My Summer Spent

Today was the first day of my second semester at CalArts. I can hear the crowd in my head applauding, as it still feels just as awesome to be here as it was the first time I was here after being accepted. I met some of the new first years, whom all have a slight look of utter fear in their eyes, but the sense of excitement brewing in their bowls (i can smell it).

It started with the reuniting of an acquaintance of mine. A pretty lady whom I have fallen head over heals with over the course of a few weeks, leading up to a summer of soft kisses, long nights, gentle touches and sweet nothings. I then spent the summer working downtown as a teacher for the CAP Program. On a bus ride home, I came up with the complicated story that will be my 2nd year film. I wrote the story after my job ended I then started storyboarding. I began working for a Drivers permit, which I got on my first try after my job ended. I went on a vacation with my girlfriend to San Diego, and when I came home, I took my driving test and passed. My summer was well spent....

Over the space of this break, I drew a lot. I have a sketchbook full of drawings that i am excited to share with you all. These are the LAST drawings I did over the summer... as i only have one sketchbook with me at the moment. Check check check it oouuutttttt:

Tomorrow, I'll post some more.... once i get to use the scanner at school again, because the ones I have at home can't handle this immense collection of AWESOMENESSSSSS!!!!

Enjoy the show!

The Reign of Jerry Brown

My little brother asked me to draw something for his homework. When it comes to drawing something, my family is very kind to ask me to do it for them (at the price of living expenses and freeloading). So, to my little brothers exact descriptions, I have made this "political cartoon" of "the Reign of Jerry Brown":

Goffy stuff. Enjoy the show. 

Wet Kisses

For those romantics out there, we've all been there. Sometimes, we just use a too much tongue :) And complain, I shall not.

Enjoy the show :-*

Childhood Dreams

I don't think I've told many people this but when I was younger, I wanted to be an Astronaut. At a young age, I was wild about deep space, the final frontier, all those clichés. I was curious about what was beyond earth and how distant worlds environment would be like. I think i'm an explorer at heart...

When I was told that I needed to be a scientist and be good at math to follow my dream, my heart was shattered and I dropped all hope, quietly, of traveling to space. I still have dreams of floating in the void looking at new worlds...

For those of you who don't know, NASA shut down the manned spacecraft program not too long ago, saying that the time of the man in space is over. When I heard this, the sadness I had when I was told I couldn't be an astronaut returned, knowing that the dream was over.

Think Jetsons, who thought that by our time, we'd be living in space, not to mention the 60s where the "space age" fad or the future was ever preset in at least American culture. We all saw living in space as our future, and now that man is no being catapulted into space, it feels like that idea for the future was all just fiction. And that saddens me.

So in honor of my shattered childhood, I made this:

I hope that the show will go on, and we will all be around to enjoy it.

With my Banjo on my knee

My dad sang a song to me the other day after a deep conversation about how stupid I am for leaving my underwear underneath my girlfriends couch for her parents to find. It wasn't on ppuurrrpppoooosssseeee!!!!!

"Oh Susana, oh don't you cry for me. I've come from Alabama with a Banjo on my knee."

I was listening to a lot of Tom Waits recently as well, and somewhere in between these two moments, this image popped in my head. I had to draw it and I felt like playing in photoshop a tad more, which I haven't done in a long while.

Heres the product. Enjoy the show.

Old People

I haven't made a blog post in a while. Hu...

Well, I made this card for my Grandfather and my Uncle, who both share the same birthday (along with sharing similar opinions of each other). My grandfather liked it and then changed his mind when he realized that I didn't draw him. Perhaps I should draw myself less...

Well, either way, happy birthday. I wish my family wasn't so distant, but I am happy that they are around.

Hope you are all enjoying the summer show. 

Looking Up

Life has been strangely excellent as of late. I can't help but feel that I am jinxing it every time I say that I am happy with the way things are turning out... so I should calm down my boasting.

I felt like making a new self portrait.... so this is what it turned out to be.

Enjoy the show.