This lecture is great. thank you randy pausch

A university professor is giving his last speech because he is dying from cancer. It is a great lecture, 1 hour long.

this lecture for me hits close to home.

I'm watching this very slowly - it's an hour long, so i'm gonna take my time to really listen to the lecture.

it is really interesting. My parents have pushed me since childhoold to be a doctor. I had zero control of my life. Everytime i picked up a pencil and tried to draw, they would rip my drawings to shreds - said it was evil and a waste of ftime. i was miserable.

Eventually i got a degree in biology and chemistry and went to optometry school for a year. I have always thought "if i die tomorrow, what would i change right now?"

so I quit optometry school, and rather than going home, tried to make my dreams come true and left to art school. I got completely disowned and financially cut off.

Currently, i'm happily married and 5 years in the industry as a concept artist. heck, my stuff is on TV. Never been happier. my dreams are there

for those who are interested in changing their life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Kudos to Grant!

Kudos to you buddy!

patty found your name in this article! :D

http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=49822&mode=thread&order=0

Sketch Fever!!!!

So i finally get a free day to doodle some... and thought it would be a hoot to do some sci-fi illustrations/drawings. You cannot imagine how hard it was for me to get back into the groove of things. I guess that's partially my fault for not keeping up with it. I'm so used to the everyday tasks at work and constantly doing the same style all the time.

my first sketch came up as a large blobular head with the nose pointing one way and the eyes the other. Bummer! Welp, select-all, and DELETE DELETE DELETE.

Sketches!!!! Bus :?

I've fallen into a rut since xmas. I've been sketching a bit less, posting even less art, and have been hooked on Halo books :)

Some good came of it though: I've mailed Eric Nylund, writer of the Halo series books and writer for Microsoft Studios (writes story bibles and backstories for many games) and he wrote back to me very quickly! said thanks for the kind words but also said "Great job on Lucy!"

that's cool, i said nothing about lucy so that was nice.

Also i got a surprise email from a colleague WAAAAAAY back in 1st year of optometry school. He's a doctor now, and mentioned that he had to wake his wife up when he saw my name in the credits.

Thanks my friend! meant a great deal to me and is a big booster for my morale in this hectic world of "dog eat dog" art world.

These are the sketches i've done in the past week or so. Thanks Piya for posting on my blog, pushing me to post some art :)