Inktober Day #9

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Wrong story

Anyway, seriously, I made a list of like these things I wanted to learn how to draw, and like things I could draw etc

Of course more things will be added as times goes on, but

With this list, Ima choose fives things a day to draw ten times, so in total, fifty times, and nothing is overlappable, like if I choose dwarf, and figure, then i would need to do ten dwarfs, and ten other figures

And stuff like masks, I would have to also draw the face for the mask, and generally make it pretty detailed

And with this, for every ten I do, I give myself 1 point, 1 point is an hour of free time

For every ten I decide not to do, I lose .5 points

But my total amount of points can’t go below 0

Right now, I’m just getting used to really implementing this

Like I did ten figures today, which is a lot more than I would usually do

Ill probably add little by little till I feel comfortable drawing all that

Then I can implement the point system

I feel like this is another one of my brilliant ideas

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It’s very elaborate

50 reps a day seems real high as well but we’ll see how you keep up

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Im so disappointed tbh

We have eliza ivanonva, karl kopenski, peter han, and victor kalvachew

All artists I really love tbh

On a art jam live, from a vid four years ago

And I love kazome art, but to be real, she is a terrible host

Hopefully four years later, she has gotten better at that

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😭

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https://www.youtube.com/live/kDlVePwEgAw?si=3H-9b8MB7Uou8Zki

Here is the vid right here

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tbh, idk victor kalvachev

I feel like either he is not a draw on the spot artist or there is a very big gap in skill between him and everyone else on the page

Yea, from what I can see, he does more abstract stuff

Definitely feels like he isn’t on the same level as the other three though

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Gonna take a look at this tonight

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I fw this heavy though. I love the way he shades the anatomy

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Peter han drawing digitally basically the same as he does traditionally

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I dun really like it tbh

It’s good

I just don’t like it

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From these drawings, I wouldn’t say the skill/knowledge gap seems to be super big between him and the other artists

But

Stylistically and on the board he’s sharing itself, he sticks out like a sore thumb

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I say there is a big gap between him and everyone on the board, but I know if I was in his position

Well, let’s just say I probably wouldn’t do even as good as him

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Shih I’m sinking immediately if I’m drawing in their vicinity

But it’d be a fun learning experience. I’d probably be watching them more than actually drawing

Also i worked on my pc build a little bit

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I forgot u wer doing this

But now I remember u telling me abt it

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The project has been collecting dust for like a year

But since i make my own money now i can finish it. I got the monitor, mouse, and keyboard too

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U watching one of them asian youtube videos to set it up?

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Nah it’s a white guy

Now i need to figure out where i want my tv since it can’t go on my desk anymore

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I don’t think you’ll like it on the floor

So probably wud have to find sum

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Nah been there done that

Ultra shrimp posture

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I used to lay on the floor to play my game

And I used to sleep on the floor

I think i said it before, but

I just like the floor more than my bed

In a way, the floor is more comfortable than a bed

That’s also why I wanna try out those Japanese sleeping bag things

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Mm I’ve wondered abt those

It’d also save a lotta space

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It also look very

Idk the word

Snug

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I like the floor for sitting

But idk abt laying

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I just throw a cover under me

And a cover over me

And a pillow

Idk, I feel like femboys have made it really weird

But I would like some plushies and stuff

Not like the ultra pink girly stuff

But like

The batman car

Stuff like that, that Imlike

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Mans brought up femboys for no reason💀

Get you some plushies man. I have a Knuckles plushie

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I browse twitter very occasionally

And my feed has a lot of femboy stuff

I wouldn’t say a lot actually

But it’s the “not common, but not uncommon” type thing

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It’s testing the waters to see if thas the content you’re interested in

And you’re taking the bait enough for them to not stop but not enough for them to flood your page w em

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I can’t lie, that’s super true, cuz I do be liking sum of it

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i coulda guessed that

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Comment on a story im reading

“I'm sorry but I don't enjoy non white mc povs so I'm sure it a great story but just not for me”

Some people really have no braincells

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😭 😭

Yk how much stuff that person can’t read because of that💀

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These comments be funny as heck sometimes

One of the main reasons I read on webnovel is because they have paragraph comments, some of the funniest stuff I have ever seen has been from there

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Idk if ur up

But like, I’ve been watching 58mw and people and I always see how they really just work on one big board over a period of time

So they get a lot of these finished looking pieces together

I may try something like that traditionally

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https://youtube.com/shorts/cJ_R6GNp8E8?si=sf-SJLeGdov5besD

Last one had me dying

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https://youtu.be/-gbxzkU80HI?si=l2hqr5KyPkKkolZU

Damn, this was too funny

At the start I was laughing a little, but by the end I could not stop

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This is a gc I’m ij

And I just though this was funny

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https://tenor.com/view/usa-gif-5540557978726672638

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I think I would really be gay for this one guy

Idk how, but like, he was literally the definition of cute girly boy

Not one of those ugly femboys that think wearing pink makes them look cute

Idk what he did, if he was on estrogen or sum, cuz I think dats what pll take, but I can for sure say I would turn gay if they were actually in front of me

They just looked that good

Anyway, that’s not actually why I came here

I been referencing jeff watts

Like always, but this time, I went to a proko video and stole some of his animal sketches

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Well wouldn’t that bring em from femboy to trans atp??

