Yesterday, went to the bug fair for the very first time (101 Thing #2 COMPLETED SCHWEET!) and wanted to do two things while I was there: Hold a tarantula and a millipede.

I got to hold a tarantula (though a small one) and two hissing cockroaches, but no millipede! I might have to add that to my 101 Things. Handle a millipede. Simply because I think they’re awesome and I’d imagine it would feel quite orgasmic to have all their little legs crawl on my arms.

/creepy

I have just two more pieces to make for my portfolio. Here are some of the most recent ones I’ve finished:

Daft Punk: 100% gradient mesh, done in Illustrator.  I don’t think I ever want to do gradient mesh again.

Wall Cop: Photoshop. Yes, that is Robocop and Wall-E looking ever so…attracted to each other?

Book of Dwight Schrute’s Greatest Quotes: It’s fake, but boy do I wish it was real. Photoshop too.

Now for some worthy plugs, if you haven’t yet, visit AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com.

It’s so great that I made my whole Illustrator class visit the website at the same time, including the professor.

And last, your business card is CRAP:

I have a final art portfolio due around next week and I need about five and a half more pieces to make for it to be complete and graded. Five and a half! That’s quite a lot considering the amount of time that is given, so my plan is to try to complete one each day, and save my Daft Punk one for last (you’ll see why).

I feel like posting some of the work that I’ve been doing for this class, so here goes it:

I made a mock Wired Magazine cover using my self-portrait. Some people thought it was real! (I wish…)

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I started this one yesterday and finished the same day.  The model’s name is Raquel Reed and she kind of reminds me of the 80’s cartoon character Jem, hence the Jem-like illustration below. Ever since I found her Myspace, before she became a professional model, I’ve been using her photos for a lot of my work for the past four years.  She has an overwhelming number of photos that are just incredibly great to work with.

Dear lorday! the FUNNEST one of all (notice the sargasm), the epic yet terribly incomplete Daft Punk.  It took me a grand total of 12 hours to make this one and I’m still, clearly, not even done.  Both of their ears are nothing but absolute bitches and skanks to make.  Regardless, I’m actually quite proud of what has come out so far.  This is all done in gradient mesh, the first time I tried the gradient mesh tool was last week, on a photo of an apple, so to create something like this for my second attempt is enough for me to pat myself on the back…while half of the class stared in awkward silence.

Last year, I went to see comedian Steve Bryne.  After that show, he walked pass me and I kind of froze…shoulda patted him on the back…shoulda talked to him but never did and I’ve always regretted it.

This year, yesterday, to be exact, I skipped portfolio class to check out his new material at the Brea Improv.  Man, he really is hilarious, and most importantly, at the end of the show, I manned up and told him that his new material was awesome, took pictures with him and told him that he was tall (yeah, i don’t know, that’s all I could think of at the given moment).

Also, my monster is complete!

I am probably going to make a layout out of it soon, so watch out for that. I kind of need a new layout anyway because I noticed that I tend to blog more often when the layout is fresh. The older my website layout gets, the less I write. Haha, and I don’t know why.

Update: New layout! Hurrah!

After some careful deliberation and research (not really, lolz) I decided to install Windows 7 Beta to my main computer. Expecting to get weird glitches and bugs, I got absolutely nothing but a nice and smooth running computer.

I really didn’t have any problems with Vista, so I can’t really that 7 is a lot better, but I do notice that 7 is hands down waay more compact and clean. Everything seems to be loading faster than usual. And it’s very perdy-lookin’. Oh and surprisingly, all of the programs I have installed so far on Windows 7 is actually working properly (my PC games, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc).

Oy, I love the Windows that is the 7.

Here’s a small screen shot of it (the dock at least), and that’s an assignment I’m working on for my Intro to Illustrator class. If the assignment turns out well, then I’ll make a layout out of it for this site.

Details! Details!:

And did I ever mention that I LOVE my Illustrator class more than my Portfolio class?

My instructor is fucking amazing. If I were a dude, or a lesbian, I’d date her in a heartbeat. She’s really perky and hilarious and she always puts on “Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals” before doing work. One time, when she was playing techno music, she told one of her students to flicker the lights on and off so she can do the robot. Gawd, who does that!? Only her, man, only her.

As for Vietnamese class, my old partner (the colorblind one) has been absent lately, and I was stuck with the white man who sits next to me in class. He still tries to flirt with me here and there and gives me really uncomfortable, creepy looks as if he was trying to undress me with his eyes or something*shudders* but he actually makes a better study partner than my colorblind friend (she’s sort of a ditz).

He’s conversational in Vietnamese, so we’re always speaking in Vietnamese to each other, and ONLY in Vietnamese. And he’s white! Ha! Ain’t it cool or what?