Spaced out

I've been feeling a little outside of myself lately. These past couple of days have been slightly strange in that I had a feeling that I once had a long time ago. This feeling was one of abandonment, but not in the sense of someone leaving me, but people acoomplishing their goals and doing things to further push themselves, making me feel like I haven't sometimes and thus feeling sort of left behind. I know it's not anyone's fault but my own, however I do feel like I need to be doing new things and depending on how things go that just may be in the near future. Until that time approaches however I still have this feeling of not accomplishing what it is I feel I need to acomplish or striving for. Not having this, I can't help but sometimes feeling lost and confused as to what I should or can do, but I think one just has to to what they need to do for themselves despite adversity if it ends up putting them on the right path toward what it is they want for themselves. I feel that overall the next few decisions I make will greatly help me down this path and that all I can do or rather all anyone can do when feeling sort of confused or concerned about themselves is to strive forward and try to reach out for something to aspire to and keep it in your sights no matter what. That's what i'm going to try to start doing again.

Blogger Relapse

I haven't really utilized my blog as much as I should have. Maybe that's partially because I don't use blogger so much or that no one really comes to it, but lately i've been inspired to try to do it a bit more often so I thought i'd start by posting some artwork. Hopefully this will become more of a general habit. Enjoy :D.

A Day Smarter

I remember hearing someone significantly older than me once saying that they wished that they had the knowledge that comes with old age but the body and stamina that comes with youth. I'm starting to gradaully see what they mean by that but with the benefit of still having my youth. Lately, i've been feeling like I haven't learned awhole lot in my 24 years and I seem to be around alot of people my age and older who seem to know so much more than I do. I guess it's a way of life though. I try to learn as much as I can about things but there are always people who know more than I do plus it seems that i'm around a much older crowd lately so they're going to know more based on having more experiences anyway. I realize the futility of this argument, as that's just how it's always going to be since there will always be people who know more than me and obviously I know more things than other people do, but it can be frustrating sometimes.

Case in point, take my girlfriend. She's always constantly reading and trying to learn new things as much as she can. I do the same thing but it seems like she's always got a handfull of new information everyday while I might sit and try to read new stuff every few days or so when I have the time. I admire how much she tries to always better herself and she may not know it but in some ways, I acutally look up to her. I don't think she ever really gives herself credit for how smart and insightful she really is.

Despite this turning into sort of a fawning over my girlfriend, I guess what i'm basically saying is that I need to try to better myself and become more knowledgeful about things and be able to prevent myself from becoming stagnant in learning about new and different things in life. I believe that i'm getting alot better at doing that as this has turned out to be a REALLY interesting year as of late (of which i'll perhaps do another blog about), but it dosen't hurt to post a reminder to continually make yourself better than you were the previous day.

This time tomorrow, i'll be better than when I wrote this blog................go figure.

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson 1

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog: Meta: The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course- Lesson 1

Step one: Getting ahead

Sorry for the corny title.........couldn't think of anything better.

Well I finished step one of the Preston Mayer tutorial by John K. I think it came out pretty well. I wanted to ink them but I didn't want to take the chance of making a mistake on them and plus I just wanted to start slow going through the process. Here are the pics to take a look at. Hope I did a good job. Now on to step two.

Also here is the link for the tutorial and other tutorials if anyone else is interested as well as a blog that me and my friend Arie started for upcoming animators/Illustrators to continue being inspired.

The Tutorial link:

http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/11/education-fundamentals-of-composition.html

Me and Arie's Animation/illustration Blog link:

http://tweeningart.blogspot.com/

On to step two!!!

My first post.

Well here's my first post. I'll start off with some simple sketches and some rescue rangers fan art I did for fun to practice posing and movement. I'll eventually add more onto here as I go along to hopefully see progression and improvement in my work.