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Idk, tbh I thought those were the same thing

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Nah to my knowledge femboys are males and still identify as such

They haven’t transitioned to anything they just play very heavily w expression

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Idk, I just know they were in my head for awhile

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If you were a femboy but took away the boy part you would just be fem

Ig

Idk this is not my arena

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Tru

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I did want to come here and talk abt art

Idk why I opened with femboys

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Anyway, combining this

With the stuff I stole from peter han, which is a ton more

Like, it’s literally a ton, I have like 30 to 40 images

Combining them together, I think studying animals would be easy

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Damn that’s a lot of reference material

Definitely a good source

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Ima try to catch up in my spanish

Then ima go back to actually having a scedule

Schedule*

Right now, I’m once again 200+ assignments behind in Spanish somehow

Idk how that works, it just happens

Fortunately, im doing very good in everything else

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Wtf

😭

At least everything else is good…

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Nothing one or two hours of dedicated cheating cant fix

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I read a comment that said “average nightshift worker” and I couldn’t stop laughing

https://youtube.com/shorts/h0UGH3mo2Ns?si=TbHQIE_1GmhkuwEw

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😭 😭

Aint lyin

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https://youtube.com/shorts/orhZWqv2vsI?si=BKcgVc3ReF5E_SXh

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I think it's time for me to lock in

I narrowed down my main art study resouces to Stonehouse Anatomy, TenTen's anatomy book, and Proko vids

Also need to start diving into Dongho Kim's perspective book

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I need to start drawing again

I don’t even draw anymore fr

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And it feels really wrong but life is getting in the way

It's not even always a time thing. It's that the things you had to take care of before will make you not feel like doing anything

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Exactly this

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I've been trying to do at least one magma session every now and then

It helps when you can just loosen up and draw while other people do the same

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Ima go ahead and get the rest of my work done today so I don’t have to worry abt it later

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Hell yeah

Do you have a lot left?

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Nah, it’s just Spanish as usual

Instead of 200 assignments though, it’s more like 150 now though

Sounds like a lot, but it’s not really a lot

Well, if I cheat that is

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Welp it

it's time to amp the cheating up to 1000

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Over the last few days

This is all I drew

I think I did sum else

But I cant find it

Anyway, this is like what I did in a week

It’s a farcry, idk why I’m using that word, but anyway, it’s a farcry from what I used to do

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the legs look nice though

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Also, using boxes has grown on me

I actually used boxes to make the faces

Tbh, it’s kinda like the same thing, but I just put a box first

Then create the circle

But that way,

I can get a better drawing in perspective

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Boxes are my bread and butter

The help with perspective, foreshortening, getting angles down quickly, giving things proper dimension and structure

They’re just amazing

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U sound like a obsessed fan

But I totally agree

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I am

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I’m also ganna start working out again, i noticed that

Whenever I’m not doing well, as in behind on work etc

I’m not exercising at all

Idk if it’s because I just get overall lazy

Or if exercising keeps me from being lazy

But ima get back into it

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For sure. And summer is coming up in 2-3 months

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Putting it in words make it feel like an eternity

It’s really not that long tho

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I’m just taking things week by week

Every 2 weeks is a paycheck. Every 2 paychecks is a month. Every month is contributes to a quarter of the year

Etc etc

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Stacking that bread

https://tenor.com/view/bread-loaf-gif-26074266

This might just be my bias

But I think english is one os the simplest languages to learn

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I wouldn’t know but it’s definitely one of the most useful ones to learn

There’s some funky stuff in it like any other language but there’s so much material and so many resources to learn English too

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English is basically taught in everywhere as well

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I know my pronunciation be off as fug

Whenever I have that spanish speaking assignment, I butcher at least 25% of all of the words

Still get 100’s tho

Apparently whoever is grading it just cares that I at least do it

I just learned something new

Molestar in spanish means to bother

I guess that’s a form of bothering

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I remember everyone going 🤨🤨🤨 when we learned that in class lmao

I’m abt to draw but idk which medium to go with

Could go traditional pencil sketches

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I say it depends on what u wanna do rn

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Gonna get these anatomy studies started

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I honestly think digital is best for studies

Because it’s way more convenient than traditional

If you asked me which one I would actually use to do studies, it would be a different matter though

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Digital it is. Gonna make a huge canvas like 58mw

Watching the Boondocks while i study and eating the snacks i bought

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Man, I need to get back to watching, Idk if I told u, but I started rewatching it awhile ago

It’s still funny as hel

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I’m watching the Usher episode. “Wouldn’t let that shit happen to me thooo” 😭

Idk if you’ll be awake, but I’ll send updates on the study canvas. It’d be cool to fill the while thing

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Ima prob be awake till around 5 or 6 am

That’s been the usual lately

In my head, I keep myself awake through the night to do more work

But actually, for most of that time, I am not actually working

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💀 ay I’ll ping you for updates every hour then

How many assignments you got left rn? We’ll see how many you can cut down each hour

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I actually been doing really good today tho

I really locked in like I said

Although I slept for 2 hours literally right after I told u that

It’s down from like 170 to almost 100 rn

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🫡 ✍️

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Realistically,

I can get all the rest done today

But it’ll probably take two or three days

Just because

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Well let’s make the goal for tonight to get it to 80 or less

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https://tenor.com/view/anya-forger-anya-spy-x-family-anime-salute-salute-gif-okey-dokey-gif-25700022

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Update 1

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That skull in the background look like

Fug, I can’t remember what it’s from

That creepy skeleton dude

The uhh, from adventure time I think

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Idk who you’re referring to but

Ts is difficult

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U drew them using boxes?

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Yeah

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I was experimenting a bit with that as well, ik kim dunghoo or whatever his name is does something similar, but I aint look at him, I was more following peterhan and kim jung gi

I would just create a swaure, divide that in half

Then add a bottom part

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Yeah that’s basically what I’m doin

But I’ve alway had trouble following the guidelines I draw? The drawing for some reason ends up way smaller than the bounding box

I’ll have to work on that

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Personally, I like to make my things peak like

Well, ig I can just show u

Cuz I can’t explain it well

Like, in the middle of the lines

Not entirely like that though

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Also, this page was on sum I took from Michael hampton awhile back, he was talking about sum very simple but effective,

How the eye is really placed back and it’s like a stair step or sum

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Ah i see wym

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Hopefully it was helpful

I’m also almost at 80

I would have been there by now, but more stuff was added since it’s a new day

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Hell yeah

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Update 2

Seeing how cleanly I can draw without guidelines and doing a little style experimentation

