Month: August 2015
i hope you always have enough money to pay your rent on time, to buy your favorite groceries, and to invest in your art.
I receive that blessing & send it to everyone that follows me
very nice things
people who notice you’re feeling left out from the conversation and try to include you
people who know that words won’t change the fact that you’re sad so they sit quietly and be sad with you
people who send memes to you when you’re sad to cheer you up
people who understand you need your space and time to be alone
People who understand that they don’t understand
Does anyone else have this terrible, nagging feeling that you should be drawing 24/7? Or is that just me???
Kimono drawing guide ½, by Kaoruko Maya (tumblr, pixiv, site). Booklet is available in pdf for ¥ 900 here.
Here you can see:
- female kimono and yukata (note how the juban underwear peeks when in kimono + how belts differ)
- male yukata and kimono (note how the juban underwear peeks when in kimono)
- dressing up: male (kimono is not closed yet) and female (kimono closed with datejime belt and ready to put on obi)
- differences between female and male kimono once dressed (note how the collars and belts set)
- common drawing mistakes (compare with previous picture: shoulders lines are too defined, there is a double hem, collars are narrow, belt is not at the right place etc)
- women back collar (the lower the sexier) and men back collar (close to the nape)
- back and sleeves differences between men and women
- collars and sleeves and view of how kimono drapes around body
- Furisode back (long sleeves kimono) and formal furisode obi knot example
W-wait, you had cancer?!
Yeah. I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer when I was 19… ten years ago… They took my thyroid out and did radiation treatment. Two years of additional testing and, bam! I’m in remission.
Now it’s just taking a pill every day for the rest of my life and figuring out how to deal with what the treatment did to my body. Which I’m sure, incidentally, is why I get sick so often. My immune system sucks now.
Yay medicine and bananas??? And good listener doctoring!
YEAH!
My doctor’s theory is that the cancer stuff really messed up my body. So while I don’t have cancer anymore (yay!), I get to deal with the aftermath (boo). This mostly involves resetting and regulating hormones.
So far so good! And I bet it’ll get even better when I’m able to get those farrow wraps he talked about…
Nerves
(Cuz in reality, getting kissed on the nape is
eeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuggghhhhgonna make you faint)((I can’t help it I took a break, I’ve been working since 4 am and Imma still go all-nighter))
health update: I’ve lost 14lbs since seeing the doctor two weeks ago. something seems to be working since I have actually been eating lately…