Art: Wil
I haven't been drawing much lately, but I managed to come up with this a few days ago. I'm actually really proud of it. Even though it ended up looking a bit like Robert Pattinson in the end - enough that several people have commented on it *sigh*
This was supposed to be my original character, Wil, but in the end it's not a whole lot like I imagine him. I'm still happy with it though.
I think I'm going to go try to draw some more now. So maybe I'll post some more in a couple days.
I have a ridiculous amount of homework for this upcoming week - I'm taking 17 credits this semester, and it's all upper division biology and chemistry and it's finally gotten to exam time. I have a part of my semester-long research paper due at noon on Tuesday and since they were incredibly unclear on the topic - and then outright changed half of it - I still have to go do a lot of research first. It's for my ecology class, and the paper topic is on plant community structure in a temperate deciduous forrest - in other words, incredibly uninteresting. Then I have a bunch of homework for biostatistics due on Monday, which will be easy, but it's stupid busy work. I took statistics at my last school but the credit wasn't accepted simply because it wasn't "biostatistics." Never mind that it was actually the exact same thing - and so far it's the highest grade I've ever gotten in a college class.
Right before the intro section of my ecology paper is due on Tuesday I have my first organic chemistry exam of the semester. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it - there are many people that are of the opinion that organic chemistry is one of the hardest classes you can take in college. I already took it last fall, but I'm taking it again to improve my grade. Now, here's the funny thing. I actually like organic chemistry - and I'm one of the rare weirdos that actually think it's easy. I have been incredibly sick for the last year, and last fall organic chemistry is actually the only one of my classes I managed to pass. I got a C- though, which, as it turns out, is perfectly acceptable for a degree. I'm only retaking it because the C- upsets me - even though it's pretty damn impressive when you consider that I missed at least half of the semester. I actually managed to learn just about all of the material, I was just constantly about two weeks behind the class so I bombed all the tests. Retaking it isn't hard. But I've slipped a bit in my studying for the last couple weeks and I still have a lot to review before the exam.
Then Wednesday evening I have my organic chem lab, which is usually pretty easy. But we're doing spectroscopy now, and that is legitimately one of the hardest things I've ever tried to learn. I put more effort into it last year than I ever have with anything else - and I learned it pretty damn well. It's actually pretty easy once I managed to understand it, but the book explains it horribly. My father is a chemist and he could barely understand what it was trying to explain. But flipping through the book last week I realized that I don't actually really remember the specifics. So I've got to completely relearn infrared, ultraviolet, and mass spectroscopy. And I have to write the report for the experiment we did last week.
On top of that, I also have an exam in my evolution and ecology class Wednesday afternoon. Guess what? Haven't really studied for that either! And I probably won't until after my chemistry test. But I'll have all day Tuesday to study - I'm mostly finished with class at noon.
Then on Thursday I have to miss at least my morning class because I'm having an MRI. One that might end up telling me that I have to have a second major spinal surgery this year, which I'm not too thrilled about. I'm really hoping that my back has just been bugging me a lot again because I've been doing too much, not because there's actually something wrong with it again. If I have to have the second surgery not only will it severely limit my mobility (which is why they didn't fuse it in the first place) but I'll also have to put my entire life on hold for the next six months - which would actually mean I can't got to school next semester either. I've already lost way too much time at school for my health - I don't want to lose a-whole-nother school year. I've only got like 9 classes left. I'm ready to be finished already.
But anyway, yeah, when I have a lot of other stuff I'm supposed to be doing I tend to end up drawing. So who knows, maybe I'll have some more art to post soon. Hah.
Oh yeah! Do any of you know any good photoshop tutorials? I finally have a good tablet and I want to start learning photoshop.
This was supposed to be my original character, Wil, but in the end it's not a whole lot like I imagine him. I'm still happy with it though.
I think I'm going to go try to draw some more now. So maybe I'll post some more in a couple days.
I have a ridiculous amount of homework for this upcoming week - I'm taking 17 credits this semester, and it's all upper division biology and chemistry and it's finally gotten to exam time. I have a part of my semester-long research paper due at noon on Tuesday and since they were incredibly unclear on the topic - and then outright changed half of it - I still have to go do a lot of research first. It's for my ecology class, and the paper topic is on plant community structure in a temperate deciduous forrest - in other words, incredibly uninteresting. Then I have a bunch of homework for biostatistics due on Monday, which will be easy, but it's stupid busy work. I took statistics at my last school but the credit wasn't accepted simply because it wasn't "biostatistics." Never mind that it was actually the exact same thing - and so far it's the highest grade I've ever gotten in a college class.
Right before the intro section of my ecology paper is due on Tuesday I have my first organic chemistry exam of the semester. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it - there are many people that are of the opinion that organic chemistry is one of the hardest classes you can take in college. I already took it last fall, but I'm taking it again to improve my grade. Now, here's the funny thing. I actually like organic chemistry - and I'm one of the rare weirdos that actually think it's easy. I have been incredibly sick for the last year, and last fall organic chemistry is actually the only one of my classes I managed to pass. I got a C- though, which, as it turns out, is perfectly acceptable for a degree. I'm only retaking it because the C- upsets me - even though it's pretty damn impressive when you consider that I missed at least half of the semester. I actually managed to learn just about all of the material, I was just constantly about two weeks behind the class so I bombed all the tests. Retaking it isn't hard. But I've slipped a bit in my studying for the last couple weeks and I still have a lot to review before the exam.
Then Wednesday evening I have my organic chem lab, which is usually pretty easy. But we're doing spectroscopy now, and that is legitimately one of the hardest things I've ever tried to learn. I put more effort into it last year than I ever have with anything else - and I learned it pretty damn well. It's actually pretty easy once I managed to understand it, but the book explains it horribly. My father is a chemist and he could barely understand what it was trying to explain. But flipping through the book last week I realized that I don't actually really remember the specifics. So I've got to completely relearn infrared, ultraviolet, and mass spectroscopy. And I have to write the report for the experiment we did last week.
On top of that, I also have an exam in my evolution and ecology class Wednesday afternoon. Guess what? Haven't really studied for that either! And I probably won't until after my chemistry test. But I'll have all day Tuesday to study - I'm mostly finished with class at noon.
Then on Thursday I have to miss at least my morning class because I'm having an MRI. One that might end up telling me that I have to have a second major spinal surgery this year, which I'm not too thrilled about. I'm really hoping that my back has just been bugging me a lot again because I've been doing too much, not because there's actually something wrong with it again. If I have to have the second surgery not only will it severely limit my mobility (which is why they didn't fuse it in the first place) but I'll also have to put my entire life on hold for the next six months - which would actually mean I can't got to school next semester either. I've already lost way too much time at school for my health - I don't want to lose a-whole-nother school year. I've only got like 9 classes left. I'm ready to be finished already.
But anyway, yeah, when I have a lot of other stuff I'm supposed to be doing I tend to end up drawing. So who knows, maybe I'll have some more art to post soon. Hah.
Oh yeah! Do any of you know any good photoshop tutorials? I finally have a good tablet and I want to start learning photoshop.