Also a little bit of an upwards angle but nothing crazy

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I remember when I was happy I could draw a circle without a guideline

As for my work, I stopped and got distracted around 95

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Gonna go for the last 15 or nah

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I prob would if it was yesterday, but since when i go to sleep, it’s ganna be d same day, and it wont increase

Ill jus do more once I wake up

Ima take a 10 min break

Then do some of the algebra

Since I was focused on spanish for awhile, I did get a bit behind in that, but not at all by much, I can probably complete that in an hour

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🫡

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Alright

Tonight I’m going to really lock in

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Man,

Another, I was about to say idiot, but this happened like yesterday, or two days ago, so I’m honestly over it, so

Another guy, who asked for help “understanding what is happening beneath” as in anatomy, dismissed all my advice, then said, “it’s not like I’m going to become a doctor anyway”

Then went on to ask for someone else to help them

Like, the hell am I supposed to do, you’re the one who asked

Honestly, I age fifty years every time someone says “I’m not going to be a doctor anyway” or something similar

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I have basically learned how to get detail out of pen

Basically, as long as you are following the form

You can do whatever the fug you want

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Oo indeed

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https://youtu.be/VPJyuvf97iU?si=jY0vhNzApHeoJPQd

This guy is also another underrated great youtuber I found

Really like how he draws, and the info he gives is great

Btw, this video is like part 1 of

A four episode series he has

Tbh, the first ep isn’t that important

But later on he talks about lines and shading and stuff

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I’ll give it a watch

I have an off day today

Or tonight rather

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Im planning on going on a marathon at 5pm

Getting all my work done today

No breaks

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🫡 🫡 i can ping every 2-3 hours for progress updates. Might work on that huge canvas today

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I estimate it will take around 6 hours max

So that should work nice

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👍

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It’s too early for this💀

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https://tenor.com/view/笑-gif-5118823473936113945

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I felt really comfortable working with the entire page

I usually just use a part of it

I thought I was drawing big enough already, but I think ima have to go bigger

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I found this artist

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Really love their stuff, but

I failed terribly at trying to recreate it

My shading game is trash, so that’s probably why

Ima keep trying tho, cuz I really like that look

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That youtube channel features a lot of great artists

They usually happen to be ones I’ve come across already, but then there are other gems in there

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I don’t really know too many artists, so basically everyone I see on there is new to me, the only thing I could say is there aren’t many

Traditional artists on there

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Yeah true

Who’s that in the post you sent?

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Er

Whadu mean?

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Whose art is in this video?

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Oh

I forgot tbh

Let me go see

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Jeremey mann

There is also like a soldier called jeremey mann as well or sum

So I had to type in jeremey mann art

For it to pull up

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🫡

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Did I ever

Show you the fanart i was doing?

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Yeah

Lining it digitally?

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Yea, paper got kinda beat up cuz I neglected it for a few days

And the room is kinda too small

For what I wanna do

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The real reason tho

Is because idk wth is going on with the head

But I aint wanna erase the whole thing

Cuz that would basically kill the whole drawing for me

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Ah ok lol

Real

You’re drawing so is your work caught up on?

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Mostly, I abandoned spanish cuz I think a break is coming up

I can just push the Spanish stuff to my future self

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Ah ok

What break is coming up?? Didn’t spring break just happen?

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Did it?

Idrk what break is coming up, but I do see an 11 day gap

In my assessments

Thats how I assume when breaks are ganna happen

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Idk bro I’m not in school😭

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Dam, idk and I’m in school

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Gonna stream whenever I wake up

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How I always get here

Wen u start typing

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Idk why we’re in sync like that lmao

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Lik in magma?

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Just drawing stream in general but i can do magma on stream too

I wanna draw Lawrence

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Oh, alr, ill prob hop in if its within a few hours of now

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🫡

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I aint sleep all night

Bad habit I picked up again

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I had work so i need to sleep too but idk how long I’ll be knocked out for lol

But you gotta wait til summer to destroy your sleep cmon man

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I literally only sleep in summer

That’s like the most enjoyable activity

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Lowkey

I fw sleep heavy these days. Passes the time, mad replenishing

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Whenever I really think abt it

There aint much to life tbh,

I workout, play a bit of games, read, draw, then sleep

Even if I did more, like

I don’t think theres much more to do

I can become a world class singer, but all you would be doing is singing and signing autographs

Life is pretty simple

But complex in its simplicity

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Real talk. Been thinking abt that lately too. Every now n then you might go out and do something but it’s still the same stuff like clockwork everyday.

Maybe people who have active social lives feel differently though

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Yea, but I’m excluded from that group

I also think that’s why so many young people are thrill chasers fr

I’m fine just sitting down and drawing for hours, or reading for hours etc

But a lot of,pll jus don’t got no hobbies fr

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True. Or they don’t know what it’s like to dedicate your whole being to a hobby

Which is fine but then you have to find more stuff to cut through the monotony of life

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And like, even if you were to say partying was a hobby, that gets boring fast as hel cuz like, there aint no substance to it fr, doing it now and again is fine

But like, it can’t keep you occupied like drawing

Which has a lot of depth to it

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Yeah idek if someone could call that a hobby. A lifestyle maybe? But something you care a lot about that you can continuously improve at? It’s like Raid to roaches but for monotony

If I enjoy my career, each day will feel new. That’s what I’ve come to think/hope. And well ig getting my mental stuff checked and situated could help with the feelings of monotony. For me ik that’s part of my depression n whatnot

It’d be disappointing if I got that situated and still felt like this though

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I feel like my mental is significantly different from what “normal” is, but like

It may be my arrogance, but

I feel like I can sort it out myself

Anyway, I have already gotten over my emo phase

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Nah some people genuinely can. In my case i don’t really think I need therapy per sé. Rather i just need balance in my head restored

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Yea, I also don’t feel like I need my mental to be “normal” per se

Just to sort out the bad stuff

I don’t think I ever wanna be the “normal” person

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Idek what that is ngl. I like many aspects of my current disposition. I’d just like for the absolute overdrive all the time to be managed better. But it’s reached a point where I’ve done everything in my physical power to manage. All the stuff that helps people with mild versions of my struggles

leading me to think it’s simply how my brain is wired chemically. Which yeah I’d just like to see what it’d be like to be “balanced.”

