KitsuneKimono

So I've been neglecting my deviant art account.... yet again. I'm really going to try and do better with this! I've been neglecting my artwork, but I have some new pieces hopefully in the works, so stuff should be up soon.

Other than my dA neglect, my life has been all right. I'm back at college and have taking a lot of art classes, which I am really happy about. And rugby season starts next week so that's really exciting too

My current obsession is the movie Tangled. If you have not seen it yet, DO SO NOW!!! It is ABSOLUTELY amazing and heartwarming and is totally reminder of what the Disney classics were like. And the soundtrack is sweet and beautiful and awesome. So yeah, hop on it people! Hahaha.

Nothing really much more to update. I am going to try and be on here more if I can. Fingers crossed!

And happy belated new year, everybody!

"Growth means change and changes involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown."

Change is enevitable, and I know that. But it sucks when the things that you want to stay the same have begun to change. Coming back from college and seeing all of my friends from home has been fantastic. I really did miss them and it's great hanging out with them again. But college and time apart has changed all of us and the bonds that we share with each other, especially with my friend who stayed home for college. It's like we all grew up and she remained the same or at least changed in a way that made her adapt to us not being around. It's tough to maintain friendships when you feel like one person isn't trying to make the change work. I understand that things need to change between all of us. We're growing up, moving forward in life, and adapting to different situations. It just sucks that because of this change, we may have to break bonds with one another, no matter how painful it may be.....

So I've been home from school for about 3 weeks....and these past 3 weeks have felt like an eternity! Seriously. All I've been doing is working and it feels like I've been at it for at least 2 months. It's absolutely ridiculous. I actually miss school and always having a person around to talk to. I miss going out, staying in my room and watching "Glee" Tuesday nights with all my friends (yes, it became a Gleek ritual of ours to all gather in my room and watch the show; don't judge), and even just walking around campus. It's kinda weird being home and not having a completely busy day. Outside of work, I feel like I'm turning into a bum. All of my friends work too, so it's hard to get together with conflicting work schedules, you know? Does anybdoy else feel my pain?? Haha.

FINALLY saw How to Train Your Dragon and Sex and the City 2. Between the two, which one did I like better? The children's movie about the dragons. NO JOKE! It was such an amazing movie that I really kind of definitely want a Night Fury for my birthday this year. Soooooooooooooo if anybody can do that for me, that'd be great! The latter movie was a disappointment compared to the first, honestly. Fans of the show.....I guess go see it for the sake of being a devoted fan. For everyone else who really wants to see it, wait until it comes out on DVD. Don't waste your money. (To the movie's credit, though, it has a few scenes with some VERY attractive Australian rugby men shirtless and in speedos. YUM.)

And it seriously needs to rain where I live. It is so damn muggy here and the weather channel has been predicting thunderstorms for the past 3 weeks. Stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiill waiting on that rain......

Oh, and by the way, one of the most ridiculously addictive games that I have ever played is called Robot Unicorn Attack. Seriously. Sounds lame, but toooootally one of the greatest games ever created. Google it. Play it. Love it.

And sorry for my emo rant in the beginning. Didn't mean for it to turn into that, haha.

In case you haven't noticed-- either by not looking outside or by not looking at a calendar-- it's spring!!!! And I'm so excited!! Haha, the weather is absolutely gorgeous where I am. Which is surprising because Buffalo is usually (as in basically almost always) windy and cold. This nice weather is such a relief from the brutal winter I had to deal with in Buffalo, only made worse by the fact that the layout of my school creates serious wind tunnels. Seriously. Buffalo State's campus was designed off of the campus for the University of Arizona. Now, in Arizona, these wind tunnels would create nice little breezes. Not the case in Buffao. The window tunnels make the winter so bad that you feel chilled down to your bones no matter where you walk around campus. Not exactly a smart move.

As far as art goes, I have quite a few sketches done that I need to scan in and complete, so I'm praying that I will actually get some decent art up soon. Classes are consuming my life with papers and projects, so I've been busy trying to get all of that done. I'm hoping to squeezesome artwork in, though, fingers crossed! Also, I posted a rough draft version of my prologue for "Arasya" if you guys want to check it out

And I've surpassed 10K pageviews. Yay!

Journal skin that I really love but cannot have found here: ginkgografix.deviantart.com/ar… . Haha, I tried loading it and I can't because I don't have a premium membership

All right, so I just thought that I would give everyone an update because I've been back on dA for 3 months........and I really haven't posted anything, haha.

So I have been drawing, despite what my gallery is showing. I have a few pieces drawn, they just need to be completed. Artwork will be up soon, I promise! Hehe, and I did post the prologue for "Arasya" in my gallery. Any advice with that would be much appreciated.

Soooo that's it. Just thought I'd give a quick update before my class starts. I might update this entry later.

All right, just so you all know: although I have not logged on to dA for about a year and a half, I did not die. I've just not been as proactive with dA as I used to be.

And that fact makes me sad.

I really haven't been as active with my art as I would like to be. The past year I was finishing up high school, so I guess that I focused my attention more on getting all of my work done and working on pieces for my AP Studio in Art class than I did for pieces that I could put on dA. I haven't done any work, whether drawings or writing, for this site. I never thought that I would let that happen. I loved to draw the characters that I created and to write about them-- and I still do-- but it seems that I've seriously neglected doing so. I miss drawing and writing for fun. Everything that I've done has been for my classes, and that, to me, wasn't as exciting to post as the stuff that I did on my own. Weird, right?

I've missed a ton since I've been on here last, it seems. I didn't do much investigating, but I did go to my old friend Tiuni 's page and she's surpassed 40K page views, which is absolutely amazing!!! I'm proud of her, even if no one reads this journal, hehe.

Right now, I'm attending college and am majoring in Apparel Design with a possible dual major in Art Education. (Let's be realistic here: although fashion design is a really cool profession, not exactly the most reliable career choice, no?) I'm happy with how things in my life are going, except for me not being on here as much. I forgot how great of a webstite dA is and how it gives a lot of opportunities for fantastic artists to be discovered.

So, I'm really going to try and be on here a lot more. I'm currently sitting at my laptop, and I do have a scanner next to me. Perhaps I'll try and get my tablet up to my college so I can produce more art work. I do have photoshop And I've also been thinking about my story Arasya and, although it's supposed to be a fantasy genre tale, it seems almost too fantastical. Right? I'm going to try and rewrite it (yet again) and see if I can make some changes to it, maybe make it more adult. (Not adult in the sense of pornography, but adult in the sense that it's not so young. Do you know what I mean?) If you agree or disagree, I'd like to know, or if you guys have any advice that'd be great. I'd honestly be surprised if anyone replied to this since I've been MIA for such a long time, hehe.

Anyways, I'm going to seriously try and log onto here more. Hopefully I can do that