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This is my "Most Played" list from two weeks ago:
"Most Played" today:
Yyyyeah.
So hey, do you want to see me trying to teach myself how to paint with watercolours again and falling on my face? YES YOU DO.
This whole Drawing Every Day project has been pretty good to me so far. On the days when I don't manage to do anything but a few lame, abortive scribbles (you will notice there are two dates suspiciously absent here, and that is because what I drew on them was rubbish) I get super grumpy and feel like a wangsty failure, but otherwise I can practically feel my imagination and creativity getting warmed up again. It's like I had to give myself an excuse to make the effort, even though it's something I want to do. Human brains, idek.
And I'm (re)learning a few things, too.
Lesson 1: don't keep painting just because you're having fun and don't want to be done yet. (This turned out pretty good, anyway, but I could've done better with the random addition of green bits.)
Lesson 2: Watercolour paper and erasers are not BFFs. Also think about what colours you're going to use beforehand. Also the 3rd dimension has never done anything to you, stop drawing side-views that look like they've been cut out of paper.
But hey, at least the feeling I was going for was conveyed.
This totally counts as a drawing, because maps are awesome.
(Disregard the wonky architecture at the bottom, it was about 2am by that point.)
(The Blue King ftw.)
In conclusion: not the most amazing stuff I've ever drawn, but I feel pretty good about myself. I think I'll gradually add other things to do every day, since this seems to be working.
"Most Played" today:
Yyyyeah.
So hey, do you want to see me trying to teach myself how to paint with watercolours again and falling on my face? YES YOU DO.
This whole Drawing Every Day project has been pretty good to me so far. On the days when I don't manage to do anything but a few lame, abortive scribbles (you will notice there are two dates suspiciously absent here, and that is because what I drew on them was rubbish) I get super grumpy and feel like a wangsty failure, but otherwise I can practically feel my imagination and creativity getting warmed up again. It's like I had to give myself an excuse to make the effort, even though it's something I want to do. Human brains, idek.
And I'm (re)learning a few things, too.
Lesson 1: don't keep painting just because you're having fun and don't want to be done yet. (This turned out pretty good, anyway, but I could've done better with the random addition of green bits.)
Lesson 2: Watercolour paper and erasers are not BFFs. Also think about what colours you're going to use beforehand. Also the 3rd dimension has never done anything to you, stop drawing side-views that look like they've been cut out of paper.
But hey, at least the feeling I was going for was conveyed.
This totally counts as a drawing, because maps are awesome.
(Disregard the wonky architecture at the bottom, it was about 2am by that point.)
(The Blue King ftw.)
In conclusion: not the most amazing stuff I've ever drawn, but I feel pretty good about myself. I think I'll gradually add other things to do every day, since this seems to be working.
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Tags:daily drawing; music
I was in London on Friday looking at Goodenough College, and afterwards I totally bought an album in real life on a CD and everything. :O
"Sigh No More" from Mumford & Sons; this is my favourite song on it at the moment:
You should check out their YouTube channel, they have a ton of great songs.
I haven't scanned my drawings from the last few days yet, so instead here's a poem I found recently: "On Living" by Nâzım Hikmet.
"Sigh No More" from Mumford & Sons; this is my favourite song on it at the moment:
You should check out their YouTube channel, they have a ton of great songs.
I haven't scanned my drawings from the last few days yet, so instead here's a poem I found recently: "On Living" by Nâzım Hikmet.
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Tags:music; poetry
4th March 2010 at 1:25 am
They have a thing on Tumblr called "Gratuitous Picture of Yourself Wednesday", because on the internet anonymity tends to breed narcissism, and I had no better ideas.
This is very highschool stylee, isn't it. ¬_¬
This is very highschool stylee, isn't it. ¬_¬
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Tags:crack; daily drawing
My calendar page for March is a monotonous quotidian (like that word) expanse with not a single notable event, so to make life a little more interesting I've given myself a mission of drawing at least one thing a day.
This is Monday's:
(click for full size)
And yesterday's is this fairly unexciting doodle of a marten. (I was super tired all day.)
I haven't actually done today's yet. >_> Shall do that after this entry. <_<
I had a fairly awesome dream which featured a marten a few nights ago, except I didn't know that's what they were called in English until I just looked it up, so my brain kept throwing the word "Marder" in when needed, despite the dream being set in England and entirely in English, and then I (well, the person I was in the dream) would explain "sort of like a weasel". Every time. Bilinguality and dreams: quite interesting sometimes.
Other things:
• I passed the JLPT4! \o/ Now I have a shiny piece of heavy paper that certifies I can speak a tiny bit of Japanese. I've been slacking a bit lately, though, time to get down to studying for the next level. I really wish I could find a course that isn't super beginner level or all the way in London.
• Though maybe I'll be able to afford the train fare easily soon: I might be getting a translation job. :D I hope I do.
• I got some new shoes for the summer. (Because somehow I ended up owning nothing but boots and padded winter shoes.) They look like this. Woo!
• Last week I tried on my waistcoat on a whim, and it fits over my silly boobs again. This makes me really, really happy. When I get some surplus money, buying another waistcoat and maybe a tie or two is going to the top of my list. ♥
(click for full size)
And yesterday's is this fairly unexciting doodle of a marten. (I was super tired all day.)
I haven't actually done today's yet. >_> Shall do that after this entry. <_<
I had a fairly awesome dream which featured a marten a few nights ago, except I didn't know that's what they were called in English until I just looked it up, so my brain kept throwing the word "Marder" in when needed, despite the dream being set in England and entirely in English, and then I (well, the person I was in the dream) would explain "sort of like a weasel". Every time. Bilinguality and dreams: quite interesting sometimes.
Other things:
• I passed the JLPT4! \o/ Now I have a shiny piece of heavy paper that certifies I can speak a tiny bit of Japanese. I've been slacking a bit lately, though, time to get down to studying for the next level. I really wish I could find a course that isn't super beginner level or all the way in London.
• Though maybe I'll be able to afford the train fare easily soon: I might be getting a translation job. :D I hope I do.
• I got some new shoes for the summer. (Because somehow I ended up owning nothing but boots and padded winter shoes.) They look like this. Woo!
• Last week I tried on my waistcoat on a whim, and it fits over my silly boobs again. This makes me really, really happy. When I get some surplus money, buying another waistcoat and maybe a tie or two is going to the top of my list. ♥
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Tags:bulletpoints are the way and the light; clothes; daily drawing; languages; travesti exécutif; 日本語