LAZY!

...Its going to be my downfall...
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13 hours...

And I got tired of working on it. :p

My laziness as an artist is going to be my downfall.

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And the moral of the story is...

Never EVER invite the girl that you're taking out on dates (and wasting money on mind you) to a club.

She'll end up making out with "random guy A" that she met at another bar.
Then still expect a ride home.

Just my luck.




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I...

Never finish anything. :p





I need to finish more things. Also work on my composition among other things. My mind is racing like a million miles an hour on shit I need to "finish" artistic wise. College is coming up and hopefully my transfer to University. I feel like I'm still in a "cartoony" age even with my portraits. :/ Not bueno.

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I'm...

Having a hard time with anatomy. :/ its like really kicking my ass.

Need to practice.



You can tell where my mind was at on this one as there's some sort of sexual reference in here...but...where?

EDIT: Lines are up


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2009...

Is already starting off horrible.

My "girlfriend" ran off to go get married to some guy that she spent the entire time we were together badmouthing. :/ And that pretty much just messed up my year completely. G'job Ale. You're a fucking idiot. I loved you. I can't bring myself to care for you now. Seriously. I don't know. Nobody really reads this anyways.

2009 isn't starting off good for me at all. I have plans on going to Uni this year so I guess I won't have a girlfriend to worry about. :(

I kept having dreams that this was going to happen. But I figured they were just those. Dreams. Turns out they were real and now I'm slapped with a nice dose of reality.

I have horrible luck with women. My brother was making fun of me because of it. 7 times now its been a shitty ending for me.

I don't know. I'm just going to neeed some time to get my head back on straight or something. I'm not to sure as of yet. I don't know how to feel about all of this. People were warning me about her in the beginning and me [[being the dumbass that I am]] decided that I wasn't going to listen.

So go ahead and say, "See I told you so."

I deserve it.

I don't know what to think, how to feel, what to say. It seems like nothing I can say will change the way things are. And what bothers me worse is that I don't know if I care or not...Things were going to come to head sooner or later and I wasn't that attached to Ale as I thought I was. I loved her [[or so I think]] but I don't know if I actually did or it was the "thought" of being in love with her that got me. Ever since Jasmin told me that it sticks with me. It makes lots of sense as well.

I'm really trying I am. Somethings gotta give with my relationships. My brother blames it on our last name. Apparently having the last name "Samples" means that you're entitled to be fucked over royally. Its happened lots of times in our lives and it continues till this day. And I was just bragging to my dad yesterday about her. :/

Either ways I'm not going to bore you with my life so here's some art for ya.

Update on the uptake...

I work at Zumiez now.

Has to have been one of the strangest if not funnest [[is that even a word?]] interview that I've been too.

Seriously. I don't even know what was up with it. All I know is 30 people showed up; I got picked 2nd out of 10 and that ain't bad. :]

Anyways I start work Oct. 6 so I'm kinda giddy, nervous, and all sorts of other things about it.

We'll see how it goes.

Anyways just dropping off the new art!

'Kato the model'
She put it up on her myspace!

Brenda D...

Is the coolest person I know.
For real.
One of the best and thats why she's one of my favorite people to spend time with.

Its always something fun whenever she is around and its never dull. She just makes life fun. :D

She's calm, collective, funny as hell, and just all around great. I couldn't ask for a better friend than her. And I wouldn't replace her for anybody in the world. No doubt about it Brenda D. is the coolest person I know. :D congrats loser I mentioned you. >;]
Just kidding but love you loser you're are the bee's knees. Hahaha.

Anyways all things aside. I should have my debt issues cleared up partially [[see last post]] So now I should only have to pay $31 USD to insure that I graduate. :D took hours of searching but I managed to find all of my receipts from the past 4 years for school. Hahaha. Good stuff.

I have new art I'm not to sure if I want to post it or not. And is it just me or are the colors on that spiderman sketch kinda bleh? I hate it so I'll probably just post the pencil version or something. Make some lineart. I don't know.

We recently switched to Vista. After upgrading our computer of course. And now my version of Photoshop doesn't work. :/ how lame is that? Very if you ask me.

Vista seems to have a lot of problems I'm noticing. Besides the cool sleek look and things like that it sure is riddled with problems that make it not worth it. Oh well in due time I guess. I just gotta get used to it or something like that.

Anyways here you go. I'm going to throw some color on some of these but looking at the way they're drawn I'm not to happy with them. :/







































































































And my final piece of this entry. Instead of doing my work like I'm supposed to do I usually see if there is an open page [[usually on the back of a packet]] and I draw. It was fun doing this and I think the end result [[although not finished]] came out looking pretty solid. :] and thats all I can ask for I guess.

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12 year old...

Hey there just checking in because its been a while. I do still draw people,
I'm not dead, no I didn't kill a cat, and yes I'm still the same ol' me [[If not a tad bit more grumpier due to aging I guess?]]

