so yeah... i'm behind and getting further behind every second... damn "real" life...

first off someone offered me 100k for avi art. In case you don't understand, i go to gaiaonline.com... its a fun site of art, games and indirect socialization. On this site you use "gaia gold" to buy and sell pixalated items for your avatar from the site. you can also buy art with it. I do some art for people there, mostly for practice but how much your offered does tell you what others think your art is worth and can be a confidence boost or murderer. I normally sell art either free for whatever tips they feel like giving me, or if there's something i want to buy on the site, 30k at most... and someone messages me offering 100k for cute art of her and her boy friend laying in the grass on a summer day, nothing risque to hike up price offers, nothing unusual or overly hard. I accepted immediately and should be posting it when i finish within a few weeks but now I really feel great. It doesn't change the many flaws in my work or thing i need to improve on, but it does show that people enjoy my art enough to spend that much over the asking price (people on gaia can be quite stingy with gold)

onto other things, yeah, really behind, and now I'm getting behind on starting things i get ideas for. I don't tend to look at daily deviations (they get enough publicity without me) but i make a point to check out any comics down there, so now i have a million ideas for comic strips. I have gotten nowhere on my manga (I'm still on the same story, omg!) or the reference sheets for the characters. I've stacked up a list of fanart ideas a mile long, and noted billions of things i want to make chibifyed and saw an excellent tutorial on watercolor i want to try out. I've given up trying acrylics or oil pain this year. And I've officially stopped attempting the guitar (everyone: awww) and feel totally sick of all subjects accept arthistory and chemistry. why these you ask? I'm not taking a "real" art class this year but arthistory is really fascinating and I've really come to admire Hellenistic Greek to the point that i want to make parody art of some of the things mr.teacherman showed us. Chemisty because every project i turn in, no matter how late or how much information is missing, i get a 100% on if i draw a picture on it O.O yeah, i turned something in three days late, missing necessary examples and information because i just didn't know it and she comes up to me and says i have 100 and she wants to know if she can keep it xDD

I've been trying a new coloring style that i really like overall, i just think i need to give it more contrasts and work on the overall execution of it. I'm also trying to give my people smaller heads, i want my stuff to lean slightly closer to realistic so proportions are gonna need work.
EDIT: when i say i want to creat anime leaning closer to realistic, this is the kind of thing i have in mind [link] or basically anything else by that wonderful wonderful artist. Obviously becoming THAT good will take a LOT of time and practice, and I'm not trying to copy them, i just think it's a good example of the kind of anime-realistic i have in mind...

AnimeUSA is this weekend and I'm going to be scouting out the competition for when me and meh budds go next year. I'm gonna be ready no matter what and I'll have to make sure to kick them into gear.

Overall crazy stressed out, I've felt tired every day all day for about two weeks now... think I'm sick... overexerting myself, but mostly it's school's fault, two AP classes and a bunch of honors all with teachers who like going really fast @_@ I'm barely finding time to draw in in my sketchbook between classes... i need a break... suku's coming down for thanksgiving so maybe some bff hanging out with her and Crimson will help... (if this journal has awful grammar and diction and stuff, don't blame me... you're lucky i used spell check so you have any idea what i'm saying)

EDIT2: last night when i wrote this, i was sick off some bad Chinese food, unfortunately i only discovered that that was the cause because today i decided to have leftovers and... well... you know what i mean...