kaoru: (paint splatter)
Does anyone on my friends list sew?

I want to start looking into not only making my own cosplays, but maybe some of my own clothes too, but sewing is something that I've always been EXTREMELY EXTREMELY FREAKING AFRAID to experiment with, because my ideas are always super specific, I know nothing, and materials are like fucking expensive to replace- it's not like drawing where you can erase lines; making a mistake might completely fuck something up beyond repair, and the perfectionist in me cringes at that thought.

So yeah, trying to break out of the mental barrier here, maybe want to see about sewing stuff for Otakon and just... stuff in the future. :] I've looked around the internet, but it's kind of hard to get a grasp. I see like "HERE, WE'LL TEACH YOU HOW TO SEW A PUMPKIN COSTUME!" and I'm like "... Well... No. I don't really WANT to know how to sew that."

Lots of things seem like common sense, BUT THAT IS THE TRAP IN THIS. IF I GO IN ACTING LIKE I KNOW HOW TO DO IT, I WILL FAIL. BECAUSE I DON'T, REALLY.

Books recommendations? Tips? Tell me I'm an idiot? Please? :D
kaoru: (Kyouya is surrounded by ??? idiots)
So, in addition to touring Fullerton on Friday, thanks to Bethany's dad knowing one of the professors at Fullerton in the music department and him being generous enough to be a middleman for me, I've now been given the opportunity to meet with one of the head art professors at Fullerton.

This is GREAT, but I'm also SCARED. It's not that I don't think I'm worthy and that I won't flourish in the program, because I definitely think I will... it's just that the past few months I haven't really done anything. :| I have a few old things to show him, but the majority of what I have just isn't impressive, I don't think. Not to mention he's like "bring a recent sketchbook!" and I'm like "Fuck EVERYTHING, I haven't been keeping up with one." I mean, I have one, and it has decent sketches in it (lots of life drawing from last spring), but I haven't done anything recent... oh gods. The only thing recent I'm going to have to show him is a painting I plan to finish tomorrow in class and haul ass home to photograph and print out before we leave for the airport tomorrow evening...

Another thing that sucks is that I haven't done many things illustration-oriented in a while. Nothing really full color, with the exception of that painting (and a cartoony self portrait I'm debating on including). I've been AFRAID of color, quite frankly- I don't understand it fully, and I've been waiting to learn more in class or whatever, and subsequently have avoided it like the plague. LOL. So hopefully he doesn't mind a bunch of sketches and character studies... Oh fuck my psyche and the way it makes me suffer later.

I'm gonna leaf through my works later and put them together... I'm so nervoussssss. :| Any words of like, advice or whatever, would be great... From Terri, especially, lol, you always know how to make me feel more prepared for these things. XD;
kaoru: (Kyouya is surrounded by ??? idiots)
I'm starting to feel stressed out because I'm not writing things down, so here's a list of things I need to get done:

*Taxes
*FAFSA
*Send CalState Fullerton ANOTHER copy of my transcript (since they apparently can't find the one I sent back in November. -___-;;)
*Buy a parking pass for San Jac (nobody has busted me yet, but I want to be safe)
*Consumer Painting
*Mixed Media Pattern Painting
*Buy Anime Matsuri tickets
*Buy Otakon plane ticket (if we're still going, anyway o_O;; )
*Other... things... that I will add as I remember them, lol.

LOL I bought a planner and I haven't written a single thing in it. WHY CAN I NEVER COMMIT TO BEING ORGANIZED LOL. ): ): ):

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