS THAT
I'm starting a short movie project with a good friend of mine.
I won't tell you exact details of it all just yet but that it's about a girl and her guitar. Starring her, me, her guitar and others that have yet to be established. I've been working on the script on my free times these past days. But generally been attempting to draw up the storyboards and what not. The direction is more towards a bit of a comedy/romance. And the music is going to be all of my friend's original riffs and songs from her acoustic. So it's something we're both setting our eyes on. It's definitely new to us film-newbies so hopefully we can pull it off with our... digicams...
But we'll leave that for you guys to decide once we put it up on youtube... months from now.

Here's a quick preview.
It's a rough sketch out of the first half of the beginning.

working on the script and pages now before we actually start filming around our busy schedules...

P.S. What is up with all if this retarded changing font business when I post the blog? The sizes either change or the font goes off as you can see above... If you have any idea, Don't hesitate to tell me... Unless you truly are That evil...

Unrelated and Random Blog...WITH amazing Artists!

Alriiiiight! I finally got my layout goinggg!

"Awesomeness."

Just a quick update for that one fun factor for the start of this blog.
I feel like throwing up a little for some reason.

"...I'm not a man of goodbyes..."

Don't get it? It's okay... Because I do.
Oh but Do check out these artists that caught me at first glance.

Carmine Di Giandomenico
Yuko Shimizu

Uninspired Layout and a Mustache

Okay sSSO.
I just have absolutely no idea what to do for my lay out as of yet.
I know I want to place a main mural on the header. A mural in which I have yet to compose... Because that green header is really tending to grow more and more... well actually its whatever. But i don't like it anymore!

::grumbles::

What else... Color scheme, format, arrangements and fonts... Bah whatever now I'm just trying Really hard to procrastinate on this finance reading...

"Oh yeah, I think I might grow a mustache... Like seriously."

I kind of want one.

::shrug::

:)

Artistically Excited

What's that equation on the top you say?
Figure it out... Long story short... Most people who work around Nassau (aside from the teachers and the info desk of course). Most likely know almost nothing about the campus and do no good to us but provide us food... that's It.

Okay so yes. I was right about my back to back art classes. I'm definitely looking forward to the upcoming days. There were things I loved about the classes. But the negatives definitely stood out pretty quick. So let me get those out of the way.

Why is it that, all of these graphic design seniors or juniors, or whatever, always have to carry themselves like they know everything. They walk around so freaking confident about their knowledge about everything and always throw in their own smart little remarks during the class time. Great your amazing at Photoshop. You've made it pretty clear that you're well above the advanced level of everyone in the class.

"Now shut the hell up with your fun little quirky 'oh just to let you know because I know and you obviously don't' remarks and just like... sit there... and be awesome at photoshop to yourself. Smug bastards..."

It's Annoying...

For my painting class, everything there is peachy aside from the fact that there are only like... 5 guys in probably the little over 20 roster. Now I don't have a problem with girls or anything but I just felt a little awkward with the majority. But just like the boring first day card says, "Give it all time."

"I should really be focusing more on how to blow up the upcoming project rather than how many girls are in the class anyway..."

Speaking of the upcoming project. We're going to attempt to immitate impressionist masterpiece paintings within the up and coming three weeks. I'm not sure if we'll have class time to do it, but yeah, three weeks is our time gap starting now I guess. Gotta hurry and buy all of those paints and supplies now!
The piece I chose to do from the various piles of scanned masterpieces my professor threw at us to dig in is the piece:

Undergrowth with Two Figures by Vincent Van Gogh
This one for a first project is gonna be a toughy because I've never used Acrylics before... And now I'm being asked to use it on a 20x30 canvas!? You have NO idea how excited I am. ^^

But back to my Graphic Design class. This class is something I've truly needed for a while now. Electronic imaging last semester was a great introduction to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. But I truly wanted to gain better knowledge in Photoshop instead of using this Gimp program that I've grown very used to. Also the fact that Gimp hardly compares to the potential of Photoshop.

The Gimp Program is a decent picture editing and manipulating software, but it can be a little stiff around the edges with some of its processes. Although I'm not one to rate on quality of picture manipulating programs, the 2 or 3 years I've messed around with Gimp keeps me confident to say that it's a decent program. Fun and simple to use. Straight forward non the less.

So yes! My first day with my two art classes was interesting. I was completely uncomfortable throughout the start of the classes not because of the negatives I stated, but because I was intimidated. Aside from my graphics teacher being a little blunt and strict with his stern intro to the class who actually seems kinda cool really, I was plainly just intimidated.

"Took me a while to understand why but I realized it was because I was in a totally new atmosphere that I've only ventured in for so long with my art."

