Lauzi

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Hi guys, just posting to let you guys know that I've made a new art blog on tumblr. You can find it here: lololauzi.tumblr.com/

It's been a while since I last updated, because as usual I am super busy with uni and such. I really can't wait for this semester to be over so I can start seriously working on my personal art again. On the plus side, this semester I have a Figurative Studies class which is helping me learn more in-depth human anatomy, so I'll be drawing and developing more human characters over the summer. I'm super excited for that! I also plan to join PMDUnity over the summer as well, and quite possibly create a comic based on the nuzlocke I've been doing recently in Pokemon X. Basically, I have a lot planned!

Other than uni and my nuzlocke, I've been collecting more physical copies of manga lately. Right now, the series I'm collecting are: Bakuman, Blue Exorcist, Naruto, Attack on Titan, Pokemon Adventures, Magi, and Kekkaishi. I also want to start collecting Dragonball as well, because lately me and my boyfriend have been collecting and watching Dragonball Z, and even though it's UNBELIEVABLY slow-paced, the characters are awesome and I have thoroughly enjoyed it so far (we just finished season 3). I enjoy collecting the physical copies of manga, because although it can be costly, it feels a million times better reading the physical copy than reading online scans. Also, they are unbelievably inspiring.

Especially reading the author's comments about their journey towards becoming a manga artist. Stories of success like that are incredibly motivating to me.

Well, that's all I've been up to. How are you all and how is life treating you? I wish you all the best.

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Lauzi

Sep 7, 2013

Updates on illness/Uni/Taking Chibi Icon Requests

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Hello all! It's been about two months since my last journal entry about my sickness, so I'm here with some updates!

I did end up going to the doctor after all, although she just gave me peppermint oil tablets and told me to come back if my symptoms worsen or don't improve at all. She didn't end up sending me for tests or anything, I was getting worked up over nothing it seems. :L Anyway, the peppermint tablets worked really well for the trapped wind, although they gave me horrible heartburn, which is the most common side effect for this medication apparently. So I had to stop taking them, and now I'm back on my usual IBS tablets (mebeverine), although I keep forgetting to take them. D: I'm horrible at remembering stuff like this. =w=;;

All in all though, I've felt a lot better lately, and I've been getting barely any feeling of nausea. I still get trapped wind occasionally, but exercise helps with that. Tbh I think the main problem was that I've not been getting out much over the summer, and as such my immune system has been run down. I've started going for walks more and such though and it seems to be helping. Exercise is a necessity for IBS patients apparently, though me being so lazy I never exercised unless I had to, and now I do, even if it's just short walks every day. :L Once I go back to uni I'm sure I'll be back at 100% because there is a lot of travelling involved.

So yeah, I start back uni officially on the 23rd of September. I'm looking forward to going back, but at the same time I'm nervous about the workload. I've realized that Animation isn't really my thing, I'd rather focus on Digital Art. So I am going to talk to my lecturers about changing programs. The problem is, that the solely Digital Art degree is taught at another campus quite far from me (travelling there will be about 2hrs there and back, though my loan would cover all travel costs but it's still a big leap...) and also it's a 3rd year entry course, though since I've minored in Digital Art in first year, and also will be in second, I should have enough credits to move course. I think it's the travelling that's my main concern... I don't have a job and my loan/bursary itself couldn't cover a flat. So... I'm stuck. I really want to study Digital Art though, so I may well just go for it despite the travel costs. There aren't a lot of universities nearby who offer Digital Art/Illustration courses so that is my only option... other choices are even farther away. :I If me and my boyfriend manage to get a job this year or next though, I think we'd be able to get a flat and that'd make things easier. I hope it works out that way. :3 Or I could just stick with my animation course till the end... but it's so difficult and I struggle. I've never gotten lower than a B in any of my animation classes but I always feel like I'm going to fail when it comes to the assessments. :/ I just get stressed and worried over the work, and if I struggled that much in my first year the later years will be tough... so I'd rather transfer before my final years. Anyway I shall discuss this matter with my lecturers and see what they think. I will make a decision after that.

I also forgot to post my class results from my second semester. I got B's in every class (Film and TV Production, 2D Computer Animation, and Digital Media 1). I was hoping for an A in Digital Media 1 but oh well. I'll do better next time!!

