Today was a good day

Yup, you read the title correctly. Today was one of those days where everything just happened to run smoothly with some additional randomness thrown in to make it pretty great overall.

Drawing I class was nothing special, nearly fell asleep because I was so tired, but I was able to get a classmates info so we could carpool for our fieldtrip on Wednesday, which was great because I was fresh out of options at that point (I had planned to go to the Getty Villa, the museum we have to go to, over Spring Break and just do the field trip assignment early...needless to say it didn't happen).

After class I met up with Tess, my old friend from High School, for lunch. We chatted, hung out with her dad (who is a professor at the school) and just laughed at random internet stuff. After that I hung out with Michaia, my friend from my days at the Roundup (Pierce College's student-run newspaper), and we caught up since the last time I truly hung out with her was when I was at Disney. Randomly ran into more friends from high school in the new cafe on campus, which was actually quite nice, and kept running into Oscar, my oldest friend (we've known each other since we were 7).

But, even though all of that was cool, the highlight of my day was going back to visit my Roundup peeps. Most of the people there I didn't know, but apparently a lot of them knew of me, and my old advisors even told me some of them were fans of mine! So I was like....watttt. They welcomed me in the newsroom warmly (which they usually don't allow, even for former students) and my friend Carlos, the sports editor, was all like "Here is the legendary Austin Faber" which was followed by applause from everyone in the newsroom, and it was honestly the most flattering thing ever, though I felt like I didn't deserve so much praise.

For context, I was the creator of "Jay 'n Rodney", which was a weekly strip in the paper. According to my classmates, it grew very popular and students would pick up the paper just for that in most cases. So it was very successful, in its own right. I was also the one who stood up to our very short-tempered, ex-marine Editor-in-Chief during my first semester with the paper, an event which escalated quickly and resulted in his arrest, and I guess I gained notoriety for that too. I was also honored at the Media Arts banquet at the end of the semester last year before I went to Disney.............now that I look back, I did a lot of stuff. Lol.

It all sounds great on paper...but it's mostly just meh. But yeah, having my little "star moment" was kinda nice. And I told them I got into the Calarts Summer Session, which they were happy about. Also got to see Maria again, the cartoonist who started even before me, and Sean, one of the "I-won't-take-your-bullshit" professors, but he and I always got along, and he's the reason I was even able to finish that damn 40 page comic book finale I made for Jay 'n Rodney, considering I only had like 3 weeks to make it....including coloring. Sigh...never again.

Anywho, so that was my day. Came home, ate, drew, derped, drew some more, watched part of the Lunar Eclipse, and now I'm going to fall asleep while watching Legend of Korra.

Aw crap.....I need to post pics of my drawings too I made a ton of sketches today.....oh well.

Laterz. :)

Random Vacation

Howdy howdy. So I don't think I said anything about it last time, but I'm in Florida now! Well, just visiting my grandma, I'm leaving in like an hour for the airport. I spent the last 3 or 4 days here primarily to go to my aunt and uncle's 50th wedding anniversary. I would've posted pictures but I wasn't really feeling up to it. I was exhausted and I was around a bunch of family who I've never seen before, most were of course quite old, but it was nice all the same. It's kinda fun seeing family since they're all from the Caribbean on my dad's side.

Anywho besides that, I've still been drawing every day, started a new sketchbook too. In my Life Drawing class last week, we actually had to make a portfolio filled with all of our homework and our best classwork assignments, then we had to publicly critique everyone individually (which was kinda scary). But I was really surprised that I got such positive feedback! My teacher and my classmates all gave me really nice feedback, which was pleasant because some students were not afraid to be honest, so some feedback for others was.....harsh, but for mine it was very positive. They told me what worked and what didn't and the advanced students really flattered me, saying my work was very confident for someone in the beginner's class. I dunno, it was just nice.

In Drawing I we started shading. I screwed up because I didn't have a graphite stick, but my teacher said she liked it either way. I'm also able to "sight" better now and get accurate perspective without the aid of tools anymore.....and I use "better" loosely, because I was reallyyyy bad at it before. And of course my shading was shooty-ish because I missed that lesson. But I'll practice over Spring Break, which, for me, officially started today!

My parents basically told me that I can go to Calarts, but I need to fill out my fafsa and see if I can't get some aid. The summer program is $6000 after all...geez. But I can't wait 'till I go!

Anyway, photo dump time:

Some of my grandma's house

That's her in the back. She's awesome and Jamacian. Her house also smells amazing all the time for some reason. (Those flowers aren't real so it's not them haha)

From my new sketchbook. And old character of mine, "Button".

Ginyu force. I fudged it up. But I like how Recoome turned out. He's my favorite. Idk why.

Faces from imagination

Life Drawings

More life drawings.

Super blurry, sorry.

Actually...wtf, I didn't realize how poorly cropped these pictures are.

This is why I'm not a photographer.

Geez.

People in class.

People on plane.

So yeah, that's what I've been up to. I'd re-take the pictures but I have to get ready to leave like.......now. haha. Also most of these pages are unfinished. But oh well, I'll take clearer ones next time.

Laterz