Graduation Pictures

As promised here are some shots from graduation. Eric and I had our first semester together and managed to make it to graduation together! Thats a tough feat. Also a bunch of the Macys crew happened to be in this graduation which is also pretty cool. My phone for some reason didnt save all of the pictures i took.. I gatta get used to this damned thing,,, Anyway, enjoy!!

Graduation

I graduated on Friday. Holy cow the epic era of art school is over.

Mom flew out and we had a really good time. We toured Chinatown and my lovely sweet handsome gentleman friend took us to the academy of sciences night life. It was amazing. I'll post pictures soon.

I've been freaking out a bit lately, well, a lot. I'm afraid. Now I just have to grow up right?

Today was the homebrew club picnic and I took mom to the airport then got caught in the worlds worst traffic.. Uuugghhh... But my handsome man was waiting with mountains of food and beer :3 I'm a lucky girl!!

Trying Mobil Again

Since switching to my Moto G from my iPhone 4, most things are good. I love the size and fun apps even though the screen freaks out occasionally... (This one is defective a little) but the Blogger App for android is... Bad. Its a shame, blogger is fantastic on the web, and the iOS app is great but... Ya...

So we will see if this post sees the light of day :3 At any rate, today was exotics day in class. We got to draw some awesome guys!!! My favorite was Pierce, an African Porcupine who likes bananas and being scratched behind the ears. We bonded a bit. There was a grouchy ocelot, a sivet cat, some ferrets, a gator, pixy frog, a fossa relative I forgot the name of... So cool!!!! I drew animals...

I also own a porcupine qwill now.

I'm fighting a cold or something because my ass is beat. I'm so tired. And my cats are jerks. Handsome Gentleman friend got me a new garbage can (yaaaay!!) And their into it already...

Art School

Art school is something that is either taken way to seriously (CCA I'm looking at you) or is completely blown off as some fools folly. In my fourth year here at the Academy of Art I have realized its somewhere in between, Art students work their REARS off. I know people finishing other degrees and from what I can tell its about double the work time. Yes studying Law or Medicine is tedious, but those guys get to party. There's a lot less partying going on when you have a project our teacher expects you to spend 40 hours (yes, a full work week) on, times 4 classes. What? 160 hours worth of work a week? not every week per say, but ya, some weeks. Especially during finals. There's no test, its just present what you have worked so hard on and let the masses right it to shreds during critique. The first 2 years I was here we were loosing a student a semester to suicide. Sadly this "hippie" life style isn't for the weak of heart. Your art CAN'T Be personal. If its personal you will be destroyed. Art school is NOT for your life passion, that book you've been writing since the sixth grade, the comic with 17 installments, your "character". No, this is for breaking down everything you thought you knew, everything you hold dear, and replacing it with hopefully better knowledge. Unless you get a nut job professor, in which case you will spend the next semester getting disemboweled by your new teacher (ask me how I know this). So why do it? Arnt artists supposed to be dreamers and creators? We are, but to compete you need to have a a Liam Neeson set of skills, and some how try not to kill off that dreamer, the one who wrote 17 issues of your unpublishable comic because while its bad (your comic is bad.) there is creativity, a few good, usable ideas, and when your finished, jaded and broken you can pick over the carcass for little bits of meaty goodness. Anyways, welcome to my blog!

Academy of Sciences and Smoothies

So Handsome Gentleman Friend and I have been trying out a new thing, for 30 days we are trying to have a green smoothie. Nothing to crazy, no meal replacement, no cross got, sure as hell no giving up meat or beer ;3 just having a green smoothie for snack every day. I'm officially a week in and I have to say, I feel better. Getting the extra fruits and vegis does give you a boost of energy, and my allergies have way calmed down. I have been getting my recipes mostly from simplegreensmoothies.com and their really good! They recommend 60/40, 60% fruit and 40% greens and to rotate your greens, kale spinach chard mix it up! I'm really liking it :3

So yesterday we had a class field trip to the Academy of Sciences. That place is soooooo cool! We were to draw the mounted animals and some skeletons and skulls. Also to hang out and learn. 

 

Performing Arts and Homework

All I do anymore is homework. I'm actually in Italian waiting for my turn to be talked down to in Italian over my shorty quiz. It's my last semester, why am I even in this class?? Lol anyways, yesterday, Sunday I got to go to an event at the SAFEhouse for the Arts, a non profit performing arts center. They moved and it was there grand opening. Very cool! Flamingo Dancers, live band and good people!

Really nice little event! Good job guys! On another note, here is my diagram of a horse skeleton

And so to close, I hope you all have a great week. Ill post soon about the new diet undertaking Gentleman Friend and I are doing....

Lake Placid Flash Animation!

Here is the Interactive Illustration I did for class :3 Enjoy!

Lake Placid by izzycreates on DeviantArt

September was my last post? REALLY?

