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It has been a very long time since I was last here. I can tell from the enormous size of unviewed artworks and journals and other such things spamming up my inbox. I'm in the thousands... oh dear.

Either way, been in a semester long slump after graduating (Yes! I graduated! Art student with honors! Fancy diploma and everything!) and finally am pulling myself out of it by taking a Flash Animation and 3D Animation class at the local community college. Which is marvelous, because I discovered the glory that is Blender (3D program, FREE, can fit on a flash drive, FREE, in-program compositing, FREE, loads of tutorials, FREE) and I'm super excited to make stuff again. It's been a long while since I've felt that way.

Some dramatic things have happened in my personal life this year, lots of dramatic things I thought only happened on soap operas, which seems to be the consensus with all of my friends who know of the situation, but hopefully the new year will help clear a lot of that up. Drama. I can't handle it.

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THINGS. I have some sweet little things I've been putting up on vimeo! Old things, things that should really be updated now that I'm looking back at them, but things nonetheless!

vimeo.com/user5077259

Go ahead and check it out if you feel so inclined!



~Katie
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Well hello there! It's the end of this semester and ooohboy, what a doozy it was! I could spend time regaling you with all of the intense drama, life changing events, and insurmountable stress, but really, it's over now, and that is good. In short; more injuries, more dramatic illnesses, much procrastination leading to much stress, an epic finish for my finals, a boyfriend across the country (literally, we're each on opposite coastlines) and lots and lots of ART!

That's right kiddies, I have artwork! That should be coming very soon, piled high from the last time I posted anything of worth or value. I had an Advanced Figure Drawing class, so some nudity coming, and a 2D Animation class, so something there, an Intermediate Painting class combined with a Content and Form class, so lots of paintings there! How very exciting!

However, that does mean that I am now at home, and I have to go from my own delightfully ambiguous college time frame to the strict and rigid one of my parents, as I have moved back in with them for the summer. Imagine, all that freedom suddenly relegated by a demand that I wake up at 6:30 every morning, with a chore list and a 40 hour a week work system. I don't even have an actual job yet. It's the SUMMER damnit! That magical time when Lazy reaches a dignified form of excellence! Where whiling away a long afternoon should be encouraged! You're wasting my youth with productivity parents! WASTING IT!

But I digress. The food is excellent here, so I can't complain. And I am such a foodie after all. :)

Well, that's that. Prayers for those in Joplyn, prayers for those in Japan, and prayers for those in Haiti. (still) And while you're at it, prayers for the sea turtles and the whales.
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Well...

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Guess that artistic update will be a little slow going.

Not only have I missed gratuitous amounts of class thanks to my back issues, I have now managed to contract Mono somehow.
I've been bedridden for days. I can barely ooze my way out of bed, but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna go to the Harry Potter midnight showing tonight! I'll bring my squishy easily digestible foods with me and haul ass to that movie!
YES!
Good plan feverish delusional brain!
You never let me down.


Aaaaand... I got a twitter. I'm not exactly sure why, other than my best friend keeps finding out about cool events and getting neato freebies, and I want that too, so I got one. If anyone is ever so inclined to know what I'm thinking on a semi-regular basis, here you go.

twitter.com/#!/kathowden

I think that's it. Go find me if you dare!



Btw. Boys are icky. Especially when they promised to write from the Navy but never do. Jackass.
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Update!

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So it's been a very long time since I've last done personal artwork, or work other than that for a class. It's also been a very long time since I've posted anything. I need to get on that. Most of the work I've been doing have been small projects for 2D and 3D animation classes that I don't feel are good enough to post, not even on DeviantArt. Or work from my video art class, which I've been slacking terribly on. Other than that, I've been having horrendous back problems, which prevent me from going to class half the time, and then when I can go, I just don't want to. I'm a terrible student.

But! I've just had some inspiration, (and a muscle relaxant) and so I'm raring to go! I'm full of ideas and wanting to animate! And draw! And color! So hopefully this will mean an update. Or maybe I'll decide to make a Whack a Zombie 2.0. Who knows? I'm an unpredictable madman.

Either way, some lovely things have happened. I had my first boyfriend. It was wonderful. Then he went and left for the Navy a few weeks ago. Not so wonderful. Can't even chat with the guy cause he's in boot camp, and they only allow letters. Letters are slow. Sooooo slow. Romantic and nostalgic, but slow.
Lost weight, died my hair, live with a suite full of girls where the bathroom always smells like pot because one of our neighbors smokes it constantly and we can't figure out which one it is so we can yell at them. And I can hear the neighbors on my side and one of them has a dumbass laugh that I hear in my sleep now. It's finally starting to get cold here so no more flip flops, the stores have been playing christmas music for a good 3 weeks now, and I may go to Italy for a semester.

Update is now complete. I'm going to try to be creative for a while.
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So I finally got my Zombie Animation up here! I'm pretty stoked. :) I hope to make a longer and more complete version soon, when I have the time. Because its Zombies. And Zombies, are worth it.
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