I made it out alive! Thank God Well, there's two and a half weeks left, but I'm in the green So, let me tell you what's happened since the last time I was "active" here on dA.

(Warning, I swear :> Skip down to /ENDRANT for bullet point updates)

1: We had about thirty paintings to do for our class Theory of Colour. That in itself wouldn't be too bad if the tones we had to use were specific and different for each painting But I've got ALL of them done (almost 70) now and have nothing to do in that class from now until we go on vacation However, I was so pressed for time the past three weeks that I did little all but paint every fucking night >:[ But they're done and out of the way, and I have free time to draw and play videogames again. And since I just bought my first Xbox 360 two weeks ago... :> I'm having a LAN party next weekend to celebrate

2: For the same class as #1, a girl and I were paired up to do a presentation of the colour red. On everything that has to do with red. The psychology, the origin, the history, use, etc. Again, wouldn't have been so bad if my partner, who volunteered to put together the presentation had actually sent it to me. Sure, I gave her some info, but I had no idea what was going on half the time. I brought the music, the videos, the decorations, the food. All she had to do was brings flowers and something to touch that symbolizes what red is, along with the presentation and she was an hour late to a class that's 1 hour 20 mins long. Fucked I was raging, nervous, biting my nails, swearing. Fucking bipolar and heart palpitations But ti turned out alright in the end and I think we did pretty well

3: French. I had to present my piece in a Cinderella play for French in which I am a clock in the palace and narrate the whole thing today, (shut up, we're a ton of students and there's few parts and I did not want to be the fairy godmother ). Except I didn't get my lines until today at THREE IN THE FUCKING MORNING! /rage Seriously? You want me to learn this shit in a scant few hours? I'm good in french and should be in the last grade but I am not Jesus and can't perform miracles. But it turned out OK too; the whole class crowed around me (they had their lines since 6 PM and had gotten together--thanks for telling me!) and so, even though I was reading, I executed my lines flawlessly and with good acting.

4: Drawing. I have nothing against the teacher, the subject or drawing in general. Hell, I draw every day and am getting better and better all the time, but JESUS CHRIST ON A CRUTCH, GIVE ME A BREAK! Full sized reproductions of photographs of various people, things and items, done entirely with the far side of B pencils, sepia, sanguine and charcoal pens (which are FUCKING impossible for me to use; no matter how hard I try, I cannot use them as well as I can use 4B-2H pencils), none of which are my strong suits and take a lot of time and patience. Or in my case, an hour at school, an hour at home and the third and final hour the next day before class starts. I've handed in stuff that looks good and stuff that looks crap, stuff that I took my time on and stuff that I rushed to finished. Again, turned out to not be a problem since I have some natural talent when it comes to reproducing images and shading hard light and so haven't failed an assignment yet (except one which I didn't hand in because shut up).

So, in conclusion, my diabetes and blood pressure have been all over the fucking place for nothing since everything worked out in the end. I fucking hate stress and wish it would die. A painful, slow, agonizing, sodomized DEATH. The only relaxing thing I've done is dye my hair an hour ago back to brown since my hair, now past shoulder length, was half red/blonde and half chocolate brown

/ENDRANT

Now for bullet point updates!
- I haven't finished the Terra Branford pick yet [link] because I've had no time and need to rework several things I've noticed are wrong or just plain bugging me (line thickness, colours, THOSE GOD AWFUL LIPS) in addition to do a background. The latter will be a failed attempt at painting her mecha suit from FF VI
-I've got three/four new images I'm working on which should be relatively quickly done (putting both feet in my mouth, I'm sure) by next week. Subject: The Hatventures trio [link] done as they look in-game Minecraft style. I hope to turn these into stickers and shirts and send them to the guys
-I will be uploading pictures of ALL the projects I've done this school year ASAP. No promises or dates though
-Finally, there is a picture of myself as a clown floating around here somewhere. Expect colour tests soon because I have to do that on a 1/2 metre x 1.5 metre scale for the summer exposition, which is circus themed.

Well, that's it. Have a fantastic rest-of-May and see you soon!
-Jack Knights