Hello!

DeviantArt is making such a big deal about the new prints store that it motivated me to give my own little corner of it a much-needed refurb. It turned out to be quite the undertaking. Mostly, this involved me bumping up all the prices.

"How nefarious!" you gasp.

It isn't like that at all! I did it this way because I want to encourage people to do their print shopping in my Etsy store (which still retains the same awesome prices) rather than here. When I buy the prints to sell on Etsy myself, I can personally inspect them for quality, and sign each of them individually! Also, *whispers* maybe doing it that way does increase my profit a little bit.

At any rate, my Etsy shop is the next thing to be fixed up. I'm going to offer many more prints and sizes, and I'm also going to start offering packages of multiple prints (the contents of which you'll be able to select from my entire stock) for even more amazingly fabulous prices!

Your friendly neighborhood broke and starving art student,
kecky.

I'm at school! Whoooo!!!

I love all my classes to death and even better, I feel like what I'm learning is going to help me do what I want. My schedule is pretty much all animation all the time, and I LOVE it. Even the totally boring basic assignments we've been working on are satisfying, in their way.

The city is... very different from anywhere else I've ever lived. Pretty sure I like it. I'm still kind of figuring out the whole grocery-shopping thing.

Follow your dreams, kids!

I will be attending the School of Visual Arts as a transfer student this fall. I know MCAD is a good school and I could have had a great time there but my heart has been set on SVA for a long time now. So I'm going to New York!!!

You have no idea how good it feels to be making progress in my life again, and to be working towards goals that for a while I didn't really feel like I could ever get to. My years at Disney have been really fun, and I have zero regrets about taking the time off, but I always had the knowledge that it was a side trip. Being back on track is GREAT!!!

Hurrah!!!

At this moment I have -

1. Been accepted to MCAD!

2. Gotten a lovely scholarship from them!

3. Been accepted to SVA!!

Breaking news will be reported as it happens!!!

4/12 UPDATE UPDATE!!!
equal scholarship from SVA! now I have to DECIDE! AAAAUUUGHHHH!!!

ALSO my birthday is in three days

I had an art-tastic few days!! On Thursday I flew up to New York City - for the FIRST TIME - to visit one of my best Disney friends who's since gone back home. I was there for such a short time, and it was so cold that we didn't really get to do all that much, but I think I had a very good basic introduction to the city.

However, the main reason I was in NYC - or at least the reason I could get my parents to pay for the ticket - was to pay a visit to the School of Visual Arts, which is my tippy-top first-choice dream school. I loved it. I WANT TO GO THERE SO BAD. Anyway, I turned in the last of my application materials on Saturday, and I won't know for a few weeks whether or not I got in, so keep your fingers crossed!!

THEN, when I finally got home late Monday night, on the drive back from the airport my sister said casually, "Oh, yeah, you got a letter from MCAD." AHHH!!! Minneapolis College of Art & Design is my CLOSE SECOND dream school, and I'd finished my application just a week or two before. So then I had to sit the rest of the way home in an AGONY of not knowing. Well, I finally got home and tore open my letter and I got in! Whooo!!! If I get into SVA too, I think it's going to come down to whoever wants to give me more money.

The next morning, however, artistic tragedy struck. I was getting ready for work and putting everything in my backpack, when I realized that my sketchbook was not in there. Furthermore, I didn't have any memory of taking it out of the seat-back pocket on the plane. I called the airline right away and, well, they said they'd call me if they found it. D:

I'm pretty darned upset about that, obviously, but I think my trip was worth it... it'll really be worth it if I get into SVA okay! Wish me luck!!!