Ah, To Be Unemployed Again

   A new year and another job lost; I don't think I'm a very good employee. As a former employer once said, when he wrote me up for insubordination, I have a "lone-ranger attitude" who "...cannot abide by anyone's rules but my own despite his superiors warning him otherwise."



   That sounds pretty cool to me.

   However, I actually left this, now last, job on my will because I was offered a job across the country doing pretty much nothing. Sounds like the dream, right? Well, that didn't work out. My potential employer kept pushing that I had got the job until she said she had to run it by her partner at the last minute. That's when they said no.

   Now I'm left jobless and slightly humiliated as I can't go back and ask for my old job back (not like I wanted it back) and I can't go and tell people what happened to my hopeful adventure in that I've built it up too much already. I've got a month's worth of money to last me but I know that'll dry up before a month...




...On the bright side, I have all this time to complete old things and do some new things! Here's some of those things and a glimpse of a few things I need to finish up!

    It's not pictured but I've got a chassis for a scale Super Star Destroyer that needs attending to, so pics will come up soon. Oh, and two more personal projects will follow suit (nothing referencing pop-culture, but actually artsy-fartsy pieces) that I hope to sell. I actually hope to sell most things I'm going to make. At this point, I don't have much to hope for but that's something.

   Hmm

The Wall and Just a Reason to Post Something New

Ever since I started that last project, I've been listening to this album (at least) 3 times a week, if not more.

I don't know if it's something I'm just feeling lately, or that I'm just getting older, but I get this album more and more. Maybe not as pessimistic or disillusioned as Pink in the album but damn near close.


I've not given up on that last thing, either. It didn't go the way I wanted but I'm not through with it yet.

2 Week Crunch

Not quite what I had in mind but, godammit, close enough. This mindset is getting me there.

Pooped this out in about an hour, hour and a half of playing around. I envy those of you who can paint; I suck so much at it. I understand color theory, but putting it to practice is a whole different animal.

Don't even try and get me started on lighting/shading/shadowing.

I usually draw and do stuff with at least one thing running in the background for noise, and despite me not caring for techno/house/electronica and things of that ilk, I had these two things on loop the whole time. Most times, I find music like that repetitive and obnoxious but it didn't bother me once having these two songs (and a few others of his) repeating.

I don't know if I'm actually growing fond of this stuff or I'm just impressed by the level of quality being churned out today by random strangers with a passion.

The guy who made these tracks just turned 18 years old, and for the past couple of years, has been playing gigs people twice his age and experience can only dream of. Check it out (or not):

Jesus Marimba!

This thing is godamn gorgeous.

Well, Godammit.

 Swatches (based on older design with colors as the last one listed below)
These came out heavily saturated in colors.

 Original compared to Hot Toys

 Pattern I made for printing (revised pattern with adjusted colors acceptable to print)

...There goes 11 bucks down the tube.

Here's something that should look familiar

...To the select few anyway.

(Still not yet completed)

Not Completely Dead, Part II

Two shots: One I got done and another I'm working on currently. There is a third one, but it's nothing fancy.