Lastly, I've started drawing more frequently again now that I'm starting to feel better. I drew these chibi icons for me and my boyfriend the other day:

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They are super fun to make so I've decided to take some requests to get me back into the swing of things. :3 If anyone wants a chibi icon just comment in this journal. It doesn't need to be a person either, I can do chibi animals, fursonas, pokemon, other types of OC, etc. Though I WILL need a link to some sort of reference!! If you want a chibi of yourself but aren't comfortable showing me a photo for reference, a drawn reference of yourself is fine, or a DETAILED written reference, but please note that if you decide to give me a written reference, I might not be very accurate with everything!

Anyway, chibi icon requests will be completed within the next few weeks and I'll contact you when I complete them. :3

Thanks for taking the time to read my journal, it means a lot!

How have you all been?

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Lauzi

Jul 13, 2013

Illness

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Hello everyone. I'm just writing to give another update on how things are going with me. As some of you know, I finished up uni for the summer holidays in early May, and I said I had plans to become more active on deviantArt and start drawing more often. Sadly those plans have fallen through so far, and there is one reason for that. I've been ill, though I'm not sure what's causing it.

To elaborate, I've been feeling really sick at times (sick to the point I feel like I'm going to throw up), but a lot of the time it just turned out to be trapped wind in my throat, making me feel ill. Though that feeling usually goes away when I manage to burp to get rid of the trapped wind. Although further into the summer I was physically sick, like throwing up. I threw up like three times in one night, and felt horrible. Though I thought it was just something I'd ate or a stomach bug, so I brushed it off. It took me like two weeks after that to get my appetite back to normal again, and when I don't have a proper appetite I just don't have the energy or motivation to do anything... so that's why I'd barely drawn at all... Then just when I'd started getting completely better, I was sick again twice in one morning, about a month after I'd first been sick. This time though I hadn't eaten anything since the evening before, so it couldn't have been something I'd ate. I must've had some sort of stomach virus... this was two weeks ago and I'm only just starting to eat normally again.

Although now my IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) is playing up and I've been getting a lot of stomach pain lately as a result. But it comes and goes... I also still feel sick occasionally, though not as bad as before. But I'm scared I'm going to get sick again like last time, so I'm not feeling too optimistic about being better... I'm going to finally stop being a coward and go to the doctors to try to find out if there is anything wrong with me. I've been putting it off because I'm scared of all the tests they'll want to do, they may even send me to the hospital to get tests done there... but even though I have a fear of hospitals I'm going to need to be brave, otherwise I might just get worse and worse, plus everyone is worried about me, so I want to reassure them.

I feel like all I've done over the summer so far is get sick. :L Though it's not been all bad, I've had my boyfriend with me and he always looks after me, it gives me the best happiness even though I've been ill. :3 <3 He is the best support. <3

I hope the doctors can do something for me. I want to be able to draw again frequently. Thank you all for your patience. <3

TL;DR: I've been sick all summer so far and haven't had any energy to draw. When I get well again, I'll start drawing more often. Thanks for waiting. <3

Till next time!

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Lauzi

May 13, 2013

It's been a while...

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...Hi.

If anyone is interested in what I've been up to since my last update, read on. If not, don't bother reading.

Hmm, well I'll start with updates about uni life I guess.

I got my results from trimester 1, they are as follows:

Creative Computing Profession: B
Intro to Computer Animation: B
Visual Creativity: A

I was very happy with my results, my hard work paid off! Now for details on trimester 2...

The classes I got in trimester 2 were:

2D Computer Animation - As it says, 2D animation, using the program Toon Boom Studio 4.
Digital Media 1 - This module was AWESOME, it's all about graphic design in Photoshop and Illustrator. We had to do stamp designs, CD designs, and then this really pointless assignment where we literally imported a photo to Photoshop, had to add some filters and then save as CMYK/RGB format... A 5-year-old could do that, no idea why it was part of the course.

This was my favourite class in trimester 2 anyhow. :3
Film and TV Production (A) - This was another sort-of pointless module... we got into groups, and made movies. That's the gist of it. :L

I just finished and submitted all of my assignments on Friday, and I should get my trimester 2 results back in early June. So that is me officially done with my first year of uni. How time flies. :3 Presuming I don't need to resit any modules in the summer due to failing, I'm on holiday until I go back to uni on the 16th of September to start second year. AKA four months of freedom... and time to draw personal art!

