Journal: 25 January 2017
So, I’ve had about a hundred different things I’ve wanted to post about, so I’m just going to try to start keeping up a regular journal.
School
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve taken some pretty neat classes in school. In Astronomy we made little paper devices to help track the movement of the sun, in Music Appreciation we got to fiddle with a violin (no pun intended) and I went to see an orchestra for one of my grades.
I also have a few programming classes. I honestly only really care about the HTML class, but I guess the others are neat, too.
I’m honestly kind of surprised at the people in my Astronomy class. I think I may be the only one who’s actually unironically enjoying that class. Idk, I think all that space stuff is neat, even if the teacher reaaaaly likes to enforce how much of a fakey fake psudoscience some unscientific things are.
((THOSE THINGS ARE CALLED “BELIEFS”. THEY’RE NOT BACKED BY SCIENCE, THEY’RE BACKED BY WHAT PEOPLE, YKNOW, BELIEVE.))
Idk, just the general anti-psychic/astrology/occult stuff. Idk just the fact that he’s like, this stuff is all FAKEY FAKE and it’s fake because SCIENCE FAKE FAKE and I’m just over here like. Yo. Chill. Leave my fun fairytale stuff alone and go back to talking about space, yo.
But other than that, I really like the class. Like I’m learning all about technically useless information that’s just NEAT. And realizing certain things that are just?? MINDBLOWING???
Like omfg it never occurred to me. Mars. The people who are moving to Mars. They’re going to need ENTIRELY NEW constellations. Will they have their own horoscope??? Like idk if they’d even bother with it, but OMGGGGG I HOPE THEY HAVE THEIR OWN HOROSCOPE AND JUST.
Hold on, lemmie save my Mars geeking out for another post LMAO
Art Comics
As for artistic endeavors, I’ve played around with a few different story ideas for comics. Problem is, I’m not sure I have much of an interest in it. It’s something that I’m good at, and I do still want to play with these stories, but whenever I really get into it, I feel like I start overcomplicating everything, and it just sort of sucks all the fun out of it.
Another issue is that I have no idea if I even own my old characters? I know I had talked about putting them all into the Public Domain, mostly just out of sheer frustration and fear because people would readily shove their useless precautions at me instead of. Oh. I don’t know. ACTUALLY SHOWING AN INTEREST IN MY DIN DAMN PROJECT.
Like, okay, I get it, someone could steal my idea, AS LONG AS I’M STILL ALLOWED TO DO IT, I DON’T CARE, GOD.
Except, I worked very briefly with a small group right before school started. They wanted me to try a more toony artstyle, and so, as I am like to do, I drew some random doodles of Arble in a toony way. Also doodled a new character and sent them to the not-exactly “main guy” of the group.
Instead of saying “yeah, this is a good artstyle, we’ll get back to you on the story-line and ideas”, he IMMEDIATELY tried to implement them into the project.
I had to put his exiting rambles to a grinding halt and make sure he was paying 150% attention to me before I could seem to make it clear that I wasn’t giving him Arble.
That was kinda scary. I’m not even sure why, because it was just something for a kid’s game, but I just really wasn’t comfortable with them trying to use my kitty.
Which, technically they still could… IF Arble is in the Public Domain. But I don’t even know if he is or not.
I know I had TALKED about putting my characters in, but I think Marcus the Magical Magician was the only one I made any headway on documenting.
But then there’s also the confusion as to whether Arble’s original version being in the Public Domain makes the Revamped Arble be in the Public Domain. Because a lot of the original versions of Disney Princesses are in the Public Domain (being that they’re old folk tales or whatever), but the DISNEY SPECIFIC versions of those characters are NOT Public Domain.
And then there’s even MORE confusion as to whether that’s even anything or not because??? If I understand correctly, Characters aren’t “copyrighted”, they’re “trademarked”.
And just???
Fuck, I need to talk to a professional.
Actually General Art or Something
So, I’m officially mentally swamped on the comics department. For the time being, I’m thinking I may do character designs and little simple things. Maybe just write my stories for once. Maybe make some visual novels.
Actually, the visual novel thing would work pretty well with school stuff, since I’m learning HTML5 and all. It would make for a good way to build up a little portfolio, I think.
But yeah, I’m mostly thinking of making things to build up a portfolio, showing off my coloring/inking/spriting/animating/whatever skills to get some side-gigs.
I’m also probably going to avoid doing digital art for a while, at least until I can get a new charger for my SP3. I miss working directly on its surface, but the overheating was maddening. I want to save up for a computer I can use to draw directly on the screen without it threatening to catch on fire or whatever. I’ve thought about switching to the iPad Pro, but I can’t use Manga Studio on it, so that’s kind of disappointing.
But regardless, I actually got some dorky spy glasses in recently, and while I literally only bought them because I loved that dumb stuff as a kid, it occurred to me that’d make doing traditional speed paints WAYYY easier, because I tried it before and the camera got knocked over SOOOO much omg.
Okay, so Recap or TL;DR or Something
Okay so basically I’m learning a lot of cool stuff, school is fun, idk if I own my characters??? I’m going to build my portfolio and start doing speed paints probably.
And yeah these are basic summaries of journals I’ve been trying to write since school started JFC AFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFlsjflsjfj so. YES. FINALLY GOT THAT OUT OF THE WAY.
Man idk these should probably be separated as individual posts, but whatevs.
//Also in other news, I know that I’ve read that adding images to kind of break up the walls of text is like... good procedure or whatever, but it kinda started to feel a little dumb so idk maybe I just shouldn’t write walls of text or something LMAO
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