Thursday, August 30, 2007

Slow down!

Well, I am officially a student again with a full schedule of classes. I'm studying webdesign in a further attempt to diversify my skills. Thus I found I must slow myself down. I had to pare down my work schedule to accomodate my classes. They are intense and competitive. I always find the need to overachieve in school (nerd) especially in my art classes. Of course that is rather hard when ALL your classes are art classes but that's my problem.

Anyway, so yeah, less work more studying. I'm learning a lot about design and graphic design. Before this, I was pretty much just a visual artist where I created illustrations. Now I'm forced to open up a new way to perceive things. Graphic design is totally new to me and very different. I'm used to having my work be literal but now I'm working more conceptually. I'm struggling with trying to make things look "right" when there might not be a definite answer. I get frustrated that my abstract designs might not "look like anything". I don't know what is successful and what is not. This is the whole learning process I guess so hopefully one day my mind will just *click* and I'll be able to understand what I'm doing.

So for now it's just a crapshoot where I pick one of my designs and print it out and present it like i knew what I was doing all along. Confidence is key I believe, and if you can sell your design you are halfway to that "A".

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Loves these cats

And now following my admission of cat love, here are my cats! (Well, my parent's cats but I still love them!)

Princess




Peanut


Pumpkin (yeah we love our "P" names...)

I'm a cat person




Ok, I'm not going to dog on "dog people" because I have no problem with them (well except those that don't clean up after their dogs on walks). I'm a cat person. I prefer cats to dogs. I like how cats are independent and not "needy". They can be a little standoffish, but so am I. I like how they leave you alone for the most part but can seem to sense when you want some company. I love how lithe and graceful they are, slinking around. I love how they purr.

Yes there are things I can't stand about them too like their constant need to play with anything that resembles string (like hair), or that wiggles (like feet) and their lack of understanding what the words "no" and "stop" mean. I also don't like how their breath smells (but I'm not that crazy about dog breath either). I dont' like how they are so nimble and can jump (and climb) onto almost anything.

Of course you are going to find pet peeves about the ones you love the most but I still love cats.