Actually Learning to Draw
Jul. 20th, 2011 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defibrillateMy newfound interest in American comics has led me to actually bother learning stuff like body proportions and volumetric... skeletal... things which I'm sure have technical names. You know what? It's fairly painless. It's making me wonder why I didn't bother learning this five years ago when I was actually mourning the fact that I couldn't draw whole people, just their heads. I can be so dumb sometimes |D
Here's something else that was dumb (and bear with me because this may make some of you want to run away and never talk to me again): I was in the international district the other day with my mum because we had to drop a huge stack of documents off at the attorney's office and felt like going shopping afterwards. We went to Daiso. For anyone that doesn't know, that's the Japanese dollar store (well it's not really a dollar store but it has a dollar store business model) and it's INCREDIBLE. It's extremely dangerous because despite that everything is $1.50 I can spend massive amounts of money there. They have amazing coffee mugs. I appreciate their nice cheap sumi-e ink. Anyways, there was this little contraption I couldn't resist buying to make my sister uncomfortable - it's this thing you stick in your nose that's supposed to keep you from snoring. Yep. My sister and I are both really light sleepers and we share a room, and I snore when my allergies are bad. I'm actually sort of proud of how loud I allegedly snore. According to my sister I'm a prodigy. Anyways, I bought this thing because I knew my sister would be like 'crap dude what the hell are you thinking,' and because I am just the type of person that can't resist seeing if/how things work I decided to shove it in my nose before I even gave myself the chance to question what was going on.
Turns out I should have disinfected it first, of course, which I did think of but assumed I'd be okay. Yay, Captain Lab Technique, you fail. I have a completely uninteresting sore throat and sniffles number now, which would be no big deal, except that I have to be back at the hospital tomorrow for them to read the results of my TB test (for anyone that's interested, I definitely don't have tuberculosis) and to drop off my immunization records and I'm not allowed to bring colds into the hospital. So I have to be better by tomorrow. Come on body, we're on a schedule. Get a fever going and kill this thing.
And that's how I ended up sitting here drinking 5,000 cups of tea and drawing stuff rather than being awesome and doing things with my life. Even though, like I said, the drawing is a good thing. Especially considering I'm working on getting a comic of my own drawn. I'm sort of really hoping no one will hate the fact that even though it's an FF doujinshi, in addition to the storyline being distinctly un-Final Fantasy-ey, the art will also be REALLY FREAKING un-Final Fantasy-ey. Really figgin un-Asian in general. I'm sort of aiming for Channel Zero meets CHEW meets Gorillaz. If that sounds really weird to you, just relax, I'm sure no one will actually read it considering there are no pairings. I'm still really excited about the idea though C:
Here's something else that was dumb (and bear with me because this may make some of you want to run away and never talk to me again): I was in the international district the other day with my mum because we had to drop a huge stack of documents off at the attorney's office and felt like going shopping afterwards. We went to Daiso. For anyone that doesn't know, that's the Japanese dollar store (well it's not really a dollar store but it has a dollar store business model) and it's INCREDIBLE. It's extremely dangerous because despite that everything is $1.50 I can spend massive amounts of money there. They have amazing coffee mugs. I appreciate their nice cheap sumi-e ink. Anyways, there was this little contraption I couldn't resist buying to make my sister uncomfortable - it's this thing you stick in your nose that's supposed to keep you from snoring. Yep. My sister and I are both really light sleepers and we share a room, and I snore when my allergies are bad. I'm actually sort of proud of how loud I allegedly snore. According to my sister I'm a prodigy. Anyways, I bought this thing because I knew my sister would be like 'crap dude what the hell are you thinking,' and because I am just the type of person that can't resist seeing if/how things work I decided to shove it in my nose before I even gave myself the chance to question what was going on.
Turns out I should have disinfected it first, of course, which I did think of but assumed I'd be okay. Yay, Captain Lab Technique, you fail. I have a completely uninteresting sore throat and sniffles number now, which would be no big deal, except that I have to be back at the hospital tomorrow for them to read the results of my TB test (for anyone that's interested, I definitely don't have tuberculosis) and to drop off my immunization records and I'm not allowed to bring colds into the hospital. So I have to be better by tomorrow. Come on body, we're on a schedule. Get a fever going and kill this thing.
And that's how I ended up sitting here drinking 5,000 cups of tea and drawing stuff rather than being awesome and doing things with my life. Even though, like I said, the drawing is a good thing. Especially considering I'm working on getting a comic of my own drawn. I'm sort of really hoping no one will hate the fact that even though it's an FF doujinshi, in addition to the storyline being distinctly un-Final Fantasy-ey, the art will also be REALLY FREAKING un-Final Fantasy-ey. Really figgin un-Asian in general. I'm sort of aiming for Channel Zero meets CHEW meets Gorillaz. If that sounds really weird to you, just relax, I'm sure no one will actually read it considering there are no pairings. I'm still really excited about the idea though C:
