I haven't drawn anything in a really loooooooooong time...nothing outside of a handful of poopy sketches on random napkins and such. Welp, work got kind of weird, so as a form of my own private rebellion, my work-related productivity went WAY down, but since I can be pretty work-minded (stop laughing!) and have to be doing SOMETHING to pass the time, my art productivity went WAY up.

Not that it's real art. Just HP stuff which will probably always be my guilty pleasure. So...as per Annie's request, here's a couple things inspired by HP and the DH. Mostly, I was trying to figure out what it's like to draw for fun again, and it was a chance for me to make nice with my tablet as I've let it collect dust for like, half a year.

( Hungry Ron )

And...

( Beanie )

I totally want a Jayne beanie. Erin, make me a Jayne Beanie.

Dear LJ,

It's been months and months since I've posted anything here. Why is that? Originally, I had thought of you as a place I could keep an eye on my friends, collect my thoughts for retrospective analysis, and post art as encouragement to make art.

The last time I put two words together here was last November. Yeah, writing here is not a priority of mine, nor does it feel like it should be, but it does reflect my steadily growing habit of hiding myself away.

So here I am again, making an effort. I'll take into account that I have been busy, what with work, school, portfolios, and my health goals. But things have settled quite a bit and I want to make sure I'm part of this community again, as I'm preparing to move to a new city, and pursue new things, in a new environment.

But thanks, for hanging around, and waiting for me just in case I had something to say.

~ J

Guess what I'm doing?


I'm drinking coffee in my cube at my new grown-up job.

And I have post-its.

chris. Farley.

I have *always* wanted to throw a molotov cocktail. For peace, of course. Or at Voldemort.



hand-coding a website w/o aid of a nice front page program sux.

There's a little band that hails from Portland, Oregon--they are headed by an English major-type who's got a cute prepubescent crack to his voice and a kinda blue-collar-ee accent when he sings. And all the people who come and go within this band play, like, a kabuhjillion instruments including some that I can't pronounce.

I love the decemberists. And I have steadily loved them for several years now. But not as much as I do after the show at the Warfield friday night.

Thank you, Erin.


"Crane Wife" is officially an amazing album in my book. For those who are sure that it is no "Picaresque", listen again--listen to it loudly and check out the lyrics. And yes, as Deb points out--the song, "Shankill butchers" is about real seriel killers from N. Ireland who used real knives and meatcleavers to off people. Meloy knows what makes a great song.

Hi Everyone,

Despite popular belief that I quietly died stuffing my face with lead-based oil paints, I live! It has been a long time, and I can not wait to catch up on everyone's lj, but for my first post in like, a cosmic cycle, I have a request to make.

I've submitted a t-shirt design for Threadless.com--I would really like to win and see my design printed but I need your help, especially because I've submitted during the last 7 days of the contest. Hit the banner that follows this very sentence, and if you like what you see, please take a minute to sign in and rate it!




Thank you!
But now on to where the hell I've been. Well, I've officially graduated, having finished my last class a coupla weeks ago and having spent most of my time since then working at my shitty job, quitting my shitty job, moving and settling into our new apartment/art nest, finding a new non-shitty job, and of course, trying to re-find my barings on art. Oh, and I've canceled my freeservers account because they were very undependable and expensive, so tikigeek.4t.com is no more. But I just set up a new home over at rydia.net, www.moderatemind.com, and as soon as I'm up and running, hopefully so will my "hot links".

And there's grad school applications. I finally have time to start cracking down on those, and have found three potential schools. Now i'm on to requesting applications, working on my portfolio, and studying for the GREs, but now my timing is all off because i finished up my last class during second session summer school, and blah blah blah a whole lot of boring words that basically sum up the chaos that reigned supreme for the past five months or so.

But hi again. I've missed LJ. I've missed my community. *waves* to the awesome kids like artistbabe for sticking around.

holy crap--

It's been a long time. Going to Berkeley today to visit Deb, Comic Relief, and Gelato. And by "visiting"
I mean harassing Deb, raiding Comic Relief, and devouring copious amounts of Gelato.

I'm graduating this summer. And I should be more concerned about school, but I'm having a hard time caring about writing papers or reading 18th c. british novels. Must push on...I need very badly to graduate so I can freely think about the "next step". Also, I did win that little Experimental College Cover thingy, which was way cool--I got $50! Yay money. Here's an image of the(4'x6') ( massive painting ) I did last quarter, its a cowgirl because I like westerns, partnah. Here's a detail of the "shadowy" hand because the lighting in that gallery mammothly sucks. ( LARGE hand )


And something Harry Potter because I can. Sort of.

My entry to the Experimental College cover contest--the theme is "spring illuminations". Gives me hay fever just thinking about it.
I really want that $50.

Hey there, I'm a nerd. Yeah...a NERD.

( BATTLESTAR is hawt like whoa )

So I'm a new tablet owner and I need to practice and I thought, hey, why not try some new coloring methods with this new tablet? And then from the midst of my harddrive came this picture because I am that lazy and couldn't be bothered to actually draw something new.

( Boo. )

Holy crap, second day of the quarter and I've already bailed out on two of my classes. Granted they probably started nothing important, it probably would have been better if I showed up...first impressions with the professors and so on.

