New ventures

I've been drawing a fair amount lately trying to get back into the swing of it since it's been like 3 years since I last drew some Manga.  I originally started watching Naruto Shippuden again once school ended and caught up to the newest episode so now I'm just waiting week-by-week until new episodes come out.  It's so hard to wait... Haha.  So once I got all caught up I decided to star drawing some new characters and also a few from Naruto, so I started with Naruto as my first and only subject so far from the show.  Cue example of work... (Google is currently incapable of uploading images).  I looked for some videos of people drawing manga on youtube and it was really amazing! Quite humbling.  I would really like to get a Wacom tablet now which would be great for drawing and would help me edit photos as well. 

Lately I've also really wanted to write a novel.  This notion probably arose due to my reading the Lord of the Rings which I'm glad I started about a week ago.  I have no idea where to start in this venture but I've been doing a bit of research on it.  Unfortunately when I was growing up I never really read many books, I did lots of research on various things or reading of the news online but not much from novels or other similar mediums.  Due to this I'm not so well educated on the structure of a novel but since I've decided I'd like to write something I've been paying a lot more attention to how J.R.R. Tolkien writes as I continue reading LOTR.

Photography has sort of taken a back seat to other parts of my life probably because I'm not out and about as much as I was during the spring semester.  I bought a new lens somewhat recently which I have enjoyed a lot and it inspired me to buy a newer camera lol, so glad I could be inspired to buy something so expensive so easily.  So I'm weighing the benefits of buying a new camera and selling my old one, purchasing a Wacom tablet or building a Windows machine which would be far more powerful than my current Macbook pro.  Time will tell I suppose.

My Summers ambitions

Summer has arrived again and like most summers I don't really have any plans but hopefully something interesting will happen soon.  I'm quite enthralled by pottery thus I would love to work on pottery all summer.  I just need to find somewhere I can accomplish this at.  I've already checked Odyssey Ceramics which is the biggest pottery studio in Asheville.  At Odyssey you can take classes and they offer positions to enthusiastic potters such as myself.  I originally tried applying for a summer residency which they only have two openings for and would have netted me a number of benefits such as 24 hour access to the studio but they already found two people... That was really depressing to hear, I was so looking forward to it.  So now I'm trying to find something similar, I want to be able to work in the studio all day and start seriously producing and bettering myself.  I've considered apprenticing with a potter but I've heard that's hit or miss.  Sometimes you find people where you can create a lot of stuff with and other times you just do exactly as they say and just wedge a lot of clay, etc.  I was also hoping to just have the studio experience so I could work freely without any creative restrictions set upon me.
I'm really bored... I fear this summer might continue on like this.  That would sadden me.  I bought the Lord of the rings trilogy not long ago after I had read the Hobbit for my first time.  It was during the Spring semester and finals so I didn't really have time to read it.  Since then I started watching anime and got really into it and now I'm to the point where I'm just waiting for more episodes to be released from Japan.  It would seem now is an excellent time to read LOTR but I'm feeling anime, even though I was all about LOTR a few weeks ago...  I'm SOOO confused.