Graduating

After 2.5 years I will be graduating! Thursday is officially my last day of school...ever. Unless I go to Grad school but I'm not really planning on that.

Important things to note:

1. I am a member of the Golden Key International Honours Society - which apparently you only get invited to if you are in the top 10% of your class. I didn't know about that or the society till they sent me an invite. I received my fancy certificate last weekend at the new member celebration.

2. I am accepted into the Disney College Program! I will be working, living, and learning at Disneyland starting January 10th. I'll officially be moving out!

The 2nd Year at Cal State

It has been about a year since I last posted in here. Such a fact makes me wonder what all I have been doing that made time go by so quickly. Wonder I did, and here is a list of such ponderings (that I can remember anyway):
November-February: running around finding out why I was so fatigued and had stomach problems for so long.
May-June: Finished my junior year a week early to fly out to London where I studied abroad for a good 6+ weeks.
July-August: MAJOR life shifting. Very hard but very much a blessing.
August - now: School! My senior year has begun and is in process as I type. So far this is my favorite semester. I have some great teachers, interesting classes, and motivating projects. I really feel my life is on track and I'm going where I am suppose to be going. I am finally out of the hole, that stuck mud, and on to what I am meant to do for the now. Physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally, I'm growing ever stronger. This was definitely the summer of growing.

I'll be sure to post more here about the going-ons of this graphic designer. :)

Cheers to Cal State Uni

My first semester at a Cal Sate University and things have been crazy busy. The transfer process was easy enough and getting used to the new, much larger, campus didn't prove too difficult. I didn't think my classes would be too promising within the first week but they proved to be otherwise and I'm definitely more excited about these classes than any of the community college classes I took.

Busy! So much more work but it is much more satisfying. I'm taking Illustration A, Graphic Design A, Writing in the Visual Arts, and Film Music. I commute a 30 minute drive three times a week and spend most of those days at school. (My illustration and GD classes are 6 hours long!). My art teachers are much more lenient and flexible than my old art teachers which proves very beneficial to an artist to do their own thing..and is much more motivating for me.

My health is an obstacle with all this busy work I have, but I'm still pulling A's, which surprises me. Hopefully I'll find out exactly what's going on other then my Hypoglycemia. I miss sugar ;_;

Summer Time - Goal Time

Time for learning stuff I want to learn about! Flash, CSS, Photoshop techniques. My goal for the rest of this summer is to do a tutorial or chapter everyday. Whether it be a tutorial from a magazine, online, for whatever application, it will be done and at least one will be done everyday. I'm going to keep a list at that too, along with the results. NO LAZINESS.

Here's to future Scholarships

Unfortunately, I didn't receive the Transfer Scholarship I applied for a month ago. I did not expect too much for my first scholarship submission but I am still slightly disappointed. I curious to know what the winner's submission looked like. Oh well, gives me motivation to actually be motivated to create more artwork. Now I have experience with submitting so I won't be too hesitant to try again next time.

Maybe I'll even get my portfolio together this summer.

Scholarship Submission

I just sent in my submission for the CSU Fullerton Arts Scholarship for Junior Transfers. I didn't think I would since I missed the earlier deadline by accident. However, the Dean emailed later on about how he didn't receive as many submissions as he hoped so he extended the deadline and made it easier for us to submit it. Kind of felt like a godwink there. So I got off my butt and did it (why not try, right?). Took pictures of artwork I had laying around from previous classes. Could only have a max of 8 pieces. Majority of the ones I chose were done on Illustrator, but I also have some painting/drawing and web design in there.

The Scholarship is for $1000, which is a nice chunk of change. Now I just have to wait till late May to find out if I've won. I'll post a couple of my new artworks that I entered in my Art from a Ninjite blog.

Waiting...

Waiting till I receive and can enjoy the new Adobe Creative Suite 3. Which has dreamweaver AND flash among the adobe favs. This is going to be one package that will fulfill my creative taste buds. Hopefully by then I'll get my sites into gear (my two original ones: echoingdreams.com and ishnite.com, plus the new ocyeah.com). More information on those going ons coming soon.