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Here's something I've been playing around with. Nothing really interesting going on and nothing even remotely profound to say.

Self Portrait in Graphite

Last night I sifted through the various links that come up when you google "character design". Many blogs of many artists came up and one that I liked in particular had a caricature of the artist. So I decided to take a stab at myself.

As you can see I have added my holiday gut and somewhat frizzy hair that I haven't bothered to style for the past three days, to this drawing. I'm sure other versions will pop up in my head, and possibly this blog, in the future, however I'm ok with this for now. Ok enough to make it my profile picture for facebook at least.

Not today

Today I forced myself to go into the city and meet with my friend Jaime to draw people. I say forced because for some reason dragging myself out of bed was particularly repulsive to me today. Not sure why. I just don't feel productive. I don't feel inspired!

But I know I should just draw anyway. That's why I made myself go, but I still don't feel I did all that well. I suppose this will be a practice run. We plan to do it again next week, hopefully I will perform more to my satisfaction then. Anyway, this post really seems to be getting more and more boring. So, until tomorrow...

Tada!

So I forgot to put "work on blog" on the list in my previous post on excuses not to get to work. Oops!

Here is the maquette I mentioned before. Not the best pictures, but they'll have to do for now.

I have recently decided to go through my "art of" books in order to figure out the layout of my own book (aka thesis). Tonight I am starting out with "The Art of Wall-E" which I got for Christmas. There are all these great little details in the book like Buy N Large advertisements and all sorts of different knickknacks that Wall-E collects on earth. So this week I think I will try to work on stuff like that in addition to my continuing efforts to create a main character that I'm happy with.

Watch the Birdy!

Here are some concept sketches for a character that I will be including in my thesis project. It's a combination kangaroo, ostrich and billy goat. I made a maquette (a small scale model or rough draft of an unfinished work or sculpture ) of this creature in my character design class and am pretty happy with the results.

Anyway, the Fall semester is over and I now have no excuse not to devote my attention to my thesis full time. My goal is to also update this blog on a daily basis. I know I have mentioned my struggle with self discipline and keeping on a schedule in my earlier blogs, so now I get to put myself to the test. yay.

So far here are all the reasons that I have found to lollygag:

-Must clean apartment!

-My dresser drawers really need to be re-organized

-There is something on Hulu that I have not seen yet

-I need to make a "To Do" list (yes, seriously)

-Laundry

-I need to start packing for a trip that is a week away

-I started packing for a trip and noticed I need a new (insert any sort of object or article of clothing here) so I must go get it...right now!

-I'm hungry

-Must clean apartment...again

-Do dishes

-Organize work space

That's the stuff I can think of right now, but I'm sure there are many more excuses that have popped into my head when it is entirely necessary that I get to work on what is to be my future. Sometimes I wonder if I'm scared or just lazy. What is it they say? Success is 80% motivation? Something like that. School motivates me, my classmates motivate me, my teachers motivate me, artists motivate me, why can't I motivate me?