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Published: 2013-03-10 14:39:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 1003; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 10
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i honestly can't remember if i uploaded this here but i was walking through memory lane (ie. my first posts on my tumblr) and found thesei think i'm just sad that this doesn't look as bad as i hoped 3-year-old art would be h-haha i kept trying to kid myself but i really haven't improved from 2010
i actually think i've regressed a bit? gonna blame biomedicine orz" i can't wait until i finish this degree asdkfj i can't even decide what to major in and i've started my final year already ahhh;;;
also this: [link]
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someone please kick me into drawing every day and/or does anyone have tips for how else to improve because i feel like i've come to a standstill? and i really don't want that, stagnating is possibly the worst thing that could happen to me and it's been going on for 3 years adfkj
(will scrap in the next few days to avoid my guilt)
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Yes, yes! Typical American summer! 
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score!! glad it's factually accurate haha thank you!
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Haha! 
No prob! ^^
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ahhh third year second thoughts! i had some too, i was like what why am i doing this NOOOO and then i did a field trip and changed my mind. pumped for the major again haha
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oh gosh i still haven't decided and the last date i can add classes is this friday I CAN'T DECIDE oh mannnn i'm trying to keep up with three majors at once right now and with my timetable meaning i don't get home until 7pm i am just.. really... really.... exhausted.. i also fell really sick over the weekend which was when i was hoping to catch up so now i'm super behind. all i want to do is indulge in my guilty pleasure of My Kitchen Rules
it's just 'cause i like bioengineering; it's interesting subject matter but i haven't done any physics so it's proving to be super hard and the timetable is super tiring and idk if it's worth it?? when i could be doing something else like genetics/biotech which i (might) be able to do better since it's more stuff i'm used to. apart from the whole business side of it. on the other hand, while i'd have more time off to work on a portfolio (maybe), the third year genetics topics are incredibly dry and if i ever decide to go into postgrad engineering i'll have to spend another whole year doing the subjects i could just be doing this year (i mean i'm not really intending to pursue anything to do with science/engineering so it shouldn't really matter but there are still other factors i need to worry about which i won't inundate you with) SIGH uni sucks man :'| sorry for tl;dr ahaha FEEL FREE TO IGNORE MY STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS but i'm glad you're really excited about your major!! haha field trips can do that eh
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ahhh stressing to the max! well dont be afraid of underloading/taking extra time to do your degree if you're not 100%!! its what i did in first year when i was doing a double degree (arts/science, didnt like arts much). take some extra time with physics/get a tutor, or you could do genetics/biotech. i barely managed to pass genetics, it was oh so dry :/
and all the excitement from the field trip did a 180 because i am absolutely sucky at stats and i have no idea what im doing jfc this is awful... makes me feel so stupid! stats y u so hard to understand!!! and then the lecturers are like 'you have to know stats so well to be successful, you need to own it' and here its like i cant even figure out which tests to do/how to do them properly
i have a stats assignment due tomorrow can you tell? ahah sob
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i really want to just get this done though, i've been dragging myself through the past two years because i never actually wanted to do this degree haha;; i really enjoyed genetics in VCE/second year but it's the worst this year oh man. i did consider getting extra physics help but i'm not sure it's worth it? my timetable is so full-on i don't think i'd have time while still getting in some time for eating and sleeping and all that regular stuff hahah (but respect for doing even one year of a double degree!)
and ah no way :( stats is awful, i spent my whole semester of it wanting to throw my books into space because i could not get it at all but when i finally understood it (..in swotvac) IT WAS LIKE THE HEAVENS OPENED UP because i realised the tests are all pretty similar and it just all clicked. and p much everyone i've talked to has said the exact same thing haha so it's definitely not easy. that said, i've completely forgotten it all (apart from maybe chi-squared and something with a sigma and n somewhere), i really wish i could help you ugh what kind of data are you working with? i still have my massive reader from it so i can try to help out?
