Melancholy South of Manchester

So I'm in a bit of a melancholic mood tonight. In light of that thought, you get a blog.

I ran across something this evening when I was on my deviantart account. Basically its a contest that has 5 different entry points and I plan to submit for two of them. One being illustration, what I was going to college for, and the other drawing/painting, which involves a still life of portrait, etc, etc; something else I also did in college. The deadline is December 3rd so I'm gonna be busting my ass when I get home and during my off hours here at work.

My first submission I'm not 100% on what I'm submitting. The requirement is for the work to either be a book cover showing a person, animal, alien, robot, etc, or to be a page of a graphic novel, with at least one panel displaying a person, animal, alien, robot, etc and either can be an original or preexisting idea.

Currently I'm torn between submitting a page of Eichi or a page of an Iron Man script I ran across a couple of weeks ago that I asked someone to write up for me, which depicts a battle between Iron Man and Iron Monger. Either would be good and display various attributes but could also hinder me in others. My own works will show creativity and originality however may suffer because manga is not as technical as we would see in American comics. Ofcourse IronMan would be a complete opposite of that so I can go either way.

My second submission will be a portrait, that is certain. This one will take probably the most time as I will have to do this one at home and will use charcoal and graphite. The million dollar question is a portrait of who? This one I will need to put some thought into.

I also got to thinking that I wanted to do something artistically beautiful. And when I thought of that the only thing that would come to mind is pictures from the Hubble telescope. This one is going to be a little hard to tackle but damn it, why not?

So there's a lot artistically going on in my head right now as well as a few other jewels. The last 36 hours has been pretty eye opening for me. A lot of things have fallen into place mentally for me on where I am and where I want to be.

Of course I can't spill ALL the beans yet.


-Pat!