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Watercolors on handmade paper.Watercolor does NOT work well on handmade paper. It bleeds. Horribly. I either forgot to size this piece of paper (sizing is a way of making paper not bleed) or this kind of paper is just not made for watercolors.
Scanner is still not working. Had to take a picture with my camera, so sorry for the shadows.
Paper took about ten minutes to make, doodle took about fifteen minutes to sketch out, and then another half-hour or so to ink and color.
Yes, I drew him upside down. I do better drawing upside down. So I figured I'd keep it.
DP design is (c) Butch Hartment
Paper design is mine.
-Cori
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I can't draw upside down. Fact of life. It doesn't work, for me. 
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Thanks. 
-Cori
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I'd try it, but the last time I did... is perhaps, "disastrous conundrum" the right description?
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Oooo... disasters are fun.
When I was in art in high school, my teacher used to make us draw for the first few seconds - in pen - with our eyes closed, then we had to incorporate our pen 'sketch' into our final project. Learn to accept our mistakes and disasters for the beauty that they really are, or some such nonsense.
-Cori
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Including disaster fics that you don't ever want to post, but want to keep tapping away at, anyway? I've had them...
Well, that's an interesting way of doing it, I suppose. I don't really find beauty in mistakes. When drawing, my eraser is my best friend. 
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Yes. Including disaster fix.
I don't own erasers. 
But to each their own, I suppose.
-Cori
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lol My current never-going-to-see-the-light-of-day fic is about 26 pages long, atm. I wish I could pay more attention to my real fics.
Wow. 
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Wow... I'd hate drawing if it was Huge and Tedious. I just draw and have fun with it and when I'm done hang it on my fridge for awhile, then recycle it. Shouldn't take any longer than I want it to take.
-Cori
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I think that's what I like about it. I like fiddling with things. I like trial and error. I think this is why I like programming; it's something that I have to try to change a fair bit before it comes out right. (however, this does not, under any circumstances, mean that I like maths. 
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Oh yes, that's the issue with writing. The more you write, the more you want to write, the you need to write... *headdesk* But it's fun and addictive. I wouldn't give it up for the world.
I'm not so much for fiddling and things like that. Programming is... *eh*. Too tedious for me. You have to get it EXACTLY right for it to work and I'm not an exactly right kinda person.
But I agree. Math not fun.
-Cori
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I know! When I first got into it, I kinda thought it was just going to be a fad. Now fiction's all that seems to go through my mind, whether it be plots, words, ideas, fantasies or sentences. It all demands to be written! 
Heh, oh, I know that too well. Sometimes, even if you get it exactly right, you're still going to have issues! And don't get me started about making typos in code. 
I failed my last maths exam by 1%. I could have gotten half a mark more, but oh no. Apparently the run-myself-into-the-dust-studying-for-nothing-else-and-thinking-I-was-doing-really-well-week-beforehand wasn't good enough.
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*lmao* Fiction's been all that's in my mind for YEARS. Not fanfic, not necessarily, but fic in general.
I took a visual basic coding class in college and I got out of it as fast as I could. I never EVER got anything to work. Way too picky and nitty. I give you all sort of props for enjoying it. *bows*
Ouch... I never took any sort of higher-level math exams. I'm just not a math-type person.
-Cori
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Heheh, before I was a writer, my imagination ran rampant. I didn't get bunnies, but I sure as heck had a lot of ideas and daydreams which were a lot more interesting than whatever the teacher was yammering on about at that moment. 
Ugh, I'm taking Year 10 Maths Advance. It's a killer. I was in Year 9 General last year, and I was doing fairly well. I didn't like it, granted, but at least I was doing well. So I moved up, and now my maths marks contrary to everything else I do, look like a train disaster as I go on. I have two test scores in the 80%s, and then all of the rest are under 55%! *headdesk* I'm going to keep trying. I'm not going to fail the exam this time. I REFUSE to fail it. I need to do Maths Methods next year...
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I know. My daydreams were ALWAYS much more interesting than the teachers. That was simply the way life worked.
It may just be you being you enjoying that kind of stuff, but it still deserves all the accolades I can send you way. My little brother's really into coding and perfect things like that and I know how amazingly smart he is. So I can imagine you.