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man i totally get what you're getting at, at first i was worried about underloading cause i'd finish uni a bit later but now i'm like man fuckit i'll do what i want! dude don't do what you aren't passionate about, there's no problem with half (or even completely) finishing a major and then changing your mind. i'd offer help with physics but all i remember is some bits of HSC physics and i didn't even do well in that class.
the sort of stuff we're doing is graphing and hypothesis testing i just can never remember which test to do (except chi square but thats just cause my genetics demonstrator kept going over examples after doing a d. melanogaster experiment).
ah i got an extension on the assignment cause i was away all last week for the field trip. all the instructions are literally given in the lab manual, it was just written so badly that i had no idea what the guy wanted in our assignments. i've been roping in all my friends to help me with it haha. but thanks thats so sweet! if theres something i could help you with (doubtful, but still!) let me know! what sort of physics are you doing?
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haha the thing is though that i'm not really passionate about any of the majors? so i'm really just picking arbitrarily but i guess i'd like to maintain some vague level of interest & ability to actually.. pass hahah, the thing is that i have no idea what will fill those criteria until i actually do it and by then it's too late to change (and since this degree isn't in my greatest interests i'd prefer to just finish it instead of stopping and having another go next year)
and no problem re
and hahah aw man i'm listening to a genetics lecture now and the slide they're talking about right at this moment is of the beloved Drosophila! and poisson distributions. though i guess in genetics the probability of that is pretty high. but sweet that you got an extension! love it when staff are actually understanding of situations haha. but yeah again just let me know too if you need any help (even though i'm sure your friends will be 900% more useful than i would be), and thank you for the physics-help offer!
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ah that kind of sucks then 
ahhh good ol' Drosophila! i still remember trying to anaesthetise a tube full of drosophila and have them warm up and fly off when i was trying to look at them through the microscope. today was actually pretty good in my evolution lab, involved 'catching' cereal with chopsticks (and eating heaps of Cheerios because i was starving)
just printed off my assignment, feels good man! (except for the part where i'm shit at excel and i just flail around and grab everyone to help me). hope all's well and your moment of enlightenment comes soon!!
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ah sorry for the super late reply, i ended up choosing biotech purely for the easier timetable (tuesdays and wednesdays off and only a couple hours on the other days haha..) so i'd better kick myself into utilising this time effectively and actually doing my portfolio. thank you for the support! i'll deal with any regret later. in my biotech core subject we're going through heaps of business stuff like patents and IP and stuff but i don't know how useful it would be in actually running/taking part in a business haha. it would be super useful though! really practical knowledge which is applicable in all sorts of areas, if you can handle the workload etc i'd recommend it
hahah seems to be the general consensus that mechanics is a butt SIGH.
oh man haha chloroforming drosophila was the worst, they would fly off on me ALL THE TIME and then we just. ended up putting them in the ~fly morgue~ straight afterwards. :'| all i remember is that the males had different abdomens haha. but dude that lab sounds awesome (even if i couldn't ever catch cereal with chopsticks..), what was the relation to evolution?
YEAHHH good job on finishing your assignment!! excel is about on par with mechanics and anaesthetising flies haha but the feeling of finishing stuff totally makes up for it. :9
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ah at least you've made a decision! i swear it feels at least a bit better once you've sort of committed to one thing rather than be pulled in all directions from several. time off is like a godsend! i don't know if its just me but third year is driving me crazy, and its only third week of the semester!! my single wednesdays off are spent back at uni in the computer labs number crunching. hard to believe i was complaining about using excel last week, just today i used minitab, primer and excel to do (deep breath) ANOVAs, ANOSIMs, DistLMs, PERMANOVAs, MANOVAs, MDSs and a wee little linear regression. kind of more driven to make data analysis my bitch, so i can understand all this number jumble! and to make things better i just paused my assignment to sculpt a chestburster from Alien to take to my faculty cruise on friday. priorities, man.
well like my mum says, any degree is better than no degree!
haha we used ice to cool them down, and then the light for the microscope warmed them up. i would notice one getting up as i was trying to observe phenotypes and i'd just press him back down onto the ice pack while going 'shhhh go back to sleeeeep'. got a few strange looks from the other people on my table haha. i think it was about genetic drift. i wont lie, i was more interested in eating the cereal than paying attention to what was happening. full time uni+funemployment+me being absolutely disorganised = me having to go without lunch because i was cheap, and also keep running out the door without food/having had breakfast. i really figure i should work on my time management haha.
