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End of an Era and Questions for Watchers!
8 years ago
END OF AN ERA
This has been, to me, the summer of tying up loose ends. Rather, this past year. And I'm actually feeling happy again.
1. I rediscovered my passion for art. I was lost for a bit about what I should focus my life on, and I've decided to go the cliche YOLO route and try to achieve my dreams with comics and music (within reason XD I'm not going to try being a freelance artist and musician tomorrow, I hope to work up to it). Even when I told myself to abandon it, creativity kept weaseling its way back into my life.
2. I shook lingering emotions that kept me hooked on two relationships that cannot happen. I will always love both of my good friends and I will always look back on the good times of the two relationships with fondness and a respect for the learning that we shared.
3. I even got a second chance to leave my job - I work each summer break between college school years at the same place; I worked there for a year during my senior year of high school, and left on unfinished terms last summer with no intention of returning (to my surprise, I came back). The place is still crazy and crumbling, but I feel like I have concluded my saga of effort in a nice, unexpected way. I hope the next people can maintain the place, but I am now no longer emotionally latched onto the survival of the place (I told my coworker/replacement that I had finally passed through the five stages of grief XD. I also realized how depressing the place was (kinda pushed me into the acceptance stage XD) when my new coworker joked about me claiming to be happy without a hint of a happiness, and I told him, "I don't get happy like I used to.") I will always cherish the good times I spent there, but I refuse to let that place break me.
4. I will be moving - at some point next year. Probably to the college town where I live 8.5 months out of the year. It is a surreal, frightening feeling that my childhood is officially ending - but I welcome it. Stagnation is sickening, and I have been feeling pretty sick taking the backseat to life. Time to fix that!
I'm jittery and frightened but life is exciting again!
The comic is coming along - I added a special surprise to the planned relaunch of A Decaying Realm. The new pages will start appearing weekly on Saturday, October 21, 2017, but keep your eyes peeled for October 1!
QUESTIONS FOR WATCHERS!
(Figured I'd bold the sections so that people can skip my jittery rambling XD)
1. How are all of you doing? I am terrible at communicating, but I am trying to improve and I do care about how you guys are doing! If you ever want to chat/vent/gush about a topic you love, note me for my discord!
2. What kind of art do y'all want to see? (aside from comics XD those take some time and are on the way) I've kinda devolved into doodling busts of my characters. I am interested in horror/gore stuff (even have a short-ish comic planned for it), but I've been a bit nervous about exploring that sort of stuff because I don't know how y'all will react.
3. How would y'all feel about me possibly streaming at some point? I won't be able to stream A Decaying Realm because I hope to have a buffer, but maybe the pages of the one-off comics and standalone images like my music-inspired art and fanart? I also kind of want to do speedpaints (but I don't digitally paint properly yet so speed-drawings XD) and upload them to YouTube
4. Music? Would you guys care if posted samples of the music I try to compose with: currently no metronome (I need to learn to play to one), barely a sense of scales, a budding learned relative pitch, and a guitar? I've been told its not that bad, but I think that's out of pity lol
5. 24 HOUR COMICS!! A friend of mine and I want to do a 24 hour comic, but I think it would be cool if y'all had a chance to hop in on the sleep-deprived madness that should ensue! If people are interested, I'll make a discord chat and we'll all descend into madness together! It'll be sometime in early August (he and I haven't nailed down a date yet) but even if you don't want to contribute, hop in and throw weird stuff at us to give us ideas for the comic!
*6. Anybody have hair care tips for handling long hair? I've apparently been doing EVERYTHING WRONG when it comes to my hair for the last several years (I'm actually amazed I still have hair lol) and was wondering if y'all had any words of wisdom that may allow me to keep growing my hair out XD
That's all I got for now. Thanks for stopping by, and have a wonderful day/night/existence!
*Apparently not all I got, I forgot to add this XD
This has been, to me, the summer of tying up loose ends. Rather, this past year. And I'm actually feeling happy again.
1. I rediscovered my passion for art. I was lost for a bit about what I should focus my life on, and I've decided to go the cliche YOLO route and try to achieve my dreams with comics and music (within reason XD I'm not going to try being a freelance artist and musician tomorrow, I hope to work up to it). Even when I told myself to abandon it, creativity kept weaseling its way back into my life.
