There’s a war waging inside of me between the athlete and the couch potato. I was always fairly active and athletic growing up. I could run, jump, dance, and stunt non-stop for three or four hours straight and still have energry to do more. I was also really bookish and lazy at times. I could lie about in my bed reading a novel or two all day or watching TV without doing much else. Up until about 10 years ago,…
It’s a lot harder than I thought it would be to get back into sketching something everyday. I’ve skipped a few days and didn’t even bother to sketch anything real. No references, just doodles from the head. My weekly calendar has Sundays as the last day of the week, so this week I’ve done three sketches and two half-hearted attempts at sketches, all only on Thursday and Friday. This scan is of the best of them. I’ll probably color it…
Life has a way of answering such questions without words. Nothing dire happened to me recently so I’m thankful, but the last couple of days have been a little less than stellar. I try to give myself a pep talk, but I lack the pep to do so. Bit of a quandary there. Self: Come on, cheer up! Self: Why? You’re not cheery. Why should I be? Self: So you can cheer me up, that’s why! Self: Why can’t you…
Hm. That title sounds dirty. Anyway, H.E. suggested I get back into sketching at least an hour everyday. I somehow fell out of doing it, and I need the practice. One of my weaknesses is the human anatomy—it’s the reason I got into Poser at all … because I’m a lazy artist and don’t like the bodies I draw. But if I’m to make a living at doing the art thing, I guess I better get over my fear of…
Last year I took a BBC sex quiz and found out that the sex ID profile of my brain is completely down the middle. Now, I have no idea if that means my brain is asexual, or if it’s some kind of hermaphrodite—not that I can visualize my gray matter having both a penis and breasts, probably hiding behind the hypothalamus—but I guess at the heart of it, I simply don’t think like a man or like a woman. There…