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Brain be braining

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N whatnot

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Yea, idrk what it is either, but like for one, my fashion sense

Is definitely not modern

I may be canceled for this, but

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Uh oh

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Instead of women wearing crop tops and booty shorts, I really love the old look of elegant women with long flowing dresses, and the hats and stuff

I mean, I think that everything is a lot more sexualized nowadays

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Huruu…

That’s

Really regressive man😔

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I mean, it’s not like I’m saying woman can’t show any skin, but

Buuuuut

Maybe it’s a bit too much now

Or rather

So, let me go on this crazy tangent, which isn’t really a tangent

You know them tribes, the wild ones, a lot of them walk around basically naked, and everything is fine, because that’s really normal,

But in everywhere that’s not the wilds, it isn’t normal to walk around naked, why? Because modern society dictates you are supposed to cover yourself

So, like, the progressive take away of clothes, showing more skin, is like

Is it not sexualization?

But again,

I’m not saying showing skin itself is sexualization

But when it gets to a certain level, like

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Showing skin isn’t inherently sexual, but we also shouldn’t be obtuse and pretend that certain clothing is sewn with the intention of accentuating certain features in an attempt to make the person wearing them look more sexy

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“These jeans will make your booty like twice as big!!!”

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Personally my fashion sense leans towards androgynous Japanese street fashion

Which involves a lot of baggy clothing, layers, and overall being much more covered up than other types of fashion

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I dun really know anything abt fashion tbh, i jus like baggy clothes

Cuz they feel comfortable

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I would prob like this a lot

I like this a lot

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Though it’s different from my old az preferred fashion,

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I like this stuff a lot too but

This kinda direction more so

And if we’re talkin the more outlandish end, i love stuff like this

Lmfao

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I like this a lot too

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This is, I would probably pay to see up close

It just looks super cool

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Ikr. I’m gonna start trying to buy clothes that i actually like

It’s just that..the clothes I like are pretty expensive because they’re not just run of the mill t shirts and jeans

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Yeaaa

Same, the stuff I really want, basically it will make me look like a cosplayer

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and I encourage you to wear it shamelessly whenever you get the opportunity

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Also, have u seen kurumi before? From lycoris recoil (yuri anime)?

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Nah she’s cute

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She instantly become my #1

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Lol understandable

I’m gonna head to sleep. I’ll ping when i start streaming

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https://tenor.com/view/goodnight-rest-well-sweet-dreams-zzzzz-night-nite-gif-17244980

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Nice stream

I jus got up and was ganna start drawing, but I saw u streaming so I decided to peep for a bit

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Thanks 👍

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I’m running back through the loomis book

And honestly, I think I missed a ton in here, so this should be very good practice

The head on the far right of the page was pretty hard, but after doing it twice I got a better understanding of what I was doing wrong

Now if I did it a third time I would probably make it look pretty decent

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Hell yeah

Starting off strong

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I plan to get to plate 3 today

And also go back and do the proko basics course

Or at least the stuff that I didn’t watch

Then going to scott robertson book for perspective

Basically hammering fundamentals again

Ill also prob try to fit some figure/gesture drawing in there, but it’s not going to be high priority

And then finally I’ll end it off with james gurney to learn light and shadow

Because he is probably like my favorite artist in that department

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I felt pretty good after doing that loomis stuff

So I quickly got a ref, and tried to do what kim jung gi used to do

He would take a look at the ref, then draw

These two were my refs, I probably looked at each for around 1min

Felt like this really freed up my head

Cuz I’m always basically copying my refs

[vale meadow]

Dang

Someone I was helping also wanted to improve faster, and they were basically at the level of doing this:

The thing is,

I helped this same person a few months back

[vale meadow]

And they were still doing this

So, I already knew what was up

They probably aint really was going to put in much effort

So yesterday I told them to do some easy stuff, and today, radio silence

Maybe they are just occupied today, but I doubt it

[green horizon]

Yeh who knows

[vale meadow]

Imagine they come back a few months later again

I wonder what I’ll do

[green horizon]

Lol

[vale meadow]

https://tenor.com/view/ah-shit-here-we-go-again-ah-shit-cj-gta-gta-san-andreas-gif-13933485

[vale meadow]

https://youtu.be/plOgFnYQPl0?si=oiF4dL5X949w2DS5

I’m always keeping up with what jeff is doing like a stalker

But it’s nice to see him talking to another great like

[green horizon]

lmao

[vale meadow]

I wanna say peter, but i forgot his name tbh

Idk if its peter, I used to study his art a lot as well though

[green horizon]

It's always cool seeing artists you really like doing content together

How's school work and drawing going?

