Geek Girl Con 2013

My friends and I went to Geek Girl Con in Settle a few weeks ago. It was a really small convention but had a really nice, safe, progressive atmosphere.

My roommates dressed up, but I didn't have the motivation to put anything together in a week (this was a last minute decision). Our school was one of the big sponsors this year, so they advertised it on facebook and we figured it'd be a fun way to celebrate the end of midterms (which I did pretty well on, by the way).

There were a lot of panels on racial and gender diversity in video games, comic books, animation, and the overall geek culture.

I got to attend a panel with this lovely lady. She does a youtube series on women's portrayal in video games and helped kickstart a feminist movement within the gaming industry.

She's really nice in person! I was a bit starstruck though; I'm really embarrassed. I got the opportunity to talk to her for a minute or two, but I forgot all the questions I've had for her and only ended up getting a picture and sputtering out an awkward, "thanks." I'm pretty sure she thought the thanks was for the photo, but it was really a, "thanks for being inspirational and putting up with such a negative, abusive community to help change the lives of so many girls in the geek community"

And my roommates kept trying to get me to take pictures with things and people, but I was way too shy for my own good. They'd have to shove me in front of someone if they wanted the picture, whoops.

After, we walked to Pike Place. We got there right as everything was closing, and I'm pretty sure I saw a dead guy along the way? He was laying in a pool of blood and wasn't moving, and some paramedics put a cloth over his face right as we stumbled into them; they hadn't blocked the area off yet.

As we were waiting for our bus though, a guy in a gorilla suit walked up to us and asked if we wanted a photo. Okay. It was really weird. We didn't know how to react, and we kept telling him, "We don't have money to pay you," but he explained he was just dressed up for a sociology experiment.

Turns out he goes to the local college by my school, so he took the same bus back with us and we ended up befriending him

but man, Seattle's weird.

Art Dump 10/28/13

Art Dump 10/18/13

Art stuff from this week

Landscapes

In my art theory class, we had to draw three landscapes from observation. I'm usually at school until ~8 though, so I kept running out of daylight.

I'm going to resubmit them once I get them back, because yeah, I feel like these are something my professor would spit and stomp on in class (he has yet to do that to anyone this year, but the rumors run strong)

In Preparation for Animating

In Animation, we've been prepping for animation. It's been a lot of constructing things from our textbooks.

We're only just starting to go through the steps for animation now. We had to construct two of our own poses from an existing character that we'll eventually animate sometime though.

I have to redo the second pose to show more action, but it's really exciting to know we're that much closer to actually animating!

I got a B on the assignment

I did it

I did it, I cut my hair

I am cute.

It deserved its own post

I know my mom is dreading the day I actually get around to cutting my hair like I always talk about.

(it hasn't happened yet, it's okay.)

Art Dump 10/6/13

I mostly spent today playing around with different brushes on photoshop

Storyboard #1

Here's the first storyboard I did for my film class. 

We kind of had to do our own research on how to do storyboards, so it's really satisfying to know I got a 94% on it. He gave us a vague outline of a story and we all had to interpret it out with our boards.

The only notes he really gave me were that I needed a face shot of the protagonist before she had already been defeated.

And Some More Perspective

We're still learning perspective. 

I failed my first assignment last week; we had to draw 50 cylinders in perspective, and I guess I got a bit too crazy and started drawing non-cylindrical shapes in an attempt to show the 'exploration' my other assignments lacked. 

Of course, we can redo all of our assignments, and I take a failing grade as a opportunity to better myself.

And, this week, we were supposed to research certain household items, print them out, and draw them in two point perspective. After we draw the items individually, we were supposed to construct our own room corner with said objects, still using two vanishing points.

I wish I had the scanned imagine of my room, but I never snagged the file from the school computers.

Anyway, I got a B on the assignment, which in the art program translates into, "you showed you did more than exemplary work for a student," and I don't have to redo it. A's are only for students who can turn in professional-grade projects.

Feels like a nice pick-me up after last week's F.

I may or may not have pulled an all-nighter, but that's just how it goes. The running joke is that "you can see the all-nighter on all the faces of every BFA student during art 101". 

I really hope I can change that for myself soon. 

Other good news of this week:

I got a 90% on my first art history essay

I got a B- on an art theory assignment

I got a 94% on my first storyboarding project

my art 101 teacher didn't dock me 40% when he discovered I've been naming my assignments wrong

I survived the week