Some art from the semester!
Current mood: calm
Category: Art and Photography

I didn't forget about you myspace.

Ok, I did. I'll be honest. But yeah, here's the post from lj containing some of my art from this semester. If you want a (possibly) more detailed description of something, then you need to look at my deviantart account and read the descriptions on the pictures there. I took more time to describe things in there versus my descriptions on lj.

Anyways, have fun and give me feedback!

So here part one goes folks! This will definitely be in parts, because there's quite a bit to share. =3

Excuse the watermarks please. Gotta protect myself somehow, right?

Let's start out with the graphic novel!



The image links to the pdf of the novel, so go ahead and take a look. It's pretty short, since all that was required was 10 pages plus the explanation and title/ending pages. Most folks in class told me that I should go ahead and finish it up and make it a full story. I may do that some day.

Now for the painting!



Oh gosh, this took me such a long time to complete. And you folks wonder why I was non-existent online. I just had no time. D: But yeah, this is a self portrait (obviously) painted on a self-made 4'x4' canvas.


Here's Nabil for reference. This guy is so much fun. <3 He was always laying on the floor, just because. And check out those muscles!! Rawr!

And now for a series of 6. This may get a bit large so I apologize now.

Oh yeah! This series was printed as 36" x 42" posters, and they looked SO FAB on the wall! I still have them too, but no room to hang them. =[


One of my favorites in this series, because he's just such a strange character.




I have no idea what was going through my head when I drew this character. O_o


Monchii! I love how this one came out sooo much!




This one should be familiar to some of you. I cheated and used a picture I've already drawn for this project. LoL! I just didn't feel like pulling another drawing out of my arse, so this worked fine. He was the class's favorite, so I think this was a good decision.

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Fucking ridiculous...
Current mood: infuriated
Category: Life

I just got fucking rear-ended out here in Plano. Oh, it doesn't stop there. Oh no. The bitch fucking ran!

She was so stupid about it too. First, she jumped into the opening lane to the left of us, and sped up to pass me. WRONG! Thank YOU for giving me the opportunity to grab your plates and get a good look at your car. And I STILL have the license plates in my head. I'm pretty sure they'll be there for a while.

She picks up speed (the speed limit jumps to 55 here, so I'd imagine we were doing around 60-65mph) thinking she can outrun me. Pfftftftf! Oh no honey, not in that mid-90's cheapmobile. Hah! Give me a fucking break! I KNOW she saw the V6 on the bumper she just hit. That's not a number for kicks, you know. But she got lucky, because cars all around us were slowing down. So she cut off another car to the right of us, leaving me unable to follow, and then turned off down some random parking lot.

Fucking chump. :| And it wouldn't have been that big a deal. She must not have had a license or insurance. It's the only reason why I would imagine that someone would run like that. But NOW, she'll not only have to PAY for whatever damage was done to my car, she'll get charged with a hit-and-run.

Have fun with that, alright chic?


Fucking Plano drivers.

Fortunately for me, a guy pulled over to talk to the cop and confirmed and added to the story. He saw what happened from behind, so that should really put the nail in the coffin for her.

This is why not everyone needs a gotdamned license. Just because you know what a gas and brake pedal is doesn't mean you're qualified to fucking drive.

< /rage>




I do apologize for all of the profanity, but I'm sure you guys will understand.

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Astral is...*art*
Current mood: calm
Category: Art and Photography

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10 Things you probably wouldn’t know about me otherwise...
Current mood: amused
Category: Blogging

1. I can not STAND when people question me about my hair. I don't care what it is you're asking..."oooh, is it soft?!" "can I touch it?!!?" "why don't you have straight hair? It would be so much better straight!"

So if you have a question, please don't be too upset if I just stare at you or act as if I didn't hear.

2. I have an uncanny ability to approach most dogs, be they fearful or not, and almost always I can calm them down. It's why I adopted my little terror now. =]

3. I have undiagnosed endometriosis. I choose to remain officially undiagnosed because a)I do NOT want to undergo surgery repeatedly to alleviate pain, and b)I've heard that insurance companies are less likely to accept you as a new customer, since they would fall under a patient with a "pre-existing condition."

Me and the doctor have discussed this thoroughly, and he's more than willing to work with me on that. Thank goodness!

