I still live!

I kind of dove headfirst into a rough spot lately, and I'm busy crawling out of it. Sort of.

I know, I know, updates here are infrequent and blah blah blah. Again, I must point out that my Tumblr is updated pretty frequently, almost daily. Of course, it's all short bite-size weirdness, like my thoughts on the new Lady Gaga video, my desire to look like Vincent Price when I'm an old man, ogling Paul Pope's art, and feminist Russian protest groups that don't like wearing tops. I like to think it's rather entertaining compared to this site.

I haven't posted any new art lately either because, quite frankly, I haven't done much worth showing this semester. I haven't worked on the new Ezra Neuro comic in quite some time, and the stuff I'm doing in the Graphic Design Workshop isn't anything I can really show at the moment. I've done some pretty bang-up cool stuff in Figure Drawing, but I never bring any of that home with me to photograph. I keep doing little things like this stupid one-page comic and the above self-portrait.

Anyways, the rough stuff. Doing a number of papers, getting buried in Spanish homework, typical school things, yeah. Also throw in a break-up, the transfer to a different G2K changing my schedule around quite a bit, and my best friend, David of Airship Over Water, traveling to Korea as part of a study abroad program. I've kind of felt like I'm just going to break down in tears for the past couple weeks. Yay for emo Brett!

And then of course, yesterday, in the midst of a massive rainstorm, the beast I'm all too familiar with, Works in Progress, has reared its ugly head for the fourth and final time. I'm not sure if I gave all the details on the last experience, but the fact I'm even up for a fourth round when you're supposed to get the axe after three is surreal. Part of me is more confident than ever, part of me is, as usual, absolutely terrified, and a third part is just kind of wondering why I'm even bothering when I could be doing other things like playing that copy of Vanquish I borrowed from a friend.

So my final attempt is at the end of March. I plan on trying to meet my advisor and one of the committee members beforehand so I can have a strong portfolio.

Spring break is next week, and I await it with much salivation. I'm not going to be taking any trips or doing anything interesting, no. I'm going to just work in Bristol and at G2K, draw, and read the massive stack of comics which I've accumulated over the past few weeks: Iron Man, Judge Dredd, Madman, WE3, New X-Men, Northlanders, Heavy Metal, and some others. I also want to do some work on this site. I'll have had it for a year here shortly, which is actually pretty awesome.

That's it. I've stuff to work on. AWAY AWAY AWAY.

[Brett]