There are birds, and they are somehow after Falcon Peak.

I get in my car one day about a week ago, and notice there's this brown gunk all over my passenger side rearview mirror. At first I thought it was blown seeds or something, then realize it is bird crap. I go "Ewwww, gross. Dumb birds." And yet, I can't help wonder...why is the crap so localized? There's lots of it, and it's ONLY on my rearview mirror.

Then I walk out to my car today, and I notice there is a sparrow sitting on that same rearview mirror. It keeps hopping around my window, peering in and pecking at the glass. Said sparrow does not fly out of the way until I'm actually very close to it. And even then, it only flies to the nearby bushes, as if it's just annoyed that I disturbed it doing something very important.

o_o; So apparently, small birds want something that is INSIDE MY CAR. Or something about the passenger side is just fascinating to them. I don't know what, but whatever it is, that's just weird.


SPEAKING OF WINGED THINGS. I took some pictures of my sculpture! I show them here, along with the explanation stuff that I also posted on dA:












(First off, just want to say that I am A TERRIBLE PHOTOGRAPHER, and it's readily apparent here. D: I tried to fix stuff in PS, but that still can't hide the fact that my photos are terrible. Woe is me...)

That said, it's my final for my character maquette sculpture class for this term! We had to sculpt a full-body character of our choice (I was exceptionally stupid and chose something with wings. 8D; ) in about nine weeks. This is the first time I've ever done a full-body human in sculpture, and the first time I've touched clay in years. There's a few issues with anatomy...particularly the arms and the torso. The arms in general were a huge pain to do. @_@ But generally, tried to stick to anatomy as much as I could, and if nothing else, I learned a bunch about it from doing this.

The wings were a whole 'nother issue...despite my best efforts, they were too heavy for the supports, so they dipped down a lot more than I originally intended. Buuut I just ran with it. I changed the pose from the original drawing, and the sculpture also follows more a full-grown man than the young man look I had in the sketch, but part of that was trying to follow anatomy rules, eeeek.

Maybe I'll go back later and try to take better pictures, if I can get good lighting. But for now, I'm just happy that it's DONE! This project is probably what I spent the most time working on this term. ;_;

And techy stuff: the clay is oil-based non-sulfur plasticine, so it doesn't really harden. steel pipes, quicksteel, brass tubing, and steel wiring was used for armature, along with steel wire mesh for the wings. Probably took around 60-70 hours total.



Drawing: Lots of animation for character timing. Gonna scan that in a bit, too...

Writing: Nothing.