Stark Ravings

I've attended the first GEM lesson and was immediately shoved an assignment - draw on an A3 size drawing block, an animal doing something. ANYTHING. and it must be big, filling up at least 3 quarts of the drawing block. tough eh? i chose Designing Cartoons and Animation for Games as my module for this semester and i am thoroughly relishing it. thats cos' i love drawing. i always had a passion for drawing, cartoons, that is. i can't draw anything else. lol. Throughout the lesson i was kept entertained by frantically drawing hard when he tells us too. As well as watching the lecturer draw cartoon-ish animals totally impromptu. he hardly had to wreck his brains to kick up a bear with fangs and neat long claws. along with a cloak draped over its shoulders. The lecturer is a superb artist; he showed us an art piece of his and it was brilliant. it was nicely painted using Photoshop(yes, i'll soon learn that too!) and it looked good enough to be framed up. Geez, i wish i had such talent. Our lecturer wants us to learn and draw images which are abstract in a way, he doesn't just want a normal picture of an animal, it needs a twist of imagination and creativity, so that the picture turns out ironic. During class, he even thought of drawing a psychotic rabbit with an eye sticking out. o_O

I've been wrecking my brains over the weekend on what to draw. its due this friday. My lecturer suggested out-of-the-world stuff such as a G.I Jones bear holding a gun, or a cat drowning. Apparently he likes torturing animals. o_O the first animal that came to my mind was a cat, naturally. my favourite animal is the cat. cat applying makeup? then there's the dog; since the dog's men's best friend. an image of a frog looking through a magnifying glass brushed across my mind. i soon figured that the cat applying makeup would be far too feminine and as anthony mentioned, and my lecturer wouldn't appreciate that. lol. so i've decided to take anthony's and glen's suggestion to "draw like peaceful animal, holding violent weapons?". I shall... sketch a monkey holding a chain saw. I'm trying to make some progress now, browsed for some pictures of a chainsaw. cos' apparently i have no idea how to draw a chainsaw. if possible if the pic turns out nice i'd post it up. wish me luck! ;)

Gonna go look for a fruit to gobble up now, have a craving for something sweet. I just realised that earlier on the way home with glen and cindy, i couldn't shut my mouth for a single second. i kept talking and talking and talking and yakking and yakking yakking on.. yakkidyyak yakkity yak. SERIOUSLY. amazingly neither glen nor cindy got annoyed and screamed, 'sheesh what will it take for this biatch to shut the hell up??'. lol okay waaaaaaaay off point.