Yesterday, I gave my mother all 3 of my credit cards and told her to keep them for me. She won't use them, she has her own. But this limits me to only having the money I can make in a week, and I will be forced to budget myself now. I dropped an unecessary sociology class for next trimester (I just liked the prof) and decided to take an entry level business accounting class instead. If I'm going to start up a freelance company it will help if I know how to do the books. To that effect also, I bought a book last night about how to begin your own freelance graphic design/illustration business, and so far it's been very informative and helpful.
My final exams for this crazy trimester are next week. I can honestly say that I enjoyed 90% of my classes these past 11 weeks. I took Abnormal Psychology, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Deviant Behavior (sociology), Career Capstone (required), Environmental Science, and Introduction to the Art of Film (which I hated, thanks to the professor). My major is Computer Graphics, and my concentrations are Desktop Publishing and Psychology. Interesting mix, yeah, but they're fun to know about. Weirdly, one of my customers at work was a computer programmer with a concentration in psych. I didn't think many people mixed them up at such far ends of the spectrum like me, but it was a cool coincidence.
As far as design work goes, my father's 52nd birthday is in March (the 15). I am planning to make him a custom Munny figure, another of the 4" minis. I have some grandiose plans for what I would like to do, but I don't have much time to do it in. I have a feeling the week of my break is going to be filled with a lot of sculpting and painting. I would like to model the Munny after my dad, and have it riding in an Avanti (a model of Studebaker he has coveted for many years).
I have plans for other custom Munnys as well, but they have been backburnered for now as this is a priority. I bought some dry-hard air drying clay to avoid having to bake this time around. I did some reading and found that Sculpey and Super Sculpey (as well as Fimo) tend to give off fumes while they are baking and should not be baked in ovens that food is also prepared in. My family has one oven, and I don't want to poison them with my projects, so this will be an experiment to see how effective this is. I also bought a put-together model of a 69 mustang that I am going to cannibalize for car parts. Mostly I just need the undercarriage and wheels, as I would like this contraption to roll. I bought spray primer this time round as well, to see if I have to apply fewer coats of acrylic paint/can prevent the paint chipping off. No sewing required this time around either, which is nice.
Since I shouldn't post without at least giving you something art-related to look at, I give you two photoshop doodles done over the last couple of weeks to keep me from getting too out of practice.
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