Where have you been?

*cough* I'm here now, please, don't be angry!

I've just started back at course last week, and therefore, decided that it's about bloody time to put up the remainder of my work from last year that was marked over the holidays.



This is supposed to be an edgily designed clock. Why I chose.... CHOSE to make it out of wood, I have no idea, but carving those numbers out was far more trouble than it was worth. It turned out okay, but i would desperately like to make it again with only the twelve and six numbers, and a woodworking tool that doesn't keep breaking on you every ten minutes. That'll be the day...



Our painting assignment actually finished earlier than this, I was just lazy and never took it home. We had to create a word out of a group of objects related to it. That makes it sound boring, but it was actually quite fun :)



Can you read it? It's sort of legible. Well, as far as landscapes go, anyway.



As far as making something cool every day has been going, I haven't been doing particularly well. It started when mum took the memory card out of her camera so I couldn't use it, but I had better stop using my parents as an excuse for not doing things. I've mostly been making things daily, but not recording them, so i might just have to upload a whole lot of crap to my flickr and start again from today, perhaps? I now have a camera of my own, which is fairly decent, so i think i might just shut up and start using it.

The time schedual at course has been leaving me with a lot of spare time where, in reality, all I'm doing is sitting and doodling, so it's been pretty good so far. I'm not expecting it to stay this calm forever, though... Not if my super-procrastinatory-powers have anything to do about it.

Holidays and other such things...

Well, It's been Christmas, and New Year, and I'm trying to shake off the drowsiness that comes with my yearly hibernation of productivity every December. Not that I'm the busiest person normally, but December is always just really really lazy for me. Now that it's well and truly Januraray, I have to prove I have actually been getting cracking!

I actually made some new years resolutions this year, and one of is to make something cool every day.



See? I've been working on it.

My Aunt and Uncle gave me this mini-calendar for christmas, and although pictures of sleeping kittens are very cute, I thought I could make it more interesting. I think I succeeded. I think.



Anyway, I'll be back around here a bit more often now that I've managed to unsluggish myself. Yay!

Random doodles

I have plenty more where these came from.









I got my marks back from course yesterday. I'm fairly happy, I got 88% overall, which is pretty decent, really- considering most of my time at course was spent making these doodles. I'm going to go in sometime this week and pick up the work I left behind... so there should be some photos going up soon! Yay!

If you hadn't noticed, Christmas is almost upon us! It always manges to creep up behind me in an attempt to strangle me with a string of fairy lights. But I'll forgive it... so long as they aren't the lights that flash in time to the awful Christmas midi music. That would be unforgivable.

Headcase

Okay. I've changed my mind. Instead of posting nudes today, I'm going to post the two sessions of portrait drawing we had recently. So your imagination will be getting no exercise from me today, if you were going to follow along with my diving suit suggestion from last post. Lucky you (Chuana).

We've been doing portrait studies in class recently, but they've been quite tough- with only a 20-30 minutes for each one. I understand why, though. I offered to model for one pose. Well, it's not really modelling, is it? I just sat in a chair looking at the wall so people could draw my face- that means I did not take my clothes off. Perverts. (Ahahaha just kidding, you guys are great.) But anyway, it really hurts you neck. Or perhaps I was doing it wrong?

Most of these are kinda unfinished, and odd looking, but I'm sure you'll get the idea!

This week is shaping up to be a fairly busy one, as I have to do a group oral presentation, hand in my final drawing and life drawing submissions, go ring shopping with Sandy (heheh) and work on some illustrations, and there's a lot more things I want to do if I can find the time. But, in the ever relevant and fitting words of Arnie,

"I'll be back."

It's Movember already?

Wow. Doesn't time fly? It's going to be Christmas before you know it!

In other news, I have less than three weeks of course left for the year! Not that I haven't enjoyed it, but I'll be glad to have a break. I think mum's a bit angry that I'm not working full time over the holidays, but I have other things I'd like to do instead, and I'm looking forwards to it immensely (assuming I don't get kicked out of home like she's been threatening to for the last few years. Naaaaah...)

Also, I owe a bit of an apology to the people coming in search of nude sketches: I've been slack with photographing my work lately, I promise I'll do it this week, okay? And an apology in advance to those certain people *winks* coming in search of anything but naked people: I actually mean my previous promise. If it makes you feel any better though, you can always squint and imagine they are wearing diving suits.

Anyway, love you all! Happy Movember!