http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:PenguinWithaRose&section=today deviantART RSS for by:PenguinWithaRose en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:16:34 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/25262489/ http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/25262489/ Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:39:39 PDT
graduation= people give you money= i could afford the D60 i've wanted for a year!

nice camera= me being able to practice photography again! nothing i've taken has awe-inspired me but people seem to like them, judging by the 9 favourites i got as soon as i posted the freaking things.

birthday is soon. good and bad. all kinds of wonderful things happen when you turn 18 from what i hear... lol. but, i also have to start paying my FULL car insurance (plus all the other crap i pay for for that stupid car). this means that unless i start getting more hours at my work, i'm going to be completely out of money in about 2.5 months........ fuck.

i wish i could get over my freaking fear of talking on the phone and call my Comm. College to start registration. i hate talking on the phone. i have trouble breathing and shite. its weird.

so yea. there ya go.

]]> ~PenguinWithaRose http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/23736812/ http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/23736812/ Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:54:50 PDT
my digital camera croaked earlier this month. being a photographer without a camera really sucks balls. i technically do have a camera (my film slr) but i'm currently unable to afford film and/or processing. so i'm sorta stuck in that route.

but, i've gotten relatively more creative and outgoing in Photoshop and Illustrator. i did a vector portrait for a major project in my advanced art class. that was freakin' hard, and i think i want to reprint it on glossy... the contrast didn't come out the way i wanted it to. its possibly my next award-winner tho, i'm getting tired of showing off my vector slide. its won 3 awards now

Photoshop is fun. i morphed a tennis ball and a wolf together and it looks kick ass. i'll have to post it. I also did a spur of the moment throw together poster for my friend and her group for a Psychology project. it somehow managed to turn out amazing even tho i just arbitrarily placed things in places and prayed that they'd look good. the composition is really cool and i literally was not paying any attention to it when i was putting it together. i love this shit i also did a project in art history where i put David's "The Death of Marat" in a dumpster. its rather ironic (and also completely unpurposeful).

mom wants to try to start a small design firm with our network of awesome artists who specialize in different things. i get to play too! woohoo! maybe i'll be able to quit DQ, they treat me like shit anyway.

*UPDATE* I've been unofficially fired from DQ (they stopped scheduling me for the last 3 weeks and i'm gonna quit this friday) but i have a job at Subway with Katie and Makenzi. Everybody that works there is super awesome and nice. its awesome!

]]> ~PenguinWithaRose http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/21405671/ http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/21405671/ Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:33:03 PST One was at St. Charles Community College (not really anything special, just poopy art stuck in a hallway in their performing arts building) which, by the way, our school's submissions OWNED everyone elses (seriously, everything else looked like it was drawn/painted/glued together by 4 year olds).
The second exhibit was at Lindenwood University in St. Charles. This one you could actually win an award at (and I did! wooooO!!)

my vector "Slide" [link] won 3rd place in the "Digital Imaging" category.
granted, there were only like... 10 submissions that could have qualified in that category, but its still cool

and I'm kinda super pissed that Katie didn't win anything for her photography submissions, which were AMAZING. probably because they were only 5X7s... stupid people with their lack of attention to the power of small things

]]> ~PenguinWithaRose http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/21022879/ http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/21022879/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:58:20 PDT
Senior year is completely insane. I kinda hate it, but am still managing to enjoy it.
I'm in 3 advanced classes (AP American History, AP English Lit & Comp, and Advanced Art), one intermediate social studies class (Sociology), and one for-the-hell-of-it english class (film studies). I'm enjoying all of them in their own way but theres a lot of work to do and i don't seem to be doing much of it. I haven't started on my term paper for American History... which means i'm not going to for a while. I don't like the subject i picked, but am not interested in anything specific within the time period we were allowed to choose from. PLUS, i don't have any of the college resources that everyone else in my class has because i didn't sign up for the dual enrollment with UMSL (mostly b/c mom didn't have the money at the time of sign up).

english class is relatively interesting... its my pass out class tho. that time of day where i have an extremely hard time keeping my eyes open, no matter how interested i am. and we have tons of in-class essays (means i'm fucked basically)

advanced art is decent. but we're painting. i suck at painting.

Soc is fun, but my teacher likes making everything brain-stimulating... but i still love her pessimistic, dark humored self.

film studies is great. i finally saw Citizen Kane, which rocked my cinematic buff socks off. i want to make short films now... too bad i don't have any access to a video camera or an SLR (to make stop-motion films)

and everybody is signing up for colleges and shtuff... i feel left out... i'm going to community college... makes me feel like a loser since i have the highest artistic skill in any of my classes (next to the teacher)

]]> ~PenguinWithaRose http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/18837300/ http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/18837300/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:51:21 PDT I got into a pre-college art and design program at Maryville University. It kicks ass. Only 2 weeks long tho
In the morning we have the studio art class where we do mostly drawing and some critiquing. On tuesday we had a female model come in and we got to do a ton of drawings of her. She was so cute! I'm guessing about late 40's... maybe older... in amazing shape, I have a feeling she dances or something because her legs looked fantastic... whatever. anyway, that was really fun and i hope we do more.
uuuuhhhh... design! so, our first project was to design (in Photoshop) a new face for clocks that we bought. i couldn't think of anything... so i did Chucks. turned out pretty sweet, but i need to paint the clock because its red and everything else about it is black and white...
then for the rest of the week we worked on self portraits (in Photoshop). the teacher aid type guy, Michael Dragoni (I asked on the first day if i could call him Dragon, lol) took pictures of everyone and we pulled them all into Photoshop and changed the colours and lighting and added a bunch of texture. i love the way mine turned out! [[link] [link] [link]

thats it so far... i'll add more when the class is over.