Ooooh... yuck. Advanced?! I was in the remedial courses in math - I barely survived general math courses. Math was not my strong point. I now totally bow before you, oh master of all things math-related.
Keep trying! You'll do a wonderful job with it!!
-Cori
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Mmmhmm. 
XD Master of all things maths-related? You might need to turn to something else. I've finally decided I'm jumping down to general this year, because methods would have ended with me getting nothing short of impaled.
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Ouch... good luck.
-Cori
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Yeah. And I can focus on my other subjects, too! Even though I always get all Cs, it's the system. No one gets As and barely anyone gets Bs. You have to be ridiculously gifted in a certain subject to get Bs. The standards are ridiculously high, so Cs mean "Yes, you're on track. Good on you, keep going like this. You're going great." while Ds mean "You fail, suck and should probably be held down."
Basically, it's all about what the teachers comment on in your report - not your grades. Grades have become obsolete - with everyone getting all Cs, there's nothing to distinguish anyone from anyone else, there.
Sorry about the textwall. I'm bitter.
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Bitter works.
It's better than the system I went through - nearly everyone got straight As. Anything less than straight As meant there was something wrong with you. The teachers at my school were so scared of the parents that everything was pretty, honkey-dory, and awesome no matter what happened.
...thus, I'm still a bit bitter at my abysmal English grades.
-Cori
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Oh yes, the curse of the ADD and other mental issues. 'It doesn't exist!' is too commonly heard as a refrain. If I had to try to count how many times I was told to 'just knock it off!' as a kid, I'd probably be a really old person before I got to stop. Can't see the issue, it's not there. Evil people.
And of course meds are a cure-all for anything. Overmedicated kids up here. 1 in 10 is autistic (or whatever the stats are) and need to be on meds.
*snort*
The human race survived all this time without complicated medications, we can survive bet without them today. Learn to adapt to people, not force them to adapt to ridiculous standards with medication and advanced behavior training.
...woah. How did we get from dreams to this?
-Cori
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I see you were one of those who went through with that, eh? I can relate here - even though I can sit through just about anything and absorb a lot of information so long as I've got something in my hands to fiddle with - there are times when I myself have extreme trouble in focusing, such as when I'm severely stressed. In November, I was struggling with maths, studying for exams, staying on top of schoolwork AND doing the NaNo at the same time. I didn't know what free time was. In my exam week, I slept no more than nine hours. And when I went into a class... I stared blankly and muttered to myself and spoke really quickly and went into random babblings and rants that half the time, that no one could understand. Everything seemed like a BLUR.
Many of my teachers, after the exams, came up and ask me what the hell had gone wrong with me. By the time November was over, I felt useless because I had nothing to do and I couldn't busy myself with anything. I punched my pillow so many times. I nearly threw up. Mum was beginning to wonder if I'd get a stomach ulcer.
Okay, so that's not ADD. That's what stress does to me. A few of my friends have told me that I might have a bit of an anxiety problem. It doesn't help that my mum has to go into hospital all the time because of >issues< which I oftentimes end up having to deal with, such as not getting dinner, worrying that she hasn't taken her tablets, and wondering why she was putting a couple of them down the bloody sink. It doesn't help that she wouldn't stop telling me how wonderful Andre Rieu was when Kali was kindly helping me with my maths so I wouldn't fail. It didn't help that she had the television UP REALLY LOUD when I was trying to get the NINE HOURS OF SLEEP THAT I MANAGED TO SCRAPE DURING EXAM WEEK. *headdesk*
And I'm really sorry, because I think I just blew a lot of steam off onto you without realising.
And I agree totally with all your points. I don't think it's even a problem - you just need something more practical to keep yourself busy! Denying things like ADD and autism and all of those more subtle mental issues is pointless, counter-
productive and, in the end, going to get everyone mad at the same time! *facepalm*
We don't need to drug autistic kids OR kids with ADD. If the world could learn to work around them, then everything would be better. But no, we have to make them 100% normal so they can fit the system, and so we must stick them on pills, of course.
Different threads go to vastly different topics?
