Fan Expo 09! Lots of Art and Advice

That's right, Annie went to Fan Expo this year. THIS time, for the full three days of the convention! Muahahahaha.

The event started on Friday. As usual, I had to report to work for eight in the morning.

For my last shift, I did jack all; slept in a back corner, browsed the internet, I didn't so much as move a chair. Okay no, I moved four chairs to line them up into a bed for myself to sleep on. Bid my manager farewell, promised to keep in contact, was assured if I needed a job next summer I could come back... and then Alysia and I left. Alysia was going to show me the bus routes and lead me through the most complicated part of the trip, leaving me to traverse the foolproof part alone.

We left work at four thirty; we hoped on a bus for two minutes, hoped on another short bus, a third short bus, and then Alysia waited with me for the fourth bus that was a bit of a longer trip than the others. This bus took me to the Bramalea City Center, where I had to wait for a YRT bus to come and pick me up. From there, it was an hour and fifteen minutes to the Finch station.

From there, I boarded the sub! Sub ride was not uneventful. A random stranger started to talk to me, turns out he was headed where I was headed, but he didn't know where he was going and I roughly did, so we slightly chatted. Train stopped at Rosedale, and booted all the passengers off. There was an announcement, but I missed it; as did the stranger I was talking with. I still don't know the reasoning, but I had to wait for another subcar to come and pick up the passengers and take us the rest of the way to Union station, where Steph and Jason picked me up.

Fun story, the guy thought I was insane when I boarded the sub car because I was "talking to myself" which was actually me singing along to my iPod, and I was "Walking in circles" which was me looking for a seat where I could clearly see a map and sit as far away from people I didn't know as I could; and he was kinda afraid to talk to me at first. So after interrupting the old guy with his headphones eating dinner, he resorted to asking me.

Yet he talked to me and walked along with me anyways. WELL THEN

Friday night I didn't go to the convention, I was tired and hungry. We went out for dinner, I came back to the hotel room, Steph and Jason went to try and pick up my convention badge, and I fell asleep.

Next morning (being saturday) it turns out that I couldn't get my badge the previous night because they were closed. So, Jason and Chris disappeared to go pick up tickets while Steph and I hung back for a further half hour to try to dry out her shirt that she'd washed in the sink.

That half hour was a massive.. massive mistake. We got stuck in a line where they would not let anybody up the escalators to the south building. I was stuck there for hours and got very very frustrated when they started to let ticket holders pass because.. MY TICKET WAS UP THE ESCALATOR D=! Eventually Jason came back and saved the day by bringing pissy little me my ticket so I could go into the convention.

I'd promised my friends I was going to do my best to collect autographs...

Leonard Nimoy was going to cost me sixty dollars for ink. I waited in line for two HOURS for Bruce Campbell (I was going to have it addressed to "Andy" because Sarah and her brother couldn't make it). I got to the counter, and was very unhappy to discover they were going to charge me 35$ for ink, and then charge me on top of that for a photo for Campbell to sign, and THEN direct me into another line that was at least four times the length of the one I'd just been in. I threw my arms in the air, decided to fuck it, and bolted for the artist alley.

Aaaaah, AA... I love you so much I don't think you can ever comprehend *heart*

First thing I did was I beelined it over to the table I'd spotted while waiting for Bruce Campbell. It belonged to my fellow artist and friend Budgie! I can recognize that girls art anywhere. I was amused that at first she didn't recognize me because I had on glasses and a hat and changed my hair. I spent a lot of my stay in the artist alley circling back to talk to her and just to hang out.

I ran off and I commissioned some people; first my character Suka, and then my character Yukio, and lastly my character Ain. I also commished Nightcrawler as I promised Sarah I'd do my best to get her a really awesome Nightcrawler sketch! I stalked the alley for at least an hour before I picked anyone to draw me anything, and I was very happy with the artists I'd landed with.

First off, a freebie sketch! Being offered out by Brian Evinou.

This guy was really friendly, and was nice to talk to. We talked a lot about school, portfolios, mediums and getting your name out there!

All the while I stood still and let him doodle away at my current ensemble.

He liked my purple hat. As did I!

Drawn with a blue pencil and inked over with a brush tip marker and what I assumed was indian ink. His pen was dying sadly, but I still like it!

Oh look, I just noticed the diamond on my shirt is my Taurus necklace.. very nice, I didn't notice that when I first got it back!

