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Saturday, March 26, 2005

   patience? me?
I was going to rant about how I can't draw fan art too well because it never looks like the person, like my recent attempt at Yohji, but I saw the comment from joe2587 and had to comment because I know so many people who would laugh at you for putting me and patience in the same sentence.

It's true that I nitpick my drawings a lot. I'm just never satisfied with the end result...and I'm like that with EVERYTHING. I drive my best friend nuts I think. haha!

Seriously though, if I was patient, when I decided to try to start drawing, I would take my time and expect that I would be that good at first. As it is, I picked up a pencil to go at it for the first time about four or five months ago, and now I own something like ten or more books on art and I buy a new one almost every time I go to the bookstore. It's sick, I tell you, sick! But I still feel like, 'this isn't good enough' or, 'I want to be a lot better than this'. And I DO throw out a lot of my drawings too, usually before I've even really got them started. I have such issues with anatomy! *cries* I read and read and read, and then there's drawing and drawing and drawing some more, but I still can't get it quite right and that irritates me to no end! Lol. Maybe I should get a skeleton model so I can get to know the body really well, or something, but I'm not sure even that would make me learn it fast enough to satisfy me. So when I read that I seem patient, it made me laugh, because actually it's quite the opposite. I just become all consumed with something until I can't think about anything else and it takes over my brain until I'm satisfied is all. This can't be healthy! But I still want to keep pushing forward and become much better at this whole "art" thing.
Patient. Hehe, that made my morning, but thanks for saying so anyway!
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