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My portfolio is submitted! I'm so excited and relieved!!

Tomorrow is Fine Arts Festival, and my art is featured on a table in the freaking middle of the room, right between the school's featured artist and my personal favorite artist in the school! Ahhh!!!

Also, I'm 5 pages into chapter 45 of Change of Heart. :) I should be able to put it up this Sunday, or early next week.

NOT TOMORROW, BECAUSE TOMORROW I'M GOING TO TAYLOR SWIFT CONCERT!!!!!!
<3!


also, I need to write out my feelings about my boyfriend. I hadn't seen him for about a week, and I was really eager to spend a date with him, because I was starting to feel that pull away from the person you like when you haven't spent a lot of time with them. But watching sherlock holmes with him, even sleeping on his shoulder (I have a tendency to fall asleep during action movies lately. It's terribly unfortunate, as I'm usually very interested in them. I think I'm just sleep depreived!), didn't seem to reverse the week without him at all. Going to dinner with him and my parents was more beneficial for us than being alone and cuddly, I think.
I have no idea what to make of this. It's nothing like any of my friends who are more experienced in dating than I, and it just worries me.

I know we're not going to last forever, and I definately don't want to go to college with him as my boyfriend, but...I don't want to feel like this. I don't want to feel like I'd rather be single than dating Josh. I don't want to prefer to watch movies and cuddle with my girl friends than with my boyfriend. I don't want to worry about my first kiss solely out of anything but excitement. I don't want to have amazing conversations with him that should prove to me how great we mesh, and find myself thinking how well he'd mesh with other girls.

That's not how this is supposed to go.

And yet, I really don't want to break up with him anytime soon. I like having a boyfriend to think about and talk to and flirt with. I can't say I'm "falling out of love", because I never really fell in love. I liked him SO MUCH this year. After december, when I started liking him again, it wasn't nearly as desperate of emotion. When we started dating, when I finally found myself comfortable with the idea of kissing him, it was still stronger than now. I don't know if I should be trying to fix that, or just accept it as ending earlier than I expected.
ugggggh

I am not dead, actually.

My AP Portfolio is due tuesday, and Les Miserables, this year's overly intensive musical, ends Sunday.

After these dates I will again have time to enjoy myself, write blog entries, and write Change of Heart.

Until then, I am little more than a singing-painting-acting-drawing-robot with "needy" friends and boyfriend.
 

ugh

I haven't done a legit art project on photoshop for so long I have no clue how to do dimensions. I figured "BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY" and am currently working with a file 20 inches by 20 inches, 700 ppi.

Seeing as it takes me practically 3 minutes of loading to accomplish simple tasks like erasing, distorting, and resizing; I am pretty sure this size is too big.

I don't remember what my teacher usually has me working in, but I know bigger is (generally) better, and the images seem perfectly happy to be in such a big size. I haven't had to deal with any pixelation just yet, all my effects (even though I've only done like 3, since it's so dang slow) seem to be looking good.

So basically, I'm wondering what size would be best to compromise this lovely sucess, get a good looking image when I'm done (not sure the size he'll want to print it, though I'll probably just print it on 7 1/2"x 11" for the first day of school), and at the same time have a speed that is actually workable.

Any help? Or is Hagrid just a SUPER LAME computer and my issue lies there?

so today (pretty much RIGHT NOW) is Fine Arts Festival, where allllll the schools in my school district get together and wallpaper the walls with art from the kiddies and there's music groups preforming all over the place all the time. I've got some pieces in, which is always exciting, and I'm singing in one choir, which will be fine.

BUT OMG.

For the past few years, the Computer Graphics teachers have a kid on the wacom in the gym, drawing with their work projected on a screen because graphic art is ~so cool~. I don't have Computer Graphics this semester because I only ever do it first semester, but YESTERDAY my teacher was like "hay you wanna do that? Any time, just come by, I'll set you up!"

Which is AWESOME but holy crap! I don't know what to do!!!
I would assume he wants me to do something similar to what he's seen in class, but Ican't think up one of those off the top of my head!

Last year the chick just drew some anime stuff and colored it and all. But the only thing I can do off the top of my head is cartoons and unrealistic people! I don't want to do that!!