Annie has angry eyebrows.

Following my freebie sketch, I circled around to check on the other artists I'd commissioned so far. Suka was still under work, supposedly until the next day; which worked for me, as I'd be there the following day.

So this.. is probably my favourite commission I got. It's Yukio, it's completely out of character; BUT IT'S SO DAMN COOL!!! The artist, Jay Korim drew it directly in ballpoint pen, giving it this really amazing, crisp, clean look to it, with what looks like no structural guides at all. It also only cost me five dollars, but.. it's just so amazing I can't stop staring at it!

I love the hands, I love the way he's standing with his hand on his hip, I love his jacket, I love his hair, I love his face shape I love the lines, I love the volume.. I don't think there is a single thing I DON'T love about this commission, and hell, it was TOTALLY worth five dollars!

I also got a comment about the reference sheet I handed over, and that he was a nifty character to draw.

Following my awesome and amazing Yukio... I trooped over to another artist (who didn't sign my commission, give me a business card, or even his name) to check the status of my drawing. I left this guy with Ainmire, my grumpy pants character who generally frowns and doesn't like people at all. He's also an experienced survivalist and takes on hunting jobs for money.

The artist liked some of my "alternate costume" doodles and asked if he could use some in his drawing. I said it was completely him, but no pants. He's a proper Scotsman who doesn't wear pants!

I fink he had fun! Handed it over with a big smile and said, "He's a bit more built than your version," and I was completely happy and was all, "Oh no! He's supposed to be built, I just can't draw men properly yet! This is perfect, thank you so much!"

And I couldn't stop staring at this artists rendition of 'Ice Ain' for the rest of the day.

I'm sad though, because I screwed up on the reference sheet and doodle his sword on his left hip.. but Ain's left handed; and because of my mess up the artist had no way to know to put his sword on the right hip. However, I'm not picky enough to care as this is the most coolest Ainmire ever. I really wish I had taken his name down!!! Blue pencil and what I assume is HB pencil. Also about the only time Ain wears a shirt; when it's freezing bloody cold out.

I also happened on another artist who drew amazing copic pin up style girls, that I thought were amazing. Sure they had massive boobage and tiny waistage and huge hippage, but they looked really adorable and stylish; he was selling "Cartoonify yourself!" and I figured, "Eh, why not? I always get myself drawn at least once at a con," and so I joined the wait list and wandered off after a rough sketch of my face.

And here comes the finished result, about forty minutes later!

This artist asked me while he was doodling if I was cosplaying or not. I looked down at my outfit and I was like.. Nooooo, this is me, about every day!

I think he liked that.

I like the patchy hastiness in the copics! It looks nothing like the other works, which are finished and polished, but I like the charm in this one.

The artist commented that he liked my nose, with its bridge and pointed tip..

I never liked my nose, because I think it's big and round, haha! What a difference of opinion.

After I picked up the copic me with all my colours of purple and blue and.. purple... I decided to check up on Nightcrawler!

I was amused that I'd hired Kurt to draw Kurt.

So here, I present Nightcrawler!

The artist I'd asked for the sketch was Kurt Lehner, who had done a lot of animation work for the cartoon show Gargoyles; which when I was a kid, I loved. He was a really awesome friendly artist too, but he was really swamped with people, so I couldn't do much past ordering the commission and leaving him my printed reference photos.

When I came back a couple hours later, he held up a picture of a blue elf with really long hair and smiled brightly, "What do you think?" I probably visibly took a second to catch on that he was pulling my leg (I'm a little slow when it comes to jokes) so I smiled and replied, "I hope that's not Nightcrawler!" and he laughed and pulled out my proper sketch.

I asked him to sign it to Sarah, and he did so (after I specified the 'H' had to be on there) and handed it back to me with a "There you are, Sarah!" I smiled, because it was part of the fun (for me) that my name is also Sarah.

After that, the day came to a close and we went out for dinner at East Side Marios. I had a starter, as I wasn't hungry and was being a cheap bastard ; and then we crossed the street to... a bar. Joy of joys, my favourite past time ever. I wound up drinking a tea (that I wasn't charged for! Muahahahaha) and then walking back to the hotel we watched Battle Royale, and I fell asleep super early and missed my favourite scene.

