Art-less-ness

CHIUStream, learning, sleeping, eating, spending money. This is what I have been doing. Sorry for the lack of art/posts! Hopefully my sis and I will get a collab project going and get pumped.

Here's a chiustream entry for a few weeks back. Big arm vs. big head.

Icky Color

I started doing this "daily doodle" thing on my facebook yesterday and hope to keep up with it. I need the practice. Anyway, here is today's! I liked it before I added color. Actually...I think it started going downhill when the dragon came into the picture. I blame it on fatigue. Hopefully it can be salvaged and I can turn it into something stunning one day!

Facebook Fan Page!

I jumped on the fan page bandwagon and made one for myself! It is fun. You can find a link to it on the right under the slideshow. I hope it helps more than hinders...so far I've spent too many hours on it that I could have used for drawing.

I've gotten an amazing swell of support from it though...over 100 fans in just a few days! I still can't believe it. Thank you everyone who clicks the "like" button! It means more to me than you know!

Nothing amazing to post today...just a doodle! (which can also be found on my facebook page! :P)

More Junk

Sorry for the junk posts. I'm having major art block and concentration problems and need a place to dump the sorry remains. It's how I vent my artistic (<-- or lack there of) frustration.

That said...can anyone tell me how this...
...becomes THIS?!


Commitment issues, that's how! I try to do something serious and then I get bored and scribble everywhere. Fun times.

doodle dump

Looking for jobs is draining. All I can find is boring stuff that any high school kid could do. I know what I want to do for a living and it ain't no 9-5 job! Unfortunately, everyone says I need something for support right now. Also unfortunately, everyone is right. While I look for jobs I'm going to secretly be building up my super awesome artist powers to get the job I want. Boy, will all the naysayers be surprised one day! (At least I hope they will be!)

Oh yeah, this stuff is just a dump of stuff I've doodled in between looking for jobs. It's part of my super awesome artist power build up plan. Draw draw draw! ...and draw some more! (even if the drawings don't make any sense)

Wonders of the Universe

The other day I contacted a children's book publishing company for the first time to inquire about employment. I was super excited to hear back from them even though I knew my portfolio didn't exactly portray "illustrations of kids." I love that some publishers let you contact them through email because you get such a quick response...but I almost think I would have spent more time refining my portfolio to the specific market if I knew I'd have to wait forever to hear back. Wouldn't want to waste all that time wondering on an iffy portfolio!

Needless to say, they don't require my services and put me down gently. Either way, it was super exciting to finally get guts enough to contact someone about work and I can't wait to get a proper portfolio together for books and whatnot. My computer still dies randomly so that discourages me a bit, but I'm going to have to get on the ball VERY soon. Like now.

Ok...I got on the ball and this is what I did. It's not done but I'm tired. Malamute puppy and universe.

5 a.m.

Sleep comes at all the wrong times these days. Not to say that I ever had a healthy sleep schedule before, but now it's just wacky. I've been zoned out like a zombie in front of my laptop for hours while recreating episodes of Legend of the Seeker in my head. I've been in such a slump lately I haven't had motivation to do anything productive which in turn makes me feel worse. I'm sure you all know that story! Anyway, it's 5 a.m. and my boyfriend came in to tell me I need to sleep. He's right...but I have this mysterious face gazing at me from inside my computer that I want to discover. I guess it will just have to wait till tomorrow. I hope I don't lose the zombie out-of-body drawing abilities I seem to have right now. Actually...when I wake up I'll probably look at the picture and wonder what I was thinking. Not sure!

Ok, time to sleep.