Pear Pressure...

which is very similar to Peer Pressure, but much sweeter... I'm sorry, anyway. I just had one of those random thoughts that I have when I'm at work "working" on my projects so that I can "get them out on time". It ouccured to me that things I say might actually affect what other people say or do (like not wearing a muscle shirt to work. I'm sorry, it was funny, I laughed). That got me thinking about danio. You see, the essence of danio lies not in the beard, or the bandanas (although the essence of bandanio is routed firmly in them). No, it is the fact that through out all of our taunting and teasing he still continues to do what suits him. I totally respect that. I would imagine that at least once he might have been tempted to change his approach because of something that we have said, but largely he continues to go his own way. For that, we salute you (SALUTE!... Nadesico refrence, you do watch Nade- nevermind). If ever we make fun of something you do that is simply our minds trying to wrap themselves around the universe that is danio and failing. So we are forced to dip our paws into the axioms of social normalicy and emerge with "ha ha, bandanas". The axioms of social normality aren't very profound (english of french meaning), what can I say. This is why I find him so fascinating. I don't really understand him most of the time, but when I do figure him out, I'll probably learn something. It's funny, I was tempted to email him these comments, but then I would run the risk of him repsonding, thus starting a conversation, thus provoking social interaction. I like the public anonimity of my blog. It's comfortable.

On another note, have you seen "bandanio" yet? I have to agree with Mark, sequels just aren't as good as the original. I mean, "bandanio" isn't horrible, but it was just like "danio" only trying really hard to appeal to the biker audience. I say, stick to your original audience, even if it is a small cult audience, those are the most loyal type. I hear "danio's" going to be a triology though, so we'll just have to wait and see how the whole thing pans out. No official title for that one has been presented but rumor has it that it might be a psycological stalker thriller called "fandanio", or a musical called "band-danio", or an action flick called "mandanio". they might just release a for home use product like "canned-danio". Who knows.


...I'm sorry, I can't help it.

Priceless...

Saw this on a friend's blog. Type failure into google and hif the Feeling Lucky button... Priceless.

...

Expletive, expletive.... curse curse curse. Now on to art.

So, this is a random sketch. I was all geared up to do some painting, inspired by a tutorial I read, but it's just not in me tonight. I wanted to do something a little more character-designy, but I want to use a refrence. The solution, do a character design based on a refrence (Masuimi of course, isn't she adorable?). The design is more of a fashiony .Producty type of thingy. Maybe next time I'll do a more fantasyy type of thing. Refrence featured below for comparison. Odly, the original is more exagerated than my sketch, that's the neat thing about using photoshop to overlay my images, I get to see all the subtlw difference between my interpretation and the real thing.

Adsense?...

Why are all my Google ads about love? shouldn't they be about art? What the hell have I been talking about on here?

Like Crack But With Words...

You know, a while ago, a friend of mine looked at my blog for the first time, and I warned him that it was wierd and unfiltered. He responded that the blog was kind of addictive. I guess if I had to have my blog invoke an emotion, those of a hard narcotic would do just as well as any...

So, there was a lot of stuff I wanted to say, but I promised art, so I couldn't say it without another picture (which I have for you). Please stay with me, a lot of this will seem random. It's sort of the mental equivlent of reading scribbles on napkins... so, onward.

The same friend from above had a lot of kind words for me out of nowhere, so that was unexpected, but appreciated.

I've been promoted again, from ItsNotAwkwardAnymore to notawkward. That's either a promotion or anabbreviation. I personally could use a little ego boost, so I'm going with promotion. Personally goal, see how many aliases I can get before the year ends. Personally, I think we should give all of our friends aliases, that way there's never a question about where you stand with someone.

I think I'm repressing my whole life. My boss asked me what I did last weekend, and I honestly couldn't remember. Why do my bosses feel the need to talk to me anyway. Maybe I was sitting alone eating by myself cuz I didn't want company.

It was 10 freakin' pounds, why does it hurt so much? It's funny how one can be able to bench over 200 pounds, but do 10 pounds with the shouldes and it's over.

I might possibly start a comic with young Robinson, we'll see how that goes.

I'm pretty sure I had something funny to say, but I forgot.

I think the overcompensation piece below is one of my best pieces of writing in quite sometime... read it.

