All the things
So much going on, really. Where to begin...
Right now, life for me is a juggling act between all the many things I want to do (I include my revision in here too, because Psychology is starting to make a lot of sense, and I like to learn. And not to mention, I WANT to get a 1st more than I NEED to). It gets me down a little, because there is SO much in the way of hobbies, and I'm trying to devote my time to all of them in any one day (ESPECIALLY when I go home for the weekend), but I feel that because of this, I'm not giving any of them the time they really need or deserve. It means all my projects are coming along a lot slower than if I dedicated all of my time to them.
For example, my song, I started oh... a month ago, let's say. It's still only a rhythm part (but in all fairness, it could be more, but I am far too much of a perfectionist to resist back-tracking and doing something again. And oh, technical difficulties...). And Ollie and his band had 2 days solid in a recording studio, and got at least one proper song out of it.
It's the same kind of story with my fursuit, really. I probably started work on that around February, and it's still in the early stages. But that's a little different, I feel. Much of the advice for a first-time maker seems to be to not rush the project, and I've actually re-done many things several times over so far. Oh, the amount of times I had to rip the eyes back out of the head so they were in EXACTLY the right place, facing the right way, and then the other one had to be EXACTLY the same... but I got there in the end. The eyes actually seem all right to me, with the exception of a few deep scratches on one (which aren't visible from a distance anyways) and some weird thing where, from the side, they go all blurry for some reason, and none of the colour or detail, or the pupils, can be seen. This bothers me, because, if everything else goes to plan, it will really let down the costume. But I guess, first time, I can improve on that next time around.
Tomorrow I go back to my family home, where there is an arsenal of items waiting for me in packages from eBay to hopefully, make a little more progress. Hinging the jaw has literally kept me up at night thinking about. I've stumbled across a problem that may need the entire mask muzzle to be sawed (sawn? The verb form of 'to saw'?) off and repositioned to not look ridiculous. Basically, the original sculpt that the mask was cast off initially, no longer exists in the face of my mask. I've made so many changes, it's a completely different mask than I sculpted onto the mannequin. But all in a good way. I also managed to pick up a couple of imitation Meccano kits from the 99p store to use as a jaw hinge. And bloody hell, each one came with hundreds of those little screws! Just need to see if my plan works now.
In other news, I did something last week that anyone who has known me for a long time would consider unthinkable: I joined the gym. But it gets even more shocking... I've actually been going! Every other day, after I've had something to eat, I walk up the hill and spend about 2 hours in there. I definitely enjoy it, and regret not doing this before. My main aim from this is to no longer be out of breath when I walk up the stairs. I've always had a residual fear of dying that has gotten stronger and stronger recently, and I'm doing what I can to maximise it. That means adding healthier
things to my diet too.
But also, I have always wanted to be a little built, so I'm using most of the weight machines in there. I feel a little useless at the moment when I see the last person to use the thing had it set to 50kg, and I just casually set it to 10, on ERRRVRYTHING... but it's progress for me. I don't like to use the bicep machine though - when I was 15 I did a lot of poorly-organised weight lifting, and now my biceps are freakishly large compared to all my other muscles, so I'm gonna let the others catch up.
Other than all that, I am mostly studying for the exams in May. Spread over 3 weeks. Psychology is the soonest, and the one I've studied the least for overall, so right now I'm giving that the most attention. I'm staying positive about these, because I know I can do it. But right now I just can't wait to get home.
Right now, life for me is a juggling act between all the many things I want to do (I include my revision in here too, because Psychology is starting to make a lot of sense, and I like to learn. And not to mention, I WANT to get a 1st more than I NEED to). It gets me down a little, because there is SO much in the way of hobbies, and I'm trying to devote my time to all of them in any one day (ESPECIALLY when I go home for the weekend), but I feel that because of this, I'm not giving any of them the time they really need or deserve. It means all my projects are coming along a lot slower than if I dedicated all of my time to them.
For example, my song, I started oh... a month ago, let's say. It's still only a rhythm part (but in all fairness, it could be more, but I am far too much of a perfectionist to resist back-tracking and doing something again. And oh, technical difficulties...). And Ollie and his band had 2 days solid in a recording studio, and got at least one proper song out of it.
It's the same kind of story with my fursuit, really. I probably started work on that around February, and it's still in the early stages. But that's a little different, I feel. Much of the advice for a first-time maker seems to be to not rush the project, and I've actually re-done many things several times over so far. Oh, the amount of times I had to rip the eyes back out of the head so they were in EXACTLY the right place, facing the right way, and then the other one had to be EXACTLY the same... but I got there in the end. The eyes actually seem all right to me, with the exception of a few deep scratches on one (which aren't visible from a distance anyways) and some weird thing where, from the side, they go all blurry for some reason, and none of the colour or detail, or the pupils, can be seen. This bothers me, because, if everything else goes to plan, it will really let down the costume. But I guess, first time, I can improve on that next time around.
Tomorrow I go back to my family home, where there is an arsenal of items waiting for me in packages from eBay to hopefully, make a little more progress. Hinging the jaw has literally kept me up at night thinking about. I've stumbled across a problem that may need the entire mask muzzle to be sawed (sawn? The verb form of 'to saw'?) off and repositioned to not look ridiculous. Basically, the original sculpt that the mask was cast off initially, no longer exists in the face of my mask. I've made so many changes, it's a completely different mask than I sculpted onto the mannequin. But all in a good way. I also managed to pick up a couple of imitation Meccano kits from the 99p store to use as a jaw hinge. And bloody hell, each one came with hundreds of those little screws! Just need to see if my plan works now.
In other news, I did something last week that anyone who has known me for a long time would consider unthinkable: I joined the gym. But it gets even more shocking... I've actually been going! Every other day, after I've had something to eat, I walk up the hill and spend about 2 hours in there. I definitely enjoy it, and regret not doing this before. My main aim from this is to no longer be out of breath when I walk up the stairs. I've always had a residual fear of dying that has gotten stronger and stronger recently, and I'm doing what I can to maximise it. That means adding healthier
things to my diet too.
But also, I have always wanted to be a little built, so I'm using most of the weight machines in there. I feel a little useless at the moment when I see the last person to use the thing had it set to 50kg, and I just casually set it to 10, on ERRRVRYTHING... but it's progress for me. I don't like to use the bicep machine though - when I was 15 I did a lot of poorly-organised weight lifting, and now my biceps are freakishly large compared to all my other muscles, so I'm gonna let the others catch up.
Other than all that, I am mostly studying for the exams in May. Spread over 3 weeks. Psychology is the soonest, and the one I've studied the least for overall, so right now I'm giving that the most attention. I'm staying positive about these, because I know I can do it. But right now I just can't wait to get home.