aevie

Do you realize how hard it is to type, let alone draw with a mouse, when your hand looks like a mummy in its ace bandage? D:

Not going to bother going to the doctor. This is a textbook case of a moderate hand strain, down to how and why it happened.

Worst part? Healing time of 10 days to 6 weeks.

Now tell me how the heck I'm supposed to finish the semester?

After spending four hours trudging through creative commons music, I found the PERFECT PERFECT song for my teaser trailer! It should make timing things a breeze, and it's got that whole first half is quiet, second half is epic vibe.

PLUS, I found the PERFECT hosting platform for my webnovel/comic project!

Wow, I feel like a dork.

Anyone ever heard of Mirrormask? I hadn't. But then I saw a link through my current obsession with Dave McKean via his website, and clicky clicky, wound up buying it (along with the other Jim Henson movies, Labyrinth and Dark Crystal).

Just got to watching it. I SHOULD have been prepared. I KNEW it was Gaiman and McKean's handywork. But no.

All I can say is, thank God I didn't see this movie as a child. As is, I'm going to have nightmares.

Glorious, glorious nightmares.

Don't let them know you're afraid. D: D: D:

For serious? No wonder I'm afraid of electronics and clowns.

Say you were to start reading an online novel. Would you prefer it be updated every month with a full chapter, or every week with 1/4th of a chapter?


I've discovered, inbetween my fits of paralyzing stress, that the only thing that's going to keep me sane since both the angels and Hades are being silent, is to start a creative project of my own. Not one for school. Just one all for me, what I want to do. And take the last bit of advice an angel gave me in the process, and screw my fears of using my own experiences as fodder.

It's going to be an unconventional web story. Some parts will be illustrated, some will be comics, some will be novel, letters, poetry, etc. I MAY even incorporate animations and audio.

The story isn't going to have a beginning nor an end. Instead, I want it to be like a dream...separate arcs that make no sense, but when you wake up and link things together, it forms a beautiful thread that you can't quite pinpoint what keeps it holding together.

I'm going to start concept art this week, get a feel for some characters and locations, maybe jot down story ideas. I want to have a fair bit done before I actually launch the site, so I can keep on top of regular postings. My tentative launch date is January 1st.

But the thing I need to figure out first is how to structure the launches. Thus my question. :p

I want to start writing again. However, I cannot come up with a plot. This is annoying, because I have a handful of plots in my head that I've been meaning to write out for years. So why not write one of those?

Because they're too concrete. It's like, some of these stories are from when I was 15-16 years old. And I WANT to write them. The general premises are solid. But the details and especially the characters seem like they can't be moved. Like they've been carved out of stone into the annals of time. And I can't work with that kind of pressure.

Have any of you guys had that happen? Where a story cemented itself and you couldn't change it? Or a character? Do you have any tips for breaking them out of it? If not, any idea how to come up with new plots? D:

You know, it's a little intimidating when one of your favorite artists on DA favorites one of your pieces. :x

( Cut for ramblings on my day-to-day life )

Lately, I've been bouncing between mild depression and lethargy, to actually feel glimmers of hope and little surges of energy, and feeling comfortable. I keep taking those little surges and using them to try and figure out what's going on, since it feels like I've been a zombie the past three weeks.

I've discovered I'm not scared of the portfolio review in that I won't be accepted into the art program. I know I'm not the best artist, but I also know I'm decently good. What I'm REALLY afraid of is what portfolio review means: I'll be going from lower level, to upper level classes.

I've been working at the level of upper classes, so that's not the problem. The problem is I have to declare a major. And that scares the hell out of me. I am very much a mixed media artist, and I love dabbling in pretty much anything. So having to choose a single area to focus on is daunting.

The obvious answer is Drawing. But...that's not what my heart says anymore. Clay would be the next obvious answer, because I've worked with it before and am good enough that a professor tried to recruit me when I was still in high school. But I don't know if that's the answer, either.

Then there's printmaking. I haven't done it before. Even in class, we haven't done it yet or even seen demonstrations. But I know what it entails, and it's something I'm very interested in. I could even learn book binding, and paper making.

But it's also very expensive, and not exactly a widely-known art form (to the general public). And I'd be taking a giant leap of faith, since I don't know anyone in the department, and I could wind up hating it. And because I already know I'm coming at it from a completely different angle than the vast majority of my classmates.

But there's something so romantic about it, to me. It would also give me the opportunity to incorporate writing into my art, and I wouldn't feel like I'm betraying that part of myself anymore.

I started out this post just meaning to say that I'm working out my priorities. But guess my brain doesn't work that way. :p

Was nothing short of epic.

Not only was he completely phenomenal, but the peeps I was sitting around were highly entertaining. Nothing like getting a bunch of cougars, unsuspecting parents with kids, and glam ravers of all sorts of gender bending varieties in the same vicinity as each other.

I am covered in glitter from head to toe. And I am sleepy. So I am going to bed.

Well, some of it did. This stuff is beyond words. It's odd, though. The ones I thought I would love, some of them I don't like much. And the ones I was iffy on, I'm loving to death.

Like, the dragonsblood. I didn't think I'd like that series very much, but man is it good!

I don't know how they do it. Undertow smells so much like the ocean, it's making me miss it.

Only problem is I just opened 8 frimps to sniff them, and managed to get oil on me, so now I smell like 8 different scents. XD