The next morning, MORE ART! And one HELL of a time getting out of the hotel @A@ We must've been waiting in the hall for half an hour, there was never any room on any of the elevators. The bitch of it was, every trip the elevator took it would go all the way to the twenty fifth floor, and THEN work it's way down and stop at every floor. By the time it got to us on the fifth floor, there was never any room for us. In the end, we took the stairs and went through a (supposedly) alarmed door because we were sick of waiting for some rude ass to let us get out of the hotel.

I went right back to the artist alley; Steph and Jason vanished. I spoke to this one artist (another whose name I didn't get) who gave me a freebie sketch of Suka.

This guy was very friendly, we talked about comics, and my reference sheet and the fact that no artist is every going to be completely happy with their art; it's just the way life is.

We talked about my story, and the fact that all I need is a little motivation and a little time; because if I really wanted to do something.. I'd have done it already.

He drew Suka lightly in pencil (I've never seen such a nifty way of drawing), inked her with a permanent marker, and then with watered down speedball ink.. he coloured her.

He commented that my art (being my reference sheet) was good stuff, and that he liked the way it looked and I was on the right track.

That made me feel insanely happy about myself and my art. I was incredibly giddy but in desperate need of a collapse; so I ran and sat down by the Tron display.

Until I was kicked out and had to go find something else to do. I decided to go on a comic book hunt for Nightcrawler comics I promised I'd keep an eye out for!

Holy crap.. that was at least two hours of my day completely blown until I almost killed my brain in the crowded comic stalls, trying to tell the difference between exhibitors and customers, asking about the comics, getting knocked back and forth, until I right nearly exploded and had to run away to sit down.

I hid behind the food court and doodled until I felt better, and then decided to go back and check on commissions again.

Jeremy Dale was next on my list, and I'd left Ainmire with him.

So this guy is massively talented, and I admire his stuff (or I wouldn't have commissioned from him) but...

I laugh.

Just because Ain is my baby and I love making fun of him! Ain is a built guy (or he would be if I could draw built guys properly) and I pointed that out to the artist when I'd left him with my character sheet.

I didn't mean THIS built. It's Ain on steriods! Conan the Barbarian Ainmire! THIS IS SCOTLAAAAAAND *kicks through rusty metal doorway*

Aaaaah, Ain... this will forever make my crappy days awesome until the day I die.

Heheheheheheheh...

Awesome drawing though; I just like laughing at Ain. I had to thank him warmly for the commission, and run my ass off so I was out of sight and could laugh and show my friends.

I'm TOTALLY going to commission him again if I ever remember.

After picking up my day booster Ainmire; I headed off to where I'd left Yukio. I'll be picking up this artists name from my DA when it appears on my watch.. as I know this guy and he was also very nice and commented on my reference sheet.

His name on DA is Marciotakara! I felt awesome.

This is his rendition of Yukio, my crazy man who was perfectly sane (though incredibly rendered) the previous day.

I had a really hard time picking an artist that I wanted to draw Yukio... There were a lot of really amazing artists, but none of them looked like overly thin, sickly, psychotic males were anywhere in the agenda...

But I gave it a shot, and when I came back an hour or so later he apologized as he handed it over and said, "I'm sorry, he doesn't look anything like yours"

Uhm.. If I wanted him to look like mine, I'd have drawn him x3 I love how happy he looks! It's just perfectly fitting.

Muahahahahaha, he's gloriously unbalanced.

I love Yukio very much.

This is probably my favourite spoils from the entire weekend... And I didn't pay a cent for it. There fore it's not a commission so I'm not being contradictory with my first statement!

I leant Budgie my ballpoint (which I wound up letting her keep because she loved it) and she went over her red pencil lines with blue ballpoint.. and I love the effect of the colours.

Yukio is amazing... And sometimes I forget about how much I dearly love him until I see him again.

Everything about this picture is just.. right. His expression; his messy self cut hair; his super high pants; his tilt; his HANDS, oh my goodness I love his hands... I love how skinny he is; how scruffy he looks; the rough and tumble state of his clothing....

I love this picture and must have thanked her for it a thousand times; but I still love it more than I can possibly say.

Along with all of the art I collected over the weekend (a lot more than I had been planning on buying), I had fun with my friends, noooo drama, a surprise party for Jason, some inexpensive prints, and a lot of over all standing. My spine was ready to collapse on me, I'm sure of it, and I'm so glad that right now I am firmly seated on my butt in a cush chair.

