11/8/24 & 11/11/24, the double birthday feature!

No time stamps for today, I'm just going to do a general update and get the hell out of here.

Anyways, hey party people! So, last week friday was my birthday and it was definitely the best birthday I've ever had. The field trip we took to the art school went great, I had a hell of a lot of fun looking at the different aspects of the program that were offered. Throughout all of it I had the repeated thought of "Wow, these are my people," in the sense that I'd love to go to a school like that. Not to get a degree in any particular art field or anything, but just to improve upon my craft as someone who does art as a hobby I adore. Honestly, I don't have much incentive to want to pursue art professionally. It's a hobby that I'm very passionate about, and I feel like adding the pressure of it being a profession would ruin it for me. But tangent aside the field trip was amazing. I spent a lot of time with K and two other people on the field trip. We took like one photo together, and he got a picture of me slumped over on  the bus absolutely knocked out. I swear, I was fighting for my life on the bus ride to the University to not fall asleep. 

After the trip my dad took me and my family out to Red Lobster's since it's my favorite restaurant. We ate so well that we were full by the time the food had arrived and could barely finish it. Best. Birthday. EVER. That's not even accounting for all of the birthday art I got from my friends!!!! They're all such lovely people, I really wouldn't trade them for the world. <3

The day afterwards I went out to the movie's with my Dad, we watched Elevation and it was alright. Actually, no, I think I like that movie. My feelings on it are still iffy but I didn't think it was bad by any means.

Yesterday, I spent inside. I called with Jax, Roxy, Daniel, & Rev for a little bit. That was such a fun call, I had a whole lot of fun just fucking around on call for the whole day. I ended up finding Roxy's spotify account and she & Jax found mine and went through all of it. So embarrassing. It was funny but godamn if they didn't have me stressing over my following list. I'll definitely have to change it when I get home, I am not letting ANYONE catch me off guard.

Today's school day was pretty okay, other than the fact I came in late for the millionth time. I sincerely hope they don't send my school's social worker after me, I fear that more than death. So I'll have to lock in in the future and stop showing up so late. But otherwise I did my presentation for ASL that me and my partner were procrastinating on presenting. Like. To the point where she was cutting class just to not represent. And honestly I thank god that she did since I was NOT trying to present in front of a bunch of people. So my ASL teacher let us do our presentation in front of her and her alone, and we aced it. She said we did phenomenal, and I'm just so glad it was finally OVER.

Now I'm in last period and I'm only thinking of getting the hell out of here and going home. Today me and Daniel were planning on watch X-Men: First Class together and I'm really excited to rewatch it. It's one of my favorite movies EVER. I miss that movie so, so much.

But yeah, that's about it. Catch you on the flip side!

goin fishing! 11/7/24

 9:28 AM.

Good morning all, I've decided to update my blog today just for the hell of it. As of now we're in the beginning of November! How cool is that?? My birthday's in a day, and I'm super indifferent to turning 16. The only thing that I guess I feel shitty about is the fact that it happened during election week, but to be fair my birthday always falls on election week. This is like 2016 all over again. But I'm not gonna talk about the election anymore than I have to, god knows nobody wants to think about it right now.

Yesterday I took the day off because of The Incident, and I'm pretty glad I did. I mostly spent the day just touching up on a drawing I was doing of my persona, and eating some tangerine cups. I ended up going to my younger cousin's birthday party, and that was also pretty good. While I was there I was able to finish up on downloading some games I've been dying to play, which are just Webfishing, Overwatch 2, and TF2. I tried out TF2 and sucked ass at it. Mainly because I'm still not very used to how the controls work on my shitty laptop. I also tried out webfishing and that was a little more fun, even if I couldn't do much more than just walking around and sitting on benches.

look at me, mister cattiere in the flesh. I'm adorable. Just sitting around doing jack shit and not even fishing!! I still have to figure out how to do that exactly.

I really wish I had the cash to be able to buy Webfishing on steam, yet alas.

