Photo study

 

First time achieving this level of finish, photo study or not 😁 As WoT says, still, it is a beginning.

2016 vs 2021

For a lighting exercise I meant to do way back when that completely, obviously, and utterly died in the womb 🤣 I most certainly didn't think I'd ever be able to do clean line art ever until...a month ago? Damn. I wonder where I'll be by the end of this class...and can't wait to get there 🙂

Running towards you with all I have

...Been a while since I've been this excited over a Chinese pop song o_o But this one pokes at a specific tender point at the moment, huh.

Is it the experience of loneliness that teaches one to grow up

Is it the experience of separation that elucidates longing

We say friendship withstands distance across the world

But at this moment I just want to be with you, ah

If the world is complicated, pretentious, noisy

I'd exhaust my whole being running towards you, ah

Even if it is so far away and beyond, ah

I will for sure be there, ah

If you resort to sputtering stupid, drunken, lies

I'd exhaust my entire being running towards you, ah

Even if it is far away and beyond, ah

I will for sure make it there, ah

You still have me, ah, ooh

You have me, ah, ooh

 

(repeat)

 

If all that remains of you are old wounds, struggles, armor

I'd exhaust my entire being running towards you, ah

No matter how insignificant one may be, ah

Nobody deserves lonely isolation, ah

You still have me, ah, ooh

You still have me, ah, ooh

You have me, ah, ooh

You have me, ah, ooh

 

EDIT:
Oh, turns out they updated the CC in the youtube vid and their translation is...overall better. Very smartly taking the spirit of the original Chinese and creating their own sentence structure as opposed to (me trying to, at least) preserve the original...Chinese flavor and format? Very interesting. Shows how much I still have to go in translation skills...

The you and the I

They say the beast that is Dir en grey no longer allowed room for him to write about personal feelings. Even if love/pain is mentioned, they are abstracted, broad-stroked worldviews. sukekiyo, on the other hand, is very simply the place for the small and personal, the you and the I.

What about...?

Even if there is already a triple outlet where all manners of the small and personal and everyday is shared (at what sense of fulfilment! this universe)... Occasionally, there is...that pang. The itch, or urge, to leave something more behind. 

I stir.

Is it time...?

Aura

Somehow these two just stay consistent throughout, huh. Lyrics don't apply, yet the general painted mood keeps coming up.

September or October, you say.

業

To each their own.

Stranger

 A favorite from then, huh.