Uni work - Week 3

Tuesday - No classes but I went to the university any way because I thought I'd get some extra work in. Well, actually, I mixed up my days and I thought the class that was on Wednesday was actually on Tuesday for some reason. 

Wednesday -  Was at home chilling until the time I had to go and get ready, and go catch the bus to get to uni. Suddenly I realised, my class actually starts an hour earlier than I actually thought. Again, I had mixed up the days, I thought the time for Thursdays class was actually for Wednesday. So suddenly there was a mad rush for me to get there as quickly as I could. 

In the class, I think I made some decent progress on my assignments for my projects class. I did some rough sketches of my ideas for my data visualisation, which the topic is "Travel" and I have decided to research data sets on travelling distance and time between Newcastle and the main cities around Australia via different modes of transport. I also was able to sketch down some rough ideas of what some of the pages and buttons graphics might look like for the interface of the data visualisation. Also, with a little help from my teacher I was able to make a decision to cut out some details of certain data to research to make the assignment job not seem as big.

Other than that the lesson was basically just a lesson in both InVision and Atomic, and how to use them to put together our data visualisations.

Thursday (today) - I made some progress and discussion for feedback on both my seminar presentation and essay topic. My seminar is going to be a talk about the infamous "Josiah Brooks" aka "Jazza" from "Jazza Studios" or his YouTube series "Draw with Jazza". As one of the artists on the internet that I look up to the most, I thought it fitting that I talk about him and his work, and how he influences me. My essay topic, I'm still trying to decide but I think I'm going to write about the topic of Illustration, what it takes to be a freelance Illustrator and how the idea of an illustration agency for freelance illustrator's work. But as I said I'm still working on it, but I have started my research on it now, because the more I read into it the more I actually want to know and write about it to insight others as well.

Well that's all I have to write so far, thanks for taking the time to read my thoughts and I'll hopefully see you in the next blog.

I just had a really cool idea!

I think when I'm a bit more free from this comic competition and any outstanding commissions. I think I'd like to create "Me in Chinese/Other Zodiac costume" stickers. Either me in the costumes or me and my friends or me and some of my original characters.

A new comic story and a competition!

Hello Blog Bells!

How are you doing today? Just thought I'd write an update on how I'm going. 

Over the last few months I have been working on a few projects, one of which seems to be taking up most of my time but is completely worth it. This project is a comic I'm working on for a comic for the Medibang website (https://medibang.com/contest/mcpo/). It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do but at last I have figured it out and am already 5/30 pages into the story. I won't spoil the story too much for all of you, eventually I plan on putting it up online on both Medibang and Tapastic for you all to see. However I will tell you the story is based off of the new roleplay I've been doing with my friends. I will share below a few screenshot previews of the comic so far though, so you can get a feel and get excited about reading it when it is done. Of course when it does come out it will only be the first episode/chapter of the story, I plan on making this a continuous story and I'm quite excited about this. Because this is the first time in my life that I've chosen a story to draw and decided to stick with it, and have made the most progress on. I will admit that the story isn't entirely my own, I am using a world that was created by the GM and two characters that belong to the other two players. But I have asked everyone if it was alright for me to make this comic and they happily agreed and were very supportive in me doing this. I appreciate their support and could not have made this much progress without their cooperation! ^_^ To combat the fact the story isn't completely my own, I may decide to add a few things of my own to the story to adapt the story from RP (roleplay) mode to comic mode.

Anyway other than that I'm still going strong with my other projects, which some I cannot mention here for secret reasons, but who knows maybe when it's finally finished I will display it somewhere for you all to see.

Let me see what else, it has been an absolutely scorching hot Australian Summer, my kitty Midnight is the most adorable kitty in the world, and I'm going to be going back to Uni soon. So I'll be making the most out of my free time I have left. I still don't have a job but I haven't given up. I believe somewhere out there is the job for me, be it retail, hospitality, freelance graphic design, animation, illustration, etc. I WILL FIND WHERE I BELONG IN THE JOB WORLD SOMEDAY, SOMEHOW!

So bye for now, lots of love to you all you Bells out there!

Sofi (SakuraBellStudios)