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woaaaah ive been super duper inactive in the art department recently! honestly they've kept us working right up until the last day of term at school (not to mention the fact that i've been in a bucketload of trouble this last week) and i've simply just been too tired!
i won't be uploading anything for another couple of days because i don't take my tablet with me to dad's, but it is the school holidays so i will have a lot more time to draw when i return to mum's.
i've also been doing a lot of writing! i've been working on my novel just about daily, although i've now run out of pages so i'm going to have to buy a new notebook asap. :1 i've recently started writing short stories again, too, which is only partly influenced by my rereading of fairie's aire (the novel that i started this time last year and said that i'd post on here but never did) and getting mad at the fact that my writing ability has since deteriorated. (it also helps that we just started a creative writing unit in english.)
i've been doing a whole lot of reading. it's actually ridiculous how long it's been since i read for pleasure; it feels so good to get absorbed in a story again. truth be told, i've recently been limiting the amount of time that i spend on tumblr and it's astonishing how much more free time i have because of it. not using tumblr has made me realise that, hey, i don't have to spend all my time on the internet after all! its giving me time to spend on things i actually enjoy doing (like reading) and it's so refreshing.
remember when i made that journal a couple months back about a cyclone?
yeah, forget that one. we had another one.
it's been getting progressively darker and windier all week, and the storm finally broke yesterday. there've been 140km/hour winds and torrential rain. i've friends who had trees go through their windows and portions of their roof get ripped off, and that's far from the worst of it. i myself fell in the lake at school (taking my phone with me). the worst part about that?
we don't have a lake at school.
i've only been able to open the voicemail on my phone since then.
it's pretty much blown over by now -- we've got a little rain at the moment, but it's nothing compared to yesterday.
and on a completely unrelated note, i turn 16 in five days, and goodness golly am i excited! turns out i'm not going to be on a course like i thought i would be, so i've organised to spend the day with all my closest female friends and it's gonna be great and augh i can't wait. <3
SIXTEEN. I'M SO OLD.
annual update!
hello it's been over a year since i last wrote a journal so thought it was time for a new one :') (side note: does anyone else remember/miss the days when journals let you fill in details about what you were watching, listening to, playing etc? it's such meaningless trivial information but i loved those little insights into people's lives and i miss them. if you're curious, i'm currently drinking dry lemonade and listening to the 999 OST) anyway! what's been going on in my life the past ~year? * i've worked three separate jobs (not consecutively) -- last summer i ran away with my friends to pick apples in the middle of nowhere for a month, then i got a pretty sick gig running workshops for the first-year uni students on sex & consent, and finally i returned to my old traffic controller job for a short (and hopefully final!) stint. * i fucked my body up big-time. last september i developed tendonitis in my dominant hand from drawing shulk xenoblade too much (i really fucking wish
hello friends it has been a while (life update?)
woo didn't realise that it's been almost two whole years since my last journal! i've been quite quiet on dA during that time, partly bc i just? don't really enjoy it much as a site anymore, and partly because i have had a lot of Big Life Stuff going on. also i still don't draw a whole lot atm and have been feeling quite insecure about my art as of late! am slowly working through that insecurity, and trying to focus primarily on art exercises + Actually Finishing The Pieces I Start, so we'll see how that goes. :> the biggest life update i have to share is: I graduated university!!! ya girl has a whole-ass DEGREE !!!! and i am now in the process of getting another one! my undergraduate is in microbiology, but i did all of 6 weeks of postgrad micro before realising that it made me absolutely miserable, so i switched courses and am now doing a postgrad in public health. my interests lie heavily in infectious disease, so i'm hoping to eventually pursue a career involving like, surveillance
Inktober 2018!
i had this written out already but then my computer crashed before i could post it hhhh
first, an apology for the recent hiARTus, uni has been curb-stomping the hell out of me recently ;_; just last monday i had three assessments, including a (peer-assessed) group presentation and a test that got delayed by an hour because the uni didn't print enough test scripts. thankfully the only thing i really have left is exams (screams) so i have a lil more time to DRAW
which means that i'll be participating in inktober!! i'm running with an OC-based prompt list and i'm so excited to be drawing my Daughter Kirri all month!! :heart:
lemme know if you
hello it is SPRING
i know this because my head is clear and my heart is full and my motivation to draw has returned with a vengeance
i've done practically nothing else all weekend (it's 4:20 on a sunday blaze it) and it just feels so damn good. i can get so lazy when it comes to being creative and then i forget just how much i actually enjoy it! it seems to be a recurring pattern though, i've noticed for the past few years my motivation always picks up about this time of year and then i churn out art/writing like crazy for a couple months until autumn rolls around.
i'm not going to make any promises about 'being active for once guys!!!' because it seems like
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happy late birthday!! ;O;
this is gonna sound way weird but you were in a dream i had the other night omfg im sorry if this makes you uncomfortable but i somehow ended up in new zealand and there was a storm and the clouds were like ten feet above the ground for some reason and the lightning was way close it was weird omg,,
this is gonna sound way weird but you were in a dream i had the other night omfg im sorry if this makes you uncomfortable but i somehow ended up in new zealand and there was a storm and the clouds were like ten feet above the ground for some reason and the lightning was way close it was weird omg,,