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Holy shit, WARNING, boring wall of text of how I got into drawing:
I've always wanted to draw, and be good at drawing. In my early years, I had a friend who was a God at drawing, as seen from a child's perspective of course (I actually live with him now). I tried from time to time to draw as godly as he could, but I never succeeded.
In middle school he would draw hilarous pictures of anything we requested, mostly. He could draw something ordinary, and then just smack on a comically disfigured head that would make the whole picture look retarded. It would often be pretty unexpected and grant us a handful of laughs. In art class it would be the same thing with him, but here I also had the urge to just pick up a pencil and start drawing. I never did. I almost failed the class, just because I did not draw anything. It was pretty disturbing since I loved drawing with a passion. I love people who can show great detail within art.
He got an A, of course.
Through my whole experience in middle school this re-occured. I almost failed all art classes, and enjoyed drawing through my friend. Two years before graduating from middle school, we had already decided that we wanted to read programming, or computer science, whatever it is called (Civil Engineer with IT as the big picture). So we started learning C++ through internet tutorials, and by the time we started high school, we were already ahead of their 'highest' C++ course.
The curriculum was not actually as much about programming or computer science as you would like to think. Their type of 'programming' was HTML! Hell yeah, we had a course called "Web design" and it was actually only HTML. And a bit of CSS actually, but nothing all too useful. We really wanted to create games, and software, so we did spend a lot of our spare time to learn C++ and create games.
It started as pong, a re-make of Super Mario Bros, and later on Ice Climbers with multiplayer support (it was dead fun, lol). I made a memory reader for SC:BW which read minerals and would warn you (with an annoying windows error sound, (it SPAMMED THE SOUND ALL THE TIME, SHIT IT WAS ANNOYING) if you exceeded 500 minerals. It did read your opponents supply, resources, etc. Basically a cheat. Just to see if I could. No, I did not use it on iCCup. Although, we did make a bot that would go 1m2m3m4m5m6m7m8m9m0m each like 20sec or whatever the time for building a marine was. And tried it on iCCup once. Holy shit you got marines. =D BWChart showed PERFECT damn macro on the hotkeys tab, it was hilarious.
We met a lot of new and hilarious folks from our class (We had ONE girl, but she changed curriculum after the first week, go all male class.). I had almost forgot about drawing by now, but at one classtrip afternoon, I was talking about DotA with my drawing friend. One guy from our class intercepted our conversation and explained to us how bad we were. No joke, literally how bad we were.
I started to play a lot of DotA with this guy, and he were pretty damn good. He later introduced me to anime and manga, which he adored back then, and still do. I was fascinated by how good they could draw in such a short time, and it tingled my drawing sense. I wanted to take up drawing again.
I started off by staying up all night and tracing manga pictures, and when someone asked if I traced, I would be like: "UH, NOOO?". Teenage pride, go. After tracing a good amount of pictures over the course of weeks, I tried to draw by myself. Oh, and it did not go so well. I still got the pictures, but can't access them just NOW, could probably edit them in later at home. Even tho it didn't look good (at all, it was seriously fucking bad), I loved the pictures. I saw them from my own eyes: "Oh God, I did this? I rock!". Everyone else were using their bad pokerfaces (but I could not tell, because I was blended by my luminous pictures!) and telling me how good I was.
This is actually what the blog is about: My mechanical pencil. I actually started off using a mechanical pencil to draw. I didn't like to sharpen my pencils, so I always used a mechanical one. From the very beginning, I used the same one. This one pencil, I kept and used through all of high school. I used it for all of my traditional pictures. I ALWAYS had it with me. I never really thought about it much, though. But today, four years later after the day I started to draw, I lost my pencil. And damn, that pencil meant a lot to me. I just refilled it too. T_T
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Good blog!
I like[d] drawing as well when I was younger, though my problem stemmed from laziness and a minor case of OCD... I never finished my drawings. Going to try to take it up later in life.
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Oh my god. I thought I was the ONLY person in the world to have a love with a first mechanical pencil. I've used the same pencil since 3th grade and I just graduated. It's black and dark blue and means a ton to me. I don't use it much anymore however, but I still have it. Sorry to hear about you losing yours, I know how sad that must be 
But great blog! I never finish many of my drawings because I always want to go on to something else. But it's great to find it years later and finish it/redraw in a different more developed style.
