(in response to the last haiku I posted)

5/21/2013

I wrote a haiku
with the wrong syllable count
crap crap crap crap crap

2 days ago · 4 notes

5/20/2013 Peek-a-boo! Missed breakfast, but oh well -_-

5/20/2013

Peek-a-boo!

Missed breakfast, but oh well -_-

3 days ago · 0 notes

5/19/2013 If you happen to be in Makati on any given night in the weekend, be sure to stop by Cucina Andare! It’s right across Makati Shangri-La. Self-dubbed the “first food truck market in the philippines,” it not only has food trucks parked along the area, but also many kiosks that sell varieties of food from gourmet chili dogs to vegetarian sisig. :D They have so much good food in store, a great example would be this thick, artisanal gelato (which also comes in alcoholic flavors). c:

5/19/2013

If you happen to be in Makati on any given night in the weekend, be sure to stop by Cucina Andare! It’s right across Makati Shangri-La. Self-dubbed the “first food truck market in the philippines,” it not only has food trucks parked along the area, but also many kiosks that sell varieties of food from gourmet chili dogs to vegetarian sisig. :D They have so much good food in store, a great example would be this thick, artisanal gelato (which also comes in alcoholic flavors). c:

4 days ago · 3 notes

5/19/2013 Staying over at a hotel again! I will never have a problem sleeping on the extra bed as long as it’s next to the window. ^_^

5/19/2013

Staying over at a hotel again! I will never have a problem sleeping on the extra bed as long as it’s next to the window. ^_^

4 days ago · 2 notes

5/16/2013

trying to hide shame
while searching alone
fool, it will do you no good

1 week ago · 1 note

chgreenblatt: Thank you for the kind words about Chowder! I’m glad it meant something to you. I understand the frustration of your situation. Wanting to continue following your dream but being given a roadblock is painful. But know this, not everyone’s path is the same.  Here’s the thing to remember: Going to art school doesn’t make you an artist.  Sure there are many good reasons to go to an art school. It can help refine you. You have access to great teachers, peers to learn from, and good connections afterwards.  But as someone a little (lotta) older who’s been out of school for a while, I know there are many other ways of achieving your dreams. Let’s look at the positives of going to a regular school. You can broaden your interests in many different categories, each which can affect your art in astoundingly positive ways. Studying literature, history, mythology, science, and philosophy broadens your views on the world. And isn’t all art really just the artist’s view of their world? Expanding it with new curriculum only benefits you. I love Kate Beaton’s art because she’s such a history nerd. She humanizes historical figures and zeroes in on what’s funny about them. It feels both academic and emotional at the same time. That’s a really hard combo to achieve, but her deep knowledge and passion feeds her art in surprising and wonderful ways. Sometimes I worry that artists spend too much time looking at other artists and not enough time looking at all the other amazing things around them. It becomes a bloated ouroboros (snake eating himself; I had to look up the spelling, so yeah I’m not as smart as I pretend to be). Being at a regular college doesn’t mean your art dreams must die. Most colleges have some sort of art program. Take a few life drawing classes. Take some other art classes. Wherever you end up, set aside a little time each day to work on your art. And now with the “magic of the internet” (he says waving his hand and staring off into the distance), you can easily keep in touch with your art school friends. Ask them to share their project challenges with you. Look to them for feedback on your art. Use them to force you to keep it up. There’s a good chance you could find a group of like-minded art students to work with at your school as well. And maybe in couple of years, you’ll feel like it’s time to transfer to art school to take things to a new level and maybe your parents will agree. Who knows what the future holds? I didn’t go to art school. I went to a state school and took one art class in four years. I drew a comic every day because that’s what I really wanted to do. But school let me grow and introduced me to new concepts and ideas. It let me meet other cartoonists. It fed a lot of the stuff that I did later on. There’s no traditional path anymore. You don’t need to go to art school to keep evolving and growing as an artist. Art school is one means to get there. School isn’t even necessary. There are so many ways to get information and guidance now. Your own passion and drive are the most important thing to keep you on that path.  I wish you the best of luck out there and I hope this helps, even a little. p.s. if anyone has extra advice to offer, please reblog this and share your experience. Thank you so so much, Mr. Greenblatt for this indispensable chunk of advice! c: (I’m sprocketnebula btw this is just my secondary blog ahaha)

chgreenblatt:

Thank you for the kind words about Chowder! I’m glad it meant something to you.

I understand the frustration of your situation. Wanting to continue following your dream but being given a roadblock is painful. But know this, not everyone’s path is the same. 

Here’s the thing to remember: Going to art school doesn’t make you an artist. 

Sure there are many good reasons to go to an art school. It can help refine you. You have access to great teachers, peers to learn from, and good connections afterwards. 

But as someone a little (lotta) older who’s been out of school for a while, I know there are many other ways of achieving your dreams.

Let’s look at the positives of going to a regular school. You can broaden your interests in many different categories, each which can affect your art in astoundingly positive ways. Studying literature, history, mythology, science, and philosophy broadens your views on the world. And isn’t all art really just the artist’s view of their world? Expanding it with new curriculum only benefits you. I love Kate Beaton’s art because she’s such a history nerd. She humanizes historical figures and zeroes in on what’s funny about them. It feels both academic and emotional at the same time. That’s a really hard combo to achieve, but her deep knowledge and passion feeds her art in surprising and wonderful ways.

Sometimes I worry that artists spend too much time looking at other artists and not enough time looking at all the other amazing things around them. It becomes a bloated ouroboros (snake eating himself; I had to look up the spelling, so yeah I’m not as smart as I pretend to be).

