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Hello everybody and happy Easter. ^_^
I don't have much to share, but I thought I'd let you know some of my thoughts, how I am, what's been going on. When I was posting in March I was talking about making the story linear and changing the format to a very basic one of text on the left and character portraits on the right. I showed two portraits that I'd done and also talked about being less ambitious with the amount of song's I'll do, later. I still think that having the story be linear is a good idea. I have been writing it lately and things have been going well. As I write and grow I get better at writing in general and I understand more where I'm going with the story and what I'm doing, what's important to have, and what doesn't really need to be there. As I'm writing now, things are going in a slightly different direction than when I was writing in the past, but I do feel that I know more what I'm doing and where I'm going, presently. Lately I've been experimenting with painting, as you know, and there is something very pleasant about making art in a more tangible way. As you may have noticed, though, the two paintings I've shown you so far have been warped. I've heard from my mom who's a talented artist, that the paper I'm using is quite thin and will warp like that when I paint on it. She's given me new, thicker art paper and says that if I lay it flat and tape it to my art-table/art-board, my future paintings won't be warped once they dry. She also had a few 9"/12" canvases left over from one of the art-classes she taught, and she let me have them. Apparently they're each really cheap! She gave, like, 11! Lately I've been making a loose, abstract painting that's not connected to The Silent Column for fun and to enjoy and get used to the medium of paint. Also, lately I've been making a few sculptures: one as a commission for a friend and one for myself, the former being made out of Sculpey and the latter being made out of natural clay. It felt very nice making a sculpture out of something as natural as clay and it was also nice to do my best to make the entirety of the sculptures as one piece without breaking off and re-attaching pieces. Apparently when you make an entire sculpture out of nearly an entire 10-pound brick of clay, it takes quite a while to air-dry, and with some parts being different thicknesses there was some cracking and such, but still, it's nice sculpting like this, and I think after a week of drying, it's quite dry. I've mainly just been making art, writing, and wondering what I'm going to do with the art in The Silent Column. I can just continue making portraits as I have been, but in a way that doesn't warp. If I did so, I'd want to redo the two paintings I already have finished, which would take some time but I wouldn't mind doing. On the other hand, The Metal Angel only took about three hours when I was drawing with a timer, the speed of which is appealing to me. If I were to use the three hour method and try to produce somewhere between three and five pieces a week, I could perhaps just have the visual novel that only consist of CGs unique to each situation, which would be more interesting to look at than just a few character portraits, would help me build a nice portfolio of work, and would help me improve as an artist just due to the speed and repetition of creating art. Perhaps I can do the three hour, all CG idea with paintings, but I would have to keep in mind needing to pick up physical materials and the fact that things need to dry before I can paint over top of them and such, which takes time out of the three hours. Hmm... As for the music part of what I said, I haven't given it much thought. I think I should just focus on what's in front of me instead of speculating about stuff that might be on/over the horizon. Thanks for listening to my thoughts and being patient. I'll see you next time. :)
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