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Sooo the 21st was my 20th birthday. Crazy!

A decade ago (at ten years old), I would never have imagined the person I’ve become. Not really in a bad way or a completely good way, I guess I’ve just changed a lot. Hard to tell. Not really sure what I’m doing with my life currently. Two decades feels like a milestone and hopefully it’ll seem like one looking back. Anyway it’s just odd being officially not a teenager anymore.

My stress and uncertainty and frustration is certainly captured by this drawing, not just intentionally, but because I struggled to think of what to draw in the first place, I actually really did NOT enjoy the process, and I’m not all that happy with the result. I could’ve done more but I was tired of working on it so here we are. But I guess that’s just my life right now LOL

Anyway yeah the plate has multicolored jello and mango mochi on it because I had those on my birthday as desserts. I did get some books I wanted and stuff too so that’s good

Here’s to two decades of survival, maybe one day soon it’ll feel like living again. ✌️

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Some oldish space drawings from 2023. I edited the first one and now it’s the temporary banner for my YouTube channel until I make a better one

Black holes.

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A little ink print thing I did last month

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Throwback Thursday!

Throwback to the way I decorated this cake coloring page at someone’s wedding 💀

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Last week my grandmother and I went to another art class. This one was painting, but also using a bunch of sea glass pieces and shells and covering it all in resin! It was very fun.

This is a night scene on the ocean with an aurora in the sky!

Closeups below the cut (all the shinies and glitter made taking good pictures tricky lol)

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You’d think, after six plus years of taking my sketchbook and pencil basically everywhere with me, that this wouldn’t happen anymore. (Had to draw this with a crappy pen)

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So I made a weird spontaneous edit. (And wow! I added a much less ugly watermark thing this time.)

This weird rainbow light pillar picture gave me liminal vibes and made me think of how I felt at the bowling alley, and so I decided to use it as an opportunity to edit how I was feeling. The character I decided to draw for this is my OC Gwen, one of the main characters from one of my Experiments (writing projects lol). I won’t go into too much detail on any of my characters or original stories yet because I’m just not quite ready, but suffice to say for now that Gwen is from a writing project of mine which focuses on a group of creative kids as they try to maintain their imagination and childhood whimsy even while growing up.

Gwen is one of the main characters and is a kid who is weird, spunky, impulsive, and generally quite fearless. But there’s a lot more to her than that, and she has some struggles. One of which is that she becomes more anxious as she grows up. Generally, Gwen would be the type of person to love the go-cart racing that was near the minigolf course. But the concept of her getting scared of the go-cart racing like I was, and her subsequent crisis as a result, was an interesting idea that I latched onto for my edit of this picture. Gwen is holding a racing helmet like she was about to go get in one of the little cars but changed her mind and is now internally panicking about it. Growing up is hard, and often comes with unexpected challenges. The text ‘There’s nothing like the feeling of childhood’ entered my brain while I was considering what I wanted to add to the image.

Anyway, I actually made this entire edit with the default Markup tool in the Apple photos editing area (on my iPad) as a way to challenge myself and see how well I could draw with such a simplified program. Considering how it turned out, I’d say I can apparently do that pretty well. It’s certainly not as polished as the digital art I make on Procreate, but it has a certain messy charm to it. I’m quite pleased with the results and even made it my Home Screen for my phone.

Funny thing about this edit is that this finished piece is actually a picture I took of the edit on my iPad screen, not the original edit. Because the original edit got fricken DELETED when I tried to save it. So I had to go back and just finish editing the picture I previously took OF the edit, hence the slant of the screen and more blurry appearance of the image. Weirdly enough I think that all works in its favor though??

There’s something oddly poetic and fitting about the fact that I apparently created something so ephemeral that it tried to delete itself and all I could capture was a memory of it.

Oh yeah, and I found one of the songs that was playing at the minigolf course: Back of the Car by RAC. I added it to my Spotify playlist for Experiment LCM! (placeholder name for the project Gwen is from)

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(Sorry for the ugly watermark thing again lol)

I graduated high school last year!! It’s so good to be done with all that, though I might go to college in the next few years. Somewhat excited but also kinda scared and overwhelmed. Glad I chose to take a few years break before jumping into college though, it’s been really good for me so far and there’s just so much I need to figure out before finalizing a college commitment.

Anyway, last year (2023) in July, I had a graduation party with some of my friends and family and we ate snacks and watched my favorite movie of all time: Interstellar!

I drew this picture not long after as a way to celebrate my graduation. It’s hanging up on my door right now.

It’s an image of Gargantua, the black hole from the movie, with the Endurance (space station) approaching it on the left.

I used mostly colored pencils, but I did add some metallic pen to the accretion disk of the black hole and to the Endurance to make it shiny. There’s also some white gel highlights on a few bits. I layered very deep brown marker with black marker to get the intense void effect of the black hole.

It didn’t turn out exactly how I had pictured, but it gives off cool kinda retro vibes which I think is neat too! (Also yes, I subtly made the colors in the title letters reflect the aroace flag hehe)

Interstellar has got to be my favorite movie ever. My first time watching it I was constantly on the edge of my seat, and I was blown away both by the visuals and by the sheer drama. I loved how much actual science was included in the movie as well, something that’s seriously lacking in a lot of other science fiction.

Over all, the movie still gets me in the feels with the existential subjects, and every time I watch I notice something new.

Top tier cinema in my eyes!

(Dang this drawing makes me feel like an amateur, I’m not nearly as good with colored pencils and stuff as I am with digital art lol)