5/5
Art ftw~
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Civil Engineering with IT as... this doesn't make sense to me :/
Otherwise, hells yeah drawing!
edit: lost a spoon recently, that spoon was my friend for 8? years
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Slightly offtopic but did anyone else get this pen ad appearing at the top? Mind blown
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Also you got a deviant art? I'm a huge fan of line art as well, although thinking of getting into some more coloured art sooner or later.
http://sluggaslamoo.deviantart.com/
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On August 09 2011 19:01 flamewheel wrote:
Good blog!
I like[d] drawing as well when I was younger, though my problem stemmed from laziness and a minor case of OCD... I never finished my drawings. Going to try to take it up later in life.
Thank you. =D
You should. I kinda regret of not getting into it more seriously earlier.
On August 09 2011 19:18 x-Catalyst wrote:Oh my god. I thought I was the ONLY person in the world to have a love with a first mechanical pencil. I've used the same pencil since 3th grade and I just graduated. It's black and dark blue and means a ton to me. I don't use it much anymore however, but I still have it. Sorry to hear about you losing yours, I know how sad that must be But great blog! I never finish many of my drawings because I always want to go on to something else. But it's great to find it years later and finish it/redraw in a different more developed style. 5/5 Art ftw~
Hahah, aren't they just adoring? Mine was just white and light blue, taking 0.7 mm leads.
I also just start doing something else, and when I'm in the mood to draw again, I start with something new.
On August 09 2011 19:19 obesechicken13 wrote:
Civil Engineering with IT as... this doesn't make sense to me :/
Otherwise, hells yeah drawing!
edit: lost a spoon recently, that spoon was my friend for 8? years
You lost something more than me. Your friend was... inside you. And no, it didn't make sense to me either. I walked out with little to nothing! Although, I got the grades and can either continue with engineering in university or programming.
On August 09 2011 19:28 sluggaslamoo wrote:Slightly offtopic but did anyone else get this pen ad appearing at the top? Mind blown + Show Spoiler +Also you got a deviant art? I'm a huge fan of line art as well, although thinking of getting into some more coloured art sooner or later. http://sluggaslamoo.deviantart.com/
Oooh, a new one! Always order pencils online (What? Who does that T_T)!
I've got a deviantART, yeah, but I never use it actually (only to auto-show matured content (I love horror and macabre)) Which is why I don't got so much to show, lol.
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I know EXACTLY what you mean. I too had one pencil that was with me for 13 years. I used it at every examination.
I tell you, when I lost it, I searched for it for a long long time.
It was a constant companion. RIP my blue mechanical pencil.
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I'm sort of overall confused as the story moved from the friend who was good at drawing to learning programming to some God of DOTA then back to drawing and the pencil popped up in the last bit. Oh well, this is what blogs are about right?
Fun read anyhow.
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On August 09 2011 19:54 Crissaegrim wrote:
I know EXACTLY what you mean. I too had one pencil that was with me for 13 years. I used it at every examination.
I tell you, when I lost it, I searched for it for a long long time.
It was a constant companion. RIP my blue mechanical pencil.
We need a site which collects lost mechanical pencils and you may adopt 'em poor abandoned things. It's not easy being a pencil. Not feeling a thing, and can't think at all. That's pretty rough.
On August 09 2011 21:01 OpticalShot wrote:
I'm sort of overall confused as the story moved from the friend who was good at drawing to learning programming to some God of DOTA then back to drawing and the pencil popped up in the last bit. Oh well, this is what blogs are about right?
Fun read anyhow.
It was my drawing friend who got me interested in it in the first place -> Going to high school -> meeting guy in high school who reminded me about drawing -> drawing -> need pencil to draw -> my pencil. The random stuff is just to give it some 'filling'. I could've just wrote: "I lost a pen I've been using to draw a lot with." But it's no fun. tt
Didn't really know how to throw in the pencil in it, so yeah. It turned out like that mess. This is what blogs is about indeed!
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On August 09 2011 19:44 Noe wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2011 19:19 obesechicken13 wrote:
Civil Engineering with IT as... this doesn't make sense to me :/
Otherwise, hells yeah drawing!
edit: lost a spoon recently, that spoon was my friend for 8? years You lost something more than me. Your friend was... inside you. And no, it didn't make sense to me either. I walked out with little to nothing! Although, I got the grades and can either continue with engineering in university or programming.
My pens go in my mouth too 
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