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I got an interview on Friday. It's my first actual field related interview (yup, a graphic design job. Go me!). This is them giving me an interview based off of already having seen my resume and online portfolio, so... y'know, it's gonna be awesome, and Liz is going to help me prepare.

Hopefully the blizzard doesn't screw me out of this, because I would be really sad.

]]> ~leujin http://leujin.deviantart.com/journal/9805669/ http://leujin.deviantart.com/journal/9805669/ Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:12:07 PDT CapnFlynn tagged me, so I guess I'm breaking this, the fourth of a series of journals found online, in.

Ten things I hate about you about my art:

1. As far back as I can remember I always admired my cousin Kathy (the one who is responsible for the tagging). Basically a large part of my interest in art started because I tried to emulate her. I still remember trying to make my own version of garfield, which had a cat getting a sweater for christmas. I don't know WHY I remember that, but it's significant because it was the first comic~y thing I really drew. Now I (sometimes) have a comic which reflects the early gimicky style of that. Before that I had sketchbooks full of such things.

2. Another thing I really got into when I was drawing was really gross monsters. That's probably the most common thing I draw, is big monsters with pointy teeth and terribly dangerous looking tails. It's basically a lot of over-exaggerated poses and such, so it's just whole crap-tons of fun to draw.

3. After learning the wonder that is illustrator, I got into taking pictures and going over them with the pen tool. Nowadays I can throw out a pretty decent digital illustration in under a half hour, but the more complex stuff (like my vector portrait, for example) might take me up to two hours. I'm now working on a pretty much balls-out version of the boston skyline.

4. I suck ass at drawing mechanicaly shapes. It's something I never really got good at. My cars always look like shoeboxes, my desks like blocks with smaller blocks attached to it, and my buildings are uncannily crap. Though I have managed to draw one good motorcycle in my life.

5. I went through this really weird furry phase in high school. Not dressing like them, thankfully, but drawing them. I don't know why. I saw my friend draw one once and I thought it looked neat, so I just went with it. I've got one sketchbook that's mostly pictures of cat girls.

6. I have a lot less trouble drawing the female form than I do the male form. I guess it's just easier to emulate curves on paper than it is to emulate the boring straight lines that are the male. I also can't draw fat people. Conditioning of a young american male, I suppose is what it really is. I learned early on that I had better damn well know what a beutiful woman looks like or I'd get dragged into the street and shot.

7. After my cousin, the other major influence in my art-ness was drawing pictures from video games or TV shows or comic books. I never traced them, though, which is really good practice from early on in terms of observational drawing. I have stacks of paper that are drawings of Dagget and Norbert, Yoshi, Ren and Stimpy, and basically anything else you could imagine someone born in the 80s drawing.

8. I've always liked making drawings that have captions, which is probably why I got into graphic design in the first place. I made posters, fliers, book covers, and the like all for stuff that already existed but I thought probably could've been done better. A lot of it never saw the light of day and eventually ended up being tossed out when I moved. Which is sad.

9. I used to be very adamant about not coloring things when I drew them. I would always shade them and such, but I never really saw a place in a lot of it for color. Then one day I colored one of my monster drawings and it added a whole new neat dimension. I still don't color a lot of my traditional drawings, but almost everything that gets made on the computer is color because it's a natural transition.

10. I've never really thought of myself as an artist, mostly just because of the image that comes to mind when I hear the term. I just think of pompous know-it-alls sipping wine in a gallery telling how their series of blobs represents angst.

I don't really feel compelled to tag anybody seeing as I only even have 5 friends on DA.

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