[vale meadow]

Not going at all, but this break is actually allowing me to get back on track

I’m really sorting things out rn

Usually I would just feel pressured to do this and that because i got these 300 assignments to do over there

Then I wanna draw

But im tired

Then I want to play some games

Etc

And it’s been nice to just relax

[green horizon]

Yeah i get tha

that

[vale meadow]

This morning, I actually got up and did some stretching,

Which used to be normal

Cuz I would wake up and workout, but I haven’t done that for months

[green horizon]

Must've felt nice to get back into it though. Summer's just around the corner

[vale meadow]

Also, I’m not going to sleep at 5-6am anymore

[green horizon]

Yeah that's kinda wild. We should not have a similar schedule lol

[vale meadow]

I really think it’s just because me knowing I have some left over assignments does not let me sleep

So I stay up and basically procrastinate more

[green horizon]

Yeah you gotta catch up so you can have a fresh start

[vale meadow]

I have a week I think of break

So that’s definitely enough time

[green horizon]

Shih if you dedicate 2 or 3 days to schoolwork, you'd still have the majority of your break to chill

Just don't let yourself keep thinking you have time so you'll get to it later

[vale meadow]

I just plan on doing like 2-3 hours every night

That should be more than enough

[vale meadow]

Yeeea, already did that and got hit hard by it multiple times

[green horizon]

Ah should be good then

so long as you stick to that

[vale meadow]

I was going to go lift, but I aint feeling like it

So ima probably go draw

[green horizon]

Oh share the results if you do

Might try animating today. We'll see

[vale meadow]

Oh share the results if you do

[green horizon]

lol

[vale meadow]

I say a video by rev says desu, I watch his stuff occasionally

And this video was abt marvel rivals peni parker, and lets just say, it’s crazy

So basic rundown, because peni is like the smallest human character, some pll are trying to cancel everyone who plays her I guess

The devs, with an official statement, said she is 18 high schooler, now

The comments:

“Idc, she looks 12, even the devs can’t gaslight me”
“18 is a minor dude”
“Don’t worry guys, you’re not pedos just groomers”

Among many others

[vale meadow]

I particularly this second one

This is particularly interesting to me because she is my main

[green horizon]

I hate that mf

Aight I’m half joking. I really don’t like his content though

[vale meadow]

He basically only makes content on controversial stuff

Me watching him occasionally means me watching him one of his videos like every few months

So I can’t really say I “like” his content

[vale meadow]

Rc

So, I feel like these heads are super bad

Let me type out all that text in the pictures,

“Trying to do loomis head, but I can never get it right. I don’t know if it’s the guide circle I do first, Or proportions etc. My confusion stems from the loomis method itself, I feel like I should be making the back of the head bigger,. But I start off with the circle as described by loomis, so I’m guessing this circle would be more of an oval? Also, I can see that loomis cuts off both sides of the circle sometimes, but not all the time, or maybe I’m just misunderstanding.”

[green horizon]

This one is your most successful attempt

[vale meadow]

Yea, I had a few more like that, but I’m so fugging unorganized I cant find the other page

[green horizon]

It’s my personal belief that the loomis method is flawed in and of itself. The skull isn’t a circle. It’s much more of an oval. The sides being cut off just represents the flatness of the side of the head, so representing that in your own work when using the loomis method is a choice. Where the loomis method falls apart in my opinion, and in most of your attempts, is the jaw

You’re kind of just expected to know how to curves and connects to the face as long as you can draw the sphere and guidelines indicating which way it’s pointing

[vale meadow]

Im ngl, I think even loomis himself uses more of an oval shape

Instead of an circle

[vale meadow]

And yea, the jaw has definitely been a battle

[green horizon]

Ig it varies depending on who’s trying to teach the method. But I’m sure loomis himself knew damn well the skull isn’t a perfect sphere shape

Lmao

[vale meadow]

It aint even take me long to learn that either

Soon as I started studying d skull

I guess I can continue with the book, but instead of trying to do the loomis method,

Ill do what I been doing to draw heads before

Which is the, “it looks kinda right, so let’s do this” method

[green horizon]

that’s honestly the best approach. Rather than sticking to one method as a rule, you rely on your own observations

Your chins tend to jut out too far so bring dem mfs back a little bit and you should be fine

[vale meadow]

Yea, I can definitely see now that I make them longer than they need to be

[green horizon]

I don’t have better advice cuz i was lowkey about to throw my ipad at work last night out of anger at readjusting the chin 37 times it’s just a very unique shape to picture in 3D

[vale meadow]

I said I was ganna draw at 3, but ima probably go draw around 3:30

Today I wanna get back into figure drawing as well

I haven’t done it so long

[green horizon]

I’ll stream around that time too if you wanna pop in for a bit

[vale meadow]

Yea, if ur on magma

Ill also probably hop in on that as well

[green horizon]

Aight bet

[green horizon]

@vale meadow you sleep?

[vale meadow]

Then yea, now no

[green horizon]

Good

Though if you had been up i woulda asked if you were down for magma. Which is admittedly wild to ask at 3am regardless of if you were awake or not

[vale meadow]

I would have been lol

[green horizon]

Being nocturnal is a lonely life😔🙏

[vale meadow]

First figure drawing in awhile

Can’t say I like the shading

I did a bit of blending

Can’t tell if it makes it better or worse

[green horizon]

Mm i think it’s better

As long as you don’t decrease the contrast too much

[vale meadow]

Usually I would be up at around this time, going to sleep around 1 30

[vale meadow]

But yesterday, I had a headache all day, that’s really why I only did one figure, this really didn’t take that long

But I had to fight my way through it

So I ended up just sleeping on the floor,

Because, I think I told you already, that is more comfortable for me

[vale meadow]

I did a bit of blending

[vale meadow]

I figged it up again

I was doing good on my sleeping schedule

Welp, time to forcefully sleep

[vale meadow]

Japan has an official top 10 strongest anime character list

The top three in order were, zeno, the little blue person in DBz, Saitama, and Rimuru

Which, tbh I can totally agree with that

Now I can finally show people why saitama slaps goku

[green horizon]

You're one of the powerscalers?

Damn man i might not be able to talk to you ever again

[vale meadow]

Nah, I just disagree with how people say saitama n goku are matched in strength

That’s literally the only 1v1 i feel the need to put my opinion in on

[green horizon]

i'll let it slide then

power scalers make me wanna jump off the roof of a tall building with olympic level form and technique

[vale meadow]

Yea, u know that channel

Were they like put two people in a fight

[green horizon]

yeah

[vale meadow]

I forgot what it was called,

But the comments went crazy most of the time

[green horizon]

and people legit get passionate about ts. i forgot the name but ik who youre talkin abt

It’ll be like

Luigi vs Tails or sumn sh and people get mad at who won. Brother this is me saying this: go outside.

