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Journal Entry: Fri Apr 17, 2009, 10:13 PM


ACCD Term I Vanquished

My first term at Art Center is complete. When I took classes at the local community college, I never finished any of my assignments and played hooky more often than not, so I was worried that I'd have a hard time taking school seriously here. However, I completed every assignment and only missed one class session. I'm not sure what my grades are, but at least I know I did it and I didn't give up.

The entire experience so far has been frustrating. I'm not the type that likes to be told what to draw, and I never take deadlines seriously enough. I dunno though. Out of nowhere, I've got this drive to just take off. I don't know if it's my obligation to make Ian proud anymore, either. That's definitely what got me to apply for scholarships and get into the classes, but now I think I'm running on my own legs. So anyway, I got all of my assignments done on time, I made a handful of friends, and it was really depressing to leave class on Wednesday night, even if immediately after, I went to an amaaaazing Bloc Party concert at the Hollywood Palladium. <333 I would listen to Bloc Party to help me focus on my homework, so seeing them in concert was a nice way to finish of the term.

But yeah, here I am. Being thrown into a mix of hundreds of people far more talented than I thought I could ever be made me realize how much more I have to learn, how much more climbing I have to do, but most importantly, it gave me an idea of exactly where I want to be headed. Now that I know what I want, the hard part is over. I just need to make it happen.

Organization


The most important thing I've learned at school so far is that in order to become a successful illustrator, you can't just draw pretty things. You have to market yourself effectively or nobody is even going to know about your pretty drawings, and I've been doing a horrrrible job at it. I don't update my site enough, and Pon and Zi are mixed in with my other illustration here. My deviantART, azuzephre.net, my Artician account, and my neglected LiveJournal are far from organized and anything but synchronized. I'm not the smartest person when it comes to all of that stuff, but I just learned how to use RSS feeds to synchronize my blog across all of my websites. So now, at least when I blog, visitors won't have to run through each of my profiles to get all of the information about something I'm doing.

Since I began my stay at deviantART so unorganized, there are people here who added me to keep track of Pon and Zi, and there are people who haaate Pon and Zi but added me to keep track of my other stuff. I can't cleanly remove either from my gallery here, so this page is going to be a messy combination of both. My Artician account is new, and it's not going to have anything to do with Pon and Zi. I'm in the process of making azuzephre.net only for Pon and Zi. I'll be using RSS to thread my Livejournal through both sites, so the blog section of each site will have updates that cover everything.

So once I upload more to my Artician account, I'll post a link here in case any of you are interested in taking a look. Keep an eye on the homepage at azuzephre.net to see if I've updated the site there. I'll be taking all of the blogs I've posted there down, and they'll be replaced with Livejournal blogs that are yet to be written. : B So yeah. Updates are coming.

New PonComics


By the way, I have TWENTY-TWO new PonComics waiting to release at the conventions I'll have booths at in the upcoming months. <333

Vlog


Oh yeah. In addition to having a synchronized blog between all of my sites, I'm adding a video blog page to azuzephre.net.






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:iconaixkiraixjisatsu:
The watercolors you post links to on Twitter sometimes are fucking amazing, just so you know.

WHAT CONVENTIONS PLZ

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In all those years dragging his feet from place to place, city to city, like a beggar with his hand outstretched, he had only a theorem to offer. I can be your lever, with me you can move the world, just give me a goddamn place to stand.
:iconaixkiraixjisatsu:
Oh shit, first? That's impressive.

--
In all those years dragging his feet from place to place, city to city, like a beggar with his hand outstretched, he had only a theorem to offer. I can be your lever, with me you can move the world, just give me a goddamn place to stand.
:iconskittleflink:
Can't wait to see more art from you.
:iconazuzephre:
Sharkrobot is selling my Pon&Zi shirts and posters at quite a few conventions, but I'll be at FanimeCon in San Jose and Anime Expo in Los Angeles for sure, possibly a few others.

And lol. I totalllly ruined the mermaid boy watercolor last minute, I think. I'll try to fix it later but right now I'm taking a break from all of my school projects, now that the semester is over. : B

<333

--
The part of you
that's part of me
will never die,
will never leave,
and it's nobody else's but mine.
You are in my heart,
I can feel your beat.

Rest Peacefully, Ian.
:iconaixkiraixjisatsu:
Suh-weet, I'm going to be going to one of those cons (not both, I have to pick one xD). Maybe I'll see you~!

Oh, that was my favorite one! ): I hope it's salvage-able, though for some reason I have a hard time imagining you ACTUALLY ruining a piece of art .. I feel like somehow, even your mistakes would be gorgeous xD;

♥♥♥

--
In all those years dragging his feet from place to place, city to city, like a beggar with his hand outstretched, he had only a theorem to offer. I can be your lever, with me you can move the world, just give me a goddamn place to stand.
:iconkuro-mizu:
You went to a bloc party concert.

I Freaking hate you! Bloc party is pretty much epic win! I <3 them!
:iconazuzephre:
Oh trust me, it was a disaster. I decided that after I painted in some dark purple coral at the bottom that I didn't want it there anymore, tried to lift it out, and ended up scrubbing the paper apart a little bit. : DDD

*fail*

--
The part of you
that's part of me
will never die,
will never leave,
and it's nobody else's but mine.
You are in my heart,
I can feel your beat.

Rest Peacefully, Ian.
:iconladyleyleybug:
I'm glad everything is going so well for you. :)
You are amazing. :heart:

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In the year 3000, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook will combine into one giant time-sucking website called "YouTwitFace" -- Conan O'Brien
:iconaixkiraixjisatsu:
.. Oh. Yeah, okay, that might do it, haha. Either that or you could make a case for slightly dissonant modern art, but somehow I don't think that'd fly? Haha. I love watercolors, though, they make me wish I could draw.

--
In all those years dragging his feet from place to place, city to city, like a beggar with his hand outstretched, he had only a theorem to offer. I can be your lever, with me you can move the world, just give me a goddamn place to stand.
:iconstrangeandilikeit:
YES. I love youuu. Amazingness~ :D

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