computer died (again...) two and a half weeks and almost $300 later, we're back in business!!
speaking of business, i've been happily doodling at work/school/wherever else i can when i'm stuck in a room with someone else talking, with my weapon of choice (the bic pen.)
speaking of bic pens, did you know that most english speaking countries (including australia) call bics biros?? it's true. turns out some french dude (bich) bought the patent from some hungarian dude (biro - who i believe was moved from his native country to escape religious persecution with his brother) when he saw the pen in argentina, and later started selling them in america.
speaking of... america? it's already 12 days since INKTOBER started.... all over the world actually.
gotta play catch up, and bust out some INK and some TOBER. you'll see... TOMORROW.
first off, here's some bonus art for the Forever Famicom bonus content. Forever Famicom DLC is basically 22 tracks - 3 songs that didn't make it onto the original album, and loads of solid instrumentals. so good... since the original cover art takes place at night, i figured i'd flip it to the day time and eventually even unplugged everything.. or at least that's the concept behind it.
now, for some reason i don't think i've ever put stuff up here from my "real" job (making pretty pictures to go with course content made by BYU Independent Study) but i finally had a good excuse to draw a sword finally, and had to share!! heh..
and here's a super huge version, if you wanna get in and look at stuff a little closer for some reason..
now.. for a little context to set you up for the next thing - i got this task at work for a student development course, which said exactly the following: "I want to try for something that encompasses an Ivy League type prep school in the digital age (near future/online technology fused with traditional East-coast prep school images with a touch of Harry Potter gothic thrown in. I know that's a lot - but I'd like to try for something with that look and feel."
ummmmmmmm.... what? yeah.. so anyways, here's the course cover - or as we say in the biz, the "splash." aaaaand some "banners" you'd see going from lesson to lesson..alright. now that you're all caught up, here's where this next picture comes in - one day i came to work with my glasses on, started working on the "harry potter" course... and this girl, i mean.. she who should not be named decided to draw a lightning bolt scar-thing on my forehead.. pictures were taken.. i even pretended to cast a spell at someone with my stylist... ANYWAYS. for some presentation our little art production department did for the rest of the BYU independent study production people, one of the pictures we used as a slide was from that, plus a little photoshop magic on my part...
and while i'm posting stuff about work, just for fun here's some stuff i did for an Aerobics course that i'm sorta proud of.. especially the one with the Nintendo Wii... heh heh..
and that's about it... i mentioned last post about being in a weird mood, and having 3 songs on repeat literally for about 5 days straight wherever i was able to plug headphones into something..
per request here are the 3 songs: (couldn't find a good place to get a direct hyperlink.... so if you REALLY want to hear them, you can click here, find them, and download them..) kind of green - act III, track 14 smooth sun of magma - bonus tracks, track 3 i love this radio - bonus tracks, track 2
i ESPECIALLY had to keep listening to "i love this radio."
all the tracks are from this EPIC ff4 remix album the good people over at OCR did. no personal work to post yet... haven't had the time to play that much lately.. life goes on, and so will i.. OH!! that reminds me. i've had a song stuck in my head for more than a few days.. really sad yet makes you appreciate life in a positive light kind of thing. love it.
printed this guy out and turned him in for my narrative illustration final - obviously it was supposed to be on Richard III. if only ALL my finals were this easy and enjoyable.
on a somewhat unrelated note, i took my roommate to wal-mart - and since he takes forEVER to shop, i told him to meet me in the electronics section when he was done. while i was carrying out my pre-meditated monopoly of the new super mario bros. for the wii, in the electronics section - i must have sold at least 3 or 4 copies to people as they were walking by. haha...
got all the way to world 2, killed two bosses, and all this without dying once. the whole time, there was this little kid who was watching, asking me all sorts of questions and making random comments about his 'star wars clone wars' game. thus his education began of the finer points of nintendo history - as he was unable to identify 'that wizard guy' and by my mentioning 'super nintendo' it's as if i had constructed verbal stealth technology which i was then able to attach to each one of my words which then shot past his comprehension/hearing radar, completely undetected. or maybe he was just ignoring me.... haha.
needless to say, i ended the night by using an empty shopping cart as a scooter, and sailed all the way down the parking lot to my car. i do stuff like that.
