Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Self-Discovery

I'm realizing this blog has become alot about my own self-discovery. At first, I thought I was writing to keep people in the loop. I don't talk much anymore, especially about what's going on in my head, so I figured I'd let people who were interested know what was going on via blog. The more I started writing, I realized I was doing it more for myself. I've never been good with words, (you should have seen me during Public Speaking. It was embarassing) so when I write the right things just seem to come out more often (maybe it's that glorious backspace button).

My thoughts on being alone:
Being alone is a strange thing for me, then again, maybe it is for everyone. Growing up, I had friends, but I never had alot of them. Being an only child, I spent most of my time alone. Not until my 8th grade year did I become somewhat of a social butterfly. I began to love being around big groups of people and being emersed in something that wasn't all mine. I've always had a boyfriend to take up my time, even if he wasn't my very favorite person he was always a person to fall back on when everyone else let me down. Now, my boyfriend is gone, but he's still my number 1. However, I don't get to fall back on him so much now. When I'm lonely, I can't go to him. I don't want to be with anyone else that isn't my primary person, though. It doesn't feel right, especially with the way I feel about Charles. I hate being alone, too. It makes me feel tired and without purpose. I don't want to be around people, but I don't want to be alone. This...is lame. I'll stick with being alone for now.

My Concept of Time:
I have a terribly concept of time or at least I always thought I did. If an event happened, I couldn't tell you the month and if it was more than a year ago, the year. Charles always made me laugh when he told me I had a great concept of time, but I guess he was sort of right. I don't really measure time by the hours, months, or years. I seem to measure it by events (so that's how seasons of love originated). If someone asked me something I could tell you "Oh, that's when I was dating so and so" or "that was when so and so and I did this." I like measuring time that way, it doesn't make me feel so trapped in the clock. I can't believe how quickly life is passing me by.

My Thoughts on Discovering Myself:
Since Charles is gone and my internet will be disconnected sometime in the next 2 weeks, I believe, I'm working on doing some self-discovery. I want to learn about myself through writing and primarily drawing. I want to learn to kick ass at some first person shooter games so I can be the girl that can game with the guys. I want to stay up all night listening the radio and teaching myself to sing again. I want to take time to do all the things I enjoy that I haven't really taken the time to do in a long time. I want to learn to put my all into everything and not half-ass things anymore.

My Thoughts on Self-Portraits:
I've done alot of self-portraits since I started drawing again in the last year. I'm going to post a few of them on here and give the round-about time of the drawing. I like doing self-portraits because they help me find out sort of how I view myself at the time.


October 2010

November 2010

November 2010

December 2010

January 2011

January 2011

February 2011

February 2011

June 2011

June 2011



A New Perspective.

I really enjoy drawing. Honestly, it's something I hold very dear. If I'm drawing, I can take things in my head and actually put them on paper without it being all mixed and jumbled like words seem to do. I recently decided to start putting my own take on some portraits and just trying out some new art styles to see what I can really get into. I like to take things I see and put my own flair to them.


This second one wasn't so much of a portrait as sort of introducing myself to the style.


My good friend saw the first photo comparison and asked me to do a drawing of her and her boyfriend from a photo she gave me. I'm actually really excited and up for the challenge. I'll probably spend most of my waking time tomorrow (urm..today? Who knows, I'm passing out soon) working on this project. She gave me four of those photo booth pictures and told me to use whichever one I want. I think I'm going to try to do all four and try some different things with them and she can have whichever one she likes (as long as she promises to hang it somewhere special, like the fridge). I'll most likely post the final pictures on here when it's all over and done with.