Collab, Uni, apologiesSince i got my daily deviation a while back I'd got a number of new watchers (hello!) and I've been pretty much inactive on the deviation front, and what i have put up hasn't been great so for that i apologize - school's been cutting away a lot of time and I'm under pressure from a bunch of other things and I simply have not got much done - Dont worry though, theres a couple of portraits on the way at the very least and with a bit of luck a lot more too. Also to my old friends, sorry to you guys too, even if I'm not putting up journals i should have at least sent a couple of hello's.
Secondly - I've been having a surprising number of lovely creative artsy ideas recently and to be perfectly honest I just cant get this stuff down - As a quick browse through my gallery will tell you I'm really not very good doing things without reference, unless they're not supposed to look like anything in particular anyway *points to PS doodles*. I cant draw, I just shade and copy and improvise nicely at times. I really want to learn to get better at this but as its not the time for a summer course or anything I'd like to make a compromise; I want to make some collaborations, I'd like to be able to give someone an idea, work through some lineart with them and then see if i can manage colour myself. Or maybe using someone else's idea and starting point, or even just working through something from scratch with someone, either way i'd like to give it a try. So, anyone want to help me out? I need you guys (and girls).
Uni! Right, up until recently I'd been in a rut with uni, i wanted to go and i knew i would but i wasn't motivated and i didn't know what i wanted to do. After quite a nice parents evening with the art dept head telling me i was a big ol boat without a rudder and after a few little personal revelations i've got a bit of the motivation i need to get the hell out of here, meet new people, learn new things, better myself and/or drink myself to jaundis. I've decided too that while of the infinite options of course i cant know exactly what i want my choice of subjects has steered me down the art route and i'm actually more than ok with that, so currently looking into a foundation art course somewhere. Baby steps, but hey, its getting somewhere
Side notes;
.Nearly level 80 on WoW, aaah im so proud/ashamed
.Yesterday i had to try and scrape a friend off the floor at about 2am, emotional baggage seems to be contagious, feeling kinda down at the mo so thats the reason for the mood at the bottom compared to the mood of the rest.
.etc etc, too tired to go on, i'll come back to this later.
Anyway, till next time, goodbye
Miserable
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"My epitaph shall be, my name alone:
If that with honour fail to crown my clay,
Oh! may no other fame my deeds repay,
That, only that, shall single out the spot,
By that remembered, or with that forgot."
- Lord Byron
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"My epitaph shall be, my name alone:
If that with honour fail to crown my clay,
Oh! may no other fame my deeds repay,
That, only that, shall single out the spot,
By that remembered, or with that forgot."
- Lord Byron
Really - 11 games? My brother and his mates have all been calling it 6 or MF2 - so i kind of assumed that was it's nickname. I guess i just showed myself up for the n00b that i am...lol. It's fun though - haven't played the campaign mode yet (brother has already finished it, annoyingly), but the online is fun. Only i keep getting killed!!! I walk out and all of a sudden BAM!! - it's like they all know how shite i am and i can't fight back!
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"My epitaph shall be, my name alone:
If that with honour fail to crown my clay,
Oh! may no other fame my deeds repay,
That, only that, shall single out the spot,
By that remembered, or with that forgot."
- Lord Byron
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It's just so much pressure! Every single website i go on says "AAA or AAB" - how is that even going to be possible? Aww, crap!! Oh well, i have another year until i'm in your shoes yet; so, tell me, how are things going for you? I'm curious. It's a shame i don't get to talk to you guys much anymore because our timetables don't match up (my classes suck now, because, apart from being with Lara in history, i'm all by me lonesome with those bratty 12s...lol)
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"My epitaph shall be, my name alone:
If that with honour fail to crown my clay,
Oh! may no other fame my deeds repay,
That, only that, shall single out the spot,
By that remembered, or with that forgot."
- Lord Byron
Its annoying at the mo with uni and UCAS, you know how previously i was pretty much stumped and lost for motivation? Well now, as one of the deadlines passes me by, the motivation has just started to kick in, ooh how i want to get away from this place now, meet some shiny new people on courses and old people in lectures with shiny new ideas to fill my little head with. I just wish I'd have felt like this over the holidays so I could have spent more time looking into things and making a good statement, now i fear i'm slightly too late and stuck no-where for another year
I know what you mean; Christ those targets are painfully high, i desperately need to drag my psychology up and find the one university that still counts A&D otherwise I'm stuck for another two years... eww i'd hate to still be in school that long, i'd be in a lower year than my sister :s. Especially as the media tells me once i eventually get a uni degree it wont be worth anything anyway ¬_¬.
