Hey guys, my friend Imagineye is putting together this charity sketch with Choc children's hospital that will put smiling faces on young sick patients. He is trying to get as many artists as possible for this, otherwise, it won't happen. So if you are interested check out his page.

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Remember in my last journal, i talked about what is the point to make art? Well, i think this is it. oh, and make sure that you vote on the top right corner of the screen once you click the link

Lately, i have been improving on my art skills, but it seems when i stop studying and choose to create a piece of my own, im at a lost. I have realized that i don't want to create beautiful pictures just for the sake of beauty, but i want to create art that will speak to the soul and help this world head into a positive direction.

Yeah, making art for videogames is cool (which i would like to do), but i feel that that is not the final goal of mine, I want to use art for spiritual growth, but i don't know how. How can shapes, color, form, and such help heal the world. I still don't understand, but for the most part it seems everytime when i create something i begin to use my ego, which won't help anybody but myself.

I don't expect anyone to understand what i am saying, but i must write this and expose it to the world.

Happy Drawing!!! tootles!!

Check out this new program. Its still under development so it is free at the time. Make sure to check out Andrew jones demonstration. Very inspirational!

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Hope this helps for those who don't know. (remember, find what works for you, only you know what you like and what you don't. don't limit yourself either, constantly search for new ways of learning what you want to learn.)

I am understanding more and more that it is not the final result of a drawing, but the DRAWING PROCESS. I am too attached to the final result of my drawings which causes me to become too satisfied or deep in contemplation. Either way it slows down my growth as an artist. I am somewhat trapped in this loop of satisfaction and frustration. When i make a great piece of art, i feel happy, when i don't make a great piece of art, i feel irritated or disappointed.

Through many practices and teachings of yoga(for those who don't know, Yoga meaning union of self) i have learned that living life through duality will create many problems that are inevitable. For instance, if i become too attached to making great pieces of art, then i am setting myself up for failure or even worse, slowing down my growth process. But if i choose to live life through unity i will be joyous in everything that i create. Just knowing that each drawing is a learning process and my so called "final results" of art is just the outcome of the long journey of study. Whether my drawing are "good" or "bad" is to none of my concern. The process of drawing itself is of most importance. And just by understanding that the sooner i make the mistakes the faster i can learn from them.

Too sum it all up, I must learn how to love ACTION, for the drawing process is action as opposed to the final result, which is INACTION.