I've been kinda bored and I remembered seeing an artist that made gorgeous ambigrams on the eatpoo art forums long ago. At the time it looked insanely difficult but when you're bored you'll try anything. So I've been trying my hand at it and even though my first attempts were crude I think I'm starting to get it! Typography is INSANE, it's like I'm thinking with a totally different side of my brain. I just picked some names/things to victimize for my purposes. The weirdest part to me is how a style seemed to emerge on its own for each individual name.

So all these images read the same if rotated 180°.

( Ambigrams [9] )

Breckin and I put up our Christmas tree this evening <3



Gotta get festive! This will be the first year Breckin and I actually spend Christmas together. I put on some carols (first Christmas music of the year!) to get me in the seasonal spirit. Who knows, maybe we'll get lucky and it will actually snow again this year. This time of year always makes me feel so grateful for things in my life, and happy, and sentimental.

For Thanksgiving I stayed in CS and went to the football game, Texas A&M (whoop!) vs. t.u. (hiss). It was so much fun!! We tailgated before, so I got to play some fun games, meet some cool people, and even have a delicious Thanksgiving meal prepared by the parents! :D All in all it was an epic good time. I got yet another sore throat from all the yelling we did, but fortunately no sickness this time, haha. Ags lost but we put up one heck of a fight. This was the 10th anniversary game of the collapse of Bonfire, too, so it was a special game.

( Pics of the tailgate & game )

Then on Saturday rapierdf and I went to Megabuzz, a huge rave event in Austin. 12 hours, a ton of DJ's. Above & Beyond was the headliner. We had an EPIC time; it was totally exhausting but so so fun.

( Pics of the rave )

Omfgggg well, I thought I was completely over my cold and I even went to work on Friday. Then rapierdf and I went to Midnight Yell and yesterday's football game (Aggies dominated, whoop!) in the COLD POURING RAIN where I spent the entire time standing and yelling. I would say it was a lapse in judgement, but in reality I'm just redass like that. I love my school.

Anyway I got probably two hours of attempted sleep last night, most of which was interrupted by me tossing and turning and getting up to go blow my nose and consider throwing up and/or suicide...jk on that last one...mannn though I would have liked some sleep.

Instead why don't you check out this cute Merypuma plushie I made!

( Stuffed animal under the cut! )

Oops! Got a sore throat late yesterday and it looks like I'm getting sick. :x Bleh. Didn't make it to work today. But that's good, cos I drew instead RIGHT?

( artpost [4] )

Oh and in other good news, I finally got paid for that freelance gig (after 3 rounds of revisions). \o/ Hats off to anyone that does that for a living, it made me want to kill myself.

That's it for now!

BEHOLD MY ICON!! I just made it hahaha. *flail flail flail* Maybe I should teenycom these.

That is all. (art post with actual content coming soon)

This weekend went by so fast, in spite of the fact that like a million things happened haha.

( Halloween Weekend! Stuff & pics )

Why am I still awake at 4:42?? WELL, it's (partially) because I just finished THIS, my new Merygryph moodset!! Gratuitous exclamation points!!



8D eheheheeheeee

( art/sketchdump [10] )

I had a really cool weekend but will post about it later.

( Thoughts on a funeral )

Sometimes I think to myself, "I wonder if I should have opted for art as a career."

Then, I take freelance jobs and suddenly IT ALL BECOMES CLEAR AGAIN.

Ugh freelance work is so much worse than commissions. Commissioners are often nice and actually have at least some appreciation and respect for artists and how much work they put into their craft. They usually want art that is somewhat fun and interesting, too. Companies looking for freelance work don't even think of it as a skill that deserves to be paid, it seems like. Oh, you want MONEY? You want THAT much money? Hmmm..tut tut, well, guilt guilt bitch moan huff okay fine I -guess- we can pay you in more than just crediting you for the work.

_{Nevermind the fact that they are notoriously bad about not paying, even when you finally get them to agree to a price}

Then there's the revisions. Including but not limited to "Redraw the whole thing for the same negotiated price." :|

I guess it just bothers me that there's such a disregard for it, like it's not something that deserves to be paid. Like it doesn't require the same investment of time and effort that other labor does. Iwillneverdothisforaliving, Iwillneverdothisforaliving

Art is not its own reward unless it's something you want to be drawing! It's work fair and square, just like any other skilled craft. Bah.

