Hey there everybody
As I'm sure you all know, I'm not much of an active deviant here on devART. It's pre-tty rare that I submit any artworks, let alone any journal entries like this. And I don't know how many times I've written journals only to say "I'm going to do this-and-this-and-this..." only to barely scratch the surface of what I tried to deliver...
...sadly, this MAY be one of those...
I wasn't going to write anything, knowing it would just be another of my infamous lists of plans not to be realised. BUT I thought, I may as well. After all, this is the wrong attitude to have. It's a new year after all (by the way, happy 2012 to all of you!), let's start fresh.
Speaking of the new year, I'm wanting to draw something to commemorate it, and may be my toughest drawing challenge yet. I won't say why, you'll have to wait until I submit it
So... what's news? I've been on holidays from uni for a bit over a month. At first I was trying hard not to get bored, but now I seem to be doing fine with that. Mostly practicing guitar, really (SHAMELESS PLUG: here's the link to my guitar cover of L'Arc~en~Ciel's LOST HEAVEN, if anybody's interested -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8E9xW… )
Speaking of L'Arc, I so very much wish I could be going to New York to see them perform at Madison Square Garden on 25th March, I even have an internet friend there I could meet for the first time, but it's probably too expensive and more so, my uni semester starts by then... :/ But it will happen one day!! I'm waiting on a CD of theirs to arrive by mail, meanwhile.
FLASHBACK: Christmas was the usual drill, having my dad's family over for Christmas Day then spending the next day (it's come to my attention that 26th December isn't known as Boxing Day elsewhere in the world, I dunno why we call it that) with my mum's family. Not too bad. Then a nice peaceful New Year's eve with friends at home, losing my soul in Mortal Kombat only to reclaim it on condition that I become Sense-of-Doubt's butler... long story
(If you've seen Seinfeld, it'll make sense)
More recently I've worked a lot at the cricket ground here, this week especially. Though I just saw comments on the shift rostering website we use, I didn't like seeing stuff like "late for shift" in there. Not that it isn't true (I'm not a morning person so I take too long getting ready), but I feel like a kid getting a detention at school or something
But anyways... oh, plus Christmas foodstuffs seem to have taken their toll (bah scumbug), I'm technically overweight, grrr. It's not by much but still, I thought I'd never end up THERE again :/ Time to exercise properly again...!
Now let's get onto the art-related stuff, because that's what matters here, right? As one of my last journal entries will point out, I have a second manga/story idea in the works, and that's still true. A few months ago my phone died along with many pieces of info about it, but while I salvaged what I could in its dying days, I've retrieved (most of) the rest from memory. Shouldn't rely too much on technology...
As for my regular manga idea, I really really want to dive back into it now that I'm regurgitating ideas for it, it's been a long time. So I want to use the aforementioned New Year drawing idea as a warmup. The real question is WHEN WHEN WHEN am I gonna do stuff in COLOUR??? I've got a perfectly good pen tablet in my cupboard, I'm just too chicken to take it out and give it a proper try since I suck at Photoshop. But I must start somewhere. So if, no, WHEN I submit the drawing, I want to then rework it into colour. You guys deserve some colour, dangit! After all, what colour is Raina's hair? What colour are Sharde's (formerly Sill) eyes?? And WHAT colour is Belerus' skin??? Only I know the answers to these, for now
Well then! I think I've strained your eyes long enough
Thank you to anyone reading this, I hope you're all well and being far more creative than me. Can I borrow your creative vibes, just for a bit...? I'll give 'em back, I promise! Maybe not in mint condition though.