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yep! i am going to be traveling again, probably pretty soon, although that is kinda uncertain haha. 
my mother and i are flying out to the states on space available seating (if we can get any) to visit friends and to help my big brother get settled in for college and all that stuff. he already left last week, which was a kinda big deal for me - we're really close. 
we already tried flying out this week, on thursday, but there wasnt enough room for us haha. we are going to have to repeat the process of driving for 2 hours to the airport, waiting for several hours to see if we get seats, and then driving back home again, until we finally get seats. who knows how long that will take..

not really looking forward to the 10 flight but at least i will get to go to american restaurants.

in other news, today i caught up with Welcome to Night Vale (i started listening a few days ago) and OH MY GOODNESS it is so good. if you dont know, its a (free) podcast about a fictional desert town called Night Vale, where a lot of strange, creepy, supernatural stuff happens all the time. the show mimics a community, NPR style radio show, made by a guy named Cecil. it is just. really good. wow. 
so ill probably be trying to solidify my interpretation of cecil here pretty soon with some drawings hehe. im not sure if ill go with the very common headcanon of a third eye or not, but i might just because i have always really liked designs with three eyes??? not sure why i just love them a lot.

i also found a new drawing program called "fire alpaca" for free online, and its pretty good! its a lot like sai, in some ways, which is good because i miss sai a lot hahaha. you can use it on mac, which is great. if you have a mac you should definitely check it out uvu
i also may get the program which allows me to run windows on my mac, which i can then use for sai, which will be great

finally, i'd like to direct your attention to :devxClaimedxByxThexSeax:'s contest, found here: xclaimedxbyxthexseax.deviantar…
its a pretty cool looking contest with some pretty nice prizes, in which you draw some of xClaimedxByxThexSeax's OCs
so if you're into contests and stuff, definitely check it out! uvu i may end up entering, but i probably wont be able to due to all the traveling stuff ive described, as well as a bunch of other stuff im busy with hehehe..

anyway, that's all i really have to say. sorry to bore you with my rambling haha

<3
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oh my goodness

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okay i just wrote one of these yesterday or something but SOMETHING HAPPENED


aghhh you know how i said i was going to work on anatomy stuff?? I WATCHED LIKE 5 VERY BASIC VIDEOS ON THE SUBJECT TODAY, AND SUDDENLY EVERYTHING IS SO MUCH EASIER.

like even drawing clothes and shoes and stinkin HANDS IS EASIER????? THE VIDEOS WERE JUST ABOUT THE BASIC STRUCTURE OF THE HUMAN FIGURE BUT SUDDENLY I CAN DRAW A LOT BETTER THAN BEFORE IM SO MAD

AHHHHHHH why didnt i do this earlier


so yeah. expect some new stuff soon that looks a lot better because daaang son suddenly i can kind of draw


<3 <3 <3
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wow uh hello

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its been an outrageously long time since ive made one of these, probably just because i dont have much to say tbh hehe

but i do have something to say now about my art, and ill probably end up rambling but here we go.

i got a mac not too long ago, maybe a month?? idk. but its very nice.
while it is very nice, it does mean that i am currently unable to use SAI, until i can set up my old PC somewhere for art use. Until then, i am experimenting a lot with different programs and doing a lot more trad art. so far ive liked artrage the best, which came with my new tablet. sketchbook express is pretty good too, but only for SKETCHING, as you could imagine. artrage is a lot better for inking. neither is particularly good for coloring, though, because there's no magic wand tool. i didnt know how much i depended on that tool until it was taken from me agh

but i will probably be setting up my old computer tomorrow ^^ i also plan on actually doing some more legit trad art, rather than just doodles in my schoolbooks. ive been drawing constantly, but mostly trad, so i dont have much to upload without scanning. 

ALSO, as i mentioned before, i got a new tablet. this is because my old bamboo pen stopped working, i think the wire just wore out after 3 years of use. i replaced it with a slightly bigger and very nice bamboo splash, which is honestly not much different, but i like it a lot.

in other news, i plan on doing a lot of anatomy and post practice, which is going to be a lot of frustrating and hard work, but hopefully i benefit from it. ahhh just thinking about it is really overwhelming, i have a lot to learn.

i think that basically sums it up for all the art changes going on.

apart from art stuff, i have a lot of new things im getting into! mainly ive gotten into Evangelion, Shingeki no Kyojin, Roosterteeth, and Dangan Ronpa since the last time i made one of these, possibly more things ive forgotten about. SNK has quickly become my favorite show, and i have a massive crush on Eren Jaeger, who is not real which is not fair why this. and dang those uniforms, i think anyone would look extremely good in those like daaaang son


anyway, thats all the rambling i have to do for now. i have a lot of progress to make, and work to do, and i hope i can share the product of that work with you all!!

