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A quick update to bring this journal and page out of the dead:
I have a print shop over at society6 now! If you ever wanted a tangible copy of one of my pieces to hold in your grubby mitts and/or rub on your face, well HERE YOU GO. (Some of the pieces are available as cases for various iThings, if you're into that sort of thing.)
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Well dang!
I just got done with a frustrating drive back to Chicago from Minneapolis to discover that the seer's tower was selected as a Daily Deviation. A pleasant and unexpected surprise, really!
Thanks to Marcellyne (https://www.deviantart.com/marcellyne) for the feature, and thank you to everyone who has commented, favorited, or watched me in return! I apologize for this mass thank you note, but there's no way I can possibly hope to catch up with all the messages and notes I have rolling into my inbox right now.
If y'all are interested, you can keep track of my work on my blog, which while currently in hibernation, I intend to revive with more sketches soon. I also col
not quite dead yet
o hai!
I've been rather busy as of late, so I apologize for the lack of updates! A lot of it was due to not having a consistent internet connection for almost a month, but there you go. There's been enough going on in my life to generally keep me off the internets, in the meantime:
Notably, I am now officially an illustration graduate and alumni of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. And... I don't think it's quite sunk in yet. I mean, my summer is the same as all summers previous: working full-time with various side projects to keep me entertained/sane. I think it'll actually hit me once September rolls around and I'm no longer
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HECK YES, mah friend! (and thanks for quoting me.) hehe
she's absolutely right. I'm here for a second year and it's all been so incredible.
she's absolutely right. I'm here for a second year and it's all been so incredible.
i'm down here for the next few weeks for the illustration academy: a longer, more intensive, illustration-specific sister program to the original art department gig that used to be taught at the ringling college of art and design in florida. part of me is happy that moved to a slightly less sweaty place in the country. there's basically fifteen of us hanging around in an abandoned warehouse turned studio solely to draw, learn, and make illustration prettiness. mostly learn, though.
TAD is the brainchild of world-renouned, longtime illustator mark english and his son, john english, as well as brent watkinson. it doesn't stop there, though--many other well-known illustrators have joined forces with TAD. george pratt and gary kelly (fdsgfdsomg) have joined us in the past week; chris payne dropped in today to critique our work and hang out for the rest of of work. he even liked my piece. ohmygod.
other illustrators like jon foster and antia kunz are dropping in later just to help us.
you guys, oh my god, you guys. as one of my studiomates so expertly put it, it's as if i went to an acting school and had maryl streep casually drop by. this is how huge it is. if you open up any book on illustration history, you'll find these names next to the likes of frank frazetta and norman rockwell. hell, if you look close enough, the illustration academy itself is in there, too. (i'm referencing my illustration history textbook right now! it's true!)
aside from having all these big name illustrators come in, one of my favorite things so far is the kind of people i have as studiomates. unlike any community that exists in any college art department or school, all these students paid a whole lot of money to come here during their breaks from school or work--so they're serious about learning. i love that i can have deep conversations about our hopes and fears for our career futures when i've known these people for like two weeks. we commute together, we work together, we live together--it's incredibly immersive, and the bonds we have already established are the sort that come after maybe six months of a standard friendship. i haven't felt this free of social anxiety since maybe sophomore year of college.
so far, it's been crazy and insane and exhausting--we're all putting in 12+ hour workdays, seven days a week. yet we are still expected to do comparatively banal stuff like showering and grocery shopping and, y'know, sleep. doesn't leave a lot of time for much else. which, while minimal, i am still getting enough to function daily. one of the major things i hope to take away from this is a fresh work ethic--i'm seriously tired of all-nighters and last-minute projects.
hopefully helps starve off the senioritis that i've already been infected with so i can survive my last semester in the fall. so far, so good!
this program is intensive. it's not for the faint of heart or the uncertain. anyone who's absolutely serious about illustration should consider taking the illustration academy at least once, if not more. i mean this. this four-week workshop cannot be compared to any college education--it far surpasses that. i've gotten more honest, open critiques here than i have EVER recieved at MCAD or anywhere else. it's made my work and understanding of said work so much better because of it.
and i've only been here for two weeks.
if you can't afford it, they offer scholarships through the society of illustrators (which is how i'm here) and out of their own portfolio reviews. i left behind a lot of problems at home and got let go from my job because i asked to take off time to do this but seriously, guys. it has already been completely worth it.
FYI;; i am occasionally posting process shots and the like on my blog. so if you want to see more stuff, head ova hurr.