Lifetime ambitions

I wasn't planning on posting a topic but.. I just thought of something funny. What are your lifetime ambitions? I know for me, they are not silly things like 'making a million dollars' (no, they're just silly!) or anything like that. To date they have been:

To never be stung by a bee
To become a rating-one driver
To be a 'nice' old person as opposed to a 'nasty' old person

In addition to that I have added:

To be happy (yes, well, it is 'slightly' important...).

And you?

-go skydiving
-get a tattoo
-get lost in a subway/bus & try and find my way back.
-fall in love and stay that way
-read every frickin book
-move to nyc with mina & lauren and become a bartender..
-have sex everywhere
-travel around the world
-have a crazy life
-study philosophy
-climb a tree and scare people..

hmmm....

omg luz - except for skydiving, love and the book thing (though i'm trying!), it looks like i'm living your life!

ahh LOL!! im glad you are cortica ^^ not jealous, just happy for ya 😄 and im SO dazed right now..watched harry potter..

LoL Luz- mine has a few like yours

-own every book
-learn atleast a dozen languages (including Gaelic and Latin)
-write a masterpiece
-paint a masterpiece
-have a medieval suit of armor in my house where on the other side of the wall you can put your arms into it and scare people
-make my home into an indoor maze
-skydive
-go spulunking
-travel everywhere often

wee 😄 i only know one word in italian, which is jaleto..meaning ice cream, learned it from watching roman holiday 😛 hehehe, well i hope you accomplish every dream gwen 🙂

LoL Luz... it's spelled gelato... it is funny that of all words that you should pick that one. I have a long standing bet with someone that has to do with that

LOL!! o hell -_- my badddd

i know ONE word in italian and yet i dont even know how to spell it -_- pathetic. LOL ohh well 🙂

-procreate (lol)
-make my children geniuses even before birth (haha)
-own homes in Portland, San Francisco, Miami, Maine and somewhere in Europe
-write a book
-end up with my one true love
-learn to play the guitar
-be an archaeologist

I forgot one: I'd like to learn how to draw people better. Ever notice it's *really* hard to draw realistic looking people? Maybe it's just me, but they always end up looking stoopid 😛

I'd also love to learn to paint. I painted two paintings a long time ago and it was mucho fun, but I need my own paints and things.

LoL... I am a born artist pheonix. When drawing a realistic person you have to use proportional measurement (head to body to legs, eyes to forehead to lips, etc.) If you need tips just ask 🙂

Oh, you're so sweet Gwen! Yeah, I need tips...like, am I supposed to use a ruler to measure? And how far away should facial features be? My biggest problem is chins. I can't draw a normal looking chin to save my life. In fact I have a problem with the entire shape of the head, too, and placement of the ears, and thickness/natual-looking-ness of the lips. I have this tendency to draw really full, thick lips on my faces, and it looks insane. I also can't draw eyebrows, not natural looking ones at least.

Would you recommend taking up charcoal as a drawing medium? Is it hard? Do you have a favorite brand? Is it really messy? lol. I have like nine million additional questions, but this is getting ridiculous 😛

natuRal, not natual, unless you're elmer fudd

GELATO!!!! I THINK I WANT A GELATO!!!

(hey gwen, would you like a cinnabun—)

gwen, you stole spulunking, that one I definitly came up with first.

I agree with pheonix on being an arkiooglyist and learning to play guitar...

I want to by a kiln (spelling gwen?) and be a potter (not one like mr. meyers my art teacher, he's an odd one he is)

win the lotto

have a three houses, one in NYC, Amsterdam, and Ireland

Travel everywhere

write write and have my stuff be famous BEFORE I die

alright, now what is spelunking—? I've never heard of that! It sounds like the sound that happens when you dive into water from really high up...

A few of mine are similar to yours Libragirl!

-to be happy and content

-to be a 'fun' old lady (when I am OLD, that is!!) (I can't bear the thought of being stuffy and boring! Arrrggghhhh!

-travel all over the world and see the not so popular sites as well as the popular ones

-own a home that is near water

-gain knowledge from everything I encounter

Phoenix, I too, love to draw and paint and all that! I love charcoal as a medium as well as pastel chalks. If you use pencils...make sure they are an artist set...

