Faun

Again. This one is a little more concept driven. I'm digging the shorter hair. Unfortunately there will be another character with horns, so I'm working really hard to make them different.

Tender Forever - Heartbroken Forever

This is my new obsession. I can't seem to get enough of this song, and I'm going to have to go out and find the rest of the album before I go crazy. Tender Forever is on K Records (shout out to Oly!) but it originally from France. The music is like comprehensible Xiu Xiu. I don't know, this song is amazing, I wish I could find a better Youtube of it.



Also you can hear the studio version on this Muxtape here - http://heartbeats.muxtape.com/

I get that this isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea, but I love it so!

Today is an experiment in color!

It was determined that this looked more like my sister.

Drawing at Work

I doodle in photoshop when things are waiting to be printed. I'm thinking about starting a comic project and this is an idea for a fawn type character.

edit: It was mentioned by a couple of my coworkers (and pretty much everyone I know) that what I draw looks a lot like me. I've accepted this, and it might even be to my benefit as a lot of my "fine art" is autobiographical. There is one little thing that's bugging me, and it relates to something i heard on NPR. People are really bad at identifying other people of different races. The radio show was talking about the wrongful conviction of black men that were mostly identified by white people. So today I'm starting to think that yes my art does vaguely resemble me, but maybe the white people I'm surrounded with see a stronger similarity because they don't know how to look at Asian people. It's a bit far fetched, but white privilege is knowing that your art actually looks like you. Yeah, probably more then a bit...

Going Back to School

I started taking a teaching English as a second (TESL) class last month, and getting back into the groove of school is harder then I thought it would be. This of course is me forgetting that I never was in the groove of school, and there was something I always hated about it and could never get over. Yeah, me and school don't have the best relationship. The class so far has been fantastic mostly because the teacher is amazing. I've also started to realize why in language classes they do the things they do. I spend 60% of my time in class sitting there thinking "Ooohhhh, that's why they did that!" It's a good feeling to know why things happened, but I wish I was taking a language class now so I could examine everything the teacher does. That could end badly though, as I would probably start correcting them, or try to steer them towards more modern ways of teaching.

Right now I'm taking this class to keep up on staying educated. I don't have any serious plans of jumping ship, but once I've got my certificate, we'll see. I'd like to travel, and I'm hoping that being TESL certified will open up some doors for me. Thinking in the long term I'd like to go to Japan, Korea, Europe (not that they need much help with English), possibly Dubai, and part of Africa. All this is way out in the future, but it's fun to fantasize.

Men are gross.

I was stared at for a good 30 seconds by two Hispanic guys in a stopped car while I was standing at the bus stop. It was completely disgusting, and before someone pulls the raciest card, I'm just as grossed out when white or black or asian guys do it as well. The whole thing has worked me up into some kind of feminist rage. Yuck. I wish I could get the looks on their sweaty tan faces out of my head.

Oh and btw, if anyone is thinking that I was "asking for it", first of all you're a dumb ass to think that there is any time it's ok to objectify a woman, and second I was standing at a bus stop, wearing jean, a t-shirt, and a frumpy brown sweater. I don't wear clown makeup, and wear my hair in small pigtails to keep it off my neck. OMG so sexy, let's all treat Aimee like a piece of meat.

I wish I could be more articulate about this, but basically men suck and I hate you all. Now I'm going to go feel gross and scrub my skin off.