How to be a good artist

      I just bought a bamboo graphics tablet after I took up interest in digital art. I have this new interest in digital art mainly due to it's more vibrant colors and the sheer lasting effect of digital pictures as opposed to print pictures. Like it or not, printed pictures fade from smudging, wear and light bleaching. A digital picture is saved and unless it's deleted, that picture isn't going anywhere. Now here comes the rant. I can't stand people who feel that if they have better pencils, better paper or better whatever then they will be a better artist. If you can't work with the basics, then you have no business with the high quality products. However, as much of a strong believer as I am on that, I have found that the graphics tablet vs computer mouse is a BIG difference. The control that a mouse offers is severely limited in comparison to a graphics tablet. Without control over your pen/pencil/market/etc. then you are going to have a hell of a time creating anything remotely decent. I did end up buying the tablet and I love it. Even though I have been drawing since I was four years old and am relatively decent(definitely not the best, not by a long shot), but digital art is a bit of a different concept. I am getting the hang of it, but I have been looking through tutorials, different pictures for examples and studying what they do in them. I have run into a lot of comments on youtube whenever I am looking at the tutorials for paint tool sai(the program I use) and there are so many people who whine and complain because they don't know how to draw something. LISTEN UP PEOPLE! If you don't know how to draw and color hair, then look at pictures of hair! If you can't seem to make eyes look good, then look at tutorials of eyes, pictures and examples of shading. In order to be good at something, it all boils back to what we have heard since we were little: practice makes perfect. You need to study examples of what you would like to create. Look at styles you would like to mimic. You have to practice and try again and again. If you do not look at other successful examples and then practice but yet whine and complain because you do not understand, you will never be good at anything you do and I have no sympathy for people who refuse to take charge and help themselves. In the words of Rupaul, you betta WERK!
-Dusk

Forsaken World

    I'm not sure how many people play MMORPG's, but I personally find them fun. I just recently returned to a game called Forsaken World when they got a new race, the Lycan race and I found it to be very fun. I liek the game because everything about it is just really wonderful and I am a very picky gamer. I like the gothic themes that it has but it is also not overwhelming in dark, gloomy themes either. I think it's just an overall great game and if any of you haven't played it, then you really should. Check out a review for it at mmohuts.com
-Dusk

Obsessed with Rupaul's Drag Race?

     So I actually think I might be obsessed with Rupaul's Drag Race. I cannot stop scouring the web for any and all info on my favorite queens. Personally, Raven is my favorite, I just LOVE her and think she is BEAUTIFUL! I also have been looking at a ridiculous amount of videos all about drag, mainly by Petrilude, he makes great videos and tutorials. Yes, I am a gay man who does in fact tuck every day for school and wear makeup so there is surely a connection there LOL but I think I literally am obsessed with drag queens. Hmmm, I wonder if this is a sign that I will be a drag queen in a few years? *shrugs* That would be fun.
-Dusk

Tucking for drag

     So I JUST learned how to tuck and I am the happiest person ever right now. I learned how to make a gaff out of an elastic waistband and a tube sock. It holds everything super well and I literally look like I have a girl's crotch. I am not a drag queen, but I do wear skinny jeans and if i don't tuck then I have to wear super long shirts to cover that area. I will post a link to the video I watched that explained it perfectly. How to Tuck for Drag Now let me just say that when you make the gaff(which is SO helpful) it probably won't seem like it fits right, but it will. The gaff will fit like a thong kind of. The elastic will need to be stretched between your ass cheeks for it to fit, but it needs to and you get used to it. Also, your balls need to be pushed up more towards the front part of the opening between your legs, not pulled back. They will literally push up inside of you and you can see like two bumps on the bottom area of your stomach and that is how you know you tucked successfully. I know, it seems weird, but this is how it is done. It will feel weird, but you do get used to it. Don't force anything, just experiment with everything until it works, and then you will know. Goodluck gurls!
-Dusk

Guys...SHAVE!!!

