Hidden Spring

The forest was her throne with a crown, of sticks and stone
jewels, lay in the dirt where the seeds of fern would grow.
The trees remained her castle towers, kept safe inside the moat,
her hollow voice spoke as the wind and to the river's ends she follows.

My Own Backyard

It was like, no it was a dream,
The vividness is lingering.
As horror in our thoughts or not,
Gave way to dawn and drawn out plot.
The little ones were angels then.
They are now and will be again.

My Bad:

June was a strange month that went by faster than expected. So fast that this was the only thing I got around to doing...

I am a mad genius I tell you.

Talk To You Later

My plans for the summer are a bit abstract.

Just Kidding

Did I tell you that I am secretly going to grow up to be an old cat lady... and when I do this is going to happen (these are "beat boards" that I did for storyboard university)....

1. I am going to tell everyone that I am the most awesomest crazy old cat lady ever...

2. People are going to start giving me cats...

3. And more cats....

4. Those cats are going to leave little presents on my pillow (like mine did on April 4th).

5. I am going to get really angry.

6. Instead of giving all the cats away I am going to prove that I am still the most awesomest crazy old cat lady ever...

7. By opening an extermination business.

BAM!

Be Right Back:

1. I planned a cinder block vegetable garden (and laid out the cinder blocks):

I still need to actually start growing stuff....

2. I put out an ad for roommates and I met the three that I will be living with....

Alyson has to dye her awesome hair into a natural color for her job, but doesn't it look great?
Ari is Japanese :)

3. I joined a writer's group.

So you're writing about mermaids... I guess my nymph story doesn't sound that strange.

4. Oh and this happened....

And that is after twenty minutes of scrubbing and soaking. The other hand wasn't as bad.

Stupid printer trying to poison me...

My Thoughts Exactly:

On the 4th: Crisps Attack Us!

On the 12th: Cat Upside Down

On the 15th: Dive

On the 21st: Forever Alone

ALL MY FRIENDS ARE GOING ON MISSIONS!

I'M NOT.

On the 26th: First Attempt - Sarah O'Maid

Here we are at the end of February and so much has changed. I'll be paying for utilities for the first time in my life, I'll be doing my own grocery shopping for the first time in my life, I'll be fending for myself for the first time in my life. It's about time. Really. I applied for a food server position at an old folks home... so if I get that job then I don't know how much time I'll have left to be able to commit to my creativity. I know there is so much time everyday, so it is possible, it most certainly is possible. After this week, helping my sister and her family move and then going on a winter retreat... maybe things will calm down just a little. Here's to making new friends and developing talents! Cheers! - April

For Your Information:

So, the new year has begun and some of us are trying to hold onto those new year's resolutions that always seem to slip through our fingers. Well, I say nay! I WILL blog once a month this year... but with what?

My creative endeavors have taken a backseat to this crazy thing called "college". But even with a full load of online courses (yes, online courses), there are so many hours in the day.

I mean, I'm doing extremely well in my classes even though all this month I have watched 21 cumulative hours of Korean drama, kept up with 5 television shows and 50+ youtube subscriptions, read 4 books, oh... and spent too much time watching kittens on livestream.

I suppose that if I limited my consumption of entertainment then I would have time to create some for you. So, anticipate projects this year such as Year of the Tree (Part One) and "How to be a Crazy Cat Lady", as well as the usual original drawings, poetry and whatnot that will be scrapped together at the end of every month in one blog post. See you at the end of February!

-April

Lock Lyrics

Isn't it pretty?

Found something the other day, a lock of red with bits of gray
Frankly I would like to say it looked too new to throw away
it's not mine, I have no key, and chances are I'm not lucky
too bad I am curious and slow to become furious

cray cray was my mindset then, more than forty x times ten
combinations round the clock it'd take two weeks to pull it off
twist the dial for the combo, tweak the spinning for the code,
all these numbers are just digits, digits that I'd like to know

Without sleep and without thought, my patience then would be for nought
to waste that time would be a crime...
round and round you'd hear that sound ticking tocking for the click
sticking there and listening...

Videos up on the net, ways to hack and trick and guess
apparently no competence since even then I know not yet.
Guess I'm back to circle zero without my own very hero
make it disappear for good, got no theft in my neighborhood.

(Music Video Coming Soon!)

The Personalities of Raindrops

Realistic: Original Everything

Romantic: Tint and Contrast

 

Emotional: Shadows and Highlights

Autumn Fairy

I've been putting off backgrounds because they entail much detail. But I usually like the look of them in the end. Like this time.

Fern from "Triglita"

Summer Fairy

Willow from "Triglita"

Sketchy

So, I haven't posted in awhile because I've been tearing my hair out over animation concepts and the like. But I thought this dump of rouch storyboard panels looked cool all showing through like so, so:

For my next project... um... something to do with Firefly because it is awesome.

And I'll try not to go bald with all this failed animation plotting...

Book Covers

My sister and I spent five straight months talking to each other nearly everyday as we worked to finish writing/editing our novels. Though we fell short of the deadline (June 31st), I did find the time to sort of illustrate the covers. Enjoy!



Video: Cooking with Clinton

COOKING WITH CLINTON

BLOOPERS

June Project with... music?

From my “creative weekend” I took a picture of each "Section"

and then I decided to get silly by making some… ahem… music.

Scripted: Ravioli Vignette

MY SISTER

Oh hey April, thanks for house sitting.

ME

My pleasure.

MY SISTER

As always you're free to eat anything.

ME

Okay.

MY SISTER

There's a ton of pasta in the fridge.

ME

Okay. Have fun on your trip!

24 hours later all the pasta is gone and BECAUSE I ate all those carbohydrates I'm craving even more. As I scrounge for food in the cupboard I come across a can of ravioli.

ME

Oooh! Perfect, I'm going to eat this ravioli.

I then spend about ten minutes going through all the drawers and cupboards searching for a can opener, but to no avail.

ME

I REALLY want to eat this ravioli.

I take a device that in some distant age was probably used to puncture aluminum cans to get the liquid part out. I have no idea how to use it.

ME

I AM GOING TO EAT THIS RAVIOLI!

I spend about twenty minutes tearing apart the can so that the hole is big enough for the pieces of ravioli because I love it when the pieces come out perfectly. Amazingly, I do not injure myself.

ME

YAY! RAVIOLI!

I then take pictures to forever immortalize one of my happiest moments of my life.

Water Color: Mudsquerade

From my “House of Mud” novella. Drew this awhile ago, but finally got around to coloring it with marker and watercolor.

Update: Tumblr, Twitter and Toddlers

So, I have come to the conclusion that Tumblr is pretty neat and will be keeping an identical blog there:

imaginarymonth.tumblr.com

While I'm at it... why not add some twitter in there too?

@imaginarymonth

If you're not so crazy about social media sites, then just keep following me here. The first and foremost imaginarymonth.blogspot.com where you can see me in all my brilliance.

My nephew is great at taking pictures of me!

Perspective Challenge

Hmmm... I wonder what I should do today?

Sometimes in life we are forced to make a choice just for the sake of doing something. (Of course, doing nothing is also a choice. But who wants to do nothing, seriously?)
I like to eat and sleep and draw and dance and sing and write. So when I was trying to figure out what I should do for today's blog...



I doodled this coolness ^^

Which made me think of a Christmas Tree...

And a map...

And then some faces...

And then some poofy-dress princess...

And then the Devil breaking into through to another dimension. Cause that's just how I roll.