the art director from wizards of the coast that i saw was very complimentary and said she liked my work a lot, and could definitely use me for some work. she wanted to see more fantastical stuff from me, to prove i could do beasts and whatnot, so i'm going to do some of those and send them in. unlike past years with WotC, i think that this time, she was serious about it.... there, i run into someone i knew from chapman, and so he and i play Old Home Week, catching up on how things at the alma mater are going, how the people we both know are doing.
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i was flipping through CP+B's employee handbook, and noticed that on page 5, they have a list of things they'd like you not to do: WE ASK THAT YOU DON’T: Throw sand.... Play the busy card.... Make promises you don't keep.
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IMG_2715.JPG Originally uploaded by culfinglin. a shot of the sign i referenced in the earlier post, taken around midnight, as it was drying.
Read Moreself-induced feature creep, portraits, and whores
it's something that should be simple: paint some stained 2x4s that the client supplied, to make a sign for the Bell, the whorehouse at the southern california renaissance pleasure faire (RPFS), with the words: "Bell Expansion courtesy of the Earl of Southampton / your tax coin at work!"... but because i know i'm not good at this type of work, i try to think of how i can use my other skills to make this sign look cool, as a few thousand people will see it once it's up; maybe even tens of thousands.... after getting the obvious visual puns out of the way (the letters 'o', 'p', 'and 'x' all had some very entertaining modifications to them), i settle on making the B from a whore standing; her left arm curves to her hip and forms the top loop of the B; her skirt, which she's pulling up, forms the larger bottom ellipse of the B.
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so add some self-flagellation in there, though i don't know when in my life i'd have found enough time to get rested enough or good enough to paint something personal or thoughtful or meaningful. no, there was no time, because i stupidly spent my hours working at the day job, doing favors for friends, or other pro bono work, when i wasn't in classes or on the freeway, or helping friends and family out. this is exactly the point at which i hit one of my moods in which i glower and swear that i will never do another nice thing for any other human ever again, and those grasping assholes who only speak to me because they want something from me can just go fuck right off.
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