I realized that there was a lot of stuff that I wanted to share, and by Sunday I won't remember all of it! (Warning: for once, this post has a lot of pictures.)
This was my official last week of school as a freshman. They do the last week really weird here. For everyone (except seniors), it's the week where they do final exams. They do one or two exams each day, and the rest of the time do literally nothing. (Also, they don't give yearbooks until the beginning of next year. HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?!) So, throughout the days I tried to do a variety of things. Draw, write, type, (I kept forgetting to bring a book, so no reading *tear*,) etc. I think for most of it I was just sitting around listening/watching people. Yeah, I'm a people-watcher. I try to do it in a way that doesn't seem creepy, but I've been caught staring, which was a little embarrassing.
...ANYWAYS! I kinda felt like sharing some of the drawings I did.
Yup! It is Trisha Elric, the mother of Edward and Alphonse Elric, drawn right next to her...grave... Don't get mad pleaz. I actually haven't seen a picture of her for a while, so I did this by memory. (And the stuff on the grave is just made up, of course. I wouldn't be able to fit everything in the engraving if I could remember any of it...) She might look a little too young, but that's just how I draw. It's pretty hard to draw people so they look older; they always end up with baby faces. I hope her ponytail doesn't look too weird.
The part at the top began with me just wanting to practice a little bit more drawing faces (this is underneath the Trisha drawing). But then "Sexy Back" by Justin Timberlake got stuck in my head, so I just ended up turning it into the song. *nervous chuckle*
"I'm bringing sexy back (yeah)
Those other fellas don't know how to act (yeah)"
That's the part I wrote, since it's one I could draw and I was totally sure that was part of the lyrics. Which guy at the bottom is your favorite?
On Monday, one of the first things I did was draw Al, but just the really simple one. (Do I just call it simple Al head?) I also attempted to draw the simple Ed head, but every time I do it just looks wrong. That's saying a lot considering how wrong that Ed head looks already. So I just erased and continued the doodle as if I didn't draw it on purpose (seriously, cuz simple Ed is ugly). I found this amusing, but it could be just me... (Everything said that isn't next to Al's head is Ed.)
I had later felt inspired to draw Alphonse Elric, but how he looks in Conqueror of Shamballa. I think it might be because I had recently started (and finished last night) a fanfic that had him in the appearance of the 2003 anime. I did the most I could with just memory, and this is how it came out.
I'm kidding! *laughs* I just wanted to practice drawing his eyes before starting the actual picture, and just ended up filling in the face a little more. This is the drawing you were looking for:
I guess not that bad considering, right? Although I'm annoyed at how it tends to be hard for me to draw layered clothes. It's supposed to be a black shirt and pant with the red coat over it. I remembered that he has the part of his hair to the same side as me, and also that his shirt opened on that side too.
It wasn't until I decided to look for pictures on my phone to see what I did wrong that I realized something. I always draw myself how I see in the mirror, so in my drawings I have the part on the RIGHT, not the left. (I have mentioned this before.) So I ended up doing the same thing to him.
With frustration, (yet a little happy that I was finally able to actually draw myself crying in a corner XD,) I flipped to the other side of my paper and tried again.
So much better, right? This made me really proud, even if I just drew it with closed eyes. I pulled in all of my excitement and higher self-esteem and poured it into another right next to it, with open eyes and everything.
I couldn't believe how awesome it looked! I was so afraid of drawing Al, but I just drew him more into my style, and suddenly it looked good and was much easier!
The next day, I did more casual doodles and just writing down my thoughts and stuff (I'll probs save these pictures for Future Me if I can), but I kept glancing over to my Alphonse drawings, which I was still impressed by. But it frustrated me that I, of course, did them on lined paper. I do most on lined paper. Sometimes it's just easier to do. *shrug* But then that means it doesn't look as professional (as if the way I draw is professional *psh*). I had brought a sheet of printer paper along with the sheets of notebook paper to school just for if I wanted to do it without the lines. It took at least half an hour to draw it, plus there were the tweaks and stuff I had to do, like moving down the ear, adding the little triangles onto the sides of his eyes, and changing the position of the ponytail. (Drawing hair to not look awkward can be sooo haaaaaard. I hate drawing hair!) I did all of these AFTER I took pictures, so I kept having to retake it. It was an annoying process. But in the end I got the best result I could ask for. Here it is!~
I made it big to emphasize how awesome I think it is! I mean, this is probably some of my best work! And the best part is that in the movie Al looks really young, so this isn't too weird! YAAAAAAAAAAY! *squeals in joy*
It's now my profile pic for Fanfiction.net, and I may change some other pics too for it, not totally sure yet.
One last thing before I go! (There's another topic I wanted to cover, but I'll save it for Sunday.)
You know how I said that my last day at my old school was awesome because of food? Same thing happened yesterday too.
Since I had my last exam yesterday, it technically meant I didn't even have to go for today or tomorrow, so my last day was yesterday (along with a lot of people). And since last Friday, the bus driver (oh yeah, I ride the bus at this school! I haven't rode to/from school on the bus since 4th grade!) told us that she planned to bring us pizza next week. And on Tuesday, she made it official she would bring the food the next day.
Yesterday, she bought enough for everyone to have 2-3 slices of pizza, plus 2 cookies and 1 bottle of water. And even then there was a little extra food. I couldn't thank her enough!
You know your bus driver is awesome (and has more money in their pocket than you thought) when they do something this extraordinary.
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