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[seventhe]

Well, sigh. We had Bogdog practice tonight, which was actually pretty good considering the fact that we haven't played together in over a month. And the plan was to go hit the Dugout afterwards. However, towards the end of practice I developed a massive headache - the kind that sort of stabs you behind the eye? I get those often, or often enough to know the only thing that makes it go away is Advil and Quiet.

So anyway, I stayed home while the boys went out to do their karaoke thing. Luckily for me, I felt alright enough to try some drawing, although I can't seem to commit to anything tonight for longer than 5 min. It was nice to be drawing again though. IMO, every little bit counts.

Anyway, here are tonight's sketches: Agrias from FFT, for cockeyed_art, and FFIV's Rydia and Rosa, because I just felt like sketching them. None are fantastic but Rosa turned out ridiculously cute and I kind of want to squish her.

I practice sketching a lot on notes in class - I've been practicing a lot this semester, haha - and I'm starting to get my art-related "groove" back. When Katy and I bought our tablets last ...what, August?, I really hadn't been seriously drawing in like forever, and I could tell when I sat down. Now I'm not saying I'm a fantastic artist (as you can see), but it has really taken me a lot of time and a lot of practice to get back to the place where I'm like, yeah, okay, that looks like a face and that looks like a person and that mostly looks like I want it to, I guess.

Sketching can be difficult for me. Sometimes I'll be doodling on paper and the next thing I know I've drawn an almost-perfect Quistis that I really like, but those are few and far between. Usually sketches (read: shit in the margins of my polymer science notes - hey, it makes studying fun!) come out looking somehow fugly or fucktarded, like the eyes are uneven or the hair's all fug or something's just wrong. And I sketch too. I'm not like katmillia who can draw a perfect line in her sketchbook and also makes me want to vomit from jealousy and the pretty. I draw like 300 lines to get the curve of a face right. And by right I mean CLOSE ENOUGH

Since what I really want to do is develop tablet skills, too, what I'm trying to do is basically to do low-pressure, nice-and-lazy, fun sort of sketches (like these) to help me develop the tablet-eye coordination I so desperately need.

I mean... I don't know. This is lame of me but with all the thinking I've been doing the last few months about how I spend my time and what that means, I've realized that I don't want my 20s to pass me by without putting some serious effort into actually learning to draw. It's all about seven_beacons, in the end -- I want to get Beacon into art form, somehow, even if it's just illustrations to a written piece, whatever. Ideally I want it to be a comic. And if I'm going to work this hard on a LAME ASS DEGREE, I can try to put a little bit of time and effort into "art studying" to help me get better.

This entry got long, and my headache is coming back. Time for more water and, probably, bed.

edit: my cat is absolutely the cutest thing ever. I'm finishing up this entry and she's sitting RIGHT next to the desk chair, staring at me. every time I look down at her she either meows or squeaks at me, like hey mom, pet me please. five minutes ago she actually got up on her back legs to bat me in the chair all pay attention to me!!! I think I'm going to go let her cuddle with me in bed. Rydiakitty, I heart you.

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[jennyclarinet.livejournal.com]

Feel free to call me and Kurt when you guys go out after band practice. We literally were not doing anything last night!

[rosencrantz.livejournal.com]

Well, seeing as how that's the whole point of the cockeyed_art comm, I don't see any reason to feel "guilty" about doing quick sketches. ;-) Basically the more you draw, the better you'll get. It doesn't matter *how* you draw, in this case I can tell you from experience that quantity does count over quality.

Also sketchbook doodles are the best. Some of my best works are sketchbook doodles. Be sure to scan them in and share with us. If they're really good, I'm quite skilled at taking out notebook / graph paper lines (even on yellow paper) in Photoshop so I can completely fiXX0r it up for you if you want.

I had some comments to make on your cockeyed art submissions, but I'll do that in the relevant post.

Otherwise, email me your snail mail address again so I can double-check it, will ya? *insert evil cackling here*

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

We totally will! Normally we screw around until 2am, but Greg had called because he was already at the Dugout (...? yeah, I know, it's Greg) and so they met him there afterwards. We will totally call you guys next time though! I feel like I never see you guys anymore D: (Although this weekend it's our fault XD)

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to do a "sketch dump" consisting of scans of all the stuff I've been doodling in my Polymer Thermodynamics note margins. Some of it is really cute - there's one of Quistis in a workout outfit - and it's also ...lol, but it's a medium I'm more comfortable with, ballpoint pen on crap paper.