Oh... and as a random note...

[wolfwings]

...I'm gonna start drawing, damnit. I don't care if I get home and only have one hour before I have to leave again for a fresh shift in the morning, I'm going to take time to draw SOMETHING every day, starting tonight... Just one bit of doodling a day at a minimum...

I don't care if I don't get any better at anything except hands... And yes, I just heard every damn last one of you artists groan at me for having no problem drawing hands... guess what. I can't draw anything else right now really, not even a profile sketch of a body or an arm, but I can draw hands no problem.

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Oh, and yes, I bite my nails that badly...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

...as in, yes, that's a sketch based on my own hand, and my fingernails are that far retracted to the point I'm considering having them permenantly removed just so I can stop biting them bloody. =-.-=

Re: Oh, and yes, I bite my nails that badly...

[lionman.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it just be better if you learned no to bite them at all? :-)

Re: Oh, and yes, I bite my nails that badly...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Yes, it would be, but I've tried everything from wearing gloves, to painting icky-tasting things on my fingernails... truth is, I don't care for having them at all where they are anyways. They're just finger-covers, and with how much I bite them I've learned I don't and can't rely on them to help with everyday tasks, to say nothing of my toenails...

If I could afford a surgical transplant to re-position the nail matrix and cuticle into a more usable position that I liked better, I'd pounce on it. But near as I can tell such a surgery would cost on the order of $10k per appendage under local anastetic, and have a really long recover time like most hand or foot surgeries. =^.^=

Yes, I'm one of those folks that tends to figure out how various surgeries could be performed, though in my case I can't afford to actually do them, so I just try to help those with the money and willingness to go through with them. :-)

Re: Oh, and yes, I bite my nails that badly...

[lionman.livejournal.com]

Just don't tell me that you bite your toe-nails too! ;-)

[jade-darkness.livejournal.com]

I thought that was your finger...

[lionman.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...this looks like the classic "video game controller" pose. ;-)

[sebkha.livejournal.com]

One of the downsides I noticed while doing the daily drawing diary thing is that I almost invariably ended up racing to get something drawn at 15 minutes to midnight, to beat the daily cutoff, but that I'd very rarely end up going back to finish anything. This means I got plenty of practice at rough pencils, but never learned anything about inking or coloring.

To counteract this, you might want to let it count towards your daily quota when you go back and ink/tone/color a previous sketch.

That makes sense...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

...though I'm going to tweak it slightly. 365 'points' of art in the next 365 days, with at least as many points as days gone by. :-)

Minimum size is a playing card.
Sketching something counts as a point.
Inking the same counts as a point.
Colouring something counts as a point.