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Hey guys, so it's been around 2 years since I was last active on dA, and I've got to say quite a bit has happened since then. Do you guys remember the journal entry I wrote in around 2015 (it's been removed since, because I was afraid people irl would find it), about wanting to go to the States for university? It'd always been my dream to move away from home and go to a large university and meet all sorts of amazing people, but after my brother had just moved there, my mom told me that we wouldn't have the funds to send me away. I decided I would work hard to apply to schools that give good financial aid to international students-- despite my mom wanting me to stay here-- and, well, next fall, I'm attending Cornell University.
But it felt a bit wrong, because along the way I realized I want to do art for a career. And the more I had to put off drawing in favor of prepping for the SATs (US university application requirement) and APs, the more I realized how much I hate not having art in my life. I never prepped a portfolio because I was clueless, to be honest, about art school application (bit of a long story there), but basically I ended up having to choose between US schools and an entry level art program here in Canada.
It's been a long time thinking about my career and why I even wanted to go to the States for the first place, but I think I'm happy with my decision. There's no courses in art practice in my college at the university, so I'll have to take courses in the art college, but because of requirements I won't be able to take many. My major will have to be an academic one (which I do not choose until second year). I honestly do not want to major in anything but art... I'm tired of feeling like I'm just grinding through academic work for some measly ounce of time I can squish in for art at midnight or on a weekend. But, I don't know. I know I don't have to go to art school to draw or learn to draw better. Perhaps I will be able to balance my academic interests with a study in art anyways. I intend to, at least.
All in all though, after months of feeling confused, lost, and fearful of the choice I will eventually make, I'm excited. I'm excited to be moving away, and I'm excited to get a restart on how I choose to spend my time. I'm excited for university. And I'm excited to be here.
Yeet now who's ready for a SumMEr BreAK. a month more to go for me, and then some fresh fresh time to just draw.
But it felt a bit wrong, because along the way I realized I want to do art for a career. And the more I had to put off drawing in favor of prepping for the SATs (US university application requirement) and APs, the more I realized how much I hate not having art in my life. I never prepped a portfolio because I was clueless, to be honest, about art school application (bit of a long story there), but basically I ended up having to choose between US schools and an entry level art program here in Canada.
It's been a long time thinking about my career and why I even wanted to go to the States for the first place, but I think I'm happy with my decision. There's no courses in art practice in my college at the university, so I'll have to take courses in the art college, but because of requirements I won't be able to take many. My major will have to be an academic one (which I do not choose until second year). I honestly do not want to major in anything but art... I'm tired of feeling like I'm just grinding through academic work for some measly ounce of time I can squish in for art at midnight or on a weekend. But, I don't know. I know I don't have to go to art school to draw or learn to draw better. Perhaps I will be able to balance my academic interests with a study in art anyways. I intend to, at least.
All in all though, after months of feeling confused, lost, and fearful of the choice I will eventually make, I'm excited. I'm excited to be moving away, and I'm excited to get a restart on how I choose to spend my time. I'm excited for university. And I'm excited to be here.
Yeet now who's ready for a SumMEr BreAK. a month more to go for me, and then some fresh fresh time to just draw.
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i spent time hoping it wouldn't break i spent time taping all the pieces thousands of pieces i hope you feel this pain i hope you die and pick up your own ashes speck by speck with your bare hands evil is shattering the vase, evil is taping the vase, evil is telling you to fill in the cracks with gold and make something brand new better blood is on my hands and i'll leave this be broken you did it, so watch i did it, so ill watch too sit still no fumbling look you idiot you thought you could unbreak something? some mistakes can't be made learn a lesson but you can't unmurder someone so what good does the lesson do? bring them back from the dead? people die that's how it goes look look harder look at it this is the kind of thing you wish you would never write
my tablet of 8 years is dying :(
I got this tablet when I was 13, and I've used it up til now (technically a little less because I ended up sending in the first one with a warranty for a replacement). It's a smol little Wacom Bamboo Create I got for $60, but it's served me so well and I'm so used to it now. I'm pretty sure most people professionally use the larger screen ones but I planned on never parting with this boi until it died. :( I suppose it is now finally time. The pressure is getting weaker and weaker, and I'm basically drawing on 100% opacity all the time and it's sometimes still not enough. I'll be given a new one from school when I start this fall anyway, and I'm sure I'll adapt to it in time (it's one of the large screen ones). But I've always said drawing materials don't matter because I've drawn basically everything with this $60 small thing. I had a sort of pride with it XD. If Bamboo wasn't discontinued I'd literally get a new one of the same thing; why not, it works well enough for everything I
The Benefits of being an Artist During Zoom School
Creating custom zoom backgrounds XDXDXD So a bit of context for people not using Zoom/use it but don't know this-- you can set a custom background, and Zoom will automatically cut out your face so it looks like you're in front of the background. (Go to the arrow next to 'start video' and click 'choose virtual background'.) So this is how my room normally looks: But I get to change it up whenever I want :'). I think next week I'm gonna have a battleship crash through my room. Unfortunately no one commented on the pepes.. I wonder if they think those might be real pictures in the background and don't want to comment in fear of insulting my room decorations LMAO. for those also in zoom university/high school show me your custom virtual backgrounds (side note I'm not trying to hide my face particularly-- I know you can find it pretty easily like on my artstation.. just felt like it today though xd)
Thank you for the DD
I never thought I'd be writing this journal because ???
me? DD? ~ohstopityouplz (https://www.deviantart.com/ohstopityouplz)
Haha it was just a really nice surprise since I'd just "returned" to dA after a somewhat 3 year dry spell, and I was browsing my old journals and artworks and being all nostalgic for all the fun times I had on dA in elementary-early highschool, and just being excited to have time to draw again and be back here... and I was just thinking I'm hoping I can keep making art and being in this community and make new memories for years to come - yenno, cheesy stuff. And then I get a DD for basically the first artwork I posted since last year... and I'm not one for
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we've talked a bit about this already, but congrats on getting university down here! despite it being more academic stuff, I hope you'll still enjoy it. and I hope you're able to get into the more art centered programs you'd mentioned.
I can't remember if I had asked, but was there anything in particular you wanted to do with an art field? like a specific career path
anyhow, hope you enjoy your summer break, and the opportunity for university come fall!