IrbisRoselia

Practice, they say. So you go and draw more, right? Sounds easy! A few months later, and look - you're better at drawing. Cats. Or dragons. Or whatever your poison of choice happens to be. But now you want to draw something else. So you start alllll over again. Great. The problem with all those guides floating around (you know the kind; the title is 'Magic tip to become an awesome artist," and there's a clickthrough, and it says something along the lines of 'draw more.') is that they're missing something very essential that people who got a great art education to start with never had a problem with. Most of the young/new artists out there wh

I've heard so many people tell those who suffer depression to just 'cheer up.' I wonder if they can really believe that it's that simple. Depression isn't just sadness. It is emptiness, it is misery. It is pain and nothingness at once. When you are truly depressed you lack the ability or will to cheer yourself up. No one just 'has depression.' You suffer from it. This is depression: You will wake at 5, 6, maybe 7am, feeling as though you had only just fallen asleep. It's likely you did. If you don't have to be somewhere, you could lie in bed for another 3 hours...too tired, too miserable and pathetic to crawl out of you bed. Or maybe you wi

1) To stuff my bra in hopes that you'll see me tonight 2) To dry the tears from my eyes when you don't 3) To blow my nose and try again tomorrow 4) To keep in my pocket just in case 5) To dab my lipstick before our date 6) To fix my mascara after you say you love me 7) To clean my glasses and see the truth on your collar 8) To wipe the crap off of your lips when you swear I'm the only one 9) To use every roll to cover your house in blankets of white 10) To replace the toilet paper I wasted on you