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| sometimes - when you have stuff to finish and no one at your place is up to quietly keep you company and you don't want to go online - sometimes music is enough. so while i take forever finishing this stupid little color assignment, gavin degraw will keep me company.
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| spiritit's odd these days.
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| Hair today 
This is what a "graduated bob" looks like in a few months' time of no cuts or trims. You can't see how messy it is due to the overwhelming darkness of my hair color, but I assure you it's messy and uneven, with one chunk of hair in the front visibly longer than any other layer.
I'm getting a free haircut tomorrow at Bumble and bumble. "Johnny" approached me at Whole Foods. He was nice about bringing up my sloppy hair by asking me if I was interested in a free cut. In order to graduate next week from his apprentice level, he needs to get busy cutting hair this week. I said yes because I had been brainstorming like crazy about my next haircut. Eh, maybe I'll go back to the graduated bob, but I really want to do a Rihanna and do something short and (s)punky. If my hair weren't so coarse and thick, I'd go pixie.
I'm not sure how it'll turn out. Here's one review from the internet:
"It's a crap shoot here. I went once for a cut and had a horrible experience.... The other time I went I had color done, great job, but I wasn't allowed to use the same stylist when I went in for a touch up."
Hm.
In other news, I started a wordpress! http://scoutsung.wordpress.com. Josie suggested I start a blog where I can show off whatever drawings or designs I create. I am afraid to touch it. I'm not about to desert Xanga though. This blog has posts from 2002 and I am a packrat of the highest degree. So I will continue to feed my attachment.
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| wah... drained**deleted all non-working links**
I have never started and submitted a design so quickly.
I finished the sketches this morning around 2 AM.
Slept.
I began outlining the sketches at 2 PMish.
Finished outlining and headed out to take them to Fedex for scanning at 5 PM.
Came back around 6:30ish and started on Photoshopping my files.
Finished at 1 AM! This design was born, created and finished in a little over 24 hours.
My computer had some hard time saving the file, which was relatively huge: 7000 x 10000 pixels - which I will never do again if I can help it.
I'll post a progression but first, I'll explain the contest. The theme of the contest was photography-oriented. There's a popular community forum, Lomography, that is based entirely on photography. They have these ten rules of photography - which together, they can be summarized as "be one with your camera." I enjoy taking pictures randomly so I decided to give this a shot from the day the contest was posted, which was June 5th. I didn't start until yesterday. I wanted a good idea or at the very least, an idea that others didn't do, like people walking around with cameras for heads or stylized images of cameras. After much brainstorming, I came up with my own idea and proceeded from there. After looking at my sketches, I realized it was very Calvin-and-Hobbes-ish, with the whole little-kid-morphing-into-some-creature idea going on.
The first in progress are my sketches, which you can barely see.
Then I proceeded to outline them with micron pens (a popular medium for Threadless designers, me thinks):
(oops... on its side)
I was so proud of this one.
I scanned the pictures and proceeded to work on them in Photoshop:
the eagle with color
This guy was meant to be part of the story, but in my rush, I left him out by mistake. : (
The finished image:
How it should fit on the shirt. The "story" as seen starting at the left, will be on the shirt's bottom left corner (our bottom right). The little guy basically walks halfway through the shirt's width and then starts flying all the way to the shirt's right shoulder. The eagle is completely on the right sleeve. Then the little guy dives back to ground via the back of the shirt.
I am drained but not finished
yet! My submission was pretty sloppy. This is it... no writing, no detail close-ups, no mention of colors used, no little logo of my name:
Because my submission was so sloppy, I need to make
another image of a better submission and then link to the better image if my
submission gets accepted.
So while I can't put the mouse down yet, I am happy to present my 24-hour project. I'm tired... but this was fun. Heart-palpitating fun (due to the deadline that I barely made). :)
Made a new submission image. I'm not the greatest at layouts and presentations, but this is still a much better, more informative submission.
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| photoshop is amazingI am so excited right now to have learned a few things about Photoshop and to see it applied to some sketches I made. My heart seriously needs to calm down. Hopefully, I can make another progression xanga entry, but right now, the deadline looms at 1 AM.
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