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yeah it definitely feels better, and learning about IP and patents and stuff is actually pretty cool (even if i have no idea how i'll handle the assessment OH WELL); i've seen those topics come up countless times in the past week relating to the art field so it seems to be useful knowledge to have. moreso than the life cycles of lambda phage at least.
oh man minitab
and yeah i just really want to get this degree done even if it won't lead to any jobs haha. at least i can say i've done something with the past three years of my life..
drosophila can totally understand humans, idk what your classmates are thinking. but oh ahha fair enough! i keep forgetting what drift is exactly despite it being such a fundamental principle of genetics, i wish i had cereal to really cement it in my head. and i think bad time management is a hallmark of uni students, i would work on it but i.. just don't have the time. HAHA ha
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oh man sorry for the late reply, real life dramaz all up in hurrrr (but its all good now).
time spent learning is rarely time wasted! better to come out of uni with a degree all finished rather than stop halfway through. mum says it means you're trainable and have commitment.
haha oh drosophila i dont want to consider how many i accidentally ingested in that lab. i was also working with tetranychus mites for another class and kept feeling phantom mites crawling over me the entire time. also speaking of animals, i'm heading off on another field trip which involves catching fishies and killing some to harvest their otoliths (earbones). i am SO PUMPED haha ha hahh.. i just started dating this guy and he's like 'wow you eat such small meals' i'm too embarrassed to say that its because i've gotten used to going a day without food just cause i dont have time/money to get food :I
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haha don't worry about it man! i'm super caught up too with just.. everything
and that's so true, i'd feel even more pathetic if i wasted 3 years of my life on nothing. RESILIENCE yeahh hopefully that shows up well on my future profile
..... alright i never thought about accidental ingestion of drosophila but now. god never going to a lab again haha i would totally feel the same way about the mites too. i never had to work with them thankfully
and oh what the heck ASDKF HARVESTING OTOLITHS wow do you have to take them out yourself..? that sounds intense man. what kind of fish? zebrafish?
the exact day i broke up my relationship. we are connected in the great circle of life aw man hope it goes well! (do you say congrats for these things?) but ahah i love food too much to not eat at all but generally i eat super-low-calorie food and people are always concerned when they really don't need to be. my boyf used to MAKE ME FOOD because he was that concerned and it was sweet but i was just like. i'm fine.. hahah so i totally know where you're at. but you should still try to eat more whenever you have even the minimal means, nutrition is important yadayada you know the drill JUST DON'T OVERWORK YOURSELF
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yup. i'm so behind with so many things but i'm leaving to head up the coast tomorrow morning so it'll have to wait! ohhh man you should have seen my friend and i dissecting a shark, splattered shark oil everywhere! on my face, hands, in my mouth.. eugh. but our reassurance to ourselves was that sharks dont get cancer so it must have been beneficial somehow!
yup! we catch some fish, euthanise them and then dissect them. i'm not sure, but its some common estuarine species...
*starts african chanting* aw man sorry to hear about that ): *pats* and oh dont get me wrong, i still get greedy as hell and get heaps of food, i just cant finish it all haha. so whats new. i think after the first field trip (in which we ate like ten meals a day) my body realised i wasnt doing crazy hours trekking out in the wilderness so it was like 'HEY SLOW DOWN FATTY' and thus my stomach got smaller. or somethin.
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haha maybe we should be taking shark oil supplements instead of fish oil. might be some sort of problem with conservation though. just maybe.
but man i'm kinda jealous you get to do such hands-on stuff! the only organisms we dealt with were those lab drosophila and already-dead mice (and flowers), basically what every student deals with. i don't think the human cadavers for anatomy really count since we just poked around the sections instead of doing the dissections ourselves. have an awesome time though!! let me know how it goes :9
and ahah i'm all good. i think. it was for the better but i still feel awful, moreso on his behalf. anywayy /soblifestory
ASDKFJ hahha that sounds like a solid explanation, yeah some people just don't need as much food as others?? and when we don't eat much we're treated like rare frail unicorns o rsomething
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haha yeah the shark conservationists might have something to say about that.
