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I swear I just clicked the "Import Entries" button like 5 seconds ago and all my LJ entries are already up here wow that was unexpectedly fast!

Well, then?? I guess I'm officially on DreamWidth now XD HELLO DW.

So apparently art isn't going quite as smoothly as I thought it would ^^;

I was kind of hoping this year I would be able to post a lot more drawings since I'm taking art now and it's actually required to draw stuff, but... I reeeeeeeally suck at the stuff we're being asked to draw DX  Like landscapes. Oh, my Lord. I thought mine was fairly decent considering I'd never worked with perspective or landscapes or mountains or even had a legit light source in my entire life. I used colored pencils to color it because that's one of the few media I'm familiar with. (The teacher wanted me to draw on really big paper instead of in my sketchbook to make me step out of my comfort zone a little bit and that was as far as I was going XD) The picture looked okay when I finished it. But when I got to class the next day and we were all hanging our landscapes on the wall for the class to critique, I realized I was the only one who used colored pencils and the picture was way too light and almost impossible to see. Everyone else has used paint. Vibrant colors. Advanced lighting. And I was just sitting there the whole time, staring in horror at my sad excuse for a nature portrait and thinking about how it looked like complete and utter crap next to everyone else's.

I am never drawing a landscape again. If I tell you guys I'm going to try again I want one of you to shoot me.

So yeah. Our homework was to take our landscapes back home and tweak them based on the critique we got. I'm going over the colored pencils with oil pastels. It's my first time working with oil pastels and I hate them because they don't produce a very smooth texture at all and it pisses me off. (At least they're brighter.) I never thought I would ever say this, but I miss digital coloring DX  I'm not very good at it but it's so much easier and it has an undo button and you can color in different layers. Layers would be so helpful right now omfg. It's almost 3 am here and I'm not even halfway done coloring and I still have a bunch of APUSH left to finish >.>  (We also have to turn in 10 science fair questions tomorrow and I've only thought of one orz  Hopefully I can just change one of the variables and make several more questions out of it.) But I waited until the last minute to do all of this and it's my fault for lacking the ability to focus on anything to save my life so don't feel sorry for me XD

Tonight's going to be another all-nighter but if sleep was important, they wouldn't have invented school. That's my mentality. I'm thinking about giving up drawing manga for awhile or even dropping it completely... I just don't have time to draw it anymore. And when I'm not working on something academic-related, I need to be getting better at realistic art so I can get into college. No college is going to accept manga. The only way I won't end up as a hobo in Central Park when I grow up is if I learn to draw realism and stop doing manga. That's just how it is :/  I'm going to draw a picture for my best friend's birthday at the end of this week and then I'm quitting... Just as a warning.

I'm trying to keep my tumblr and LJ fairly active so here have a doodle? >.<


( So I like Adventure Time a lot )

Welp, school starts tomorrow and I haven't finished my homework. I did finish all of my English stuff, though, so I guess I feel a little accomplished X'D  I did two out of five French essays and I teamed up with a few of my friends for the book work. (I'm about to start copying/checking/editing the work right now. I did a bunch of the additional exercises in the back of the book and they gave me most of the first half.) I did about half of the math today, so now I'm just kind of bs-ing it so that maybe I'll get effort points ^^'  And... um... I'm sad to say that my parents helped me a LOT with history. And I mean A LOT. My mom did all my terms for me (but she just copied and pasta-ed everything from random websites) and my dad is working on the reading guide for The Founding Brothers >.<  I'm not going to let him finish it because he's done a lot and I deserve the bad grade anyway DX  And it's getting late and I don't want him to overwork himself.

Hopefully they won't grade our stuff too harshly :/  But for now... I guess this is goodbye for awhile DDD:  (I plan to get on tumblr later this week to say the same.) I wish you guys luck on the school year :DDDDDDDD  I'll probably come back here every now and then if I'm procrastinating or something and I'll comment on entries whenever I get the chance. So yeah :)  My school is cutting off a lot of vacation days so we still don't have a full week of Thanksgiving and only like a week and a half for Christmas and no weather days. If it's like that for any of you guys... I WISH YOU MUCH LUCK. Also, take mental health days if need be :D  Sometimes it's really helpful to just stay home for a day and work on homework from the previous night or just rest :)

I haven't posted here in several days :O  Maybe even a week. Tumblr ate me, I'm sorry DX

Anyway. I'm rereading A Lollipop or a Bullet and decided the series deserved an entry or two :)

I once read an entry regarding the ending and the person who wrote it said that the manga had probably the worst art they had seen in their entire life. I beg to differ.

Let's just say this manga has more detail than I have ever seen in my life, even compared to Pandora Hearts, where MochiJun draws every single blade of grass as well as the little flowers scattered around in it and then draws the character lying on the grass and has all the individual blades bending down under the weight. Lollipop is different. The artist puts that kind of detail in EVERY PANEL. Not just a selective few per chapter. EVERY. PANEL. OF EVERY. CHAPTER.


( Wow I think I love details way more than I should )

I bring more art :D  Just one picture, though >.>;  (I already posted it on tumblr~)


( Wow this picture is big let's just stick it under here )

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( A doodle and a funny wallpaper )

... I still don't wanna fight that boss in TWEWY >.<  Haha, I was watching people beat the final boss on YouTube and noticed they had six different pins they were fighting with. And I realized I only have four and I missed my chances to get more pin slots. I am so screwed D8  So I bought more pins and finished mastering them today X'DD  If I can't have six pins, I can at least make the most of what I have? I bought a healing pin called Peace-Full and dude, when you level it up completely it lasts five uses :O  (I can work with this...)

( This is what I do with my life )

Today was my first day of driver's ed :(  It was okay; we just did busy work the whole time. I didn't really know anybody in my class, but that wasn't much of a problem because nobody had the courage to talk, anyway XD  On the bright side (?), one of my band friends was there, so I just hung out with her during breaks. She failed algebra II by about a point :(  Fortunately, she said the summer school teacher actually taught them how to do the math and ACTUALLY ANSWERED YOUR QUESTIONS. Not stand in front of the problem on the board while she worked it out or simply ask you a question right back. It's not every day you find teachers who do their job anymore ._.  (The only downside to this teacher is that she makes you look like an idiot when you ask questions...)

Also got to play more TWEWY when I got home. I'm halfway through the third and final week :DD  And Beat is an idiot. It's a wonder Neku can tolerate him. ("Must... trust... partner..." X'DDDD) I think I'll actually finish this game before summer ends O.o  nooooooooooooooooooo