Being at a regular college doesn’t mean your art dreams must die. Most colleges have some sort of art program. Take a few life drawing classes. Take some other art classes. Wherever you end up, set aside a little time each day to work on your art. And now with the “magic of the internet” (he says waving his hand and staring off into the distance), you can easily keep in touch with your art school friends. Ask them to share their project challenges with you. Look to them for feedback on your art. Use them to force you to keep it up. There’s a good chance you could find a group of like-minded art students to work with at your school as well. And maybe in couple of years, you’ll feel like it’s time to transfer to art school to take things to a new level and maybe your parents will agree. Who knows what the future holds?

I didn’t go to art school. I went to a state school and took one art class in four years. I drew a comic every day because that’s what I really wanted to do. But school let me grow and introduced me to new concepts and ideas. It let me meet other cartoonists. It fed a lot of the stuff that I did later on.

There’s no traditional path anymore. You don’t need to go to art school to keep evolving and growing as an artist. Art school is one means to get there. School isn’t even necessary. There are so many ways to get information and guidance now. Your own passion and drive are the most important thing to keep you on that path. 

I wish you the best of luck out there and I hope this helps, even a little.

p.s. if anyone has extra advice to offer, please reblog this and share your experience.


Thank you so so much, Mr. Greenblatt for this indispensable chunk of advice! c:

(I’m sprocketnebula btw this is just my secondary blog ahaha)

1 week ago · 133 notes · Reblogged from chgreenblatt

Anonymous asked: “I liked your poem and I wrote a response to it that I'd like for you to see, but I can't send it to you through the ask box because it messes up the format of my poem :) Any suggestions?”

Thanks, anon c: I’m really looking forward to reading the response poem :D hmmm… maybe you can send me a Google docs link? c: also, would you mind if I post it after I read it?


Btw, Happy Mother’s Day!

1 week ago · 1 note

5/11/2013 I really don’t get how this family system works because none of them look RELATED to each other =)) it’s like you got 8 separate families and put them on this page

5/11/2013

I really don’t get how this family system works because none of them look RELATED to each other =)) it’s like you got 8 separate families and put them on this page

1 week ago · 0 notes

9/5/2013 These were the nicest shots that came out. They were exposed to the most natural light, so I’m guessing that’s why they still ended up nice and saturated. The nicest shots though, (the cat on the concrete and the tree) were taken outside and in outdoor mode. The pooh bear was taken indoors next to a window, but I’m not sure what would’ve happened it I switched to some other mode. This looks like a film shot lol I really need to get my cam fixed

9/5/2013

These were the nicest shots that came out. They were exposed to the most natural light, so I’m guessing that’s why they still ended up nice and saturated. The nicest shots though, (the cat on the concrete and the tree) were taken outside and in outdoor mode. The pooh bear was taken indoors next to a window, but I’m not sure what would’ve happened it I switched to some other mode.

This looks like a film shot lol I really need to get my cam fixed

2 weeks ago · 0 notes

5/9/2013 Close up

5/9/2013

Close up

2 weeks ago · 1 note

5/9/2013 The only evidently digital shot from today.Camera flash is my BFF. You can see how washed out some of the pictures are. They pick up colors very well though.

5/9/2013

The only evidently digital shot from today.Camera flash is my BFF. You can see how washed out some of the pictures are. They pick up colors very well though.

2 weeks ago · 0 notes

5/9/2013

Ni hao :D

So today I willingly stayed home so I could run, but that didn’t happen because I remembered my instax film expired last month, so I decided to try to check out if I could still use it. 

The pictures were still actually very nice, but ultimately grainier and ya basically needed a lotta light to make the picture clear. It became less saturated as well.

Speaking of film, I took pictures of my little experiment with the busted DSLR, and I swear, the pictures look like they were taken with a film camera. It is THAT busted, Cool effect though. HAHA. Uploading in a bit

2 weeks ago · 0 notes

5/9/2013

Eyes that both flutter
Lungs that both breathe
Smiling mouths that both stutter

We are the same, you and me

Feet that have walked
Thoughts that have ran
You and I can do anything
the other can

Hands that hold
Hearts that ache
Two different identities
that the same God made

We are the same
Like it or not
But then why
Does it seem
like everyone forgot?

Because you do it this way
And I do it that
People treat me
Like I’m the twat

You are their royal highness
And I their lady peddler
Who is to say
I can’t do it better?
Or just as well?
That is the question

When the lights turn off
And all we have is our own
Our eyes do flutter
Our thoughts do race
The same sleep takes over our face

And death is not fickle
He will not choose
Someday to him,
We will both lose

“You are a fool,” they say
“There’s nothing you can do.”
That’s what they tell me
Though we breathe mutual air
And dream the same dreams

They feel it foolish to assume
That I am as special as you

2 weeks ago · 0 notes

5/9/2013 Dem Mickey D’s (doughnuts). Too cute to eat, if you ask me. Then again I can barely finish a Krispy Kreme custard-filled doughnut myself. Phone shot! Compact camera, I need ya in my life. Then again my phone does a great job on its own

5/9/2013

Dem Mickey D’s (doughnuts). Too cute to eat, if you ask me. Then again I can barely finish a Krispy Kreme custard-filled doughnut myself.

Phone shot! Compact camera, I need ya in my life. Then again my phone does a great job on its own

2 weeks ago · 6 notes

  • Me: Why is everything so hard and stressful?!?!
  • Life: Well BOO fucking HOO to you, have another lemon

2 weeks ago · 0 notes