Oh right, now I remember, but it's not as funny as I thought, sorry. I think I hate my job. At least at times. Not the whole thing, just the misery part. I mean, I think I'm miserabe sometimes. I get seasonal, winter, allergies, and yesterday they hit me out of nowhere. So it was 8 hours into my day, and I still hadn't gotten out the builds I was trying to get out. Long story short, after 10 hours of work, and having every cavity in my head that was previously empty fill with fluid, I was a little something. whether that something is misery or not, I'll let you be the jusdge. A lot of the head congestion is gone now, but my lungs still feel flooded. FYI, they're not supposed to be, air is supposed to go in there. As an added bonus, every time a smoker walks back into the office, I can now smell them from where I sit. Gotta' say, I'm not a fan of the senation, I don't think lungs are supposed to feel like burning.


And that about covers it... wow, I make you sit through a lot of crap just for some art don't I? Well, you're a good person for sitting through it, so here you go

Ok, not much to say, but let's review. Old crappy sketch.



New, much less crappy image. Where the old image lacked any of the fluidness or dynaimcs I was trying to capture, this piece is much closer to the original vision. Deffinitely the superior sketch, can't wait to paint it. I want it to have a sort water colored feel, well see how that goes.

Oh, and I made metballs, which is cool I guess, but what do yo do with 20 meatballs and no spaghetti?




MOOD
sad: (with my lack of knowledge when it comes to meatball serving options.)

Promotion...

Apparently I'm not awkward anymore... sweet, I've been promoted. Everything's turning up Orion (Simpson's refrence, you do watch Simpsons, right?).

Night Rider II...

So, It's like 1:00 in the morning, and I just got into Richmond. I'm hungry, so I take the salad I brought with me upstairs, and start clicking things at random on my computer screening looking for something to entertain me. I end up at a site called quizfarm cuz it was linked in a friend's AIM profile. So, through it I determined that I am apparently attracted to cleavage, cute ( seriously, is there a sign I can't see? it always seems to be cute or sweet. If I'm what passes for sweet these days, sweet doesn't mean what it used to mean. Recognize, I'm a thug biyatch), qualified to be a bunch of random girl's boyfriend, and would possibly make the perfect boyfriend at that (... I'm sorry, I'm not really a thug, I was just trying to impress you). I have to be honest, I think their methods are less than scientific, I'm skeptical.



MOOD
disappointed: (that I'm not really a thug.)

I'm Awkward Now...

Or some facsimile of it (which is a phrase that makes no sense as a facsimile seems to be defined as an exact copy according to dictionary.com). Well apparently it's no longer awkward as long as we can bury it. Which is fine with the intellectual me, but apparently the emotional me has trouble getting over things. In case one ever wonders why I'm so emotionally neutral when you intereact with me, this is why, emotional me isn't qualified to run my life, and I think it gets me into more trouble than its worth. I sometimes fear that I will end up repressing emotional me so far that I'll become some kind of empty, workaholic, android. I'll just stand around with lights in my head and arm flailing yelling "DANGER, DANGER" at opportune times. ... Lost in space, you do know Lost in space right? Anyway, I sometimes see intellectual me as the good kid that's going somewhere in life, and emotional me as being that other one that you have to keep. Emotional me better start being useful, because it's a pain in the ass. I guess this explains why I don't really keep in touch with my friends much. I tend to ignore the part of me that wants to connect to the people who are important to me, and opt for productivity instead. Sorry, take that as you will. However, I'm often open to hearing from friends. Ah, damnit it... I just made another point. I'm sorry, it keeps haapening. Here, here's some art to make up for it.

MOOD
indifferent: (possibly androidic. yes, I did just make up a word, so sue me).



(Seriously, don't sue me I'm broke, that's not cool).

Moment of Masuimi...

Woah, it is way, way, way too late right now (again). I guess I'm essentially working two jobs, one of them just so happens to not pay anything. Hopefully it will pay off when I get my portfolio and website together and start shopping myself out for freelance work. Here's hoping, right?

So, as you may have noticed this is another Masuimi Max refrenced pic. I'm kind of stuck on here for the moment. I found a bunch of pics to refrence for her, but I don't want my website to be littered with Masuimi pics. Plenty of guys have the hot-girls-all-over-my-wesite site, and I want something that shows a tad more versatility in my work. Something I did notice about myself though is that it seems that the women I'm most attracted to physically are of some kind of mixed ethnicity. I've always kind of noticed that about myself, but now I'm starting to think I can spot it. Expectedly, the reason I say that is because mrs. Max here is mixed Korean and German (according to something I read somewhere). I think I notice it when something "isn't quite right" so to speak, and that means unique, and unique is beautiful. There are a thousand and one Britney Spears out there, but when you find beauty that's different, that is something worth admiring. Geez, it's starting to sound like I'm trying to make a point. I thought this was a point free zone, and it was only the art that mattered. What you say? It is? Well let's move on...

