Carlsbad Caverns

We stopped at Carlsbad Caverns on the way over to California, and it was awesome. Really pretty. I tried taking some good pictures, but failed miserably. It was just too dark for my little camera, or else I couldn't hold it still long enough for it to process the image (try holding a camera perfectly still for 8 seconds...its hard). But out of the many, many terrible pictures, I did get a few keepers. Enjoy!





As per usual, if you're interested in seeing all the other pictures (as terrible as they may be), you can check them out on Facebook!

California!!

So I'm moving out to San Rafael in about a week, and I just got back from short lil visit over there. I really liked walking around the rose garden in Golden Gate Park, so here's some choice photos from that. If you want to see all the pictures I took from my trip (plus some photos of friends and I having epic battles during my Michigan trip), check them out on my Facebook album, here. Otherwise, on with the pretty!!


And then here's a couple o' photos of the view outside where I'm gonna be working.

Just wow...(Note: I did not make this!!!)

So a friend of mind found this cake and posted it on Facebook, and I just have to say...it is the greatest cake ever!


The girl who made it's name is Su-Yin, and she has a blog with more pictures, so go check it out! She also has a bunch of recipes and stuff posted. Pretty talented girl, she is. Her cakes are all beautiful. I want one when I get married...

Here's some "art!"

So, I was bored, and I've been telling a friend of mine for ages (sarcastically, of course) that I needed to write him a book. So I made it! Yay! It is 16 little pages long in Comic Sans...yes, Comic Sans. Realizing early on that I've never bound a book before, and all I was working with was Photoshop, thread, and some of my mum's letterhead (I printed on the blank side, but on the inside cover you can see remnants of the letterhead's heading), I planned on it being pretty ghetto, thus Comic Sans fit. The pages don't line up, I accidentally got some water on it...and yea. I'M pretty happy with how it turned out. Here's the cover!


The rainbow and puppies were inspired by the cover of the X-Force #1-3 compilation in which rainbows and puppies are shooting out of Wolverine's claws. Go figure. The title was suggested by my friend. Writing the book probably took half an hour. Making it, maybe a total of 2 hours. Like I said...not intended to be a fine work of art.

So what am I up to?

I am ashamed to say that I have no new artwork to post. I worked on a submission for May's 11 second club for a few days, but for a handful of reasons, both personal and time-related, I decided to take the month off, and will finish the animation when things aren't so crazy. I really like the audio we were given and I think my concept is...different...from any of the W.I.P. postings I'd seen. So while it won't be done for the contest...it will be done at some point! And then I shall post it here! woohoo!

But things are going to be crazy for awhile because I'm moving to the San Fransisco Bay area next month! Yay! More on my job when it's official, but I'll definitely post some pictures of the move. :-)

Out to Play

My thesis is now up on YouTube!

Child's Play

Thesis is done! Woot!! You can see it on my website @ www.jessicalozano.com. Just click on the Thesis link. You'll need DivX to view it.

And here's the poster I made for the CA Senior Show.


The theme was 80's movies, and since Giggles looked so much like Chuckie, I just had to. Technically, this is based off the Child's Play 2 poster, which was in 1990....but it had 2 "characters" and a box, which was kind of perfect. So I went with that poster. Those scissors were made in about 4 seconds....yay beveling curves!!