Friday, October 27, 2006

brain dead
had a test in chinese this morning. thats nothing unusual. however, this one was completely in characters. we havent been working on characters for more than a week or so. we had to be able to recognize characters, and translate sentences into characters. it was hard. so now my brain hurts.

man, i nearly gave myself a heart attack. i was sitting at breakfast chatting with some friends, when suddenly: "OH MY GOD I HAVE A ZOO LAB PRACTICAL!! #@%$^&*!!!!" so i bolted what was left of my breakfast and dashed back to my room in an utter panic. i grabbed my binder and snatched the syllabus, and lo and behold the practical is friday nov 3. not friday oct 27. so i proceeded to melt into a little gooey puddle of relief. that seriously would have ruined my day. these practicals are bad. really bad. if id forgotten about one...can we say academic suicide? the material for one of these (specimines, slides, etc) takes up half of the lab. literally. lianas seen this, she can add detail. *relief*

in preparation for mine and lianas book cover, im working on realistic drawing. with humanoids, thats hard for me. but i discovered a cheap way to do it that worked brilliantly. (im such a loser artist, taking short-cuts) i sketched inu in my normal anime-ish style. all thats really still anime about my style (i think) is the face shape, eyes and hair. so, once i was happy with how that looked, i went back and refined the features to make her look real. it worked, and im so pleased. tho drawing inus messy hair correctly was a bit of an experience. tried out a new pose too, and im pleased with the outcome. this is so much better than my last attempt to draw inu realistically. then again, i was trying to make that one look like me. i plan to work some more on it during work, hopefully have it up sometime tonight. yes im coming home again. have to take care of my little brother (aka the dog) while mom and dad are out of town.

once again, i shall leave you with lyrics instead of quotes:

"Well I won't back down, no I won't back down.
You can stand me up at the gates of hell,
But I won't back down.

Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around.
And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down,
Gonna stand my ground and I won't back down."

from tom petty's "i won't back down". good song.

{inu}
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