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[20 Dec 2009|10:09pm] |
A BIG HUGE HUGE FLATSCREEN TV
:O
let me make that face bigger in case you did not see:
:O
LIKE HUGE.
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| What IS it. |
[20 Dec 2009|12:14pm] |
D:<
Still no idea what the mysterious delivery/ probably Christmas present could be. My parents have locked themselves away in the extra bedroom with it and have been in there all morning. They also spent a good chunk of last night in there as well.
I've been trying to think of what it could possibly be, but..it was a big truck. Like a REALLY big truck. Like the kind that's not supposed to come down our street because it's too big but it was here anyway. Maybe it requires assembly? But then why would they assemble it in the extra room? But why are they spending so much time with it? There's nothing I can think of that would need to be delivered in such a huge truck, either...I'm trying to think of what I asked for...I asked for a scanner? Um...I asked for books. I asked for a pair of headphones. I didn't actually ask for a lot. And certainly nothing that requires mysterious deliveries. HMm.
Maybe it's some kind of furniture? Except I live in a tiny apartment. Technology? But then why would it be so big? A PONY.
This is weird. What is it?! It's driving me crazy.
Luckily, if it is a Christmas present, I will find out tonight because that is when we are exchanging gifts. Then the mystery will be revealed!....
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| W-what's going on..? |
[19 Dec 2009|07:30pm] |
WEIRDED OUT.
You guys what is going on I am so weirded out right now.
My mom and I just got back from an entire day of shopping....we walk into the house and I take off my coat and whatever. My mom starts to get dinner ready and goes "Annie. I need you to do something for me, ok?"
And I'm like "um, alright."
Mom :"If something happens in the middle of dinner I need you to go upstairs and shut the door."
Me: "Wait..what's going to happen?"
Mom: "You just need to do it, ok?"
Me: "A-are you guys in some kind of trouble?"
So this starts to get weird, and then all of a sudden this HUGE TRUCK pulls up in front of my house.
Mom: "ANNIE GO UPSTAIRS NOW."
Me: "Can I look out the window?"
Dad: "No."
Me: "Can...can I turn on a light?
Dad: "No."
A few minutes later I hear horrible banging and my mom brings me my dinner and goes "Put your headphones on."
And I'm still in here.
And the giant truck is still out there.
Weirded out.
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| Page 44 |
[17 Dec 2009|10:08am] |
This page! It is now done! This was a fast one. Or, well, it was done all in one big long marathon so it felt fast. It probably actually wasn't any faster than usual. Actually, it might've been slower.
Usually I try to get my linework done on Friday or Saturday, then let it sit for a couple days and go back in for colors on Tuesday. Or at least, that's been my schedule over all of fall semester, because it worked. This last Saturday, though, I was working on a paper about Quetzalcoatl. Even Friday I was...doing something. I certainly wasn't drawing. I think I was marathoning on season two of Merlin. It's alright, though, because it took me through Sunday to get the composition in the top panel right. Actually it came to me AS I was watching Merlin and I drew it down on a napkin because my sketchbook was...somewhere else?
Sometimes that thing just gets off and wanders away. Goes on coffee breaks, you know.
So when I had my last Comics class with Shanth (DDDD: saddest day ever!) he gave me some good advice about merging my painting style and my comic style together. I had sort of realized this in the past a little bit: the darkness of the lines was making it very hard to get any painterly atmosphere in my work. Atmosphere is pretty important for a fantasy comic, I think. But I could definitely see it, especially in, say, the first panel of last week's page where I had a shot of the castle from afar. Dark lines are also, apparently, a crutch for weak value. So he suggested I take the lines down to a grey instead of black or try using colored lines.
And for a while I was like "well, ok, how does that make it more painterly?" And then I went to see princess and the frog, where the background was, yunno, foggy and muted and the characters were flat colored. I feel like this technique works better a lot for animation, because we don't have time to get confused by the disconnect between the characters and the space as their moving through it. With the comic, it's a lot slower. Especially with a webcomic, since people have to sit on it for an entire week before the next one comes out. But I still got something artwise out of that movie, sort of an "aha!" moment, so I decided to try it. This page is mainly dark blue lines. I do think something happened, either value wise or with the atmosphere. It definitely feels more painted than past pages. Then again, this is a rather dark page, and it's always been easier for me to paint a dark scene. I also ustreamed the coloring of this page, which I mentioned on the comic site. Yea, I saw David Peterson of Mouseguard working on a page the other night and I was like "I WANT TO DO THAT." So I did. And heeey, people actually showed up. Yaay. I think the first time I went on it make me kind of ridiculously nervous, but as the night went on I got used to it and, uh, stopped yelling into my computer.
