i feel weirdd

It could be the new pill I'm taking, but I've been feeling sorta off (more than before). Slight mood swings, dissatisfaction with things, skin feeling numb, blah blah. Then again, it could just be that I'm a woman! and those are things we are known for. I've been going out to sushi a lot, which is hurting my bank account. It's not my fault the food at school is sucky. Mexican and Tampa rolls are my favorite. Eel sauce is tasty. Tevi came over for vday weekend and it was comforting having him here. Cuddling and getting crumbs of food on my bed were some of the highlights.

I checked my mail and got my absentee ballot!! I requested it about 4 months ago, but now I can finally vote!!!! ugh. On my way out of the mail room, I glanced at the garbage and saw a thick set of pages. I pulled it out and it was a perfectly, untrashy issue of Elle magazine. wtf?! at least recycle it-shit. ANYWAY, I'm reading the watchmen for inspiration to come up with a comic idea for the comic/graphic novel club DIP. We'll see what happens.

Here are some stuff from my yellow sketchbook:


rub on letters.



rachel

intro to ill notes



leaf plus yarmelke





i had stained the page with tea sort of. history of ill. i'm sure everyone will have a sketch like this by the end of the year lol.

hay grace ;)




and this was great...


ps. I'm seeing Dr. dog tomorrow in tampa and I drew this thinking I was seeing the one in orlando.



:)
-kristen

Figure work

I've been horrible in updating this. For the longest time I've been wanting to put my old artwork up here to show what I was doing before, but it's all formatted 4 by 6 with black borders and I need to crop them. They'll be up eventually. This new spring semester is promising! My classes are all benefiting me in one way or the other, and history of illustration reminds me of ap art history with lutness (but not as fun necessarily). I feel overly prepared for Intro to Illustration...I have to take it to graduate eventhough I've been taking Illustration 1 last semester and this semester lol. Greenberg shows us different contemporary illustrators like Marcos Chin, Sam Weber and Anita Kunz and asks who's familiar with their work. Barely any of the freshman raise their hands but I guess thats how it is at first. Familiarizing yourself comes later.

Here's some figure work to tide you people over. I think I work best with vine charcoal which is funny because everyone hated it in high school and preferred charcoal pencils. I was so ignant.




















P.S. I hate it when people look at your sketchbook, give it back with a half smile and say nothing. WHAT IS THAT?

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IT'S ALMOST BREAK!!!
ps. i love national geographic books.

batman bakery

So I did this like a month ago in French's class. Natalie and I were talking about how ugly Maggie Gyllenhaal was in the new batman movie so I drew her and some other characters (Batman and Two-Face if it wasn't obvious lol). Two- Face was also like
"WHERE'S RACHEL YOU GUYZZ?" for most of the movie so I drew that too.

Thanksgiving break was awesome. Seeing family, Tevi and turkey was what I needed to sustain me for the next week and a half till Winter break. AGHOISDGHSODK i want it nowww. I'm scrambling just like everyone else so I'm going to finish an essay and French stuff. Laterz

figure stuff

I've been really busy balancing class and for the past 3 weeks, 2 jobs (Alumni Relations and Development office assistant and Phonathon caller). With the phonathon, a group of students and I called up old alumni to update their contact info, see what was up with their life, and ask for a donation for the school. It was a great experience since I'm not afraid of answering/ talking on the phone with strangers and I got some good advice from Illustration alumss. Gotta keep truckin. I need to rent a camera from IT and take pictures of my work so far lol. So this is some stuff I posted to my figure classes blog. Here you go!

p.s i just killed a bunch of ants that were feasting over a hersheys kiss on the floor with FEBREEZE! mmmmmm


One of my first drawings in conte, learning the half lights and half darks.


Charcoal, but using mostly shapes.



Watercolor. I really enjoyed doing these.



Quick sketchy gestures which are pretty fun.


Eyes from my sketchbook. I had lots of different reference, and it was cool drawing all of them :)

me and you having a barbeque

This past week was alright. Watercolor has been fun and we're using it in figure class too. I worked on my submission for Illest which didn't get in but I'm glad I painted it. It was based on a drawing I did that looked like Karen O.



I did a gibson girl hairdo to match the theme of the Illest of Ill theme gallery show on Friday.






My girl Vanessa got in! ^^woo

People were dressed to impress and it was pretty bangin.


Oh and my boyfriend Tevi came all dressed too :] The show was great overall and seeing him this weekend cheered me up a lot. I'll post some more stuff later.

-Kristen

First entry

I'm testing this out since I've never had a blog before. I have an lj but I updated it a loooong time ago, when I used to be cool. Hellll yeahhhh