I spent some time drawing donkeys but they were all ugly so instead ill post these non-donkeys. Ok, theres a semi-donkey in there, but only as a transportation unit.

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So, I went down to Silver Snail to buy my boyfriend the new Butters figure for Christmas. But when I saw it I thought it was lousy. He’s all ashy and although the articulate eyebrows are a cool idea, I think they’re too thick. And he’s tiny!

So I dug up the Sculpey and fashioned my own. Pretty much the same deal as with my homebrew Homsar, only instead of using the deadly gaseous lacquer paints I went with healthier Acryla gouache (the consistency of gouache with the permanence of acrylics! Everyone wins!), which is much easier to work with.

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I handed this in for my FINAL COMPUTERS CLASS EVER last Monday, but I only just finished tweaking it now. It doesn’t make any sense, but whatever… It’s my first time using After Effects and I can’t frigging believe I didn’t discover this before! I could waste my whole life on this stupid program… Here are some thumbs:

And happy everything, everybody!

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I bought one of these fat national geographic composite photo books for reference and it has many great things inside that i plan to steal.

Did up this card for my last illustration assignment of my academic career. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and it’s the heavenly awesomeness of never having to wake up at 5:15am in the morning ever again. One more ridiculous early morning to go!

Was watching Conan the Barbarian while working and sketched some of it. Best cinematic movie ever. Arnold pulls a wheel for 20 years screams with a german accent, almost gets eaten by a forestwoman, kills wolfs, beats up pervert priests, punches out camels eats vultures that try to eat him and pretty much kills everything in sight. O and James Earl Jones is in it. He cuts Conan’s mothers head off.
Also want to test the new youtube plugin for the rasterform.

Best quote from this awesome film of awesomosity -

to stick videos into the blog just type [*youtube id*] without the stars and the id being the bold part of this here link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45XEGLTXHe8