some sketches (slightly NSFW)

Today is a special day; it's my mum's birthday. Thanks for college mom!

Anyways, I have some drawings from last week's drawing class, as well as the homework I'm to ~hand~ (get the joke?!) in this Thursday.

That will be all for this week!

So...

Despite the fact I get really depressed during the school year due to the stressful life of unchanging routine and deadlines, (Starting my second year of college tomorrow! Ack!) this drawing I just whipped up in Photoshop CS4 sums up how I feel right now....

My heart still beats really fast in anxiety!! I'm going to miss sleeping into the late noon, lounging at home, and snuggling for long periods of time with my cat.

I also thought I'd stick this in here, since it has been over one year since my grandfather passed away. I painted this portrait of him with my grandmother for this. I miss him very much. Rest in peace, grandpa. ♥

 

Artwork!

Golly, am I horrible at keeping up with this or what? I actually had things to post but I felt like they weren't sufficient enough to display. Now I got a bunch of things. I was going to post earlier but Hurricane Irene was the culprit to causing power to go out of my house for two nights. But enough babble.

Now that my first year of college has long been over and I'm starting a new year in less than a week, it's time to reflect.

So, I learned a lot in only eight months in my first year of big ol' scary college. I still don't believe I'm at this stage in life where I have a lot more choices, and the freedom to do things as a legal adult. Now it's up to me whether I am able to take what I learned and put it into good use. Even though I did learn a lot, I felt like I also slacked during the year, and while my grades are quite good, they could be better; or at least, be easier to achieve if I focused more. (So instead of cramming into the wee hours of the morning before a test, I would pay more attention in class so I'd have less to study later. Something like that.)

A lot of things have happened to me ever since last summer, and they're all realistic things that feel as if I'm being shaken violently from a deep sleep. I guess you can call it growin' up. I'm starting to not care or even have the energy to care for the fickle things I used to care so much about before. I can only hope I can keep this indifference up and pay more attention to what's really important and productive.

Recently, I made a little checklist for myself for personal works. It's pretty self-explanatory: I make the list and write down the progress, and check off whatever I'm finished. I think actually seeing what I missed and the desire to check off the works will encourage me to get them done sooner. The list isn't really small of course, but I'm happy to gotten something done. While I'm pretty sure I'll come up with more ideas faster than I can finish them, it doesn't hurt to be a bit more organized.

Speaking of getting things done, I remember when I first saw digital paintings when I was a young teen, I was so amazed, I thought it was something not everyone can do, and people who were able to do it had unparalleled talent that I could never get. I was stubborn and was actually afraid to try it myself, until this summer; where I tried and the results exceeded my expectations by light years. I'm still new so I'm a bit slow at it, but I'm also sure there's faster ways to paint, and soon I will find my own style and will do digital painting in general better.

Also, a new months back, I made a Twitter complimentary to my this blog. Unfortunately not many people I know will like both art and Twitter at the same time, so there aren't really any followers so far. So follow me @JenniferLdraws!
I've contemplated getting a Tumblr as well, as it seems that it's really popular and widely-used for casual and professional uses, I absolutely HATE how reblogging a picture allows a person to remove credit, destroy the context of the image and soon the artist becomes unknown, anonymous and uncredited and unrecognized. In this kind of career, an artist usually wants people to know their name... It's how they put food on the table after all.

But I digress! I've talked WAY too much for a professional website now. I leave you with the various artwork I've done throughout my first college year.

Site appearance fixed!

one of many DaVinci's studies

I decided to go for a much cleaner and simple looking approach here. It could be fixed again in the future, who knows? I am still continuing to get used to Blogspot so my artwork is best presented.

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So why did I get a Blogspot? Well, the answer is simple: I needed a more professional-looking site to present my artwork. I also have a DeviantArt account as well but I do not like the fact it is not a professional place to show artwork. Most of DeviantArt contains Anime fanart, something I don't do and it's not the best work to put them into a portfolio, unless it is an actual part of one's career. I notice many people on DeviantArt would submit pictures that aren't theirs into their galleries, and not only is that awful, but to take another photographer's photos or another artist's drawings as their own is simply wrong and considered plagiarism.

Well I think that is all for now. Please continue to watch this site for more art and upgrades in the future!

Hi

Just testing stuff here now. More to come. I made this because it would be unprofessional of me to show mostly fanart stuff in my career. Cheerio