...is it just me or people so carried away with the shiny new features that can be added to their pages that they forget about the 'Browse Gallery' button? I find myself over and over again scrolling up and down their page, seeing their webcam, favorites, friends, watches, journal and featured pic while no where in sight is the all important 'Browse Gallery' button. Isn't that the entire point of the site? Am I missing something here? It doesn't make sense that to view their stuff I have to go and manually type name. deviantart . com/gallery/ in the adress bar to view what should be right there. Usually when I see that I just leave and don't bother.

Bah humbug.

...always having to think up random things to say in the subject.

So anyway, I have more or less totally decided to ditch the manga I'm working on advice from my creepy stalker friend, AniD. Yep. Instead, I will continue working on my other, better idea, and practicing on my art skills in general. And also I have some fun things I want to do. I feel like revamping my DA account.

Yep.

I've been thinking a lot recently about some of the things I've been wanting to do, art wise, and other things I've been working on. Namely, the manga I only half completed. I'm kind of stuck between really liking it for its quirkiness and fun characters and hating it because a lot of it is sloppily done. I want to finish it, and I don't want to. I haven't totally decided yet, but its getting to the point where its been too long. I did the same thing with the last little comic I did. Left it for ages than finished it in a rush. At the same time I think, well who cares if it sucks, its great practice and I've improved so much. Then I go into the whole need to improve thing. Especially with anatomy. The problem with me and anatomy is that I have a lot of knowledge about it, I know all the different proportions, how the joints work, a good idea of the muscles and all that, but its all in my head. Getting the knowledge from your head onto a piece of paper is not so easy. Obviously this requires practice and patience, but I'm kind of in a stage where I'm good enough to make something looks good while being anatomically incorrect so I'm too lazy to put the effort into laying a good foundation for the picture.

I'm working on changing that and my tulips and fish fountain pictures are both signs of that. I drew sketches, planned the colors, laid everything out in pencil beforehand, the works. I want to continue in that direction. Also, I've recently become to lazy to do the flipping the pic around trick to find all the flaws. I don't need it as much as I used to, but it would seriously help me.

Then there's this project I want to start. I'm thinking if I finish the comic I'm working on I'd be ready for the next one. I've put a lot of thought and effort into it, and more importantly, written down everything so nothing is forgotten. Hopefully Felix and Chloe will finally come to life.

Phew, that feels better.

...and nothing much to say.

Yep.

Nothing much new going on, well, nothing concerning artiness. >__> I want to scan in my most recent watercolor, but its going to take a hell of a lot of time and patience to do it and I just don't have either of those things at the moment. I want to do some more watercolors of the same kind, landscapes and stuff, maybe some flowers. Just general all-around practice. Basically there are lots of things I want to do and as usual I have trouble getting around to do anything.

Anyways.

AT LONG LAST MY SCANNER IS FIXED!

No more yucky grime on the underside of the glass! Its clean clean clean! I swear, the thing is small enough without having to use only half of it to avoid yucky blotches appearing on your work. And it was much cheaper to fix than I had anticipated.

So yep. I'm very happy.