Whirlwind week

It has been a right whirl wind of a week. A lot of stuff has changed and it has been a bit breath taking.

For starters, my third year (it is what all the first years refer to our guru's as), Maxwell, has finally left and gone to India. My flatmates all know how frustrated I have recently got with 3DS Max, and they all know how much he has helped me with it. I don't know about the other first years that were in my group, but I will really miss him even though I had only known him for a short time. I wish him the best of luck in everything, and when anyone rips a page from their sketchbook, I will remember Tristan telling Max off for doing exactly that same thing at the portrait sessions. I hope he has landed okay, and is settling in fine, but I do not like to bother him as I have bothered him so much the last few months.

Next, I have handed in my house, and have received a new project from my 3d tutor. This one is to create two types of trees in 3DS Max, but not palm trees. This should be interesting as I had got a lot of reference material from Bradgate park on trees, and have been drawing a lot of them recently for my 2d work. However, I am tempted to pop down to Abbey Park to take some more reference images, and to do some more drawing either tomorrow or Monday morning. I am not too sure if I am ready for the feedback on my review day later next week though.

Third thing, I have found a house. Technically, my soon to be house mates have found a house, in which they sweetly offered me the attic bedroom, as my sketchbooks like to scatter themselves everywhere. All that is needed to be done really at this stage, is to go through the contract and make sure that there is not any hidden messages. This will take a while as I do not want to sign anything quickly, without at least a few people looking over it. But I am excited for this. Renting my first house is a big thing but it can be screwed up in so many ways.

Fourthly, the not so great news, I went doctors after going to a gig the Wednesday just passed to see Skillrex.  The gig was fantastic, and Skillrex was amazing live, but I am now in a lot of pain once again. I have had issues with my ribs before, actually all this year, and I am currently supporting two fracture ribs which is making simple tasks like breathing or laughing difficult and painful. If I seem snappy over the next few weeks, you know why and please do not take it to heart. But according to the doctor, I injured them in January (which I knew of), but the reason that they kept me in pain was due to the fact that I kept re fracturing one of them. And it does not seem to want to heal. They have pretty much told me not to move and to rest them for the next few months so that this one fracture can heal properly. Which is fine, except it's me, I tend to be up and moving constantly exploring, which means I can not go running about in abandon buildings looking for hot spots to draw, and paint with my friends. Nor climbing up these buildings either. Or trees. Or rocks. Or hopping rock to rock across a river when we head up to the woods. My cold exploring December of home to draw has been ruined by one stupid rib. This has disappointed me. But then again, when have I ever really listened to doctors?

I also have fish on my blog. Appreciate them, cause they need the love.

Listening to: Ocean live by John Butler