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Half way through my fine art, thought it had to all be in today. ...

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There's another week before it has to be handed in!

A couple of people had done nothing for Fine Art, and I'm the only one to have started on my final piece. Damn.. someone must really like me.

Minor Classes

3D was meant to have been handed in yesterday, but the tutor is kind enough to allow us to hand the work in tomorrow. Handy, I need to get a copy of pictures from a friend (my camera had no battery). Before you say that I'm being a lazy cheap fucker she offered to take the pics for me, she needed the pics herself, and so did this other guy. The only thing she's doing for me is printing off a copy for me, when I get those pictures I'm just going to stay in college until I've finished doing the work for 3D. Hand it in, and then that's less stress.

Photography is this Friday and I feel worried about it, I am yet to do my studies on early photograms and we have to do an evaluation.. I can't evaluate to save my life. After this journal is up I am going to finally start my research into these people, and then spend my lesson writing up the evaluation with help.

I do have one class down though, and that is print! My print tutor however is not pleased that I 'decorated' the silkscreen wash though. The wash in my college is this foul looking bath which reminded me of something you'd expect to find in a serial killer's bathroom, so I covered my hand in red ink and made a smeared handprint on the tiles next to the bath. Ended up in a very scary conversation about acid baths and ways of killing people, disposing of the body, and not getting caught.. I think she was implying something.

Smile Sucker Smile

Progress on this comic has kept me sane, whether it be the art or the writing. It's easy to do as it's my self-imposed therapy, so the protaganist is myself. If that sounds egotistical go read a Dante book, his stories feature himself as the main character. I've heard that the one where he visits the different levels of Hell is meant to be good.. sorry I'm going off on a tangent.

Now, I have to admit that I was inspired by two things, a college friend for making me want to get to work on something that is 100% mine, and At The Heart of it All [link] by Immelmann. Pity that the webcomic's ending, one more entry and it'll take the artist a while (animation).

The storyline is one of those things that's coming together as it is effectively going to be covering my college year. Anyone who's been in counselling will know how useless it is.. That's where my 'therapist' Mushi comes in, she's the mean person who'll tell me like it is. So to take an example from the storyline I complain to her about my workload.. Firstly I get hit in the face, secondly she tells me that my energy would be better used for doing the work instead of complaining about it. I called my comic "Smile sucker smile" for a reason, it's my therapy for a reason, to get me to get on with my life regardless of the shit it throws at you. A line I hope to give Mushi, an emaciated self-harming smoker, couldn't sum it up much better:

"I'm your wake-up call"