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A waffle about music and art and my life ♥
10 years ago
tl;dr From now on you're going to be seeing a lot of my shitty drawings ♥ Also I'll be uploading remixes of Pokemon songs soon.
Okay so it's been a long time! For those of you who remember me; Hai! For those who don't; my names Rytha and my sona is a pink dragon who has big tits and a nice butt! I think that's all you really need to know :o
So I thought I'd do an update. I miss submitting content to this site, and talking to you all in the comments and stuff. I dunno, it's 6AM here and I haven't slept so this is going to be quite the messy journal :o But as much as it may (or... probably will not) be interesting for any of you to read whats been going on in my life, it's more for me to type things out and organise my thoughts. I dunno. It can be healthy to keep a blog of sorts! I mean I wish my life was interesting enough to keep a varied, daily blog, but I disgress.
So there hasn't been much music recently. And I know that sucks. But I haven't really been feeling it. I was trying to produce music for months but I've just been getting nowhere. You could call it a super long extended block - but actually I'm not that great at producing music as it is, so that probably factors into it.
Don't get me wrong - I am fond of the remixes I do! But my own creative work... I don't like it. I just don't. And I find that... Music really moves me. I *love* music. But when I'm being creative, I like to LISTEN to music. To allow it to move me. When I'm creating it... I dunno. I just don't get that flow.
That's not to say I'm giving up. Of course not. Actually, I have a backlog of remixes to upload to here. I've nearly finished the entire Pokemon GSC soundtrack in trance form! ... It's just that, I'm going to stop forcing myself to try and create original tracks. It's not working at the moment.
So what are we going to be seeing on my page, you might ask!
Well, recently, I've started drawing! ... I say recently. This isn't actually my first attempt. I love art (I mean, don't we all, otherwise we wouldn't be here...), and there's been MANY attempts in my life where I've gone 'hey, actually, I wanna be a really good artist!'. Sadly, it's something that needs nurturing, and because I get depressed and upset with myself easily, I gave up every time.
Actually, what I really wanted to do several times in my life is create my own online card game. I don't talk about this much (at all!!!!), but I used to develop video games in my spare time. I was always upset about the poor art, but as I literally just explained, I never nurtured my ability. But through playing a lot of different card games through my life, I've always wanted to create my own; and I think I've had some pretty good ideas, too. But of course, card games relied on artwork to an extent, and I always imagined amazing, creative designs in my head and just... Had no way of getting them out of there.
Back to the point! Recently I've been putting a lot of effort into improving my ability in drawing/etc. I've shown -a few- people my art, and I've been met with 'Oh, you're really good for a beginner' comments. Which is all well and good, but as I mentioned, I've been doing this many times in my life. Actually, for the amount of times I've tried to art, I'm actually very bad considering the time I've put into it.
But still, when I was thinking about what I actually wanted to create... What I would be proud of to actually do, this all came back to me, and I decided to just pick up a pencil and draw every night. At first I was like 'Oh, I'll do a page per night' and now I've found myself eliminating multiple pages every night. I hope this habit keeps up, I really do. There's so many things I've wanted to do with art, I've even really wanted to create my own webcomic for some time now, I have a few stories I want to tell and have never had any way of presenting them in a form I was happy with.
I've actually been uploading a few of my attempts to draw to my tumblr account - I've always wanted to inspire people, and I quite often see aspiring artists getting depressed over the quality of their work. So I felt like if I really was going to improve my ability, I should really try and document it as best I can - to show the people that need it that you know... It can be done. I've flicked through inspirational posts to do with artists and artwork in the past, and a LOT of them give the message that 'Yeah, you've got to have been doing art continuously from a really young age to be any good at it! Have fun making great artwork in your early 40's, LOL', and even if that message is only percieved by my cynical self, I still feel like it's presented that way. So I thought it would be good (and it would motivate myself, too!) to show people where I improve and etc.
I didn't really want to post anything here though, because whereas with my tumblr, not many people are going to see my things. Here... There's a higher chance. Especially if people are wanting remixes & stuff and I'm uploading really shitty art... I had this feeling that I would disappoint people. However, a really good friend of mine has urged me to upload my things here regardless, and has said a few insightful things. One thing he said that I really clung to it 'art is art' - such a simple saying, yet I feel its actually quite powerful. Because yeah; no matter what we create, even if it conforms to what we believe is good art or not... It's still art, in its own way. And still deserves to be appreciated.
So with that in mind - I'm going to start uploaded my shitty drawings here for you all to see ;D Also I've drawn a Guilmon with gigantic bewbs, so clearly I'm using this ability for good ♥
There are still going to be remixes coming to, as and when I make them. I'm going to be drip feeding you all the GSC soundtrack I've been working on, route by route, so there will still be things to enjoy there, too. But I'm also going to be filling your submission feeds up with shitty drawings I've done that you can either laugh or smile at... I don't mind. I'll be happy to have them documented, and I dunno. Hopefully it'll be fun! ♥
With that...
