photoshop painting

This was our photoshop painting assignment. Rather than trying to cover the entire drawing, I incorporated the original drawing with the photoshop brushes to compare and contrast the effects (soft, flamelike marks vs. thick, impasto marks)

lecture 3/22

So today was just advising... I talked to my advisor last week and I have to send out emails today to the glass department so I can get a meeting in. I can't wait for sophomore year... I really, really want to start taking different classes. Mostly I want to start anew. This has been a really difficult year for me... I feel like another school year is a step closer to healing and better times and better grades. Hopefully I make it out of this semester in one piece.

Illustrator Portrait

So this is our scanned face project. There's easily a thousand different pen layers in here... it took me wayyyyy too long to do this. I'm glad I spent a lot of time on it but it restricted how much I could get done on my photoshop drawing.

other lecture reflections

still on how i love the italian renaissance and how badly i want to go to italy. i've heard a lot of people trash it, but so far i can't find a reason not to go. live in rome for 15 weeks? why NOT? i'd live there for a year if it wouldn't delay my graduation. all i've wanted to do for a long time was live in another country. my dream is montmartre, paris. the artist's sector. one day....one day.
i want to experience another culture, language, and history so full-on the only way i COULD do that is by living abroad. and temple rome is such an easy way to do that....i don't see what the problem is.

lecture last week

last week's lecture was my favorite so far, about glassblowing and fibers. i really, really want to take glassblowing classes next year, so i'm glad i made it to this lecture.
still, i continue to have the same conflict about my major. i'm doing something i love, but i don't think i'll make any money off of it. i can't see myself making a serious living off of what i do, and that really worries me.
it's something i think about every day.