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i will try to make the two places different.. maybe i'll use the blog as more art-related writings and art posts, while i'll keep DA to only art.

cliff ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/8152978/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/8152978/ Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:09:48 PST
put up 5 new lifedrawings. i'm pretty happy with them.

cliff ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/7106747/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/7106747/ Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:47:39 PST
long time no update

i just put up a bunch of lifedrawings, all but one of which are very recent.

..and goblet of fire sucked balls.

cliff ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/6031617/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/6031617/ Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:24:16 PDT [link]) there are galleries of member drawings for the annual magazine contest.

i found this drawing (which won best of show in the 2005 show):
[link]

that's right.. it's ALL COLOURED PENCIL.

so i looked him up on yahoo and i found these drawings too (from the cpsa website [link])

[link]
and
[link]

the last two are nicely done, but nowhere near as impressive as the first drawing. that one is only about 15" by 20"...

anyway, that was super inspiring! i hope i see more of his work!

cliff

EDIT: found some more of his work:

[link] ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/5110180/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/5110180/ Sun, 17 Apr 2005 09:08:11 PDT
and so marks the end of the first eight months of post-secondary! i'm very proud of myself for having gotten through this year, because it's the most work i've ever had to do. granted i still had time every night to do about 2h of extra life drawing, and talk on the phone to stefan, but it was still work work work during the day.

the first semester i had A+, A, A, A, A, B.. this time around that B in lifedrawing has turned into an A, and my film history mark is an A+ (as opposed to composition and rhetoric last semester).. my anthro mark i think is on the brink of an A.. but we'll wait and see. i am so jealous of sarah (she got four A+'s last semester) but i admire her so much!! she's my role model; i'm going to push myself to try to get as many A+'s as i can

during the month of may i am going to brian hladin's life drawing class every saturday, so that should be fun.. learning lots of new things there. otherwise i'm going to keep my lifedrawing up at TSA (hope the models are good there). i also got the job as a camp counsellor at my old high school (UCC) and so i'll be busy from the end of june to the end of august!!

this coming week is filled with things to do (which is more than i can say for the weeks following):

wednesday i'm seeing wicked with stefan
thursday or friday i'm going to UCC to see their IB2 art exhibition.. i know the people who are in that show so i'm really excited to see what they have done in the past two years.
saturday is my birthday (i'll be turning 19) so stefan will take me bar-hopping (i hope i dont get too shitfaced)
then sunday i'm going to see the interpreter with steffie.

i'll also try to finish that stupid "new piece" that i started last summer. there is something i want to change but i might be too far into it to do so.. i'll have to look and it again and see. otherwise i have an idea for another piece, although i'm sure i would like to do it in coloured pencil anymore.

there are lots of wonderful people i've met this year, and it's so great to be out of UCC (i've been with the same people there for like 8 years).. what does suck though it that for the next three years i am not going to see any new faces in my own grade.. but thats okay, since we are switching our groups i will make more friends (and probably more enemies too :S LOL).

i congratulate everyone else who has gotten through their school year, and i hope everyone has a fun and safe summer! keep drawing!

cliff ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/5059100/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/5059100/ Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:40:14 PDT
good to know i didnt use 90+ drawing pads for nothing this year!!!

also... school is out in 5 days! then it'll be the summer... i hope i get that job at UCC... if not then i dunno what i'm gonna do.

cliff ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/4899682/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/4899682/ Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:44:28 PST
i havent updated in a while, mainly because there hasnt been much to put up. there is a figure painting i would like to put up on here, when i get it back from my teacher.

i just uploaded one 5-minute lifedrawing, from last night.

two nights ago i lifedrew for 6 hours (3-6 and 7-10) and i was all drawed out.. it was a new record

i'm such a lifedrawing slut, and i love it.

cliff ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/4286674/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/4286674/ Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:25:49 PST
i gotta admit though, they are some of the nicest things i've ever drawn, and i'm really proud of that.

cliff

edit: uploaded high resolution scans. make sure to check out the "top and bottom" view!

pelvis and vertabrae (and possibly scapula) drawings to come!

edit: uploaded all of the bone drawings! ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/4099482/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/4099482/ Sun, 19 Dec 2004 00:20:46 PST

this was an interesting first semester at sheridan animation, to say the least.. so strange to be in a totally new environment after having been at the same highschool for 8 years straight. good thing my class has some very nice people in it. people in the program are very talented for the most part, although it's pretty clear sheridan could've weeded out more people.. but since they're getting greedy the standards of the program seem to be going down. blah. let's hope the rumour is true that they'll cut a lot of people from first to second year.

