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2014

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TL;DR - If you stop playing games, it gives you SO MUCH more time to draw.

Although it isn't exactly the start of the year, I thought I'd write about how it's been thus far and how I hope the year will go from here on out. After almost an entire year of no artistic improvement I questioned why I wasn't improving. The main reason was that, I probably wasn't drawing enough. The year before, in 2012, I filled two sketchbooks and was actually able to draw things far more complex than I could have ever thought to draw at the start of the year. Last year, in 2013, I filled not even one. Sadly, this is probably due to my involvement with my friends, games, school, and then work. Actually, when school actually kicked in this semester, I changed my schedule so I ended up not seeing any of my friends during the day. This meant that in my break time, I don't have anyone to talk to so I ended up drawing. And actually, the biggest reason that I started drawing again so much is because I have finally kicked my bad habit of playing League of Legends in all of my free time. I realized (After I stopped playing) that I was spending literally a third of my day, every day, playing league, either getting angry or making other people angry.

Once I got off League, hard as it was, I learned that I actually had so much time that I didn't know what to do with it. Now, I'm getting a better night's rest and doing more of what makes me happy. Other things I've done is start following much more art blogs on tumblr, and joining more groups here on deviant art. I'm trying to be more active between the two, and trying even to post things on youtube. Although I wanted to do drawing tutorial videos where I speak like 'SYCRA' or 'KNKL' I decided that I would do the speed paint thing for now.

Apart from those things, I'm actually taking a writing class that is helping me to understand character development and that kind of thing more. I'm also currently taking a basic fundamentals of art class, where we go over the very basics of art, and I've strengthened my core even more which is great.

TL;DR - If you stop playing games, it gives you SO MUCH more time to draw.

Done:
-Stopped playing League of Legends
-Changed class schedule
-Set time aside for drawing and writing

To Do:
-Somehow get premium service to change user name
-Improve dynamic anatomy
-Improve on character design
-Improve line work
-Animate
-Settle on an art school

Hopefully, I'll be making the right decision in going to art school soon. There've been so many comics circulating around tumblr about following your dreams, never giving up, and loving yourself. I think that most of them can be found in my advice tag here.

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Tumblr :U

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Since it's summer and things have slowed down in my workplace I'll be posting my daily sketches on here and tumblr! I have usually no idea what to draw but it will be a thing. Yes. Off of that Random Access Memories and Studio Killers are two really good albums that i've listened to in the past month. Just saying. I actually have no idea how people make such long elaborate journal posts I'm running out of things to type out. Animal Crossing New Leaf is a great game and today is the summer solstice haha. Anyway, :U

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AAAAAAAH

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AAAAAAAAAAAAH

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LOL

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Well, I know I've been pretty inactive here on DA but I'm gonna try to start posting stuff that isn't just some quick sketch or something. Like maybe full on character blah blah and maybe adoptables or whatever comes around this christmas season. it's just that the school season keeps me so focused in on school :U So much so that I didn't get to do Nanowrimo this year like I wanted to. I just want to do something useful this coming year! a;oeifja;oeij. I think I might brush up on chibi drawing and do some of those commission things. Loooooooool I can never get into doing commissions. I still don't understand most acronyms and am going to try to draw every day of the month. ;aoweia;oigahwe;oij I'm really bad at working on things over the course of several days. Anyway, I started listening to stuff from Eurovision again and realized how much I love Anggun's Echo, my song of the week.
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My art project

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So, I'm doing a project for art and hope to have a bunch of pieces at the end to show improvement and blah. Anyway, I'm also doing a littlenseries of how-to things so I'm sort ofnwondering whatnare the things that people feel like learning about the most.

Anyway, the thought is back in my mind that sometimes going from vision to medium is so hard. I mean if something looks amazing in your mind and you just don't have the technical ability its like a stab to the heart. But I guess that it also pushes you to do better!

Only now I think did I realize that if I'm trying to do something different I shouldn't try to change my style. Ooh it's like that moment where you talk to a therapist but you're actually taking to yourself and come upon your answer! Thank you journal and all who read it :D I know now that I need desperately to slow down. I mean, no great work is made in one day(unless you're super artist). But im not there yet so I have to slow down. (All the stuff Ive posted recently are rushed sketch/paints) I also have to get back into linearting and rendering properly D: ooooh journal.
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