<3
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Hey guys! ^^

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How are you all? It's been a really long time since my last journal haha. I've been hanging around on tumblr more, so I guess that's why xP

Not much different is going on in my life, tbh. Just playing animal crossing and doing school, same stuff.

I'm having another of those frustration-with-art periods, so that's pretty lame, but I'll get over it ^^ I have drawn a lot of stuff in my sketchbook, so I'll probably scan that and upload it pretty soon! ^^

Since my last journal, I've really gotten into Gravity falls and nichijou (about time, i know) They're both just SUCH GREAT SHOWS, and if you haven't seen them (you probably have haha i'm slow), you should definitely check them out ^^ I'll definitely be posting some Gravity Falls fanart at some point, because wow it's so great.

I did order possibly the best sweatshirt ever yesterday. It has a face on the front with a zipper mouth, which unzips to show sharp teeth! it's so cute, I love it <3

SO yeah my life is pretty much boring right now, but that's okay ^^ I SERIOUSLY CAN'T WAIT for Animal Crossing: new leaf and Pokemon X/Y! They're gonna be so awesome <3

One more thing!! You guys should totally check out magentanoir! They have really awesome art, and definitely don't get enough appreciation for how great it is! So YEAH check them out, if you want ^^

Anyway, I hope you all had a lovely day! :iconaawwplz: :heart:
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Home! :)

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Hey guys! You probably could imply that I am home because I'm actually ON HERE, but yeah! I'm home ^^ I got home on Wednesday afternoon (I probably should have made a journal sooner SORRY).

It's good to be home ^^ I had a lot of fun on the cruise, but I was getting crazy homesick x) We stayed away longer than we planned, because we decided to do a back-to-back cruise. That's because the cruise right after our planned one (which went to Olympia, Athens, Ephesus, Istanbul, and Naples), went to Israel, which is a place we have always wanted to go. Not only is it a place we've wanted to visit, but they are stopping cruises going there in a few months, so we wouldn't be able to go! At least, not on a cruise, which is a bit cheaper and a lot easier than taking a plane and navigating yourself and finding hotel, etc. So yeah, we took two more weeks and went to Israel ^^

I loved all the places we went, but most of all I loved Turkey. We went to three cities/towns in Turkey (Ephesus, Istanbul, and a smaller city called Alanya (I think)), and all three were really lovely!! I was also able to learn a lot about Turkey when we were there, and it's just a really interesting place!

On this trip, I got to see the Parthenon, the Hagia Sophia, the ancient city of Ephesus, the Sea of Galilee, and Jerusalem, so it was pretty stinkin' cool.

But yeah, I'm glad to be home, where I make my own food, the tea is good, there's always internet (that doesn't cost a FORTUNE), and I can stay in my pj's all day. xD

Right now I'm working on a commission, and I'm gonna start on another new drawing soon (probably after I finish the comm xP).

I got the Hobbit PC game in the mail, and I installed it, but there's a problem with my computer's GPU >< SO we're gonna have to mess with that. The problem started a while back, and it's been mostly fixed, so it shouldn't take long to get going on the game as soon as my dad's had a look at it x)

I also got my customizable coffee tumbler thing in the mail, which is awesome!! I had one a few years ago, but I have no idea what happened to it u_u it's lost. SO yeah I got a new one. It came with one of those little papers with the black stuff you scratch off, with pretty rainbow paper underneath, so I doodled a bunch of little Homestuck things into it ^^ I'll probably make a new one pretty soon, but for now that one's fine ^^

I ALSO got my new drawing pens in the mail! n_n There's 4 felt-tipped ones of various sizes, and then a brush one. They're really awesome! But I need to get used to using them ^^; It's a bit hard to get really smooth lines with them, but I'm working on it :3

That's all that's really going on right now! I start school again next week xP But I'm kinda glad, because I like to be productive! I am probably gonna finish school in like, May sometime, if I work efficiently.

So yeah, that's all that's really happening! I'll be posting stuff soon ^^

Hope you have a wonderful day! :iconaawwplz: :heart:

P.S. 6TH GEN POKEMON I'M OS ECXITED 3- D AHHHHHHASFJ;AF
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