I Eat Comics for Breakfast.

This is getting a little out of hand. Once I start reading something... I simply can't stop. If only it was working that way for my flash animation. I wish I had learned flash before I learned AfterEffects. Then I wouldn't know how STUPID it is. Since its only vectors and everything has to be able to change into an equation it seems realing limiting animation-wise. I suppose the interactive part is a plus. If only a knew a damn thing about coding. Oh. I also decided I complain too much. Why? Because I complain about complaining. I don't think it can get any worse than that. lol.

I wanna work on my novella but I have to finish this animation first. :( waaahhhh. I've finally got the bulk of my reference people to email me their pictures. I have some sketches to post...but I have to travel far into and through and around the snow to scan them so sit tight folks.
Ceramics! Is awesome! Yay! I making strange little mutant bunny things... There is really no way to describe it so I'll post pictures later. My first vase is glazed! Now I just have to wait for the last firing! Exciting! Its this strange crackly turquoise blue stuff. Not sure who gets it. I guess it depends if it turns out well lol. The vases kind of look like really skinny sake bottles. sigh. I suppose that's not a bad thing. I come with an awesome project. Too bad I don't have the time to do it. Make 20 vases or so and give them to 20 friends across the nation. Make a website with a map pinpointing where each vase is. After some amount of time, the person has to give the vase to someone else. They pass on the website address and I can make a trail of where each bottle is going. Wouldn't that be sweet!? Not going to happen in 4 weeks. lol. Maybe someday....

My dear friend Alisha knit me a Centaur!!!!! ITS SO COOL. She has a site....http://www.etsy.com/shop/battycraftings She has lots of thing for sale and I think she really enjoys commissions. At least she did mine. *purr face*

I gave up procrastinating for lent. Miles says it's impossible. I'm not really concerned with if i do it perfectly. Just that I'm making a conscious effort not to squander my time on silly things. Like facebook and its terribly dull yet addicting games. The most important rule to not procrastinating is figuring out your priorities. At the moment mine are food, making this headache go away and animation. Everything else is jumbly after that because I need to get this done first. lol. ermmm. Showing off my centaur is up there too. SO CUTE.

Absurdly Busy

That's all. New posts soon hopefully. Cross your fingers. Cleaning my room before anything else. 0.O Lord help me.

Sketches! Gypsy Circus Delight!

Hurrah! sketches! For my novella!
Gypsy Circus delight!
This anna! kinda looks like her but not really....

DJ is the main character, who is having gypsy identity problems.

No idea why but she made us do it on green paper. Being a comic I really have to exagerate features so its obvious to the reader which character is which. so in general the sketches aren't a very good likeness. i just take my features and amplify them to my liking. bwahhahaha. I'm like an evil genetic scientist with a pencil. so no one is allowed to be offened, ok!? Or i just won't draw you. Or i just won't tell you I'm drawing you... eh heh heh.

The story so far:
Irina (thereal gypsy boss slash lion tamer)
Anna( the gypsy princess)
DJ( the quiet sad gypsy)
Paola (the one that gets shit done. Fortuneteller?)
Sydney (the exotic dancer)
Grace(unicorn tamer)
Miles( tall awesome dude.)
Robert (beard dude, musician)
Kara (navigator)
Suzi(exotic dancer)
Gary (musician chello)
Colin (musician mandolin)
Joey (musician flute)


In short there is a gypsy circus traversing the country side looking to entertain people. One member of the tribe is not as merry as the rest of them, she contemplates her meaning as a gypsy. They arrive at a new city that welcomes their fanciful festivities. Dj meets a small child completely enthralled with the gypsy ‘magic.’ She is slightly brought out of her funk but then is depressed again when she sees their decrepit rundown circus, but the little girl doesn’t see it like that. This makes all the difference.

It doesn't seem like much but I have to shove it all in 5 pages.... wish me luck!

Cleo and Tony

An assignment to portray two people with different skintones in ink without using a wash. Not as easy as it sounds.

