I love the Stephen Colbert AND Maurice Sendak! That interview is so wonderful, Mr. Sendak will be greatly missed. Growing up reading his books and watching Little Bear (He illustrated the books and drew for the show as well) it wasn't until I saw that interview in January with Colbert I found out of clever and hilarious he is. Colbert is wonderful as well. Last New York Comic Con I went to I bought a little cartoon version of Colbert and it is on my wall as I am typing this. The artist Kevin Bolk drew it (Great fan artist! Check him out, very funny!).

Today as far as working goes, I decided to start a comic for the girl with bull on her head ( I should probably give her a proper name soon.) If you haven't read my past post she looks kinda like this:

I was trying to work on her anatomy today but the books I was using was only muscular males so that wasn't working out too well.

Heaven Help Us

I forgot to blog yesterday but yesterday I was working on anatomy by working on this commission. Trying to finish it up soon. I hope she will like it. Maybe I'll post it when I'm done.

Today was more of brainstorming of what my side salad should be. I think I will stick to the comic book idea but I'm still coming up with ideas. So I sketched some out. 

The boy and the girl- A comic about two friends that decide to join some 'rebellion' (but they both kinda suck at shooting ray guns and stuff)

The girl with the bull skull on her head- Talented with a gun the girl gets kicked out of the town she lived when she was younger because she was accused of a murder in the town. Few years later she returns to the town to defend it against evil forces.

Cartoon dead girl- that is some doodle I draw a lot on the side of my papers at school. Kinda like the guy with the pigeon that we heard in class. She doesn't have much of a story she just kinda stands there and says something morbid or sadistic. She is also scarily happy that she is dead.

Thor- John told me to draw Thor. So I did.

Blindfolded girl- A couple years ago I made a comic based on the zodiac because I find that very interesting ( I still find it very interesting. I guess that isn't cool though because of all the enneagram stuff) The girl I drew is the Libra, my sign. She is blindfolded because the scales are a symbol in justice, and justice is blind so.... I was thinking of redesign all the characters I made in the past and come up with a whole new story or something.

Girl at bottom- I don't have any story for her. I was thinking of maybe drawing serious things with funny captions or something. Like a person looking very serious but saying "I fucking hate peas."

Just some ideas. Still in the decision process. Need to figure this out soon.

Destruction is a from of creation.

Today I worked on anatomy again. I want to learn anatomy, so  I can improve my drawing. But to make this art, to put what I am learning and using it, that is what I haven't come up with yet. One idea coulde be incorporating comics into this somehow but I am still working this out. For my main project I am getting a little worried, not because we don't have ideas set and stuff, but we haven't started filming anything yet. I am afraid of time. We still have to decide were we are filming this, I don't know if it will be at my house or Danny's or where in my house or Danny's. Hopefully we can resolve this issue soon and get filming! First we half to film the 'flashback' scenes. To make this work I think we have to make sure that those scenes work before we go to the present. Because as a corpse I might have to get a bit of fake blood on me and possibly what I am wearing, we are doing those after, so I can maintain clean attire when I need it.

Over the weekend I made Caitlin watch Donnie Darko (that is my favorite movie), and we got an idea for a shot, so I guess that counts as some research. We might try to steal the shot where Donnie is outside talking to Frank for the first time and has a somewhat dark look on his face and then smirks a little. If not we might steal something from this movie.

I just want to impress you!

So after hearing the parent relationship relating to the enneagram from Jei, I looked mine up out of curiosity.
I am a type 3 (wing 4) and for 3s it basically said the child will try to get great achievements in order to impress and, feel worthy to their parents. OH BOY I can relate to that. Although my parents aren't the type that is okay with C's and D's, my parents won't go insane on me as long as I try. However I still don't want to be a let down, I don't want them to be ashamed of me. Whenever I don't do as well as I hope I would I immediately think 'Mom is going to be so upset' or 'Mom will be so mad' when my mom won't yell at me for grades but instead I get a little sigh, that kills me. This idea of thinking makes me want to achieve everything and if I don't sometimes I feel like it is the end of the world. This could explain why my teachers accuse me of being a perfectionist all the time. I got the nickname 'worry wart Sarah' in chem a couple days ago (but it hasn't come up again so it is probably a one time thing). Sometimes I get called a nervous Nelly too.

Ever Wonder What Vegetables Think About?

