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Hello all,

Yes, I'm still alive. Sorry for not posting for a long time. I think it's been more than 3 month since my last post?! Maybe not...Anyways, I thought it be time for me to post. But I have some unfortunate and random news to throw out there before I begin....

So yesterday, I drove down with a friend to this natural reserve/hunting ground forest area to go hiking/make up for a missed field trip for my "Evolution of Plant Diversity" class. I took my camera with me to document our findings and such...but at the end of the day, my camera didn't make it back with me. He quietly decided to stay behind and become one with nature....so, all that said, I basically want to put it out there that I was planning to put up more art, but because of the lack of a camera (r.i.p dear friend), it will be delayed. Meanwhile, please enjoy this...

So, I know this is the DOODLEwall...but, I really wanted to share some photography stuff I've been doing. I don't really have anywhere else to show these things so I thought why not here. Since the whole point of the Doodlewall is free expression of personal trial, error, and growth (or something along those lines!?), I thought it'd be fine. Let me know if it's not, I'll refrain myself next time. So here goes...

So that's it for the photography. Any tips, comments, suggestions, questions, etc would be greatly appreciated. I plan to post my stuff, like sculptures I did last year that I had to chuck into the trash at the end of the year, and others that I already have pictures for little by little (so I can feel like I'm posting a lot).

But anyways, hope everyone is doing good. Exams not too killing. Papers not too murderous. I heart you all.

this is the 104th post

i feel like we should have celebrated the 100th post, oh well.

so somehow we had a huge impromptu doodle jam in my suite on wednesday. i don't really remember how it happened but everyone in my suite and two people who don't even live with us joined in. I was so happy. I felt like i had spread art joy. we played the game where we fold the paper into thirds and someone draws the head, body and legs. my suitemates were all like, I can't draw ehhh but then they were like, can i play? and it was so FUN. we did this for like three hours. Then we hung them up around the common room with ribbons. now its an art gallery in there.

head by emily, body by carrie, legs by me

head by zinan, body by me.

head by me, body by emily, legs by carrie

head by me, body by carrie, legs by me

head by lizzie, body by me (sorry i copied your idea dakota), legs by padma

head by carrie, body by me, legs by emily

This is a caricature drawn by emily, i added the guys

Carrie drew this of me from life. i was lying down and she did it. i was really impressed especially since she doesn't really have training. "i'm just gonna draw what i see" she said.

Michelle drew this of carrie from life. michelle is in the art school.

michelle drew this too. it says "WAKE UP OR I"LL RAPE YOU!"

i drew this of carrie and brad pitt.

michelle did this of emily from life too.

Zinan did this of emily from life. i thought this was really good. actually everyone does. people walk into our suite and look at it and put their hand on their chin and say, "it really does look like her"

The end.

More Pages

Dude, I have posted twice today. DUDE.

So, here is some more stuff.

Allison: You know, I did not think of this as having any Indian influence at all. Now that I look back on it, I totally see what you mean. But it's weird, cause there is really no Indian action going on here. I mean, it's set in West Iran, and is about Abrahamic reliogions (mostly Christian, cause there is the idea of a Hell, so not Jewish so much).
I still don't mean for there to be Indian-ness, but the crow-animal-creature is Indian seeming. But actually, he is supposed to be Archangel Michael, which you learn in about 7 or 8 pages in the text.

Do you guys get that? Is that the fox/crow is the same? The text makes it a little more clear.

OH! You can almost see his bidness.

Shit, I did the animal/Michael's speech bubble wrong. I gotta fix it.

Phew! That is my 30th page.

In a month I am 1/3 of the way to 100 pages. (About). This is so do-able.

Buuttttt I am not done with the freaking script. And, these 30 pages, are only about 4 pages of script. DAMN.

I have 29 pages of script, and the script is only like 2/3 finished.

These characters are going to need to stop having loaded pauses and meaningful looks between their speeches, and to stop DOING SHIT.

It is going to take me FOREVER to get to the hot stuff. The hot stuff doesn't come for like 20 more script pages, who knows how many comic pages. And the sexy bit is totally a mild PG-13.

FUCK.

I JUST WANT TO DRAW PORN.

Someday I will make a porn comic. Just pornpornporn. And there is business for that. People don't give a shit about my ideas on this relationship or religion or whatever. But they do care about boobs.

And so do I.



Anyway, here is some behind the scenes shit.

Just for curiosities sake, this is a really rough page. I usually do like 5 or six of these, then go through, clean them up and ink them. These take like 1 minute.

This is cleaning it up, right before inking. It does not take long to get to this point. But the inking takes FOREVER.

Matryoshka Dolls

Hey, so I made Russian Nesting dolls.

I ordered some blank ones online, and was so freaking excited and checked my mail every single day, even Sunday, in case of a Russian miracle.

So when I got it at 9 o'clock last night, I sat down and painted a whole set. I think I finished at 1 am. (I have 2 more sets, and these are really fun).

These folks are characters from one of my favorite fairy tales, Snow White and Rose Red. I tell Brayden this story a lot and it is his favorite too. But I like the romantic parts and he likes the violent parts.

The bear is both my brother and my favorite character.

This is the bear. He is so cool. You guys should totally read this story. He's about 3 inches tall.

Snow White. Not to be confused with the other, more famous Snow White, this one only has one dwarf, and her dwarf is an asshole.

Rose Red, my favorite sister.

The Dwarf. He is a dick.

The sack o' treasure.

The story is google-able. I am going to send these to Brayden. But only after I get credit for them in my painting class, and the novelty of opening them and shutting them over and over and over wears off.