I've been feeling a bit dodgy about my art lately; I'm not very good at drawing, writing, or photography but I enjoy them all a lot.

For drawing I'm trying really hard to express the way I want to- gorgeous bright colours, people in the style very much like how my Roxas sketch is going [link] -realistic shape but large eyes, the mouth and nose styles I'm happy with, free looking hair. I can draw people much better if I use a photo reference (getting out my old Buffy magazines ) and my artists dummy for help with anatomy. I feel like my people I try to sketch out look stiff (but the more I use references, the less this is). Most of the time I don't end up drawing anything because I just can't get the ideas into my head. I think this will probably improve after exams though, since the stress and lack of relaxation time would be affecting that. I want to try mixed medium for lots of different effects and colours.

I've been looking at visual poetry and I think that would be really interesting to try. I've had ideas for combining text and pictures but they haven't really developed.

I want to try messing with my camera's settings to find out how to do different things, and just to see what happens. Getting Gimp yesterday was good because it will get me to take more photos so I can try editing them.

Beading is fine, just very time consuming, and I feel like right now I'd like to do something a bit more free-ish.