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2013-2014

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Well, Its been a while since Ive updated my Journal, So I wanted to just Give you guys who might have been still going to my page and most recently seen how Ive Removed All of my Deviations and what not.  So if youve been like "what's up with the afro guy?" well Heres a quick update:

Ever Since I left School Ive been working my Part-Time Retail Job and have been working on my Comic stuff on the side.  However, I haven't been beasting it as fully as I should so I hadn't produced anything real worth wile.  Ive been thinking about this for some time and it has come down to the simple choice of getting off my Ass and doing what's gotta be done!

So For this year I have a few goals that I want to accomplish:

1. Get a New Job (weather it be doing comic coloring work for another comic company or person or working full time utilitzing my skills in photoshop/illustrator as a graphic artist of sorts)

2. Learn How to Drive and get my license/ Car

3. Produce my own original story 'Rally Warriors' as an Online Graphic Novel or even release a novel version also.

Ive got a lot on my plate, and I have to step my game up!  Since Im not taking any classes at the time being, I have no excuses to just sit down and draw my ass off!  There are different emotional and mental things I've been allowing block me from pursuing my passion as an artist and writer.  I have to just buck up and get my self together!  Im really optimistic for this year, as I am not the only one with goals to release my own ideas/work out there my whole family is extremely talented and we are all working to see our visions come to life!

So For all of you who may have been looking for my work in your recent deviations folder, I will be posting more stuff, but they will be more finished and more professional pieces of work.  One thing I also have to get out of my Mind is that Im not just a little art student in school anymore.  Yes there is still a lot I have to do, and I may not have been paid for an art job YET but I am a professional artist Who has the talent to reach his goals!

This isn't the end of the Afro, and I can't wait to see what Im able to accomplish this year!

You can see my colorist Portfolio here: portfolio.matthewjrolon.com
I will also be expanding this portfolio as well so there's more to come!
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Welp thats it!  My first year of college is now complete, and I believe it was a great experience I learned a lot from.  One thing I learned is that the path to your goals is not always cut and dry.  I won't be Continuing my schooling at the Kubert School, but I will enroll in the Cartooning Program at SVA (School of the Visual Arts) In New York City.  

    I Feel that this school will be a better outlet for me and my career goals.  Their program is more inline with create-your-own projects rather than just preparing for specific industry or freelance cartooning work.  

   So this summer I will be preparing for this new school which involves applying and taking care of all the enrollment process.  I will also be grinding down on my Power Force story.  I will be  doing mostly Writing and character Defelopment (which i will NOT post).  And one final project I will be working on this summer is Rally Warriors.  Its just a fun idea I wanted to draw to practice everything I learned this year at school and to help keep me multitasking.

Welp theres more to come from the Afro so stay Tuned!
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Well my first year at the kubert school is drawing close to its end.  I am on my final break for the year, spring break, and I can't believe how fast the year went by!  I have definitely made major improvements and used techniques I never would have thought of using on my own. Kubert has given me a lot of guidance and pushed me to make the best art I can.

However, I must confess, that I'd not done my ABSOLUTE best this year.  Id wasted time during school doing other things instead of what I came here to do: Beast it out drawing!  Though I have made mistakes, I am only looking forward to the future to what I can accomplish the rest of this year and beyond!  I still have my goal of creating my own Graphic novel which I will be focusing a lot more on.  I also have a lot more practice I have to do with the drawing basics.

So I'm making changes in my life and my priorities!  More to come from the Afro!
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YO! sup people! I've made it to the Kubert School up in Dover New Jersey and my first week of assignments its almost complete! I will post any work and projects i complete (I will most likely wipe all my previous deviations since they're, well lets face it, CRAP) so we can see my progress! (hopefully XD) this being the first week, my stuff won't be much different, but hopefully it will progress over the next few months!

Oh and btw I took such a long break from DA cuz, well I had nothing worth posting, plus Im not to big on this site, so no one demanded anything of me.  But for those of you who actually were watching me and thought: "hey, I wonder where the Afro went?"... Here I am!

So keep an eye out!
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YES! thats right! im goin to the Kubert School!  Starting in september, I will be starting my 3 years of pure art school where I will gain the education to become a professional Artist!

For this summer I will be preparing myself as best I can for the upcoming school year.  I will post these art pieces and I plan to make a comic (im not sure what it will feature) that will practice the following things I need to work on:

Poses
Backgrounds
Comic Art


Other Prep Work

Perspective and Landscaping
Life Drawings and Portraiture
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