School, and Pokadiction

My life’s been a little slow on the art front, but only in terms of finished pieces. I’ve been sketching pretty much every day, in class, or while Brendan works on his portfolio – seeing him work so hard inspires me to do my own work. Other than that, I’ve been getting my Etsy store back into production, which can be found here.

This one was named “Queen of Hearts,” and she was one of my favorites. She sold to a very old friend of mine, which makes me glad. Most of my sales come from complete strangers all over the country, most of whom I never know more about than their shipping address. Its nice to once and while know where these bunnies end up, and when they end up with special people in my life it becomes all the more amazing.

I started this school year at SMCC thinking some business classes would be right for helping me start some kind of entrepreneurship  – I was very wrong. The program was basically a giant launching field for becoming the store manager of a Rite Aid, which, having been a supervisor and an Assistant Manager in the past, was NOT what I was after. Second semester I abandoned this path and, having no idea what I wanted to do or why, I took several liberal arts courses – including “Introduction to Teaching.” After some thought and some classes, I might have finally found the right path for me. Teaching.

And this, I am pleased to say, is what I will be doing next school year. I have been accepted into MECA’s Post Bachellorette in Art Education program and I feel like I haven’t been this excited to attend school since I got into MECA in the first place, five years ago. I have no disillusions about how intense the program will be- I’ve heard some pretty rough tales, but it is very much something I want to be doing, and thanks to the class I’ve been taking over at SMCC I feel like I have a pretty solid head start.

As far as fun goes, I’ve always been a little addicted to Pokemon.

I played as a kid, but when I was finally gifted a Nintendo DS a couple years ago, the first game I got was Pokemon Pearl. I played through it a couple times, but there’s only so much you can do with it until it becomes repetitive. Luckily, the newest game came out a few weeks ago – Pokemon Soul Silver, and I gobbled it up the day after it was released. I’ve been playing ever since, and I’m currently working on a pretty epic illustration to go along with my gaming adventures. Above is my Luxray, who followed me over from my old game into the new one.

Keep checking back for more Pokemans illustrations! (I REFUSE to grow up!)

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