End o the year!

It's been a great year and I'm looking forward to continuing next year. I can't believe I've made it through an entire year and met so many people that I'm a bit dumbstruck this year when it comes to sending Season's Greetings to everyone :-S. I'm really excited about next semester, and was sitting around this week thinking how cool it was to just focus on doing my layins, heads (we had to do 200 layins and heads and thus far I've done 800 layins and 200 heads) and a self portrait) but somehow in this town, I'm always busy, even during my breaks. I'm pretty grateful but it makes me perpetually tired (which is why I crash when I head home). So working on a project for a pilot that unfortunately is going to keep me tied down until the New Year and then some. I'm really really excited to start classes next year, although once again, it looks like it's going to take up a lot of time. The 'semi yuck' is that this one class spilled over into my New Year, so we have one more class in the New Year. Other than that, I'll all geared up and ready to go for the next few days. My goal for the New Year is to continue working on the traditional stuff. More and more I'm noticing some seriously awesome basic skills and people hiring you more easily (yes, for real money) when you can just DRAW really well (unless you want to be a modeller, and then you have to compete with all the other modellers out there; which is a LOT..and overseas). It's hard to replace sitting next to someone and banging out a few designs/ suggestions with someone far away and their understanding and connecting with a common product/ idea. Plus, it's just been incredibly FUN! I also eerily found out that the company next to ours does Imagineer type stuff (theme parks, major live shows, etc) for everyone, so it's really nice to see the work that they do and look at 'design' in that way, also. Plus, they have a really awesome dog who has a crush on me (or just uses me for food) LOL. Anyways, hope everyone is enjoying the last of 2012 and all the best (and lots of success..hey that rhymes!) 2013! -K