Oh my god, I have spent all today looking at art by artists who are SO great at what they do. Mostly comic strip artists. How the FUCK do they get so good at drawing??? I really don't think I can learn what they do by taking a course. I think I'm at the point where I have to start teaching myself. And practicing even MORE ( Read more... )

(I can think of exactly one person on my livejournal friends lists who might have something to say about this ( Read more... )

Maybe it's not only because of Valentine's Day - it's just as much because of the songs I'm listening to, but I'm nostalgic. I would write down the memories I have, except I don't think I'll ever forget them anyway. The way I see the whole thing overall when I look back keeps changing, or maybe it's just me that's changing. I remember the ( Read more... )

I have been improving myself at an unprecedented rate over the past nine months or so! But so far I've been handling the relatively easy stuff - not the big, important, scary, difficult stuff about myself. I like making lists these days of things that should not be in lists ( Read more... )

So I have come to a decision for where I'm going to move in January. I don't NEED to move out of my mom's place, and a lot of people tried to discourage me from moving out - but I'm going to ( Read more... )

I think my livejournal friends page has become the Alex and Anna show. Or maybe even the Final Fantasy show. That's not a bad thing; it's just remarkable how much LJ posting in general has dwindled. I don't even barely ever check livejournal any more, let alone post in mine ( Read more... )

ATTN: most artists

Just because someone came up with a clever way to describe how shitty your artwork is, does not mean that you can or should appropriate their insult and ironically use it as the name for your new "art movement".

Thanks in advance,

-Joelle

I'm pretty happy with myself these days. Things I have accomplished over the past year or so ( Read more... )

I have a stye under my eyelid. It is causing my one eye to be really swollen and half-shut.


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shit I am interested in now ( Read more... )