hey guise!

sorry I've been super mega lax about updating

I got a tumblr and I've been up dating that

check it out!

http://amanda-lo.tumblr.com/

More drawing needs to happen

noooooow..

I'm going to do something to the top one.. I got a landscape handbook... because I like long compositions... but it's kind of awkward and unwieldy to draw in. Was listening to Aquarium by Nosaj Thing over and over again so I wanted maybe..some text in there so I wanted the empty space.. but it looked really odd so that page is an afterthought.

But I guess I shouldn't be thinking about it that intensely.

wanna wanna do more portraaaaiits

I finally got my old scanner to work. turns out I've just been downloading the driver over and over again and forgot to download the software. whoops.

I'm going to miss the super nice epson scanners at school. what a sexy beast.

Listen!

Decided to dedicate a seperate post for this. since it's semi longish.. uh. and I'm too lazy to figure out if they did get rid of page breaks or not.

anyways

Kind of based off a poem by Vladmir Mayakovsky. I'm not really sure how I found it but I like it a lot. I was also listening to Adele "chasing pavements" on repeat. melancholy days...

anyhoo.. I'm thinking about maybe turning this into a woodcut. I have a thing for singular central compositions. bad me. I'll try and move away from that. My independent study teacher pointed out that I seem to go straight with a very simplistic finish, and that maybe I should start out with a more fleshed out detailed sketch and simplify it from there, so I'm more conscious of what I'm simplifying and not losing something that could potentially make the piece stronger as a whole.

It's a weird feeling knowing that I'm graduating and won't have the benefit of having in-class critiques or feedback from teachers. So my plan for this summer is to try and experiment with as many different mediums, even though I want to keep up with woodcut, it's not as flexible as I'd like it to be, and I don't want to limit myself to certain jobs because of how long the process is.

oh yeah here's the poem if you want to read it!

“Listen!”

Valdimir Mayakovsky

Listen, if stars are lit

it means - there is someone who needs it.

It means - someone wants them to be,

that someone deems those specks of spit magnificent.

And overwrought,

in the swirls of afternoon dust,

he bursts in on God,

afraid he might be already late.

In tears,

he kisses God’s sinewy hand

and begs him to guarantee

that there will definitely be a star.

He swears

he won’t be able to stand

that starless ordeal.

Later,

He wanders around, worried,

but outwardly calm.

And to everyone else, he says:

‘Now,

it’s all right.

You are no longer afraid,

are you?’

Listen,

if stars are lit,

it means - there is someone who needs it.

It means it is essential

that every evening

at least one star should ascend

over the crest of the building.

I've been doing a bunch of spring cleaning, not only in my apartment/studio but also on my computer. So there's been a lot of rereading of super teenagery angsty notes. They're super embarrassing but sometimes I say some really weird phrases that I think could have an interesting image to go along with . So we'll see.

Hey Hey Heey

some sketchbook stuff I haven't really had time this or last semester to do any drawing for myself. so I'm planning on doing a lot more of that over summer. Planning on doing a bunch of woodcuts too! hopefully it'll all work out and I'll have pieces I like.

dump dump dump dump!

Uhhh did blogspot take away page breaks?! I'm confused.

anyways I got a tumblr as well so check it out? I'll most probably be updating both simultaneously, but if you don't want to deal with my blabberyness and just want images I'll probably be less wordy on my tumblr. Plus I think the reblogging thing is pretty cool and I think tumblr has more opportunities in a conversation between people..in some ways. ASK ME QUESTIONS I'LL TRY AND ANSWER THEM.

Sorry Guise

Still alive! Too busy not doing anything!

Don't want to make this an image heavy post so here's a piece from my portfolio

you can see the rest of my portfolio pieces on my websiiiitieeeeeeee : http://amanda-lo.com/

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah! website navigation thing is still in the works I want to do something silly with it but not sure how it'll stand on a professional level. WE'LL SEE.

I'm graduating next friday. it's kind of a weird feeling. I still need to hear back and see if I can do OPT and stay in the states. sick life. thanks.

alright alright alright. YEAAAAAAH. I have a couple of ideas for some new pieces. hopefully I can do summer studios and have a space to work in. I'm going to try and see if I can incorporate some digital aspects to this to maybe speed up the process.. who knows? I'm not a fan with working with textures in photoshop. I'd rather just..do it by hand. but we'll see. fun stuff fun stuff fun stuff!

I'm still alive!

I swear!

Just been super swamped with work... actually I still am! good job me!

just a little peek at what I'm doing I guess (I JUST FINISHED IT LIKE 10 MINUTES AGO). Once I've gotten everything scanned in and printed out nicely I'll update with all my portfolio pieces.

Sorry for the bad fb quality photo..

just two more to go then I'm done! yaaaaaaaaaaaaaayffffffffffff

Cute Show photos!!

Yaaaay! We did it! Cute show opening was a super success and we all had a blast.

This is a super image heavy post, I tried to pick out the best from the pictures I took but it's still quite a lot.

Unfortunately I don't have any photos of the opening cause I forgot my camera upstairs.. and got there half an hour late. whoops.

