"Appreciate range and potential of media for visual expression of ideas" For the few of you out there who know Spike Spiegel, (And the even fewer who know about this blog...) then you know of Cowboy Bebop. One of the few properly syndicated animes aired on North American television and a great one at that, pretty much giving me the motivation to draw from this idea. But at the same time, as I drew what I saw in Spike, I began to pay even closer attention to the details, the expressions, and the style that Spike has in his character. The shading of this drawing was to give off the right mood for Spike and also used to present an air of realism. I started to think if the artists of Cowboy Bebop always think in such detail and to reach their proper moods in their work. Being the amateur artist that I am, I believe that talent doesn't just happen in any old drawing, it takes the time, detail, and discipline true artists must have to create a great anime character like Spike Spiegel.

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"Appreciate the value of expressing in visual form one’s personal experience" (On a side note) Happy 2010 everyone! I may be a few months late for the party, but it's good to be back. To start things off, you may have noticed the odd bird on the skull to the side here. This picture I can say was not entirely my own creation, first of all, the idea of it came from a friend of mine, and second, the picture's colours are inverted. These two differences however blend perfectly to express this particular goal of the art program. My friend had told me about this bird that he thought he passed on the street, to say the least, it did not exist. But still, he thought that he heard the sounds "Woop Woop" and thus the creation of this picture was born. The inverted colours of the picture also help depict both the time of day and the invisibility of our avian friend. Although the scanner did not do as I thought it would, it started my 2010 year off with a bang.