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Wed Mar 4, 2009, 6:15 AM

Ola, it's me, shamelessly submitting a new journal entry after 2 months of absence from DA. I realized that I haven't been drawing personal works as much as I used to during my first semester in college, and that I find it almost impossible to produce good assignments and nice personal works at the same time. Why is that? Do you guys have this problem too? Most of the time I do have ideas swimming around my head, but as soon as I try to draw it out on paper, I have this sense of guilt that weighs upon me, since I should be doing assignments instead of drawing personal works. So I end up making quick, random doodles in my sketch book, just parts of ideas here and there. Because of this, I start to worry about improving my composition and coloring. It's kinda annoying, guh... I wanna draw a proper picture and color it !!!! >A<

Other than that, I have to admit, I've been slacking of a lil' on college work. I seemed to have lost some of that drive that I had from before. It,s weird...I'm trying to regain it again. Now that I'm aware of this problem, I shall work harder from this day onwards!!

Also, I think I've recently realized how bad I am at thinking up long stories for manga, I really seem to suck at it. But lately, I've been itching to draw manga. I mean, it sure is a great way to improve one's skills, and it was a past activity of mine meant to help me forget about my worries in the real world. Ha...how nostalgic...I wanna draw more personal works and manga...I just need a story.., a good, unmainstream-ish story..

My holidays should arrive in about a months time, at that time, I shall draw more!!! But for now, its back to work!

P/S: Whenever I write journals, they serve more as reminders than anything else, so my journal entries do sound a lot like a monologue sometimes.

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~fujiwarakazuko Mar 4, 2009, 8:20:26 AM

Oh lol, I understood that feeling. A little rest will be fine in order to move the engine again, and also, you can always use your ideas on your assignments, the more you use it more new ones will come, or you can even refine it during your personal time

This is how I do my work so far, I'm applying personal interest into my assignments so I can keep my spirits up. If you want to separate personal work from college one, it's fine too (Although I have no idea how certain seniors can cope with their college work while doing freelance O.o). Eventually you will find a way that suits you during this 3 years, good luck exploring! :3

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~iwashi-kun Mar 4, 2009, 8:19:54 PM

ah, i know how that feels. I felt that back in university and now at work

i guess take one whole day to yourself, relax, and maybe have a bit of an anime marathon or something to relax. You can try organizing time specifically for college work and leave time for yourself/personal drawings, so that you won't feel guilty when you do your own thing cause you've done parts of your college work.

you might get accumulated stress if you don't get time for yourself, ne. All the best!

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~Zae369 Mar 6, 2009, 11:01:12 AM

Oh wow, I feel exactly the same for the first 2 paragraphs. There's so much I wanna draw and I keep telling myself wait for the holidays, and when I consider doing it I keep thinking if I'm going to draw that then I should be doing assignments instead. That anxious restless feeling is absolutely killing me, it's constantly nagging at me from the back of my head, and I worry when I do get round to getting started on it the enthusiasm wont be there anymore.

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~Lilblkrose Mar 7, 2009, 12:42:53 AM

I'm being forced to have motivation for college and art XD; Cause there is a group of people expecting it by a certain day;; Uwah! Maybe you need that kind of encouragement (And pressure @A@~)

Unmainstream story? I has lots of ideas but not much time to get a comic done/write a proper story paper @__@~; Just sleep it off and something will hit an idea at you.. (in my case, literally hit.. I fell off a bed and a story came to me. Hope this doesn't work for you or happens o_o; )

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