ÉG ER BÚIN

yes kids that's right, today (....I'm writing this april 2nd but... it's like 1:30am so it still feels like april 1 ok) I submitted my application to the animation program once more and for the final time, scary!! Here is a snap story of my adventures:



WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE



also can I just share my super weird fear??? so. when I applied the last time we took our sketchbooks to the DVA main office where like... people were kind of looking over them/making sure they werent stolen. Well I have this terrible paranoia that someone is going to go through the giant stack of sketchbooks and decide to STEAL MINE TO SABOTAGE ME. ok I know that that is super unlikely. Like my brain zone is like "that's not going to happen" but my ANXIETY ZONE is freaking out. I waited as close to the due date as a I could honestly to prevent anyone the opportunity at least.

but I guess all day today there were what some of my friends are calling sketchbook mercenaries ie other students hanging aroudn the box outisde kelly's office so they can go through ppl's sketchbooks and like.... see what they... had in there I guess. There were a couple ppl chillin when I got there to drop mine off so I mean... this seems like a very real thing that was happening. ugh ugh ugh I'm sure it'll be fine bah.


edito: also it's interesting to look at what I posted last time and to see how I felt about it. I will say I feel a lot calmer about the whole thing (other than the weird anxiety/paranoia about sketchbook misplacement. OK BUT THAT IS JUSTIFIED I met a girl one time who applied for the 'gram last year and her sketchbook just was like... lost I guess so I mean. it happens.) I would say less like aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa and even less like "yay I'm free now" and more like... how I felt when I got off my misison. Like, I definitely just feel like "now what?" like........ all Ivé been doing for the last month and semester and school year has been working toward this program and now it's out of my hands so... what do I do with my time now?

I'm thinking maybe starting a comic actually

DOUBLE EDITO
should I post what I submitted??? I kind of want to but I also kind of don't because what if I don't get in??? that's kind of a dumb reason  to not post so I guess I'll post. slash at this point I don't even care.

the finalest flouriest of sacks

I made this

update here's the one I'm submitting for my portfolio

All the things I should have said

wow wow wow doesn't that blog title just sound like it needs some angsty poetry following it??!?!?!??!??? well, I aint about that life. but I feel bad I did not post at all really last semester and there were definitely things I COULD HAVE posted about that curse me. Ok so here are some things I should have made blog posts about!!!!:

-how I live in the old MTC because it was the only housing I could find

-the time I hiked up timp and it was the worst ever and I had a panic attack on the summit and everyone with me decided that would be a good time to TAKE A NAP and leave me alone with my mental illness!!! word to the wise: don't hike with funteens.

-how I had my alarm clock set to 1:30 in the morning, but I thought it was set to 6:30 but I would always just turn it off and go to sleep but all my roommates who were still awake heard it and could not figure it out and then one night at roommate prayer they were like "have you guys heard the mysterious beeping noise?" and I had no idea and then when my alarm went off that night two of them burst into my room shouting "IT'S YOUR ALARM!!!!!" and I was so asleep I was just like "sorry" and went back to sleep and forgot it even happened until my roommate apologized to me the next night, hahahah what a good time.

-how Icelandic and spanish are apparently the same language in my head (like really, I try to speak spanish and icelandic comes out it's a problem when I'm in the spanish sunday school class, I cannot articulate)

-I drew a lot of stuff, I should have posted some of it. I guess I will right now, enjoy:

In other news for this semester, I have restarted my draw a day project, 52366! Additionally, for my icelandic class this semester we are doing a blog for part of our assignments! Here is mine!!! even if you don't speak Icelandic I'm sure it will be some kind of quality.

This is the greatest piece of art I have ever made.

1. don't you ever touch me again. 2. don't you ever touch me again.

shoutout to Poncho for coming up with this idea.

From Hell's Heart I Stab at Thee

"Here's food for thought, had Ahab time to think; but Ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels, that's tingling enough for mortal man! to think's audacity. God only has that right and privilege. Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that. And yet, I've sometimes thought my brain was very calm—frozen calm, this old skull cracks so, like a glass in which the contents turn to ice, and shiver it." -Moby Dick, Chapter 135 "The Chase—Third Day."