and i hate to vent to you, but ARGHHH what a terrible day. crashed the car, got stranded for 5 hours while NRMA were being little shits. my friend has a problem with the guy i'm dating because now she likes him even though she assured me she didnt. parents are angry at me for crashing the one car the family has to share. i have to pay for a new battery and new windshield (and maybe even a new wheel alignment) plus my credit card bill is in the 6-7 hundred range. so many assignments due. just...argh. haven't had a great day
the field trip itself was good though! had a chill group of people to work with, and plenty of down time. and i was getting pretty pro at dissecting the hardyheads (little fishies) by the end of it haha.
oh man i'm not sure if i'm eating more or less after that second field trip. the person running the kitchen didnt have as much food as the other woman we had for the first field trip. and i woke up early one morning to find a brush turkey going through our bins looking for food. had to chase him out of camp twice haha
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ah i'm sorry, life just kind of pooped me out.
but oh man
sorry again for the late reply but ugh yeah it's that time of the semester too, that's the worst timing. i wish i could help out man, but otherwise feel free to vent whenever! it's totally cool, especially on days like that which just throw the world's garbage at you.
i'm glad you had a good time on the fieldtrip though
(and i also just learnt a new fact despite my childhood obsession with yowies and wildlife fact files: we have turkeys in australia)
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nah you're right! yeah that was a particularly shit week. things are calming down now, thank god. though the car repairs are gonna be a bitch. i should..probably get a job stripping. and all the crap's been sorted out with the friend! of course the rumours sound the worst when they're coming like third or fourth hand through other people. so she was fine with the whole thing.
noo you're not annoying! i feel like im just word-vomiting my problems at you haha sorry!
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MONEY WHO NEEDS MONEY oh god, me
are your parents/anyone else willing to cover repairs in the meantime? and ohh okay haha sweet. damn rumours
and nah you're not! i am always here to listen*~*~~*
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i'm thinking a bar job...that cant be too hard can it? and i dont mind working nights. time management, though sob
so my dad revised the cost from $2000 to $1000 so not as bad but still a kick in the guts :/
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yeah, i think the main issue people have with bars are the late shifts so if you're okay with that you should be good :9
and oh wow yeah that's pretty good, a bit of a softer kick haha.
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if i can survive perpetual all nighters for assignments, i can survive night shifts at bars :> its like uni is training me for it haha
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hahah true, and at least at a bar you get the social aspect whereas assignments are just mindnumbingly.. mindnumbing
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It's hard to come up with any suggestions for bettering your art. The only think I can think of is sometimes your shading seems a little flat. I understand though this seems to be your style, which I enjoy very much. I think it would be cool to see you try using more skin tones and giving it a softer look.
Just putting that out there~
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thank you!! ah man i didn't even think of that much haha, i'll definitely keep that in mind and try experimenting a bit more
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I hope that was what you were thinking of when you were asking for some critisim. ^^ I still think your works are fabulous either way
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it definitely was! i always love receiving crit on anything, whenever i get any feedback it's really useful
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i'm glad to be able to help you! you're welcome ^^
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Hmmm... I honestly think this is really, really good! Although, if you'd like some tips, even though I can't draw...
America's face seems a little bit thin for the character. Dunno how else to say it, it just does. The shading and coloring and everything is really quite beautiful, though, and it all just fits. But... where are his glasses? Does America wear contacts in the summer? And the ahoge (I call 'em that. Don't judge
Um... Backgrounds? Yours are wonderful, but maybe if you want something to work on, make more detailed backgrounds? Although the simple ones fit...
Dunno what else to say, you're so good at this it's hard to find fault.
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haha this is actually an old piece from 2010 but i definitely agree with you on those points, something was bugging me about the face and the thinness does seem to be the problem
but thank you so much for taking the time, even critiques on older art can be super helpful so i really appreciate it as well as the compliments \o/
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Oh, I didn't know this was old... It just showed up on my DeviantWatch and I thought it was new, sorry. (I think they're called ahoges, that's what I hear, and there's a tag on zerochan for an ahoge, so I just kinda go with that, but mentally call the actual curls (Italies, Korea) haircurls. Guess it's up to each person)
You're very welcome, I hope I was of some help!
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no problem at all, don't apologise! i didn't make it very clear haha and thank you for clearing up the ahoge/haircurl thing too :9
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Oh, I apologize even when I'm not wrong, don't worry :3 It was in the description now that I go back and pay more attention
No problem, it's always been questionable...
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