I had two really excellent teachers this semester, Fred Lynch and Shanth Enjeti, and they're both the kind of guys who just talk incessantly and you get about half of what they're saying but you suspect it's all brilliant. They drop hilarious and insightful quotes at every second and have no idea. It's sad to me that only people who have them as teachers will get to benefit from their crazy intellect so I put together a collection of some of their one-liners that I managed to write down. I regret that I don't have more of Fred's, they're both comedians but Fred just has some of the best ideas I've ever heard and as a result I'm usually listening instead of writing them down.
Enjoy!

In reference to the two major players in an illustration: Concept and execution, "Something needs to be easy." -Shanth
(AKA crazy concept= simple execution, and crazy execution means simple concept. That seems so straightforward and yet...)

"When you go to draw a hand, do you think about a HAND, or a DRAWING of a hand?" -Shanth
(Be honest now, and you'll say "good point.")

"In general, stories about men are about conquering one's self. Stories about women are about conquering the world." -Shanth

"This isn't baking, it's cooking. When you get really good, it'll be baking." -Shanth
(Regarding student artistic process. Cooking is a little of this, a little of that, till it tastes good. Baking has a recipe this plus this much of this equals delicious.)

"Once you're naked, the striptease is over." -Shanth
(In reference to a comic peaking way before the climax, but really this applies to all areas of life.)

"RISD education is like being raised by religious parents." -Shanth
(aka you can't really see what it is cause it's all you know. I think this applies to most art education and probably higher education in general.)

"The first rule of dating is to DATE." -Shanth
(Listening to Shanth talking about dating is hilarious. He has this whole routine where he's imitating this student being like "aaaaugh it's so hard to meet people here there's absolutely no one here it's impossible to get a date" and then he goes "have you ever asked anyone out on a date?" "Well I asked someone to coffee once..." Beyond dating though it's a really good observation about the art industry, in terms of rejection and holding our work to our chests.)

"When you are asked 'How much do you want for this?' Your response is- 'What is your budget?'" -Shanth
(He has all these crazy should-be-self-explanatory scripts for various situations and you just go.....why couldn't I think of that?!)

"Mixing orange is for SUCKERS. When I'm in a hurry, I pull out my tube of ORANGE." -Shanth
(Possibly my favourite quote ever. It's true, artists have a tendency to think something is better if we worked harder for it. Break down that thought. Harder=better. Easier=bad. WHAT?! For the record, I'm still holding on to my mixed oranges.)

"Going through your stories is like riding the bus." -Shanth
(In reference to the characters one classmate drew hahaha.)

"At some point, we stopped having ideas, and started having 'styles.'" -Shanth
(PREACH.)

"You have O.D.D.- Oppositional Defiance Disorder." -Shanth

"In fine arts, 'sketch' is a question. In illustration, it's an answer." -Fred

"You're making art when its a little embarrassing." -Fred

"As an illustrator, your job is to be one of a kind." -Fred

If you're hungry for more, Fred has an EXCELLENT blog full of a lot of the stuff we talked about in our style class here: [link]

Almost done with finals. Thanks for all your good wishes, guys, it helped a LOT!

As my subject implies, I am on a CRAZY QUEST.
I just found out about this animation, made in 1984, called "Dalias Idok" aka "Heroic Times," or, according to me, CRAZY QUEST.
Unfortunately, this blog here- [link] is basically the only evidence on the internet that this movie exists. I am completely obsessed with trying to find a copy which seems very unlikely but I figure, what do I have to lose in asking my DA buds?
Anyway, even if you have no idea what I'm talking about, I would highly recommend reading that blog entry. Not only is the art unbelievably spectacular, but it is such an inspirational story about one crazy guy with a few crazy friends spending five crazy years producing this one crazy animation.

Sadly I do not see myself ever opening a print account here. My understanding is that the system's super janky and unreasonable. However there are a couple pieces of mine that people have been print requesting. If you want a print of something, just send me a note with your email and I will send you a high-res file! I print out my own posters all the time at the print shop and it's actually really great because then you can control the color and everything.
Anyway just to let you guys know. I felt badly ignoring those requests.
p.s. if it's too old, I may have lost the original file. I had a heinous computer crash last year but I'll do my best.

I'm finding myself with a chronic case of running-out-of-steam, these days. As a result, I have two finished Asoiaf fanart linearts lying around getting mouldy on my computer which is really a crime as I'm trying to create asoiaf hype. Anyway I figured that one of you lovely people might be interested in giving them a shot? Here's Jaime and Cercei- [link] and if you're interested in Renly and Loras, please say so in a comment and I'll give you the lines. (I don't know what the deal is with posting links to possibly mature content (it's really not bad) but I don't want to get in trouble for something stupid like that, which is exactly how it happens. It's totally postable...but I would definitely mature tag it.)
I really hope someone has more time and motivation on their hands and can really make something out of these!

<edit> oh, f that. here you go! [link] Hope to see something pretty soon, no need to ask permission. </edit>

I'm setting up my little cousin's Bamboo for his birthday but the problem is, they're running an archaic mac, which I know nothing about. My preferred programs do not run on macs (paint tool SAI and Opencanvas) and I need to find something:
-downloadable,
-free,
-simple, (like I know artrage works on macs but he's 11 so he doesn't need all those bells & whistles yet)
-relatively small. (They have very little space on the computer.)

Do you guys know something that might work?
Thank you!