I still have one commission that will be coming to me via mail by Valentine De Landro, who drew Suka for me; and really, I'm very very very tired and I don't know why I decided to stay up to make this blog post.

I had a very fun time, I wish certain people could have been there to enjoy it with me, but it was amazing. I met some voice actors, got some autographs, ran around like an idiot, took pictures, and all of that fun has me completely tuckered out and I'm ready to sleep until lunch.

With that, I will leave you with the drawing I drew while I was hiding behind the food court. Brought on by talking to people about drawing and feeling the drawing and following passions! This is how I felt then, and very close to how I am feeling now.

Ta ta!

Annie

A few drawings I have yet to colour

The one with actual real dark black lines.. was done with my new scanner 8D

Muahahahahaha, I'm SO glad I made that upgrade.

Kay, so just some doodles before I head off for a weekend of scavenger hunting and waiting in long line ups to collect autographs for friends of mine!

My least favourite of this set of four is Ainmire. I don't know why, but I just didn't like it as much as the other three..

These are all characters from my original story Timestamp; Ainmire, Tinette, Suka and Yukio. So far I haven't decided if Tinette is going to be in my actual story or not, but I quite enjoy her attitude and I love her hair... So I figured I'd stick her in the line up and decide if I wanted to keep her later or not! You've already seen Suka and Yukio, so I won't bore you too long with my endless chatter... I plan to draw Kara next =3

Yes, I'm obviously avoiding the male lead, whose name I have changed fifty gajillion times and needs a decent redesign done.... I don't know him well enough yet, I have to make the effort.

They aren't coloured yet, but don't worry! Colour is coming!! Just been busy and frazzled.

I'm having a rather nasty week, still stressing over finishing my packing, went two nights without my computer (I know it sounds horribly sad, but when the rest of my life is shoved in boxes I literally had NOTHING to do) and wound up staring at my ceiling and falling asleep super early both nights (I attempted to replace my computer with my Ipod but it didn't work), my blue folder went missing sometime two nights ago, and I realized I'm actually highly dependent on my notepad for writing down anything and everything that comes to mind and I feel completely lost without it. I'm concerned over Swazzle, though it's probably nothing major and more than likely me being overly worried because I haven't owned a rat in almost eight years; Fan Expo is tomorrow and I'm thrilled yet HOLY SHIT SO MUCH IS HAPPENING!!! At the same time.

Tomorrow is my last day of work. No painting, just classroom work, so I can wear nice clothes. I'm following Alysia part of the way home on the buses and she's going to direct me where to go from there and then I'm going to catch the subway to meet my friends at Union Station. The entire trip is going to take hours, but only cost me six dollars.

I'm incredibly excited for the weekend, even though I'm going to be doing very very very little shopping for myself (I don't have a lot of money and I'd rather spend it on things for my friends anyways); though I am going to get at least one commission of Ainmire.. because I love him and he needs more love!!! As much as he hates it. STOP BEING SO ANGRY, AIN!

I'll be back Monday, don't expect anything new before then!

Annie

A new addition to the family

Alright, so despite my decision about taking my time and saving up before I bought myself pet rats; needing a new cage, money in case of health issues, money for supplies, for food, for bedding for.. everything

I went to the pet store and I bought a baby rat today. She's a little tiny thing, hardly any longer than my middle finger, roughly five weeks old and a dumbo rat with adorably large ears.

I was with Stephanie and we were picking up her little sister, Kate, from work. Of course we ran inside to have a look at all the animals, and we were talking about the rats when Kate came up and said she had a rat in the back, and asked us if we wanted to see. I wanted to hold the baby, so I agreed enthusiastically.

Steph had just asked me if I planned to buy rats when I moved out.. My answer was, "No, I'm going to adopt a pair when I have the money to do so and look after them properly,"

Kate vanished into the back and came out again with a little rat in a blue cage...

She'd hidden her in the back because she was supposed to be feeder. I couldn't, in my right mind, leave her there in the store... So I called my mother. Mom was not happy at all, and wound up hanging up on me. I still couldn't leave her behind, so I paid for a hampster starter kit and I paid for the rat baby and brought her home.

Mom was ingnoring me, dad was unhappy, and I have this horrid feeling I'm going to be shanked in my sleep. I instantly had to ask my friend Sarah for help; I am not equipt to handle long term rat care at the moment, and I needed advice on my next move to make.