In case you guys didn't know, Moby Dick is like my favourite book. So many good quotes. Also you can take said great quote and just like swap out "whale" and all that for really anything you want and you get some great results. Here's an example:

He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous[ly bad writing], with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be [Twilight] agent, or be [Twilight] principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. 

that was a pretty easy target, but I don't want to hurt anybody's feel feels too bad. Comment with your own!!

InaOak Citypriate

well howdy do there friends. It sure has been a while! I think it's high time I regale you with tales of my recent activities. You'll have to speak with me in person if you want to know more about my brief stint as a lifeguard of the Provo pool, but I will tell you on this blog all about 1) animation application aaaaaaaaa and 2) the magic of my ancestral homeland and the Edward Partridge Memorial Day Breakfast. Let's start with Amination.

Today I think I finished my 2D animation in a way that is suitable for my application! It porbably still needs some tweaking, but so be it. Here's a video compilation of all the animation I've done by hand that I happened to have kept. Also, DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN ADD MUSIC TO YOUTUBE VIDEOS. I picked the best song ever.

Here is the final version of my Flour Sack that I'm going to submit


 My sketchbook is a source of permanent terror. I am like always behind in it. I hope that this will get better now that I don't have a job, but I guess we'll see. My 3D is coming along, my figure drawings are a mess.

ok enough about animation, let's talk about the best family reunion of all time. Last weekend, the fam fam and I went down to Oak City, Utah, the place of my father's birth (in a green house, because in those days they hadn't invented hospitals yet). Here are some pics from my phone

my brother everyone

This is Ben holding a baby. in the background is my other brother, Marshall

on Saturday Joseph and I went back to the hotel to watch Star Trek and this happened.

Every Sunday night there is THE EXACT SAME TALENT SHOW. that's what family tradition is all about. It actually wasn't the exact same because I didn't sing like I usually do (I am ok with this.) but otherwise we had the good old staples of On the Road to Mandalay, Wishy Washy Soap, blowing out the candle (weirdo international version idek), Bessie had a cow (pictured above) AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!

 Now I must tell of my Aunt Lisa (she's really my cousin, but my family is weird and she's basically my aunt anyway). She is pretty much the coolest person ever. She's a real dynamite gal. Anyway, I can't type. Lisa is the person who organizes everything every year and also she is not afraid to call it like it is.  She once KO'd a girl by hitting her in the head with a hairbrush. You don't mess with aunt Lisa. Once last year, Indy came with us and when she met Lisa, Lisa was like "And where do you hail from?" thinking Indy was another family member she hadn't met yet (which, given the size of our family, is not that absurd). Indy's reply was, of course, "uh.... Norway?"

Here are some pictures of my dad and his friends!!!!

this is my dad and his friend, Winston. They got up to some MAD SHENANIGANS when they were kids. My (actual) Aunt Mary (pictured, middle) said that they made her life miserable. Once my dad and Winston crashed a plane in a sunflower field outside Oak City. My dad does not like Winston's wife and makes my mom talk to her. Winston and my dad are cousins on his mom's side. Winston and my dad is Indy and me in about 70 years.

This is my dad and his friend Reese (I am probably spelling that right). Dad was telling me all about Reese and his convo, but I can't remember it right now. I'm pretty sure they are cousins too. Also note that awesome hat my dad is wearing in this pic.

This picture was taken during the DANCE!! that we have every saturday at the reunion. I also remembered why I started talking about Lisa. She came up to us (Abigail, our niece Carly, and me) on friday and was like "some of the boys over at the basketball court were like 'Hey Lisa we hear you have a bunch of HOT COUSINS coming into town today, you should send them to the bball court!' and I told them 'I'm not sending them over to the basketball courts, IF YOU WANT TO MEET THEM YOU BETTER COME TO THE DANCE TOMORROW'" and I can only imagine she snapped her fingers in a Z formation and drove away on her ATV.

Anyway, the dance is when ALL THE LOCALS COME OUT OF THE WOODWORK AND DO THE SQUARE DANCE AND IT'S INCREDIBLE. The thing about all the Oak City teens is that they are all like at least a year behind fashion or like fifty years, depending on the kid, but either way, we're all probably too related to each other to actually get married so I'm not sure why any of them are interested (Oak City is like mini-Iceland. Oak City is the reason I am my own fifth cousin. twice.) Here are some videos of Ben and Jojo getting up to trouble.