Long Weekend.

whheeewwww. What a long week/weekend. It seems things are in hyper speed now. Miles and I helped his mom move. Most of the stuff was already at the new apartment but in all the wrong rooms. I wasn't terribly helpful because I didn't know what was what or went where and Miles did all the heavy work. I mostly was there for emotional support. I felt rather pathetic, but I figure its better to be told what to do infrequently then have to redo everything i do wrong later. Moving is so much work. It's impossible to conceptualize how much work it will be. Especially since SHE HAS SO MUCH STUFF. I thought I had a lot. I'm destined to be a pack rat, my day was, my dad's mom was and I've already started. It scares me. I don't need all this junk but whenever I try to clear things out, I just end up rearranging it. I always get such happy memories when i find old junk. Its hard to throw that away knowing you probably won't remember that silly insignificant story without that physical cue. Anyways, my long weekend got longer when my train back from kalamazoo kept stopping every ten minutes because the brake mechanism was frozen. Sounds safe, huh? I got home at 3AM instead of 11:30 PM. Didn't go to morning class and my afternoon class was canceled. All I had to do was sit though an hour lecture and walk home under bright blue skies and find a letter from DJ. Best day ever. I hope I can be super-duper productive!

I'm trying to organize all the people to be in my minicomic novella and see who is really interested an who just thinks it'd be 'cool.' Plus I need better references than facebook pictures. It just won't cut it. I'll the have story by tonight.Or at least I'm supposed to. :D I have no idea what my conflict will be. Something gypsy-circus-esque. Oh lord help me. I'll probably post some of my sketches too. There are not nearly enough pictures on here. I have to suck it up and hope people won't be dissapointed when they see my comic rendition of them. I'm bound to insult someone eventually hopefully it just won't be too terribly. sheesh.

Speaking of pictures.....My shamrock is coming out of hibernation!!! It's so cool!!! It looked so dead and depressing all winter but I kept watering it keeping faith that it would grow back come spring. Well we're along ways from spring in Michigan, but that just made me even happier that it's already growing back. The only camera I have is my poopy phone one so you'll have to do with the poor quality. I love the little new ones in contrst to the big droopy ones that grew last week. I need to get some plant fertilizer. Where to get that on a college campus? no idea.

Second Post!!!

Hahahahaha. Usually when I start a journal or anything like it I forget about it after the first entry. The only thing I really do daily is take 'the pill' and talk to Miles on the phone. Hui didn't understand my storyboard. I don't blame her. i think someone who actually understood English would be confused. She's so nice and so smart, but she doesn't understand us!!!!!! And vice versa! I wish the japanese would hurry up with that translator headset thing already. link We have so much to learn from each other and language always seems to be getting in the way. I've really had a hitch-up with this 5 pg graphic novel thing. I hate calling it a 'comic' because I think its more than the Sunday funnies, but it's not quite a novel. Maybe a graphic novella? (lol) Someone's probably already invented that. Right now I have a gypsy circus/caravan with about 20 of my friends who want to be included. Eep. SO what happens next? and concludes in 5 pages? No idea. I think I'll just work on the character sketches. It'll come to me. Eventually. Hopefully.I'm having lunch at Momo Tea. Momo Tea Lunch > Cat Poop Lunch. George is sick. :/ I don;t think Suzi has the money to take him to the vet. I'm really scared for him. I certainly don't have the money. Sigghhh. One of the many reasons I didn't want a cat in our house. Don't take in an animal if you can't look after it, okay? Its not fair to anyone. :( Someday when I'm rich in famous I'll have a homeless animal plantation, but right now the cat needs a better home. Oh a mildly related note, I think George should be in my novella. Minus the sickness and poop.

First Entry

I feel like I should write something intense and momentous for the first blog... but that seems rather ridiculous for a blog titled "Little Thoughts Big Plans." Aaahhhh, I have so much to do and so little time. This is what I'm always saying. I think I like being busy though. Even if its stressful. I have to finish my story board for my Flash class tonight. I know exactly what I want it to look like. Until I start drawing. Eraser shreds will be everywhere!!! Welp, I better stop prattling and start doodling.