ARRRRRGH

and the worst thing is, you guys are the ones who would have ~The Best Ideas~ to solve this. But I have to leave in like two seconds so I probably won't read them. Maybe I'll snag someone's iPhone and see if I stay as crazy as I am because I CANT FIGURE IT OUT.

also my shoe (which I got to replace my boot) is hideous and I'm ridiculously embarrased to wear the ugliest shoe I've ever seen with a heel, but it's kinda my only choice.

edit: never mind. :) My teacher saw me when we went to look at art (I was gonna do this between looking at the art and preforming) and he had the animations from other students set up on the big screen. He said that since I was preforming I didn't have to do it, and that it was okay. So even thought I probably ~should have~, I don't think I will. Unless I get sudden inspiration up on the choir stands and want to rush over and get started RIGHT AWAY

MY DREAM IS COMING TRUE.

I'M NOT EVEN KIDDING.
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seriously though....
I'M IN AP PORTFOLIO. :) LIKE THE BIG KIDS.

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My mom got me new nail polish. :) It's just white and pale-pink-clear, but I LOVE IT. It goes on amazingly, is completely consistant in texture, smooth and ridiculously controllable, and hasn't chipped ONCE. It's only been 24 hours, sure, but that's a record for my nails. Ahh! <3



Also, we went to Caribou Coffee today. The art teachers at the school chose 16 pieces to put up (or Caribou chose 16...I'm not sure exactly what went down) in a laid-back public gallery type of thing and one of mine was there. That was very exciting. :)

I don't love the piece, but I really really don't hate it. And it looks good in a coffee shop, with people sitting around it. Pretty cool stuff.

Yesterday we picked our courses for the next year.
Besides all my basic classes (like English and French and blah blah blah) I picked Drawing II & III, Painting I & II, Computer Graphics Independant Study, and Webpage Design.

If I had more room (because heaven knows that's all I need) and more time to get these artsy prereqs done, I'd be in more interesting art classes like MORE independant studies...or AP Art Portfolio (<3).

In my dream, I got my course schedule and it had "NOTE: Your schedule has been changed to suit the desires of your teachers" on the top. My classes had all changed to "Life-drawing Block" which apparently doesn't mean life-drawing classes...but....actually i don't know why it said that. XD

I was in Animation Courses (!!) which our school doesn't even offer, and apparently I was the only one in the class. I was also in my star-crossed AP Art Portfolio, two figure drawing classes, and so many other delicious classes I couldn't even remember them all. :)

Then I woke up.
(But, y'know, my classes next year are pretty good and very amazingly artsy. Just not THAT awesome.)

Well....today is the LAST of the 12 Days of Christmas. *sniffle sniffle*

I dont' think it'll be that weird...maybe if I did 30 days of Christms or something, but since the majority of these were done over break, I just feel like now I have less time and will be doing less art.
Which is true.
And therefore, lame.

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Merry Christmas, everybody! :)
I believe I hit everyone I wanted (except Senom, who doesn't have any characters that I know of) who makes my day on LJ...because sadly enough, my flist (and my own journal) is one of the highlight of my internet day.

Today's 12 Days of Christmas goes to the lovelycatbrooks !

 

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Edit: That cut didn't work first time. :| Sorry if anyone saw that and GIANT IMAGE OF SMOKING CAT scared you.
 

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ALSO

For Christmas I got money for Amazon.com and I bought Superman I and II AND RETURN TO PRIDEROCK (Simba's Pride soundtrack, cause you gotta admit; the music is more fun than it is in TLK. I know, blasphemy.).
AHHH IT ARRIVED TODAY.

aaaah'm so happy. :) It's absolutely amazing. Especially since it was $3. It is AWESOME NO JOKE I HAD ONE SONG ON IT. Which is "Lion Sleeps Tonight" and totally doesn't count because even this one is better than the one I had.

ahhhh yay. C:

This one had the unfortunate ease at becoming very, very boring of a picture, so I tried to make it interesting.
Unfortunately for the subject...this was the best I could do.

Hahaha...hope you like it anyway, as today's 12 Days of Christmas goes to kobb_cheetah!
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