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University

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So yeah I started uni last September and since then I haven't really had time to draw anything recreationally because my course is very demanding of my time and of course uni life is exhausting and I am expected to socialise and go out and drink till I can't walk (which I still refuse to do to the disappointment of my flatmates) pretty much every night and when I'm not doing that I'm trying to sleep. 

Sleep is a mythical thing at university apparently.

There is also an incredible amount of drama here. My Accommodation is about 5 miles away from town, so it's pretty isolated here and I think that may have something to do with it... I could look into the mechanics of why this is just a strange place to be but this journal entry wasn't supposed to be a long one.

I badly want to draw more often and do commissions, but I simply don't have the time anymore, sad times. 

Costume Design, however, is a fantastic course and I am currently enjoying my second term. It can be stressful, especially when each of my tutors are telling us to do different things (serious communication problem there) but it's fun. I actually have a lesson dedicated to using graphics tablets (in which I internally laugh at the amateurs in my class) but they make us use only photoshop and illustrator because Adobe hold the monopoly in industry and Sai isn't seen as professional software which I think needs to change because Sai is jut better in every way.

Anyway I need to stop procrastinating as I need to sleep and worry about the essay I need to write.... soon.... I will do it I promise....
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I'm Not Dead...

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Hey

So, I know I've been rather quite for the past... well, months, and this isn't just because it's the summer holidays and I have better things to do than be stuck inside on a computer (because I seriously don't have anything better to do) it's mainly because as most of you know Sai is only compatible with Windows, and my Windows laptop is on it's last legs. I'm currently doing a commission for AlyssaFoxAH and the amount of times I've had to redraw it has not helped my motivation, so thank you sucky laptop for randomly shutting down without warning me. 

However, I am making steady progress. The commission will be done soon! And because I've had to redraw it so many times on account of it not saving (also, thank you sucky laptop) it's actually looking better than when I started >.<

Because of my technological difficulties I've been going back to my sketch book and drawing things on paper like I used to (ahh them were the days...) and I don't think I've ever drawn so much in my life :L

Anyway, things and stuff are getting done,

Kam out~
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I am now officially a fan of the new Robocop film I mean I just loved how they really stretched out the story and the original had so many possibilities and this one really made the plot a lot bigger and developed everything perfectly and it was just awesome.

Seriously go see it now!!!
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Christmas Eve and of course... I can't sleep. No clue why: Christmas hasn't really hit me this year, I'm just not in the mood... possibly because of the heart wrenching Merlin finale this time last year. Bad times. Bad times...

I'm going to start setting serious personal deadlines, and this is actually an idea I've had for a while, but I can never actually think of how long it will take me to do a thing; I've just sort of thought 'oh it's okay I'll just wing it' but this time what with Uni interviews coming up I just feel like I need something more serious and concrete. Anyway in order to get this all straightened out I really need to think about what I need to do, so that's what I'm going to do now.

I need to get 250 words written about my favourite costume designer, then I need to create a mood board based on aspects of my personality and then from that I need to create a superhero based on one of my aspects.
Then I'm going to focus on my current projects. For textiles I need to finish the rest of the design sheets and modelling, I also need to get some boning ordered so I can test out my corset making skills. Oh and I need to add the minor adjustments to the other sheets on publisher, but I am going to start that when I get publisher on my mac... and I know people are like 'ugh well you should have had Windows' NO. OKAY? SHUT UP. I LOVE MY MAC. AND WHO THE HELL HAS MICROSOFT PUBLISHER ANYMORE HEY? YEAH THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. Oh and I need to order my fabric for textiles. I'll do that after I've got all the measurements I need though.
Then I need to get my art project on the Post-apocalypse up to a certain point, but for that I'm going to set a load of mini deadlines which will get their own notebook page/checklist thing. There's also an essay I need to write about my project (I know. An Essay. For art. It's ridiculous) which needs to be in by the end of the first week back though I plan on getting it done before that.
Then finally I am going to focus on sorting everything out into a portfolio for uni interviews. My art teacher suggested a few things, namely making more work for myself, so I'm going to simplify it a bit. I want to show a progression of my work, and that I can work for a client, which I can all through this website. Which is convenient...

So as for the deadlines... I plan on starting all this after christmas, probably boxing day or the day after (depending on whether or not I'm hungover) and I want to get the first three things done before I start college again. My first interview isn't until the 13th of January and I go back on the 6th, so That gives me some leg room to get things sorted out.

The 250 word essay and the superhero stuff, which will be so awesome to do, shouldn't take long. Just get all doe eyed for Colleen Atwood and we're good, and my superhero would probably be like the Chill Pill or something because that is totally my superpower. I would be such an unconventional superhero. For this I'll give myself a day for the essay and the mood board, then like half a day for the final design, which takes me to either the 27th or the 28th. 

Then the textiles stuff... so I need to have a read through the book on the project and work in the details, I plan on dedicating 2 days to the design pages with the modelling intertwined, then another day for the publisher pages and anything I may have missed. So that should take me up to new years...

My deadline for the essay and the art project development/observational studies will be the 6th as this is the last thing I'm doing, so it should run up to the end. Though after the new year I may need some kind of social interaction to save me from some sort of depression, but we'll see.

So I will stick my face into this stuff on boxing day hopefully.

See you on the other side~

P.S. Did anyone read this?... I really hope not
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Time

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I am hating college right now. I litterally have no time to draw. I mean I could probably spend less time watching TV shows, but even doing that I feel guilty.

BUT

At the moment my art project is the apocalypse (Entitled: The End Is Nigh) and my plan is to use the four main-ish characters from Zenith so I get to draw them... but surviving the apocalypse... sound good?
IT DOES TO ME
But all this depends on my rate of procrastination and how often I have blocks SIGHHH No, I disagree!.

On the upside I can sort of maybe draw guys now, so after I finish this bloody picture of Kam I will be drawing Jase. I just have to work out how to colour on Photoshop beCAUSE NO BLOODY WATER BRUSH. GYAHHHH.

I miss Sai.

Beth out~ 
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