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Sooo....trying to get my miles in on the ol' drawing. Not always aflush with ideas of my own so, when better is there a time to draw for other people??

The first 10 people who comment on this journal will get a sketch, free. However, in return, you must offer 10 free sketches in your own journal!

If you've already done 10 Free Sketches, simply link the journal entry in your comment: You still qualify

if you can be specific about what you want me to draw (for instance, I love drawing other people's OC's!)that would be great!

Here's the lists as it stands at the mo:

1) Clown girl -

2) Fara -

3) - is a surprise!!

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Gifts for Me!!


by omg i love iiiiiit!!

I happened upon this in 's journal. thought it was a neat idea and decided to participate, hopefully you will too


1). Be one of the first 10 people commenting on this journal entry, and I will add you to the Promotional List.

2). For each of the 10 first people answering this journal I will put his/her avatar and the three deviations I like most from his/her gallery on the list.

3). If you answer, you'll have to do the same in your journal, putting me on the first place, completing this way the list with 10 people. The idea of this is not to get a free feature, it is to spread art around for everyone.



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There's nothing like the gentle glide of Sundays, is there? The street outside so quiet and calm. Even the trees can't be bothered to sway more than a few feet each side. Breakfast always tastes better on a sunday too. boiled eggs and toast that take you back to childhood yesteryear with each bite. Sweet cups of tea that hug you back into your bedroom quilt. You know what day it is tomorrow, and what lies ahead, but at least for sunday morning we try to forget, keep it melted far into the background as we enjoy lazy internet browsing or maybe a saunter down to the shops for a pint of milk. Sunday is our day. It tries its best to make you forget that you have a job, that bills need paying and ultimately, you have to show up somewhere tomorrow that you'd sooner not think about today.

I've had the loveliest lazy weekend. If you look to your left, i've submitted 3 - yes, 3, count em! - new drawings since Saturday morning, and there's more to come. I know i know, big whoop, but this is a massive deal for me. i was lucky to push out 3 drawings in 3 months, usually. made us a lovely roast yesterday, he is a superb cook We're gonna have a curry later. I look forward to his curries all week, theyre so good ^__^

Cant describe how I feel lately. I just feel free of fear, thats the only way to describe it. i no longer look at art as this thing i have to be amazing at or there's absolutely no point whatsoever. Im moving into a mindset where i can be an artist and actually have days where i'm not so hot, and it's ok! There's always tomorrow, it doesnt mean I've lost my ability to pick a pencil up forever. Actually allowing myself to be shit has helped me, if that makes sense XD

So jealous, couple of my mates are going to party in the park today, a free concert in Temple Newsam. Hopefully my mate Angie will take pics. I've been asking alot of my mates to make pics recently. im really starting to appreciate photographs. Maybe its cos I'm trying hard to improve my background skills, who knows.

I might watch Iron Man again later. I had a wierd dream about Robert Downey JNR last night. We were at a party and some guys were picking on me so he threw them into a pool and made me a cocktail. Very strange!

Recently did another thumbnail post on the DA forums - had some cool submissions, lookie! (threw some tasty extras in too!) :

- OMGOMGOMG words cannot express how much i love this!!!

Reference came back good at work - yay! Still got my trial period til lend of september though which is a bit shite, but oh wells! ooooh friday tomorrow, bring on the goddam weekend!

Oh Google. What a good friend you are! recently, during yet ANOTHER bout of writer's block, i stumbled upon a wonderful method of clearing the stubborn paralysis that always happens whenever I want to write, hands hovering over the keyboard, my mind completely blank except for the sudden urge to go do the ironing or phone the talking clock, ANYTHING to avoid writing something remotely creative.

It's the all yeah 5-minute writing exercises. There's one for each day of the year, and all it asks is that you pic the exercise ofr the corresponding day, and take just 5 minutes to write your characters in that scenario. It's very good because it forces you to ook into things you may never have considered before. For example, my first exercise was imagining some of my chars at the zoo. I know i know, how lame does that sound, but because the exercises asks you to explore how the character experiences the scenario and why, it brings all this new intimacy into the mix, which is great considering it only wants 5 minutes of your time!

im not going to post my rambling offerings with this challenge, too embarrassing! but, I do think it may be worth taking a stab at if any of you are stuck for starting points on your writing or whatever. dont over-complicate it like I tend to do - just have fun!

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Five Reasons
for 5 Minutes



#1. To Train the
Brain to Get Into the Habit of Writing

How do
you write a 500 page book? Or, for that matter, a poem? A piddling
5 minutes at a time. When you're not feeling ready to commit
to writing a short story, magazine article, or, (gulp) a novel,
brief exercises (which of course, can expand to any length of
time) can serve as a bit of track to run on, as it were. The
more often you write, the easier it gets.



#2.
To Train the Brain to Imagine More Vividly with Ease

And how
do you conjure a vivid world for readers? By use of vivid detail
that appeals to the senses (smell, sight, hearing, taste, and
touch), by convincingly conveying other points of view and by
playfully exploring that ever-strange energy of 'what if?' For
the most part, these are the tasks of the 5 minute writing exercises.



#3.
To Enhance the Flow Tomorrow

Alas,
there are days--- even for full-time writers--- when it is impossible
to block out the ideal number of hours for writing. On such days,
if you can write intensely for 5 minutes--- even just 5 minutes---
the writing "muscle" stays pumped so that the following
day, the writing once again flows.



#4.
To
Bust a Block

For those
with writers block--- whose excuses usually include variations
of "I don't have time" and/or "my writing must
be super special & perfect or else why bother" --- five
minutes is a low bar indeed. (By the way, if the block is bad,
try setting an alarm clock or an egg timer, and promise yourself,
when it rings in 5 minutes, you'll quit writing. A bit of reverse
psychology.)



#5.
To Seed Something Big & Wonderful

Pourquoi
pas?

Im trying desperately to get better all-round. Im drawing more, doing more gift art for fwends, and just pouring through photos online for ideas and inspiration. I just want to bust out of this funk. What do you guys do to get your groove back?

I've been on a right 80's kick lately. Very strange! That song "We Close Our Eyes" by go West has been proper circling round in my head for days now

I've done a couple of sketches that i uploaded into my scraps but nowt special. Dunno if I'll even colour them all in. Might attempt to vector one on the advice of , who i may add has far superior colouring - and art skills as a whole - to me. I always tense up at the idea of trying something new and scary. I'll give it a crack anyway. probably on sunday though as i plan on getting drunk on saturday night after one of 's fit-as-f*** curries, omggggg...

I want to design T shirts already.


I want to get drunk and eat gator tail with


I'm looking to massive dinosaur funtime with and


MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!

Oh, almost forgot...

recently I did a "fave of min, fave of yours!" post on the forums, and I got some really cool responses (there were a few more but cant post all of them because apparently deviantart forums dont archive posts for some reason. So here are the ones I faved personally. Threw some extras in there too just because )