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Recently I realised how goddamned awful I actually am at using a pencil, because the last week or so I've actually been made to use one :/ and I can't shade at all. So I thought I'd practice a bit...and my room's FULL of Bionicles so I just drew one of those
durrhurr.So I spent a while checking the lighting out and then went crazy with my pencil, and I couldn't believe how quickly I made the sketch...normally it'd have taken me ages.
Oh, and I also realised that, after years of not knowing, I'd actually been holding my pencil all wrong for drawing and shading, so I tried to try holding it right for once...it's hard to break out of habit like that though, so I kept going back to stupid-mode.
And then my scanner ate half of the tone so...whatever.
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I recently found a whole bunch of old pieces in the basement and my room's now coated in them once more. That's a good idea, using them for sketching practice!
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Haha, yeah, Bionicles (or just Lego in general) are the perfect things for cramming into a room! They're like interactive ornaments
Thanks lots for the fave too!
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I've rebuilt five of the bohrok and a toa nuva. XD
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You're not goddamned awful with a pencil, your awfully dam good! Awesome pic!
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Thank you very much!
Thanks for the fave too
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Thank you very much!
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Haha, thank you very much! 
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You're welcome
But you still got the skills
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Actually the older Bionicles WERE awesome, the new stuff doesn't appeal to me
And you've done a great job with the sketch!!!
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Haha yeah, I collected all the original Bionicles, but when the "new" ones came out I went right off them
And thanks 
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Bionicles are awesome
Don't kill meh please mr robot!!!
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Wow, you're using "are"? If it was me I'd be using the past-tense "were" 
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Oooohh, it's a bohrok, bionicles are kind of my childhood toys with many others.Great pic, it's good to change of style sometime.^^
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Thank you very much
Heh, my childhood was all about Bionicles too
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BIONICLES WERE MY CHILDHOOD!
Aside from Pokemon, and tons of dinosaur toys.
I was weird for a girl. XD
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Lawls, and here was me thinking I was the only one! 
I was so attatched to my Bionicle collection I daren't even dismantle them in case I lost a piece
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When I saw this on my inbox I was like "WTF?" and then I say "by Jacktoon" and then I was O_o
AEWSOME 
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Lawls, I guess it is quite a lot different to what I normally do
Thank you very much!
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I knew it reminded me of something >-< LEGO! how could I forgot
>-< dem bionicles...
Well, just a base to fix it's feet and everything is right
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And wow, why didn't I think of that?
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awesome dude nicely done with the tonal range
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Thank you very much
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It looks great! And you don't have the slightest idea of how I hold my pencil. It's really strange and my fingers get hurt easily that way, but I can't change the way I write and draw!
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Thanks
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You're welcome! I know what you're talking about! Ugh, I remember at elementary school, it's supposed to be possible to pull the pen out of your hand without too much trouble. No one could take mine XD They tried to learn me how to hold it, but I'm really stubborn so they didn't succeed!
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woow ^^ it nice, just need more detail ^^ keep practice!
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Bionicles, huh? Humm. My room is totally NOT covered in random bionicle pieces. I certainly do NOT have a black one which I did NOT make last month on the floor beside my door. I do NOT have two piled in a corner and one below them. Neither do I have a fifth one on one of my shelves, and it is NOT standing in a cool yet somewhat defiant pose. Definitely not.
*cough*
I should totally try practicing drawing some of the bionicles that aren't in my room at the moment. It would be good practice, were they there. It's been years since I've drawn bionicles that never existed.
*quieter cough*
Seriously. It'd never occur to me to DRAW them. And it really would be fantastic sketching practice. And yours is damn good. Especially the gradient on the...fiery...claw thing. You know, I miss those particular ones - the ones that actually DID something. Even if the pieces aren't particularly useful for building new ones - the ones in the last few years just have gun-things. There's no fun in that, I can't build it. But the nostalgia rocks, really. Or it would if I hadn't succumbed to nostalgia urges during August and bought a small one for the lulz :/
You know, I can always tell when you're going to upload something, you stay online for ages and go all quiet
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I know right? My room totally isn't full of Bionicles either. And I honestly do not keep all the canisters under my bed in neat rows.
Haha, I actually have pretty much the ENTIRE first series of them, or at least, between me and my brother. Although I do own every single Bohrok myself, including the...other ones I forget the name of. They're all on a huge shelf in my room, falling over each other and getting entangled on random blades and shields :/
But lol, they are actually pretty good to draw, since they have fairly interesting design quirks, and you can pose them slightly...and hell, it's Lego. Thanks
Haha I know what you mean about the new ones though. I lost interest VERY suddenly after the first series of them, I didn't buy any more or havn't followed any of the new toys since. And if I did buy any more it'd be the ones I'm missing from the first lot, like half of the original Toa.
I used to like collecting them to make the "fused" ones though; like the Bohrok-Kal I have sitting all combined on my shelf into two bigger things. They were damned awesome.
Wow, I can't believe I'm talking about Bionicles.
