Man oh man. I hope yesterday/today isn't an exemplar of how the rest of the week is going to be. I will be dead by next week.

I can't even remember what I did after class Monday. I painted in class! Landscape. It was nice. --Oh OH oh I do remember! Landscape sketches. After that... uh. No real clue. Was Monday HAY LET'S TALK ABOUT OTAKON 8D 8D 8D day? Eh. Yesterday, went to Life Drawing. We did portraits instead of body studies--and holy shit, I am really proud of the portraits I did. Lawrence's is off in a few places (I think I blame that on my apathy stemming from steaming hatred of the model), but Alice's is perfect. I can't wait to capture a digital image of it and put it up in my galleries. It's so beautiful. Didn't check in in Sculpture I--didn't care enough. Stayed in the drawing studio instead to do the landscape sketches (from the window) I hadn't done earlier. Got back in at the room around five, passed out until 11:30pm. Spent the next nine hours painting. Yes, straight (but for the three times I got up to clean my palette). It was so worth it, though. Still life: gamer geek edition. GameCube controller, deck of Magic: The Gathering cards, and two sets of gaming dice (plus an extra pair of d6s). It looks fucking gorgeous. From a distance of about six feet (which takes care of the slightly blurred edges), the controller looks photorealistic. The cards and dice fall into that at about ten feet. I am impressed with myself, not to toot my own horn. Again, can't wait to get an image of it. If only I'd painted it straight on the canvas. It's on matte medium-prepped art paper, which is slightly less awesome than it could be. Still, so getting this framed. I--I kind of want to put it in the living room in our apartment next year. Man. I love it so hard. It's so damn pretty.

Anyway. After I got everything cleaned up, it was about noon, and I passed out until class at two. Took the still life in for final crit--everyone loved it. They were all "I WANNA PICK UP THAT CONTROLLER AND PLAY SOME NINTENDO :D :D :D" and more than half of them recognized the Magic deck for what it was. c.c I talked to a kid named Alex--the only male in our painting class--for awhile. Man was he fun to talk to. Got his number and promised to find him on Facebook. It's a shame he's graduating. Must keep in touch with him regardless.

So I came back to pass out, but was... sort of awake. Stopped in to see the freshies. Ended up going with them, Tara from Life Drawing, and Tom into town. Ate a pretzel dog and a cinnamon-sugar pretzel from Auntie Anne's; Tom and I split from the freshies after a good chat to head to Legends. Tom and I had planned to buy/split a booster box from the new Shadowmoor set--but instead of the $70 we'd been expecting, they were pricing it at $109. :| Yeah, no. Neither of us had that kind of money. Yet, we both ended up buying Shadowmoor precons. c.c He bought the blue/black; I got the green/white. Hohshit. The cards in this thing are fucking phenomenal. I also bought a booster of Lorwyn and two of Saviors of Kamigawa. Got better cards overall in each Saviors pack than I did in Lorwyn, amusingly enough. Played a game against Tom in the store--doing so when you buy a precon saves 10%, so hey, why not. Lost. Not quite spectacularly, but man I saw some stuff I should have done fifteen seconds too late in at least three instances. I blame braindeadness.

Stopped in GameStop on the way back. Managed to walk out empty-handed, though at different points I had a $20 brand-spanking new copy of God of War II in my hands, as well as used copies of Sly 2: Band of Thieves and Summoner 2. THEY WILL ONLY GET CHEAPER and I need to save my monies. I am proud of myself. (Also I should maybe beat the first in each of those sets of games before going to the second. e.x I own Sly and Summoner and Blick's got GoW. Guh.) Ran into Scott on the way back. Talked Pokemon, Magic, and Otakon. I--guys. If there is a semi-tall, lanky Rock Lee running down the halls of the convention center screaming SPRINGTIME OF YOUTH! over and over again--that's Scott. Lawd.

So the point of all this is that I have been arting like a crazy person and I've now been up 23.5 hours.

Granted, I needed the brain break in the form of socialization (I'd been getting pent-up and kind of passive-aggressive the last couple days), but man. If the rest of the week is like this I will die.

Okay. It is naptime. Or watching the rest of Stranger Than Fiction (again) time followed by naptime. Snooooooze plz.

Tags: art, clara, elizabeth, life drawing, magic, otakon, painting, painting i, scott, sculpture i, tom
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