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I've actually been quite active artistically, but DA has been near impossible to use most of the times I log on.  Today is some exception apparently, so I'm posting to say that I have a tumblr I've been uploading too: clarkdrew.tumblr.com

When I get some time, and DA and my net connection cooperate, I'll try and get some posted here.

Anyway, need to head to work.
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Muggy times.

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I'm currently hiding inside from the humidity.

Finals are over.  I managed to get a job as a museum docent, we'll see how that goes.  Still looking for a second job.

Mostly just been cleaning and socializing with people on their way out of town.  Had the pleasure to hang out with a recent alumni who just got a job with cartoon network.  One more reminder that I need to get my butt in gear.

I've been running again, but today I think I'm going to start my lifting routine again.  Hopefully I won't have to deload too much.

Expect some fanart and a maybe a posting or two from the quarter that just finished.  I'll see what I can fine, as I lost my thumb drive.  I'm pretty sure I know where it is, but all the academic buildings are closed down.
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Job Hunt

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So it's been a bit since last I checked in.  SCAD is nearing the end of the quarter, so I'm sure I'll be on more once Summer Break hits.

Things have been interesting.  I've upgraded form going on some dates here and there to actually having a very lovely girlfriend now for the last month or so.  Finally quit my job at Target, trying out a grocery store job while I look for other work.

Which leads me to: this summer I intend to go all out.  Fan art, commissions, a webcomic (or at least setting the foundation for one), a tumblr account, more freelance, etc.  And while I'm in school, I'm working my ass off on my last script writing assignment.  Our professor is having us make an entire pitch book or submission packet rather than writing a script.  He said we could BS it and just do something to get a grade form him, or we could take this chance to use class time to actually look for a job in the industry.

I will be trying for the latter.  I'm making a submission packet for a proposed graphic novel or miniseries (if done in American floppy form).  It'll be centered around these two goons:  fav.me/d3duc9e

I've since used them for another script writing assignment and majorly fleshed their setting out.  I have yet to compile a list of publishers to harass, but I'm excited.

Outside of comics, I'm working on my animation final, so I should have something worth posting up here over summer (It has to be a 10 second scene), it also involves the wrestler from the image/story/packet above (whose name is Lincoln, by the way).  For the scaddies out there that read this.  I'm dropping my animation minor and already dropped the writing minor.  I still intend to take animation courses, but I don't feel like being stuck on the school's recommended course requirement doohickey.  That and I'd like to graduate sooner rather than later, so having minors on my degree really isn't important to me.

Health wise: finally able to squat my own body weight, and my bench press is over 100 something.  Yay improvement.  Looking to really step up the strength training once summer hits; I've skipped whole weeks at the gym due to these assignments.

Looking forward to getting back into the DA community, let me know how you guys all are.  Sorry for not keeping up.
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Hell Yeah

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New Quarter and I'm damn excited.
I'll be in my first REAL animation class, just bought my first pack of animation paper.  Really looking forward to seeing how I take to it.

Also taking two sequential art courses.  I have a scripting class with what appears to be a pretty awesome professor and a class on backgrounds and setting with my favorite SEQA professor (even if he's not who I signed up for).

The workload looks steep, but this is a good chance to really test myself.  In addition I'm still going to try and get some sort of regular art going here and other places whether that's a webcomic or just more illustrations or standalone comics.

Also back into the gym, and I have a tagalong and maybe even two.  I'm changing my routine to more closely resemble Rippetoe's "Starting Strength," soooo many squats.  Also trying to get back into stretching, I took a break last quarter and the results were worse than I expected, so that experiment's over with.

My classes seem to be filled with decent if not outright nifty people, so over all I'm looking forward to school very much.  All that's left is to intensify my search for a better job.

Only real downside right now is that I'm in a computer lab while my computer runs a bunch of anti-malware crap in safe mode.  Looks like I picked something up in my net surfing, so hopefully my computer is salvageable.

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I learned a lot this last quarter, and little of it was academic.

The biggest thing on my mind currently has been my tendency to hesitate.  I finally got up the nerve to ask out a certain individual who I've been intrigued by since my first quarter at school.  I had an excuse for not pursuing that since at the time I was content with my marriage.  Anyway, keeping the ocnext short, finally asked and apparently just some weeks prior she had started seeing someone.  Assuming she's not just being nice or trying to let me down easy, she would've said yes otherwise.

So hesitation is bad.

After some moping, I decided I wouldn't hesitate in the future.  And so after a rather slow process of getting to know a classmate of mine, I asked her out.  And we went out, and I had a great time, and according to a mutual friend she enjoyed herself as well.  Things are good right?

Ask her out again, and she says yes.  However once the word "date" is introduced she gets cold feet and cancels the day of and any future chances of going out, and gets pretty distant.  So I'm not sure what connotation "date" carries with her or if I'm being accused of seeking a one night stand or something, I'm totally confused.  I guess it all works out, I couldn't imagine her being that good of a friend let alone more if this is how she handles social situations.

Of course after deciding to not hesitate in the future, I become attracted to a girl who views talking over dinner to be moving too fast.

I'm still fairly set on trying to not hesitate and watch things go by wondering what would've happened.  Also, despite my romantic failings, I've ended this quarter with far more friends than I began it with.  I've really made some great connections.

Now I'm just relaxing, exercising, actually drawing (weird right?), and trying new things like mead.  So still feeling a bit lonely, but ultimately I'm pretty damn excited for where my life is going.

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