Title is a quote by Seance from The Umbrella Academy (one of my influences)
I drew The Seance and The Rumor from The Umbrella Academy today.

Both Seance and the Rumor are my favorite characters from TUA.

Another artist I am influenced is Emily Hu. I really love her style, she is so good! She blogs her artwork, I have talked to her on a few occasions (once in person, a couple other times over the internet). Here is some of her artwork that I love:

As far as issues go I do a lot of things related to death and supernatural beings. I also draw eyes a lot. I find serial killers very interesting and I also get interested in mental disorders. That might explain why I am reading The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at the moment.

Oh! If any of you were confused why I was putting pictures of Shia LeBeouf everywhere today, it is because this wonderful song about Shia LeBeouf being a cannibal. http://soundcloud.com/rob-cantor/shia-labeouf one of those things I wish I came up with.

Loved.

I am writing this because I am having an anxiety attack over nonsense. I understand the stupidity of this, my body does not and it is causing me to have breathing trouble and getting me all shaky (because of my anxiety disorder I have tendencies to get overly anxious over small things). THIS IS AFFECTING MY HEALTH. I think this whole meme bullshit has stopped being funny and now it is annoying and making US look immature. They look like monsters too but we are becoming as bad. Can we be the bigger person and leave them alone? I understand why you would want to fight back, trust me I get it. The feeling of over a 100 people (over 100 people liked those photos by the way) not liking you because you are in a class you love is a pretty crumby feeling. People I have never met in my entire life!
I know they were not directing it at any students but that's how it read to me. Probably inaccurate to a degree but the thought is still there. All those memes were kind of those jokes were we can all laugh together, but these were targeting a class. Now that people are getting into trouble for the memes it is causing even more anger towards STAC so this meme is a little messy, and I think it might be better to avoid it. That is just my opinion. I don't hate anybody for standing up for us at all. I just think we need to stray away from it now.

Cold and Still. Spine in a Twist.

I think we have worked out everything we can at this point in time. We fixed and thought out details and possible shots and I feel we are in a good place. Not necessarily comfortable, not because I think it is bad but I am afraid because it is new. I don't think I have had this much control on something I don't do too often. I am afraid of this little brain-child of ours yet I am excited to see it at the same time. Still thinking about that side salad. I feel I should paint yet I want to work on anatomy by sketching not so much painting the body.

 I have also re-read one of my influences and favorite comic book 'The Umbrella Academy' written by Gerard Way and drawn by Gabriel Ba. That book always makes me want to draw comics. Maybe it is the story I like or maybe it is the art I like that makes me feel like this. Most likely both. I also love Gerard Way's drawings.

Gabriel Ba's artwork for The Umbrella Academy.

The White Violin form TUA (Gabriel Ba's work).

Some Gerard Way's artwork.

More of Gerard Way's art taken on my horrible webcam. This is his concept art for The Umbrella Academy.

 Is anybody picking up on my blog title trends?

The Cigarette Duet.

Found this song wandering the internet because I broke my ipod (as my ipod broke so did my heart). Found this song. They are from New Zealand. I have been listening to a bit of music coming from that part of the world recently (Gotye is from Australia and Kimbra is from New Zealand). Not on purpose it just so happens they make music I like. I like the song because it is a conversation. I am not quite sure why I am posting about this. I think I am posting it because I am procrastinating studying for a chemistry test.

I found her body there.

Today we worked on similar things we did as yesterday. We have our story down but still are figuring out how we are going to execute it. I think we are starting to get a good sense of it so I am somewhat afraid to spend too much time on it because it may cause us wasting time on things we know. Hopefully we can get started as soon as we can given everything is ready. Thinking about my side salad. I know it will be art but what will I work on? I think I want to practice anatomy so I might try to do that. Not 100% sure yet though.

In the Darkest Corner of the House.

So if any of you wanted to know what I am up to, I am making a music video with Caitlin and Danny. Caitlin and I both love this band called The Brobecks so the music choice was done very quickly. We had a general idea for the video so today we were mainly working out the ideas technically thinking of how we can get it done. 

As far as looking up my inspirations, I know quite a bit about them already since I get obsessive in the sense that if I like them I will look up everything about them. Maybe I need more influences to look up. Most of my influences are musicians and comic book artists (some are both musicians AND comic book artists). 

If anybody was wondering what I am doing, I am working with Caitlin and Danny on a music video. Caitlin and I share a love for a band called The Brobecks so the song choice came very quick.