"CAN YOU HEAR ME AM I LOUD ENOUGH WHAT."
Er.. Anyways, the old version of this page is the vote incentive! So you should go vote if you want to see it! Actually, I pulled it up after finishing this page and was surprised by the similarities. I mean, yes, its supposed to be similar because its the same, er, story. But the panels are very similar. We got the walking-through-the-door panel, the going-down-some-stairs panel, the slumber-party panel. I didn't necessarily meeeann to keep those, it just sort of happened. I guess when you wander through a castle late at night, it is inevitable that you'd go through a door, go down some stairs, and come upon a slumber party. Yep.
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| Will stop spamming friends pages after this |
[13 Dec 2009|01:31am] |
Okay.
I know this is my second update in the last few hours but this has been annoying me for a while. I have an evil evil grudge against my art history teacher. UGH. He drives me crazy, he can't teach correctly- I really can't stand teachers who cannot teach! But anyways here's the thing:
This is our second paper. A few weeks ago we wrote the first, and it was a short little thing and I wrote mine in the style I always do: formal, articulate but not ridiculously worded. I've always considered myself to be a good writer, especially when it comes to essays. I'm pretty formal when I speak in general...I'm pretty sure I sound ten years older than I am (maturity wise, not like, voice quality or anything.) because I was one of those kids who actually perused the thesaurus for fun and, um, got the word a day email from Dictionary.com (yesss) and USED it. What I'm trying to say is that I do not sound like a college kid when I talk, for the most part. And while this, um, actually makes it really hard for me to talk with people my age (What are they saying? It's like they're speaking another language D:) it also makes me pretty darn good at essays (and sometimes Norse/Celtic fantasy webcomic scripts where the language is also courtly and formal and yesss)..
So we get our papers back a few weeks back. And I got, I don't know, a B or something (keeping in mind that this was due on Thursday, my day-after-the-all-nighter day, the day when everything is due and the day after my 4-hours-in-total internship commute and I had to do all the research and writing in one night in between all that other stuff.)
Okay, fine. But then the teacher goes "Well you guys your writing is OKAY but you need to have a VOICE to your writing and blah blah and I'm going to read an EXCELLENT example of a paper.
So he sits down and begins to read
the most excruciating colloquially written monosyllabic essay I have ever been forced to listen to.
It was about Aztec warfare, too, and so obviously written by a college boy that I think I just sat there with a confused look on my face for the rest of the class, like...what just happened.
It went something like "Aztecs liked to bludgeon each other with sticks so that they could capture each other and sacrifice people. Sometimes they used swords made of sticks with glass in them but clubs were better for knocking people out so they used those."
Um, ok. Yes my teacher you are right, it has a voice. NOT necessarily the voice you want for a college level research paper, I don't think.
Hah, so I guess in the end I'm going in on monday with this paper I'm writing now. And I remember relaying this story to my mother and telling her how I was going to try to write in "college voice" for this one and see what happens, but I am actually incapable of sincerely writing that badly XP
So once again I have a paper that's formal and, in my opinion, well written and in MY VOICE...which just happens to always sound like a formal research paper voice.
And I'm really wondering if he's actually going to give me a lower grade if I bring him in a well written essay XD
Probably yes.
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| Today, a thought process |
[12 Dec 2009|11:12pm] |
1. Okay! Time to get started on that paper!
2. I'll just go through all these books and get the sources I need.
3. Hm, I want to draw a picture of Toby with owls.
4. Ok, not getting distracted. Back to the paper.
5. Oh, hey, the entire second season of Merlin is online....
6. Whoa, is it that late already? Better get those sources down.
7. I wonder what will happen if I drink this entire two liter bottle of diet coke in one day..
8. BUZZZZZZZZZZZ
9. Oh no there are no primary sources anywhere on the internet!
10. Oh wait I found some.
11. Neat, here's that old animation I worked on last year.
12. Well, now that I have the external harddrive plugged in, I might as well look at all my old art.
13. I'll just reread the old version of Cealdian while I'm at it. Just to check.
12. Well, I better make sure the script reads better in this one part than it used to.
13. Might as well just read through the whole thing now...
14. I'll just change this one thing.
15. Oh yea I better start that paper.
16. Well, there's one sentence. Better take a break.
17. I know, I'll write in LJ!
btw, if you drink all that diet coke in one day, you get a headache like NO OTHER.
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