22nd, September; Two Weeks Back And A Bit Of Progress!

Sketchbook Writing session.

22nd, September; Two Weeks Back And A Bit Of Progress!

So, we haven`t been back for too long right now. I`ve only made a small amount of progress right now and I`m getting there with gathering ideas for my final piece already! But, I think the teachers are just a littleeee bit frustrated with me because I want more huge wooden boards to work on again... So yeah, i`m going to make a hugeee mess once again.


The class i`m in is quite big right now there`s 15-20 people in there at one time, so it`s quite noisy at time now and I`m finding it particularly hard to concentrate on what i`m supposed to be doing; I think a lot of us are finding it hard to concentrate on anything at the moment, we all need a good rest... It`s just so loud constantly and with my illness it`s making my head go all over the place and I have to keep on going on quick walks and breaks to get out of there and have some quite.
Hopefully we can sort it out soon and get the rest of the class working as they should be, don`t get me wrong, their work is amazing; But since we`ve been back they haven`t even finished one observational drawing so far and everyone else is trying to move on now.
But hopefully, it can get sorted soon, and then we can all get along once again! ^.^

My own shirt, especially
for getting messy!

It`s also my anniversary soon, on the 24th of September me and David will of been together for a year. We didn`t let anyone know for a while though, so when I gave him his presents early (because I got mine early) everyone seemed very confused at it being our anniversary soon.
It`s really awesome having him in art aswell, It means that I get to spend wayyy more time with him without having to walk home in the middle of the dark late at night. I`m getting to spend more time at home with my mum, sisters and little nephew now because I don`t have to use all of that spare time to see David.
I still stay around at the weekends when I`m work, and yes, I still work at bloody B&M.
But I`ve still got two weeks of work experience planned out in October; for the first week, i`ll be working in a Tattoo shop called Ink Kings which is in Ilkeston so it`s even easier to get too in the morning. working with the Taxidermy artist has been proven difficult due to the amount of time that I don`t have and the amount time he spends working on large projects. Then I`ve been in contact with Shed2Studios In Ilkeston (another local place), I asked for a week there but also said that a few hours a day or just a visit to the studios would also prove to be helpful to me.

My Little Nephew Attempting to crawl.

The only other thing I need to add is that I`ve started to apply for universities and have my UCAS account sorted out now; I had a problem with logging in, I had all of the information correct, but for some reason I kept on getting locked out of my account because of failed log in attempts... But on their end, it said that I haven`t even logged in; so something was wrong there, but it`s all sorted now so I can carry on with my personal statement work and finding courses!

Not much has been happening lately, I do wish my life was more interesting right now; if it does help, I`ve been watching assassination classroom and Future Diary, so I`ve watched enough for reviewing I think. If you do read the anime reviews and also read this blog too, Just remember to go over to Wattpad (follow the link below), and you can see a ton more of newer and better animes that I`ve reviewed and that are reader to read instantly.
I`ve also hit an amazing 50.5K reads on the review book! It was originally made to help me with my English skills about 3 or 4 years ago, but I kept on writing in it to see what kind of reaction people would have whenever they read them. It`s done really well and It`s still quite surprising that more and more people are still reading it.
I`m a happy likkle Melonhead :3 !

A selfie that was actually taken today!

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14th, September; Back To sixth Form!

Idiot Sandwiches... 

So it`s Monday, i do apologize for not updating on Friday like I said I would...

So far the teachers have decided that we spend the whole week just doing drawing this week; and if anything, that`s just going to make life even duller than before. So no I`m a little bummed out at the fact that we don`t get to do much for a while, however; I have already finished my observational drawing work and I really want to move on, so just to please the teachers I`m doing little samples of observational drawings that are a bit more detailed than the A2 ones I`ve done so far.
So for now I`m just gong to keep them happy. I`ve also sorted out one of the storage rooms in the new block (all by myself, cause I`m awesome). There`s also a sixth form opening evening coming up that I`m going to be helping out at, since I literally have nothing else to do right now.