     I honestly think that at least half of the guys at my school just don't know how to shave! They all face facial hair and they should NOT! If you cannot get past the patchy beard phase, SHAVE! If you are halfway to a beard, SHAVE! If you have a beard, SHAAAAAVE! I think facial hair is SO gross on most guys because most of them simply cannot pull it off, and they need to fix themselves. A lot of them just have long stumble that does not seem to be growing anymore and I know that a lot of them do not shave because they are worried about cutting themselves. I am a guy and I shave everyday so I don't look like a mess and so I can put on my powder without it caking up in my stubble. I actually shave upwards to get an even closer grain and that is harder than shaving downward, and I still never cut myself! I don't even use shaving cream, I just use a razor and water! If I, a clumsy, dumb, uncoordinated goth can shave successfully every morning without scratching up their faces, you pansies surely can too! Guys on the football team, you are the worst! You guys get tackled to the ground in sleet or snow and you are afraid of a tiny razor blade?!? Good God Get a Grip Gurl!
-Dusk

Chewing Tobacco is so gross...

  I am tired of sitting in class and watching people spit their chew onto the carpet and rub it in with their heel. That is so fucking disgusting! If any of you do that, STOP IT!!! To anyone who still does that, I hope you get lip cancer!
-Dusk

Finished Zombie Apocalypse Story

     So, yes, I AM writing another zombie related post. I honestly think that there might be a disease that makes you obsessed with zombies and I have it. It would really suck though if there was a virus that made people zombie obsessed and then turned them into one. That would be my kind of luck in a nutshell. ANYWAY, for the last week I've been writing on a story where I am trying to survive a zombie apocalypse with my two closest friends and two other strangers. I tried to get the personalities as accurate for myself and for them as I could so when they read it they will be saying "THAT IS SO ME!" I just finished editing it last night and it's total is 85 pages. I'm rather surprised with myself actually because I've never finished a story that long in under a week. I also did blow off almost every other important thing  in my life to do it, including college applications that have a deadline that ends in two weeks, but I always have been a bit of a procrastinator. I can finish them in time if I really crack down this weekend and hole up in my room to write the essays for them and send them out. It will be fun...not. Story of my life!
-Dusk

Fixation with Zombies..?

     So recently I've been a little obsessed with zombies. I'm not sure if it was because season 3 of The Walking Dead was coming out(and I just saw the season premiere and it was wonderful!) or if I am just obsessed. I think I am just obsessed. I am even in the process of writing a story about what I would do in a zombie apocalypse. It is based on real life and it has two of my surviving friends in it and I try to incorporate their personalities as accurately as possible to make it believable. I don't remember when my fixation with zombies started, but ever since then I really have been obsessed with them. If there was a zombie apocalypse, I think I would be well prepared. I need to make a survival guide on this blog...hmm...NEXT POST!
-Dusk

Marriage Equality my ass!!!

     So in government today the class was discussing different subjects that were controversial and discussing how the different political parties would stand on these subjects. There were enough awkward controversial topics and then we got to marriage equality and every single person was looking at me. It was SO awkward. These kids all talked as if they really supported it when in reality they are the same people that go around calling people fags and talking about anyone who is gay behind their back. I can't stand people. If you truly believe in something, stand for it, but don't stand for something if you are going to turn around and bash it! Ugh!!!
-Dusk

Turn your music down!!!

     To those of you who like to blare your music in the middle of class, STOP IT! IT'S ANNOYING AS FUCK! I don't know if you guys aren't aware your music can be heard on the other side of the class, but is it too much to take our your headphones every now and then to check if you can hear it without them in? You do not need to blare your music, it is not necessary to have your music deafeningly loud to enjoy it. Also, it seems that its always the  people that blare their music are the ones who listen to the worst music! For the love of God, just turn your fucking music down, that is not too much to fucking ask!
-Dusk

Pen tappers, I hate you.