Anyways, here's that ref I was doing.

I sincerely hope the colors don't get fucked up when I post this, but I know that's just wishful thinking. I also gotta do some kind of doodle for myself as my own self indulgent birthday gift. I was thinking of doing some self-ship art between me and Jake English, because he's my wife, but that would require me to draw him and I don't wanna do that. But you have to do things you don't want do to to achieve greatness.

10:03 AM.

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10:33 AM.

Right now I'm in the library during my lunch period. Today I've got a meeting to get my college courses set up for the spring, and I honest to god could've sworn I had the meeting scheduled for 6th period but instead I actually had it for 4th somehow? Not complaining by any means, if anything all that means is that I get to skip the abomination of a class that is choir. Sounds like the dream if anything. It's just a little weird to me how I misremembered that and sort of made up that memory in my own mind. But whatevs. I'm just excited to get these college courses planned!!!

Speaking of college: Spotify Wrapped season is coming up!!!! I'm so, so excited for when it inevitably drops in December, Wrapped season is my favorite holiday of the year. My best guess is that my wrapped is probably going to have a shit ton of Kanye in it, because it's a no brainer. Probably a lot of Coldplay too, since according to Last FM I have like 2,000 something Coldplay scrobbles. And, yeah, that checks out. I love Coldplay so much and I assume all of those scrobbles come from them being on my bed time playlists. I have wayyy too much Coldplay on there, yeesh.

10:55 AM.

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6:42 PM.

Well. Right now I'm home after a very tiring day. I just woke up from a nap not too long ago, but the rest of my day went fine! I talked a lot with my friend K during Chemistry class, and he revealed he's also going on the field trip tomorrow after saying he isn't, so at least we'll got each other to keep the other company. We also had a lot of fun just talking and shooting the shit about politics during said class, it was great. I can't wait for tomorrow.

Now I have a slight hunch that I have somethings to do, but I can't for the life of me remember what it is. I fell asleep with my tablet and pen in front of me, so I'm guessing it's art related?? Jesus, I really gotta start leaving myself reminders or something so I don't just keep sleeping and forgetting everything. Would definitely make my life easier if I also remembered to do that.

Otherwise, that makes the day. I'll definitely see you tomorrow to report on my birthday.

6:46 PM.

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Overall Rating for Today: 8/10.

jades i do adoreee

Welcome back. I've returned after being sparse with my updates of my blog!!!! and to be fair, it was just because I was too tired/lazy to keep up with it. But now I've brought some art and speedpaints with me! 

been getting into drawing jade lately, I don't exactly know why either. I think it's cause I have a lot of fun doing her long ass afro, especially with my new way of sketching where I try to do a silhouette before I do any lines. This was actually the first time I tried it out since this was gonna be a davejade piece, but then I was like. nah. I  hate drawing dave. so now its just a jade piece.

I hate the fact that firealpaca speedpaints are gifs. so lame. but as you can see I went through a lot of changes on deciding what exactly to do with her. I was gonna make it davejade which is why you see that hint of orange for a split second, it was gonna be jadesprite which is why she was originally crying! so many ideas, so little time. But I like the final outcome I got.

hereee we have yet another jade. This was originally gonna be a roxy piece because I love drawing roxy but I had some issues with posing so. I gave up on that and decided to go for jade. I have veeeerrrrryyyyy mixed feelings on this one. but most of them can be dumbed down to "I wish I could go back in time and stop myself from pressing the undo button." I at least had fun with it, lot's of fun actually! but I wish I chose colors that weren't so eye straining.

and here's the finished product! I think it's alright. I wanted to try and twist it into somehow becoming a jaderoxy piece, but I think I'll hold off on that now LOL. For now, this is satisfactory and I might revisit it if I feel so inclined to. Its not a piece I wanna post on twitter or any of my other socials though, so I'll just leave it up on here for now. If you're lucky enough to find it, congrats! have a pat on the back.