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Sorry for the lack of content lately... most of my work is hobby stuff which is more design and web related, so posting screens of that stuff seems kinda boring in comparison to what I generally browse for on here. School has also been much more focused on my portfolio, career prep, and getting ready to head off to art school next fall, rather than content creation; so a lot of my freetime is spent doing things outside of art to wind down a bit and refocus for the next school project.

I do have a few things coming this way soon as I've been messing with photography using my dad's old Canon EF, am in a ceramics class, and am trying to start up my drawing habits again. I've also got a few side-projects that involved work from me... I'll link those at the bottom but one is a youtube show where I did the logo and do most of the production, another is a podcast for which I did the logo and handle audio production, and a more writing based project for GamesObscura. So I'm not just being a lazy asshole... a lot of my current content just doesn't fit the confines of dA.

As for some good news related to me: I've been accepted to every art school I applied to and have heard back about merit scholarships from SAIC and SCAD thus far, so the Fall of 2013 could be super exciting if finances work out for me (I'm gearing up to say hello to an amazing amount of debt, lol). I'm also getting an internship locally this spring, so it will be interesting to see how that works out and what effect it will have on my future plans. And of course I'm working on those things I listed above which I'll link now:

ROMp!: www.youtube.com/user/ROMpcast
Playtalk Podcast: www.gamesobscura.com/category/…
GamesObscura: www.gamesobscura.com/

Thanks for dropping by even without new artwork lately. I'll get some shit done asap. Just hold me to it.

I had a lot planned for this break, but it rained and was shitty all week, so I ended up just playing videogames and sleeping a lot more than usual. Not a bad way to spend a break from school and the constant barrage of creative projects, really.

However, I did mean to upload a bunch of things here.

The main problem I ran into is that a lot of the design projects I'm working on for class will become actual projects soon... so I'd rather share those with you when they become a reality instead of now, when they are still in the works.

So, this post is pretty pointless. Just like my break!

So, it is the end of my semester. I've taken my finals and just have a couple paintings to finish by the end of the week and then I am officially on break. It won't be much of a break because I have plans to keep working on portfolio pieces and other side-projects that haven't gotten much time lately, but it will be a break nonetheless.

This post is more of an apology for the coming batches of stuff I throw into your feeds. I haven't been good about updating this as the semester goes on, partially because a lot of work gets hung up at school or turned in to profs, and part of it is my overall busyness and lazyness in the face of homework.

Thanks for stopping by and if you've got time, please check out my work and leave some constructive criticism if you have it. Most of what you will see in my portfolio is student work right now and I'm always looking to learn and improve from it.

While sick last weekend, my computer also became ill. However, unlike me, it did not recover with time.

I don't think I lost a whole lot thanks to transferring things between the laptop, desktop, and school pretty often... but I know there is some stuff on there that is just gone forever and I'm having a hard time dealing with that. It's like waking up and just not remembering huge chunks of your life. It feels weird, like part of me died.

Maybe that's a sign that I need to rely less on technology.

Or maybe just that I need to back things up on a near-compulsive basis.

Either way, I lost some of the stuff I've been meaning to post here so I'll have to take new photos and re-edit them together to post. In terms of work I've done this semester, all I've really posted here is from 2D Design... but I'm also in Painting 1 (but I don't think you'll ever see those here bc I'm a newb, lol), Photoshop 2, and Digital Design: Print Media. So, eventually there will be a blast of updates here that are a bit more interesting to look at.

Until then, I'll be waiting by the door for my replacement hdd to get here.

When I enrolled for the Fall 2011 semester, I was pretty excited. I'm in all art classes... painting 1, photoshop 2, 2d design, and print media... it was gonna be an awesome semester full of art nerdery. But then I realized that I'm also working 20 hrs a week and doing freelance web/print design gigs on top of that.

To recap that for you: I'm in 4 studio classes and am basically working two part time design gigs.

I'm a full-time student and full-time worker. FUUUUUU...

I say all that to say this: between all of those things, be prepared to get regularly flooded with different updates. And, as always, feel free to critique. If I didn't want actual feedback I wouldn't post these for you to flame.

Time to go be productive...