Working on my art, posted some here and on tumblr. I want to improve.

agenda: draw more, write more, space more

this was my english final like two weeks ago. just 36 pages of kiddified picturebook holden fucking caulfield. one week to write and illustrate this fucking garbage. i used crappy crayons and a few crayolas from when i was like five because i sure as hell was not going to waste anything for this project. don't worry. it gets worse. so much worse. by the end of the book i was practically drawing stick figures. the hat on the cover is traced btw. somehow i got an a on it. i think my teacher took pity on me.

massive upgrade from paint lmao

finished my ap calculus exam on monday. school ends in a few weeks. god i'm just tired. burnt out a bit.

reading jane eyre in english class, and let's face it, we know how the uncle really died. so, here's a sketch of aunt reed, staying rotten to the core! should i finish??

Amazing to be back on here! Currently working on some art and possibly a short story for my website which I've also neglected. It sucks to have like no school-life balance. It's a lot harder to pick something back up. So take care of yourselves.

I was really hoping to do the summer animation jam and help dev a game, but:

• I need to work on my art portfolio for college, and that includes a lot of practice on shapes and hands. Back to the basics stuff. I'm going to do less pixel art.
• I'm doing precalculus during the summer and the course is 5 weeks, so I need to work hard. It goes for an actual grade, and if I don't pass with a B or higher, I won't get into AP Calculus. And no AP Calculus means no AP Physics.
• I need to work a lot on my Japanese so I can hope to get into AP Japanese.
• I'm earning volunteer hours, as my school requires you to get a certain amount to graduate, and to get into a good college, I'm going to have to do even more.

Unfortunately, studies come first. As a high school student today, college is a must. I'm still tentative on careers, but I strongly want to do engineering, physics, math, architecture, or animation. All these paths require a lot of work in my math and art. And, especially as a student in 2021, you need to have an outstanding resume to even get your foot in the door. I've been very worried because my GPA last year was not a 4.0, I have only two extracurriculars, art and violin, and in that I'm not even a first violin and I don't have professional art training. There are people I know who have 4.5!!! People who have been doing like 5 extracurriculars since they were fricking toddlers!!! You have to load up on APs, do like 10 extracurriculars, and save the world or some shit now to even get a chance at the good UCs. Your art portfolio needs to be immaculate. Not to mention all the exams I will have to take to get into college abroad. And forget about Asian parent pressure! I'll still pop in from time to time on the site, but I won't be posting art. Maybe a sketch or a WIP, but that's it.

i don't have a tablet, so i animate on paper, number the frames, scan it, and arrange it in Pencil2D. How do my fellow budgeted artists do it?

i just don't wanna f it up. i only get one take and my grade relies on it. it's the song "a million dreams" tho and i hate the song and movie. (if it's your jam though no hate on you.)