...ever", except that didn't fit in the title.

I don't know who reads these or why, but...well, I'll skip right to the skinny.

Happy New Year, everyone that didn't already get that from me, even though it's already January 2nd most places in the world by now. I am sitting here at 12:46 AM. And here is why, other than the fact that I probably would've ended up here at this time anyway. I am sort of pissed. Not really. But you know what I mean. I've been up thinking. My last dev. update was what...for ~niodyne 's birthday, in July. And that's what dA has amounted to for me, basically. I've stopped taking it seriously since way back when and only do situational uploads (i.e. birthday gift art). That being said, I'd still like to upload things every now and then, because I feel bad for the people that watch me. But I can't upload things because I'm dumb. Here is how I am dumb: I want to upload completely digital art here. Just stuff made completely from tablet. But see, I've been working at that on and off for months~years; I'll spare the details. My traditional shet goes to mein artbloggen [link] (Visual Toccata), aptly named if you know what a toccata is (other than my favourite musical vocab. term).

Longer story shorter, I plan on not sleeping tonight...today...and possibly not tonight. I am going to stay up and draw...eventually. That's the gist of it. The end.

BUT WAIT. There's more.

I plan on updating this journal on the hour with my progress, which probably won't be for a while since I'm watching all of the brentalfloss videos ([link]) I've never seen...which is most. He's pretty charismatic and almost makes me want to make my own videos. Almost. He DID inspire me to consume alcohol during the process that is soon to commence, though I don't know how anyone feels about hard liquor at about 1 AM, but w/e I'll just get barely tipsy and slightly more amusing at best. It helps to clear my head. Anyway.

I won't have this journal show up over and over when I do something new, so if you care, come back and refresh. If you care a little, check the journal again on like...Monday. If you don't care, then the journal is more or less done. Oh right, I guess I can talk about other stuff that has been going down. I start classes on Monday (hence why the updates will stop by Monday). I'm sort of looking forward to this quarter...I'll come home late on Tuesdays, but I only have class three days a week. I mean, that's just the greatest thing ever. Most of my week will be "free"...except for the grueling assignments, etc. Also I plan on getting a job. It's 1 AM, so I'll start the log here.

--1 AM--
Rambled: I've been more seriously considering my future. Thanks to Mandy (a.k.a. =bunu), I've got a lot of direction going on. Talking to her has helped me figure out what I want to do with my life, but the problem with that is, now that I know what I want to do, I see how difficult the path to that goal is. Profession aside, I wasn't sure what I was going to do after I graduate (which should be by Summer/Fall). Once again, thanks to Mandy (a.k.a. =bunu), I've decided to go back to my old dream of majoring in Game Art (which is basically interdisciplinary learnings), except I'll have a nice-looking Bachelor's in Business Administration to support me. Masters programs for Game Art tend to be a bit more...hmm...administrate-y, which is what I want for what I plan to do...and some of my prior classes have a decent chance to transfer. I have plans to work on a mini company-group (like atoM, but larger and a bit more serious/business-oriented), so I'll see where that goes...I plan on this being one of few "life's works", so it isn't something that'll collapse too easily. Hopefully I'll have myself sorted by Otakon...maybe even AXX. WHO KNOWS.

1:07 AM, shut up and went back to watching brentalfloss ([link]) vids.

4:22 AM, realized that brentalfloss ([link]) has too many vids (yes, I've been watching since then and I really should start drawing). Also decided to have coffee or something.

7:39 AM, I got into a picture, but eh...I will "finish" it up quickly and upload it, but for the past while I've been sort of zoning out...I might try some 15 minute drills and upload those.

8:37 AM, [link] Gruh, I don't like it for some reasons (possibly because I rushed the end just so it could be "completed"), but this whole "no sleep, lots of drawing" drawathon is just for that; to draw until I make a breakthrough or need to sleep for my first day of classes.