Finally, on the last day, memorial day, we have the memorial day breakfast, in honor of Edward Partridge, first bishop of the LDS church and father of two of our collective grandmothers, who also were married to the same guy, Amasa Mason. When Trek rolls around, Joseph is going to be Amasa, I'm going to make Abigail come and be one of the partridge sisters and I will be the other one and it will be super weird. the end.

At the breakfast, there are three main staples: Sour Dough Pancakes, eggs over easy and ham. To drink you have milk freshly juiced from the cow and tang. That's right, TANG. Last year Indy and I were in charge of making sure there was enough milk and tang put out and we came up with a little diddy based on a line from an infamous Black Eyed Peas song that goes a little something like this: "Fill up my cup (TANG), mazel tov (L'Milk!)"

jojibobo during the breakfast. He had bathroom duty, along with Abigail and Carly. That's what happens when you don't sign up quick!!

ok this blog post has been far too long, here's a kiss goodbye and I will probably write again after I've submitted my application to the program!!

I wore last year's reunion shirt under my brighton jacket and this happened.

outside Mike's Taxidermy, one of the two stores in Oak City.

Greetings, Panicking Youngsters

as much as I would enjoy following the smell of beans through the infinite realms of the ghost zone, it's finals week and ain't nobody got time for that. It's been a while since I've really PUT MY HEART into one of these posts I feel like. but enough about me, let's talk finals.

Here's the thing about taking mostly creative classes, you don't exactly have finals for them in the traditional sense. I mean you'll usually have a final project, but there isn't like a final test/essay you have to do at a weird specified time during finals week (more on that later). Because of that, it really means that the week before finals is a lot crazier than the week of. Before I continue, here's a picture

This goes out to Indy

This was especially true my last semester at the U, where all my classes had either the last test (in place of a final) or the final project due the last day of class. At the Y things are turning out slightly differently, in favor of confusion. Every class has a set aside final time, which is fine, but for all my creative classes that don't have a final proper, I'm left slightly confused.

For Figure Drawing we have to turn in a bunch of printouts of our drawings and all that, which is fine, except I HAVE NO IDEA WHEN AND WHERE THAT'S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.

For all my other classes there's no problem really (and two of my classes are already over). I have no idea how my New Testament final is supposed to work, because apparently they have religion class finals in the Wilk???? and I guess it's like the testing center in that you can go whenever you want???? I JUST DON'T KNOW

Then we come to Old Norse. I'm not *super* worried about the final itself, except that it's at........
EIGHT IN THE MORNING.

ON A SATURDAY.

why byu, why

Now that all of this is explained, I just want to share with you all my sketchbook assignments for Figure drawing because they are all the coolest and I super like them and I want the world to see them (talk to me in like five years and I'll probably tell you something about setting these on fire, such is the price of improvement or something.) In order from the ones I like least to most, here they are:

this batman wins least favourite because the background leaves much to be desired. and the preliminary sketch was way cooler than the real thing. sad day.

SUPER LONG EXPLANATION FOR THIS HERE (enjoy looking at my stanky deviantart I guess)

When my 2D professor looked at this he was like "it looks like Han Solo is having a stroke" and now I cannot unsee.

buh, I super like this one. It's based mostly on that ooc episode where Data loses his memory and gives a whole town radiation poisoning, but I changed his costume from the one he's wearing in the scene he actually gets impaled (which, ps, is a look that no one should ever wear) to his messed up uniform from when he first wanders into town.

THIS ONE IS THE BEST ONE. I based it on John Bauer's "Loki Finds Gullveig's Heart" and it came out amazing...ly

I keep waiting for these assignments to finish so I can post them all together, but at this point I'm like "pft whatevs here they are" I'll come back later when our last two, He-man and the final are done, and you can see them below:

"As a Bird Man, I have a thing about cages" -actual quote from the 80's he man show

Lady with a Pokémon, possibly my most super favourite

I'm sorry my blog is so boring here have some drawings of people

Some Figure Drawings

here look at these things I drew. All are done with Conté on newsprint

10-20 second

I think this on was 7 minutes

shout out to Haley on this one. Also this is seriously the first time I've drawn the entire body of my imagined version of an elf. I don't know why she turned into a clothes model but I'm not complaining

also look at this boincing ball gif I made in about three minutes

 bonus, this weird picture on steam the other day:

WHY ARE HIS NIPPLES GLOWING.jpg