Here's some of my assignments from school for the past few weeks:

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So, I haven't been around much. At all. I'm sorry about that. I miss reading up on your lives/posts/fic/so on. I hope you're all doing well.

School is pretty much kicking my ass. I don't think I've drawn so much in the past two weeks than I have in a long time---and it's not "recreational." I mean, it's enjoyable, but there are goals and projects and stuff. I alternate from feeling reasonably secure in my ability to feeling completely out of my depth from one day to the next and it's beginning to make me a little crazy.

ANYWAY.

I wanted to post last week's sketch tasks for my drawing class, but I haven't had the time to scan 'em yet. (My scanner's been requisitioned as a fax machine and hasn't been returned to my desk yet.)

Instead, I thought I'd post my Illustrator assignment that I just finished (for real this time... I hope) as a substitute.

The assignment is to draw something in AI, colour it, and then shade it using only gradients. No gradient meshes, which would have probably made it easier. I feel like I cheated because I used a ton of layers---setting the shadow ones to multiply. I guess I'll find out tomorrow if it's okay or not. *fings crossed*



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And now... off to work. *groan*

I'm pretty sick today. But, I tried to colour a fanart sketch I did at work yesterday. I need more practice with colouring. And drawing. Anyway, I thought I'd post it here to show you guys, too.



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I'll complain about how achy my finger gets but secretly, deep down, I'm loving the Brushes application for my iPod.

This is all I had time to do today---while I was waiting to get my x-rays taken. There was a bouquet of flowers in the waiting room and it seemed like a good idea at the time :)



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So there's this fun toy where you can [try] to draw with sound.

There's got to be a trick to it. I just haven't quite figured it out yet.





If you try it, let me know :)