Moving In

My new apartment is super nice. I mentioned in the last post how my summer apartment was REALLY FAR AWAY from EVERYTHING, but my new apartment is absolutely ideal. It's across the street from the grocery store I use and a whole strip mall of good eats (froyo, pho, bubble tea, an asian bakery, gyros, sandwiches, cheap conveyor belt sushi, pizza, and etc), it's on the same street as the library and my bank, and it's just down the street from downtown.

More importantly, I guess, it's the second closest apartment complex to my school, so I can walk there in about 20 minutes.

I'm hoping this will my be 'forever apartment' while I finish up school, because finding housing here is hard enough as is; it took my roommates and I a good five months to even get this place because every other apartments would be taken within moments of being put back up for rent. 

BUT HEY, this is my first real apartment! No more school housing or temporary summer squats. 

Moving Out!

I finally moved out of my summer apartment and hopefully into my permanent apartment for the next few years. 

My summer apartment was alright, but it was far away from everything. It was about a 30-40 minute walk to downtown and an hour and a half walk to school (uphill both ways haha). The only plus side was that the first things you got to during that 30-40 minute walk was the one main fast food pocket in my city.

I had really rad upperclassmen roommates though who gave me a lot of advice in the time I stayed with them, so it'll be sad to leave them, but besides that, it'll be nice to finally have a place to call my own. They had lived in that same apartment for a few years, so I never really felt like I had a place there; everything already had a place, so I honestly never really unpacked.

My roommates also gave me a bed frame and mattress, a desk, and a nice, leather desk chair, so that's a huge plus.

Illustration Dump 8/1/14

This is the final REAL art dump from the past few months. 

some artist dude I dated for like a month

a twenty minute warm-up 

People on My Mind

Along the lines of trying to practice diversity, I've been trying to get away from "same face syndrome" where if you take away the hair of all the people you draw, you'll get the same person. It's a nasty habit to have as an artist.

I do things called "People on My Mind" about once a week where I draw the first couple of people who come to mind as I'm drawing. I feel weird sharing them in case anyone recognizes who I'm drawing, but they really are just 'people who pop into mind' as I'm drawing.

Some of my friends have fun guessing who's who, at least.

ft. some boy I used to know, a boy from a party, a pretty cool tall guy, and a girl everyone talks about 

ft. a guy who doesn't fit in, a friend I miss, another friend I miss, some boy I used to know, and an ex of an ex