I have one major one that I intend to keep:

DRAW EVERY FREAKING DAY.

I suffered so much through last year's art block that I'm determined not to let it get the better of me this year. I did the Draw Every Day thing in 2009, and it was really cool to look back every few months and see actual progress being made. I don't pressure myself to make a finished work every day, or even anything presentable - it just has to be at least a doodle, or some coloring. I actually have a tumblr for it: http://bbdrawseveryday.tumblr.com/ This is where I'll post my sketches and WIPs and doodles that deserve to see the light of day. 5 days in now, and I'm going strong. 5 days, and I think that's more days than I drew in the last three or four months of 2014. GONNA DO IT. I even bought new pencils and a new clipboard and everything.

My secondary resolution is to keep up a little better with my flist. There are so many cool and talented people that I watch, and I always skim through and think, "I'll comment on this later," and I never get around to it. This needs to change. I want to be more involved with fandom and the awesome people in it, and the only way to do that is to get out there and talk to them.

What are your NY resolutions, flist? Anybody want to join me in drawing every day? We can create a comm and everything, for doodles and sketches and WIPs and encouragement, if enough people are interested.

December 22: cassiopeia7: how did you get into arting?

Oh goodness, this is a hard question. Let's see. I liked drawing as a kid but wasn't very good at it... lots of hands behind backs and cutting people off at the knee so I wouldn't have to draw feet, and I'd draw dinosaurs and crappy spaceships and vroom vroom cars, lol. I wasn't great, maybe even wasn't good, but I liked it. I was more interested in reading and math and playing outside.

I stopped drawing some time in elementary school, then decided to take Art in high school. I found out that I was pretty good at it, so I stuck with it through all four years. Then I took a Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain class during my brief stint in college, and I loved it.

Then I quit again! I let ten years go by before I picked up a pencil again, and by that point I was all kinds of out of practice. Also, I'd been reading a lot of manga, having just found the medium. I'd also just found out about fandom, and I read about people using tablets, and i wanted one. I got one for Christmas. It's the same one I'm still using now, seven years later. I was all into anime/manga at first, which was okay, because it got me drawing. I have mixed feelings about it now. I think it held me back as an artist when I could have been spending those years learning my own style, but then again, it taught me how to stylize, and eventually I did find my own style. It's still a work in progress, though. I do still admire Kubo Tite and Junji Ito's styles, but I wish I could draw/paint with more realism. I never really painted, and I wish I had. But that's how I got into arting, each time, lol.

Title: heart
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: PG
Warnings/Content: stylized illustration, blood, slight body horror?
Summary: for melungeoned/dollylux for inspiring me <3



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