I think I mentioned that my sister gave me another journal as my birthday present this year, right?
So, the pages turned out to be blank except for a cute little Grumpy Cat at the top corner.
I spent the first page doodling an eye I considered calling the Yuri eye (which is because I'd been thinking about that specific name at the same time as when I drew that eye design), but then decided it didn't look so good, so I scrapped the idea. On the second half of the page, I started on a project I'd wanted to do for a long time now... Figure out how to draw my own eye. I mean, I could only draw myself with dots for eyes or the square ones I invented in 6th grade, and, let's face it- even though those are cute and unique, they don't look anything like any other anime eyes I draw. I couldn't draw myself with some other character if I used those eyes! And I was supposedly wanting to improve my drawing skills! And I wanted them to look more like my actual eyes!
So, I was experimenting a little and settled for a certain eye shape for myself, and so on the next page I tried doing a self-portrait...
I actually went a little more realistic than normal. And, because of the same reason, I actually signed the drawing. (I sure hope no one can read that first signature.)
I'd been planning to make the irises bigger than that, but somehow they ended up smaller. Eh, that's basically what happens with a lot of my other eyes for characters like Al, so I guess it's just how I draw. *shrug*
Though I still feel like the eyes could look more like my real ones, I'm generally pretty happy with this pic. The rest of it actually looks like me. (Fun fact: my glasses actually are full-rimmed, it's just that, usually, anime characters with glasses have eyes too big for full-rimmed glasses. My glasses are really oversized, though, unlike most anime glasses, even with the top rim not drawn in, which I think is kinda funny.)
Here's the journal itself:
*aw*
And the Grumpy Cats on the corners of the pages!
*more aw*
Now moving on from my drawing journal! My mom's teaching the Tahitian dance again. For the YW (and any other girls and women that want to participate) at an international night thing. At the end of the first lesson (in which few ladies showed up) my mom had all of us write down the lyrics, and I realized... I'd actually been saying a few parts wrong. *fml: fart my life*
People in this ward tend to have this annoying habit of not showing up, so I'm hoping we'll actually be able to pull together enough to do a decent performance, even though I'm sure all the girls will miss at least one practice. *deep sigh*
Besides that, I'm supposed to go with the sister missionaries for one of their appointments- which I've never done before- so I hope that goes okay. And I hope I don't have to speak too much Spanish. I know I'm probably technically better at the sister missionaries with Spanish, but not that much, right?! I'm not good with explaining in my second language... *nervous sweating*
The 10th chapter of "Visiting Homeland" is coming up! And... I still don't know what it is Ed and Al will discover so they can go home. I'm not even sure how long I want them to be there. I mean, a few weeks would be ridiculous considering they'd feel like they had a really close deadline, but just a few days would be equally ridiculous. GAH! Sometimes I really wish I'd stop winging it on the stories I actually post. *tear*
I've read some more graphic novels from the library! I started on Cirque du Freak. I think my sister was annoyed that I read the manga version first, but, honestly... I wasn't even aware if Cirque du Freak was a book-book or graphic novel or both; I just saw the title, was like "Hey! I've heard this is good!" and grabbed it. *shrug* It's interesting, though I have a question... Does Darren do more assistant-y/apprentice-y stuff later in the series? It seems like he should've been doing so since the beginning, but wasn't actually really doing anything of the sort in the first books. Just me.
I read the first book of A Centaur's Life. All that I will tell you... Do not read A Centaur's Life.
Princess Decomposia and Count Spatula by Andi Watson (a graphic novel, not manga) is actually pretty good. I recommend reading it.
I started again on Black Jack (not to be confused with Jack Black's autobiography, if he happens to actually have one). It's an interesting mix... I mean, here's Astro Boy's creator making a medical drama. The way people are drawn, in general, is very cartoony- except for Black Jack himself. There's the drawings of surgeries taking place, but also the cute cartoony characters like Pinoko on the next page. It's so serious, yet... Sometimes, it's hard to take it so seriously because of the drawing style.
I like learning a little bit at a time of Black Jack's past, and how he's actually being a total sweetie when at first he seems cold. He really cares about people even as he runs them out of their savings.
So... Black Jack by Ozamu Tezuka, big thumbs-up from me! It's unlike anything I've ever read before- in a good way!
That's it for now, besides a SHOUTOUT TO DARKRAI FOR BEING AWESOME! Bai!
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