So work is going good right no, but someone who I was friends with is now moving all the way to Germany; He`s just finished University and has been (apparently), been a bit down since he`s struggling to find a job... but, It`s not all doom and gloom, He`s been accepted by Ubisoft to work for them over in Germany. He`s been working at the dump for 4 years now and he does seem upset to leave everyone, it`s a big move so I`m not surprised really; I`m happy for him though, to move out there with an awesome job that you`ve wanted for years and have had to train for, for soooo long... It`s kind of given me hope that when I leave university, I can get a decent job and earn all of that money back that I owe to the University.

Some more photoshopping stuff
coming up soon, well...
when I have the time to upload it all...

Everything is good-ish at the moment, my class is a bit distracting though since there are some reallyyyyy, realllyyyy loud girls in there now. It`s just easier to have my headphones on and write in my sketchbook right now, actually making some decent looking work is just hard because of how loud they are right now.

We`ve all decided to give them or a week or so to calm down and settle in; but if it keeps up or gets worse then they`re all going to hate us for getting fed up with them. So it`s basically going to go back to how it was with Beth and Amy at the beginning of last year, which is upsetting really since we`ve just started to get used to them and we all get along quite well now.

But things will settle down soon, I`ve got a lot of University preparation to begin and I`ve almost finished my personal statement and CV now; So I also have almost all of my Unit 10 work finished too! I`m on top of everything and ready to actually get some work done soon!

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9th, September; Back To Sixth Form!

So everyone is going back to school,everyones at college,
the year 12`s have gone in...
but the year 13`s get a lie in... :3 yayy

So everyone`s going back to school now, which unfortunately means that I will have to too; It`s been nie having this break, but now I need to start getting some more work done which should be fun.
The way that I act at sixth form is definitely going to change dramatically when I go back, and I don`t think I will be socializing with people in my class since i know what they think of me now... Which is a good thing for the blog, there are going to be plenty of new faces here, new art styles and hopefully a lot more updates about the good times I`m having since I`ve been back.

Right now i`m actually still in bed, I`m trying to get all of my work e-mailed over to my school account; I`ve been working on quite a bit of photoshop practice (if you haven`t seen it already then head over to my art blog, link is down below). In fact, i even know what I`m going to do with all of my photoshopped designs and it should be quite fun.

What are we...
Idiot Sandwiches

I`ve also been thinking about selling my work too; The style of them are a little bit plain but they`re nice. I`m already making three of them for Christmas presents too and if i do decide to sell them then they will be sold with the frames and cost around £15 to £20 each. The only reason that they will cost that much is because; the pens are £10 each! the frames are around about £5 each and then i have to pay for your postage and packaging.
So hopefully, if anyone is interested; then i could start selling some of my framed work for you guys, which will also give me spare money to make more and more better work at a better size and quality for selling.

So i`ve got a lot planned for the time being, even though it may not seem like it... I`m actually quite busy at the moment.
I`ll probably blog on Friday too, because that way i would of had three days to settle back in to sixth form and hopefully something interesting to write about. See you guys then!


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24th, August; A Level Results...

So i got my A level results not too long ago...

I wasn`t too happy though, if anything i was quite upset about it. So if your read any of my blogs then you will know that I work really, really hard on everything I do in Art and it`s actually the only subject that I do.
I get into Sixth form early to set up my things, then i stay behind to get extra work done and tidy up a bit more. I`ve always put a lot of time and effort into studying art and I was just panicking so much about getting my results for my A level. at the end of year 13, I`ll have another three BTEC`s to go along with the A level.

So my A Level was a Fine Art A level and according to my first result, i did quite well and got an A but then my second result was a C... For starts, I have no idea as to how my level could go down so much in such a short space of time, so that confused me.
So my final result came to...
B
A bloody B grade which I wasn`t happy about at all. I`ve always worked so, so hard to get the best grades. But a B has actually really set me down at the moment and has got me feeling pretty down about my work and has made me realize as to how different this next year is going to be for me.

So i`m going to try and make my work look more professional, instead of keeping loads of copies of the same work i`m going to keep on working on just the one to get it the best it could be, I`m definitely going to try a lot more different kinds of work now instead of sticking to one area and most of all... I`m going to keep my head down and stay quite...

The summer holidays have made me think a lot about people who I should associate myself with from now on, a lot of things have been said and it`s gotten back around to me. So from now on, I`m going to be more focused on blogging, my work and writing.

So when i get back, there will be a lot more updating than there has been during the holidays; which I am sorry about... It`s my holiday too!

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12th, August; Where have i been....?