4. Believe it or not, when anyone makes the "OH!! Why, YOU don't sound like a black girl at all!!!!!!!" and I'm smiling and laughing at them, it means that I'm smiling and laughing because I am trying my utmost not to kill you! :D And I'm serious. Please, don't make that comment around me anymore folks. I don't give a damn that I don't sound like someone of a different upbringing. And why does it matter anyways? That will be a rant for another day I suppose.

5. I spend way too much time on livejournal, mostly laughing at the atrocities posted on wtf_inc and too_much_info. I'm pretty jaded and desensitized. Unless it has to do with vomit. I can't handle it.

6. Speaking of vomit, I have an unreasonable fear of it. I get extremely anxious and panicky whenever someone tells me they're about to/feel like they're going to throw up. Here lately, I have been able to control that fear a bit more. But you better believe that I'm grinding the hell out of my teeth to try and keep myself from screaming and crying and running away like a small child.

7. Apparently every car that I drive is automatically tagged with a big arse target. People LOVE to try and hit me. It's amazing just how much I have to dodge mofos on the road. >=[

8. I can't cook to save my life. Well ok, I'm just not creative. I can cook straight off of a box, let me tell you. Other than that, my creativity lies in other areas.

9. I will be changing my major to sculpture starting next semester. I will also shoot for a graduate and masters at this fine art while working. I must be mad! :D

10. And the best for last!! I have a pretty strong dislike of religion. That is not to say that I'm an atheist, don't get me wrong. But everything about religion rubs me the absolute wrong way. I'll stand my ground on this though, no matter how much people push for me to go to "church" or call me a heathen (hah! my folks call me a heathen on a regular basis). Why do I dislike religion? Perhaps it's a combination of past experience with every religion I've encountered, and the fact that I find the huggy-faced cheesy-ness of it all pretty nauseating. All of the smiles "fo JAYSUS!" seem so forced and just......I'll stop here so as to bypass offending those who are religious. I'm not attacking you guys, I promise. But eh, it's an opinion. We all have the choice to agree or disagree.

Feel free to speak your mind on that though. I'm up for some fair debate. I won't bite you, I promise. ;D

Probably the wrong place to talk about though, considering that I'm in the bible belt. Speaking of, I'm thinking about making a "bible belt" for my sculpture class. Little bibles cast in bronze to be worn on a belt, so that you will LITERALLY be in the bible belt! :D


Now! I won't be tagging 10 people, because I'm more than sure that most of you won't do it anyways. Haha! But if you want to, please go for it and let me know so I can come and read and comment. =3

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Art Post!! School work!
Current mood: blah
Category: Art and Photography

So check it out. A few pictures behind the cut...

<sub>There is orange coloration because of the lighting in the room at the time of the picture. What can I say? We love warm tones in our place. :]

So okay, I got a C on this as well. And what's frustrating, is that I actually FIXED what she said was wrong when she came around. These were her exact words: "Oh...I think that this looks good.........but.........the body could use more work. It needs to be...um....wider, right here. *points to the character's right arm* Other than that, it um...it's ok."

So I turned it in for critique. And she tells me that the proportions are off (didn't specify) and that's also what she wrote on my grade sheet.

*screams*

I'm starting to think that I'm getting c's because I'm not incredibly conversational with her. But come ON! How can you have a conversation with someone who stares at the ceiling and mutters "uuuuummmm...." all the time??? Can you do that?


Click the picture to see it bigger!

Ok, this was the first major project for my sculpture class. Done with steel and brass rods and some brazing. This was pretty fun and incredibly intimidating! Imagine lighting up a can of gas that burns a blue flame, which turns green as soon as it hits the flux and metal. Craziness, I tell ya! I totally thought I was going to burn something up, but I didn't. =]

This is in the gallery showing! I was put right at the entrance, front and center. That was rather flattering! Everyone loved it so much, so I guess I'm not surprised that they put it up front like that.


This is my most recent (completed) project for the drawing class. I'll be damned if she tells me that the proportions are off on this, because they are imaginary creatures.

I am incredibly proud of this however. I love how everything turned out with both sides of this book. <3</sub>

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Octopus is coming your waaaay!
Current mood: extremely exhausted
Category: extremely exhausted Art and Photography

Oh noes! Seems an octopus has taken to liking business cards! D:

Ouch! I was just bitten by mosquitoes. Now my arm will be one big welt. Grah! >=[

Back on track.