the workload has been pretty tough, but up until the last week of this semester i havent had to work on a single friday or saturday, and i've gotten at least 6 hours of sleep every night. other people have been pulling allnighters regularly and are stumped when they find out that i am an all-nighter virgin

the last week though, man.. i had to work through friday night and saturday, and on sunday, monday, and tuesday nights i had to stay up until 5am to 6am to finish off homework. but the way things worked out, i still got 6 hours of sleep every night due to class cancellations.

oh yeah.. and for the past 2 or 3 weeks i haven't gone to a single extra life session.. which is so foreign to me. i've been extralifing like mad and it's great, i love it. my figure drawing has improved a lot, in my opinion, which is great, but i've still got so so much to learn. at least my teacher was really happy with my portfolio (he gave me a B). next semester i'll try to improve to a B+ and my goal for the end of the year is to be very close to an A.

so i'm back in toronto after having been in oakville the past few weeks.. and it's so good to ride the subway and see yonge street downtown again. oakville is so.. well... not like i had any time to go out anyway, right? thats good i suppose.. because there really isnt much to do there.

i hope everyone enjoys their holidays, and congratulations to those of you who have finished your very first semester in postsecondary. have a safe holiday and happy new year!

cliff ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/3848651/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/3848651/ Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:51:26 PST
i uploaded a handful of recent life drawings i did. please comment on them: what you like about them and what you think i should try and improve upon. comment either in this entry or on the drawings themselves thanks a lot.

cliff ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/3665072/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/3665072/ Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:14:42 PDT
the teacher marked a few portfolios before he got to mine, and having seen some of the other ones, i was pretty confident i would get a B..

but i got uber-reamed!! he gave me a c+.. but other people who got c+ couldn't get proportions or anything for shit.

blah. guess i'll have to tailor myself to the teacher. i dont like doing that.

cliff

PS. if you have any suggestions on what you think of the life drawings i've posted and how i could improve please tell me! i'm open to suggestions. ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/3456253/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/3456253/ Mon, 27 Sep 2004 06:53:12 PDT
Whoever starts the game (designated The Starter) has the say the following poem's first line, then other players must repeat it correctly in turns. every time someone gets it wrong, he/she has to drink, then try again until he/she gets it right. when all other players have gotten it right, the Starter says the same thing, but adds the next line, and the other players try to recite the two lines, and so on, until all 8 lines have been said. most people can't get past lines 6 and 7.

one red hen,
a couple of ducks,
three brown bears,
four running hares,
five fat females sitting on a fence,
six seasick sailors sailing the seven seas,
seven, i slit the sheets, the sheets i slit, upon the slitted sheets i sit,
eight nickels, nuts, and dimes.

the last line is so easy because everyone gets trashed by the sixth or seventh lines

have fun with it!!

cliff ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/3257183/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/3257183/ Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:38:16 PDT
art supplies are so expensive too.. even after you buy them at curry's for supposed discounted prices. i had to buy a 40-pack of 40-sheet newsprint pads.. that made for some heavy lifting.

my student ID card picture is actually nice!! yay!

and oh.. i've got 25 hours of class a week. eek. plus i need to go do addition night classes of life drawing, apparently. i hope i have time for social things. :S

i wish everyone a great year at school if you're starting it this fall!

cliff ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/3206579/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/3206579/ Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:13:44 PDT

i have uploaded a preview picture of my upcoming piece, the piece i've been working on for a good part of the summer. it's on my geocities site, and here's the link. [link] ...it doesn't have a lot of bandwidth so if it's down then i apologise.

i've put it through a bit of a gaussian blur in photoshop just so you can't see it well.. wouldn't want to ruin the official unveiling

cliff ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/3143110/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/3143110/ Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:12:11 PDT

it was a good weekend.. even though sleeping was a bit of a problem. stupid drunk college people partying until 2 in the morning. and then this bunch of 30-somethings setting off firecrackers at 2am as well :@

if i had to have been there for a third night i mightve gotten pissed off.. its so annoying when you cant sleep becuase of other stupid people.

whitewater rafting is so fun, but next time i go i hope it'll be with a bunch of people i know and around my age. i didnt know anyone on this trip other than my brother, his fiancee and one of his friends.

