Little Sister-Another Vector!

And the vector bus continues... bump, bump. I did a vector of myself as a child, and my sister was determined that I make one for her, and as she is my one and only sister, I must comply! That is what I as the elder must do for her as the younger! Anyhow, this is her as a child, and since she was always the more playful and fun one, her's is more bright and energetic. I was always more serious and sensitive and more of a loner, so mine was more somber. Yeah, she was a cute little thing. Ha! How quickly she grew out of that!

Err. I think this image killed the memory in my computer though. (Not that I have much to go on after my computer meltdown earlier this year due to bad ram.) So now Illustrator won't allow me to embed images due to insufficient memory, which sucks, because, really-that's the whole purpose of Illustrator. Shoot. I'm totally freaked out after buying bad ram, and I hate having to buy more and risk my computer freaking out again. Memo to myself, my next computer, I shall buy with a crapload of ram, because below 1 GB is not enough to run Creative Suite, and I'm pushing my luck as it is. Hopefully I can find some this weekend, or I may be SOL on comic pages coming up. The inconvenience of this sucks.

Killer Bunny and Reading Fundamentals-Vectors.

Two new vectors today. Number one is a simple killer bunny. Who did the bunny just kill? I don't know, but he doesn't seem terribly insincere about it. Number two is my unsolicited contribution for the youth of today. Yes, read. READ! One of my pet peeves is when someone complains about not understanding or not knowing something. We live in an age where you can wikipedia it, or google it, or look it up. I am a huge reader, and I think fundamentally, it exercises your brain in ways that learning it on tv doesn't do. There's something about physically having to move your eyes across a page, processing the letters and shapes in words and phrases, and concocting an image in your head. I always love reading history books, then looking up people to see if they look similar to how I envision them. It's weird, I'm not old, but when I was younger, all of my research papers and assignments meant trips to the library, and I would check out mounds of books, reading the choose my own adventure stories, the complete OZ series, Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys, and getting books on spiders and lizards and horses and so on at the same time. Now, you can just flip on your computer, type it in, and it's all pulled up for you. I mean, even the SAT has gone electronic. You can now buy a pocket study aid that you can carry around with you (like an electronic flashcard), do practice questions and tests on. I think I would've been a much better test taker with that. I certainly hope technology doesn't outdate or outmode the book. I know it's killing the newspaper right now, but I hope that won't be the case in the future.

Cats! And a day off! Whoo!!!

YESSSSSSSS! I got my day off. Ohmigoodness I'm tired. Whoo. But, I am going to take today, and get some art done, do some online searching (ahem), buy some paper, maybe buy a book, eat healthy today (yeah right, there's a Snickers bar in the fridge calling for me, and it's only 9 am.)

Maybe I'll watch bad daytime tv, I don't know, I don't care! All I know is-I don't have to work!

Here's a little illustrator piece-they're badly sewn cats (obviously, as they still have the needles stuck in them.) I thought I was going to go further than this, but I didn't. They are from left-the Patchwork kitty, the Goggles kitty, and then the Franken kitty. Aren't they, sort of, sadistically cute? Hmm.

I think the Patchwork one is my favorite. I even have stencils for them so I can spraypaint them wherever I want. The pic underneath is what one looks like when sprayed onto unprimed canvas. They look a lot better on cardboard and painted walls and such. Canvas sucks up spraypaint like it' no one's business. And that stuff isn't cheap. But, tt isn't like I go tagging them all over the place or aanything. I was thinking of maybe getting some of those spray paint markers, or paints and actually making some bags or t-shirts for friends... or something... I gotta think more about that.

DAY OFF! DAY OFF! DAY OFF! DAY OFF!

More Illustrator...dark japanese girl!

Another Illustrator piece I just finished working on. This one was a lot of fun. I just grabbed a piece of cardboard, drew on it, then added textures and vectors in Photoshop and Illustrator. Ahhh-I love weekends. Too bad work has to come tomorrow. *Sigh*. I envy all those in school who get president's day off. The only holidays that exist in television production are Christmas Day and Thanksgiving Day. Unless you are on shoot. Then you don't.

Pirate Girl!

So, I've been fooling around with Illustrator a bit-to make some pieces that are so sugary colored. I wanted to make it really colorful and pretty-so here is Pirate Girl. I don't know, I wanted to do something fun and I really enjoyed playing around with Illustrator. It has a lot of limitations artistically-in terms of using it as a painter like program, but it is all vectors, and fills, and graphics...eee! When you print out your CMYK stuff in Illustrator-even on a semi-pro printer, it looks so bright and punchy.

Anyways, I said she's a pirate, but she doesn't look much like one, does she?