http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:ColorForIris&section=today deviantART RSS for by:ColorForIris en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:33:44 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/28719941/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/28719941/ Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:19:00 PST
How many people out there are playing old DeathCab For Cutie songs while they break up with their significant others in high school stairwells, with rain outside and a sports jacket on!!??




ugh

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/27218460/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/27218460/ Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:14:30 PDT
"The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows
The government is corrupt
And we're on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death

The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

It went like this

The buildings tumbled in on themselves
Mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble and pulled out their hair

The skyline was beautiful on fire
All twisted metal stretching upwards
Everything washed in a thin orange haze

I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful..
These are truly the last days"

You grabbed my hand and we fell into it
Like a daydream or a fever

We woke up one morning and fell a little further down
For sure it's the valley of death

I open up my wallet
And it's full of blood"

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/26524599/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/26524599/ Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:33:22 PDT
New work schedule to give to the boss

Harangue California "publisher" about new comic due date

Oil painting

Gym

Graphic Novel (page 50)

Visit family

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/25974990/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/25974990/ Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:04:28 PDT

....and I said "I LOVE you, Bella..."


...I'll always remember that...







At least I got to say it....

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/25226808/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/25226808/ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:47:47 PDT



I'm still here




suckaz

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/24883364/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/24883364/ Fri, 22 May 2009 00:04:14 PDT
And since these poor monkeys don't actually let you DELETE your account, I will be leaving this "ColorForIris" account, and creating a new one, where I can post the ones I don't care getting out there...I also plan to use THIS one as a reference for the jobs I do, both freelance, and professional until I have the time and resources to make a website or enslave someone to make it FOR me. Bon VOYAGE and full steam ahead to the permanent French Break!!

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/23098369/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/23098369/ Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:50:38 PST

An introspective look at the very conundrum and phantasmagoric effigy that is Love, featuring one-shot comics by yours truly and of course the always incredible =azraelengel. Published through
9mm Beretta Comics, and also featuring two essays: "A Lovelorn Apocrypha" by myself, and "Words" by the Aimee robot. 36 pages, beautious color, and a sexy $20. So skip that medium coffee at Dunkin Donuts and go onto the internet machine (which they have on computers now) and purchase this bad mofo.

WARNING: This book may induce teary eyes, lofty gazes, make-out sessions with ones hand, inexpensive wine, lavender pillows, depression, emotional confusion regarding the state of ones personal Loves, and the discovering of a Mayan afterlife that one may call XIBALBA.

Available Here

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/21654450/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/21654450/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:41:57 PST
It's MINE.


I can do what I want with it and you can't say anything in defense. 'Yall.

The season is growing colder! WINTER THOUGHTS are infesting my brain like CIA AGENTS FROM SPACE! The grand 'ol traditions are beginning! Snow! Cold air that sucks the life out of you like a Dementor in those CRAP FEST Harry Potter books/movies! I can't STAND Harry Potter.


I digress.

YESH! IT'S THANKSGIVING, LET'S BE GLAD!

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/21236986/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/21236986/ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:57:07 PDT [link] and I are compiling for a book. Now I just have to collect them all. There's always something...I dunno...about going through these. I mean, sure I lived those experiences and I remember them from time to time and use them as inspiration for various images and projects and publications, but there's just something so...AWKWARD. I'm not really sure what it is.

But regardless, I can now dedicate even more of myself (is that POSSIBLE!?) to codename "Iris".



Tomorrow's Halloween.



I feel........wierd tonight. Cross between overly-emotional and overly-introverted.


There isn't a single person up here I feel comfortable enough to talk to about whatever mysterious notion is in my head currently.




Oh well. At least I'm healthy, I have a good life and more confidence in things I do then you can shake a stick at.


......I bet the stick would be a Birch stick............

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/20821396/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/20821396/ Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:17:37 PDT
I digress

I'd figured I was was gonna call it quits with the Jolene comic being the last, but now figure I will keep doing some work for it. I'll be putting journal entries into the book, I'm pretty sure Aimes will as well. Showing every level of how Love can work in a young person's mind. I've decided that I will continue to do comics about past girls and past affections and forgotten infatuations. I got at least two lined up right now, with Isabel and Mary being the newest. So....keep checking for those. As far as LIFE is concerned?


I'm leading a DARN good life....healthy....happy.......social.....Faith-full......artistic and awake.

God it's good to be alive

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/20057013/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/20057013/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:55:43 PDT



Because really, We Won't Need Legs To Stand when the Trees Of the Field Clap Their Hands...

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/19883765/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/19883765/ Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:08:02 PDT
"Night Sky For WarChild" is a new......PROJECT I'm working on inspired by Keane themselves.








