Kat Johnston

Tag: assignments

  • In case I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight.

    Kat Johnston – yup… its officially true. I’ve cracked. Ok, not really, but by the look of that little face… I don’t think I’d want to get on Pinky here’s crazy…er side. Never trust a person that smiles too much – taint natural to be too happy.

    I’m doing another advance write-up for today, even though I haven’t yet done the picture to go in here. It just seems easier when I know that, again, I am going to be working fairly solidly throughout the day on last-minute polishing of assignment work before I hand in my very last assignment ever (one would hope).

    Tomorrow (as in the day after this is posted, not at the time it is actually written), I am heading off to Sydney for a few days to attend a housewarming, get away from things, spend some time with friends and all that jazz. In short: uni over, time to relax. At least for a little while.

    Now, to be honest, I’m not even sure that the people that I am staying with have a scanner. I’m not so sure how my commitment to an image a day is going to go while I am down there. However, I know that there has to be at least one digital camera around, and if all else fails, I can still write a post and put up a nice big IOU. Hell, I might even fall back on doing something with a mouse in Paint if it means that there is something up to continue this project exactly as it is meant to continue.

    I’ve become rather attached to it. I haven’t missed a day in quite a while, and I don’t really plan to miss a day just because I am out of town, either. There might be some sporadic posting times, depending on when I happen to be online, but hopefully I can still stick with the commitment of a creative product a day. We’ve all seen some of the doozies I’ve thrown up before when I’ve been strapped for time or resources – it kinda just goes to show to me that it doesn’t matter. It is the continued resolve, not the actual images themselves that make this particularly worth-while to me. Yes, the pictures are important. They’re vitally important. They’re what this is all about. But if it takes a few shabby ones up with the rest to stay in the habit of doing what I love, then so be it. See you in Sydney!

  • An IOU, musing on subliminal messaging in assignments and a word on backing up your work.

    Kat Johnston: IOU one actual drawing. Yes, one that doesn’t come with dandelions or flies or faces or kitty cats, just because I am too lazy to do anything really actually creative.

    A little hand-written note for you today! I need to get posting out of the way early, so that I can get back to polishing off my second-last assignment of the semester: a marketing plan. I’m sending myself incremental updates as I go, just in case something, heaven forbid, happens between today and tomorrow, when it is due in.

    Our faculty isn’t like others: you don’t just get marked down if its a day late, you fail. There’s no excuses, unless you were somehow involved in an industrial accident, or crashed your car (and are near-dead because of it), or something else major and unstoppable that keeps you from being able to hand it in exactly on time, to the minute. I, for one, am really not up for staging such an affair, since I rather enjoy having all my limbs attached and don’t particularly like bleeding for the cause, so much easier just to have back-ups in a place other than my own personal computer.

    I’m so close to graduating, I’m not letting this machine screw it up for me if it decides to take a day-trip to the planet of Not-worky-worky.

    Ok… I have to get back to my assignment and get it looking all nice and shiny so that it dazzles my lecturer into a state of near-hypnosis, ensuring that she will recieve the not-so-subtle message of ‘write an A, write an A’ as she reads it. The paper, lightly watermarked with ‘give the damn girl an A’ all over it might hopefully help too. I know they don’t like subliminal messages in advertising, but does it really count if its just in an assignment? Hmm… I guess only time will tell.

    Two more days. Then freedom is mine.

  • Last minute polishing… so no time to post.

    Kat Johnston – its just one of those days, and this is something quick to get it out of the way and get something posted before it passes me by.

    Ohhh, another very quick picture today: so quick in fact that I couldn’t take the time to pick up a pen and sketch it on paper, scan it in and crop it down and so forth. Instead, thank god for the wacom tablet to cut out that extra step for quick and dirty posting.

    Just in case it wasn’t obvious, the past few days have been a bit busy, and today will be no exception with some last-minute polishing of an assignment underway. Every time I get to the point of finishing big assignments, I turn to my hubby and say ‘Why? Why do I torture myself so? Why have I gone back to university time and time again? Please, for the love of god, stop me if I try it again, ok?’

    I think the fact of the matter is that I just adore learning… I really do. I can’t help but enjoy picking up these little snippets of knowledge here and there before rolling them all together to create a brilliant bigger picture. That said… I still hate assignments. With a passion. So there.

  • Eep! Better get one up quick before I forget…

    Kat Johnston Sketch – cute, huh? Well, I think so! I don’t even like mushrooms… or toadstools.. but I do like this little fellow.

    Here we go – another random sketch for another random day. I thought I had better get around to throwing one up onto the site before I completely and utterly forget about doing it at all!

    I’m sorry… no big, long, rambling post today. I have a bit more writing to do before I can properly relax and move onto the next assignment, so I have to get back to work. In the mean-time, enjoy the piccie, and I promise I will type out something deep and meaningful (or at least patently rediculous) next time… or at the very least, the day after that. Tuesday at worst, promise. *grin*

  • In between comedy and mockumentary lies Bobbles, the friendly alien.

    Kat Johnston Sketch - I have named him Bobbles. Because he has, uh, bobbles?

    Just a quick one this evening… I have named him Bobbles. He was drawn yesterday between editing the formatting for scripted scenes. This assignment was fairly interesting to do: one scene, presented as a script in three different genres. I decided to do comedy, mockumentary, and erotica. ‘Why, Kat?’ you ask? Because the scenario worked for all three, because I needed a good chuckle, and lord help me the lecturer said she was up for anything. Lets test that theory, shall we? Don’t worry, I did actually run it by her before going ahead with it. She loved the idea.

    Phew! Only three more assignments to go. Only, I say? Hardly. But its just so much easier to try and think of it as ‘only’ rather than ‘ok, the ‘easy’ ones are over and done with, now for the big, bad, nasty ones’. The first description has a much better ring to it, yes?