     I know I am not the only one who hates people who tap their pens, tap their feet, whistle and do any other really annoying things like that in class. It is so annoying to everyone who is trying to listen to the teacher and being unable to concentrate because of the boiling hatred for the people tapping or drumming their fingers or anything. I don't care if it helps you concentrate, it makes me irate and I will kill you if you do not stop. If you are a pen tapper, finger drummer, foot stamped, whistled or loud breather, you need to stop it because it is so obnoxious and I will hurt you if you do not stop!
-Dusk

My dreams create memories

     I am the only one I know who this happens to, and I don't think it's bad, but my dreams create memories. When I dream, often times I will be with somebody that I have never met in real life or another dream and I will have memories with that make believe person of us knowing each other for years, as if they were my best friend. It is honestly as if I have known the person for years and we interact as if we have, only it's the first time I have ever dreamed about them, and I never dream up the same person twice. Like I said, it's not a bad thing, it's just so bizarre. If this happens to anybody else, please comment because I would like to know whether or not I am the only one.
-Dusk

Trying to improve my writing and BAM!

     For those of you who do not know, I am a writer and I can spend hours typing up on stories I've thought up with a nice cup of coffee. One problem of mine, out of several is that when I am writing a longer book, the quality of my writing is not nearly as good as when I am typing up a short story, and I think that is due to the fact that with a longer story I am eager to get through the slower parts to the more intense scenes. I had an idea to just sit down in front of my laptop one day and start writing a random scene with no previous thought on it beforehand, which I also hoped would help with the stroke of writer's block that I have been having lately because the cure to writer's block is to write. I started on this scene and five minutes in I had a new plot and a great idea and so this great new story emerged. It is still in the process of being typed, but I thought I would take a break to get another cup of coffee and make a post, because I am always so thrilled when things just work out. I think that the reason artists create better work with no idea or a vague idea in their head is because they have no previous guidelines or expectations of how it is supposed to appear and thus when they are finished, the art before them is not a comparison to the vision they have in their head. That's all I've to say for now for I must get back to my story.
-Dusk

Finished Doctor Who Season 6!

     So I have just finished season 6 of Doctor Who with the 11th doctor and may I say that it was incredible? I think I may because it was incredible! The amount of suspense that the show builds up in it's episodes is so intense I can barely stand it! I watch it and need to know the answers RIGHT THEN, but instead, I get the answers five or more episodes later, which adds to the suspense and the massive grand finale at the end, but the suspense always kills me quite a lot inside waiting. Anyway, so I am not going to give any spoilers to anyone who is currently watching the series or those of you who are not but should be watching it, but I must say that the end truly is 100% worth reaching and I do hope that you all reach the end. For now, I am going to sleep, it's late and tomorrow I shall start season 7, the brand new season with I think 5 episodes in now. Waiting for each new episode to come out every Saturday is really going to be a trial of my self endurance, wish me luck everyone!(as if anybody is reading this) Bye!
-Dusk

Should we remove airport security?

The answer is NO!!!!!! Some dumbass in my government class thinks that we should do away with airport security because "there are no more terrorists anymore. They just don't do that anymore!" The reason that terrorists don't blow up planes anymore is because we have tight airport security, but did you forget the batman movie shooting already? Um, yes, people still kill people in acts of terrorism! There are always going to be psychotic individuals who want to kill people because they aren't right in the head, and just because they haven't done it in a while(thanks to tight security) does not mean that they don't do it anymore. Get some sense kid!
-Dusk

Highschoolers who don't know how to read

I am so tired of highschoolers in my classes who still can't even read! You are seniors in highschool and you can't even pronounce surprise!? Good God Get a Grip gurl!!!!!! If you cannot read, drop out, just drop out now because you are hopeless! I hope you dumb assess don't have future plans for college because you are going to have a tough road ahead of you! LEARN TO READ!!!!!!
-Dusk

Split Mind plush dolls are so cute!

