Liven Things Up

I guess I spoke too soon!  This week has drawn many people to my blog; most of them have come from Canada, but others have viewed my posts from places as far away as Malaysia! (and I really want to thank you for traveling such a long distance just to see me! hehe)  But in all seriousness, I'm touched. I really am.

You may have already noticed this if you are a frequent visitor to my blog, which I doubt that many of you are, and are interested in viewing any of my older posts, I have now added new pictures to some of the ones that would otherwise be too "blan" without them. Here's a couple of posts with changes made:

1. 3DS: Now that's Progress?
2. 3DS: Progress (Part 2)
3. Story of my 3DS: (Part 3) A Trip to Town!

I also want to issue a notice to you that all lengthy post shall come to an end.  I am challenging myself to make my jottings more 'short and sweet' after I finish the serious of posts I am working on about my slip ups in school life, my struggles with procrastination, and the 3DS.  Those stories are almost becoming a thing of the past, so I may have some difficulty in remembering some of the facts. (HEY, I rhymed~!)  But I guess that is maybe a good thing for me because it means that I will have to force myself to stick to what's really important about what happened, rather than ramble on an extra 250 words and have you all bored to death!

Remembrance Day may have come and gone, but I still care enough to make a post about it.  I had a pretty important possition this year at my school's yearly assembly for the holiday; laying the wreath and representing my class was really empowering, and everyone present said that I did a very good job at it.  I feel that doing this has somehow made my deceased grandfather proud, and I am very honored.

Above is a finished picture I had originally sketched on Remembrance Day.  I was feeling very inspired that day and wanted to capture those deep emotions I felt by focusing them into a single image.  I think I did well.  R.I.P grand dad...
When I first had did the sketch for this flower, I never would have imagined it to turn out like this! Wow!  My sister had a couple of university friends over this weekend and they asked if they could see some of the artwork I do, since my sister often mentions it to them that I really love to draw.  They were really impressed with all of the sketches I had shown them, but their favourite one out of all of them was this.  It wasn't finished at the time that I had showed them it, having only the inking stage complete, and they really wanted to see what it would look like once it was done.  Sadly, the left before I had a chance to colour it.

Reference images used: 

http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=poppies#/d3jkprs
http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=flanders+fields#/d2saffj

I never noticed the sheer beauty of it until I had scanned the image into the computer, and then at that moment I realized what a masterpiece it was; to me, it represents so much~
My Grandfather traveled overseas to serve our country in WWII and I'm sure that he is cracking a smile and shedding a tear in his grave rate now because of this.

Wha' happin?

So, I get home later than usual, it has been an unbelievably inspirational day, and so I decide to end off all the excitement of the perfect day by checking my blog... and the results are somewhat displeasing.  As I quickly flip to the little graph page that tracks the amount of views you have gotten, I realize that over the past four days I have only had two people visit my website.  Huhhhh... Then I ask myself, "what am I doing wrong?"
The answer to that is, of course, that I am doing nothing wrong; I can't go around blaming myself for everything that goes wrong, now can I?  I mean, not that I do now or anything, or at least not as much.  Lately though I just seem to be posting just to satisfy myself, hoping that whatever I post will suffice, but I can't do that and still expect to keep my views.  Posting too soon ruins the novelty of it all, and placing post too close to one another doesn't give the first post justice.  I need to think quality and stop fretting over the content or getting things posted 'on-time'.  Being timely is good, but being overclocked can lead to despair.  There is something about hitting that post button and knowing that within that very minute, your creation is being born in the eyes of others for the first time.  I should try doing that more often, but not more than often.  


What cha think?