12th, August; Where have i been....?


So then, i haven`t been too busy but i`ve not been on here in some time now.
It`s just that this is my holiday too so it`s mainly been catch-up time with online friends, family, real friends and a tiny bit of over time at work. I feel as if the stress of sixth form has literally just gone right now and i`m loving it... But that doesn`t mean that i`ve stopped doing any work...

So just lately i`ve been doing the obvious work for my David, (boyfriend), with his manga characters and i`ve been trying to give him advice and help him along. It`s just mainly been small characters and practice for me on making the characters.

Then i`ve been trying to photoshop people and make cartoony looking people as practice for my control on photoshop, they are quite blocky and chunky at the moment but then again this is all just a ton of practice for me. So far i`m just working on other people and doing smaller ones of them and, as i`m typing this, I have a separate window open with photoshop and i`m currently doing one of me and David!

So far people have given me advice and improvements to make (So, thank you), but i`m still struggling quite a bit and i`m trying to save up so i can buy a scanner for my drawings aswell so i`m busy-ish at the moment trying to test out new things that i can use when i go back to Sixth form... But that`s if i get back in

(Re-enrollment is on the 13th... So tomorrow... crap...)




I`ve also been trying to do creepier looking faces for art aswell... But this is where i`ll need everyone else`s help and hopefully some of my follwers and friends too.

So, my new art project is basically about my mental health problems; Depression, Anxiety and Psychosis.
But I wanted to know if other people could send in a picture of themselves and a little bit about them or their personal struggle.

You will also obviously have the option to either let me use your images on my blog or use them in my art, and the option to stay anonymous or not. It`s completely up to you guys if you want to be part of this or not, it`ll be interesting to see what comes out of this and i`m kind of looking forward to seeing what may happen if you guys do take part.

You never know, i may get no messages from you guys or i could get a few which should hopefully encourage others to send messages in!
If you are interested in seriously helping me out; then message me on the facebook page or you can send me an e-mail at :-
marshyandthemelons@gmail.com

(The same rules apply with the cartoony block images and the creepy images, I`m just doing these for practice so i apologize if any of them come out terribly bad).

Thank once again to anyone who still reads my blogs and to anyone who has messaged me on Deviantart and the facebook page with your opinions. It`s always a big help...
(and thanks for being patient with me since I`m quite slow right now).



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12th, August; Japanese Lessons!

12th, August; Japanese Lessons!

So in the second week of the holidays i went for my very first Japanese lesson with Mia...
So this year it will be three years since i went to Japan, and Mia has gone about 4 or 5 times now, and she went the same year as me too.
When we where there I considered her as a best friend and mainly tagged along with her whilst we where there and she`s been learning Japanese for years now so she`s getting pretty fluent in the language.

So before she goes to University she`s teaching Japanese for £15 a lesson ,which when you think about it, is an amazing price for quick lessons.
She even stayed up till late at night to make me and my friend Lauren  lesson plans and small little flash cards for our Japanese lessons with her.
She really seems to know what she`s doing too and acts like a proper teacher when we had our first lesson and i seriously appreciated her then going out for dinner with me afterwards to a restaurant just around the corner.

So i filled in the work sheets she gave me in the lesson, which was an introduction to Hiragana, casual conversation and numbers. I feel like i`ve got the whole number thing down though, it`s just remembering how to write the symbols. she was really helpful and patient with me trying to guess the numbers when we did a little quiz.
I also bought a little book to do revision in so i can memorize what it is that i`ve just learnt since i`m quite forgetful.




So far, so good! My next Japanese lesson should hopefully be just after i get paid... So i think it might be next week or something, but hopefully i can keep on doing these lessons.
Mia has been a lovely teacher so far and i have a feeling that i`m really going to enjoy the lessons that i have with her!





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22nd, July; Almost The end!

22nd, July; Almost The end!

So i now have two days left at sixth form and i`m seriously ready for this break which is coming up... but the only thing is that there will be even less updates; I`ll have plenty of time to do the updates, but i`m rather boring and prefer to hibernate away in my room rather then be in the sun for the whole six week break that we have for summer.

so things are gonna be a bit slow, and i`ll probably only do three or four updates; i`m not quite sure to be honest... But it`ll be whenever i try and at least leave my room i guess...

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