diary
my thoughts and … thoughts
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I’m making time to fiddle around with art stuff – my next little project is going to involve watercolor-like graphite – and am still trying to find my style (if I have one?). I love hatching and have found that it’s a combination of zen-like focus and utter frustration, but I wanna branch out a…
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So the last few years have sucked, haven’t they? Especially the last week, in which my rights were put up for grabs by the Supreme Court (my ass, as Danny DeVito would say) and taken away by my state’s government, who had trigger laws in place for a good long while. I thought Covid was…
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For the last year, I’ve been in this full-steam-ahead mode, mostly because of nursing school (only 58 more days … how???), and having moments of doing nothing, or simply existing without producing something, seemed like such a waste. Even routine self-care, like washing my face or brushing my teeth, was this pointless thing that took…
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I tried something new!! And didn’t completely fail at it!
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So I’ve been medicated for bipolar type 2 for months now, and it’s been great for the most part. I’ve dealt with situations that would have broken me for weeks, my road rage is under control, I can focus … the list continues. I kind of feel like I may be existing in a more…
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I used to use colored pencils exclusively when I was a kid, but for whatever reason, I stopped? I can’t really remember what caused me to drop them, and I’m pretty sure I still have my stash of pencils at my parents’ house … hundreds of pencils. I should probably look for them, yes? I…
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Back when I was doing my Bubblegum Crisis challenge, I was a little disappointed in the lack of fan art, and although what I did find was spectacular, I kinda wanted to try my hand at it. This is the first result:
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I wasn’t sure how I was going to like this one because it’s the first time I’ve used watercolor powder – damn, that can get way more pigmented than you want if you aren’t careful! – but I’m actually quite happy with the result. I think I’m going to play with these a bit more.
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Since I started getting back into painting regularly, I’ve been obsessed with perfection. Like, if I got even the tiniest bit “wrong,” I would get frustrated and toss the painting or drawing or whatever it was. And “wrong” was always pretty arbitrary; sometimes it was perspective, and other times it was a slightly different color…
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Since I wasn’t too thrilled with my self portrait, I decided that I was just going to do a little something that made me happy, which means … yep, back to my old shit. This one’s still untitled for the time being, but I’m heavily leaning toward “sun rays.” Anyway, along with school work, actual…
a little more juju 