cliff

ps. the piece i'm working on i had wanted to finish by the end of august before school starts, but i dont think it'll happen. i'm about 60% done, and i've finished off the most detailed portions of the piece. so it depends on if i have the free time to finish everything off before sept. 5. please be patient though.. this new piece should be worth the wait! ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/3034935/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/3034935/ Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:45:36 PDT
so i did some room cleaning a few days ago and i dug up a whole bunch of old sketches. most of them are from 2001 and 2002, i think. i used to doodle a lot and draw fashion sketches. i sometimes still do.

there are 11 new additions to the scraps gallery; i hope you take the time to look at them and i hope you enjoy them

cliff

ps. there are no new developments on the upcoming painting. it's stuck at 1/3 done.

edit 1: i took the 11 new pieces from the formal gallery and placed them into scraps.
edit 2: i worked on the upcoming piece for about two and a half hours today. coming along nicely. ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/2986976/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/2986976/ Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:01:21 PDT

i got back from montreal two nights ago. i was there from friday to monday. it was alright; montreal isn't my favourite city.

i went for the first time to mont tremblant, but i didn't really do much there.. it's cool that it's like a mini-disneyworld. the weather was absolutely gorgeous though!

i got a chance to visit old montreal (downtown) as well as do some shopping on st. catherine. i didn't buy anything on st. catherine, but i did buy a tie and a belt from another mall. i'd like to think that by adding the two prices together and dividing them by two i get a reasonable price for each: the tie was (gulp) 140$, but the belt was 10$. so... yeah. i loved the tie way too much to pass it up, and the belt was just damn snazzy, and at 10$ it was a steal.

i went to montreal by Via rail. i had 1200$ worth of via rail coupons i won from the canada day poster challenge (you can see the winning poster in my gallery--it's the one with all the bright colours!), and for this montreal trip for 3 (my parents and i--my brother and his fiancée came by car) cost a little less than 600$...but thats only for the transportation. we had to pay for hotel and everything else. oh well.. i sure as hell wouldn't just throw away 1200$.

for the remaining 600$ i might be going to new york for a weekend with a parent or both (seeing how costs add up) to see Phantom of the Opera and maybe Rent as well.

i haven't worked on the new piece of art since i last posted a journal saying i was 22 hours in.. but i plan on starting soon, maybe today.

i hope everyone is enjoying their summer

cheers,
cliff ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/2925663/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/2925663/ Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:22:24 PDT
my aim is to finish it off by the end of this month. but realistically i think it'll be done around the beginning of august.

hope everyone is having a good and sunny summer

cliff ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/2868940/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/2868940/ Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:58:15 PDT
i started a new piece of art last night, and have been working on it all day today. i've spent about 8 hours on it so far and i've finished a little less than a quarter. it should be finished fairly soon; i'll get a photo of the finished piece as soon as i can. i'm thinking this piece will take about 40 hours, maybe a bit more... that's more or less on track with my other works.

hopefully i come up with a idea for another piece before i finished this one so i can start on the next one right away.

cheers,
cliff ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/2858257/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/2858257/ Sun, 11 Jul 2004 18:20:52 PDT
cliff ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/2848212/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/2848212/ Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:44:36 PDT
the show is completely worth it. ross does the entire 9 hours' worth of "lord of the rings" movies in 60 minutes. his characters were for the most part very spot-on, especially his gollum and samwise. laughed my ass off.

i'm not a huge lord of the rings fan (i've only seen the movies, and haven't read the books), so some parts were a little tougher to follow (he recreates scenes from the movies). either way, it was a great show and he adds a lot of his own smartass humour.

his website is [link] (he did a one-man star wars two years ago at the fringe) and he is having shows throughout canada at fringe fests. check his show schedule to see if he's playing anywhere near you.

cliff ]]> ~mmmdonuts http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/2828111/ http://mmmdonuts.deviantart.com/journal/2828111/ Wed, 07 Jul 2004 19:15:18 PDT
i have graduated high school and i'm off to sheridan college in oakville in the fall for their bachelor in animation. should be a fun ride.

since i hear that that program is insane in terms of workload, i am taking some time this summer to do a bit of art. hopefully i'll get 2 or 3 pieces done by the end of the holiday.

thank you to all for the comments and favourite-addings i really, really appreciate them.

cliff ]]> ~mmmdonuts