ALSO;
Been messing about with environments. I have a bunch of thumbnails which all look pretty decent for their size. Next step I guess is to refine them, and also to learn to paint digitally. Its pretty fun though. Typically I loathe painting on the computer but I'm getting some sort of sick pleasure out of this so far.

New Thesis

Just don't ask me what number this is. I really need to get my ass in gear and crank out some good stuff. Think I'm getting the hang of it though. At least I hope so.

Ink Experiments

Been posting a bunch on ConceptArt.org

My thread can be found at the link below, assuming that works at all, otherwise there is a sample of some recent experiments to the left.

new version of disney. had a whole lot more typed out but blogspot messed up and Im look lazy to re-type it right now. Also tired. Its a damn good think the semester is nearly spent.

Zazen & the Truth on Enlightenment

Well; for anyone who is even reading this let alone has heard me talk about taking a course on Zen Buddhism this semester have I got a treat for you.

I have learned rather a lot about the magic of zazen recently. The most useful of which I believe is that enlightenment doesn't exist. Not in any way you think it does, any idea you have formed in your mind of what enlightenment is I can damn near guarantee is wrong. Despite this, the truth of it is pretty cool. I won't bother going on about it too much, but while zen is a very annoying thing to learn about it I recommend the book to the left and leave you with this:

"and it will be like nothing at all" 

-Brad Warner, pg 83 of Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, and the truth about Reality.

So then, was feeling lazy and didn't scan the image to the left but it gives an idea of the Tinkerbell redesign (thanks dad).

In other news, OCAD is apparently not paying us until Dec 5th (Thanks Admins! I'm HUNGRY) you'd think the people who are in charge of paying art kids would have some concept of the starving artist yea? 

I'm supposed to have 4 pieces done for Wednesday which, assuming I can scrounge up some cash for more canson paper would be entirely doable. Aside from that the semester is rapidly coming to a close so I have a big ol' essay due on Zen next week and some fancy drawing/painting crits and then home for the holidays and a fabulous buy-nothing Christmas. (Wooo!)

Redesign

Discovered a workable "style" for thesis, as much as I resent the stress this process put on me I think the result is pretty cool (see image).

Sketch scanned and converted to a halftone, printed on canson and painted with acrylic ink with some other tricks here and there. Re-dos for the Disney and the TV pieces are in the works and looking pretty hot, but I'm on my man's laptop and his scanner works a hell of a lot slower than mine so I can't be bothered to scan the W.I.P.s though I'll probably post them once they are at a stage I can call finished.

One major issue with this method however is money. Once my OCAD print account runs out I'm going to have some trouble, and canson isn't the cheapest thing available.