Finally I get confirmation from my advisor (after emailing back and forth several times last week, and then me prodding her today after not hearing anything further): I am indeed on the recently graduated list, though for some reason diplomas aren’t being printed out for another couple of weeks. That’s just silly.

I’m forging ahead on things like the gloomday.com redesign, updating my resume, that sort of thing.

Also, I sped through Enki Bilal’s Nikopol trilogy, which was random but the art’s gorgeous. At first I thought it was watercolor, but I’m pretty sure it’s more like oil or something. Anyway. I’ve been trying to get through Hellblazer, especially having just seen Constantine in its entirety (and liking it), but I dunno. So far, it’s not thrilling me much.

Survived finals, check.
Disappeared for a while afterward, check.
Did nothing productive while being addicted to games, check.
Finally got bored with said game and started doing productive stuff, check.
Received diploma in the mail, NOT CHECK. I’m still waiting, hoping that they didn’t lose my petition somewhere along the way and are actually considering me graduated.*

In the meantime, feast your eyes on this nice little sketch I did in paintchat last night.

More stuffies on the horizon if I ever manage to get it done.

* My faith in this is somewhat lessened by having gotten one of those semesterly “you’re nearing the end of your program and your petition to graduate period for next year is __” emails recently. And yet I haven’t felt quite productive enough to talk to my advisor yet.

Mm, let’s see. Finals ended last week, and I have since turned into a giant lazy blob. This is not a singular occurrence: I do it after finals every semester. Of course, the next big question is, did my advisor get my graduation petition in and am I, therefore, graduated now (and have to get my giant lazy blob ass in gear to find a job)? Or do I have to wait another semester (and get to take fun things like prepress and comics 2)?

In the meantime (while I procrastinate about calling the aforesaid advisor), I think I’m gonna be rewriting that script I did at the beginning of summer. It’s technically fine, and it would work, I guess, but… it’s pretty blah. The problem, of course, is that I don’t know how this new one’s gonna go. Well, that and I have some new ideas for the world buzzing around in the back of my brain, which I haven’t really been fast enough to catch yet and take outside. (The other day? Three separate flies magically appeared in my room and tried futilely to fit through the holes in my window screen.) One of these ideas involves a comic based on things/people/places/imagery in Smashing Pumpkins songs, which I am not going to do, but can’t help being intrigued by nonetheless.

I am halfway through doing a test page, though, which, once inked and scanned, will allow me to try a number of coloring methods.

In other news, I finally finished Watchmen, which is indeed quite awesome, though somewhat in the way that Tale of Two Cities or Catcher in the Rye make the great books of literature list.

And I saw Stardust on Sunday. I do think it was quite good, and funny, and a faithful adaptation of the book, but I also think it was missing a little something—like it could have been the greatest movie of all time, but woke up late the day the professor was going over that topic in class. It might just be that I need to see it again. :3

These two were my final project. The theme we had to work with was borders and boundaries.