And lol, yeah, I usually leave myself logged on all day because I keep my laptop on stanby while I do something else, like, I spent most of today doing homework and I needed Google so...it was only AFTER I did that that I thought, hell, I'll draw something.
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I bought them infrequently over a long period - I wasn't really a fan of the early ones, what I looked for (and still do) were pieces that I could really use. Not the one-time/one-purpose ones. But they were fun. I don't have a lot in circulation anymore, though, but like I said, last august I got all nostalgic so I found an old box of pieces and put together a set of five over a week, a bit bigger than normal toa - you know, blue, red, green, yellow, and black. Really, those were the only pieces whose colour I had enough of. Funtiems! I'd almost upload snapshots if I wasn't totally against that sort of thing! But it's just those five that show up in my room, usually "guarding" a shelf of some sort for decorative purposes. Oh, and an awesome plane-y thing gathering dust. That was a recent one, actually. ('bout two years ago.) And the contianers show up occasionally, they're handy for putting pencils in, or carrying water, or putting in... well, lego pieces, or if you're really desperate... and in need of a toilet... well, I'm sure you get the picture. I'm not saying that's what they've been used for, but... well, it's nice to have the option when your bladder is past breaking point.
Dunno most of their names, though, certainly not the individuals. Bohrok? Sure, but after that, not so much. The Piraka were cool though
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Not one time/one purpose? But..? Lego kits were all about making, well, the kit. I hardly ever re-used the parts to make/add to my own creations, at least parts that came in those kits. Most of the parts were far to specific anyway, like the weapons. The only time I dismantled them was to combine them into those special ones. Or to wash the dust off. :/
But lol @ them guarding your shelves. I doubt anyone would want to steal anything off them now.
Ugh, but why would you ever consider using a Bionicle canister for...?
...blech.
I just left all the spare parts and manuals in mine. I even had extra masks for them and stuff.
What were the Piraka though? I don't think they were in the originals? IIRC the originals were the Toa, the Toa-...somethings, Bohrok, Bohrok-Kal, Rahkshi, some random Rahi kits...and then loads of little dudes I forget the name of...Matoran? The only other thing I can think of are some spider-looking things, but I think they were the next "generation". I think my brother has one or two of those. But I can't remember whatever the Piraka are being in the film. The film I, of course, totally havn't watched and definately do not own, along with the videogame.
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They had a range of ads in 2006 - good ads, too. They were the definition of "badass". And yes, those are the ones in the videogame you haven't played. Actually, I really liked the design of the Rahkshi, too. But I only had one, then it went missing ;_; Didn't like the spiders. They were useless for parts. Totally moot.
And the bionicles are only about the parts if your mind thinks "action figures>lego building." For me, building came first. The bashing together and infantile sound effects came afterwards. If I did them. Which I didn't. Never. EVER, you hear me?!?!?
And I have GREAT stuff on my shelves, excuse you!
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Are we thinking about the same videogame? I was on about the very first. It was about the Bohrok and Rahkshi and had the seventh Toa of light in it, like the movie. I even bought that Toa from Legoland. It was awesome.
...
...anyway, I think there must be more than one game, because I still have no idea what the Piraka are and they weren't in the game I had :/
I never owned any of the Rahkshi either...I didn't really like them and collecting tham all was getting a bit expensive, especially when I already had twelve Bohroks and some remote-controlled Rahi crab things.
And lol, I did think action figures > lego building. I used to enjoy building them and then displaying them. I used to like collecting random tat and displaying it. I have a cabinet full of various Minis. I must have a good hundred or so.
So, what's on your shelf then? It can't be better than the goddamned Toa of Light.
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Sheesh. Art-stuff and awesome books, obviously. And my tablet, when it's not in use. And said Bionicles. Pokemon memoribilia. You know, awesome stuff. Though my interest in them was polite, I might get them if I was sufficiently bored, or always for birthdays and christmas, but they were just supplements. I stopped after I hit 17; the fact that the boxes say "9-16" on some of them really hit home. And the Toa of light is dead boring :/ We've all had him. He's not very interesting.
His parts are. *igor-style mad laugh*
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Lol, well, I collected them rather avidly until I was about ten, then I havn't bought one since. It's like a plug was just suddenly pulled.
But lol, MY Toa of Light had special parts I got extra from someplace else, so it was twice as interesting.
But, twice times nothing... again.
And lol, my shelf isn't big enough for all that awesome stuff. It just has Bionicles on it
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Well, with that kind of thing, there's always displacement activity. What'd you do AFTER you turned ten? There's no way I'll believe you did nothing in your spare time at the age of eleven. And I have several shelves :l They're more like cubby-holes, actually. A big column of square holes in the wall. The top one is stuffed full with... well, stuffed plushies. But I haven't moved them in years - the resident spiders have long since settled and had great-great-greatX100v3r9000 grandkids.
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Dunno...I was probably playing Ratchet & Clank or something. I'd kinda grew out of Lego by then
And lol, since I share my room (... >:[ ) I have less of my own shelves. But I have some square holey-things too, also full of Minis like my huge cabinet.
