So I'm bored and working on a picture. Waffuru's real birthday present, to be precise. Anyway, I'm working on the lineart right now, which is dreadfully boring, but I'll be broadcasting the coloring part around 8pm CST (9 EST/6 PST)
Link!
Thanks if you stop by. xD
It's like what I did to Ryu, and I think maybe Carney? I'm probably wrong.
Anyway, one of my college friends (NinjaKurohyou on DeviantArt, also known as the Rory cosplayer, aka, the person sitting next to me in the Wunder Boner picture) has gotten an account! After a lot of pestering! Ahaha!
MagicalZombie is her name, and it's really funny hearing her figuring out how to use theOtaku. You know, theO really makes no sense when you're trying to use it for the first time.
That I have Pokemon Black but have much more important things to do.
Though I did play it for 20 minutes and kept going "waaah I want my SoulSilver system back".
Yeah yeah, I'll get used to it...
(WHY IS EVERYTHING PAAAAAANK?)
Got a call from my mom today.
"There's an envelope here for you from you from the English department...want me to open it?"
"Yeah sure."
".......Oh honey, I'm sorry, you didn't pass."
"HAHAHHAA oh, that's okay."
Or rather, I realized this a few days ago but only remembered to make a post about it now.
(Apologies in advance, this turned into a long art rant complete with angsty backstory.)
I just realized that I have reached my nirvana. My nirvana, contrary to popular belief, is not the perfect blend of cream and sugar in my coffee, but rather, it's the fact that I've reached a goal I set for myself years ago. I have reached a point where I can draw how I naturally draw and not be told it's too "anime".
This is hard to explain if you don't know what I'm getting at. BACKSTORY! I obviously come from a background of drawing anime. I mean, I've been drawing as far back as I can remember, but I remember one day, I sat down with one of my Digimon picture books with the sole purpose of studying the style. It took me a few hours, but that was the first actual anime picture I remember drawing.
I also remember showing it to my dad and he just went "uh huh" and back to painting my room. :V
Going through grade and middle school wasn't too bad, drawing how I did (terribly) and trying to get better. I could never copy styles, so I just drew bits of pieces from different people and real life observations. But upon entering high school, I get barked at from my main teacher that anime is basically poop and worthless (and I also plagiarized? I remember writing an article on it five years ago).
From then on out, I had to hide it. I stuck hardcore to my reference images and didn't present any anime to my teacher for a grade (excepts chibis, they all love my chibis, I don't know why). I kept getting better, but it was always, at least to me, anime. And anime is, basically, worthless. So I hid it.
But I set a goal. Someday, I wanted to reach a point where I didn't have to hide what I do. Someday, I wanted to just draw - have references when I needed them - but draw the way I naturally do it.
I never thought I would, despite people telling me I have. I really can't emphasize enough how much the "anime is plagiarism/crap/worthless" angle was driven at me in high school. It's that notion that made me never believe any of you guys when you told me otherwise.
And then, just a few days ago, I realized...I drew Dreamline like I would draw any other "for fun" picture. Upon getting it back from my prof, there wasn't any comments on the style. Not a word was said during critique. Nothing.
So...I've done it.
