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I've been spending the last month getting back into the drawing groove. Been watching tutorials on YouTube from Sycra Yasin  and I've been supporting Sakimi Chan on Patreon and really enjoying her tutorials and video processes. I also bought a Wacom Intuos Pro due to my old wacom tablet of 10 years really shitting me.

I hope my drawing will improve.

Hello my friends!

Just letting you know that I am taking requests from now until mid February to draw anything you like (within reason and my skill sets). We shall consider these as birthday/christmas/i generally like you presents to my friends, as well as to keeping me occupied until I start my Graduate Diploma of Counselling degree.

So if you have anything in mind that you'd like me to draw for you leave me a note. Try and be specific, ie. characters, poses, environment, size of image, style.

Bai bai now.
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Ok... I was tagged by the lovely *coughevilbitchcough* Arquen   and I really don't have anything pressing to do so, I shall spend some time indulging in myself and how awesome I am, by answering these ten questions she posed XD

1.) What was the last movie you saw in Theaters, and did you enjoy it?

I actually saw The Muppets last night... as it only was released here in Australia a few days ago. -____- I must say that I dearly loved it. Sure there were some things that bugged me a little. For one Jason Segel singing and looking into the camera from time to time, and also some of their dance numbers I felt weren't energetic enough. More like half arsed. But the story and heart of the Muppets shon through and harkened back to the old days and soul of what the Jim Henson company had created and dearly loved. It was wonderful sitting in the dark, and watching a relic of my childhood get reinvigorated and refreshed. I dearly hope that as a consequence of this movie The Muppet Show will come back and air on TV's around the world on a weekly basis.  The Muppets will never die in the hearts and minds of the people, in my opinion.

2.) What is your favorite fandom right now, or if not fandom, your favorite current thing/obsession, and why?

I havn't been obsessed with things  since 2008, to be honest. I feel like my energy and passions have shivelled up and now I am in the grown up world of reason and responsibility. However.... I am pumped for The Hobbit movie and re-read the book. I am also currently reading Sherlock Holmes adventures and watching the BBC Sherlock series anf thoroughly enjoying it. Also watched Sherlock Holmes 2 movie a few weeks ago. But even though I find that franchise and fandom entertaining I am most certainly not feeling obsessed with it.

3.) What is one thing you simply don't understand?

Economics. I don't understand why the world cares so much about an imaginary and self imposed construct like money. Why can't the Euro Zone abolish all debt and start again? 'Oh you can't do that coz of the economists would throw a hissy fit.' Sif you can't. Why must everyone suffer? Why must humanity be enslaved and tortured like this? Just reset everything. Poor people would have nothing to lose. Only rich people stand to lose everything, and that is the reason why we are being held back. Because some rich bastards don't want to forego their rich lifestyles. Gods how I hate greed... that is also something I don't quite fathom. Corporate greed and hunger for power at the expense of everything else which we need to live; like.. you know.... a healthy planet.

4.) Whether you are an artist, writer, dreamer, normal everyday person -- what inspires you?

Nature and the Universe. Science also inspires me. It all just brings into light how amazing and beautiful the world is and how little we know.

5.) What is the most unsatisfactory answer you have ever received?

'Because that's just how it is'. BUT WHYYYYY!?!?!?! WHY CAN'T WE CHANGE IT!?!?!?! *groans*

6.) What do you want to happen tomorrow, and do you think it will happen?

The only thing I wnat to have happen tomorrow is for the sun to shine strongly and brightly in the morning, with minimal rain during the night, so that I may go for a jog come Monday morning. The weather is dismal though so this will have a highly unlikely chance of happening

7.) How would you describe yourself? (be it physical or personality-wise or both)

This question makes my heart sink because... I am over myself. Doing one year of having to analyse myself and why I do the things I do for a Uni course has sapped my will to answer this question. I could say how I am... but then I'd have to go into WHY it is that I am the way I am. I best reserve that for my autobiography.

8.) How do other people describe you? (be it physical or personality-wise or both)

I don't know. I am not other people. But one thing I can say for certain is that other people will have a varied impression of me, but they will never be 100% correct interpretations of who and how I am because the majority of other people don't actually know me and understand the 'hows and why's' of my life.

9.) Why does power improve some people and corrupt others?

I have not met one person whom power has improved. Good people don't wield power. They wield themselves, and thus I suppose the only real worthwhile power in this world is the power of oneself. As to why it corrupts.... take Isildur as an example. Humans are weak. In fact the whole of Lord of the Rings could probably be taken as a powerful explanation to this whole question. So.. scrap everything I said before in regards to this. Just go read The Lord of the Rings

10.) What is the all time best thing in the world?  

Oxygen., and the Moon. For without either we would have no life, most probably.

What to say what to say. I am still on my journey to bettering the world one person at a time through art therapy. I have even less time for art now that I am studying how to best facilitate other peoples art making. But I have also come to a startling realisation that a benefactor to my lack of art making is the fact that I have no space. No physical and no mental space for privacey and getting out the art materials to do things. In a way I am hiding behind that. 'Oh I have no space, so I can't be bothered to make art'. I think some of the most meaningful things I've done for myself have been in the privacey of my own bedroom. Just doodling images. And I miss that part of myself, if I am honest.

If being an art therapy student has taught me anything it is that I need to engage myself more in what I seem to have lost along the way. I wonder if I will ever get that missing ingredient: space. And whether it will really actually fix this lack of want and motivation in me.

In other news I am going away for a week. Off to a semi tropical island. And perhaps I will take a painting class there, and do some landscape of sun and sand. Oh I do think I would enjoy that greatly

I guess the most significant thing thats happened to me was that I was in a car accident about two weeks ago. Spent a week in hospital. I am mostly fine but I can't do most of the things I've been enjoying in my daily life up until I had the accident. My skull is fractured on my left side, I've lost my hearing on that side too (though it's just a busted ear drum so recovery from that should be alright), the left side of my face is suffering from weak muscles. Apparently the nerves or inflamed or something coz of the fractures and now I can't blink my eye, unless I consciously decide to do so and I can't raise my eyebrows and puff out my cheeks. But that's ok, my facial retardation provides me with much laughter. My biggest loss of all though is the top part of my left ear. If you didn't know any better you'd swear I was a Zombie Apocalypse survivor. My daily routine consists of waking up, laying in the sun, eating food and then sleeping some more. Over the past week that I've been out of hospital I've been getting better. I can now play computer games again, I can watch TV and actually focus on it and even though I still need to sleep a lot I am less tired. The things I can't do though are excercise. Most I can manage is to go for a bit of a walk. I've also given up going to TAFE till at least another two weeks because sitting in a school environment and being expected to concentrate and be creative is beyond me at the moment. I have no desire to draw anything or spend hours staring at a blank page or computer screen, waiting for something to come out. But that's just coz I am lazy, more than anything else, ehehe.

I certainly have a better appreciation for my life and the beauty of every day things. I have grown to loathe the name Lolita, which was the name of the bitch who plowed into me. And most of all I consider myself lucky because it could have been so much worse in many respects.

So who knows. I may attempt to get back into doing some drawings while I've put TAFE on hiatus. I am highly amused by the idea of a zombie chewing on my ear so I may run with that in some way shape or form and I still hope to one day make myself a zombie plushy. Maybe I'll even name it Lolita. The world is my oyster. But oysters look kind of like snot.

Blergh!