"I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own." ~ Lukas Foss



Seems like I'm "back to basics" in every single way.

I found a wonderful watercolor pencil tutorial I wish I would find earlier. I really wanted to give it a try on my Alice's Adventures in Wonderland series. I did consider it would be unfair to use a program to paint those... but they will have to wait, since this Monday I start facing reality again. That means: back to study, back to a timetable, back to a routine and back to all the bad habits... Au revoir, mes chers dessins.

I have already argued with my mother yesterday because of it, I was doing sketches instead of studying or reading something useful... Well, the last year and six months I've been swotting up for the exams and working like house-elf. I'm not gonna complain about it, is what I enjoy the most and I really love Medicine, but I needed a break also.

I guess she was worried, afraid of me procrastinating the study for the next year, or so. Well, I'm not! Really, I just took a tiny vacations for a weeks, it's not like I'm never going to open a Medicine book again!

I reckon what scared them all the most is that I did not show how bad I felt. But I never do. I don't need to talk about it, even though some people in my house talk nineteen to the dozen. I need silence and time to lick my wounds, and I try to get it over by doing other things, like drawing, reading and painting. Seems that they didn't get it, and thought I was never going to stop lazing around and become a slacker.

Never in life.