This song is awesome and I have to share it with you:

"Turn It Up!" by Brandon McCulloch and the Deadbirds

It's also available from his site.

( quick oc doodle, it's all I got )

Why is it that I'm itching to draw all day at work when I can't, and then when I get home all I want to do is sleep.

Might as well do a quick life update cos not a lot has been going on. Breckin has been super busy with work lately and has been gone to Austin twice in the last couple of weeks, and has a conference in New Orleans this weekend, so we haven't seen much of each other. I got back to working out again yesterday after the whole tooth-pulling ordeal, I think I'm well enough to do so without anything bad happening. rapierdf and I went swimming last night, that was fun. I'm cat-sitting for takkunelwood. I got another adorable Merygryph from eonii. Going to see DJ Tiesto in San Antonio next week.

Today was the first day I've been able to go to work since my dental stuff (I'm at lunch right now). I'm there for one day and I already wish it was the weekend haha.

But it's RAINING! Yaaaay! It's pouring, actually. I wish it rained more often here, but it's kinda funny how when it actually does it dumps the whole sky. My little car doesn't handle very well in standing water though, ugh.

( some art [5] )

I now have

24 teeth

ouch

You know what freaks me out? When someone I knew from elementary/high school adds me on facebook, and they have kids that are the same age as we were when we met. o_o It's not like it's bad that they have kids, it's just...am I really THAT old? Man. Most of the girls from my high school that are on facebook have babies now. It's pretty surreal, anyway.

(For those of you freaking out right now, no, I'm not planning on procreating for several years yet, haha)

The Cowboys LOST yesterday, unable to tie the game like a yard from the end zone. >_> Bawww. I was mucho sad. Romo got sacked something like 5 times? D: I don't like the Colts. Peyton Manning needs to shave off his smarmy mustache, it's not doing him any favors.

Last night I went to a birthday party for my friend Dash, and a good time was had by all. Burgers and cupcakes and rock band, oh my! I met some new fun people too. Many people there were furries...it's good to confirm that furries aren't all freaky weirdos irl? I totally kicked some butt at Rock Band (I can still do "hard" difficulty, which I was pretty proud of). There's nothing like a bunch of nerds rocking out with fake instruments. I took some pictures but nothing really noteworthy enough to post. (although, I did take one really funny one of rapierdf with a plushie on his head.) :p

On Friday darkmyth13 and I went to Halo and saw a drag show. :o

Sooo yep. Furry birthday, football, and a drag show just about sum up my weekend.

And tomorrow...I get to have a tooth pulled. YAAAAY \o/ (sarcasm)

PS Check out this adorable art I got from greatparakeet omg <333


_{Large Version}

I finally uploaded the honeymoon pics! No word on official wedding pics yet. I tried to put in descriptions for everything. This is also missing my favorite pic, which has yet to come in the mail; I'll post it separately when I get it.

Honeymoon Album
guest pw: guestalbum

I was gonna hold off on the art post till I made a proper life update post and got all the pics from Hawaii and the wedding (it went amazing, by the way!! <3) organized, but it's taking me forever and I'm unmotivated and HEY I have a lot of art so let's do that.

These are mostly sketches and things.

( artpost [+12] )

September 12th, 2009, 2:30 PM

I'm Mrs. Breckin Loggins!!! :) :) :)

The wedding was perfect, like a dream~ I'm so happy!!

We're in a towncar bound for Houston and our plane to Hawaii. We'll be gone for 10 days. When I get back pics :) much love and thanks to everyone who gave us their love, support & encouragement <3 now it's time for some r&r! See yall around!

<333

Well, I finished some of my last art obligations for before my wedding/honeymoon. Logos that will be used commercially that I'm not getting paid for! \o/ They were kind of fun though, so whatever. Will post them after they go to print/I get permission to. Note to self, never become a freelance artist for realsies.

( I much prefer drawing for myself! [3] )

I've been drawing again, I guess would be the take home point of the presentation. lol

Obligatory wedding countdown: 2 days, 12 hours, 15 minutes eee I NEED A VACATION

( A bunch of rambling about stuff I've done recently I guess )

tl;dr: I went to corner bar with shelly to watch a coworker's band play, recognized the bartender from previous job, tennis, wedding bla, breckin's getting a root canal today :c, I haven't drawn anything in ages