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The rat-tail is making another appearance. He brings art in the form of gifts and abobinations.

How would he do that, you ask? Simple. The first two drawings are a gift I'm going to give my mom for her 50th birthday. The third drawing is a monstrosity that should never have left my pen.

Lets start with this.

I had a particular Idea I wanted to draw for my moms birthday. But after 2 days of trying, I wasn't able to get my idea down to paper. So I decided to turn to symbolism. After a little fiddling, I was able to come out with this.
I actually really really like it. Its a logo thats suppose to symbolise eternal support and an everlasting embrace.
Graphic design speaking, it's a very strong logo, if I do say so myself.

This is the version I'm going to give my mom this saturday, so I added a few filters and a background to make it a little cooler. This is, to be perfectely precise, just a part of the full card I'm going to get printed on a wodden frame.

The second part of the gift is this.

I thought that just the logo wasn't enough, so I ended up doing a drawing of the logo and I then decided to colour it with photoshop. I think It came out pretty damn good.
I know my mom will freaky love it.
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Whoah... Just this second, I remember where I got the idea for this logo.... it's from one of those suppa cool wooden statues you can find in the shopping mall stalls that come out  during christmas time.
Cool.... Brain flashes rock!!!! 

Anyways, this is the abobination.


It kinda sucks that the toes are missing, but I was at the bottom of my page so it's kind of a lost cause.
I drew this in between surveys at work. So considering I could only put half my focus on drawing, I'm pretty proud of how it came out.
On an unrelated note: How cool is it that I can draw at work.
Back to the monstrosity. 
I'm really not sure what this thing is suppose to be, appart from being damn ugly. Kinda reminds me of a Zen, intergalactic ninja, bad guy. Either that or that green garbage superhero guy. I soooooo can't remember his name. I think he went around with a mop and had four sidekicks. One for recycling paper, one for cans, one for batteries and a fourth for something else.
I figure that this could be what a grey man looks like under his cloak.

Eh, Whatever.

Over and out.

Bye

A miracle is happening.
I'm getting off my butt and I'm actually posting some of my stuff on Secondlinas Lj. Oo;;;;;
I'M amazed, even if you guys aren't. This is something I mentionned to Isa (SecondLina) that I would do about half a year ago. It's finally going from myth to reallity. 
For those of you that don't know who this is yet, I'm Pascal Michaud, otherwise known as link in this Lj. I'm Secondlinas long distance boytoy... oups.. Boyfriend. Yeah... that sounds about right. 
I'm 22, I just finished my 2 year 3D animation program at La Cite collegiale in Ottawa. I just moved over to Toronto to go live with one of my best friends and my twin brother who's also into 3D animation, about 3 month ago. I (annoyingly) still don't have a job in 3D because I had to stay in Ottawa to get a hernia operation after I finished my program. Because of it, I didn't feel up to moving out of my parents house and over to Toronto for a full 3 month (1 month to finally get the operation, 2 month to recover). Once I got over to Toronto though, I sent my portfolio to all the 3D companies I could find (maybe, 12 or so), but I ALWAYS got the same answer. ALL 3D companies do ALL their recruiting at the end of the school semester. By the time I got there, they had already gotten all the employees they needed till next january. :(       
Sucks to be me...
So I ended up finding myself a temporary job over at Market probe Canada. I basicly do a bunch of surveys over the phone 8 hours a day. 
DON'T GET ME WRONG!!!!! This is NOT telemarketing. I am not selling my sould over the phone. I do not get paid per survey I complete, I get paid per hour I work. So I'm in no way supposed to pressure anybody into  doing anything. I hear sombody say he would rather not do the survey, I hang up, period. 

I actually applied to this job knowing that socialising, communicating and articualting were some of my biggest problems. It's, for that matter, one of the biggest reasons why I decided to applied in the first place. I suck at doing this sorta thing and I really hate doing it.... which is why I needed to suck it in and just go thru it, so that I could fix those problems. 
I use to hate the phone. Now I'm actually ok with it after only 6 weeks. 
The first 3 weeks where BY FAR the worst. I woke up every morning hating myself. I dreaded those days...
But since then I actually started noticing some improvement in my articulating and communication sk1llz. How cool is that. Another cool thing is that I spend 8 hours a day speaking french... in Toronto!!!!!! Now that's bizare!!!! Plus, I actually get paid better because I'm in french. The pay is actually pretty decent and I get good liberty on days off I might want. 
So it's actually an ok job... Till I get a real job in 3D, that is. 

And like most of you already know, I'm somewhat of an artist myself. I can draw, althought, where Secondlina will do 5 drawing in 10 minutes, I'll do a single drawing in 1 hour. I can model, both in 3D and with clay or dough of some sort, I can animate 2d and 3d, I paint and I colour with photoshop and a few other miscelanious forgoten talents like cooking and the likes.

SecondLina's been trying to push me to post some of my stuff here for the last little while, but I never got around to doing it. Well... Today's the day.

Here's a drawing I did of myself today at work. I realised I could sorta see my reflexion in my monitor and since I had been trying to draw myself for the last few days, I decided to just go for it and I was able to do this in the repetitive "waiting on hold" part of my day.

I think Its actualy bears a pretty good resemblance to me.

Heres a picture of a crazy skinnny girl I was able to find. I, for some reason, went on this weird photoshop trip a few days ago and I decided to see if I couldn't give her skin a green look but while still keeping a realistic look to the picture. One thing led to the other and I ended up giving her long pointy ears some kind of dottish patern on her skin and added some lighting effects and a few leaves blowing in along with a few other minor alteration. This is the end result. 

It's a nymph!!!!!!
Theres actually 4 progressively earlier versions of this picture making some kind of a step by step sorta thing. 
I think it ended up being pretty good.

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I kinda think this post has been going on for long enough and Secondlina didn't show me the trick for hidding large post under a smal link, so I think I'll leave it at that. At least this way, you know a bit more about me and what I can do. So I'm ending up feeling pretty good about this post.

So till next time.

The rat tailed one. 
Link.