If you tried to take something out, I wonder how many of those spiders you'd bring out with it? :/ Ugh. And how many of those would actually still be alive
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Not a lot. They're mostly small ones, don't venture out much. I don't bother them, and they don't bother me - it's the teddybears that come out the worst.
Um, so you still share a room? I'm sure you're used to it, of course, but... well, as Terry Pratchett would say, that's a "terrible thing to be done to a growing lad." O_O I mean c'mon, privacy, please! :iconprivacyplz: Aww, phooey.
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But...spiders!
And yeah, I still share a room, always have :/ and my bedroom isn't even that big as it is, so I get hardly any space. Which is why I need to hang stuff from the blummin' ceiling.
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Huh. Big family, or simply a case of terraced house? Both? Well, I'm sure you're used to it.
Right?
Because I don't want to feel pity for you if it's going to irritate you :/
And anyway, what could you possibly hang from a ceiling, aside from cobwebs and bats?
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No, it's not terraced, nor I do I have a big family; more, simply the case of a very small house. It's actually tiny. It's such a problem to do art because I have absolutely nowhere to lay my sketchbooks and large A1 work. It's so small we even had to have two extra rooms built :/ and they weren't very big either
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And your brother is...older than you? Huh. No wonder you go to bed early! Well. Early for me. Though I have a similar problem when drawing, there aren't a lot of suitable desks in my house. They're all either textured, wobbly, or have big seams in them where the wood sticks together. I have a drawing board that I keep in my room for just such an eventuality. Though I wouldn't be able to do anything on A1, for SURE. What kind of homework are you getting, anyway? Learned anything useful? Because that IS sort of the point.
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Well no, actually I'm one year my brother's elder. In fact, technically it's almost two, since right now he's "16"; it's his birthday next month :/ although a few people I know have been wrong in assuming he's the eldest...mostly because he's taller
And lol, I HAVE to go to bed early; I'm waking up at gone six, I really ought to be sleeping at nine or ten
Whoa wait, you own a drawing board? I have no such thing, I really ought to, but if there's no room for my book there's certainly no room for a board
But sure, learnt a LOT of useful stuff. The last two weeks we've been learning about drawing, like line-sight measurement, tone, how to use lineweight, how to approach a drawing from a different viewpoint (i.e. not drawing it how it really is, such as silhouetting it), and we actually had a really fun session where we had to bring a personal object in, draw it, and then rotate to someone else's drawing and add our object to theirs, rotate again, until we had finished drawings of compositions involving multiple people's objects. It was quite odd being able to take control temporarily over another drawing. And the drawing I ended up with was absolutely hilarious. I might even upload it here when it's done
Havn't covered perspective though...that's one thing I really wanted to practice and learn more about :/ and we've finished "drawing" now.
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Wow, sounds interesting. You SHOULD upload it. So, tone, lineweight... yeah, I did some of that stuff last year in my portfolio class, but obviously that was once-a-week as opposed to full time, so I'm sure you'd know more about it. Though, it all sounds like stuff for still-lifes (or portraits?) Anything you can apply to the stuff you do here? And, you ARE returning to drawing eventually, right? Sorry, I'm probably loading you with questions. But I'm very curious, I've never really spoken to someone who was actually DOING art college as I was talking to them.
Huh. Don't know why I assumed your brother was older. Odd, really. But I wouldn't have doubted it for a minute :/ I suppose it's probably because most if not all my friends who have brothers have older ones. I guess that's not true anymore
And actually, nowadays I try to go to bed at 10, but because I tend to finish my stuff at half nine, I sort of keep going. But I'm always in bed by 12. And then I get up at 7. Well, that's life, I suppose :/ Oh! One more question. Are you going to get exams?
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Eh, well, it's not really stuff I can apply to digital art. And a lot of the stuff I did was more experimental, as opposed to anything really worth doing proper, e.g. I spent one session having to draw the life model in various bizarre ways such as by not looking at the paper, having to use my "wrong" hand, drawing with a "continuous line" etc. Actually I quite like continuous line drawings, but they're usually too unpredictable to work into. Most of the stuff wasn't really worth building on. In fact I think the biggest things I learnt were that I suck at using charcoal and that I hold and shade with a pencil all wrong.
And whether I go back to drawing or not is all up to me. Basically I'm currently on a rotation; the last two weeks I did drawing, the next two weeks I'm doing "3D" (most likely sculpture), after those two weeks I'll do something else etc until we've tried everything, then by November/December time we're in a position to choose which of those things we want to focus on. So if I like drawing I'll probably end up doing, say, illustration for the rest of the year, which is what I currently have in mind. I think in three week's time I do have an extra week of drawing, though, and I'm almost certain a major focus of that will be on perspective.
And...exams?
Hmm...I honestly don't know, but I wouldn't think so. It's largely assesment-based i.e. they give us a checklist of things we should have done and we just need to show them. Such as, a collection of drawings demonstrating a certain technique or idea, or research on a certain theme. I think at the end of the year we need to make somekind of personal outcome though, but that's standard in any art course.
Nothing written, if that's what you mean.
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