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Sun Oct 18, 2009, 7:58 AM
So, what happened since my last journal entry ? Well, basically everything I told there happened, bar Oktoberfest. However, added to the to-do list was a visit to London, next week-end to see a few friends there and the London MCM Expo. It should be great, especially considering that I will actually be arriving on Wednesday so I will also have a couple of days to visit a couple of museum and stuffs. I really enjoy London, so much that this is my third visit there in three years (to compare, I have not been to Paris since 2006 -- but I should do in the future having a couple of friends living there; and quite liking this city as well).

I have also tried drawing recently, but I am really not please with what I have done so far, plus I was more annoyed than happy to be drawing. Maybe I just need a subject, or I should just get rid of that idea that I should experiment and try to improve my skills. I never manage to be able to find valuable ways to exploit most of my time, so probably to get to drawing more would be an improvement. But I am not that convinced at the moment.

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  • Current Residence: Lannion, France
  • Operating System: Windows Vista, Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Arch)
  • Tools of the Trade: Pencil & paper, Inkscape, Gimp

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~Allison-beriyani Sep 22, 2009, 12:16:50 AM
I started writing a story a few months ago with a giant metal-eating alien named Krixos Kai. I didn't think anyone else had the name! art of him is going up soon, so I thought I should tell you- you draw very striking eyes!
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~Krixos Oct 7, 2009, 2:40:03 PM
Thanks for the comment. My nickname was actually taken totally at random, a few years ago. That keeps me pretty safe from having other people using it, except I still managed to come across a couple of other "Krixos". One of which had put me in a rather funny situation. :P

Good luck with your story, and thanks for the compliment (though I cannot help but marvel at what other people can draw and find most of what I have made so far rather pitiful). ^^
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~Allison-beriyani Oct 7, 2009, 3:09:53 PM
Thanks for not going crazy on me. The last time I told someone that I had a character in a novel with the same name, they freaked the Flying-Underpants-with-Clovers-and-Kangaroos out on me and harassed me for weeks to get me to change the character's name. I ended up having to get rid of the character all together.

How do you pronounce your nickname? I have my character as "Kricks-oh-s and picked it out because it had the unusual K's and X's, and a nice, masculine R. I should warn you that he's kind of ugly but eight flavors of awesome. I'm going to borrow my friend's scanner this weekend to put him up.

as for your drawings, you have a good sense of anatomy and use of space, you just need to work on attention to detail and probably just draw for an hour a day to firm up your eye-brain-hand co-ordination.

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"..." (I have stopped paying attention and am now examining a shiny object)
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~Krixos Oct 11, 2009, 1:13:37 PM
That's a shame that you had to scrap another character just because someone using a similar name did not find it suitable. Ugly or not, awesome or not, you are free to use "Krixos". That's just a name, after all. And actually more of a legacy nickname to me, as in most other places I go with another one. But I do not feel like scrapping old Internet accounts for such a trivial reason. As for the pronunciation, I use the same one.

As for my drawings, well, I am completely aware that I should practice a lot more but time is something I find hard to meaningfully exploit. I end up wasting most of it despite having a lot of different things I want to do, that require focus and dedication. But as I cannot seem to be able to prioritize them, I end up doing anything but these. ^^;

However, right now I am getting back to drawing somehow. But for the moment I am trying to study other people's pencil drawings, to see if I could learn valuable tips from these. Still, cheers for your helpful comment. :)
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~Allison-beriyani Oct 11, 2009, 1:36:27 PM
Ah thanks, glad you approve.

To be fair to the nuisance, the character was an obnoxious bitch of a prostitute that back-stabs her only friend for glory and tries to murder a small child to cover it up. i was considering severely altering the character anyway because she was a little reverse Mary-Sue-ish (evil in every way), but the person having gross objections (shallow and pathetic as they were) finally did her in.

as for finding time to practice, I have ADD and use drawing to cope. I find that drawing while taking notes in class really helps me concentrate, and I bring my sketchbook everywhere, so when I have a spare few minutes (riding the bus, getting to class early) I poke at a drawing. tasks that require my presence but no mental activity are the best, like guarding my laundry from panty thieves and attending charitable functions. My best ideas come from the laundry room, in fact. It's handy to have an answer to that stupid question "where do you get your ideas?".

Also, don't worry about everything turning out spectacular. from my last sketchbook of 200 drawings, only fifteen turned into finished pieces of reasonable quality, none of which I would submit to a portfolio. Last year I only got out twenty-two in total, despite doing probably a thousand drawings. Other than that, enjoy yourself and good things will come out.

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Mood: Joy ~AlucardDH Apr 8, 2008, 1:02:42 AM
Thanks for the watch ^^

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*Ribbedebie Apr 6, 2008, 1:06:49 PM
Thanks so much for the watch! :D

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