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... wow. That was a long reply.
I did get better as I got older, I learned to fiddle with things and doodle and such to keep myself busy.
Yeah, sounds kind of wrong coming out that way. But whatever. 
If you do have an anxiety issue, it wouldn't be a surprise at all. You have a LOT to deal with in your life and anxiety is a natural part of having to deal with all that. That will probably serve you well when you get older, though. You've got to be great with dealing with the strangest things that when 'normal' stressors come along as an adult you'll just arch your eyebrow and say, "This? This little thing? I made it through worse than that with my hands tied behind my back as I wrote a novel in a month."
...or, you know, something along those lines. Perhaps not those words exactlly.
But never be sorry for what you write. If it helps blow off steam, I will read until the cows come home. Which could be awhile, as I have no cows.
Adults don't want kids. They want well-behaved zombies. 
They're not miniature adults. They're KIDS. People just don't get that and it bothers me.
... but yes. We're definitely drifting onto vastly weird topics.
-Cori
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And that was an even longer one.
Hahah... sleep appears to be my enemy. I'm what may be known as the local Insomniac, mostly because I can go to bed at 3am, three school weeks straight, before there is any real effect on my behaviour. Admittedly, that's more than 9 hours in one week, so yeah.
I wouldn't be surprised, either. And I mean, when I say that a month is a small stay in hospital, that sort of says a lot about what I deal with with my mum, doesn't it?
Something like that.
Aww, thanks. 
Exactly! Agreed on all fronts! When adults finally learn this, then maybe it'll finally be for the better. Maybe they'll understand just how kids work, and allow them a little more leeway, which will pave the path for a happy and healthy childhood. This is one of the reasons it always annoys me to see signs like, "Public Education: Australia's Future" plastered everywhere.
Although, I do tend to like vastly weird topics, for some reason.
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Sleep is also my enemy. *glances at clock* 3am. 
Ranting is still good, even if you don't have much to rant about. Getting those feelings out always makes people feel better.
Weird topics always make for interesting things.
-Cori
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*laughs* 22 hours is a bit rough, don't you think?
I know, I know! So many people disagree with me, but there's nothing like a good complaint once in a while. We had a thing at school where we weren't to whinge, even in our thoughts, for two weeks. I failed miserably and gave up on the first day, suspiciously just after my mum had started to ramble about Andre Rieu for the fifty-thousandth time.
Oh yes. Not to mention, comment threads have a tendency to go way off topic from what was originally said. XD
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EXACTLY! I actually made it about 23 hours before just deciding to go lay in my bed and see what happened. I fell asleep eventually...
...and got about two hours of sleep.
Oh, some days complaints are fabulous.
You gotta love comment threads that go waaaay off topic.
-Cori
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This is really good ^^ Danny looks so cute
Great job ^^
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This picture makes me really happy.
I like the bleeding, I think it worked out for the best. The blue is lovely, and reminds me of clouds and sky. Around his face and clothing, you could just say that's it's a sign of motion; I can't help but think that he's spinning through the air here.
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-Cori
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Wow awesome! I love it and homemade paper that's epic.
I've read somewhere that people draw better upside because they focus less on the whole image and more on the individual shapes and angles in the picture that make up the image. (useless facts I'm full of em!)
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That's a GREAT useless fact! *stores away for later*
Thanks.
-Cori
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Wow. This is amazing! I think the bleeding colors actually helped this picture. It gives it kind of an old, tea-stained feel. That's how I see it anyway. Great job!
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This looks really cool!
How'd you draw it upside-down? If I were you, I'd draw it right then turn the paper around.
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-Cori
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You made your own paper? Wow.
Gotta admit, though... I kinda like the bleedy colours. It makes him look more free, y'know?
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I have fun making paper.
I kinda get what you're saying.
-Cori
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Sometimes you can't help drawing old school.
Glad you like it, Kali. I liked how the blue showed up in the paper design when I was making it. It looked kind of like clouds.
Thanks so much!
-Cori
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D'aawwwww!~
He looks so adorable, and happy!
That's some awesome homade paper Cori, even though it bled
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Thanks, hanyou-halfa! He is cute.
-Cori
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