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.