Well if anyone still reads this other then roaming spambots Im sorry. both for what you have to read and that youve not had anything new to read. Im sure the angry Darlene rant is getting old. So whats up?

October- Halloween was AWESOME. I mean, really really awesome. My handsome gentleman friend and I went as Spanky Ham and LingLing from Drawn together. We made it to Peters awesome house party with the co-workers and Sid's amazing party, both of which were so much fun. Also Midterms happened and I did surprizingly well, especially for 5 GD classes...

November- Thanksgiving went on, had it at Nan and Sue's again, and we took Ed in the Jeep which was an adventure all its own. Also I decided to dry dock poor Darlene as her tags came up, its a SMOG year, her check engine light is on and I have like $3 cash to put towards it. GF is awesome and lets me steal Gretchen. Poor Darlene though...

December- Finals! FML.... Who ever says art school is so much easier then their life should try vector imaging and flash coding. Yes, Im an action scripter now! Well, with a ton of help from KTea.... :3 My sweet handsome man was in Utah for most of it. Before he left we drove to Redlands to visit my mama, and I had a great time. We got to visit some apple orchards, eat really good pizza, drink at Hanger 24, and visit. Then Mama came to visit for 9 days which was AWESOME. Christmas was wonderful till my sister was... well... Tess. Tess is Tess. She has my Grandmothers Bridge now (long story, its her turn) and I may never see it again BUT I got the hopechest, which for you non-catholics, is a big cedar chest used for storing linens and what not. Really it was origionally for young women to keep the things they would need for marriage, sheets, pillowcases, silver ware etc  ... But my grandmothers is big and beatuful and smells amazing and its mine. Bitch can wait for Dad's... lol. Last few days of the month I was in Utah for reasons I'll relay later...

Oh and I got fired from Evil Corporate Soul Sucking Peice of Frikin Shit job, or ECSSPFSJ... lol! And you know what? never been better! My stomach is 1000% better, and Im going to reopen my Etsy shop, and a lot of new good things! Lets see if I can scrape together less then a living wage from this stuff!!

Also, Cooper and Hale Bop passed away. About a week from each other. It was really sad, but they both had REALLY good runs. Cooper was 5ish and Hale Bop was 12... 12 GD years old! Go Fishy... Goldie Han is great, getting fat. Castor and Pickles are spunky as always and 2 sweet little ratty muffins have joined the ranks- Tamale and Fajita! :3

All in all 2014 was a pretty good year, and i think 2015 will be big. it better be, im supposed to graduate and turn 30! I may be the only person excited about 30, Ive made it!

Adventure and Life

So much has been going on my brain might explode from joy. Things are going really well here! Handsome Gentleman Friend and I have been adventuring like no ones business, including a rip to Utah, the Northern California Homebrewers Festival (of which i won the logo competition, look out!), winning a metric shitton of beer awards at the Napa Town and Country Fair, and even more... Check out the Dr. Mookie Love Jr blog and Terrible Lizard Brewing Blogs for GF's updates as he is more on top of these things then I am anymore.

School has started. If you follow my instagram (untidyvenus) you've seen some of my class projects, and the Don't Eat the Charcoal Blog Im trying to keep up with my works. Im taking 5 classes this semester, and the government revoked my Pell grant because i made to much.... I would have to double my income to hit the poverty line, but i made to much money this year? Oh well. My wonderful family is helping me out, and my goal is to not let them down. this is my crippling fear...

The pets are good. Castor and Pickles are the usual destructive dicks they usually are, and my little betta gal Goldie Hann is doing awesome. She's just soooo happy! I love betta's. The container garden is also in full production. The squirrel ate my potato plant, so i dug them up and from one baking potato i got a bucket of fingerlings. Its really exciting for me! I think its about time to harvest the sweet potato and the red potato too, as the leaves are turning yellow. The tomatoes are still going, soooo many cherry tomatoes! Its awesome. I also have been planting and harvesting radishes about monthly and their delightful. Both squash have little squash on them, but i think they need some fertilizer. and Lastly there are a bunch of Garlics going, yay for spring garlics!!

So I haven't posted this apparently, but Cooper and Hale Bop both passed over the rainbow bridge. they will both be missed, and i miss them both.

so ya! A bunch of pictures need to be processed and posted...

Cheers

Terrible Blog Hostess

Sorry for all the delays guys, as usually craziness ensues! I was Handsome Gentleman Friends Birthday, today is my Aunt Nans Brthday, and we are gearing up for finals (I have one on Wednesday! Eek!) Anywho, heres some ore doodling i have been doing for procrastination

Whirlwind

So muh has been going on as of late! and my blog has been ignored. most of the pictures are on my phone, and I'm listening to a podcast with a manic, hyermanic bipolar man so if this is distracted thats why. I decided I should post some pictures if work i have been working on in class.

Broadway in Moab

Inka and Aztec

Orangefish

Sparky

All done in Corel Painter, mostly with the pastel and conte brushes :3