I feel I'm well below average with the skill these two classes are demanding of me and for once I've come to see that I'm a little bit out of my element. But that's not to say that I'm not gonna try my best to attempt to do amazing pieces... If anything, me being generally new to these subjects gives me more of a reason to use my talents and expand my skill of mediums.

"I'm so frikkin' excited..."

Boring First Day...

::SIGHHH::

I've just gotten home from my first day of classes. I had English and Finance today which in terms of teachers was overall pretty moderate. So what the heck am I "sigh-ing" about now? The classes in general! I know it's still my first day but I just feel like the diversity is just lacking. I guess I just miss my whole being in the art building for half of my classes thing. Which for the most part I am... But this time around I just feel a lack in artistry in it all. I am not swayed at all by the energy I'm getting from my classes.

But I'll give it the Boring First Day card.

"For some reason I'm actually looking forward to when the weather starts cooling down."

So once I got home I looked at a couple of my friends on my buddy list who all go to schools in the city. I just compared their experience in the city to the experience I have at boring old Long Island... How envious I am of how lucky they are to be there right now. But it's ok. I'll have my day when I'm walking down those blocks with a cup of coffee in one hand and a veiled canvas with an amazing piece of artwork I have for one of my class projects in the other. Sipping that warm coffee in a ridiculously early hour and smelling the morning city air...

"hmmmm... I can picture it all now. It's amazing..."

quick 25 minute or so sketch. something like that... yeah... ^^

You know what I think the drag is for me?
I'm not feeling the artistic challenge that I'm currently craving right now. The feeling of coming into the school and just having a sense of worth instead of just coming in just to attend a class and pass. The way I've carried myself throughout a majority of my school years when things like that Should have mattered. I'll see if I can try and join a club. I want to feel a sense of importance in that school. Passing through the art department and looking into the art rooms just made me want to just sneak into an art class and forget about the rest of my other classes. I looked at the artwork on display and just took it in as I just passed by it all. They weren't all amazing pieces but they were a connection of a network of artists I wish to surround myself with. Although there was this one painting that I definitely did not give enough respect to as I just walked by and did only a couple of take backs on.

"I must go back and stare at it tomorrow!"

Then on my way to the bathroom I ran into my 2D Design professor from last semester. And that just made me want it all even more. It was so refreshing to me for some reason.

So I'm hoping for tomorrow to be a sense more intriguing. I have my back to back art classes set. Graphic Design and Painting all in 6 jampacked hours of art. I make it sound so exciting but on the inside, I just feel like it's gonna be a long day. Today totally sucked the energy right outta me. I wonder if me having only two hours of sleep from last night has anything to do with it...

::shrug::

Time to Get Serious

Well so it's Labor Day and also, the last day of summer for me. What did I do with my day? Work and hung out at a friend's house in Long Island and ended up watching "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry." A favorite of my random comedies mainly because of Kevin James. I totally adore him ^^. Especially for the fact that it's a gay comedy. LOVES ET!
No party over here though. Just casual hanging out with my tired and sulking self.

"Shake it off!"

So classes are starting tomorrow. I'm attending Nassau Community College for the rest of the year and a half ( 3 semesters) I have left including this one at present. I'm planning to finish up the 2 years at Nassau with blow out art project entries and make my way towards getting into Parsons with a more confident portfolio. Which is my main goal as of yet. I NEED to make it. Otherwise I'll probably fall into FIT and rework my way into Parsons again.

"I'm scared and insecure about it all...
But I Have to make it..."

I'm taking four classes this semester; English, Finance, Graphic Design for my second term and a Painting class because I've never officially taken an actual painting class throughout my years of art. Actually, I've never taken ANY actual art classes except from the art classes I had from my public high school and middle school where I was practically ADD with my academic responsibilities. Kind of surprises me now that I think about it that I actually kept a decent level of grades. But I did and I'm damn proud that I got out of those ghetto/thug life influenced theme of surroundings.
But yes, I'm excited to finally hone my skill in painting and move up another skill in graphic design. Because I totally lack in general photoshop skills and whatnot. Which reminds me that I need to get better at Adobe Illustrator...

"hrmm..."

I'll keep all of my art homeworks and projects posted for this blog. Which is what I'm making this blog all about.
My artwork and ideals towards my artistic goals in life.
So I definately can't wait for my back to back art classes on Wednesday! Get this artwork rolling!

***
"So I'm getting less than 4 hours of sleep now because..."

I've been working on my layout for the past couple of... well for the past hour. I realized that I have no idea what to do with my page yet nor what to write in all of these descriptions and profile perks and whatnot. Getting a little frustrated because I want to do a lot to get my page going. Such as a big mural kind of thing going on on the top of my title section representing me and my art.
"UGHH!!!"

::frustration::

I'll get it down though.
SPIFF IT UP!