     If any of you are familiar with the Split Mind plush bunnies and kitties, then surely you want them too! They are so ADORABLE! I saw them online and I literally flipped out screaming KAWAII at my computer! They are cute, gothic plush bunnies and kittens by a wonderful gothic artist who goes by Split Mind! I think she used to have a site, but now she is limited to selling them on DeviantArt.com and I still want one! You can buy them at:  http://splitxmindxplush.deviantart.com/. Now for the images you are all waiting for:

-Dusk

Great Eyeshadow Primer for $1

     So for those of you who have extreme problems with eyeshadow creasing, then you should probably get an eyeshadow primer, however, if you are like me and have searched up on them, then you realize that they are hard to find in stores and expensive! Also, if you have extremely creasable lids like I do, then you will still run into problems with creasing even with a primer on. Anyway, so I would recommend the Elf Mineral Eyeshadow Primer(image below) which you can find at your local K-Mart or Target for only $1!!!!! It is comparable to the L'Oreal Decrease which is about $8 and quite a bit harder to fin according to my own personal experiences. Now, the key to remember when you test these out is that shitty eyeshadows = creasing and fading, and it won't matter what primer you use if you have shitty eyeshadows because they will crease! I am cheap and I do not have the money to be spending on Mac eyeshadows, so I try to find decent, cheap eyeshadows and a good primer. Good luck to all those of you who have creasing problems and I hope that this primer can help you, and if it doesn't, well you are out a dollar, sue me.












-Dusk

Doctor Who Season 6!

     So just as I mentioned in my previous post, I am now watching season 6 of Doctor Who with the 11th Doctor, and even though I haven't finished it yet(which is when I said I would make another Doctor Who post) I am in love with this season! I cannot stop watching this show! It's so addicting! This morning I finished all of my homework and even did chores around the house and once I was all done, I holed up in my room with my laptop and started watching Doctor Who, and I haven't emerged since, except for food, but food is the only thing that is more important than Doctor Who(God I love food!) My favorite part so far was when Riversong(I'm never sure if her name is spelled Riversong or River Song) started shooting up the silence, that made me so happy! She's badass! Anyway, I just wanted to make a quick post about that, and now I am off to go eat lasagna and then I'm going to hole up in my room once again with hot cocoa and finish of my Sunday night with more Doctor who before I have to return to school tomorrow. Ta-Ta!
-Dusk

The 11th Doctor

    For all of you Doctor Who fans, then you surely knew just by the title what I was talking about. To those of you who are not familiar with the show Doctor Who, the doctor is a time traveling alien and the 11th doctor means he is in his 11th incarnation. Now, I have just finished the 5th series of Doctor Who, the newer series with Matt Smith, and I have to say that I am really quite fond of him. Now, I am not by any means an avid Doctor Who fan who has seen every episode of every season since the show came on in black and white, however, I have seen a few episodes of the new series with the 10th Doctor, David Tennant, and though I thought he was good, I am still more partial to the 11th doctor, and I also love River Song, she's badass. Anyway, so yes, I just finished season 5, LOVED it, and will presume to watch season 6, which will hopefully have me in so much awe that I decide to write another post. Just thought I would get that out. BYE!
-Dusk

Hot guy in my dream wanted a sex change.

    So I just woke up from a dream where my best friend and I were in school and there was this super hot guy that we apparently knew, and he had just gotten a sex change from a penis to a vagina, but he didn't have boobs and he didn't resemble a woman at all. I think he had to do it for some reason, not because he wanted to, which explains why he wasn't acting  feminine at all. Anyway, so my friend and I were totally digging him and we were just talking to him and I remember very distinctly telling him that we were going to have to go shopping and get him makeup and turn him into a girl. I don't know why this dream was so awesome, probably because we were talking to a really hot guy lol. Anyway, so I was really enjoying this dream, and then I woke up, went back to sleep and my dream became a world where I and several other people were sacred catholic people that were super important and were being targeted by this woman with ultimate destructive power, so we were hiding out in a room made of glass up at the top of a skyscraper and watching her on the ground several stories below before she started trying to kill us. It was so weird. My dreams are always just bizarre, but if it were up to me, I would definitely go back to the first dream! That guy was hot, whether he had a vag or not!
-Dusk

Obama bashers ruined my homework!