BE READY

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/19802731/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/19802731/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:11:51 PDT
Let's see......OH YEAH!! I already have plans to reserve a table at the Boston Comic Convention because I've already made plans with a new friend to meet up there and chat! A certain famous actor Doug Jones! You may know him from Hellboy, Pan's Labrynth, Fantastic 4, My name Is Jerry! I've just been in email cohoots with him, he checked out my artwork and hopefully we'll catch up. I think he's a genuinly nice person and I look forward to hanging out at the convention if I can get a table.

THE PROGRESS ON MY NEXT BOOK is going well, I'll start page layouts and supply gathering once school rolls around, and then on the 23rd of September I start INKING THIS BAD MAMMA-JAMMA!! I ALSO have been conversing with the lead publisher and distributor at Top Shelf Publishing, a very well-known graphic novel publishing company, I explained my next book and they seemed very interested in seeing my work, so I'll be mailing them a preview when I finish it. DANG LIFE IS GOOD!!! I trust everyone's summers are well, and I look forward to seeing all my beautiful NH friends in 23 days!

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/19514429/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/19514429/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:46:02 PDT
I don't like pretentious people. Hands down, it's a trying trait and an annoyance to me. I don't like to be thought of as this because I'm an illustrator and often put myself into my pictures or do entries based on my life. I simply draw what I feel and thusly put myself into my pieces from time to time. Dave pointed out that too often you get artists that will draw passionately because they simply love doing it, and people that will draw pictures in a way that will warrant people to go "Hey that's neat" so that they can go on about why it IS neat. I don't like that. I don't draw all these things to DO that, I do it for myself, because I love it. Passionately. I draw every day....I draw from life, I draw still lives when I go out, I draw people I see, I draw what's on my mind, and if I have an idea for a picture I'll draw it as soon as I'm given the chance. If people compliment my art, it means the world, but it's not why I MADE the picture. I made it to relate with whatever motive drove that idea onto paper. I do any art I do because I know of no other way. I've drawn since I was a kid to entertain myself in the lonely hours of youth and I still do because it's how I take my life seriously. That's why it's unfortunate when you have kids these days that do their art and are just NOT up for evolution, they don't take criticism and have a "Horse-With-Blinders" mind frame on the subject. Sure to hear someone criticize a product of your mind can be a bit harsh at first, but I've worked for YEARS to be good at it. I always look for ways to improve on EVERYTHING in my art. And when you get art students that think they're the cats pajamas and there's not a THING wrong with their art, it's unfortunate. And when I go back to NH for my sophomore year of Art school, I know there's going to be a cacophonous amount of these little buggers. The most we can do is try to show them that it's good to always look for a better improvement. I don't care if you're Will Eisner in the flesh, Tony Millionaire, Charles Shulz, Jhonen Vasquez or Craig Thompson, you will ALWAYS have room for improvement.

To me Art is Love and Glitter and easy sleep, and a lover-TV that won't shut off, a kitchen that sighs and a vampire mirror, a dying money and cane on an Adam tree.

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]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/18309303/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/18309303/ Tue, 13 May 2008 17:22:36 PDT
I'm excited for next week...I can finally hit the gym because I'm gonna sign up for the one in town and hopefully get a good deal. I can't let the twenty pounds of muscle mass I gained over the school year to disappear, what with my not drinking soda for two months straight I've lost close to ten pounds. GOTTA KEEP WORKIN OUT!! Anywho. With my free time now I can finally start work more on my novel. *sigh*. I'm pouring my life into this blasted thing.

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/17711822/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/17711822/ Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:37:03 PDT
IN OTHER NEWS, It's Christmas, Let's Be Glad!!!!

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/17614502/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/17614502/ Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:28:00 PDT
Why am I writing this. I uh.....hmm. I don't know. OH YEAH! Tomorrow is gonna rock my Jewish socks fright off! I'm gonna drag my butt to Color Theory sit through it ONLY because my teacher is such a sweetheart, go to CVS and pick up a case of sleeping pills, work for a couple hours on my Psych presentation, take the recommended dosage of pills, and fall asleep somewhere around....4, and see when exactly I wake up. If I'm lucky I'll wake up in the middle of the night and feel like I'm ready to fight the Red Baron!! HECKA-TIGHT!

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/17368613/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/17368613/ Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:43:07 PDT
Once upon a time last week, I decided that I would DRAW each journal entry instead of TYPING them for my LiveJournal. I have no idea why I did this, it could be because I was experiencing a high of either joy or sadness after viewing the incredible Dan In Real Life, or because it was my first night home away from college for Spring Break. Either way!! I will be posting them each day on this here Deviant Art Website Machine!! The first 4 I've done will here tonight......yet......due to the fact that I don't often like to share journal entries...I don't know why I'm announcing this.







Great, now I've gone and hypocrite'd myself.

