• Back door & front door
• Mail box (make a little mail holder to keep the mail organized & hang it on the wall)
• More shelves on walls
• Bathroom cabinet
• Fix kitchen by moving out oven & building more counter space and a shelf for plates.
  • Pans/pots - hanging on hooks
  • Plants?
  • Cleaning supplies should go in the no-man's-land where the
• Rationalize garage with maximum surfaces for projects.
  • The cabinets--for art supplies and sketchbook archives?
  • Organize Tools
• Set up an egg laying arrangement for chic...

Character Design The Objective: Create original full-body trading card characters that could conceivably be made into action figures; keep in mind: 1) dynamic poses 2) nonverbal communication 3) dynamic color scheme 4) props 5) costume/attire 6) environment 7) animal totem

• NAME CHALLENGE: Create 5 characters based off of 5 names.
  • Consider era/context.
• PET CHALLENGE: Design a pet & its owner.
• RIVAL CHALLENGE: Design 2 rival characters.
• FOOD CHALLENGE: Design a human character based off of the shape/color of a fruit or vegetable.
• EXPRESSION CHALLENGE: Design 4 different expressions for a character. Sketch. Ink. Color.
• LIFESPAN CHALLENGE: Draw your character a...

• scissors
• tracing pad
• pencils
• kneaded eraser
• X-acto knife
• X-acto blades
• T-square
• 18" cork-backed steel ruler
• microns, small nibbed & black markers
• 11" x 14" layout pad
• masking tape
• scotch archival double-stick tape
• acryllics
• watercolors
• prismacolor colored pencils
• Bamboo Wacom tablet

Personality Adjectives

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• Food pairing & Interchangeable food visu...
• Symphony of Science
• Wheel of Harmonics
• Escape Motions
• Newsweeks' 50 Ways to Be Happy
• Becoming a Minimalist
• Apartment Therapy
• Keeping Pace in Japan
• 90 Best Lifehacks of 2009
• Paint.net
• Habitforge.com
• Write In Elvish
• Listverse.com

• "You got this?"
  • I got this." Dramatic.

• Notes on Travel

U.S.

• Visit: MT, WY, CO, ND, SD, NE, KS, MO, AK, HI. Then I'll have all 50 states.
• Another roadtrip along the pacific coast.
  • Washington (Seattle, Redmond, Mt. St. Helens, the coast)
  • Oregon (Eugene, Corvallis, Astoria)
  • Maybe go see Yellowstone, too?
• Carova Beach, NC (there are wild mustangs still roaming free)
• Kaihalulu, HW
• Roque Bluffs, Maine
• Saturday market in Portland, Oregon.
• Sandbridge Beach, VA
• Chincoteague, VA (Miss Molly's Inn B&B; beach; horseback riding)
• Gearhart, OR (cafes, clamming)

Art & Animation

• A Collection of Animated Shorts
• The Art of Adventure Time
• Pokeyear
• Daily Pokemon
• On Animation
• Booooooom.com
• Illustrationmundo
• Le Fin de Siecle

Cinema & Photography

• Allure
• Six Martinis & the 7th
• Starlet Showcase
• Robyn Geering's Amazing Photography!!

Art References

• Lots of Animal References on this Taxide...
• Old Photos
• The Selby: Pictures of people in their h...
• Film Noir Photos

• agomphious
• amaranthine
• ambrosia
• apotropaic - intended to ward off evil
• arabesque
• arranges
• aspirated
• brae = hillside
• cafuné - tenderly running your fingers through someone’s hair.
• chelonian = turtle-like
• debridement = wound-cleaning
• diaphoretic
• divest
• duende - the mysterious power that a work of art has to deeply move a person.
• dysania - difficulty getting out of bed in the morning.
• Éepater les bourgeois (French) - to deliberately shock people who have conventional values. “to amaze the middle class”...

• Kawaii Not
• Daisy Owl
• A Softer World
• Hark! A Vagrant
• xkcd
• The Perry Bible Fellowship
• Axecop

Trees & Bushes

• Willow trees
• cottonwoods
• white birch
• gingko
• sycamore
• lemon
• honeysuckle
• Creosote
• cherry trees
• pomegranate tree
• snowball bush
• dogwoods
• pines
• oaks
• baobob tree
• monkey puzzle tree
• dragon tree
• avocado
• Royal Poinciana
• Pink Trumpet Tree

• Write stories with Dec & help him learn to write better
• Learn Flash together
• Teach him photoshop & ai
• Make more claymation

Tiniest munchkins

• Awesome tiny baby clothes
  • I Heart Science onesie
  • Cobra costume
  • F*ck tha police onesie :D

General/Amazingness

• http://itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm
• Kuler Color Matcher

Animation Tutorials:

• http://www.algarcia.org/database/index.p...

Illustrator Tutorials:

• Create a Vector Pirate from a Sketch
• Create An Octopus Character
• Create a Killer Chainsaw Bunny
• Coloring in Illustrator
• Riasolve
• Complex Circular Designs
• Creating a Graphic Vector Globe Effect

Photoshop Painting Tutorials:

• Creating a seamless pattern in Photoshop...
• ImagineFX Tutorials
• Painting in Photoshop
• Painting

Found Phrases

• grubby East Bloc housing projects and a splendidly renovated Harlem brownstone
• a tattooed mercenary with the curious name
• Let the f-ckers work that one out, Pete!"
• fanciful lyrics and swirling musical effects
• seemed overtly psychedelic, it sounded like some kind of trip
• snatch songs out of thin air
• because of the childlike nature of the song.
• an innocence we really cherished until it was snatched away
• "That made me giggle," she said.
• a mechanically tricked-out scientist
• Why does most of the world look like a refugee camp?
• a glowering sometime-mercenary lying low ...

Verbs

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Random

• Go parasailing on the back of a boat.
• Build a robot
• Become a master dart thrower
• Catch an octopus in a tide pool (then let it go).
• Go to comic con, reconvene with inner nerd
• Learn parkour
• Move to Portland, Seattle, Vancouver--somewhere up that way; make a bunch of friends in a prolific art community--painters, writers, musicians, sculptors, vegetarians; tattooed, pierced, avant garde people--not pretentious, but freethinking and experimental aesthetics; make music, have art parties, drink lots of tea & coffee--learn from each other, encourage productivity. Act as muses & inspiration to one another. Have wild, unexpected adventures of the most random, fantastical nature.