first days of classes

the winter quarter began on wednesday. and i was really excited to be back. i saw everyone that i wanted to see except one person. i don't know where she is...but i hope i see her soon so i can give her her gifts.

on the first day of school i wore this. i felt so cute e///w///e i only had one class on wednesday and that was materials and techniques 2. i'm kind of intimidated by the professor...i mean he's nice, but i'm still worried about how i'll do in this class. our first project for this class is to do a portrait of a music artist. i chose adele. i wish we could have started off the quarter with a different project. i didn't want to do a portrait first, i hate doing portraits. but at least we're getting the portrait project out of the way. but i like that we're using ink and watercolor for this. i like those mediums.

today i had 2 classes. the first was an art history elective called indian art and architecture. i'm really interested in the class. i just didn't like the fact that i had to have like 4 books for and i eventually have to write an 8 to 10 page essay e n e. and these professors say it like it's nothing. 8 to 10 pages is hard...well for me. i can barely write 2 pages. if this was creative writing i wouldn't be so afraid of it. but it's not. oh well. my second class was a collage class for illustration. i'm really really excited about this class. i get to make some plushies! and i might be learning needle felting! i always wanted to learn it. it will be neat to make my own plushies, it will come in handy for the holidays. oh and i did the doodle above in my collage class. eyes and crosses are one of my favorite motifs in art. i would like to incorporate them into my personal work more.

over all this first week of classes went well. i already feel like i have a lot on my plate. i'm going to need me a planner to keep things together. but even though i feel like i have a lot to do, i'm still excited for this quarter and i hope to do even better than before.

a few things i did in my dorm

i tried taking pictures in my dorm while i was at school fall quarter, only of myself and my rilakkuma bby. but when i go back next quarter i plan on taking more pictures. i must admit that my dorm isn't special. i don't have any sexy furniture in it or anything. but i still want to try taking nice pictures of things in there.

here's my rilakkuma bby on my bed in my dorm. he's just chillin'. he keeps be company because my roommate is always with her boyfriend at his apartment. so i'm alone in the dorm by myself. last year i had to deal with this, and i don't do well alone. i was very depressed. i hated myself and i hated being alone. i would cry so much. but i'm better now, i don't hate myself any more, but i still don't like being alone. i mean i do, but i guess there's a difference in wanting to be alone and being lonely. because i'm an introvert, so i like having time with myself, i just don't like the feeling of being lonely. but i bought myself a rilakkuma for my birthday this year, and he has kept me company in my room. he's so soft and very therapeutic.

when this was made, i didn't mean to click the video button. i wanted to take a picture. but that happened. i think that tapping noise was me doing that thing that people do with their hands when their waiting for something, that tapping thing lol...i don't know how to explain it. but i wanted to take a picture with my rilakkuma bby. my mema has a lot of cute sweaters so i asked her for some. the one i'm wearing is one of them. sorry for the crappy video quality. there's no good lighting in the room e A e and i don't have any extra lights...oh well.

petite artist

i'm really proud of this. i wanted to make my stuff look more children's storybook illustration-ish. i was inspired by peachifruit. she's amazing. i love her stuff. i was also inspired by adrian molina's illustrations in the toy story 3 little golden books. i'm so glad i decided to try something new. another thing i did was sketch digitally. i use to hate doing it until i did this picture. because i usually tried in sai and nothing ever worked out. but when i tried sketching in photoshop, the lines flowed and were sketchy like my traditional sketches are. i will still do traditional sketching. but i know there are going to be times when i'm going to have to do things digitally. so i'm glad i have something i can digitally sketch in.