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.

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

DUMP DUMP DUMP DUMP DUMP DUMP

 PRINTMAKING DUMMMP
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT
I feel like everything's pretty self explanatory.
I just ate a lot of lasagna
my dogs turned 3 a couple days ago

PRINTS AFTER THE JUMP

Some Woodcut things but not really?

woodcuts are fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun.

I'm taking an intro to printmaking class this semester and it makes me wish I was a printmaking major instead. (minus all the fineartsystuffthingsok)

so far we've done monotypes and two different kinds of woodcut, we're moving on to dry point now.

I'll probably put up scans of some of my monotypes.

ANYWAYSNANNNNNANANANNYWAYS.

woodcuts after the jump!

Sweaters

Didn't feel like drawing faces today.

I really want a big turtleneck sweater

I want to try doing something with flat blocks of color.

Aaah I also really like fashion illustrations....

(http://www.daviddownton.com/fashion.html his stuff for marks and spencer are really really pretty... his website kinda makes me feel like he's a bit of a douche though)

my mom called me tonight. Apparently two of my cousins are in the news/magazines, cause my aunt's been using her connections to get them interviews and such and such and such. Then my mom reminds me that she doesn't have any connections. zzaaazazaaa

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

also some sketches from tuesday on the way to quincy. I didn't draw on the way back cause I was alone and people were staring at me + food coma.

My cat and I spent 20 minutes chasing a fly around my apartment.

I thought catagrumptious and I had a pretty good bonding session. then she bit me.

my dogs back at home don't remember me.

A Swedish Style of Smoking

I did a shit-shitty painting yesterday.

When I get really bored I like to go through people's photo albums on facebook. Sometimes I find pictures that really stand out to me like this one of a guy smoking two cigarettes, of course the next photo in the album is the swedish style of dealing with a hangover at starbucks, really classy stuff.

so I just have a folder of weird photos that I find interesting and I wasn't sure what I wanted to paint so I just bhsruhsfrhssfsdfsf this together. the heart and crown is a tattoo around someone's nipple. blahblahblalblablblaah. The girl holding her dress up is from someone's flickr.. I think.

I have super unsteady hands so it's blurry and shitty but that's ok cause it's a blurry and shitty painting. I'm probably not going to finish it. one with flash and one without, I guess one is more in focus while the other one's just..for seeing exactly what's going on. blahblahblblbalafhdsf

I want a really fine brush that won't die on me after one use.

more sketches from NY and Boston this time.

Uh went down to NY to hang out with friends, went to a free concert and a beach. I have a craving for my friend's Kahlua... and strawberry vodka jello shots...roaaaaaaar. Went kayaking with a friend on the Charles, then sat down somewhere and there was no one sitting near us so I drew my friend. Unfortunately it looks nothing like her. yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. ok

these two are on the way to and from coney island. I prettify people D:

Friends decided to contribute to my sketchbook................................................................

while waiting for the free concert to start. I accidentally spilled my beer on the blanket of the family sitting in front of us. I'm a horrible person.

my friend, some girl playing four in a row. some woman with her dog in NY.

I'm not an alcoholic I swear... and I'm not a creeper.

I'm also really unprofessional.

I'm sorry ..

but not really

My baaad

I'm about as motivated as sweaty balls.

some digitalzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz since I'm going to be taking a class.. uh next semester..

urrrrrhh neeed to be doing this in color most probably but I obviously chickened out.

tried doing a full face one but nope didn't want to. couldn't do it. I need to do more paintings.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah summer don't stop!

I don't know if i should keep working on this or just stop

meeehrehrehrhrhrrh

OK DONE FOREVER

I SPIT BLOOD

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmm

Dump

sketchy sketch sketch ♥

Boston...MFA...eh.. I should be kicked out of art school. trees are green, grass is green..eeeh

This was from the last time I was in NY... I should really draw more legs...and puppies.

Then I went back down again to see the Jeff Soto and Dave Cooper show at the Jonathan Levine Gallery. Really good stuff!

Friends and I decided to get to the gallery via the High line. It used to be an elevated railway for freight trains, but it hasn't been used for a long time so they're turning into a park. I think maybe about a third of it is done, there're plans for 3 different sections and they all have different themes. Super cool.

Yeaaah!

http://www.thehighline.org/about/park-information

I need to draw more scenery.

I stopped drawing cause we started to talk bout 屎忽鬼, which basically means ass fairy.

Shh...We're really mature. Honest

On the way to the Bronx Zoo. We had to walk past a lot of condos to get to the zoo and there were a couple of ground level apartments that had these big dolls lined up facing the window.

Super creepy.

Some mind spewage... I have a really messed up sleeping schedule now. A couple weeks ago I used to dream everyday, so there's some of that. Otherwise it's mostly just blahblablahblablah.

nekkid ladies. I'm really digging that little harpy girl though, maybe I've seen it somewhere else before, but I'd imagine she'd puke red sludge.

I need to start painting

fffffffffffffffffffff.............