I don't think I really have anything to say.
If you came this far, I'll be really fucking impressed. My life is not interesting in the slightest and I really can't believe that I've talked about it for so long :P
If you actually managed to read this far, type 'Rytha is a watermelon' in the comments, and Ill reply with a bad joke or something. I dunno, it's meant to be charming and funny but Im not sure I can pull it off at 6AM in the morning :(
... I'll add a tl;dr at the top of the page too ♥
Love you all, as usual. Thanks so much for being awesome ♥
Okay so it's been a long time! For those of you who remember me; Hai! For those who don't; my names Rytha and my sona is a pink dragon who has big tits and a nice butt! I think that's all you really need to know :o
So I thought I'd do an update. I miss submitting content to this site, and talking to you all in the comments and stuff. I dunno, it's 6AM here and I haven't slept so this is going to be quite the messy journal :o But as much as it may (or... probably will not) be interesting for any of you to read whats been going on in my life, it's more for me to type things out and organise my thoughts. I dunno. It can be healthy to keep a blog of sorts! I mean I wish my life was interesting enough to keep a varied, daily blog, but I disgress.
So there hasn't been much music recently. And I know that sucks. But I haven't really been feeling it. I was trying to produce music for months but I've just been getting nowhere. You could call it a super long extended block - but actually I'm not that great at producing music as it is, so that probably factors into it.
Don't get me wrong - I am fond of the remixes I do! But my own creative work... I don't like it. I just don't. And I find that... Music really moves me. I *love* music. But when I'm being creative, I like to LISTEN to music. To allow it to move me. When I'm creating it... I dunno. I just don't get that flow.
That's not to say I'm giving up. Of course not. Actually, I have a backlog of remixes to upload to here. I've nearly finished the entire Pokemon GSC soundtrack in trance form! ... It's just that, I'm going to stop forcing myself to try and create original tracks. It's not working at the moment.
So what are we going to be seeing on my page, you might ask!
Well, recently, I've started drawing! ... I say recently. This isn't actually my first attempt. I love art (I mean, don't we all, otherwise we wouldn't be here...), and there's been MANY attempts in my life where I've gone 'hey, actually, I wanna be a really good artist!'. Sadly, it's something that needs nurturing, and because I get depressed and upset with myself easily, I gave up every time.
Actually, what I really wanted to do several times in my life is create my own online card game. I don't talk about this much (at all!!!!), but I used to develop video games in my spare time. I was always upset about the poor art, but as I literally just explained, I never nurtured my ability. But through playing a lot of different card games through my life, I've always wanted to create my own; and I think I've had some pretty good ideas, too. But of course, card games relied on artwork to an extent, and I always imagined amazing, creative designs in my head and just... Had no way of getting them out of there.
Back to the point! Recently I've been putting a lot of effort into improving my ability in drawing/etc. I've shown -a few- people my art, and I've been met with 'Oh, you're really good for a beginner' comments. Which is all well and good, but as I mentioned, I've been doing this many times in my life. Actually, for the amount of times I've tried to art, I'm actually very bad considering the time I've put into it.
But still, when I was thinking about what I actually wanted to create... What I would be proud of to actually do, this all came back to me, and I decided to just pick up a pencil and draw every night. At first I was like 'Oh, I'll do a page per night' and now I've found myself eliminating multiple pages every night. I hope this habit keeps up, I really do. There's so many things I've wanted to do with art, I've even really wanted to create my own webcomic for some time now, I have a few stories I want to tell and have never had any way of presenting them in a form I was happy with.
I've actually been uploading a few of my attempts to draw to my tumblr account - I've always wanted to inspire people, and I quite often see aspiring artists getting depressed over the quality of their work. So I felt like if I really was going to improve my ability, I should really try and document it as best I can - to show the people that need it that you know... It can be done. I've flicked through inspirational posts to do with artists and artwork in the past, and a LOT of them give the message that 'Yeah, you've got to have been doing art continuously from a really young age to be any good at it! Have fun making great artwork in your early 40's, LOL', and even if that message is only percieved by my cynical self, I still feel like it's presented that way. So I thought it would be good (and it would motivate myself, too!) to show people where I improve and etc.
I didn't really want to post anything here though, because whereas with my tumblr, not many people are going to see my things. Here... There's a higher chance. Especially if people are wanting remixes & stuff and I'm uploading really shitty art... I had this feeling that I would disappoint people. However, a really good friend of mine has urged me to upload my things here regardless, and has said a few insightful things. One thing he said that I really clung to it 'art is art' - such a simple saying, yet I feel its actually quite powerful. Because yeah; no matter what we create, even if it conforms to what we believe is good art or not... It's still art, in its own way. And still deserves to be appreciated.