EDIT:

so, the class is over (well... its been over i just forgot to write more)
the whole thing was amazing! in studio art we had a male model come in during the second week. he was the most interesting person i've ever seen! middle aged, going bald on top. but he had long hair (like... past his shoulders) and he put it up in one of those half ponytails. but the cool part about it was he had part of it coming out of the top so it did this big WOOSH thing... i can't explain it... it was awesome. and he wore these black skinny jeans that were a bit tattered and a black button up shirt and some boots with spurs on them. i liked his style. aanyway, we drew him and he was really funny and kept complaining about his shorts and how he wasn't used to wearing them. and Anne (who was by far the most talented person there) kept complaining loudly about how she kept drawing him so he looked like a chick the whole situation was rather humorous.
design. the second week we moved away from Photoshop (good, i was getting bored with the novice stuff) and into Illustrator. we had to make a "Vector City". me being weird tho, picked a picture of a slide [link] that i had taken at the sculpture park and did a vector drawing of that. turned out pretty sweet [link] . Katie (my friend that took the class with me) did a vector of a pic of a church in New Orleans that she had taken. it was pretty cool and ominous and shtuff. SO, after Illustrator (that took a while since people get confuzzled by the pen tool) we (being the people who finished before everyone else) moved on to InDesign and went and took a bunch of macro pictures wherever on campus and imported them and made a cool collage.

thats pretty much it. i suppose i should upload some more stuff now, huh?

]]> ~PenguinWithaRose http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/18163703/ http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/18163703/ Sun, 04 May 2008 11:41:01 PDT Blame my friends for turning me into a manga freak...

Anywhoo... I made three Mokona sculptures for three of my very good friends as a sort of thank you and "you rock my socks" present.
I was going to make more, but I ran out of time in class... we can't work with wet clay any more because the year is almost over and we need to start glazing projects.

But yay! I finished them!! Cross your fingers they don't explode in the kiln!!!

]]> ~PenguinWithaRose http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/17179327/ http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/17179327/ Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:23:56 PST
anyway, my latest comic spread came to me while i was sleeping this morning. i had gotten up, ready for school, and then the automated system called my house and said "you don't have school due to inclement weather" and i said "damn!" and went back to bed. so thats when the idea came to me to do a 'story' about Erin's size always changing. i'm constantly worrying about her size inconsistencies so i figured doing this would help a little.

um... thats pretty much it...

]]> ~PenguinWithaRose http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/15977098/ http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/15977098/ Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:55:07 PST

Same with my ceramics class. We've been glazing for the past month as our bisqueware comes out of the kiln. All of my projects survived, surprisingly. My last glazed piece is firing tonight at cone 06. Should be done by Wednesday- its a penguin cookie jar! Nearly everything turned out freakin' awesome! I'm gonna post pics really soon.

Someday they'll find out about you too...
-Charlotte (Rose)

]]> ~PenguinWithaRose http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/14802981/ http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/14802981/ Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:26:27 PDT but, i found this amazing app called Comic Life that has a bunch of pre-layed out comic layouts that you drag and drop your pics in and add speech and narration bubbles. its so easy and cool! and you can export your stuff out as .jpeg really easily! go find it and play around. its so much fun!

]]> ~PenguinWithaRose http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/14275427/ http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/14275427/ Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:20:49 PDT (such a teacher's pet...). Ceramics is the most fun I've ever had in an art class (and I've had a lot of fun in art classes). Photography is going to be awesome when we actually start doing photography. I can use my awesome camera that I bought!!! Yay!!!!!! My chemistry teacher is crazy, which is good. There are pictures and cartoons of moles everywhere! umm... yea...
k, bye!
Charlotte (Rose)

]]> ~PenguinWithaRose http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/13609258/ http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/13609258/ Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:38:32 PDT once again, if anyone has suggestions on how to make them prettier, please give them.

--
Charlotte (Rose)

]]> ~PenguinWithaRose http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/13464563/ http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/13464563/ Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:36:42 PDT [link] If anyone knows anything about photography, please, look at the pictures I've submitted and give me some tips. I'm a total beginner, so anything is helpful

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Charlotte (Rose)

]]> ~PenguinWithaRose http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/12720722/ http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/12720722/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:00:23 PDT i never noticed the "Vector" section under "Digital Art" until just a moment ago. so i had to go and change all my stuff to that instead of "Drawings"

]]> ~PenguinWithaRose http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/12622541/ http://PenguinWithaRose.deviantart.com/journal/12622541/ Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:32:19 PDT
so, do you wanna know about how i make these 'toons? well if you don't, too bad 'cuz i'm gonna tell you anyway! so, i hand draw pretty much everything and colour it pretty with my Prismacolor markers. then if i like them enough i'll scan them and paste 'em in Illustrator. i've made a template for Erin & The Evil Gumball so they're the same shape each time, even when Erin's turned to the side. so i put them up on different layers along with text (i love that font b/c it almost looks like my handwriting!) and background images. and thats pretty much it .

if you want me to upload some of the originals (or all of them) please, do tell. i'm gonna try to be consistant in my creating at least one a week. but sometimes my inspiration just doesn't come... HELP ME EDDIE IZZARD!! lol, i love him! and The Dresden Dolls- the best band ever!

ttfn,
(Rose)

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