Just Keep Swimming

My business group had an interview with an amazing guy in the career center who was a lot of help for our research phase in our project for Italy. He was actually more help then any of us had predicted and gave us a lot of sources to consider or to use within our report such as websites connected with the Career Center and also sites like LinkedIn and Pinterest. I may get accounts for a professional side of me as well as a gallery for my portfolio. It would be nice to start adding stuff of my artwork and the stuff I had worked on over the years throughout college and the ones I am the most proud of or the ones that are the best of my art career to share the multitude and variety of my skills which includes all of the charcoal drawings I have done, paintings, personal artwork of characters and images in various styles. I may even consider future links or videos to my youtube channel to show how much I have learned within New Media Art and what I am able to do digitally and electronically. Hopefully, this will be a good backbone to my art in a professional way.

Speaking of personal art, I have been continuing with my Greek Gods project and so far I have four characters pretty much completed, a 5th on the way. I am not rushing this project or forcing myself to feel obligated but I do enjoy the practice and the obsession I have with it. The idea has not died and neither has my love form it. I started coloring Zeus, but it may be a while before I am finished. I can show you the ink of Poseidon and as Creator of Seahorses, this would be the best place as a mascot to put him. :3

Sorry if you can't read Poseidon's stuff. Basically it says:

Poseidon
Age: 17
Sex: Male
Height: 180 cm
Weight: 72kg
Abilities: Water, swimming, talking to sea animals
Weaknesses: needs water for energy, cats are predators, fish out of water

Basically Poseidon can't live without water for even an hour, maybe a few minutes but he gets lethargic without water, so he usually has tubes that inject water into him or he has water bottles all the time, like a full locker full of water bottles, or he goes to the water fountain a lot. He is captain of the swim team and the fastest swimmer. He is seen in the pool area a lot. He has a tank of sea horses as pets, and he usually likes to save fish from fishermen but his wave creating is difficult. He does learn how to surf or boat riding a lot. He fights a lot with Zeus, they have battles in the school a lot and he usually wins which pisses Zeus off even more. Personality wise, I thought of in terms of Durarara characters: Zeus is Shizuo, Poseidon is Dochichin, and Hades is like Izaya. Voice acting, Johnny would be weird on Hades but Steve has Poseidon would make me happy and Christian would be good for Zeus. xD Lol And Zeus always blames him for what goes wrong and Poseidon is always like, "Why do you always blame me?"

As far as orientation goes, he's bisexual. He is seen a lot with Aphrodite and they have a sort of love relationship as partners but he is open to being with guys, just never really pushes himself to be with one, usually they come to him if they are interested.

I have also drawn more Ryou and Aurox and redid an old image of the two. I am even trying to draw in a more cartoon style with them as my test subjects. Let's hope I can find the good balance. :3 I am also trying to do Gravity Falls style with Ryou and Aurox. But anyhow, that's it for this post. Enjoy! 

WTF!?

I must really fail at Video Art. Especially if I have to strap it to my body and make something out of it. It's too hard dealing with this. I really wish we had more time to work on it and I mean learning 2 weeks in advance how to work in Final Cut Pro and been given some leniency as to how we are suppose to put this together. I am not even sure if I can download a free version of final cut pro onto my laptop. It seems like the only chance I have is to go to the classroom tomorrow when it is free to use and just use the computers while in there alone. That is the best I can do.

I have a painting due tomorrow that I am almost done with. After dinner tonight, I will work more on it and finish it tonight and get there early so I can take it off of the board, but then we have another painting to do that I can't really start on right now because my board is already in use. Now I know what you are going to say. Just flip the darn thing. Well, I can't. my board is not balanced and it curves in on the side I am using now which means the other side is curved like a small little hill which in water color would be hard to work on due to gravity in the corners. And I still need to stretch the paper before I work on it. I keep hurting myself with the staple gun so I either need to be more careful and aware of which end is the staple area and be careful. I guess I have two options. Try and finish this one by the end of the day, meaning in the next two to four hours. Go to the art building and remove it from the board even though the cart is not available....shit....and then stretch a new piece of paper and try and switch them out....which is hard and impossible now that I think about it. I need pliers and screw drive ASAP! Ugh why did she throw this completely new assignment onto us while we were still and probably just starting to work on the current one? I hope she gives us more time then it being due Thursday.