[vale meadow]

They probably just become friends or sum shi fr

[green horizon]

Btw

Imma stream again this Thursday and Friday so we can actually do magma if you’re down

[vale meadow]

Alr

Im down

[green horizon]

[vale meadow]

Also, I have did literally zero achoolwork

Was planning on getting to it today

It’s not like theres a ton to do tho

I am kinda confused why I didn’t jus get ahead on break tho

But meh, me bein me

[green horizon]

Maynnnn i told you

That “i have time” mindset is a killer

Get your discipline back dawg. That was a big reason i started talkin to ya so much

[vale meadow]

Idek what I was doing for all that time fr

[green horizon]

That’s real tho. You look up and realize hours have passed

[vale meadow]

Tru, that was the reason I talked to myself so much as well

[green horizon]

[vale meadow]

When I look back

And remember some of the stuff I used to do

Like waking up at 5 am, lifting for an hour, then doing schoolwork for 3 hours

I always wonder, how tf did I do that

[green horizon]

Shih and doin that IS cool but

Even doin half that is better than lookin back at your week and not knowin what the hell even happened to all that time

Or being behind constantly so much that you’re dedicating significant time to playing catch-up

[vale meadow]

At 1

Ill start

And won’t stop until everything is done

I can do that much, the problem isn’t actually working for long periods of time

It’s basically just starting

Which is the biggest problem

[green horizon]

Honestly you just gotta “aight five minutes of procrastination then i work” then you don’t do anything that lasts more than 5 mins like reading or a ling video

But ig that still involves making yourself stick to the time limit you set

[vale meadow]

I don’t remember when I turned off all my alarms either

I remember I had a sort of tight schedule for the morning and when I went to sleep

So I could be most productive

Should definitely do that again

[green horizon]

Put dem hoes back on til at least the end of the school year

Which if you finish in late May is only a month away

Finish strong

[vale meadow]

Yea, not long left

Really tho

What tf did I do all easter?

I can’t remember shi

[green horizon]

Tch

I slept and sat around ngl

[vale meadow]

That probably means I was unproductive as hel

[green horizon]

Drew a little bit

[green horizon]

Usually yeah

You’d remember if you did sumn

[vale meadow]

Yea, that’s the only notable thing I did

[green horizon]

It’s not good to have so much time on your hands. Especially time you have to manage yourself. Online school is not good at forcing time management. Getting a job helped me a lot

Now do i still get home and spend a lot of time on technology? Yeah. But i have those 8 (really 9) hours of actually working towards a goal and it makes me tired enough

To get at least 8h of sleep

[vale meadow]

Yea, the biggest thing, from my experience, is when you sleep

And when you wake up

When I was waking up at 5am, it was like, I wasn’t even worried about much other than being productive

When I wake up at 9am,

I just wanna sleep more

[green horizon]

Mhm. Having stuff you have to do is just an easy way to force organization. It’s one of the reasons people who have been imprisoned for prolonged periods have a higher risk of going back. They get out of the most routine and organization they’ve probably had in their whole lives and aren’t given any guide on what to do to maintain that while also being free

It’s interesting but also points to how crucial it is to have discipline and routine in life

On my days off, I still try to make myself wake up on time and go to sleep on time

[vale meadow]

The only good thing I can say about what I did over easter was that I got my head straight, I was basically so consumed by doing a little bit of everything at one time with no real schedule

That it led to basically loss of efficiency

Now that I had time to cool off, I think I’m ready again

[vale meadow]

Yea, I know I said it before,

But tbh, once you realize there really isn’t much to do in life but pursue something,

You can easily get a lot of discipline

[green horizon]

Mhm. As long as you can find something worth pursuing and truly believe it to be that. You can even tie mundane habits to that pursuit atp

[vale meadow]

Yea, and I think I am lucky, cuz the way my mind works, I can basically do anything without loosing interest

I think basketball is fun, I think swimming is fun, I think studying math is fun, I think studying art is fun, I think biology is fun etc

I wouldn’t say I’m interested in all those things,

But if I were to do it,

I wouldn’t lose interest

[green horizon]

And they’re all things you can develop further skill in over time if you want to. Very good for cutting through monotony

I think having to sit at home all day and fill time somehow is very monotonous. Understimulating and has a high difficulty in terms of making yourself be productive

[vale meadow]

Another big thing I used to do was limit the time I would spend reading, I think I set a timer for 8 pm or sum

And that was when I would start, cuz u know me

I can consume 200 chapters without a break if let be

Which I actually did like three days ago

I think I spent like five hours reading manga nonstop

Definitely could have used that time better

[green horizon]

Yeah to a certain extent it’s no different than watching YouTube or scrolling sm for hours

It’s only slightly less passive but it’s overconsumption nonetheless

[vale meadow]

The equivalent of doom scrolling, but for an otaku

[green horizon]

Fax

I’ve been telling myself I’ll start doing stuff once i get a car. Like go to the skating rink

Maybe the animal clinic n see if i can volunteer or sumn. Hit up the library often. Just stuff where I’m not in the house and i can potentially meet people yk? You can like being alone but after enough time

Gotta wonder how healthy it is to love it so much

[vale meadow]

If I get a car, I would be doin the same shi

Actually,

I might hit up like an artist spot or sum

N the library to see if it got any artbooks

But I would probably jus go do stuff related to art

[green horizon]

Yeah which is fine cuz art is so versatile that there are still a lot of options on the table there

Hmm i should probably reconnect with my…two friends..but we don’t have much in common anymore

[vale meadow]

You have friends? Couldn’t be me

[green horizon]

One of em I haven’t talked to seriously in

Years (!?)

And I’ve developed complicated feeling cuz we dated at one point🗿

[vale meadow]

Like serious date or giggle giggle date?

