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slice of life

artblocked, indeed

The best thing I can say right now is that the breaks between my blog entries are much, much longer than the breaks between my artistic endeavours (please imagine those two words in a more sarcastic tone). Wish I knew what was the problem, but sitting down to draw is no longer as easy nor natural as it used to be. Mostly, I am afraid, I think. Afraid of what I create not lining up with what I had in mind (a given, if I rarely try my hands at it.) Afraid of only being able to produce slightly off
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so, uh...breakdown?

Today, for the first time ever, I had to halt the presentation I was supposed to be giving at about half of the time because some question from the professor threw me off so much I had the choice between a) staying there and crying (!!!) in front of the whole room or b) excusing myself and exiting the room. FUN. (I chose option b, obviously. could not stop the tears. that must have looked awful.)   And then they closed the lesson meanwhile, because the other speakers had already taken up way to
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am trying

Life is still hard from time to time. And weirdly enough, studying never gets easier, even though I've been through all of it already. It's odd. :/ But at least programming is kinda fun, so I am not regretting this decision ^^
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Meanwhile, Giant Spider

Only found out yesterday that in Neverwinter Nights, mages can learn a spell to transform into several kinds of creatures, including a giant spider. Well guess what's my new favourite spell now. :3   (though, since you can't use any other spells while in spider form, it's more a "last resort"-kind of spell, or for when close combat is inevitable. Still love it, though ^^)   EDIT: Got around to taking a picture, finally. Cleric companion included for completeness/size relation. Linked because I g
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blegh

Today is one of those days when I really want to dress in as much black stuff, skulls and spikes as I can find and paint my face all intricate and dark. It is, however, also one of those days where I have to take an oral exam! And I always tend to tone things down for these occasions. Ah well.   At least the subject is an amazingly interesting one, as it was a lecture on complex systems. You know, networks and evolution and all that stuff.   Edit: the exam went surprisingly well, though. So over
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2004 was almost 11 years ago

... D: 2004 was also the year when my interest in Bionicle truly began to blossom. (as in, collecting sets regularly and actually following the storyline).   What. How.
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Stuck In My Head And Can't Get Out

.... watch me go from Welcome to my Nightmare to Creature Feature in 15 seconds.   ... my mind is currently a strange place. And it scares me.   Oh, and Steven is still one of the most scary songs I've ever heard.
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too hot

I am not good at adapting to strong changes in temperature. Too bad that he weather has been nothing but instable lately, cold one week, then okay for another - and all of a sudden, summer's heat today. Terrible.
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yay c:

I passed that exam yesterday. finally. really really relieved.
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Well.. (general life update)

so far the "be more active on BZPower" part of my not-really-resolutions has been going well... not. :/ I could of course offer some excuses about life and stress and all the usual, but you must've heard that a thousand times from me by now. Thus, I'd rather focus on what's new, and general life updates.   As for one thing, my change in eating habits works out just the way I wanted; dropped one clothing size, so there's only one more to go for my stuff to fit me again, leading to a sudden increa
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Art catchup

I realized that I hadn't scanned/posted anything since idk, July? Which is a pity, because summer is always a -slightly- better time for art.     Elves. I draw so many elves, so here's only the most recent one, which is yesterday's warmup sketch. But! I like the lineweights on this one. Much better than my atrocious attempts from... 2009 or something     Obviously I don't draw only people. Though admittedly most of the time. ^^     And that's the original version of the drawing I have
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A New Month, A New Name..

... and it's completely self-made. Based on how I feel now. Empty.   Could be because I'm currently listening to "Amaranth" by Nightwish...
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... Me Found Another Obsession?

No, don't worry, I don't think so. ^^ I was just browsing the internet, looking for some songs by David Bowie (whom I've liked for maaany years ^^) and found the vid "Within you", a song from the movie "Labyrinth" and... well, I sketched something down:   This was done just for practise - I want to start drawing more realistic things again. =)
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things I hate unreasonably much, pt. I

I hate getting my hands injured. Everywhere else is okay, but hand injuries cause me a lot more discomfort than what would be reasonable. :/   The cause for this entry is obvious, I guess... last week I had an unpleasant encounter with the door of a tram, causing a delightful bruise on my left hand, right at the base between the index and middle finger. (I kind of stumbled into the rail/handle on the door. The older trams in my city are weird.) And now it's greenish/purplish/blueish, and annoys
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today I remembered

... that I had a phase in high school where I really wanted to move more into a cyber goth-ish direction with my style. I mean, a part of me still wants to do so, because I find it aesthetically pleasing. Verily so, from the hairpieces to the frequent use of neon colours to contrast the tons of black. And the skirts. (the men's skirts, though. floor-length with tons of buckles. :3 ) And platform boots. Good stuff. Might look into those things again when my weight has stabilized, we'll see.   A
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tomorrow

tomorrow's my last exam, and then after hopefully passing it, I will be a master of science. Surreal and scary.
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I'm Depressed...

Drawn during maths.   See, today we were told that we'd get a new teacher in maths, because we had troubles with our former one, and today was the last lesson with her. But instead of being friendly and make a nice last lesson, she treated us like... well, what it said in my sketch. I mean, who does she think she is?   She came into the class, and asked us whether we wanted to learn something today. We, of course, said yes. And suddenly she said she wouldn't explain anything, because "she neve
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And another huge block - finished! ^^

So, I finally got my bachelor's degree in physics! And it feels... underwhelming, really. I mean, on the one hand I am intensely proud, and glad that it's over, but on the other hand, it's nowhere nearly as spectacular as I thought it would feel - possibly because I just immediately continue with the master studies, but still... I learned so much and know so little. xD   The past three and a half years were a great exercise in character-building, though. I have certainly 'grown up' in a way. Whi
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Re: my art collection

Idk if anyone even still knows this existed, but I updated my art collection - after all, I've been drawing more Bionicle stuff again lately, so I need a place to put it all without cluttering GA. But yeah, expect some more updates from me over the course of the next few weeks. ^^
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2nd language woes

*typing happily* *suddenly something looks weird* *stares at the offending phrase for 5 minutes, ultimately decides to look it up* *phrase was perfectly alright all along*   rinse, repeat. :>
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