Anyways its about time I post something on here since my last post was a long long time ago. The 22nd I believe? Anyways I have a shit load [[and I mean a shit load]] of art to post. You see we [[the seniors at our school]] got the week off pretty much because of standardized testing [[TAKS aka Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills]] and since I passed all of mine I don't have to worry about those babies. Now all I need to do is worry about passing and I'm out of high school! This is my last month at that place and hopefully all goes well, got prom [[where I'll be escorting the lovely and beautiful Erendira :] ]] as well as graduation! Lots of things are going down this month...For real...Busy busy busy. Anyways yeah I have a lot of drawings. I spent my week of drawing [[in between sessions of GTA IV of course]] and thats about it. Hell I'm even drawing while typing this up! Hah. So hopefully I'll have something to show. I know I will actually. Just be on the look out for it!

Moving on...

I recently took a trip to my local comic shop [[I think it was local?]] and decided to pick up a few issues for studies and whatnot. Well they had this little package of 5lbs of comics for 5 bucks. No way in hell I was passing that up. Got some pretty solid stuff. Including some 12 year old Kool-aid! Hahaha some of those comics were as old as I am. If not older. Pretty good buy if I do say so myself. Now most of them just collect dust. Hah. I'm horrible I know. I have browsed though them though and I've seen a lot of valuable things that'll further help me into pursuing a career as a "graphic novelist" comic artist. :] wish me luck!

Speaking of which.

My portfolio. I have no idea whats going on with it...I was supposed to work on it this entire week but I decided to ditch that idea and enjoy my off time. A decision I'll later regret? I don't know. I'm not to particularly [[weird word]] happy with it. Partially because most of the stuff in there is really old and I've improved greatly as an artist from say last year. Bleh. :/ apparently according to the teach I'm to "hard on myself" but I'm only that way with my art because I'm striving to become one of the best. You may something great and amazing when I put pencil to paper and manage to pull something out of my ass. I see nothing but flaws, proportion errors, and all sorts of other things. Thats why I'm hard on myself because I want to be great at what I love to do...Women. >:D hahaha no not women but drawing, art, cartoons and things like that. I don't know. I'm picky. Jeez.

Anyways...

High school drama for me has managed to make a major climb in recent days. Awesome. Just awesome. Friend issues, girl issues, money issues, people issues and all sorts of things like that. Its exhausting. I'm trying to keep my head out of it. But somehow it manages to find its way to me. :/ Lame. Oh well just 6 more weeks and I'm done with High school forever! Yay. But I'm also going to miss it when I leave it behind. :/ oh well it comes with growing up. Yeah something like that.


Also...

I've been talking to my ex's [[the one's that talk to me that is.]] Amy and Jasmin. Amy always has such insightful things, she really listens to my problems and even insists on trying to help me through them, she doesn't just skoff at me and laugh at me or call me a emo bitch or things like that. She actually takes time out of her busy life to help lil ol' me out when I'm feeling down or whatever. I can't thank her enough for that for real. Really great girl. Good beliefs and things like that. Shame we aren't together anymore. :/ Oh well she's found love again and I'm glad for her. :] Anyways the main thing I usually talk to her about is my relationship status and why they never seem to hold or why I can't seem to have love. Of course its always a downward spiral for me because I'm negative when it comes to love I think? But somehow she manages to put up with my shit for a while, offer insight, make me laugh and make me think that things aren't that bad and sooner or later [[better be soon]] I'll actually find someone who'll love me and not want to let go. Of course its false hope; no doubt about it. But its good to have someone give me that false hope for once instead of vice versa. :] makes me feel a tad bit better about myself. Anyways Amy's great. Couldn't ask for a better friend. Still hate being single though. :/ shit sucks because everyone [[and I mean everyone]] has some romance going on. Not me though. For real whats the deal there? I just want the simple things. I want to love and be loved back. Not to much to ask for right? WRONG!

*Sigh* One of these days...One of these days.

I'm tired so I guess this is it for now.
[[I'll try to get the art up ASAP]]

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Updating...

Just posting. I'll try to get this painted and updated ASAP. Having computer issues here at school. :/ as usual....

See if you can spot the differences!

EDIT:
Here are the colors. :] yes behold my lack of ability to draw backgrounds. Hahaha

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I think I'm crazy...

Or at least making my ways slowly but surely towards it. Hahaha. I don't know...its odd. Anyways lots of new art! I'll have to put them all in order at a later time.



This is the last little bit I put on the Naruto fanart pic that I did. I grew tired of working on it and my schedule forced me to move onto other things. But maybe I'll pick it up at a later date. :]





















A drawing for my AP portfolio. Its supposed to be Lilo [[a friend of Eren's]] but I still need to tweak it a little to make it look like her truly. But for the most part this is what I got for only about 2 hours of work. Ignore the giant sharpie mark. It was already on the board when I started. :/




















This is the replacement for the horrible picture thats in my previous post. The one I did on the back of my sketchbook. That was a big mistake. I'm never doing a piece in ink all the way until I reach near Jim Lee status. But this is much easier on the eye and it looks absolutely amazing. I actually like it. :]





















A page that I'm doing for my portfolio. Its probably going to be the last page I do for the year. Its being really hard to ink as well. :/ seems like none of my sharpies want to work for me...Oh well I'll try to finish it up. Behold my shitty ass inability to write words straight or draw boxes! XD





















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A couple of sketches, A Metal Gear pic I'm working on for fun, An [[unfinished]] page for my portfolio. :] inking its going to be a bitch to finish. :/ and a face that I'm thinking about painting to keep my skills sharp.

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