[green horizon]

Errr serious. I wouldn’t date anyone without serious intent. But it was only 2 months before i realized my feelings weren’t romantic

They were just as serious and genuine but not romantic

[vale meadow]

Yea, I don’t think I ever had romantic feelings for anyone before

[green horizon]

Me neither

[vale meadow]

Except for when I was in first grade, but I can’t seem to trust my first grader mind

[green horizon]

Despite how..risky those emotions can feel, despite them making me wanna instinctually pull away because they’re quite vulnerable, i do miss feeling that strongly about someone though. Dunno how to explain that whole ordeal

Something i should probably sort out through writing🗿 but ion wanna confront myself rn

[vale meadow]

Idrk abt love tbh

I mean like, I want at least ten kids

But again like, rn, I aint really looking for anyone

I wanna at least get rich first

[green horizon]

At LEAST 10 is crazy work

[vale meadow]

How else will I build an empire?

[green horizon]

💀 aight man

[green horizon]

Brother where are you gonna look? Tinder?? We not gon find anyone bro we don’t go outside

I’m just being real^

[vale meadow]

Yea, getting rich right now seems easier than finding love tbh

[green horizon]

I just wanna hug someone n shit. Like imagine getting home from work n that one person is there waiting for you n then yall chill and enjoy each other’s company. And yall have your issues but they’re so awesome you can live with it

And you get to do that forever

[vale meadow]

I mean, I’m not used to having like touchy feely support and laying out my emotions and whatnot, i also don’t really have much to layout

It would be nice to like

Have someone cook for me tho, or I might burn the house down

[green horizon]

Ok make me a sandwich ass mf💀 💀

Jk i get wym. Acts of service type sh. That person who does things for you cuz they know you’re tired or it simply makes you happy

[vale meadow]

Yea

[green horizon]

Yk i never felt this lonely til i got a job🗿🗿 or i could at least push it aside easily

I bet tonight imma go to work n it’s just gonna be couples for no reason😭

[vale meadow]

I don’t think I will ever feel lonely, at least not for the foreseeable future

Cuz like

Basically, I’m just too used to be alone

My brain just wired like that

Of course I wouldn’t mind someone

But yea

[green horizon]

Obviously i can’t predict stuff like this but i lowkey think that sentiment would change if you found someone worth keeping around

Like you’d go from being ok with their presence to realizing the lack of it feels like a problem.

[vale meadow]

Yea, I think I get what u mean

Like, u get used to having someone annoy you

But when they gone

Now u miss them

[green horizon]

Type shit

I used to not care at all that I didn’t have any close friends. But then this dude started pestering me and things grew from there. I’ve become indifferent to his existence but I can’t say I don’t miss having someone in general to rely on

Whether it be to have stupid convos with or just be real for a second and talk abt what’s on my mind

I think most people would call that love and it doesn’t have to specifically be romantic

[vale meadow]

Platpnic

Or sum shi

[green horizon]

Mhm

[vale meadow]

I mean, I’m just a lone wolf, I don’t really need anyone to rely upon for emotional support or anything, since like

I basically got that covered myself

I would like to have someone to rely upon for like

Well anything else

It’s always good to have someone to rely upon

I dun wanna be doin everything myself if I dun have to

[green horizon]

Lmao. I get wym. I think ideally every person would be able to cover those bases if necessary. I can sort through my emotions pretty well most of the time. Especially since i write them down when they get too confusing. You shouldn’t need someone to complete yoh

I almost have a feeling of disgust when people say “you complete me” n things if that sort. But someone that significantly amplifies your existence and vice versa is really something

Lone wolves exist but a wolf in a pack is safer and less susceptible to attack. I’ve never quite understood why that term is glorified (not by you but by the sigma types)

[vale meadow]

Idk wth sigma is tbh

Cuz I never wanted to learn

[green horizon]

They’re alphas with emo outfits in pretty much

[vale meadow]

Like, sigma to me, I already knew it was some bullshi

So i never even got into looking up what it actually meant

[green horizon]

For the better honestly

People who are invested in that stuff seem miserable

[vale meadow]

I think it’s because they are miserable already and they think that by becoming this sigma make

They will better their existence

From my pov, you can still mostly be yourself and become better

Change is inevitable, especially if you want to get better, but it’s not like you have to be someone or something different

[green horizon]

Mhm. And you certainly don’t have to embody what a random man on the internet tells you the ideal man is

They were making tutorials on how to stand up and sit down like a man. I wish I was joking.

[vale meadow]

So, a little after this convo

My ipad went dead

Then i made the decision not to charge it n instead just wait till

I caught up with my work

So, between all that time, this is d first time im back my ipad

[vale meadow]

I forgot to add that during the previous day, I gave my game and tv to my brother (still don’t have it now), and put away all my art stuff

And I just had a good sleep and it was then night time, like 1am

So I was literally in the situation of work or do nothing

And well, you get pretty tired of doing nothing pretty quick

[vale meadow]

Today I went back and finished the ToG manga

I was already close to the end, but the like 20 or so chaps I read today were super big in terms of plot

This is also the first time I was every actually caught up with the ToG manga

[green horizon]

[vale meadow]

There is like 20 days left

I’m not really worried though, cuz I have plenty of time

At some point, my Spanish assignments stopped increasing, I looked and found out

It actually got to the end

I was supposed to finish on like April 20th or sum

Anyway, that’s a good thing for me, cuz all I got is like that basically

Which I’m 200 assignments behind, but 200 assignments, in 20 days, is like ten a day at most and ill be good

Of course ill do more than 10 though

[green horizon]

Yeahhh just don’t let yourself skip any days even if you do way more than 10

But 20 days is way less than i though

Thought

[vale meadow]

I mean, it should be around 20 days

But thats prob not exactly

The way I get this information is from my mom anyway, u know I know nothing about school schedules

I just realized the last time I saw my dad was when I was like 7

It’s not like he left when I was seven, I think he left before I was born

[green horizon]

No phone calls or anything since then?

