(By the way, my birthday went decently. It was quiet and nothing super amazing happened, but that's cool. I'm not much of a party animal. At all. XD I had my friends around and spice cake cupcakes so I'm good. <3)

Wintertimes
It sure is cold! Even in Las Vegas, where some people seem to think it's sunny and great all the time because they've never actually been here. But right now, a terrible dry coldness is hovering about, chilling me to my very bones. I've had to wear long socks under my pajama pants and sleep with fifty or so blankets *saaaad*. There's also Christmas, Hanukkah, etc comin' up and I am gonna try to draw gifts! So once the semester ends this week (EEEE), that'll be something to do....

Possible new artplace
I think I'm definitely going to join conceptart.org. I'm not sure how you go about getting an actual gallery there, but I do know it's free to join the forums. It seems like a good place to give and receive intelligent feedback. I just hope I'm at least good enough to not raise too many eyebrows or get booted out or what have you. </paranoid> And of course I'll be staying here too, I just don't feel that DA is enough help in terms of growing artistically and getting exposure.

Which reminds me: I think I might get a second account here. This current one will hold all my fanart and fun stuff, while the new one will be a little more serious business, with my polished original stuff, my actual name in the name field instead of a witty line, and all that sort of thing. Whether or not everything already on this one will stay on this one ... I haven't decided yet.

Pimpage
CLICK THEM. 8|
Ayako Ono
[link] This girl was the teacher's assistant in my beginning painting class! I've seen her in the studio working on her stuff before, and right now one of the small showrooms at school is displaying some of her paintings. They look really cool in real life... the blues are so vivid, and canvases have a sort of glossy, shimmery finish.

Aaron Sheppard
[link] I think he has his own class now? Anyway, I always see him walking around. His stuff is interesting! Not quite my cup of tea, but I do appreciate it nonetheless.

Lance Smith
[link] I only wish I could show you more, but I couldn't find anything (google was almost no help, since there are apparently more artists named Lance Smith). I've known him since senior year of high school and kinda wish we could have hung out more! He's an AMAZING artist. Something about his stuff kinda lights me up inside, and makes me want to keep getting better. It probably helps that he's super sweet as well.


THE END. Time to study for my sociology test. Oh boy