Facial-Tic

Apparently it's been 3 years since I wrote. What happened? Where are you now? I've been making book covers for romance novels, you'll find a bunch of them on Amazon kindle. Don't read them though, they are filthy. Just look at the cover. Actually, don't look at the covers either, they are filthy. I've been busy. 

I bought a mini quadcopter, they are awesome. If any new pilot is planning on dropping like $200 on a drone, I would recommend first dropping $30 on a mini one which is amazingly good at crashing. I mean, I'm getting better at flying (still nose-out flying, I usually crash nose-in) but crashing is to be expected when you fly a copter indoors. It's a bit loud for an indoor toy, but it's like a flying vacuum cleaner in the sense that it scares the shit out of the cats. I wouldn't recommend flying a full size drone indoors, I can imagine that would proceed badly for everyone involved. You can even build your own or fly POV if you have the setup for it. One thing, buy spare propellers AND extra batteries. The battery lasts for an appalling 5-10 minutes but you can charge up 5 at once and fly long enough to maybe get bored. 

I built a green screen studio in my friend's apartment using bristol board, tape, ten thousand cheap ass desk lamps, tape, tape and adhesive strips. Yes, the tape is visible more than the rest of the the screen, can't really avoid that. But if you tweak the chroma key settings, push the screen white balance a bit farther, I found you can hide the tape almost entirely. So, green screens on the cheap DO WORK in case anyone was wondering. I would prefer a nice muslin screen but I'm not about to buy one. 

Photoshop CC is cool, but I feel very cramped for some reason. I think the text is bigger or something, the tools make me feel claustrophobic. I press TAB alot.

So here I will list all the crap I intended to do over the past month and in the next little while, because I need to organise my thoughts a bit. People sometimes wonder how i get all these random ass jobs, but I don't really know. THAT IS JUST HOW ERRATIC MY LIFE IS.

-30"x24" Batman poster, the render is done i just need to colourise it and draw Batman in properly.
-Still Born's "Let's Go To Jail" album cover
-Rig the Locust model for animation
-"Broken guitar" tattoo
-A cool design for the name "Rich" (will be lasered onto a stein)

Now we'll see how well I did in another 6 months or so. By then, if all of these things aren't done, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING AARON. STOP BEING LAZY. DAMN IT.

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Some new photoshop painting probably coming up soon, I am so very slow at everything.

Watch out for signs of zombie apocalypse, I have been gathering an army of giant bugs to help out and digging a bunker out in the countryside.

To team up you must show zero signs of infection and share all of your resources.

That is all.

Here I make a new entry. Maybe one day I'll look back on all these entries, and realise what an idiot I am.

I am still a teacher. Not much new there other than I shouldn't let myself be late for work any more

I have fallen back into my old ways. I rarely see friends any more, so much that I'm not sure if I still really do have any. It's all my own doing, of course. I don't really know how to invite myself into other people's schedules, not really sure how everyone else does these things.

My grandma is 93 years old and she is finally starting to go off her nut, so my mom is visiting her in England. I remember every time we went for a walk with her, I would have to take 2 steps for every one step she took. She is built like a damn racehorse. She would walk up ahead and then have to stop and wait for us. She's a tough old battleaxe, that one.

I love working on the art projects that I do manage to find, but it's damn impossible to make any real money doing it this way. Those poor saps at OSAP will soon have me drawn and quartered. I think they send letters on different coloured paper to let you know how much trouble you are really in. But I guess I'm off to bed, I'm going to choose a new project to work on. I was thinking about drawing up a tattoo to scar myself with. I'm 29 this year and I need to like myself again. Another possible project coming up is this portrait of someone's kids. People generally want to see nice things instead of the cool things I normally enjoy working on. The lady I painted that dog for cried when she saw it, I needed to escape the room and then come back later when she had settled down a bit!

I hope all of you are doing okay out there.

Looks like I havent written a journal entry for like 5 months. The sad part is, nothing is really all that different for me. I am a teacher again, unfortunately. I have updated www.ak2k.com, it is a brand new site from top to bottom. Well, the artwork you may recognise but i have revamped the whole thing. Yay javascript.
Anyways check out ak2k.com if you have time, let me know if it sucks or something. Cheers.