I've never really gone out of my way for things I was interested in. I don't go many places. Though for once I did.

I stumbled upon a rather interesting up and coming music artist. Lights. She's currently on tour and I managed to catch a show at a small bar in a college town not far from here. I was blown away. I'm a huge fan of her and her music, so being able to see her in person was a huge deal for me. And the best part? I met her. It was a very small venue so there was a chance to meet and talk with her after the show. She's a very sweet down to earth person. Very relate able. At least to me. She has an amazing stage presence as well. Over all the show was fantastic and I'm so glad I took the opportunity to go. She was a lot of fun. Even if she is Alli..

I recommend getting her debut album. Good stuff. Show her some support.


Aaand I got an autograph on a T-shirt <3





[link] <- Go to her site. Now.

Went into my gallery and moved a bunch of things to scraps. I've been re-evaluating a lot of things, obviously about my art. It's been pointed out to me that I'm not really applying myself. I'm inclined to agree, but I'm also very intimidated by the idea of stepping out of my comfort zone. I suppose there's nothing else I can really do but just jump into it and see what happens.

I wanted to address something on the off chance it became an issue. Nip in the bud you could say. I've gotten into the habit of not specifying who the subjects of my portraits are. That is intentional. I'm not sure if that falls into the realm of not giving credit or some such like that, but I do have reasons. I'm trying hard to improve and make my portraits look like who they're ACTUALLY supposed to be. I'm basically leaving that information out to not influence the viewer in hopes that maybe I succeeded in some sort of resemblance to the subject I intended. So the names are left out. I can edit them back in if it does become an issue, but for now I leave them out.

So I've had some sort of cosmic moment. I finally stopped and said "I'm living life wrong." So I've yet made more changes, this time they feel more drastic, more set in stone. This covers a few aspects in my life, but I will only talk about the art aspect of it. (If you want to talk to me about the rest, just contact me)



I've had a lot of inspiration and motivation to actually work on my art. I feel like it's slipped a lot, gone down hill. It shouldn't be this way. I don't exactly call myself an artist, but I finally agree that there is some talent there and I'm letting it go to waste. I've made a certain someone slightly upset at me cause I just never seemed to care about it. Well it's different now. I'm actually drawing every day. Not a lot, but I do something, keep my sketch book with me always. I've also tried my had at digital colouring more too. Not my own line art (which may change someday) but it's still been pleasant. I'm really enjoying it and it's also helping me. I really want to make some effort at improving my art, even if it's little steps at a time. I've also been told to start drawing more people and less photographs. I may still draw from them, but I'm going to focus more on drawing people, drawing the flesh.


Any advice or tips are welcome. I have been talking to someone about it, but if anyone knows something that will help or something that they do for practice anything, I'm all ears. Hopefully I'll be posting more in the future.