SPORE.

a comic-thing, from the zoo, while i try to figure out how to put the figures up.

one of them really did go 'tookie tookie' to the poor thing. it really doesnt show up very well.

WALL-E soundtrack is pretty

so starts the arduous task of taking pictures of pages that wont fit in the scanner. some of the drawings came out beautiful. all will be numbered. but right now i have tin roof sundae ice cream and i cant feel the part of my tongue that tastes sour things. Altoids sour tangerine drops can do that. but i really needed the tin for charcoal and i needed to finish it today.

Venus in Furs

listening to: Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground and Nico.

some big zoo drawings at the end.

today in class we drew from a skeleton, then a model, without looking at the paper. This is aggrivating. Professor said 'it's not supposed to be proportional. Actually, the more you don't look at the paper, the more accurate the drawing will be. it's more of a representation of what you see.'

this bothered me. Then i was scared more whenever he stood behind me and said that i should work slower, a millimeter at a time. it was aggrivating, but I really do notice a lot more when im staring intently.

i finished an outline of the model's right side, from crown to toes, and he said "yeah. yasee these lines?" the lumps on the 'blind drawing' were parts of the thigh above and below the knee. I don't believe thighs are "pipes", they have so many more curves and the model was normal-sized, decently curvy. No one else seemed to notice, though. it just looked like a failure of a straight line.

i felt like someone hearing voices when they are sure no one else is. Professor: "Nice noticing. Those are actually supposed to be there."--- He hears the voices too. I didn't realize how comforting this was until the train home.

a note about trains: don't sit in the front car. It's considerably more noisy than anywhere else.

i really really wanna do an hour of quick-fire poses, just for the adrenaline rush. 1-min, 45sec, 30sec, i wanna draw more poses. we've just been doing 20-min ones, cept for a 5-min end of class thing.

the room is rearranged, the computer is back together.

FIT SUMMER CLASS:

REAL figure drawing! yes! And wait a sec- actual friends? this is quite an interesting experience, blah blah blah no seriously wow my social skills are lagging. But appearantly, I'm one of the more experienced drawers in the class.

the teacher collects drawings, so each night I'll have to load photos here. Some came out a lot better than others.

NYC AND THE ZOO:

New York City has so many tourists. The group psychology is amazing. There are so many languages- just today, there were families speaking in Spanish Spanglish Italian (methinks) Czech? Japanese, Germanic something. And there was a Scottish couple and an Irish grannie and a Southern family. And I'll never forget the black kid that walked up to me and goes "Whatcha doin'?", in total City fashion (the answer was "drawin' ").

I know the animals after 8 hours at the Central Park Zoo. There aren't that many, and I mostly like drawing birds. So fast, but all with the same basic shapes. Plus I learn more bird anatomy every Thanksgiving (vegetarians cringe).

My favorite favorite bird is the Long-Tailed Hornbill. Parrots are just silly compared to the personalities of these. I swear, they pose for pictures. The picture on the Wiki site is one of the Central Park birds.

the colors are toned down, which lookes really nice. Too many colors is bad for web design.

happy Independence Day. my family usually doesn't celebrate much- we don't have a barbeque- but I'll try to keep in mind 1776 the Musical as I rearrange my room.

song: take a walk on the wild side

i changed around some of the colors in the HTML for the webdesign. I like it, but perhaps the colors are too bright.

new icon is an inverse of my Mural.

http://www.seventhsanctum.com/

wow helpful. Just pick a character description, and then you can let your mind go with the other possibilities. It's really helpful for character design practice. I'll post some later that don't look like crap.

Walking into spiderwebs

i have passed a gauntlet. I have gone into Manhattan, alone, and come out intact.

FITorientation: Dear Loving Parents, We'll take good care of your children in this terrible city, don't worry. Just step back for a sec and leave them alone. Thank you, FIT.

There was a segment about 'what causes the most medical problems, the top 5'.

5. Fainting, due to excitement or lack of breakfast.

4. Throwing Up, Anxiety-Related Problems, Or Being Sleepy, it's probably your own fault.

3. Cutting Your Finger, Xacto knives.

2. Burns, Flame torches are used in the jewelery class.

1. Sewing Your Finger, it's a fashion school- this happens.

Of course, I had to compensate with making up grievous medical problems that are associated with drawing with neglect.

There is a coffee shop by the train station that has everything. Hand-stuffed teabags. Mason jar cups. And what I think is an original Donkey Kong arcade machine. GEEKING.

The tables have trivia cards, and the lemonade is too acidic and too sweet and too cold. It's wonderful.

The garden is officially planted. Late enough.