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Blarg! ^_^ A little big update

Journal Entry: Sun Aug 2, 2009, 11:26 PM


-MY LIFE-

Right, last I told 'ya I was collecting unemployment, driving a new car, and taking a class on dental assisting at an occupational school. Now, I finished my internship, the class, and got my dental radiology certification. I was hired immediately by the very same office I did the unpaid internship for, been working there for several months now. The dentist I work for is seriously the best I could ask for. He straight-up told me he likes the fact I'm meticulous and encouraged me to ask him to give me more time to finish a task if I felt like I needed it... I got fired from my last job because I couldn't move as fast as they wanted, nevermind I never made a mistake that cost them further time and money because I took my time to do it right. But now I actually feel in my element, I know what I'm doing and I'm not being pressured in any way. In fact, anything I truely exert myself at or do a little extra is praised. I actually feel appreciated, which is the best thing an employer can do for their employees.
The only thing lacking is that this is a brand new office, just opened this February. We're a little low on patients. Our regular schedule is Tuesdays-Thursdays and Saturdays, 9 AM - 6 PM. But unfortunately we can't even fill that most the time. Only working 3-6 hour days, sometimes we don't even do business at all and I clock in for an hour just to tidy up and be prepared for the next day's appointments. So even though I get $13 an hour, I'm working less than part-time in the big picture. I can only hope business picks up for the office's sake. I'm not that concerned I'm not making as much money as I could be, I just really hope he can survive. I love the job so much, and I know any other office would be nowheres as near as nice. But we've a steady stream of new patients coming in, hopefully that doesn't dry up suddenly and they can continue to come in and pay their bills. Life is good so far, could be better, but I'm happy :nod:

Major bad thing that happened, is my hard-drive conked on my new PC :dohtwo: I bought and installed a new one, running better than before. I've been able to restore all the programs via redownloading or installing, but my old hard-drive is completely unaccessable even when attached externally, so all the data is gone. Sadly some of that was saved .psd files of things I was working on and stupidly hadn't saved out to my USB drive :( So I lost a bunch've stuff I wish I hadn't... but I can make new stuff to make up for it! :w00t:




-MY ART-

Alright, aside from the spontaneous gifts and ideas that are bound to pop up, I've two projects I've in the works:

First and foremost, I'm starting my "comic" finally. I put that in quotations because it in reality isn't going to start in comic form. Since the majority of my cast hasn't even been drawn once, I don't want to atempt doing the actual comic. But, it's killing me that I've got a story to tell and I can't. Plus, I hate posting pictures of characters that I'm excited about because I've an epic behind them in my mind, but you've nothing and can't really care too much about them (which is logical, I don't blame you at all). SO, my thought is that if I at least have 1 storyline done, now you have a basis to be interested and excited to see them, and I've gotten a chance to brainstorm concepts with them in action rather than just standing there.
So therefore, this first chapter in the story will be mostly literature with pictures embeded regularly to give you a visual of settings, characters, and choice events. Sort've like a picture book, only instead of one big picture for a page of text, it's like a large comic panel for every 1 or two paragraphs.
I've already started it, hopefully by the end of this week there'll be a posting! I've decided that instead of having a set deadline when I'll regularly release a page each week/month I'll post as soon as I have a complete segment of plot finished. Meaning I won't cut it off and post a page even though it's in the middle of a conversation or encounter that was interesting, you'll get an entire hunk of story you're satisfied with reading and waiting for the next bit regardless its size. Only trade-off is it's irregular.

The other project is the first in 2 series of digital paintings I'm gonna try entitled "E.P.I.C." standing for "Erratic Painting, Intermidiate Clarity". The style will be similar to these [link] [link] only without lineart and a little rougher. The idea is for me to draw large scenes with captivating action or some other grand visual without having to stress over the details. So it'll be huge, but slightly abstract. In otherwords, "epic" :P
The 2nd series I'll do after a bunch of those will be "B.R.U.T.A.L." standing for "Brilliantly Rendered Underlying Textures And Lighting". Basically the attention will be on those small details I left out before, creating a sharp and hopefully near photo-realistic painting that focuses on materials (inspired by `adonihs [link] [link] [link]). This will consist of close shots of characters with little background, possibly even dark or overly dramatic lighting leaving me to focus on a single subject.

