Something very quickly I just realized.

You know the phrase, "Brevity is the soul of wit?" Well, this phrase is actually arguing against itself by being longer than it should. A more brief way of saying it is, "Brevity is wit's soul." I just took away two words, aren't you proud of me? That's all I have to say. Think about it since it's so short.

Drawing With the Arm Part 2 (and other stuff)

What do you know? I'm back after several months. Better continue with that drawing thing that we were talking about before. I'm gonna be brief, cause I've kind of forgotten where I was going.

Practice drawing with your arm, rather than your wrist and you will improve the following things:

• Your speed
• Your relaxation (looseness)
• Your accuracy
• Your ability to see angles
• Your arm strength
• Your patience
• Your life (if drawing is your thing)
• Your drawing skills (drastically)

So practice drawing with your arm you foolish artistic mind!

One more thing about drawing that will help you improve. Draw from life. Go outside or sit inside. It doesn't matter. You could spend the rest of your life drawing coffee cups for all I care. Just keep doing it, but make sure it's from life. I know you like to draw from the imagination. You are a very creative person, and you can certainly go out and use that creativity and have fun, but all fun and no work will vastly slow down your improvement. So improve yourself. You can do it! AHAHAHAHAHA. That was a laugh of happiness, by the way.

That is all.

Drawing Techniques - Drawing With the Arm Part 1

Alright, I'm going to talk about drawing and give you actual reasons certain techniques, which look like they'd be useless, can actually be your best friends when it comes to drawing. This blog will focus on one technique at a time.

The first technique that I'd like to go over is the technique that baffled me: drawing with the arm rather than the wrist. I had always drawn with my wrist as a child, because that was the way I was taught to write. It seemed so much easier to draw this way, how many little details I could add, how easily I could draw any shape; I was sure this was the absolute best way of drawing. When I tried sketching objects this way, I assumed that they weren't coming out as good as I wanted them to because I wasn't that good at drawing yet, which I'm sure was partly true.

But, while watching a video of an actual professional artist drawing, I noticed that he didn't draw with his wrist, he drew with his whole arm. I was confused by this. Why the hell would he do that? How the hell would he even be able to draw a shape that way? I kept thinking these things, but as the video went on, I saw how quickly he was able to get the big picture of what he was drawing with just a few strokes. By the time the video ended, I had to try drawing with my arm.

I picked up my sketch book and attempted to do it. My attempt ended with a very squiggly line I was desperately trying to draw straight. It just wouldn't work. I got depressed and decided that it wasn't a good idea afterall.

Wow, all of the sudden, I'm extremely bored. I'll continue this later. In the next blog I'll let you know why drawing with the arm is helpful, especially with sketching. It is helpful; don't worry or think it's not; I'll finish the story. Stay tuned. I'll probably update soon.

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Been almost a year.

Well, I guess I completely forgot about this blog. Either that, or I just didn't care. You take your pick.

I'm not that interesting of a person, so I don't even know why I'm blogging. It seems that I just feel like it.

Recently I did several things, or rather, started several things (and didn't follow through with any of them). I tried writing a book, got about four paragraphs in, and stopped out of boredom. It was going to be some epic fantasy. I did enjoy the little time I spent in creating a world and making it feel real to me. Yeah, you'd be surprised at how long four paragraphs feel when you're writing them compared to how long they actually are when you're reading them.

Hmm, I guess I'm kind of going backwards because that was the latest thing I tried. A while before that I started plans to make a flash game. It was going to be this epic game where you're a person who's family gets killed by some tyrant that lives on an island. As your being boated away to your death, a storm comes along and kills everyone but you. You end up making it ashore right near the tyrant's house and that's where the game begins. It was gonna be a sneaking type game sort of like metal gear solid. It would have rocked. To bad I never got started.

Let's see now, before that I think I tried to be some kind of genius and write a script for a play because I was pissed off that you had to ask permission to use someone else's work officially. It was going to be a one act play about a boy trying to commit suicide, but being stopped by a nearby fisherman. I got a little bit into the dialogue and realized that I didn't know a thing about how to make characters act differently or how to make them act at all. I then decided to stop for a while and ended up never getting back to it.

Did I do anything else, hmm. I must've done something. Well, while I was still in school, I did try to write a story using overly exaggerated description. It was really fun at first and I was on a roll, but then I ran straight into writer's block and couldn't think of anything. It was sad. It was one of those moments where you feel a scene should last longer when it's actually fine the way it is, but you try to make it longer and end up with a whole bunch of fluff. It just busted my brain or something. I don't know.

Before that I had school, so I was concentrating on that. Hahaha, no I wasn't. I was, to the best of my ability, trying to waste time so that I'd have to finish all of my homework at the last minute. It's really stupid, but true. I even remember spending time doing absolutely nothing but moving icons around on the desktop. It was so stupid. I can't believe I was able to get A's and B's.

Anyway, that's what I've been doing in a nutshell. How interesting my life is.