This is ridiculous.....I may just quit...I am getting too hurt, too frustrated, and too upset to even work period! I am having an emotional meltdown with all of the assignments piled up on me and the lack of time I have to provide for each one. I need either more supplies...again....or more time to work on shit. This is exhausting...I can't do work because I am either already working on something else or in no physical shape to work at all like with my back and my finger being stapled. I am having such bad luck and it isn't even funny. I am starting to hate these classes only because the timeframe we have for them are way to close together and on the same days. Not to mention, I don't have all the supplies I need because I am so use to just going there and finishing it up with the supplies there. Not to mention distances and bus schedules...UGH!!!

I usually don't complain with how much I have to do or about timeframes and all that jazz, but it is really affecting me lately...I just want to die right now I am not even joking... I am sick and tired of due dates being so cramped together and with no real guidelines. The teachers aren't clear about what is due when or I can't hear them well enough or understand them to really know when they are referring to. Also, it is not easy, Watercolor and New Media. I am stuck right now with what to do, when to do it, where to do it, how to do it, and what needs to be done. I am so stressed right now I just want a cat to cuddle and a friend to talk to.....sigh....

Welcome: Daddy is Pregnant Again

Hello and Welcome to my secondary blogger. In this blog, I not only have dedicated it to seahorses, but also to my artwork in general. Why a separate blog you ask? Well, my old ones are more personal, more towards rants, life, and general upkeep of information. This one is connected to my new YouTube account for artwork and video posts. This one will consider the same idea. I already had the gmail account to connect with my new YouTube, but i figured since Google now has control over blogger as well, I might as well create a separate blogspot in general. Make the most of it, right? If you can't beat 'em, join them!

So here I will post videos and drawings done by me whether uploaded from a phone quality or actual camcorder I wish to someday have. I am already planning my BodyCam project for my New Media Art class, and I hope soon this weekend to get started whether borrowing a camcorder from the NMA lab or buying a fairly decent and cheap one for myself. I am just now learning how to edit videos and I hope soon to be able to post some amazing works for you all. I started experimenting with Final Cut Pro in class and I used Blockhead's "The Music Scene" as a test subject. I may post what I changed on here rather than on YouTube to avoid any copyright laws. I may also link or post videos of video art that was shown in class to spread the talent around from other artists! 

I also want to post some of my paintings I am doing in my watercolor class and also some of my more personal artwork. Hopefully, I look forward to buying a new set of colored pencils and working with them again. I also hope to finish this Greek Gods project I am personally working on. I will talk more about it down below, but first let me introduce myself. 

I am a New Media Art major hoping to get a degree towards Character Design in Animation. I have been drawing since I was four and creating my own stories with friends since I was thirteen. I love anime and manga, cartoons, and comics and yes, I am also a female gamer. I don't obsessively play games due to lack of consoles, but I do enjoy watching and playing video games with friends. I am very mature for my age and yet I look younger than I actually am. I am ambidextrous both in writing and drawing and I will post images of my left-handed work the more I improve with it. I hope to one day join an animation team or create my own manga. I also, one day when I retire or get to an age where I am more comfortable creating my own business or managing my own anime and art shop. Where I live, there are limited amount of anime shops and I have always been bummed about it. And I really want a huge place to incorporate a lot of anime-lover needs such as cosplay, fashion, art, anime and manga, Japanese food and trinkets, cyberwear, and maybe seasonal wear such as Halloween. I think it would benefit the area to have everything or mostly everything in one big go. There will be more info about me in a separate tab later, so look for it!

Now for the coup de grâce. 

Greek Mythology: 

Zeus overthrew his Father Cronus. He then drew lots with his brothers Poseidon and Hades. Zeus won the draw and became the supreme ruler of the gods. He is lord of the sky, the rain god. His weapon is a thunderbolt which he hurls at those who displease him. He is married to Hera but, is famous for his many affairs. He is also known to punish those that lie or break oaths. 

My take on the original story is: What if Zeus lost the battle with Cronus and never became a Greek God? 

My idea is Cronus punished Zeus for his disrespect and sentenced him and all the other Greek Gods to Earth to live out their days as high-school teenagers. Grounded and limited in power and strength, Zeus and his two brothers Poseidon and Hades, are stuck in an endless cycle for centuries living out their lives as high schoolers. Way to ruin it for everyone Zeus!  Now, he and his brothers are running a muck, tired of this endless cycle of going to school, creating havoc and mayhem wherever they go. Zeus now limited from thunderbolts to electricity, Poseidon from ocean waves to water fountains, and Hades from Lord of the Dead to a real lady killer. Not to mention the Goddesses who are tired of having the boys walk all over them in sexist old-fashion ignorance. What must they learn to regain their status in Olympus? Can they compromise to finally know what it means to rule?