Anywho, instead I spent way too long working on my first commission. May share that in the coming days...Then I went to work where I worked longer than I was supposed to. And tomorrow, I will be getting up at the the ass crack o' dawn to walk myself to work because my bike is still cracked out from that time I ran it into a light post and me into the pavement and because I left my roomie's bike on campus. So very quickly here's some stuff because I'm annoying the hell outta my roomates.

( drawings )

So yeah...My orignal intentions were to *actually* get out christmahka-festivus for the rest of us cards in time for the holidays. Huh. Funny how I didn't manage to do that.

In any case, I wanted to wish everyone a very Merry/happy (holiday of choice). Next year, baby, the cards are gonna happen.


That little horrifying dramatization of what is happening to me as we speak *eats more pie* was done in like two seconds on a...WACOM TABLET. I love love love my mom and sis.

I've spent absolute hours working on this...too many to admit without totally embarassing myself.


Sadly, I don't really like the outcome...the coloring is all wrong to me. But ( THIS ) is actually kinda neat.

And just because I've actually done some life drawing...

( Naked People )

Sorry about the image heavy post.

Do you know what I just bought tickets for? Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Go me.
Under that little cut there are a coupla doodles I cooked up instead of doing my homework, which undoubtedly be my undoing come end of the quarter. And boy, is the end neigh.

( Potter )

I love three-day weekends. My was particularly lazy, not that it should have been. I just couldn't bring myself to be productive; its all really quite destructive. I've been really bad about calling people lately too. I've been so busy that the moment I get some free time I just completely crash. Forming words into understandable sentences becames incredibly taxing. Remembering phone numbers, my name, becomes impossible. So to those I've neglected, I'm really sorry! you know who you are, and when I think of you guys I get images of sunshine and rainbows and irridescent unicorns in my head.

Anyway, back to studying.

Tomorrow, Death Cab for Cutie at the Warfield.

Went to the Foo/Weez Show last night.

Weezer did songs off of Pinkerton. This was my face:

*


Blur cover...Rivers WORKING the crowd, three dudes-one drum set, and 6 male strippers.

This was my face:

**

Awesome Chinese Proproganda shirt done for the Weezer tour by the amazing Derek Kirk Kim. Eye-raping of his art encouraged.






*All "faces" are dramatic reenactments. No band members were harmed/molested/read poetry to.

sweet baby jesus, where the HELL have I been?

No internet for way too long, a surprisingly busy schedule and too much work. Not, for once work work--I'm only doing 19 hrs for once. More school work. Work work v. school work...hmmm, it's like a legendary epic battle, but without the cool stuff like orcs and axes.

Anyway here's some stuff I've been doing in my printmaking classes--these are actually the first few assignments so they're pretty crappy, not to mention they're first drafts. Intaglio is a process involving acid, metal plates, and propane torches (fire!), and monotype is a silly excuse to use the printing press. Did you know some lady got pinned under the thing in the 70s and wasn't found for 24 hours? Sweet, huh?

( Art stuff )

And finally, a little fan art that I've been dying to do. It's never going to be fully finished because I've decided I hate the drawing. But I do love me redheads with hot man-jaw. Urrrrr, man-jaw...


WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!! You are NOT A F*CKIN' LEAF ON THE WIND!!!!!!!

soooo muuuuuuch wooooork. Got back from Yellowstone/Grand tetons. The Tetons look nothing like breast. Silly french men. I really want to rename Yellowstone, Aubergeine Rock. Here's a drawing.





Proves my mind is indeed, a scary, scary place.

Moving in 7 days. Super stressed. Yet strangely apathetic.

by the by, I love Tealin Raintree. Who you say? Great lightning bolts of zeus! go look at her site and educate yourself Here
This girl has seriously been my hero since I found her HPfanart as a wee college freshman.

Where the hell did my summer go?

I love batman. There is something so hot about a grown man parading about in a bat costume and a cape. I mean, that seriously takes a guy who is very comfortable with himself. And then Nolan decides to make like, an awesome movie that rivals Tim Burton's take on my favorite DC comic book character, promptly turning me into a raving fan girl.



*sigh*. Someday, gods willing, I may be able to draw.

Dude.

Trying to find my way back to the internet is mucho hard. Especially when you are well concussed from the brutal spring quarter lashing. Working 25 hrs, doing 8 hrs of photo lab, and 22 hours of class is BAD! Unless you like being a glazed-over zombie-student who fails a class due to her amazing talent to not know about the most important book needed to pass it. The quarter then mercifully ended, leaving me pretty fucked, but beyond caring. Got slightly drunk at the first party that didn't suck for me, went out dancing, got asked out, accidently gave out wrong number to cute guy who was the aforementioned asker-outer, promptly went home to share my almost-date story with my mom, played with my puppy, met Annie (finally), and came back to Davis to work.

On the up side, Congrats to Laura, Deb, and Annie who have now graduated from their respective schools and are now setting out to wreck havoc on society. Or on some other college or another.

Here is the only thing I've drawn in two months. It features Snape and Sirius from Harry Potter (NERD ALERT), because I am cool like that.



Christian Bale is hot like whoa.