So with that in mind - I'm going to start uploaded my shitty drawings here for you all to see ;D Also I've drawn a Guilmon with gigantic bewbs, so clearly I'm using this ability for good ♥
There are still going to be remixes coming to, as and when I make them. I'm going to be drip feeding you all the GSC soundtrack I've been working on, route by route, so there will still be things to enjoy there, too. But I'm also going to be filling your submission feeds up with shitty drawings I've done that you can either laugh or smile at... I don't mind. I'll be happy to have them documented, and I dunno. Hopefully it'll be fun! ♥
With that...
I don't think I really have anything to say.
If you came this far, I'll be really fucking impressed. My life is not interesting in the slightest and I really can't believe that I've talked about it for so long :P
If you actually managed to read this far, type 'Rytha is a watermelon' in the comments, and Ill reply with a bad joke or something. I dunno, it's meant to be charming and funny but Im not sure I can pull it off at 6AM in the morning :(
... I'll add a tl;dr at the top of the page too ♥
Love you all, as usual. Thanks so much for being awesome ♥
(couldn't resist...)
I'm at that awake at 6 am stage too. But YES, upload all your drawings! I love to see the products of a creative mind and see the journey they're undertaking to bring their ideas and stories they want to tell to life and see them develop their craft, whether they're a total beginner or they're doggedly trying until it finally does stick. I'm watching that now with a friend and it's heartwarming to see a core of genuine talent and passion being slowly and relentlessly polished onto a shiny stone. I feel it'll be the same with you too. :)
That's an amazing word that I'm going to try and slip into my vocabulary from now on :P
Thanks for the encouragement - oh, AND you read all the way to the end, too :o
That's impressive, I mean I just woke up and looked over my post, and even I was like... fuck this, this is way too long to read :P Like maybe if it was an interesting narrative about something, sure, but it looks like I've just put a hand into my brain and dumped a load of shit on a table and posted it for people to look at :P
Anyway. Thanks for the comment <3
I am definitely excited to see what you're gonna make! :)
You're a fantastic artist and I can see you put a lot of effort and work into it. I'd love to see some of the ideas you made for your card game tho! :o
I think art is your next hidden talent! Just keep practicing and if you want, look up a lot of references. You're amazing love! ♥♥♥
Thanks for all the time words. Also I just typing time instead of kind you can tell I've just woken up.
Your art is great and the confidence you have in it is inspiring, so keep it up yourself.
Yeah! It sounds good! :D ♥
Daaawww~You're very welcome! Heehee~ Thank you so much for your kind words as well! I'm always excited to talk to you about the most random stuff because of your kind and patient replies! :3
Daawww! Thank you so very much >////< I'm happy to hear that! ♥♥♥
Your art inspires me too! In fact, that Guilmon with the boobs actually inspired me a lot to try out different poses at one point! :D
"Negativity is the enemy of Creativity."
-David Lynch
I quote him because, no art is shitty. (Except modern art, its an insult to history itself but that is a discussion all on its own.) HOWEVER your art is unique to you, and you "skill" level means nothing. Each artist is their own biggest critic. You will grow and expand your wings, love, big bewbs and hips and all. And as fans of your work and music, i think we can all agree you will be fabulous.
As a fellow artist, I say post all of your works. Art is an extension of who you are. And from where im perched, you're not shitty.
Ahaaaaa this was hilarious ♥
Yes that basically what you said to me earlier, but in laymens terms. Although it was just a little phrase, it did make me feel a little more lax with my drawings. I found that even if something looks bad at the start I shouldnt abandon it - and weirdly enough its been those sketches that I regard as my best ones.
Ill upload them later. But thanks a lot for the encouragement. You've been a great help, and it's not only your great ability but also your attitude that makes you a great artist in my eyes.
So stop telling me that you are not! ♥
But in all seriousness, that Guilmon sketch you uploaded looked pretty good. And while you may have had false starts before with drawing, don't let it discourage you. If you go long enough without using a skill, especially while you are still learning, it fades away a bit. I used to be a decent saxophone player, but haven't played in about four years and doubt I could do much more than a few scales right now.
Oh, actually I forgot that I uploaded that, aha :P Im glad you liked it, anyway. ♥♥
Yeah, I know what you mean. At the same time, I dont think those abilities ever leave you.
I think if you picked your saxophone up, after maybe 20-30 mintues you may pleasantly surprise yourself.
Anyway, thanks for the comment <3
Also you've been posting nice comments on my stuff, and I havent really had the heart or the mindset to response yet.
So Ill take a moment now to say thank you ♥ Youre very kind, and it means a lot to me. Hope you're well!
Glad to hear from you :3
I can't wait to hear the GSC tracks *u*
I bet you just skipped to the end ;p
Naw Im joking. Thanks for the lovely support ♥