Meh, enough negativity - Apart from on the education front things are going pretty well at the mo, i watched a bunch more TED talks a few days ago alongside a science journal, some lectures by stanford uni and a psychology book on the differences between men and women (which was a laugh, interesting and a little annoying at the same time XD) so im feeling very clever even if nothing's really changed XD. Yourself?
Sorry to hear you're all by your lonesome
Long message is looooooong...
Well, like i said, i'm just kind of looking at websites, sending of for prospectuses (or would that be prospecti?) and such. I suppose i'll take a look around some in the summer. Bristol looks nice (i think Kath was looking there), as does Warwick, and the University College London. Cambridge remains an air castle, but i'll have a stab, if my grades are good enough.
Don't give up on the uni side off things - i bet there's loads that'll take A+D. What are you going to be taking? An art related, or psychology, or something else? And, yeah, though the media are coming out with all this rubbish about degrees...a degree is still a degree - i mean, there's plenty of bragging rights, and it will eventually help you in "the job market", as it were, if only because YOU have one, and John Doe or Joe Bloggs or whatever does not.
Haha, yeah - there probably are some fun year 12s, but none have quite mustered their courage/swallowed their pride enough to talk to me!! But it is quite funny, because Maddie and Tamara are in my class as well - i mean, they're alright, i suppose, just not very talkative. I sit next to them, but don't really talk to them. And then there's about 3 empty places between us and the 12's - a mega segregation thing going on! It's a shame, because some of them seem genuinely intelligent, and i'm sure they'd make lively conversation, if nothing else. And thanks for offer - i'll remember that (and bug you by ringing you at 2 in the morning and such
I would come into the art room more, but i don't know when your classes are, and - well...Mr. Davis hates me. He totally snubbed me in the corridor on Friday!! He was just like "Hmph!!", nose in the air, and strode off. I should have turned round and said, "well there are a lot of people in Versailles today, clearly!!"
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"My epitaph shall be, my name alone:
If that with honour fail to crown my clay,
Oh! may no other fame my deeds repay,
That, only that, shall single out the spot,
By that remembered, or with that forgot."
- Lord Byron
If you need prospecti/usesesususesss just gimme the name of the place and i'll probably be able to ship one over as i brought back just about one for every university in england during that trip way back when
I wont give up just yet, and I dont really see either art or psychology as a particularly good choice, which is a shame. I think I might go into something vaguely in the sciences though as i still have quite an interest in it and its a bit better as a foundation. But really im still undecided, it could go any way right now, i feel like i need a bit of soul-searching (though i hate that phrase XD) to clear my head and decide what i really want.
Poor you guys! Just go say hi to some of the nicer sounding ones, or at least shove Tamara in their general direction, 6th form has really reversed my social cynicism in that a surprisingly large proportion of people can be surprisingly great given a decent chance to get talking. ... But i suppose on the other hand i think us year 13's would rather keep you to ourselves
Perhaps you should do philosophy? At uni, i mean. You seem pretty involved at P4C - not that we do anything really in depth there - but if you find it interesting in general, why not? And it's the ultimate "i don't know what i want to study" degree, in a way. And then you could become an RE teacher
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"My epitaph shall be, my name alone:
If that with honour fail to crown my clay,
Oh! may no other fame my deeds repay,
That, only that, shall single out the spot,
By that remembered, or with that forgot."
- Lord Byron
thx anyway!
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Brush settings is where Im confused. I can't get it back to the setting where its like a paintbrush with the pressure setting to make the mark bigger and smaller. All I have is once constantly the same width line.. which is impossible to digipaint with. xD I know theres something really easy to do to change it however I have fiddled with all the settings loads and I just cant crack it xD.
Well its easy peasy; as long as your tablet is all installed and working you just click on the brush engine, which is by default the tab on the top center-right of photoshop that says brush on it, then go into 'shape dynamics' and change the control under size jitter to '
Oh and hello
Ive just tried what you said, but it doesnt do anything :S It makes the line all bobbly for lack of a better description. It doesn't think Im using a tablet I think, however I am and it works fine, how do I make it recognise the tablet?
Also make sure size jitter is set to 0%
One of the two i think.
By the way this mean you're looking to do another digipaint?
Not purposfully for a specific digipaint, but I want to get back into it yeah
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