Man, this must have looked bloody suspicious... · 10:15pm Jan 28th, 2014
I am incredibly sorry I've not posted until now! Truth be told, it wasn't my intention to make such a dramatic post and then leave for ages, but it just seemed to... Happen. In fact, I forgot the nature of my last post until last night, when it was too late for me to throw one of these together. so, here's the post by way of apology.
So, what's happened since last week? Well, I had another party from Saturday-Sunday. A great laugh as always, but not without some level of heart-ache. (And ache of other descriptions - I've had a sore neck for some weeks now, and it prevented me from drinking. As, of course, did my shameful new year's eve stunt, which has rendered alcohol nauseating for a little while. And stomach ache, because I often get the munchies while drunk and brought tonnes of doughnuts and a full kilo of these fake smarties things, and we all ended up eating a shit-ton.) The heartache is because the girls I like admitted (In a series of bizarre events) to having a thing for two other guys, and apparently things are very awkward and confusing. (As they often are - I was told that she'd have dated me, but she wasn't 'emotionally capable' at the time. Which I trust, because she's nice and genuinely honest, and because I'm pretty gullible.) Of course, being me, I've never actually made a move (Though I was partly held by the bro code - one of my friends had a thing for her for a full year, so I was honour bound to do nothing.) though it would have been wasted at any rate. I don't really know how to go about dating, and I guess I'm waiting for someone with similar interests to me. Which will be hard until I go to uni, because I'm in a school of 300 lunatics (Seriously, not one of us is even remotely normal, we're starting to think that it's secretly a rehabilitation centre for youths.) And I've known them all for years. Also, I'm like one of the only two people in my year that likes anime, and the other one likes anime because I introduced him to it. (Same reason he's a brony, as it happens - he owes me...)
But! It's probably worth mentioning that, while I feel lonely often, I am very happy to be alone. I've never been the sort to need social interaction, though I'm lucky enough to get a lot of it. Plus, I do have the company of those people who sadly do not exist, for when I'm feeling particularly pathetic. But then, forming an emotional attachment to people who only exist through 12 25-minute long videos is just the hallmarks of a well-told story, if you ask me. I can't help it if they're lovable.
Anyway! I digress. As of the results for my mock exams, I've taken it upon myself to increase my nightly workload by 90 minutes each day, in order to reinforce what I have learned while I learn more things. Uni worries and all, eh? I've also decided that I need to get better at drawing, in particular cute anime girls, so I have started genuinely practicing my drawing skills on a daily basis. This is in actual fact the first time I have ever drawn with the sole intent of practice, and it's really very fun. Takes away a lot of the pressure of failure. I'll probably be posting the practice sketches on my deviantart at some point, so I'll link you all when I do.
So, you know... Fun week! See you guys soon!
to be honest, it wasn't until I read the title of this blog that I realized how suspicious it really could have been. Though I doubt any of your readers would really have thought you to have vanished from the face of this world though.
You're making it increasingly difficult not to see you as an overly social outgoing party type with most of your blogs mentioning a party having been visited of late. I'm happy for you though.
In terms of impoving drawing skills there are few better ways than drawing from observation. Drawing from manga or stills from anime is a good start. Rather than just starting randomly and drawing the details from there to slowly but surely try and complete the full image, try to take the time to understand the shapes you're dealing with. Start light and use lines or points to determine the relative distances and dimensions of what you're trying to draw. The top of the head to the chin for example, or the tip of the nose to the back of the head or the points of the hip to the knee to the heel. Build up the basis for your drawing and understand the shapes involved. Once you know your dimensions are correct, then you can start refining and adding detail, ensuring that all scales are correct relative to one another.
It isn't the fastest way to draw things, potentially not the most interesting one either, but it makes it easier to learn how to build up these shapes again, know the relative sizes from one to the other and eventually just draw them from scratch.
In the end even anime style follow conventions from real life. Anatomy in general is best learned from drawing people, preferably models who can maintain a pose for a few hours. Though outside of artschools I don't know of many ways to get access to such situations.
Another important one to learn is how light behaves on different surfaces. Perhaps drape a fabric over a surface, and take your time in trying to recreate the highlights and shadows. Learn how to use light to add more depth to your artwork.
I'll be looking forward to seeing your latest improvements.
Love and dating remain difficult things. Personalities might clash, multiple friends interested in the same person. Half the time emotions and attraction tend to be confusing and don't always make sense. I cannot really say much on that part either as any relationship I've been in has kind of just happened without any conscious dating involved.
Sharing a number of interests is definitely important as it both provides a grounds to talk and be excited over as well as makes it easier to understand the other.
300 lunatics is it? Sound like quite the interesting school. Normal is overrated anyway.
Good luck with your mock exams. I'm sure your extra effort will pay off in the end.
Your life seems much more interesting than mine.
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Nah, I just make it sound better than it is. Parties are nice in theory, but rarely as fun in practice.