Rehash

This year hasn't exactly been going the way that i've been wanting it to, but it's still early in the year.

From now on, I want to use this site to write more, particularly to ask questions and to have a conversation with myself and whoever else may be reading this.

So from this point, this will be mostly text based. I will put up pictures and sketches as they come a long. But for the most part, those will be distributed amongst my portfolio site http://www.ajanioloye.com and my two other blogs...which I will mention after this.

So, before I go into the heavy writing I would like to give an update on various events in my life.

-I came back from Japan unscathed. I had a good time.
-I didn't get into the JET programme... I'm still a little disappointed about this, it meant a lot to me. What gets me is that although I have my hypotheses on why, they never tell you why, so it makes me wonder if there's something wrong with me.
-To balance out the bad news, the good news is that I passed the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) at level 2. Level 1 is the highest level, I will take that, but I'm not sure when excatly. (I think I would have to spend time in Japan before I can do that.)
-I've applied for graduate school. Specifically, the MFA in Illustration and Visual Storytelling program at School of Visual Arts. I'll be informed of the results before April 1st. This is a very important thing for me. If I don't get in, I'm not really sure what I will do.

-I started a blog with Shaun Peterson so that we can keep drawing illustrations and characters... http://illchallenge.blogspot.com
-I've also started a blog just for my subway skecthes...it's supposed to be collborative blog...but no one else is really posting except me. http://nycsubsketch.blogspot.com

Other than that, I'm just chilling out in New York. A lot going on in my head, so I'm hoping I can clear things up with this blog.

That's all for now.