Well, I finally figured out a solution to the problem where my scanner was making all my orange colored pencils look red. When editing the document in Gimp, I had to go to "Colors" and then "Hue/Saturation," tick the box for Red, and move the Hue slider to the right until the red looked more orange. Very counter-intuitive-- I would have thought that increasing the hue of red would make it more red. I'm not sure how I even thought of trying it.

I've been rather unmotivated to draw lately. Not sure why. Zmeydros says I should just push myself to draw whether I feel like it or not, and he's right-- once I get past the initial laziness, I usually get really into the drawing.

But still, sometimes I'm forcing myself to draw for a long time before I start liking it. And when I draw while feeling unmotivated, I don't draw quite as well. Which is why my unmotivation perpetuates itself: I think, "I don't feel like drawing, so I won't be able to draw well, so why bother." I'm very thankful to Zmey for encouraging me just to keep drawing, without worrying about whether it'll look great. It almost always turns out better than I expect.