This week I found to be extremely productive. I finally ended up with a finalized page and Illustration layout, as well as a font size and leading that i enjoy. I printed out a smaller thumbnail sized version of the book and put it together so that i could make sure that everything flowed correctly with the layout that i had put together. It all turned out pretty good. Since I didn't have the pages laid out correctly in indesign, once i printed the spreads, i had to cut them all into single pages, put them in the correct order, and tape them all together using blue painters tape... it was a long and taxing job, and the tips of my thumb and index fingers are still raw because of that damn tape lol. On a down note, we have another group critique on tues, but ive decided to spend my weekend, fixing up and finalizing my text, because there are some things that I want to add before i send it off to sweetland, and i believe that needs to be done soon because the layout i just completed will shift slightly once i edit the text. So on tues if i only have my book layout its going to look like i have not made any progress, but that will definitely not be true!!!!! I spent classtime and my time outside of class working on the text.

AAAAHHHHHH, LATE POST, I FORGOT TO WRITE YESTERDAY!!!! XP It's taking me a while to get back into the swing of weekly blog writing. This week was ... interesting. I put my text into In design, and created spaces for my images. Afterwards i started drawing. Much to my dismay, I completely misunderstood the reasons Hanna had me work in indesign in the first place. soon after I got the illustrations roughly drawn, i found fitting them into the text to be quite a challenge, basically the text was not laid out as well as it should have been, so back to the drawing board. I found a font size, lead size and page orientation that i feel comfortable with, and properly flowed the text into in design, not im re deciding where i want to illustrate, and how the illustrations will be oriented. Im trying to be more lose with the placement of the drawings this time, last time i had no full page or two page spreads. the process is coming along, but its difficult. I spent the class times in my studio, and spent thursday night and friday in my studio working as well.

This week was pretty productive, I finally got a preliminary layout for my book done, now i just need to focus on the images. The layout is subject to change, but it helped me to narrow down exactly which parts of the story I wanted to Illustrate. For class on tuesday Im going to come in with 2 moch up spreads with Illustrations included, just to test out and see which direction im going to go in, as well as see if my illustration ideas are working well. This ended up being my first post since after christmas because I forgot to post last week, it took a minute for me to back into the swing of the weekly blog posts. I spent class time working in my studio both tuesday and thursday, as far as studio time, i cant spend it in my studio anymore unfortunately because i have a class scheduled during that time slot, which feels a but strange because last semester I was one of the few people who was in my studio during the scheduled time every week. It works out tho because I make up my lost studio hours on the weekends, Im always in my studio fri-sun, ususally from around 1-9 pm. work work work.

December Reviews. I felt like my december review was very successful. In the beginning my biggest fear about my review was that I was going to run out of time. I had so much that I wanted to talk abut during my presentation, and I felt like 20 mins was just not going to cut it. During the practice presentations that we did with out classes, I completely overshot my time. When Sean and Hanna told me I had three minutes left I was less than half way through my presentation, and ended up rushing through the rest of my presentation so fast that I didn't even talk about what my story was actually about :/ that really sucked. The night before my review I wrote myself Up a script (it turned out to be three single spaced pages long :/) and really paced myself with the presentation. On the actual day of the review I finished just in time, and got a chance to talk about everything I wanted to. I felt like my committee was really into my presentation. I got allot of useful feedback, and I felt that my committee members were very interested in my story. I really enjoyed myself on presentation day!

This week was one of the most productive yet, i drew lots of pictures. I spent all of my studio time drawing. I also got to practice giving my december review presentation on thrusday. WHen I put my presentation together I was very proud of it, because I included allot of information, and allot about how far i have come in terms of my projects development. I did not however, practice the talking aspect of my presentation, I underestimated exactly how long it would take me to get through the presentation. I got about halfway through and received a warning telling me that i had 3 minutes left, it was not good. Due to me running out of time i didn't get to present one of the most important parts of the presentation, i didn't get to read a section of the story, or even tell clearly what the story was about. I had planned to insert that part near the end as i was going over my Illustrations, but ran out of time. For my actual review, i have decided to make myself a script, and practice going over it in 20 minutes time.

This week was very productive!!! I spent all of my studio time mond and thursday drawing. I began using my 3D technique. So far ive done about two tests just to see how well the 3D backgrounds would go when my 2D drawings are placed against them. So far so good but I cant be 100% sure how things will look until i have fully painted the drawings. I feel that once the drawings are given shades and tonal values they will blend much much better. I also began doing other Illustrations just to get use to drawing the characters, so that there will be consistency when im drawing. What I need to do now is to keep drawing and painting, the more i draw and paint the better at them i become.

This week was actually pretty dull, not much IP progress unfortunately. I had a 10 page paper for my women's studies class that took up almost all of my time this week. I spend my studio hours on tues editing the parts of sanguine moon that were embarrassing (grammar and spelling stuff, there was even a part where I called monica Jessica for some odd reason, I don't even have a Jessica in the story) Then I spent my studio time thursday drawing, I finished the character sketch of the old man and started on Christopher. I also registered online with the sweetland writing center and am scheduling an appointment after thanksgiving break. What I need to do next is draw draw draw, midterm review is coming up and I dont have allot of visuals t show my board, and its not like I can hand them a 50 page manuscript and make them read it... I've got allot of thinking to do :( I'm going to try and do a scene for my tues meeting with elonas group, which means I'll be working in 3D this weekend, I should be able to get a line drawing done by tues. that combined with the character sketches should provide something for the group to look at while I talk, I will probably read a section aloud as well.