We've decided we're going to introduce my girl (Swazzle) to her girls (Blimey and Zooks) after we move in together, in just under two weeks. I collected advice on what to feed her, threw away the pine shavings and stole two of our older towels to be used for bedding. I gave her cardboard toilet tubes and crumpled paper, and cotton fuzz, and a hammock and she's now sitting in a very tiny cage beside my bed.

I'm stupidly, ridiculously happy to have a baby again. I was on the verge of tears earlier because it just feels so wonderful to have a rat again-- and I missed my baby Archie so much. I feel bad that for the next two weeks she's in such a tiny little cage and is alone; but she's not going to be eaten by some larger animal now.

I had her out and was letting her run around on my bed, talking to her and just.. feeling wonderful, but she began to slow down and tuckered herself out; so I put her in her cage.

I am.. extremely glad; I feel amazing and I love this girl so much I could and probably will cry over it at some point. I don't regret my purchase at all, and I am excited to introduce her to the girls!

G'night Swaz! I will see you come morning, on my bedside table.

Drawing to the left is a doodle of my character Yukio, which I drew very much of today and will eventually post the finished work.

Short span of time later:

LOOKIT ALL THE DOODLES 8D

This is what I spend my days doing. I doodled a whole bunch for Ainmire too! The little costume drawings make me happy. As do the expressions, and the pose drawings.. and pretty much the entire thing makes me very happy.

Oh look, my puppy came to see me! My parents must be out of the house.

So here I present Suka Amaia, the version that goes with my original story, not the version I RP with.

I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING.. "Geez, I cosplayed as a pirate last year, and having one eye covered severely messes up your depth of perception and makes you walk into things!"

Why yes, I wholly agree; I happened to cosplay as a pirate last year too! But it doesn't matter. She's blind under those bandages anyways, so her depth perception has adjusted after a few months of not being able to see out of that eye at all.

The outfit I painted her in isn't anything specific, I used it because I was very happy with the under drawing and didn't want to hide it under folds of clothes or cuffs, or ruffles, or all the normal stuff Suka tends to have attached to her little dress. Off to the right, I made minis of other outfits she wears, the one in the upper right being her original costume I invented for her ever. To the left of that, is the redesign I went through and fail to stick to because I don't seem to enjoy colouring Suka completely in brown. Below those are something Suka would probably never wear of her own choice (Just look at how confident that outfit is), and is more or less what I have in mind for when her clothes are damaged and she needs to wear someone elses clothing because she doesn't own any of her own anymore.

Some expressions, the fourth one down being one she isn't very practiced in and doesn't often wear. Frowning hurts her face! She often gets upset or confused as opposed to angry; and below that a sneak at what's underneath all the bandaging she wears on her face! Oooo, revealed: the disease that is going to kill her unless she finds a cure for it.

And beside all the expressions, little naked poses just to show a bit more of her personality. More or less, waiting, relaxing and cowering.

For some Experimentation--

*Shrug* I missed Suka, what can I say?

Started as a single doodle, turned into an entire page of Suka's! So I'm scribbling on some colour and collaborating them onto a sheet.

Here she is, in all of her wonderful, shy, glory! Innit she cuuuute?

Anyways, really quick cell shading, nothing special, just playing around as I haven't in a very long time. E-Tab.

Yes.. that's about all I have to say today.

Oooo, I found out when the chef at school asked to look at my sketchbook, "Suka" is slang in Spanish for blonde. As in the stupid ditsy stereotypical kind. I laughed.

BACK TO PAINTING!

*paintpaintpaint*

Ah HA, some productivity!!!

Like I complained in my last update.. It's been a while since I produced something I was happy with. WELL, to people who actually bother to read my blog, I present: Ain and Kara, my unofficial couple characters.

Aaaaah, it's been way too long since I actually enjoyed painting something <3

I finally ordered a new tablet, the latest Wacom, Intuos4, and gave away my old Graphire4. My new tablet arrived from Mississauga on Thursday, and expecting its arrival, I wanted to draw something to celebrate.

At first, I was going to draw Suka. Then I didn't want to, and instead tried to draw Ainmire, because I love him to bits and miss him. So I started to draw Ain, and I decided the pose was boring, so I erased it and reworked it, and decided I liked it and then got a funny idea... but there wasn't enough room on my paper to fit the idea! So I had to flip the page over and draw it again. I came up with this, and I'm very happy with it, though, as Leah pointed out.. I did take Kara's right leg too far.