[vale meadow]

Nah

Tbh, I really forgot they existed, not in like

A bad sense

But like, if you don’t think abt a person for long enough

You just forget abt them basically

[green horizon]

Yeah. Crazy way to put it but lowkey it’s like their existence in your life isn’t necessary i suppose

Especially the ppl who are actually there are decent haha

Apparently I’ve seen my father in person?? When i was really little ig

But I’ve never formerly met the guy. N well he’s dead now so there’s not much to meet💀💀

[vale meadow]

Thats basically not seeing them at all

[green horizon]

Right

[vale meadow]

A baby literally has the memory similar to a goldfish

[green horizon]

And it wasn’t even on purpose that i saw him so it doesn’t really count lol

[vale meadow]

U remember that game I told u abt, let me see if I can go up and find it,

Nope, can’t find it

Anyway u might remember, it, I had to restart tho cuz my account basically got locked

Due to apple store taking the game off

And then putting it back up

It took me around a month and a half, and I’m back to my former strength

The only problem is that I restarted at a horrible time

You’re supposed to accumulate like 40k gems so when banners for aurora maidens and runes come out, you can get them

Aurora are basically the stuff you can’t get without banners, and banners only run for around 12 days

From the time I started till today, I have not had a break, banners have literally been running the whole time

Which would be a good thing if I had a lot of gems, but I’m literally barely scraping by

Byw, one ten pull from an aurora banner cost 2700 gems

You can pull 20 a day, and it usually costs around 100 pulls to get the stuff

Then it resets to 100 again, which you want to start pulling again so you can get as many copies as possible

So basically, you need to spend around 27000 gems just to get one copy of some aurora

And I mean, it’s not like that’s impossible, because you do get a lot of gems over time due to gem events, but it’s just not possible for me to get everything right now since I had no time to accumulate anything

Those are my four aurora maidens btw

I ran out of gems pulling evlyn, and only got one copy of her, basically wasted 27k gems cuz I only got one copy

Auroras are basically OP, but you need at least 8 star to get them to really show what they are cable of

[green horizon]

Wow um

Quite the pulls you can get there..

[vale meadow]

I mean

It’s not that kind of game

[vale meadow]

The visuals are definitely are a bit more bold, but it’s a proper idle game

And actually, the maiden art is clean as hel

It’s super polished

That’s what mostly drew me into playing the game

[green horizon]

Now say that anywhere else and see how many people believe you

But lowkey i get it

[vale meadow]

They also

Got animations for most of the maidens

It really adds a nice touch of life

To the game

[green horizon]

Titillating I’m sure

[vale meadow]

https://youtube.com/shorts/QDzyGtirsvU?si=o3Krih0Ebtl5b0m1

[vale meadow]

https://youtube.com/shorts/i8PalB_dtbo?si=GZGzzY70QmoKW7Q6

[vale meadow]

Popped into ur stream for a bit

Really liked the one with the boots

[green horizon]

Thanks👍 👍

[vale meadow]

Bro

I can’t, I’m sitting in thr living room and the tv is playing

And this cringe az movie is on

And omg, I think they are trying to be serious and get a like dark mood

But bro, this movie is just funny as fug

All the lines sound so cringe, and even the scenes look cringe

They should have made it a comedy movie

[green horizon]

So bad it's good content>>>>

It's amazing to see something competently written and everything, but something that just reeks? Just straight garbage? Love that stuff

[vale meadow]

This makes me realize how good good actors actually are

The woman who kidnapped the dude laughing like a cartoon villain

Literally

I can’t take this show seriously

[green horizon]

😭

[vale meadow]

I’m literally crying right now, when she tried to scream, I guess in anger, her voice cracked

If this show was a comedy, it would be top of the charts

[green horizon]

Why didn’t take do another take💀 💀 💀

[vale meadow]

I guess for the same reason the entire movie is so bad

[vale meadow]

As I was scrolling thouh goole recommended article thing

I saw a news article about this painting, so I read up on it and basically

This 7 by 5 I think it was, abstract painting with literally only 3 squares of color, worth 40 million or sum

Was touched by a child

And now they are making a big ah fuss over it cuz they could see a “superficial scratch mark”

I don’t know why every time I see a painting worth an absurd amount of money, it’s a abstract painting some 3 year old with adult supervision could do

[vale meadow]

I just don’t know what I’m doing at all

[vale meadow]

This random az guy who I literally exchanged like three messages with messages me again after idk how long with this

It’s either a cry for help or he really is just bored as hel

[green horizon]

💀

[vale meadow]

So, the situation played out weird

[vale meadow]

I coached him on life for awhile, and showed him how to be a better person

I’m a great person

[green horizon]

This feels like a weird subversion gag in a cartoon sitcom

[vale meadow]

Fr, it really was a weird az situation

But thanks to my great wisdom,

He left better than he came

I was hitting him with the master Oogway quotes for like an hour

[green horizon]

💀

[vale meadow]

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“Quora is filled with old men pretending to be kids and peepholes pretending what that they are normal”

Crazy, but from what I have seen, true

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✅

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Looking back at this I have seen the ending of the sentence was wrong

It was supposed to be “…and pedophiles pretending that they are normal”

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Yeah i thought so

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Tbh, idek when I subscribed to quora

I just be getting like notifications from time to time from it tho

Actually, that situation explains most of my emails

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Ik jailbait isn’t from quora but

I feel like a post explaining a situation that involved that would not look out of place on quora

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What is jailbait?

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Ermmm

It’s a subreddit where weirdos post pics of underaged girls who look ‘mature’

And it’s called jailbait cuz

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I see

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Yeah

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Name makes sense now

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Idk why you would actively publicize that you were feening for underaged girls (unknowingly or not)😭

N not only that but make a whole community for it

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Basically quora on steroids

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I’m going to go radio silent for awhile

Ill be back though

Maybe not soon, but I’ll be back

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🫡 hope everything is well

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Eyo people still chatting in here