Cute show was an amazing experience, I'm kind of sad that it was only a one week deal. We advertised the shit out of it. And in true illustration department spirit, set up the show gradually over the week. Which I think helped us a lot as people got super excited that they were seeing new things everyday. I think if we had an extra week we'd probably fill the entire gallery and transform it into some crazy cute land.
THE ARTISTS!
Cherry Au
Ivan Cheung
Jill Lydon
Carly Menasco

photossss after the jump!

Cute show sneak peeeeek?!?!?!?!?!!

some small drawings for the cute show small wall

check it out if you're in the boston area! our opening is this thursday at 7pm!

FACE BOOK EVENT HERE!

CHECK IT CHECK IT OUT

Another year older

but hardly wiser

oh hey all school show. I failed and forgot to bring my camera so I couldn't take pictures.

sweet.

the only proof that I was ever there.

there's no shame.

Cute Show!

so much cute!

check it check it out! NOW RIGHT HERE! OK!

I'll try and take some pictures when it's up

allllriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

sad cute

THINGS I DID TODAY (yesterday)

Weather's been super sucktastic, little to no motivation to get up everyday. want some suuun.

 alright. some weird things.

Astronaut

,Long overdue but here's my second mailer + process for it

YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH

Inner Conflict

 Finally done! I like it a lot, my friend suggested that I put a shadow under her feet which makes sense. oh photoshop! lalalalalaalalala shitty webcam in progress.

Just for funsies

Here's how my brain functions when it's 5am and I have ideas but don't really want to sketch them out.

My friday nights are pretty sweet

Remember this? Yeah yeah yeah! Just an in progress scan. It's kinda fun to do details until the wood chips and then you feel like dying a little inside.
I'm pretty sure there's a neater/cleaner way of carving away things. My block looks like a murder victim.
Yay laundry time!

Sometimes I do things

Some semi-personal stuff. These are for my independent study with this guy. It was a really nice surprise to see a variety of the work he's done. Google image produced only one image that he may or may not have done. One of the reasons why I wanted to do an independent study with him was because I knew he loved surrealistic imagery from the few pieces that he's brought in to show us. I think I'm starting to rant. ok.

Society of Illustrators

So I got into the  Society of Illustrators student scholarship competition show(<-click it). My professor called me at 9:30 am to personally congratulate me but I was asleep and my phone was on silent, so he texted me to call him back. I got up an hour later and saw it and got suuuuuuuuuuuuper nervous and didn't call him back till much later when my friend was screaming at me about how stupid I was being. The whole conversation is kind of a blur to me right  now and I don't think I heard half the things he said, mostly it was me just going hrurughfhghgghfhfgh whuuut?

Yeah I'm kinda sorta super articulate.


.....
yeah...
Check out the other entries they're suuuuuuuuuuuper beautiful. I spent a long time screaming at how awesome some of the pieces are. It's obvious I still have a lot of work to do. Feel super overwhelmed. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah ok.
I'm probably going to shit my pants at the show.
just saying.

alrighty.
this is the piece I got in.

I'm so so so so so so so so so so scared.

I'm still super nervous

I ALSO FORGOT TO MENTION THAT FELLOW MASSARTIAN(?) CALEB OLSON ALSO GOT IN

YAAAAY

Ass-tro-not

some alternatives.. you know?

Hmmm

can't decide if I like this or not.. the transition from the branches to roots seems kind of awkward.

slightly different.. more tree trunkish? it's still kind of awkward

Happy Chinese New Year!

This is kind of a stretch I guess, but there's a rabbit like creature in it? So it kind of counts.. right?

face your fears

I'm trying to make this into a lino cut but I don't think it's going to work out cause it's tiny. Trying to figure out hand printing cause I don't have print studio access. Yay!

Gotta stay away from the green. I think there are way too many shades and way too many things going on.

THESIS SHOW PLEASE COME WOULD MEAN A LOT OK OK OK OK

Sorry for the nasty cellphone pictures, but here's a sneak peek I guess of the Illustration Senior Thesis Show that's at the Fourth Wall Gallery in Fenway. IF YOU'RE IN BOSTON PLEASE COME AND HAVE A LOOK SEE!
The opening is this Saturday (Feb 5) from 5-9pm.
HERE'S THE FACEBOOK EVENT
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122272007840903


OH HEY HERE'S ONE OF MY PIECES
OK

If you're in the Boston area/ know anyone who is tell them to come!

It'll be alright I guess.

Just something

I liked

ATSURO TAYAMA Spring-Summer 2011 from Emma PICK on Vimeo.

oh and also
was checking my stats and realized that some random site called movie-ozone has been listing me as a fellow blogger.. or something. I have no idea. but apparently some other people have had the same problem. There's no contact info so most people have been reporting it as a spam blog.
just so you know.
you know?

Date face

yeah you know you want to hit that.

except not..

at all.

ok.

some stuff from end of last semester/winter break forced sketches and some thumbnails for a cute show.

Wah wah waah

I like this song a lot a lot a lot a lot!
I'm kind of bad at this updating thing
and art thing.


ohhhhhhhh heey


I only sketched a bit..
and I bought a small lino block so maybe I'll get something done.
wamp wamp waaaaaaamp