spirea-yucca

That up there was my itinerary for the last week and a half, from which I triumphantly return! Just kidding, I slink back in terror and misery. Ahead of me are three/fourish weeks of exam projects and preparation...ugh. Doesn't help that I have a week and a half of work to catch up on!!! But wait! What am I doing?? This journal/blog is meant to speak about my trip, not how unhappy I am that it's over!! Also if you find it too...gloaty, then please be reassured that I don't mean to drag on, I just really want to get all this down so that I myself will remember it in the future...it's too time consuming to write a journal /and/ a blog. So! The

Nothing surprising about that, I'm sure. Just like so many of my loved ones on here I write this entry just to get rid of the one I currently have up on my profile - I mean, really, June? First fanart? Scandalous. Not that I've done any fanart since then...not much traditional art at all, as can be seen from the fact that the last thing I have up (before the ID) is the dinky little gifs made on ImageReady. Much has changed since then! One thing that hasn't is the fact that I don't have access to Svet's two new NightSchool novels, which is also scandalous (my new word?) considering I'm supposed to be her biggest fan and whatever. Whatever.

I've finished my first ever piece for fanart!! Yayayah! It is of course a Svet piece, done for Nightschool, although Dramacon remains my favourite book of hers. I must admit that I didn't do the piece out of now where - I'm just practicing my fan-arting skills for Svet's fanart contest! Hoorah! Whoever wins the contest gets to be in her next volume of Nightschool, and get's a free, signed copy!! I know my art isn't insanely good (Ha ha) but I think I may have a slim chance, and just generally feel insanely proud of myself for 1. motivating myself to do something vaguely useful 2. for drawing again! (always a challenge) 3. for making somethi