Finally, after a long time of messing around, I think I'm going to try to get more active here on dA again.
Last year's art classes left me rather drained, and really didn't give me anything decent to submit either, but this year I get a lot more artistic freedom, and I've actually been creating things I'm genuinely proud to show off.

So I should be submitting a lot more art in the coming months, mostly from my work at school, in painting and photography classes.

Expect to see more of that apple, [link] which is a major thematic element and visual metaphor in this year's work. It will appear in my paintings as well.

I've got three acrylic paintings on the way, two of which are done and one of which is in progress now, which I'll submit here as a group very soon. After that, I'm starting on Oils, which I enjoy far more, and should yield better results.

Oh and I've got quite a backlog of other people's art to look at here too, which should be good to look through and comment.

Thats me. Looking forward to seeing how my art is received, and as always looking forward to yours.

Does anyone know anything about drawing pictures of cities?
I'm drawing one right now, just at eye level with a few people, cars and buildings, but FUCK, it isn't easy.
Its for my art folio thing, so I only have a couple of weeks to finish it, along with heaps of other shit.
I'm just slogging along at it, its looking not too bad right now, although its very detailed, and i'm doing the whole thing with an HB mechanical pencil with a 0.7mm lead... ouch.
It'll probably end up here on deviantart sometime; I'll scan it before I glue it on my folio.

Thats me for the moment kiddies.

I'm happy now, I just bought a new camera for photography classes at school next year. It hasn't turned up yet, won't for a week, but I'm still excited.
Its a Nikon D70, only a year old. I got it off trademe.com for the princely sum of $800 or something (princely, no?) which isn't bad considering I saw a new one in the shop the other day for $1800. Considering the poor standard of my photography skills before, I hope I can actually make decent use of it. Its really photoshop that I'm (fairly) good at, but hey, I'll take a kick ass camera any day.

Oh and by the way, to all the people in NZ reading this... DON'T BE FOOLED BY HELEN CLARK, (S)HES TRYING TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM THE PLEDGE CARD OVERSPENDING. It makes no difference whether he had an affair or not, I'd be happy to have a pimp like him as a prime minister. National isn't cancerous, Labour is subversive. They call her "teflon Helen" for a reason after all.

Oh and has anyone been using Jesus' xbox live account? as you may know he's been missing for a week, even his parents don't know where he went. I saw him online playing Halo 2 last week, but he wouldn't talk to me... Has anyone else seen him (n00bK1LLA666)?

Homework... so much of it...
The holidays are nearing, and therefore so is the deadline for my art folio for school, which is due four weeks after. Its going to look so bad, but it isn't my fault: my teachers gave us Andy bloody Warhol as a theme.
Not that I don't like andy warhol, but his work isn't exactly meant to be copied by people who suck. i.e. me.
Worst of all, I'm actually behind on it too; my strategy of never doing what the teacher says has worked well in the past, but I might have to review that.

As for world events right now, there's reeeaaally very little for me to rant about, which is sad. I was looking forward to boring you.
One thing I do find funny though is this whole thing with the space shuttle... I can't really see why they're only just sending people into space again, Just because one of them exploded. People don't stop getting in cars because one or two of them explode. People don't stop using laptops because one or two of them explode. Its just because its so high profile, which is stupid really. we NEED to get into space, and they're holding it up just because a couple more people died. They weren't the first and they won't be the last.

Well, yeah, thats me for now.

Oh yeah, and has anyone been talking to Jesus on MSN? I think he blocked me.... *tear*

Man, I've had a weird week.
Last wednesday I got a new computer, and, after setting it up, I found I'd lost the drivers for my modem. Later, I went to the funeral of a relative of a good freind of mine, which was unhappy event, as expected.
It took until sunday to get a new modem, so I was without the internet for a whole four days. Gaah, it was torture.
Then, I had the weirdest breakup ever: we both realised it wasn't working about the same time, and it died quickly and painlessly. We talk now just as much as we always did. It was bloody strange to tell the truth.
In the midst of all the confusion though, I've actually found time to start drawing something proper, rather than something the art department told me to do.
For some reason, I'm drawing a picture of an old man I found on the internet. No idea who he is, but old people are good fun to draw: they're emotive, colourful and abundantly textured.
Look out for the new drawing, its on the way, about half done, after about 3 hours or so.

Thats my rant over, except for the usual section on world issues, which I'll forget about for the sake of your sanity and non-boredness.

live long and prosper, my children.