i smelled pollen for the first time this year in the past month and a half and ever since i have been plagued with a stuffy nose and watery eyes and the occasional friggin' crazy awful sinus headache that just doesn't go away no matter what i take. ahh it just makes me want to buy an ionic breeze for every corner of my room with no windows and never leave.
but i hope the weather warms back up for you and you get to go to the beach soon... and then you post pictures of yourself in a swimsuit so that i may leave creepy comments on them.

paint really is fun... i like it a lot but i never use it 'cause usually by the time i've got everything set up i don't feel like painting anymore. i'm going to have to cure that XD

i don't think deviantART is an actual art community anymore... so much as a social networking site for people to post images and writing on. i honestly can't call some of the stuff that gets posted these days art.
i'm not really that big into online art communities either but i don't have anywhere else to get any crit type feedback from.
the only ones i've actually been able to stick around on were dA and MangaRevolution.
though i gotta say i do like surfing conceptART.org. i can't seem to work up any desire to post there but they've got a TON of great information to learn from if you just look around. i'm talking about great information that i haven't found in all my years on deviantART.

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yea i want my own website too... i used to have one on geocities way back in the day but you know... that's a bit different from havning your own domain name and everything but still i made it look decent made it look like it was all drawn on a chalk board XD that was back when frames and resized smaller pop up windows (for the main window) weren't a no no in making websites.
but one thing about a personal website is that it's generally kind of isolated so just having it instead of various online art communities isn't bad if you can get crit and stuff elsewhere. T_T but i'm kinda a hermit and stuff... and honestly haven't ever really been around very many people who would try to give me real crit when i ask for it.

i think i've rambled on long enough in your journal comments i'll just kind of wander off to my corner of the dumbA... err deviantArtiSphere and post some sketch of Sakura from street fighter.

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ok guess i lied...
graphic design isn't art! it's advertising with cleverly placed shapes, images, and text.... ok i guess that would kinda be art.... it is certainly different than the general "i'm an artist" kinda thing though... i mean it's no painting a landscape or drawing a model or expressing your unending self hatred and pain because your girlfriend dumped you because she couldn't get past your hate for italian food and because you wouldn't admit to eating one of her granola bars... or maybe it was because she got you drunk and you happened to say that her ugly friend was pretty and when she asked how she looked you puked all over her.
i guess i'm just saying it's less of a expressive/enjoyment/storytelling thing and more of a advertising/promotional/company image type thing right?

who does have huge artistic revelations? though lately i have had a few things i've recently learned click and just fit together in the ultimate puzzle of my artistic improvement and general knowledge. (Seriously, tons of great, very useful info on conceptART.org if you bother to look)

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erm... not sure what to think about that spill of italian food, granola bars and puking, but I do see your point. That is my frustration of this graphic design/art degree. I'm tired of it. This painting class is really the only class that makes me feel like I'm doing anything worthwhile. I wish that I could just change to be a painting major. I really like it. But there is less work in the line of painters than in the line of graphic designers. But for real, graphic design projects are all about what makes other people look good. Teachers can say that you can use your own style in creating a look for a company but in the end, the company decides if they want to take it or not. I have seen some very inovative graphic designs, but none that I can really call art, just creative advertising.

One of my design classes had a field trip a week ago and we went to a print shop in Boaz. It was a pretty big establishment, but as far as graphic design goes, they had maybe 2 graphic designers there out of 45 workers. And the guy told us that they didn't do to much graphic design itself and that most of the art came to them finished and that they just printed it. The place was pretty nifty but I wouldn't want to work there. Too bland and cramped really. The walls were all white and the ceiling was too low. Bleck.

If I get time to check it out I will check out conceptART.org. Finals end next Tuesday and I should be home the week after that. Then I will be looking for a job and spending a lot of time on the computer. What kind of paint do you work with, by the way?

lol no need to think anything of that whole spill... i was just kind of poking fun at certain dramatic stereotypes. you know... the whole "my heart no longer beats and my soul turned black" kinda thing...

somebody told me that life's too short to do something you hate... and since i hate everything i'm just waiting until i die that's a joke too.

i'm actually trying to get a grasp on all the stuff i should have been taught at Jeff State and then some that's probably more advanced stuff.
i've also been practicing a lot to try and get a decent working knowledge of everything i've been reading on from all over the place (a LOT of which from conceptART.org as well as some other stuff from CGsociety.org) no job but it's freakin' hard to find one now 'cause everyone is taking anything they can get.

i haven't actually painted in quite a while but i like acrylics and watercolors. i've never used oil paints but i understand they take forever to dry and that's the main reason i haven't tried them. i think i'll go paint something with acrylics soon though. i have been wanting to for a while now and i've got like 8 canvases sitting around from a while back. not to mention the ones my dad has.

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some people are just cool enough to not need a signature...
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