Molerat girl

WIP pastel inspired by Jenny Seville.

Rules:

- no blending of pastels allowed

Octopus lady

I'm working on a new painting that'a fairly large. It still needs much work, as I'm still working on the under painting. I'm excited.

Update ** 

**update 2: 3/8/14

***update 3: 3/22/14

FINISHED!! Just in time for my birthday.

Vlog #2: South African Subculture: Zef

Portrait of Julian

I decided to paint my second live portrait ever today, and my model was Julian. Now, the last time I did this was almost a year ago. I had painted Austin in May 2013. Here it is:

Nearly a year later, I tackled portrait painting again, and I guess I can say that I'm very pleased with myself and the progress I've made. Granted, all I've been working with recently are oil paints, so I should be making progress. Here's Julian:

However, I believe the I can do better than this. I'm not saying that I'm upset, because I'm not, I'm ecstatic, but there is always room to improve. Talent is cheap. There are many things that I can certainly fix. I painted this in about 1 1/2 hr.

I wonder where I'll be at in another year.

HTML Speak

Today in STAC, we experimented with coding for the first time.

I had always thought that coding was boring and redundant, but to my surprise, it was quite delightful.

We went to the computer room with the intention of posting up bios on Stacworld.net, but the Palestinians hacked us. Again. For the 3rd freakin' time. That being said, our bios obviously weren't going to happen. Instead, Anika recommended a fun coding website called "Code Academy." I screwed around and coded an extremely simplistic solar system with a sun and 3 planets. It managed to rotate, too!

Long story short, coding isn't half bad. It just takes a lot of memorization and getting used to.

In fact, I wrote this entire blog post in the HTML section. Pretty neat.