I'm sorry I promised more art over winter and didn't deliver, I got lazy I guess... I'm going to draw more often though, my boyfriend keeps encouraging me, so I want to do my best for his sake as well as my own.

As for my plans over the summer, well I want to draw lots to build up my portfolio and later open commissions, because I am skint and I can't get a job anywhere... most places require experience or else aren't hiring... I even looked into volunteering work for experience but no word back yet... So commissions would give me the helping hand I really need. Although I'm not expecting many to commission me but I still gotta try!!

I'll also be doing the regular stuff over the summer; relaxing, playing games, spending time with my boyfriend, hanging out with friends, etc. I'll be on Skype more often too for the next four months. I miss chatting to my online friends. <3 Oh if anyone wants to add me on Skype just say the word.

In other news, I got a new laptop on Friday! It's an Acer Aspire ultrabook. It has an 11-inch screen, 6GB RAM, 500GB Hard Drive, and is half the size and weight as my last laptop. My old laptop was pretty big and heavy, and I had to carry it to uni to do work because the university PCs are so UNRELIABLE it's unreal... I don't know how many times my work has disappeared, programs have crashed on me, and the internet stopped working when I needed it, etc. So I had no choice but to take my big clunky laptop to uni. Problem being that it was so heavy that my shoulder would be killing me by the time I got home. So I've been saving for this little beauty for a while, and it's finally mine! It cost £330 so was a massive chunk out of my money, but worth it, because this laptop is as light as a netbook, and yet has double the specs of my old one. I'm so happy!

It has Windows 8 64-bit, which is hella confusing so I set the GUI to be more like Windows 7 and now it's easy to use. :L I love this little laptop though, and I've just finished transferring all my programs/files to it!

My life has generally been more awesome than ever this past year... uni is just amazing in so many ways. And my relationship with my boyfriend is still going great too, we've now been dating for just over 6 months, and are practically never apart from each other heheh~ <3 I'm so glad I found him at UWS. :3

Anyway thanks to those of you who bothered to read this, I appreciate it!

How are you all and how is life?

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Dec 24, 2012

Some Updates

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Again it's been months since I last updated, sorry about that. D: I've just been so busy with uni and other things, but I'm on winter break now so I have a bit more free time.

Let's see... continuing from my last journal about starting University, so much has happened since then. XD I think the biggest thing was the fact I got asked out, by the guy I mentioned in my previous journal who was put in my Creative Computing Profession group, the one who also gets the train from Paisley back to Glasgow Central. I asked if we could start as friends first so I could get to know him better, and he agreed. We got really close after that, and I realised I liked him too. Then just under two weeks later I told him how I felt, so we started going out.

I've been going out with him for about two months now, and I love him so much. <3 It's amazing how much we have in common, he's my boyfriend but at the same time he's my best friend, which is awesome.

We play games together all the time, watch movies, and just have a whole lot of fun. We make each other laugh a lot too. XD My life has just gotten so much more awesome since I met him and I'm so lucky that I did.

As for university, I've settled in properly. I got all my coursework done and handed in, and now I'm on my winter break, and I don't start trimester 2 until early February, which means I have a lot of time to just be lazy and play games all day, hang out with my boyfriend, catch up with friends, draw, watch movies, and a million other things. I'm so glad I'm on break because uni is so time consuming. D: I'll need to work harder next trimester so I can keep on top of things better.

Anyway how are all of you and what are you doing for Christmas? I'm just staying in with my family and having dinner and playing games/watching movies, nothing special.

My boyfriend got me Mariokart 7 and let me open it today so I've just been playing that all day, it's so much fun.

Oh and I FINALLY got around to completing Pokemon White 2, I've had it on hold for ages because of uni. XD I still need to do the post game stuff, but that won't take long. I enjoyed White 2 overall, but I liked the original White better. Nevertheless it was still a pretty fun and enjoyable game.

Finally, please take a look at all the wonderful art that the people I point-commissioned drew for me. I said I would feature them all when everyone finished so that's what I'm doing now. I'm featuring some of their other art as well so please take a look!

Oh and, I wish you all a merry Christmas!

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