You can now find me with a nice, shiny empty gallery at ~Voytess

I can't bring myself to delete old art, so a new account will fix that. Plus, I loathe this name.

I've been trying to get my sleeping pattern back to normal for about 5 days now. Here's my progress so far.

Day 1: Stayed up until 6am, went to sleep
Day 2: Managed to stay up until 1pm, slept, woke up at 8pm
Day 3: Success! Managed to stay up all night and all day, falling asleep at 9pm
Day 4: Slept for 17 hours (o_O), waking up at 2pm. Success erased...
Day 5: (Today) doing another all nighter, going to sleep at 10pm, setting alarm for 8am

I feel terrible... I've dropped 2kg while still maintaining the same eating pattern somehow, and have had roughly two migraine grade headaches in two days, coupled with stomach cramps, dizzy spells, and blurred sight.

I'm grateful I'm not being attacked by a bear, or on fire (or both at one), but it's bloody annoying. Especially since I hate sleeping so much...

Actually, in saying that, I must admit my nightmares are going away. Either that, or my memory hates me. I'm fine with that though.

Anyway... as you know, I'm still in school, and am heading back there on Monday. In a way, THANK GOD! In another way, great... another year surrounded by morons. Yes, I'm a hypocrite, I know. I think there will be less of them this year though... they might have to actually work after all.

Art: I have a project going. I have maybe 1/5th of the lineart done, and no idea how to continue. There's also no real meaning behind it, just pure chaos. But hey, it doesn't need to be ridled with messages anyway. I'm going to be doing sketches of Warcraft creatures too, I can't resist the urges any longer. I'm also working like mad on my dragon anatomy... I may post up sketches of the legs, head shapes and wings to get critique on them soon. On the off side, I'll be doing requests, drawing a design for my school bag, and generally mucking around with my new style and Photoshop.

My brain keeps telling me to write poetry... can I swap brains with somebody please? I don't even like writing poetry that much, nor am I any good at it... it's irritating the hell out of me.

Hmm... I don't watch many people, but for those of you I do watch, I'm just letting you know that I'm going to take a while to respond to your art, comments journals etc... I'm forcing myself to cut down to one hour on the computer a day due to study, my evil shoulder and art/music.

That's about it really. I just needed to vent a bit and waste a bit of time. Until next time, I bid you all farewell.

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Alright, I'm updating again. Again I apoligise for the lack of art. I am drawing of course, but I'm drawing very slowly. I'm trying to learn a lot more this time around, which means a lot more mistakes.

I've got a couple of questions first up. One is, does anybody have any good reference pictures of your typical junkyard? I mean the type in movies / books, which are just mountains of discarded junk. All I've found so far are pictures of car junkyards. While they look awesome, they can't really help much.

Also, I'm having trouble learning a new song on guitar, especially without my teacher to help me. I was wondering if anyone had any pictures of something like this: [link] but for the high E string instead, probably only from the 6th to 12th fret. I learnt guitar in positions rather than full on reading music, so I don't know them too well. Four years and I still don't know those seven frets... that's sad.

Anyway, as far as drawing is going, I've got one large project in progress and nothing else. After that, it may be a while before I start anything else, as school will be back for the year. I expect to lost about three quarters or more of my watchers within the first semester.

Anyway... I guess I was just letting those it may concern that I'm still alive, and doing well. I managed to walk around Perth city for about four hours without getting urges to stab anybody, so that's progress. I shall now return to drawing, and hope my one hour milestone timer doesn't scare the shit out of me again... cheerio!


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Evening all, I've decided it's about time I updated this journal of mine again.

First of all, I hope everybody is having a safe holidays, and I hope the people in winter right now are enjoying it, because I already hate summer right now.

Anyway... Christmas is coming. I wont promise gift art, because I'm so slow at drawing. I'm only drawing one, and even that one doesn't look too great. I'm losing my touch, it seems. But anyway, the main point I want to make about Christmas is: Do NOT give anybody you know a pet for Christmas. No, it is not because of a virus or anything going around, it's because many people, after the novelty of recieving a pet for Christmas, will get sick of it and dump it. If you want to give someone a pet for Christmas, you gotta realise it's life, and it needs taking care of for many years, not just on that one day. I was surprised at how many people did this. I can see people my age making this mistake, but people in their 20's and above should just know better... no, anybody over the age of wanting a pet no matter what (say, 5 years old,) should know better. People are idiots...

Okay, I'm done with the ramble. Now for a question. If you look at my digital art works, such as [link] and [link] you'll see that the entire picture is rather blurry looking, from using the smudge tool to blend. I was wondering if anybody knew how to get the picture shading looking sharp and more "real," like this picture here: [link]

I didn't explain that very well... ah well.

I asked this on my latest WIP, and I'll ask here - Should I keep doing black ink fine liner works? Chaos is an example of what I mean, if probably not a good one.

That's really all I wanted to say... Hope you all have a good Christmas, and a safe holidays, whether you believe in it or not.


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When it's completed, if it ever will be, I need to get a picture of A1 size onto the computer. Photos are out of the question, I've already tried that... Do A3 scanners exist? That might do the job if I can scan in sections...

Anyway... it's finally school holidays. For me anyway. I'm skipping the last day, just for taunting rights. I'm gonna try and get a part-time job over the holidays. I'm still under-age by a few measly months, but who gives? People are perfectly capable of doing certaion jobs at the age of 12, never mind this 14 and 3 quarters bullshit. I have to wait until February the 11th next year at the very minimum...

That's horrible.

This is the important bit! Google H.R. Giger. Or just browse "Giger" on this site. Definitely my new obsession. He designed the Xenomorph, in case you didn't know.

Lack of recent activity... yeah, all I've been doing is commenting and replying. Getting sloppy aswell. Anyway, that's because I have "Artists Block" again, better known in my eyes as "foggy thoughts" it's not that I can't draw... it's just that I can't picture anything to draw. There's not a force-field blocking me from the paper or anything.

Shortened version, I wont be posting too much.

That's about it... I can't be arsed being opinionated today. If anyone's passing by with nothing to do, could you give me the name of a mythical creature? Not a common one like a dragon or gryphon, but something a little more unusual... I really need some bloody inspiration.

I got through this entire journal swearing only once! New record!

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