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.