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I'd like to start off with a quick apology for not having updated my journal since November. Things have been rough and I haven't had much time to think about my art so much.

Anyways though, now that that's out there, I guess I wanted to talk about the "art problems" that I've been dealing with. Granted, they are not very new, but they are a major source of frustration for myself and I'm sure other people who expect art from me when I promise it. I have this thing where I get fired up and motivated to draw or work on something, so I start like, fifty projects all at once, thinking stupidly that I have a chance of finishing most of them in a decent amount of time. Except it doesn't last long. I'll end up accumulating a pile of unfinished or scrapped pieces lying around my room or cluttering my hard drive, and I never get back to them. Even if I do stumble upon them months later, I don't always want to work on them anymore. So this, my friends, is my art problem. I start things that I love or get excited about, only to either lose interest quickly or become too frustrated to work on any more. I really hate it. I've been getting better at it, but I still have to do everything in one or two takes if I ever expect the piece to see the light of day again. I'd feel more accomplished if this wasn't the case. I rather like my art usually, which is a big step from the year or two that I absolutely despised drawing and everything I drew or tried making. My style has evolved, although it is far from what I wish it were, but I am okay with this. I don't plan on ever making drawing or painting a huge part of my daily life, so I'm not ridiculously upset about not being that great of an artist. In short, I wish that I could finish my artwork instead of forgetting about it or "leaving it for later". Take my comic, for example. I've had the characters and general story line in my head for years, but I've only churned out two and half pages so far, which at this point I am not even satisfied with anymore. And another thing that is irksome because of my bad habit: the time that lapses between the beginning and finished project is usually so long that halfway through that hiatus, my style changes and I have to practically start everything over in order for everything to seem uniform again, or else it looks weird when some parts are in one style and the others are in a completely new one. Grr, frustrating!

Hm, so that was my small piece of insight about my thoughts lately. In terms of my life in general, I have been accepted to two colleges since my last entry (yay!) and I returned from my class's senior trip to Disney last Saturday. It was really awesome, and probably the only time all year so far that I was generally stress-free.

I posted a few "pieces" in my scraps for anyone who is interested, and I would idealistically love to continue working on my comic again. Right. We'll see how that turns out.

Toodles for now.

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