So I've been working on a sculpture, which is an octopus card-holder. He will hold pens too, but I'm not sure if I want more than one tentacle to hold a pen or not. He's about 85% complete, with the suckers and more detailing added to the skin.

He will be painted after I bake him! I'll airbrush him a solid color, and then try to give him more definition using regular acrylics. Should be fun fun! <3

Anyways, here you go! Just click on the thumbnail, and you'll get to check out a bigger picture.

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So tired D:
Category: Life

So there's been a lot going on here lately. Namely, a crapload of homework, learning another language, a car wreck, being extra broke, and many many headaches.

If you happen to wonder where in the world I am, then now you know. I rarely look at myspace these days because I have been swamped with school and stress.

I am sculpting still. In fact, check it out:


I'm making this octopus business card holder for Kendrick. I've since made lots of progress on this, so I'll probably update pictures on it if people are interested.

Anyways, be good people!

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Aaaaart update!! *VERY image heavy*
Current mood: dorky
Category: Art and Photography

Are you folks ready for a massive art update?? Ok, maybe it's not that massive, but it indeed has a lot of content, so those of you with a slower browser do view at your own risk. :D

A lot of this stuff is up on my deviantart account, so I'm sure a few of you have already seen most of these, which is cool (I'm even being lazy and copying descriptions from my submissions, hah!). However, you folks are seeing exclusives here today! I haven't uploaded some of this to my gallery, and probably never will. =3

Oh Astral, what are you up to now? D:

That's one serious hammer of JUSTICE! I'm not sure you want to be on the receiving end of that hurt.



I like to draw things for people on myspace when I get the chance. This was for a friend who's having some probs, and I plan to solve them with a swift smack across the forehead. What better way to remind her than a great picture of Astral swinging a hammer named Justice? =D

I've been having fun with the mini-requests, so if you have one, do please say so. =3

Drawn with, what else, OCv1. Text added in photoshop.

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I drew this up for (better known as Mike) for his birthday! Just a quick little doodle. He's pretty awesome, so I made him a smoking monkey. Haha!

That actually sounds pretty awful when you read it over. A smoking monkey...lord.

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My oh my!! If it isn't a semi-giant squid attacking my lamp! :O Whatever shall I doooo?!

I know what I'll do! I'll invite him for tea and biscuits, because that's what a real lady would do! =3

It's Squidges!! I gave this plushie to my middle sister Elizabeth for a grad present. She very much enjoyed it.

Squidges was created after I ran upon the Adopt A Squid website! I had to come up with a pattern for this guy off the top of my head, so that was a bit of a challenge. I am terribly proud of him, although there are MANY things I'd like to fix (such as over-stuffing his tentacles, and perhaps even adding suckers and claws).

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Here's Bella!! She comes in at over 6 feet tall, and weighs about 5 pounds. My dog was enjoying the plushie. Enjoy Mel's "I conquered it!!" face in the second picture.

She's super soft, since the maroon fabric is a sort of velvet stuff, and the black is a gorgeous fleece I found on the cheap! This huge plushie only cost me about $30+ to make, considering that the stuffing was the most expensive part. :O

This plushie currently resides with my baby sister Addy at my parents'. She absolutely loved it, and drug the poor thing all over the house. ;___; Ah, oh well, all my effort didn't go to waste since the thing is getting plenty of love. =]

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So this was originally a little doodle in my sketchbook that I grew to love each time I passed it for a new page of drawing. So I completed it as much as I could stand, and tossed it on the computer and added some very quick color (in photoshop). I'd love to edit that color and make things a little tighter, but I also like the roughness of it. Yes indeed.

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Can you tell that I'm frustrated about something?

Some days, I feel like I've reached max capacity on the amount of negativity that I can possibly take. It's on those days that I feel like all the negative is radiating from me in a toxic fashion. So I decided to illustrate this phenomenon.

The little cloud is my little friend, the art block. You guys have no idea how hard it was to get this picture into line form. I almost threw my tablet across the room.

Ok, I'm going to stop ranting here and try to go to sleep.

I used opencanvas and photoshop (for final touches of glow) to create this mess.

