My Very Belated Post on My Trip to Los Angeles

My mom, my sister, and I took a short trip down to LA at the beginning of September to go to Disneyland, D23 Expo, and CalArts. Unfortunately, my brother didn't come though because he's so busy at UBC :(. I'll start at the beginning though.

We arrived at the airport a little bit early so we decided to get something to eat. Since it was breakfast, we got doughnuts and Iced Capps at Tim Horton's (this is off topic but I saw an ad the other day for Timbit ripoffs and I got mad!). We were eating breakfast, and my sister started getting paranoid that we would miss the flight, so we started walking towards the security check and the security guard told us to chug our iced capps or throw them out:(. I chugged it and got brain freeze. We went through the doors, and there were customs officers EVERYWHERE! We hadn't noticed it was September 11th haha.


After we landed and got the rental car, we had to drive to my mom's friend's, from high school, house, where we were staying, in Pasadena. LA freeways are freaky(punny)...so many lanes -: ! We arrived at her house in the evening to meet her, after searching for an hour for the right street, and then we went out. She works at Disney(not animation) so she gave us a tour. After that she drove us by the Disney Studios, so I could see it in person:D!

Walt Disney Feature Animation(we didn't stop there because apparently they have high security or something)

My mom, my sister, and I outside the Disney Studios Gates (The picture got messed up :( )

The next day we went to Disneyland! So we found our parking spot, and I started rolling up the window...cept the window didn't roll up! Instead it came off the track and started jutting inside the car right where I was sitting. So we had to leave the car window open. That's why you get rental insurance kids! Luckily we did so we had to drive from Disneyland to the car rental place(near LAX) and back to Pasadena through a city we didn't know after leaving Disneyland at midnight! :D

I'd been to Disneyland when I was 8 but it was my first time at California Adventure, but it was kinda crappy. Here are some pictures.

On my second ride of Pirates of the Caribbean, I noticed this painting of a pirate that looked oddly familiar...

Then it struck me!

DAVID BOWIE'S HIDING IN DISNEYLAND AS A CROSS DRESSING PIRATE!!!...or as she is currently known, Mademoiselle Greenwell.

We went to the D23 Expo the next day and I saw John Lasseter in real life :D! They showed 2 clips from PatF, the Toy Story 3 trailer that was just released to the public about a week ago, a featurette on Winnie the Pooh, and production artwork and animation tests from Rapunzel, among other things. We weren't aloud to have cameras during John Lasseter's speech so I have no photos of it:(. Here are some pictures of the show floor though.

These were made entirely out of LEGO!!! I miss playing with LEGO:(

We could've stayed to watch Toy Story 1 & 2 in 3D but we we'd overdosed on Disney at that point (my mom at sister at least), so we decided to drive down Sunset Blvd to Santa Monica.

The next day...I VISITED CALARTS!!

It's really awesome there! I know the people who critiqued my portfolio and showed me around won't be reading this but I just want to send out a huge thank you to all of them! They helped me get back on track after I had derailed. I believe I posted before about what they said about my portfolio so I won't repeat myself. The campus was beautiful but much smaller than I thought...which is good! I can only suggest that you visit the campus for yourself if you're seriously looking into it because it's not what you expect! It's different in certain ways, not at all bad! In fact it's better than I thought it would be! It's just that what you expect to be the things that make the school great, aren't what make it great. I think the best thing about it is that it has this energy about it and the people (even when the walls and cubes were practically empty) that I've never experienced at any other school before! I'll stop being all deep and meaningful though by showing more pictures! WOOT!

COOL BEANS!

This is a music room but I thought it was really cool.

The Basement

LIZARD!
The rental car (well our replacement rental) had a twin who loved him very much:).

I hope you like:)

Life Drawings (October 21, 2009)

Here are some drawings I did yesterday. I went to a session at the SFU Surrey campus which is only 1 bus and 2 Skytrain stops from my house! Normally to get to Capilano University sessions are 1 bus, 8 skytrain stops, and another bus away, so this is much better for me! PLUS, the session was only $2!!! The model wasn't the greatest though because she wouldn't stop moving her head to look around and moving her arms to scratch her faces etc. D:<

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3-This is a perfect example of WHY I can't draw poses for longer than 7(ish) minutes! I finished my drawing early but it looked very ordinary...so I decided to make it distinct. And how did I decide to do this!? BY MAKING HER CRY BLOOD OF COURSE!!! Why am I such an idiot:(...?
4-I was trying to stretch the torso and make the head squished into the chest but I failed and it looks like a mistake. The colour isn't finished either. I posted it because despite those things, I kind of like it.
5-This drawing reminds me of something...oh yeah this thing: LINK

6Now that I've posted these though, I've noticed so many more problems.

Here's my final art project from Grade 10. I thought I'd post it because I'm proud of it...unlike these life drawings. I put probably at least 100 hours of work into it. The assignment was to paint a collage of your idol in monochromatic blue on a (approximately) 36"X24" board. I'm doing another one this year of Conan O'Brien I think.

Life Drawings (October 15, 2009)

I went life drawing today and I got one or two drawings I'm pretty happy with. Here are a couple of my more decent drawings.

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This model was great but umm...he got a little too excited partway through the session which was kinda weird but funny...it was hard not to laugh...hehe punny.

There Is Hope for Me Yet!

So I heard on Conan the other night that it's raining in LA :O! That's good news for me because one of my biggest fears of moving down there, if I got accepted into CalArts, was that there would be no rain! Coming from a city where rain is as common as a cat with fur, this is very reassuring:).

Art Dump (October 6, 2009)

Here are some new drawings I did on Sunday and Monday. I've drawn these two models alot because they're often at the sessions i go to, luckily they're good models. I have some problems still with proportions and anatomy (especially connecting the head to the body and the face) but I think I'm improving. I'm still just focusing on improving my drawing skills though instead of that experimental stuff i was doing before. Let me know what you think:).

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