The sun is finally out and it's a beautiful Sunday...and what do I do? I sit in front of a computer, haha. Well, it's not really my fault. Being a Sunday, I can't really look for people to have some fun-filled activities to spend the day with. Days like these, I wish I were in cebu with my brothers, just having one of those trash-talking sportsfests filled with empty bets and lame jokes. But I'm not in cebu, and though now would be the perfect time to catch up that dirty laundry I was ranting about... well...tinatamad ako, hehe.

So anyway, I'm just browsing around deviantart...a place(a site rather) that never fails to artistically inspire me...or frustrate me, hehe. I remember all of a sudden the heap of unfinished sketches and paintings I have in my room gathering dust. When I'm in the mood, I get to finish up...but most of the time I tear up a few of them especially when I don't think they'll come out as good as I intended them to be. And that can be irritating, when you know at that moment...there is something you can't achieve. Art is weird in the way that you can't go about it logically...well, not entirely. Yes, skill is important here just as much as skill is needed in solving math equations, but unlike the latter, emotions play a vital role. There is something very intimate with the kinds of lines and strokes one can have depending on your emotions. It's very hard, if even possible at all, to successfully work on a piece that should project a certain feeling when it is not a feeling you are internalizing the moments you are working on it. I guess that's why I always have my music(my collection of favorite songs that is...of varying moods) ready when I'm drawing. Music helps me center on the mood I want to come out in my works, and keeps the consistency of the nature of my lines even between long intervals of retouching. I realize that music has become almost as essential to me as my own need to communicate through art. Hmm...why I am raving on about this...I don't know, hehe.

Hmmm...I guess today I'll try to catch up on those unfinished pieces...or maybe just do laundry. Either way, wish me luck:)

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"When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes!" -Christian Corbet