the boy with the must beautiful butt of renaissance art
Hi, I'm Mai. I like to draw.
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I almost made this week’s deadline….but 30 minutes too late!!! man i have yet to successfully update more than 2 weeks in a row.
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I honestly don’t get why people think classical music is boring…!?
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Hee hee hoo hoo haa haa
I painted letters with real paint. I’m not all photoshop texture blending options okay gosh
…but the colors are photoshop blending options. shhh.
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when life gets too hard, neglect all grown-up duties, and watch old animes.
Or just finish your grown-up duties by overheating your laptop running indesign and illustrator and photoshop at the same time and saving a third of your 15 inch window for streaming tv shows.
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Vivi demonstrates my relationship with life in general
In other news, I really really need new brushes.
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a rant on how great picture books are
I read a couple articles on how children’s picture books are dying out…I had no idea! I’m shocked because picture books were a big part of my childhood. Apparently, parents want to jump straight into books with just text to give their kid’s reading development a head start.
As a kid, I loved picture books (actually I still do). Especially ones with lots of detailed illustrations. I remember spending hours looking at the drawings, and I kept on returning to them because each time I looked at the illustrations, I would find something new to be fascinated with. My mind would wander into the detailed paintings and imagine all the things that could happen behind the scenes, behind the written words.
Reading is great for the imagination. But when you are little one, and your imagination is running wild, sometimes words (and nothing more) create a boundary for the creative mind. Sometimes, you’re just reading about another person’s great imagination, and it’s all about if your own imagination can keep up with it or not. If the child can’t keep up, they loose interest in books. If they can, well that’s awesome, and they become book lovers.
A perfect playground for a child’s imagination, I feel like, would be the combination of words and pictures. Children’s illustrated books are still a big source of inspiration for me, and it saddens me that parents think it’s a waste of time. A healthy, eager creative mind is all you really need to get a kid to want to learn, instead of forcing text books and standardized testings down their throats….
sigh ( yes, I do have problems with our education system. I can ramble about it forever )
weh, I’ll shutup
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