To get the proportion of the face, draw from photographs until you feel comfortable with your ability. Study the photographs...do the eyes tilt? (most tilt up at the corners)...anyway, try to draw that person so closely that it looks like a recreation of that photograph only in your chosen medium... This is what I did. People who saw my work could recognize the person I drew from the picture I drew and once the person it was of saw it...they requested to own it...I do not have much of it myself, except a fictional character... (Faces tell so much and were always my absolute favorite to bring out of my paper...when I was really into it, I felt that the face was already there on my paper and I was doing the opposite of sculpting. I was adding a medium to bring it out, rather than taking away as sculpting does...)
It does take much practice. It helps to be passionate about it...
I need to get back into art more! Thanks for the inspiration!

I am not sure I was much help...
Tip: shading is ultra important in portrait drawing...study the shading in the photograph...try to visualize it in black and white even though it is a color photo...

lol pheonix... i'll give you exact proportions for the face and though everybody's face is different, they all follow the same basic proportions.

-the head is a big oval.
-halfway down the head, draw the eyes. Draw them so that the width of the eyes is how far the eyes are from the sides of the head and between the eyes. (essentially, you have the width of five eyes across that face but only draw two of them)
-Now the head has two halves. The bottom part is split in half too. Halfway between the eyes and the chin is the bottom of the nose.
-Halfway between the nose and the chin is the bottom lip (i believe, but i can't exactly remember)
-your ears go the length between the eyes and the bottom of the nose.

-For a full length person there is other proportions of legs-body etc. if you want them.

There are slightly different proportions for babies and really old people.

ps. Charcoal is good if you are already good. I prefer just a plain #2 pencil but don't use those pink erasers-use the type that you can bend and mold that are rubber (can't remember what they are called). But try whatever you want, different people like different mediums.
pss. spulunking is cave exploration

Oh and I forgot- unless you want to draw bald people, halfway between the top of the head and the eyes is where the hair starts to grow and you forhead begins.

Morgan, go ahead and get a kiln. But knwo that I'll be over to use it everyother day.

Sure gwen, but wait, I don't know if I can take the competition from a born artist like you...

well... knowing you, you would cheat with your inspiration by taking illegal hallucinogenics and creating your artwork from the twisted world in which you live in. Or not.

hhhhhmmm.... maybe we should try that sometime....

one day... when it's legal.

lol. Wow, Gwen and Star--THANK YOU BOTH! I'm printing out your tips, because you both sound like fabulous artists. Mucho gracias...(is that how you say it Morgan?)

actually... it's muchas gracias.

De nada.

er... que pasa?...wutever.

Hasta luego, chicas!

~get better at drawing
~write at least one good poem
~start a rape book collection
~move to nyc w/friends
~meet marshall
~dye hair blonde

lol that's weird 'cause i wanna get better at drawing realistic people too. i tried to draw avril lavigne last night, cuz i was like "oh that doesn't look too hard" and i can't tell if it's good or not. i can draw eyes and eyebrows but lips.... ugh. i can't get them to look realisitic.

-live free-r

-stop living in my own mind so much

-love really

what's a rape book collection? im curious

Phoenix, i want to stop living in my mind so much too, im so over it, lol!

lol, i feel ya 😛

i guess sometimes fantasy is better than reality, huh. hows that go...."if i could make the earth and my dreams the same"

to love really (i feel the need to clarify), does not mean the feeling, it means the action. To be able to act on the feeling.

I was vague, I suck

how are you, cj7?

(cj7...even....even...)

lol

eehh.....im alright. cant sleep.

(check your mail btw)

i'm sorry, i can't sleep either 😢

let's be insomniac friends. lol

hey does that chat room work?

yes i believe so

i saw u in there but u were like daydreaming or something.lol

yes, i was. lol

i was letting my mind flow, i suppose you could say 😛

( that's pretty funny that you thought you had to like, leave me alone so I could daydream. lol)

er... a rape book collection is a collection of books about/containing rape.

that's what i figured.

Why would you keep a book of that— Too depressing... Unless you were planning on finding the rapests, hunting them down, and removing the tool of the crime, that would be an ok reason to keep the book...

That is what I was thinking

Gee, what time is it over there? It's lunchtime here... It seems like you are only 7 hours ahead.