     I am not a particularly politically oriented person, in fact, I hate politics. I feel that politics accomplish far more problems than solutions. As drag queen Dida Rits from Season 4 of Rupaul's Drag Race said, "It doesn't take all that screaming and hollering to change the world" and she is absolutely right! I had a homework assignment in my government that required me to research a committee in Congress and in trying to find out about issues that the committee was dealing with, I ran into more articles that did far more bashing on Obama and his policies than actually addressing the issues. In half of the articles, I found out what the issue was called, but not what it was nor what it did, just what Obama did to cause this issue. I felt very frustrated by the time I finished that damn assignment! I personally feel that the content on those sites that speaks about the issues needs to be far less biased and about person-to-person-bashing and far more about what the hell the issue is, because I didn't even know what half the issues were when I finished those articles, and it also made me feel no more angry at Obama like the Republicans wanted me to feel, it made me pissed at the Republicans for writing a shitty press release! So here is a tip to both any politician, Democrat or Republican: If you are writing a press release, do not make the content of the article completely irrelevant to the title! We learned not to do that in middle school, and if you cannot seem to comprehend that concept, than I personally do not think you should be representing our country in any way, shape or form.
Sincerely,
Dusk The Strange.

Vampire fangirls=acceptable; necropheliacs=freaks?

  So I don't know about anybody else, but I'm getting really rather annoyed with these silly teenage girls who are obsessed with vampires and the undead as if these brutal creatures would be their boyfriends and would "change their ways" for them. Psh, I don't think so dumbass! The fangirling doesn't bother me as much as the fact that these girls who are talking about having undead, blood sucking boyfriends are scoffing at those of us who have an actual attraction to the rotting remains of a corpse. Does that not seem just a little hypocritical? I understand that they may be hot, but just because a half rotten pelvic bone doesn't sexually please you does not mean that I am a freak for wanting to rub it sexually! Go fangurl over something else! Sexual attraction to the dead is my pleasure!
-Dusk

Zombie Apocalypse Please!

   So I know tons of people who love zombie movies, zombie slaying games, zombie TV shows, and yet, nobody except me seems to want a zombie apocalypse to happen! I personally think it would be great fun to experience a zombie plague and be one of a small group of survivors, or even a lone survivor desperately searching for food, shelter and other survivors. I have one other friend who would love it too and we've decided that we will go to Paris, storm the Eiffel Tower and use it as our means of defense! It sounds fun! So, if there is ever a zombie apocalypse, come visit me at the Eiffel Tower, we can have tea and snipe zombies dead from the top, until I grow bored and decide to use you as a sacrifice so the zombies can swarm over your body, ripping and biting at your flesh for my entertainment!
-Dusk

LPQ-79 zombie disease...I don't think so.

So I am a little late hearing about this, but back in May a guy in Miami, Florida chewed another guys face off in the middle of the street. The authorities claimed it to be the effects of bathsalts(stay in school kids and don’t do drugs) however paranoid theorists are connecting the attack to similar zombie attacks and a fake disease called LPQ-79 is said to be turning people, including the Miami cannibal into zombies. I discovered this when I was sick and watching zombie movies, but come on people! This is not realistic and this is surely not true! I love zombies as much as any other wierd goth kid, and I wish that there would be a zombie appocalypse, I think it would be loads of fun, but just because a deranged drug addict chewed some guys face off and growled at police officers does not mean there is a zombie disease taking over the population! Remember the 5 G’s people; Good God Get a Grip Gurl!
-Dusk