Hopefully putting myself through the ringer with both of those series I'll improve greatly as an artist and be able to apply both concepts to make digital images both huge and epic while still maintaining all the little details. Which of course results in pure awesome and win :XD:


And that's a wrap for this journal dump. Apologies and thanks to your eyes and brain for enduring it. I appreciate you all for watching and caring.
TTFN, ta-ta-for-now :peace:

  • Mood: Optimism
  • Listening to: The Jelly Jam
  • Reading: Yo' face!
  • Watching: Monk Season 7
  • Playing: City of Heroes
  • Eating: Crunch bar
  • Drinking: Water

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  • Current Residence: Bay Area California
  • Interests: Sci-fi, Sonic the Hedgehog, Halo, Star Wars, Metal Gear, lots of other game franchises.
  • Favourite movie: The Dark Night; IronMan; Transformers 1&2
  • Favourite band or musician: Dream Theater
  • Favourite genre of music: Rock, Progressive Rock, Metal
  • Favourite artist: bringonthethunder
  • Favourite poet or writer: Eric Nylund
  • Favourite style of art: Anything that shows creativity, be it CGI, digital, or tradional.
  • Operating System: Vista Home Premium
  • MP3 player of choice: Black 80 GB Microsoft Zune
  • Shell of choice: Red shell. They're homing...
  • Wallpaper of choice: Dreamscapes from Stardock
  • Skin of choice: MyColors Encounter Desktop
  • Favourite game: Halo and Metal Gear Solid series
  • Favourite gaming platform: Xbox 360
  • Favourite cartoon character: Sally Acorn
  • Personal Quote: "Meh... I try"
  • Tools of the Trade: Mechanical pencil, paper, tablet, and Photoshop Elements 7.0

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:iconshimmyshammy:
IT'S PEOPLE! THE SECRET INGREDIENT IN LESCH'S ART IS PEOPLE!

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:iconjohanz:
Like Sonic eh? :) Well, thanks a bunch for favving and watching me! I rarely get any new watchers these days, thanks alot. :D

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:iconkascadekrystee:
Hey, you. How've you been? I kinda miss ya. (: Anyway, if you don't remember me, my account used to be ~affy-hedgefoxbat; you made this ( [link] ) for me about, uh... a year ago? Wow, that's a long time. X.x But, yeah, still love it. (: And I still go back and dig through my old account every now and again...

Anyway, how're you doing? (: What're you up to?
:iconluciferzillyhoo:
Hey, thanks for the comments and the favorite! I very much appreciate it :D

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I may have asked you this before, but I have a project that can use your help.

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Thanks for the fave...appreciated!

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Hi there!:giggle: It was a long time no see...:D Hope everything's fine!

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:iconspacehater:
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, thank you for the fav too!!
:iconspacehater:
Thanks for the comment and critique! I should be adding more stuff soon.
:iconchance-one:
thanks for passing by :)
:iconhotchoco17:
~:D~Just thought I would stop by and say, "Hey".

Haven't herd from you for some time.
By the way it's still Hot Out Here!
:iconsunman107:
you maybe right about the "Jack" and "John" name aspect of Big Boss... So I will do more research

thanks for the comment

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i like your avatar :iconyesyesyesplz:

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:iconmikey-moo:
cheers for the fav+ :)

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take a look at my gallery......
you never know you might like it......
:iconpaperlab:
Thanks for the fav. :) It should be in color soon.
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Thank you for watching Edtropolis!

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Thanks for the fav, yo =)

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:iconb-b-girl1:
Wow! u sure have nice art here^^

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