2. I shook lingering emotions that kept me hooked on two relationships that cannot happen. I will always love both of my good friends and I will always look back on the good times of the two relationships with fondness and a respect for the learning that we shared.
3. I even got a second chance to leave my job - I work each summer break between college school years at the same place; I worked there for a year during my senior year of high school, and left on unfinished terms last summer with no intention of returning (to my surprise, I came back). The place is still crazy and crumbling, but I feel like I have concluded my saga of effort in a nice, unexpected way. I hope the next people can maintain the place, but I am now no longer emotionally latched onto the survival of the place (I told my coworker/replacement that I had finally passed through the five stages of grief XD. I also realized how depressing the place was (kinda pushed me into the acceptance stage XD) when my new coworker joked about me claiming to be happy without a hint of a happiness, and I told him, "I don't get happy like I used to.") I will always cherish the good times I spent there, but I refuse to let that place break me.
4. I will be moving - at some point next year. Probably to the college town where I live 8.5 months out of the year. It is a surreal, frightening feeling that my childhood is officially ending - but I welcome it. Stagnation is sickening, and I have been feeling pretty sick taking the backseat to life. Time to fix that!
I'm jittery and frightened but life is exciting again!
The comic is coming along - I added a special surprise to the planned relaunch of A Decaying Realm. The new pages will start appearing weekly on Saturday, October 21, 2017, but keep your eyes peeled for October 1!
QUESTIONS FOR WATCHERS!
(Figured I'd bold the sections so that people can skip my jittery rambling XD)
1. How are all of you doing? I am terrible at communicating, but I am trying to improve and I do care about how you guys are doing! If you ever want to chat/vent/gush about a topic you love, note me for my discord!
2. What kind of art do y'all want to see? (aside from comics XD those take some time and are on the way) I've kinda devolved into doodling busts of my characters. I am interested in horror/gore stuff (even have a short-ish comic planned for it), but I've been a bit nervous about exploring that sort of stuff because I don't know how y'all will react.
3. How would y'all feel about me possibly streaming at some point? I won't be able to stream A Decaying Realm because I hope to have a buffer, but maybe the pages of the one-off comics and standalone images like my music-inspired art and fanart? I also kind of want to do speedpaints (but I don't digitally paint properly yet so speed-drawings XD) and upload them to YouTube
4. Music? Would you guys care if posted samples of the music I try to compose with: currently no metronome (I need to learn to play to one), barely a sense of scales, a budding learned relative pitch, and a guitar? I've been told its not that bad, but I think that's out of pity lol
5. 24 HOUR COMICS!! A friend of mine and I want to do a 24 hour comic, but I think it would be cool if y'all had a chance to hop in on the sleep-deprived madness that should ensue! If people are interested, I'll make a discord chat and we'll all descend into madness together! It'll be sometime in early August (he and I haven't nailed down a date yet) but even if you don't want to contribute, hop in and throw weird stuff at us to give us ideas for the comic!
*6. Anybody have hair care tips for handling long hair? I've apparently been doing EVERYTHING WRONG when it comes to my hair for the last several years (I'm actually amazed I still have hair lol) and was wondering if y'all had any words of wisdom that may allow me to keep growing my hair out XD
That's all I got for now. Thanks for stopping by, and have a wonderful day/night/existence!
*Apparently not all I got, I forgot to add this XD
Good point on trying new stuff! I force myself sometimes on what I do, but in those instances all I really need to do is practice drawing the real thing more to end the struggle. Problem is making the effort to do that XD
Another good point on trying the streaming to see if I like it! It's likely a great deal more difficult than I am imagining it to be. I'll probably try it in August when we do the 24 hour comic
Thanks about being willing to hear my music! I'm thinking I'll do a speedpaint sort of thing to put the music to when I upload it to YouTube. Though for that to happen I'll need to finish the songs I have first and feel content with their arrangement!
That's no problem! My friend and I were going to try to do it earlier this week, but I was too tired from work the day before to attempt it. It'll take a few days of preparation for the sleep deprivation lol
No problem there! I didn't know anything either until recently
Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions dude! Have you tried out FireAlpaca and/or Krita?