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/17200940/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/17200940/ Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:20:24 PST
Last night was good and I reached Lucidity a lot earlier then previous nights, but that was only due to the horrendous news I'g gotten a few days ago, and my stress on deadlines and poor Illustration class grades. Anywho, I reached lucidity earlier, and from there decided to visit my highschool again, only I wanted to see myself there as I was four years ago.

-NOT A PRETTY SIGHT, I'LL BE HONEST HERE-

So anyways, I walked around revisiting memories, now, remember....this is the first time I've ever decided to revisit a past memory in my dreaming. Never tried it before.
INCREDIBLE.
Through subconsciously experiencing it, I remembered things I forgot so long ago, and I now have them in my mind frame!! Truly astounding. Then things got horrible and I decided to skip that ugly segment and dreamt I was flying...something freeing.

Didn't work for too long.

BUT YES!!! As it turns out, my publisher's website [link] has recently hit 450K views and I now have five more comics to do for him to post up there. Exciting yeah? And uh.....tonight I got a call from my buddy and we should be doing a little Halo at his apartment. That or fighting vampires.

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/17187847/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/17187847/ Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:22:29 PST
For the past few months, or however long it's been since November, I've been practicing Lucid Dreaming. Lucid Dreaming is where, through experience, you become aware you're asleep (a la 4th wall breaking!), you can control what happens in your dreams, when to wake up, how long they are, etc. And, since late January, I've finally been able to fully control my Lucid Dreams!!

My schedule is the same each night, check some last minute mail on the compy, shut it down, do a little Bible Study (I forget frequently though....), brush the masticators and then hop into the sack. Stare at the ceiling until the eyes go cloudy and I eventually get drowzy, and then fall asleep. There's a period of nothing really....for what seems like an hour, and then it's there! Lately I've been trying to rub my hands in the dreams which is supposed to stimulate both hemispheres of the brain and the eye movements during the REM cycles which in turn prolong the dream, I'll update more in a few weeks when I accomplish this.

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/16970144/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/16970144/ Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:21:26 PST And by all means, I have every right to hate that film. I SHOULD hate it as a Spawn fan since the comic came out in the early nineties. The story is a mishmash covering the beginning of the series, the acting is hokey, I mean C'MON. Martin Sheen as the BAD GUY!!?? Cogliostro has the worst line in the whole movie, "Mind if I CUT IN!!??" And yes, he IS holding a blade whilst saying that. For most of it it's like we're watching a Die Hard film with Bruce Willis in superhero getup, because Spawn rarely uses his cape, always runs 'n guns all over the place, and it's not all that well done. His suit is fine, but in no means accurate. The eyes are nice, and when he HAS the cape out? My good gravy it rocks, in a 1997 sort of way. Clown is how you'd imagine him, only more comedic relief-ish and not as sinister and wholly evil as I'd like. The Violator is great. Really great, in fact. I do wish they included him more, and ditched the puppet head for the quick ref shots, because we go from "Ooh! Nice looking beastie!" to "Oh...he looks fake there." But oh well. The horns are a bit thin for me, but that's ME griping. The much hated Hell fight scene is...well...hateable. The problem with CGI fire is that fire is pretty clear no matter what distance you look at it, and it's difficult to have a good depth of field for how our technology was 11 years ago and the like. And it's just shoddy....you know? But at least the end scene in the living room with the Violator's extending jaw is one of the coolest scenes I can recall. And there's a nice reference to Sam and Twitch in the end, and one really good albeit QUICK reference to Angela at the bachelor party. Ultimately, I have no idea why I like the movie so much, maybe it's the romantic time in my life (freshman in highschool) when I first saw it, or just the fact that I loved that cape or the Todd Macfarlane hobo cameo. Either way, all's I have to say is MIND IF I CUT IN???

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/16827677/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/16827677/ Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:23:05 PST [link]!! First there was a violent chipmunk one, now there's an Islamic one!! JIHADS APLENTY!! The site is funnier and more ludicrous then a vindictive ex-girlfriend who slowly and gradually becomes more and more depressed until finally she drives you off the edge!! Heh heh, SEGWAY!!!!!!







But fer show fer show, it's up and viewable....................................that's what she said.

]]> *ColorForIris http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/15911496/ http://ColorForIris.deviantart.com/journal/15911496/ Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:23:27 PST [link] alt=/>

Well....a million and one things to do. I've made it my own personal business to look up and exhaustively research who in the WORLD Saint Dargarius was and hwat he was all about, I have yet to finish my oil painting based on The Fountain, and I've been Jones'ing to sprawl out hundreds of pieces of paper all over my dorm floor and scrawl cursive poetic NOTHINGS on each and every page. So far...I have yet to do any of that. And for the record, I have a pantload, yes you could fill your pants, of comics to do for my publisher, I have more pages to pencil out in the graphic novel I have to do, I have Christmas presents to attack (literally) and a whole slew of eggnog to throw at pesky cheermongers. What am I to do?

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