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progress has been made on ifuckinglovethis.com and ifuckinghatethis.com ! ive decided, for now at least, its going to be invite-only. it may always stay like that, like a fffound or a yay hooray, even if it manages to capture a following. i can't say i didnt try.

i think, though, the only way for it to 'take off' is if its INCREDIBLY easy to use on the fly. but to get it to that point...will cost some money. sooooo we will see how this nets out :) im hoping to get it out of the design phase very soon though!

web projects are so much fun!!

Breaking Down Walls

i have been in the biggest art block of my life. i'm not sure what it is, but the swirling thoughts of ideas in my head just aren't coming out right. the most frustrating part of this would be my inability to draw anything exciting. im so tired of drawing characters just standing there; no sense of time, place, story, emotion. its like, whats the point!

this isn't horrible, but its not great either. im pretty proud of the torso area though, thats usually my achilles heel. theres something off with it though, im not sure what. i know her one horn looks super big but what can you do.

i like how zhadra comes out as some weird hippie. im sure even medieval times has their fair share, amirite?

as soon as i get into the city (june 15th!) i'm going to figure class once a week. nothing beats seeing the real thing. especially when your brain/hand has lost the ability to fake it.

Kazam!

so after two days of drinking, wearing the same clothes and not showing, i came home and for whatever reason decided it was high time to finish up this calvin and hobbes painting. once i move into the city i am going to lose the ability to spread out, so these projects need to be done before that.

a sad realization is that, that empty bar in the very middle of the canvas, is supposed to be the foreground ground color.....and thats going to be impossible to remix, i remember having such a hard time getting that pink for some reason?! i have to mix a goldenrod for the moons too, then everything thats white will be filled in with an almost-black black. et voila!

after this, ive just got to finish coating up my deer, and i think my outstanding non-digital projects are completed :) whoopie!

New Internets!

so i am the proud owner of ifuckinglovethis.com and ifuckinghatethis.com! it will eventually roll into a (popular!) blog, where me and cohorts will post things we love, and things we hate, from a range of different topics. i used today (a slow day at work) to set up the nameservers, so hopefully my brain will consider the ball rolling and i will churn out some designs somewhat soon.

i'm hoping to have my new portfolio site (read: not really new, so much as revamped and scrapping the overused 'lightbox' script, which wasn't overused when i used it thank-you-very-much!) coded in the next few weeks as well, so between these two projects i should start having a pretty sick web presence!

at the moment, love has not yet populated, but do check back! i will, of course, post deets as they happen!

WOAH!FUNDAY'09

ahh, last minute lex strikes again! i was asked to do a tshirt for a party my highschool friends down in DC are throwing, based on a shirt my friend sarah got one fateful day at a VNA sale...


for whatever reason the phrase has stuck within our group of friends, and theyre now basing their party around it (haha). so my task was to do a shirt 'in the same vein' as the original, only...cooler.

ive been pretty busy the last few weeks, so sitting down to do something fun was actually more difficult then i would have thought. i'm pretty decent at drawing, but for the life of me i could not come up with a stylized horse illo. the first design i came up with last night (they wanted the design by today, so we could get them printed by next saturday) was really hard to look at, i don't even want to share it; my original thought was i wanted it to be really organic and hand-done, but of course under pressure i defaulted to iconography and text-bubbles, my design stand-bys, lol.

i'm not sure if itll greatly increase the cost to print on both sides, but i think it would be sweet if we print the design on the back, and then an empty bubble on the front for you to write something in..there's going to be a lot of people there from a lot of different places, so you could always just do your name, or a drawing, or just leave it blank, whatever. it'd be a pretty cool little thing though :).

this party is going to be amazing! the icons in the bubbles represent the different things that will be making an appearance at the party (shotski, discoball, music, friends, etc), plus a throwback to the original with the horse/horseshoe. i hate lassos. seriously, who can vector a decently looking lasso, i ask you?? im pretty pumped to be wearin this, and see everyone else there wearin'em too..we got the shirts wholesale from American Apparel (sweet!), so they're gonna be pretty long-lasting too. hooray for a foray into shirts! maybe once we move out, if we can get a silkscreening area set up, me/joe/julian can start a t-shirt biz.....

Stark Baster

it is done! project two of three: complete.

okay, thats sort of a lie....it still needs its final paintjob. the picture makes it look much smoother than it is, but after trying spraypaint unsuccessfully, im going to just need to do a couple more coats of primer...but i wanted this sucker on the wall. holy balls its so epic, im so happy with how it came out! it was such a crazy process, but i have to say, i love learning new processes. he has a couple more details to add, but the piece name is 'by the skin of your teeth'. im going to try to get an SVA student to expose a screen for me soon, i might get that on there too and screen it to the back in blackletter or something. maybe ill freehand it. who knows! also, that is my mom in the picture: hi gayle!

and let me just say: bondo is a piece of shit, and never use it for anything!

i think his name might be baster, pronounced 'b-a-ster'. im not sure how i feel about that, but it is a personal rule that i name everything the first thing that comes into my head. which is how i ended up with a rabbit named sandwich and an external harddrive named pascal.

in other exciting news, my projected move-out date is June 1st! A couple of friends from work are also interested in moving out/moving, so we're going to try to all find a place together! i hope they won't mind, im going to end up bringing a lot of shit to hang on the walls, between this, my teacher's piece, calvin and hobbes and other various paintings, plus about a zillion posters. i'm just so excited to be so close to the next leg of this adventure we call life! the last year has been pretty crazy, but im glad i did everything i did, because i feel like im in a better place for it :>.

cross your fingers! also, ill upload some cut&paste pics soon too...sadly, not taken with my nikon, so theyre all pretty crappy :<.

I Love Illustrator

My designs for Cut&Paste! Sadly, I got out the first round (booooo!), but it was an incredible experience! Of course, work ramps up again, but once i get my pictures downloaded off my camera I'll upload some pics :).

Also..my bondo experience with my deer head did not go as smoothly as i anticipated, so now i need to invest in a dremmel...sigh!