Hi all! Some pretty awesome things are happening lately. The most awesome of it all is that a few days ago, I sent my favorite hip-hop artist, Astronautalis, a portrait I drew of him in celebration of his new album! I didn’t think he would get back to me - but he did! And he loved it! And he put it up as his default photo on myspace, and I could not be any more honored. Here’s the picture itself:
I’m so stoked that he liked it. He became one of my favorite musicians whenI first heard him last year. I love his layers of sounds and the tiny little details that you can’t hear unless you’re listening to him through headphones. He’s aboslutely amazing, and I cannot wait for his new album, Pomegranate, to be released.
In other news, I’ve been sketching things lately. Here’s one!
Hi all, I’m sorry I haven’t written here in forever. I finally edited my blog layout to fit in more with my website one, and I’ll try to update this more with news of my art and photography!
Which is my first order of business really; in the past year or so, I have become increasingly more and more interested in photography, rather than illustration. I’ve been on the phone with one of the very nice admissions representatives from Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and I’m planning on going there within a semester or two to study photography! Right now I’m enrolled at Hawaii Community College with a Liberal Arts major, but I’m taking my first analog photography course, and it’s so exciting! :) This Thursday, we’re going to learn how to develop our own film!
I’ve also submitted some photos to a lowfi indie analog magazine, shutter skin. They added me, and I was interested in their project, so hopefully some of my photos will be published in a small scale! Right now, my main focus is getting my photos out there, so all of my photos on flickr will soon be free to use and reproduce, as long as I am properly credited! Exciting? I hope so. Here’s some of the photos I’ve been taking lately, just so you all can see what I’ve been up to!
fake autumn (day 61), originally uploaded by robokira.
i putted around the house. i like the colors of this.
day 18, originally uploaded by robokira.
I have dry skin and cat scratches, but they come and go. The only things that stay are my silver toe ring and a hemp anklet made lovingly by a friend. I keep them with me always.
day 17, originally uploaded by robokira.
Today I had doctor’s appointments on opposite side of the islands. To get from my therapist to my nutritionist, my brother and I drove around to Hawaii Kai. We stopped so I could take pictures of the ocean, which is the single most beautiful thing on this great blue Earth of ours.
