moonwildflower

And it began earlier than I would have liked. About 4 hours earlier. As in 5 am. Yep, that's when I'll have to get up. At least three times a month though. Which isn't that bad really. I just need to get more sleep the night before, as well as more food throughout the day.
First class of the day was Art Direction at 8 am. Advertising stuff. I'll make it through okay. Poster design at 11 is promising. The instructor is Holden, whom I had the special problems with. We've even got homework already. Use a well know poster artist's style and create your own poster. Any content. So, I'm torn between Mucha and Struzan. For content, I'm thinking either Green Lantern or Halo Reach. I can see Struzan's style working really well with Reach. I could even use my pastels on it!
Last class of the day was Interactive. Hopefully I'll be relearning HTML and CSS so I can update my site and make it more personal.
Those aren't all my classes though. Got illustration tech and special problems on Tuesdays after everything else.

Just got back from A-kon 21 in Dallas. I really didn't think that I'd get to go to that con this year. Just a week before the con, my Dad told me to try and get a room. He'd pay for it. Sweet! Managed to snag a room for the two nights and shared it with my brother and Kuno. It was kinda lonely with just the three of us. I'm so used of at least seven people being in a room.
For cosplays, I took my armor, Skeik and my new Lurker. It was more of a test run for the Lurker than anything else. I still need to do some work on the transition of the hand pieces and the head piece onto the bodysuit to make it look better. Overall though, people were creeped out and that's all I wanted.
Got to meet alot of 405thers I didn't know, among a host of old con friends. Somehow, we got to go to the cosplay contest too. Not to enter, unfortunitly. Just to watch. The winner was an older woman who had created one of the wise mage creatures from The Dark Crystal. It was amazing. She deserved to win. I'll post pics when I can find them.
And.... I'm starting more work on my other cosplays now. Hope to have a bunch done by Afest... Oh! Remember the Ikkicion convention where my cosplay group won Best in Show and we didn't really get anything? Seems we might get free badges! Very exciting news.
On to art news... I'm starting work on my Special Problems class. All that will be in another blog on my site. And I'm doing personal stuff along with an upcoming Halo contest. Lots to do.

Ran by the school yesterday to drop off my last final project and pick up my ceramic stuff. It finally got fired. At least most of it. My geometric piece still hasn't had it's final firing, but I can pick that up sometime during the summer.

(Re-posting description from DA, feeling lazy now)

Final project for Ceramics class.
We were tasked to use two of the three techniques that we had learned over the semester. I didn't enjoy working with slabs, so I chose throwing and pinching. The main idea behind this was something Celtic, and maybe the fact that my uncles are hunters and I've been surrounded by deer skulls most of my life. Here, the skull acts as a presentation tool, handing the bowl out to the guest.

Unfortunately, one of the teeth fell off during the bisque firing and I have no idea where it is. But it doesn't bother me. The entire process of this project didn't turn out as expected. Glazing is always an experience. Using the glazes provided by the school, there was no way to know what I would be getting in terms of color variation. The main glaze of the skull was supposed to be more of a red, with black markings. The bowl turned out as expected though. Funny huh?

When tasked with redoing a movie poster for my final, I found myself with too many options. I knew that I wanted to do something Sci-fi or Fantasy. Labrynth or Star Wars... Somewhere along those lines. I ended up seeing a trailer for the new Tron and knew then what to do.  Big thanks for my brother for the use of his arm and his frisbee as reference.

Just finished mounting the extensions for a project I've been working on involving the Sci-Fi museum in Seattle. Of all the parts of a school project, the mounting has to be the most stressful...
I decided to use Kirby Krackle in my designs, along with images of iconic characters seen at the museum. Along with the posters, there is an app and a buswrap, but I'm not in the mood to post them right now.

Still won't be posting the storyboards. Got them back from the professor last night and there are some things she'd like changed. I agree with some of them. Others, I might argue a bit when I re-turn it in either this week or the next. One of the big things we both agree on is that I need to focus on my line work because it's where my strength is. So, I'll be going back and adding lines to everything, along with deepening the blacks and rethinking the angles on certain shots.
I'll be putting up another seperate blog in a few months. It will still be on this site, but will deal with my special problems class I'll be taking. I'll be uploading all my daily progress for the teacher to see. Of course everyone can look and comment too.

No. I'm not posting the storyboards this time. The teacher is going over them and might request changes. If so, it will be even longer before I post.
Next. Finished my illustration for said book cover assignment. I picked the novel Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin. Wonderful series. Helps that they just announced an HBO series too.

I think it's safe to say that my wacom is broken in. lol
Received it over spring break when I began the digital process for the storyboards. There is a total of 14 pages, with each page taking at least an hour, if not more to complete. With six blocks on each, that puts me at around ten minuets on each.
I mention this because I've been meaning to practice speed painting have been doing this entire project. lol
While doing this, I though back to what my storyboarding teacher at AID taught me about it all. I wanted to focus more on the story and gestures of it all.  Now, if this had been a comic *cough*, then I'd spend way more time on it. But I'm happy, I think. It's a bit late for me to really tell at the moment. Guess I'll see when I print it off for the teacher and hand it in.
I might post it later if I'm still liking it.
Now, to bed!

And so my spring break is ending...
With my eleven days off (yes eleven), I have managed to finish all of my homework and projects, do a bit of concept work, and hang with my friends. If only my spring break hadn't been a week early, than I would have been able to go with them to Vegas.
Oh well. I did get to go to Enchanted Rock yesterday. Got some nice new brusies from that.
But the most exciting part was that I got to fly today. Being the daughter of a pilot, I've always loved planes and helicoptors. Dad got a friend to take us all up for a few hours, even letting us control the plane during the take-off. The landing was a different story. I wouldn't have wanted to do that part anyway.
Carl is a natural at flying. I almost got sick during his session though. I blame it on sitting in the back. The bumps are worse there.
When it was my turn to control the plane, it took me a bit longer to get adjusted to the controls. But it became almost second nature by the time we landed.
One more note too: Got my hair cut. This seemingly unimportant note is important because the new cut is based off of Lightning from FFXII. I'm even tempted in the future to have my hair colored like her's.

Seems my spring break is going to be busy. Not out in some amazing local, but busy with homework and freelance stuff. Of course, the addtion of my new Intuos 4 tablet helps. It was amazing to use last night. I just have to get used to having all the bottons assigned to whatever I need instead of using the actual keyboard. To break it in, I've decided to redo an old illustration. The one with the boy riding the dragon. And I've decided to enter a little art 'contest' on the blog of the AD for Wizards of the Coast.
Also, as stated on the first page, I'm going to be doing some small updates to the site. Mainly, removing and updating the artwork in the portfolio section.
One last note: I'll be done with the commission soon and will posting. I just need to do some more digital mockups to make sure I've got the angles right before I actually add in the final touches.