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Merry Christmas everyone

Sat Dec 19, 2009, 5:24 AM

-6°C outside and loads of snow here. Perhaps this year will finally be a white Christmas for me

Still in hospital but at least I'm allowed out for Christmas and New Year. I don't have much time at the weekends and Wednesdays when I'm also allowed out. I was hoping I'd be out the end of the month but the doctor says it'll probably be January so I'm not to happy about that.

Elliot is doing fine he's 8 months old now. He's got a cold but it's normal this time of year, he just keeps getting one after the other. Besides that he's still his cheery self

I'd like to welcome all my new watchers

and thank everyone who faved my work

Best wishes for 2010 and I hope you all have a Merry Christmas

=wolvenlied

xxx

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Mood: Christmas Spirited

Borderline

Sat Oct 31, 2009, 7:26 AM

... that's the diagnoses.

I've been transferred to a specialist unit that can really help me get my life back on track. I'm allowed home at weekends which is positive although it doesn't give me much time to work on *LxLight or go through the huge list of messages that have built up over the last 5 weeks I've been in hospital. I much rather spend the weekends with Elliot and enjoy the time I have with him.

I will get better, I have some really good friends that believe in me. Thank you xxx

I'd like to thank all my watchers and everyone who left kind and supportive comments. I'd like to welcome those who have recently started watching me and if only there was a button to automatically thank everyone who faved so I'll say it now: thanks too for the

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At the moment I'm going through a rather hard period in my life but I will get back on top of things. I guess the last few months have been a struggle and I collapsed under the strain of life. I just need time to get better. For those wondering Elliot(my son) is fine my mum has been giving me so much support: thanks mum!

Special thanks to =dazza1008 for helping out with *LxLight in my abscence, ~Kazutaka-kun for keeping up the submissions and all other memembers of *LxLight that have been working hard to keep the club running. Thank you for the club's subscription too *beanielova, it's very much appreciated.

A big hug to

for your support. And

for coming to visit me in hospital

And

Happy Halloween

and Happy Birthday

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Mood: Insecure

Hospital

Journal Entry: Wed Oct 7, 2009, 8:11 AM

I'm going into hospital for long term tonight. I do not know yet if I'll be allowed out at weekends.

I hope to get better soon and when I am out I will answer any questions. Just know that I'm okay and I will get better.

See you all real soon

=wolvenlied

xxx

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Mood: Insecure

Skin by `thespook (modified by =wolvenlied)

Getting there

Journal Entry: Fri Sep 18, 2009, 1:21 PM

I'm starting to get my life back on track now. I think it finally caught up with me the shock of having a baby, my life has changed completely. Then the fact I went back to school less than 3 weeks after having him to complete my exams. I passed thank goodness. I really enjoyed the 2 months vacation I spent with my boy and I guess going back to school and having to be without him was harder than I thought. Thank you for everyone who send words of support, I appreciate it very much. I still won't be on dA as much as before but I'll still be around. Sometimes not looking at other people's art helps me create my own ideas.

About my art
Anyway, I've started to put everything into perspective. I've also decided a few things about my art. I need to really improve if I want to get into an art academy or college next year since there are entrance exams.
This school year for my GIP (NL: Geïntegreerde proef | EN: integrated exam which is a type of assignment that we have to do throughout the school year. It counts towards our exams. It used to be called a qualification exam.) the theme is contrast. I think it's a good theme since there's quite a lot you can do with it. For each subject we have to create something so example photography/visual arts, sculpting, drawing, design and so on... around the same theme.

Recently I've been thinking about the art I've been uploading on deviantART. I enjoy drawing wolves but they are really quite kitsch now that over 9000 other people are drawing them too. I love drawing them but I need to cut back a bit and draw other things. One thing I'm struggling with are perspectives and people. I also can't draw non-organic shapes like buildings, boxes, cylinders, cars and others things that aren't plants or animals. My best just isn't enough.

As Yoda would say “Do or do not... there is no try.”

I recently raided my cupboards and found a whole load of old drawings from when I was 12-14 I used to love drawing back then and I had such a wild imagination. Sadly I completely stopped drawing by the time I was 16, I remember asking my mum if I should do art. She said I should do what I wanted to do and in the end I studied ICT (aka programming). When I was halfway through the 5th year I started drawing again and by the time I reached the 6th year I wanted to change to art. The school wouldn't let me and I got so fed up with programming I just didn't bother anymore. I failed of course but then I was given a second chance. I went back to the 5th year and started over doing art this time since over here our last two years have to be the same subject. I've caught up on a lot but I'm still missing experience with drawing and I need to practice practice PRACTICE. I really do regret that I didn't do art sooner so you see people if you have a talent, no matter what talent it is you should go out there and develop it

So I've made up my mind. I'm going to clean up my gallery and revamp some of my old ideas. I'll look into the past to help create my future art, I'll develop it and eventually I'll have something. I don't know what it'll be but I'll have something better than what I have now. I might take me a while but I'll get there

For those of you that have read this really long journal I feel a little better I've got some of my struggles with my art off my chest. That's already solved one of my bigger problems

This is my old account ~pinkygirl1989. I joined deviantART in 2007 although I was already visiting this site as far back as 2005. I removed all the art I did except the parody flash movies of my maths teacher I hate but luckily don't have anymore. And just for lulz my Lion King Fan-Art Archive account [link] 2006 is when I started drawing again in 2006, 3 years ago.

Thank you for keeping me drawing

Footnote: Recently read this [link] you can have progress