It’s been soooo long!

I made this today. Think of it as a feeble attempt at impressionism. Lol. I watched a short clip about Van Gogh earlier this morning so I was kind of inspired to try out digital painting (this is my "first try" if you could even consider this a digital painting in the first place) so yeah.

Well, I’ll be honest and say that I’m not in my best shape right now. Lol. It’s the dawn of the last month of school and well, things are starting to get dirty if you get what I mean. There’s so much to do and… I don’t feel like doing any! That’s thanks to all the gorgeous distractions I’ve managed to find, AKA movies, sit-coms, art websites, and the usual Japanese anime/manga fix. Don’t worry, I’ve been making steady progress though. But compared to my pacing last term, I’m SUPERBLY relaxed this time around. I blame the rainy season. I’m always lazy when the weather’s cool. But then again I’m even lazier in the summer, but you get my point! (I’m lazy all year round. Lol.)

In other news, my domain, CrazYanka.com has long since been restored, but I have yet to update it. Although I haven’t used Dreamweaver before (since I’ve been coding websites in Notepad/Wordpad since fifth grade) it’s pretty easy to adapt to, but the big switch from CoreFTP to Cyberduck is quite a shock for me, and it’s quite inconvenient… Anyway, by mid-December I aim to give CY a well-deserved revival. Here’s hoping I don’t procrastinate too much! I’m thinking of giving it a dark layout this time around… but nudes and pinks are soooo tempting as well… oh well! Let’s see how it goes!

You might also be wondering… Yanka, you have like, five blogs. What the heck are they for anyway? Well, let this serve as a reference for the both of us (since I tend to get overwhelmed as well!)

CrazYanka, my baby, is for all the “What’s going on in your life, Yanka?” sort of stuff. Mostly school-related stuff, graphic-related, art-related, whatchamacallits. Also about my travels. ANYWAY what you’ll be seeing here are the “significant” happenings in my life that are worthy enough to be talked about in length.

yankasmiles, the newcomer! I’ve barely had this space for a month. This is where I’ll be talking about random personal stuff. Think of it as the “What goes on in Yanka’s head?” sort of place. Reflections, opinions, daily ramblings, rants, photobooth spam… you know the drill.

candyfever, my little online scrapbook! hahaha! Until recently this was my personal+scrapbook page in one, but since I wanted a little more organization in my life I decided to make candyfever my reblog dump. Full of stuff I like but at the same time stuff that isn’t mine. Like… people’s ideas that I can relate to. It’s the “What’s Yanka into right now?” or “What entertains Yanka?” sort of thing. You can also think of it as a fashion-and-anime page. Lol

crazyanka @ wordpress, this is where you are right now! I’m thinking of making this one a place to put my written works, WIPs, and a few personal stuff as well. The in-between of yankasmiles and CrazYanka.com, so to speak.

And last but not the least, a place called “Yanka Can’t Write” wherein I put some of THE most embarassing & private stuff ever. HAHAHA! Complete with name bashing and fangirling, my private blog is practically a mess and I wouldn’t want anyone to see it. I don’t even remember the password to view it anymore LOLOLOL I can only access it through the admin page but anyway!

So yeah! ) Will post something a little more interesting next time since I’m sure, if you’d read this far, I’d have succeeded in boring you to death :p

Lazy Monday Afternoons

Since my domain’s (CrazYanka.com) host is currently facing problems, I will be temporarily using this space to vent/rant/express/whatnot.

Nothing much has been happening in my life recently. Aside from going to school and sleeping the nights away, I haven’t been doing much. The only times I get to go out into the sunshine is when I need to do laundry or buy food, and it’s been more than a month since I’ve been inside a mall. Since I have quite a lot of free time, I’ve been doodling and experimenting in Photoshop and writing new and/or revised chapters to my yet-to-be-published-novel Blunt. Recently I’ve been practicing how to use the pen tool, and a few days ago I tried using it for an illustration and a photograph. No tutorials were followed for these two, and I didn’t use any references (other than my own hands and facial expressions for the drawing.)

Also, yesterday I decided to experiment how to achieve this “effect” I’ve always wanted to try out, and I’m pretty happy with how everything turned out considering that it’s my first time trying to do something like this

I was requested by a friend to make a tutorial on how I did it, and I posted it on my tumblr page here.