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Ah, so now begins the projects for summer semester I's class. Here's my favorite out of all of them that I did:


Woo boy, this was a doozy of a project! We had an even shorter amount of time to do this one than most. Good lords! This was the 3rd project.

So I'll explain a little:

The canvas is muslin fabric, onto which I dropped on some gesso (which smells awful D:). Then I painted on the bg, and all that good stuff. Props to my teacher for showing me how to blend acrylics! I'll have to play with this new ability more in the future.

The brain is drawn on with a permanent marker, and the chains are painted on top of that.

It's about 3 1/2 feet tall, and about 2 feet wide. Fun fun!

What does it mean?

Well, the meaning is pretty easy to pick up on. If you don't get it, do ask, and I'll explain more, if there's more to explain.

That is the side of my head with exaggerated hair (of course). I hate how my chin looks now. :( Time to loose some face weight!

Um...big inspiration music for this one was Bjork's "Wanderlust", and Incubus' "Dig". Plus a whole bunch of Royksopp and Hirasawa. Mmmmm!

Oh!! This painting got a "best in class" rating! Let's hope I can keep that kind of reputation next semester!

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Here's the first project for the class.

This project was entirely rushed, hence its sloppy appearance. We were given 5 days (one of which I was terribly ill) to do this, and of course I had to go and shoot for the stars. Which left me absolutely no time to do everything that I wanted, and forced me into a more rushed state.

It is not advisable to sit down and cut details into paper while planning on painting an entire canvas, adding live foliage (I originally planned on adding actual plants, but bailed on that as soon as I figured stuff would start wilting and falling apart), hot glue-ing walmart-bought plastic plants, and fighting with acrylic paint.

It's just not. Never do it.

At first, I didn't like this at all. My heart was in it at the beginning, but I just slowly fizzed on it, because of how much stress this brought me. The teacher literally piled on work for us to do while doing this project, and my being sick (freaking STILL) isn't helping this any.

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I need a new bg
Current mood: sick

    Hmm...perhaps I should become more involved in the art scene here on myspace. But then, the times I've browsed the art forums, it was like clawing my eyes out with trimmed nails.

So, a background. I want to figure out how to overhall the entire page so that the layout is completely different. I mean, you wouldn't even know that my page was a myspace one.

Check it out! I've been working on a website, and it's juuuust about finished. All that's left is adding all content and making sure links work. I'll make sure to keep you all updated.

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A visitor and some Xrays
Category: Life

Hi Bingo!

I have a little Bingo here with me! He is awfully cute, that I can definitely say. He's been all wiggles and happy since I picked him up from his finder. That poor girl...she really didn't want to give me Bingo. You could literally see the sadness pool in her eyes.

Too bad! This little boy has a home to go to! =D


Soooo cute! He was in good shape when I picked him up, so that's good. He smelled of smoke, since the people living in that apartment were heavy smokers, but it's all good now.

Mel is...pretty confused. He doesn't like the idea of some other pup on his mom's lap, but he hasn't bitten at Bingo. I'm pretty proud of that too. Mel has come an incredibly long way since we first adopted him. He would have torn both of our heads off by now had this been a year ago. Haha!

We all went outside for a potty break earlier. Thank goodness I was cleared to start walking, because that would have been a hot mess trying to handle these pups on crutches. Whew! More on the leg status later!


Little Bingo decided he wanted to camp out in my lap for a bit.


Mel didn't like that at all! Haha!

Oh, yes. I am painting! You can see my toolbox-o-paint supply and the canvas on the left in the background. I may put up pictures of the finished piece later. Maybe..=P

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Now, about the leg. Would you like to see xrays?! I know you do. Continue on then!


I was tired this morning. As I said, I've been going through a ton of crap with my friend, and it's got me exhausted more than I like to admit. I think I actually was asleep right there. Haha!


Oooh, cool!! I can actually feel the heads of the screws through my skin on the right side (the picture's left) of my ankle. Very wicked! It has me creeped out more than you know. D=


And here's a closeup of the hardware! Look at that! 9 screws! Two in the tibia, and seven in the fibula. I can feel that plate as well, along with all seven of those screws. Surprisingly, that side hurts a lot less than the side with just two screws. Those two screws hurt so so so much. =[


Ok, that's it for now! I have to run and pick up the bf from work. I can't thank you peoples enough for the support. It means the world to me. <3

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