I had so much fun paaaaainting it!!! This tablet is so smooth and easy to work with, there are no glitchy spots, or dead areas, and everything works beautifully. I unpacked it like it was something religious, and carefully packed everything back in it's box so I'll still have everything in one place. I set it up, installed it, and instantly started to play.

You can almost over look my horrible line work! Don't worry, a new scanner is my next investment, though I still have no idea what I'm looking at.

Anyhow, Ain and Kara. I wanted to try some different methods of colouring, as I coloured and deleted my work twice on Thursday. Yesterday I went in with a brand new 600dpi scan, and decided to experiment. I had been browsing tutorials the entire day at work (yes, I'm massively productive in my job), and I'd collected lots of different ideas I wanted to test.

First thing I read was to draw and paint the background first.. The artist who's tutorial I was reading said that it helped him stay motivated about the artwork, as the character was the most fun part of a piece. So, I tried to focus on the background first, and it really did help! Granted I still have a mudpuddle carpet there, but the washing basin turned out better than I would have expected! Had I coloured Kara and Ain first, I would have rushed through the background as an afterthought, and this prevented me from doing so. The tutorial I was talking about is right here, if you wanted to take a gander.

More than once I've read, or watched, or been told, about starting with a completely neutral colour and colouring on top. Alright, I'm up to try that! So I coloured in my lineart with a warm gray, and kept all of my flats on one layer; something I'd never tried before. With my line art completely and precisely filled in with a warm neutral, I locked the transparency and coloured directly on top of that, then built layers on top to paint on my shading. Previously I'd colour everything on separate layers, and I'd get long lists of layers with everything broken up, like "Shirt", "pants", "hair", etc etc, but this way I wound up with maybe four or five layers of shading-- which I found a lot simpler and will probably keep to in the future.

I even coloured my lines, something I'm still getting used to. With my horrid scans, leaving them stark black is just too painful to look at, but I wasn't sure if I liked colouring every line in a slightly darker colour than the paint around it. I didn't get a feel for it, and maybe I just need some more practice. Instead I went back and used colour balance to pick a colour for my lines, which wound up being a reddish brown colour. I discovered after I flattened the image it slightly takes away from Ain's costume, but I will eventually get around to repairing that... This time I still have a PSD file to work from. Yes, I thought ahead for once in my life.

New finished product to upload to my DA! Took me two days and a day of farting around with my shiny new E-Tab the second. WEEEEE!!! I love Ain and Kara!!

It was nice, sitting there working away, reworking areas I wasn't happy with, or that looked wrong, going back, touching up, darkening a shade here, lightening a shade here-- I think I got a taste of what my art idols feel like when they're in the midst of painting something. I am a very happy artist right now.

SO IT'S BEEN A WHILE

Ha, I don't enjoy having a life. It kinda sorta sucks for anything related to the creative.

So here, I bring you a massive collection of doodles from the last time I uploaded anything up until now!

Feeling immensely creative tonight-- and I really don't want to be sitting here, but my creative seems to be leaning toward the writing aspect instead of the drawing one.

As much as I would love to explain every one of these.. I'm not going to. Mostly because I can't see them in the thumbnail clear enough to explain a little, but yes, doodles.

Since my last upload, life picked up in speed a bit. My job started to become a lot more draining, my weekends somehow filled up with plans, even though I never plan anything.

I visited both Sarah and Leah in their hometowns and did a lot of art related stuffs (ATCs, life doodles, art jam doodles, comic pages) which was an amazing and awesome relief and break that I very desperately needed.

Covered the costs of tuition with my summer earnings, so I don't need to depend on OSAP for that, got little packing done despite my resolve to GET EVERYTHING PACKED ASAP, got new stuff from parents and grandparents for the new home, read a bunch of new books, did a lot of writing for my own personal project, faced down a crash and burn---

But did very little art =[ These are roughly three months worth of doodles, which looking at, and considering not a single one of them was finished, is incredibly disappointing. Not to mention these aren't anything new to anyone who has seen my sketchbook practically any time this summer.

I can not wait to go back to school and for my job to end. I'm crossing my fingers and repeating over and over "three weeks, three weeks, three weeks!"

I am now number TEN on the animation waitlist, so in three months, seven people have fallen off the list. Ten are not going to drop out within the next three weeks.

Still feeling pretty epic fail, but whatever.

And now, I need to do something creative.

Take care now!