Sorry, but there's really nothing to say here. You're going to have to wait till I paint it. Well I will say that I am happy that I captured the features I was most interested in capturing, those being the eyes and the lips. They're not quite perfect, which disappoints me, but I really couldn't expect perfect now could I? Still she has a sort of cuteness, almost to the point of adorable (in my mind), which I really wanted to capture. Once again we'll have to wait and see how it turns out.

Oh, here's the refrence pic if you're curious how close I came to it. (Note, I just layed my sketch over the actual pic, and the bodies are positioned differently, but it's uncanny how well the face lines up, it's almost spot on. Un-note.)

MOOD
happy:

Current Favorite Food
Green Apples

Labor of Love...

For those of you wondering why my blog is looking a bit wierd, I'm working on intertwining it with my website, which will be tres cool. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Title...

So, I really like the Masumi pic. I'm going to do a few more tweaks on that. Also, a wallpaper. Honestly, I did like 5 wallpapers, but I think I finally settled on 1 or 2 I really like. Of course I then need to have modest and less-than-modest versions of both. All that's coming up soon. Anyway, here's the current thing I'm working on...

Just a wallpaper for work, nothing special.

Nudity Warning...

Way, way, way too late to do any talking. Started on this around midnight, it's now 4:30 ish, but damn, it came out well. This was from a refrence photo of Masuimi Max that I got while browsing drawingboard.org. I did the sketch yesterday and the painting tonight. I gotta' admit, I did cheat some. The hands where a bit difficult so I just traced over the original. I also did that for parts of the face. Other than that though, my own eyes served me well enough. Hope you like.

MOOD
happy: (Yeah me, I win.)

Current Favorite Food
Vanilla yogurt with sugar roasted walnuts I made just for the occasion.

Like You Could Come Up With A Better Title...

Had a surprisingly good weekend. Worked on the painting last night, that is all.

Night Rider...

or more like Night Painter. To tired to think or talk really, it's frickin' 2 a.m., and I have to get up by 9ish (which really isn't that bad). However, since I haven't been posting much, I wanted to prove to you that I have been arting. So here are two sketches that I have been working on, and, because I love you so very much, they're in color...

So, I've been working on doing backgrounds, and, because "Everlive" is the project I've been throwing my attention at recently, I'm doing cities. Neither of these is complete, and the second one will be complete before the first one. In fact, I just kinda stopped working on the first one and sort of gave up on it, however, I've learned some things by working on the secdon one. I love the composition of the first one, and if I just go back and tighten the form on everything, it would probably look great. So, yeah, I'll get right on that. Oh, and as far as working out, I've been kinda' lazy. I mean, I've been going to bed at 3 a.m. every night this week. How can I work out after 6 hours of sleep or after an 18 hour day? Bah, I know, no excuse. Geez, I must be insane, trying to work out at 2:15 (according to my laptop). I hope I wake up tomorrow, I can't find my cellphone to set my alarm. Wish me luck

Oh yeah, I have ads now, clicks those please, I also have mad bills. What? You're not interested in that stuff? I don't care, click it anyway. Look, either click an ad or leave a comment. Otherwise it's like your stealing my art. You thief. You make me sick



MOOD
astonished (That my art doesn't suck... At least I think it doesn't. It doesn't, right?)

Drifting, Drifiting, Drifting...

Random thoughts:

Seriously now, can't I have a project that the fate of the whole company doesn't hange on? If not, can I get paid more?

Why do bad things happen to those I love? Did I know that it was going to happen before it did. Should I say something?

If Peter goes to Chicago, I'm not going to be able to test Everlive.

Seriously, this is a pyramid scheme isn't it? Why am I even listening.

Oh right, driving school. Not going == me screwed.

How do you pronounce Raje again? I forgot.

Serenity rocks, see it.

Is it realy worth it?

What do I want to be when I'm finished?

At least it's getting colder, that makes me happy.

Drifting, drifting drifting...

Tired, I'll update tomorrow.

Lazy

:P



MOOD
happy???: (I can't even tell anymore)