Sunday, January 29

New story perhaps?

I'm not sure if this'll be placed in the Adryn universe or if it'll be a generic fantasy novel (though I do wanna try and limit my fantasy stories to Adryn so I can develop my characters more and possibly have a numbered set) but the day I got my blank book (it's a sketchbook, but I'm gonna write in it as well) I started writing and drawing the first things that were coming to my mind. I got an excerpt describing a gateway to the High Elf realm, Indor... along with an illustration. It's all in random places on the first page, but it's all there. Items in brackets were not originally in the book.

As he walked down the path, a [faint] glint of light appeared beneath the door looming in front of him. [It was] a broad gate, tall and strong, flat except for the tangle of intricate runes scrawled upon it. There appeared to be great vines growing from the center, but [upon closer inspection] it was a mural pretending to be foliage. Astride the door on both sides were two massive oaks, their branches gnarled but full with leaf. Beyond these, the forest grew ever thick, with unseen wilderness back behind the wall of trees. He knew, beyond a doubt, this was the entrance to the realm of the Indor. He wondered, though, why the door was the height of a man twenty-fold, and how mere elves lifted such a cumbersome slab [when there was obviously no space for pulleys or levers.]

Wednesday, January 25

With every passing semester...

...college gets better and better. During my first 3 semesters, I told people I was an art major, which I was... I was going to college with the intention of focusing on my art skills. But I was taking classes like History, English, and Science classes. Not one art class. Last semester started my art classes, with Drawing 1.

This semester, however, kicks much ass. English is the only non-art class on my schedule. I've got three different media going on now: pencils and charcoal in Drawing 2, oils in Painting 1, and clay in 3D Design. Being in those three studio classes truly makes me feel like the art major that I tell everyone I am. It really makes me look forward to next semester, where I'll be taking Intermediate Drawing, Painting 2, Creative Writing, and an Art History class (I know, it's a classroom art instead of a studio art, but at least it's related to my major)