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Good

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Oh man, this week is going to be crazy! Tomorrow, or rather today (since its early morning), I’m seeing Beach House with a bunch of buddies of mine. It’ll be a nice treat after a long day. I have a big essay due, along with a poster to accompany it. This is what I did, based on Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secession:

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I didn’t have a lot of time but I worked hard on keeping it nice and simple. I only wish I had more time to fix those atrocious hands. I was worried about not finishing everything in time, but I just spoke to a few buddies of mine who haven’t even started, so I’m feeling fairly confident.

Work is good, school is good life is good!

Aesop’s Treasure

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

So I finished the first week of school. It was hectic, thats all I’m going to say. I ended up dropping a class, Graphic Design for Illustrators because I thought it was pointless for me to take it considering I’m still in the GD program and I’m doing a lot more in depth things then that class offered. So now I only have 6 classes instead of the 7, and I managed to condense my schedule to fit into three days. That means I have a 4 days weekend (whoop!) and I won’t have to spend money on lots of tickets of bus passes. I’m happy with my schedule now and I think its going to be a good semester.

Today I hit a couple of thrift stores with my friend, in search of old children’s books and National Geographic. I find that they are the best for collages, especially nature books. We actually ended up finding a whole series of animal books, with really awesome vintage photos. I can’t wait to do something with them. I also found a really nice old copy of Aesop’s Tales for only 99 cents! I always loved those stories and I’m thinking that for one of my zines I’ll do a little accordion style book based on one of the stories. After we hit Deserres to get some cheap art supplies. They’re having a huge sale for Back to School so I wanted to stock up on spray varnish and little tiny cradle board that were only a $1. Good Day.

I’m geeking out a little bit because I just ordered my first business card. With rounded corners! I hope they’ll come in soon, I’m so excited. For now I got 500, I thought that was a decent amount. I didn’t out my address on them because who knows where I’ll be. I’m also geeking out about the fact that Apple finally came out with a 64GB iTouch. I want it so bad but honestly, I had my iPod for three years now and it works perfectly fine. Its filled to the brim with music, so maybe for now I’ll just have to uncheck some songs. I’m sure by the time my battery dies, the iTouch will be cheaper.

Aw Yeah

Monday, August 17th, 2009

So today was my second last day of class. For our final project we picked a word from an envelope (mine was moveable) and then we had to design/illustrate/compose 20 different images that tie in with the word. I am quite happy with the way mine turned out and I decided to share with you six of my favourite ones:
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It always interests me how my digital designs differ from my hand-drawn drawings. I’m not sure if that is a good thing or not and I’m wondering if I should incorporate the same style throughout the different media I use? Hmm.

Last week I attended the Passion Pit show. They were pretty good, but the opening band, The Grates, stole the show in my opinion. Patience, the lead singer was smiling throughout the entire set and was bouncing along to every single song. She gave off such a great energy and you couldn’t help but smile back. After the show we actually go to meet them and take some pictures, but according to my sister, we all look like sweaty hell, so I will spare you hehe. Here’s a video for Aw Yeah, enjoy!



End it please!

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

This grid project is testing me to no end. I’m so tired of it. I just want to draw crazy hair 🙁

Yesterday I bought a camera, an Olympus e520. I’m not sure if I’m keeping it yet since I can’t really afford it.

Eating and playing Wii

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

I haven’t been to anything for the past few days. I have this nasty grid project to do for GD, and I’m not into it at all. We only have to do roughs and process for now, but ugh, I just can’t get into it.

I also went home to my parents for the weekend, meaning that all I have been doing is eating and playing Wii with my sister.

Still no job, just rejections.